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Alyssa M. Worsham
Partner
Trademark and Advertising
Seattle

D206-883-2592

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Alyssa Worsham is a member of the firm’s trademark and advertising team, which has been recognized in Chambers USA and Chambers Global, as well as World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000. Alyssa focuses her practice on global strategic advice, litigation strategy, and transactional guidance for clients’ trademarks, branding, and advertising in marketplaces where commercial and geographic lines are increasingly blurring. She helps clients assess the risk in selecting new business and product names, and works with them to build, exploit, and protect these names creatively and strategically.

Alyssa advises founders, CEOs, GCs, IP specialists, and chief marketing officers on critical issues surrounding brand creation, protection and strategy. Specifically, she counsels clients on trademark disputes, domain name disputes, contests and sweepstakes, advertising review, right of publicity, social media issues, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance, FTC compliance and investigations, copyright, IP diligence, and associated commercial contracts. She works with a variety of clients working in AI, software, NewSpace, biotech, fashion and cosmetics, life sciences, digital health, wellness, AgriTech, consumer products, and gaming, among others.

Alyssa has been consistently recognized as a leader in her field, including by World Trademark Review (WTR). In WTR, clients have described Alyssa as “one of the best IP practitioners in the U.S. She’s highly skilled, excels in complex cases, and is deeply engrained in her clients’ sectors, making her extremely commercially attuned to deliver pragmatic advice.” Alyssa has also been praised in WTR as “a phenomenal attorney who understands how to give practical legal advice for clients,” and described as “particularly good with IP enforcement solutions outside of bringing matters to litigation. She also understands the intricacies of developing brand strength over time and across countries.”

Alyssa began her practice at Baker & McKenzie in Hanoi, Vietnam, where she advised major U.S. technology companies on foreign investment and telecommunications, privacy, and technology policies and reform in the region, and helped advocate for U.S. business interests in front of the Vietnamese government. Before her legal career, Alyssa worked as an editor, journalist, and food writer in New York and Vietnam. She is originally from Charleston, South Carolina.

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Alyssa Worsham is a member of the firm’s trademark and advertising team, which has been recognized in Chambers USA and Chambers Global, as well as World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000. Alyssa focuses her practice on global strategic advice, litigation strategy, and transactional guidance for clients’ trademarks, branding, and advertising in marketplaces where commercial and geographic lines are increasingly blurring. She helps clients assess the risk in selecting new business and product names, and works with them to build, exploit, and protect these names creatively and strategically.

Alyssa advises founders, CEOs, GCs, IP specialists, and chief marketing officers on critical issues surrounding brand creation, protection and strategy. Specifically, she counsels clients on trademark disputes, domain name disputes, contests and sweepstakes, advertising review, right of publicity, social media issues, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance, FTC compliance and investigations, copyright, IP diligence, and associated commercial contracts. She works with a variety of clients working in AI, software, NewSpace, biotech, fashion and cosmetics, life sciences, digital health, wellness, AgriTech, consumer products, and gaming, among others.

Alyssa has been consistently recognized as a leader in her field, including by World Trademark Review (WTR). In WTR, clients have described Alyssa as “one of the best IP practitioners in the U.S. She’s highly skilled, excels in complex cases, and is deeply engrained in her clients’ sectors, making her extremely commercially attuned to deliver pragmatic advice.” Alyssa has also been praised in WTR as “a phenomenal attorney who understands how to give practical legal advice for clients,” and described as “particularly good with IP enforcement solutions outside of bringing matters to litigation. She also understands the intricacies of developing brand strength over time and across countries.”

Alyssa began her practice at Baker & McKenzie in Hanoi, Vietnam, where she advised major U.S. technology companies on foreign investment and telecommunications, privacy, and technology policies and reform in the region, and helped advocate for U.S. business interests in front of the Vietnamese government. Before her legal career, Alyssa worked as an editor, journalist, and food writer in New York and Vietnam. She is originally from Charleston, South Carolina.

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Wilson Sonsini Advises Discovery Loop on Launch and Initial Funding
On August 5, 2026, a founding team comprised of some of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence and distributed computing—Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals (alphabetical)—announced the launch of Discovery Loop, Inc., a Delaware public benefit corporation. Discovery Loop’s initial funding round is being co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital, and Alphabet. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is advising Discovery Loop on its launch and the financing.

The company aims to dramatically accelerate technological and scientific progress by automating complex science and engineering tasks. Specifically, it is developing advanced AI systems that leverage massive computational scale to fundamentally transform the speed and efficiency of innovation by automating complete experimental loops. In conjunction with its launch, Discovery Loop has established a long-term partnership with Alphabet for cloud and compute resources.

The Wilson Sonsini team advising Discovery Loop on its launch and initial financing includes Lang Liu, Barath Chari, Alyssa Worsham, Richa Sharma, Sunny Kumar, Will Andrews, MJ Han, Jing Xu, Robert Deng, Jason Choi, and Patrick Begian.

For more information, please see coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Wired.
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Wilson Sonsini Advises Centessa on IP Matters Related to Acquisition by Lilly
On March 31, 2026, Centessa Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage company developing a new class of medicines for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness and other neurological conditions, announced a definitive agreement for Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), an American multinational pharmaceutical company, to acquire Centessa. Under the terms of the transaction agreement, Lilly will acquire all of the issued and to be issued share capital of Centessa (including the American Depositary Shares (ADSs) representing ordinary shares) for $38.00 in cash per share plus one non-transferrable contingent value right (CVR) that entitles the holder to receive up to an aggregate of $9.00 subject to the achievement of three milestones described below, for total potential aggregate per share consideration of up to $47.00. The upfront cash consideration represents an aggregate equity value of approximately $6.3 billion and the CVR represents an additional potential aggregate equity value of approximately $1.5 billion. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Centessa in IP matters related to the transaction.
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Association of Corporate Counsel San Francisco Bay Area CLE — Marketing Meets Law: Your Guide to Compliance and Creativity (Palo Alto)
Wilson Sonsini is proud to sponsor a half-day CLE program for the Association of Corporate Counsel’s San Francisco Bay Area Chapter titled “Marketing Meets Law: Your Guide to Compliance and Creativity.”
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Association of Corporate Counsel San Francisco Bay Area CLE: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department (San Francisco)
In-house counsel are invited to join Wilson Sonsini attorneys Alyssa Worsham and Christine Au-Yeung for an ACC San Francisco Bay Area CLE program titled “Marketing 101: How to Counsel Your Marketing Department” in San Francisco on Wednesday, October 30. Alyssa and Christine will be joined by Stephanie Hall, Director of Trademark & Brand at Lyft, and will discuss how to be an effective legal voice to your marketing and brand teams as they launch innovative products on a global scale, embrace opportunities in social media, and leverage influencers and endorsements in their marketing initiatives. The program will also cover new FTC rules on using reviews and testimonials in marketing and ways to promote brands through sweepstakes and contests.  
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