MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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002 | Methodology
003 | Q&A with Patty Thayer
005 | Registering the career: the pursuit of
life, liberty and intellectual property
007 | Q&A with Rachel Krevans
009 | Top 10
010 | Northeast Regional analysis
000 | Connecticut
000 | Delaware
000 | District of Columbia
000 | Maryland
000 | Massachusetts
000 | New York
000 | Pennsylvania
000 | Rhode Island
019 | South Regional analysis
000 | Florida
000 | Georgia
000 | North Carolina
000 | Texas
000 | Virginia
021 | Midwest Regional analysis
000 | Illinois
000 | Michigan
000 | Minnesota
000 | Missouri
000 | Ohio
000 | Wisconsin
024 | West Regional analysis
000 | California
000 | Colorado
000 | Oregon
000 | Utah
000 | Washington
030 | Top 250 Women in IP
051 | Index of firms
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elcome to the inaugural edition of IP
Stars - Top 250 Women in IP, the definitive guide to the leading female intellectual property attorneys in the United States.
The nominated partners appearing in Top 250
Women in IP were chosen based upon the rankings of the 2013 edition of IP Stars, researched
between June 2012 and April 2013. That research included thousands of interviews and surveys by IP partners and law firms across the
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process make up the Top 250 Women in IP.
Top 250 Women in IP aims to go beyond
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with Patty Thayer
Patty Thayer, a partner at Sidley Austin’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices
and head of Sidley’s West Coast IP litigation practice, took time to talk to IP
Top 50 about the evolution of patent litigation and how she began her career
almost 30 years ago.
Why did you decide to go to law school?
PATTY THAYER
Sidley Austin in San Francisco and Palo Alto
I thought throughout high school and
the beginning of college that I wanted to
end up in some area of scientific research, most likely biomedical research.
That’s where I thought my strengths and
interests were, but somewhere between
sophomore and junior year of college I
had this real sort of an “Aha!” moment
when it dawned on me that I was a great
student of science, but I was not a scientist. At that point I didn’t have a plan B at
all, and I ended up spending the summers doing research work. My stepmother was a lawyer at a legal aid clinic
and I ended staying that summer with
her and my father volunteering at the
clinic. It was a wonderful summer of
doing fact investigations and learning
how to do legal research. I then decided
to go to law school.
How did you get into patent litigation?
It was a stroke of pure wonderful luck.
Patent law was not taught at Harvard,
and I had never even heard of it during
my time there from 1976 to 1979. The
only IP that was ever taught was the occasional copyright course, and even
then it was not taught every year. I was
set to become a securities litigator when
I spent a weekend with an NYU law student and flipped through her placement
book. I just happened to open up to a
page on a firm called Fish & Neave. I
read the description of the firm, and at
the time I did not know it, but it was one
of the top two or three patent litigation
firms in the country. Their resume fascinated me; it talked about Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright Brothers. The
next day I was in New York doing some
call-back interviews to determine where
I would go to be a securities litigator. At
lunch I decided to walk into Fish &
Neave and ask to see the hiring partner.
He just happened to be there that day,
and he met with me. I accepted a job
there and I have not looked back since.
The judge with whom I had clerked objected, as she likened patent law to being
worse than tax. Fortunately, that was the
one time in my life that I didn’t follow
her advice. I have not considered a job
change in my legal field ever since.
What would you say is the most
rewarding aspect of your career?
Litigation really requires a complex set
of skills to do it well. It involves writing,
speaking, strategizing, and thinking way
ahead. It is a like a very expensive chess
match, which is just highly stimulating
at all times. I’m always learning something new about science and technology
that I did not know before, and this is
why I’ve never contemplated changing
my specialization. It is an amazingly
complicated, interesting, and challenging world that I live in. On a daily basis,
I get to deal with some of the world’s
most incredible scientific minds, which
is so rewarding. I cannot tell you how
many times I have been in a room assisting a client and I feel in awe of their intelligence, humanity, and dedication.
What have been some of your most
memorable cases?
There are three particular cases that
come to mind where I’ve had the privilege to represent a company for which
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the litigation was profoundly important
to the business and the very existence of
the company. I represented Lab Vision in
BioGenex v. Lab Vision, a breach of contract and theft of trade secrets case in
which the plaintiff was seeking to shut
down Lab Vision entirely. It was a 10week arbitration in which we built a successful defense. If we had lost the case,
the company would not have survived.
The second case was a patent infringement case General Electric v.
SonoSite, in which I represented
SonoSite, a small handheld diagnostic
ultrasound company. It was another situation where it was really not just a matter of money changing hands; it was a
matter of the basic business of the company being threatened. There were two
cases that ultimately settled with a $21
million payment plus running royalties
to SonoSite.
The third case was Conceptus v. Hologic, in which I represented Conceptus,
which had been in the market for permanent, non-surgical female birth control for seven years. The legal bills alone
were something that could impact the
profitability of the company. The case
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settled and Hologic agreed to take its
competing product off the market and
Conceptus was awarded $18.8 million.
