Trademark & Copyright Team Leader, Senior Trademark & Copyright Program Manager, The Chemours Company, US

Deborah A. Hampton is the Trademark Team Leader, Senior Trademark & Copyright Program Manager for The Chemours Company, owner of a number of trademarks including major brands Teflon® and Freon®. Ms. Hampton focuses on the protection and enforcement of the global portfolio working with the business groups to craft strategic plans for the brands. Prior to joining Chemours in 2015, during her career, Ms. Hampton managed global portfolios for brands such as Victoria’s Secret, AT&T and Elizabeth Arden.

Ms. Hampton is Vice President of the International Trademark Association and serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors and is Group Officer of the Advocacy Group. She was the 2023 Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officer for INTA.

In December 2023, Ms. Hampton, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati (“UC”) elected to her alma mater’s College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) Alumni Board.

In 2021, Ms. Hampton was named by the World Trademark Review (WTR) as one of the top twenty-five trademark industry influencers as well as one of twelve women shaping the trademark profession. In 2017 Ms. Hampton was selected to the inaugural class of WTR’s ’s WTR300: The World’s Leading Corporate Trademark Professionals and selected 2018-2023. Ms. Hampton was selected as one of WTR’s Global Trademark Thought Leaders 2019-2023.

Ms. Hampton served two three-year terms ending in 2016, on the United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Public Advisory Committee.

Ms. Hampton is the subject of chapter eight in the book Lessons from The Top Paralegal Experts: The 15 Most Successful Paralegals in America and What You Can Learn from Them, by Carole A. Bruno.

Ms. Hampton has served on other boards such as the Capital Law School Paralegal Program Advisory Board, Foundation for the Advancement of the Paralegal Profession, and the Widener School of Law School Legal Studies Paralegal Program Board of Advisors.

I am enthusiastic about providing excellent service to the business and the utilization of non-attorneys to the fullest in accordance with the ABA definition. I love Intellectual Property and could not have asked for a better career as it combines three of my favourites, the law, fashion, and shopping! It is hard for me to turn off the IP part of my brain and sometimes my family does not like shopping with me because I often point out problems with packaging, displays, knockoffs and the like. The other most important thing I love about this profession are the people. I have known some of my colleagues, since the first day of my very first position back in the eighties. We have seen each other, skinny and otherwise, single, married with/without children and now we have grandchildren. It is simply the best. Ms. Hampton is happily married to William, has one son, Tristan, a daughter in Love, Jun and two beautiful Granddaughters, Calista, and Camila.

Inventor – Techniques for monitoring mobile telecommunications for shared accounts- Patent Number 7,280,816 issued October 2007