Desirée Russo
Key details
- Job title: Trademark counsel
- Firm: Puma
- Jurisdiction: Germany
Desirée Russo has developed her career in IP law over the past seven years. She joined Puma in Herzo, Germany in 2021 as trademark counsel.
Her responsibilities initially covered Africa and Europe, and now extend to Latin America, the Caribbean, Oceania and Italy.
Russo is fluent in Italian, Spanish and English, with additional knowledge of French, German and Portuguese.
She is a member of the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI) Trademark and In-House Counsels’ committees.
Her professional experience includes work at an IP firm in Torino, followed by a legal internship in the Boards of Appeal at the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) through the Pan-European Seal Programme.
In April 2024, she participated as a panel speaker at the EUIPO’s 5th Edition IP Case Law Conference.