The stakes were really high because that
one product was the foundation of Conceptus’ business.
What have you noticed about patent
litigation that has changed since you
started your career?
Everything has changed since I started.
It is profound how different patent litigation is today. When I started, it was rare
to have a patent case that would go to
trial before a jury. Today, all plaintiffs
ask for a jury, which is a fundamentally
different dynamic than a trial before a
judge. Also, there were precious few
women on the bench or in the practice
in 1984 and certainly very few female
patent litigators back then. That has
changed remarkably. There are still a lot
more men in this area than women.
However, there are tons of women inhouse managing patent litigation now.
Back when I first started in this area, I
would never see a woman in-house with
clients. That has evened out a great deal.
It is really a great field with a lot of teach-
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ing involved and wonderful for somebody who enjoys the technology aspect
of it.
What advice would you give to aspiring
patent attorneys?
A lot of people go into litigation having
backgrounds in theater or debate and
look forward to being in court being on
their feet and oral advocacy. But what’s
more important in many cases is the
written word. It is very important that if
you are not already a great writer that
you become one, because everything we
do starts with the written word. Before
you ever get a chance to talk to a judge
or a jury you have a tremendous amount
of written communication that you have
to do successfully, clearly, and correctly.
There is a lot that has to go right for your
client in a patent case before you ever
get to any trial. And you need to win at
all the stages, not just at trial. Then you
have to win again in the Federal Circuit,
which is all about writing. And of course,
the Federal Circuit overturns cases all
the time. The reversal rate of patent
cases is extremely high, so the writing
skills are incredibly important.
FEATURED CONTENT
Registering the career:
the pursuit of life, liberty and
intellectual property
To be able to understand and break down complex ideas and communicate them in a way that makes sense to anyone
is the trademark of a patent attorney. To do this, it is beneficial for an aspiring attorney breaking into the field to have a
technical or scientific background. Now more than ever, industries including medical, pharmaceutical, electrical, and
computer and information technology have a growing need for representation in patent matters.
he field of patent litigation and
prosecution has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. In
the early days of patent practice, general
practice law firms would refer patent
cases to small patent boutiques. As the
law and technology developed, these
general practice firms began developing
their own internal patent practices. Six
women listed in IP Top 250 took time to
talk about their experiences breaking
into the field, how it has changed, and
the advice they have for aspiring patent
attorneys.
Lisa Haile at DLA Piper in San Diego
started her career as a bench scientist
doing cancer research. As much as she
loved science and medicine, being in the
lab was not what she was enjoying. She
decided to become a patent attorney because she would be able to keep her
core expertise intact.
Since her graduation from law school
in 1991, she has seen changes at the
patent process level, such as through the
USPTO, and at the federal level with the
enactment of new laws and procedures.
For example in March 2013 the US
caught up with the rest of the world and
went on a first-to-file system, in which
the date of invention is irrelevant compared to the first filing for protection.
This legislation changed the way attorneys will practice going forward.
A litigator at Kenyon & Kenyon in
Palo Alto, Megan Whyman Olesek discussed the changes around patent litigation plaintiffs. She noted that
litigation used to be mainly between
market competitors, but now there are
many more cases brought by patent
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owning entities as the plaintiff and
multiple competitors sued by that same
plaintiff that must now cooperate with
each other. “It has become much more
important for an IP litigator to be able
to collaborate and negotiate with other
people to achieve a successful result
for the client,” said Olesek, whose
choice to become a lawyer stemmed
from her enjoyment of writing, arguing, and public speaking.
As the law has changed, so has the
pace of the practice. “When I first started
out, we were just barely using e-mail,”
said Maria Anderson at Knobbe
Martens Olson & Bear in Seattle, who
worked at IBM doing software testing
before attending law school. “The technology that we had been working on and
patenting is the same technology that
has increased our pace and done a lot to
change the scope of the practice.”
Erika Harmon Arner at Finnegan
Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
in Reston, VA, graduated a computer science major from William & Mary. When
in law school, she realized that patent
law was a great option for people with a
scientific background, because it allows
them to stay in touch with the technology. She practices both contentious and
non-contentious work; handling patent
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tor. “There are so many different aspects
of patent law, and really understanding
how patent application is written and
“I get to see these new what
the negotiation is like at the patent
inventions and new
office on the front end will make you a
better patent litigator,” she said.
innovations before
All of these changesare what make a
anyone else does,
career in patent law so rewarding, say
the lawyers interviewed for IP Top 250.
before it hits the
“It hasn’t been boring,” said Marta
newspapers or the
Gross, a litigator at Goodwin Procter in
Internet. It is exciting
New York, who started her career as a
when I get to be a part chemical engineer while attending law
school in the evenings. “I am constantly
of it, and to a small
meeting new people, learning new technology, and keeping current with things.
extent I feel like I live
The career not only develops as the law
vicariously through
develops, but it also develops as the techsome of my clients
nology develops.”
On the non-contentious side, Roberta
because I still am so
Horton at Arnold & Porter in Washingintrigued by the
ton, DC, has often found her trademark
work interesting and engaging. She
science part of what I
noted one memorable example in which
do.”
she was involved in sending cease and
desist letters to a man who had a “PGA”
golf driving range. Her client, the Professional Golfers’ Association of America,
appeals, client counseling, and trials for was not too thrilled. The man said the
the patent office, as well as managing reason he named the range “PGA” was
patent drafting and prosecution. She said only because his kids were named Peter,
the most interesting part of her practice George, and Antonia.
right now, however, revolves around
Being in the patent field also affords
new trial proceedings which have two attorneys the opportunity to meet with
terms for them: post-grant review and some of the brightest minds in the world,
inter partes review. These proceedings including Nobel Prize winners, leading
came with the creation of a patent trial technological experts, and cutting-edge
board at the USPTO. This trial board cre- inventors. “I likely would not have had
ated a way for third parties to challenge interactions with these people if I had
issued patents in a trial before expert stayed a bench scientist,” said Haile. “I
patent judges within the USPTO. Arner get to see these new inventions and new
served as lead counsel on the very first innovations before anyone else does, beone that was filed in September 2012, fore it hits the newspapers or the Interand prevailed after going through trial net. It is exciting when I get to be a part
and arguing the case before the USPTO. of it, and to a small extent I feel like I live
Arner advises aspiring attorneys not vicariously through some of my clients
to just start on day one and think that all because I still am so intrigued by the scithey are going to do is be a patent litiga- ence part of what I do.”
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Whether aspiring patent attorneys
want to focus on contentious or noncontentious matters, it’s important to be
both proactive and passionate. “The difference between a good patent attorney
and an exceptional patent attorney is
the attorney who takes that extra time
and effort to do some background research and understands the client’s
technology and what others in that
same field are doing,” said Haile. Gross
agrees that a good way to develop skill
sets is to look at matters from the
client’s perspective. To be able to give
the most practical advice you have to
look at not only the legal issues but the
business side as well. If you understand
exactly what the client is trying to accomplish you can give the most practical advice. Anderson agrees that the
combination of caring about your client
and the quality of your work will go the
longest way in terms of client satisfaction and personal satisfaction.
“The difference
between a good patent
attorney and an
exceptional patent
attorney is the
attorney who takes
that extra time and
effort to do some
background research
and understands the
client’s technology and
what others in that
same field are doing,”
FEATURED CONTENT
with Rachel Krevans
Rachel Krevans started out her legal career as a tax lawyer. More than 20
years later, she’s serving as one of the lead counsel for Apple in the highstakes patent infringement case Apple v. Samsung and as the chairperson of
Morrison & Foerster’s intellectual property litigation practice group. She took
time to speak with IP Top 250 about her start in patent litigation and
subsequent career experiences.
How did you get into law, specifically IP
litigation?
RACHEL KREVANS
Morrison & Foerster
I was in my 20s and living in Alaska
when I decided I wanted to be a lawyer.
When I applied to law school, I was very
much afraid that there would be some
part of the application process where I
had to explain why I wanted to be a
lawyer, and I really did not know. As it
turned out, no onecared. I worked for
general practice firms in Alaska during
my summers in law school. At the time,
I had never heard of patent law or patent
litigation. It was the early 80s, and except for some specialized schools, IP
was not a class that was generally taught
in most law schools. It was just not
something you would encounter as it
was a very specialized area of the law.
I started at Morrison & Foerster after
my family, who lived in the Bay Area,
convinced me to move to San Francisco.
I started as a tax lawyer, because at the
time that’s what I thought I wanted to be.
I was eventually recruited to the litigation department, at which time I had still
never heard of IP law. While I was a general litigator, Morrison got into IP law
after a big client became involved in
their first US IP dispute. My colleagues
working on the case did not have IP experience, but learned it specifically so
they could handle the case. I did not
work on that case, but the people who
did said that it was good stuff, the trials
were interesting, and questioned why
the firm wasn’t doing more IP work. A
number of people at the firm started
working in IP, and I became involved as
a senior associate and then as a young
partner, just as part of the general trial
practice. It wasn’t a specialty yet, it was
more like, “Here’s a new case, it happens to be a patent case.” Then we had
this genius idea that we should go out
and find people who did this exotic thing
called patent prosecution and bring
them into our general practice firm. We
partnered with a biotech patent prosecution law firm and were introduced to the
life sciences.
For about 10 years starting in the
early 1990s, I did quite a bit of IP litigation on and off but I did not think of myself as a specialist because I still had a
mixture of cases. As I got more senior, I
started working with clients who had a
lot of IP controversy work, both plaintiff
and defense, but mostly on the plaintiff
side. I started doing more and more
work for these clients, and it pushed
everything else off my docket. There
came a point where I woke up one day
and I was doing nothing but IP litigation.
It was really an evolution.
Would you say that being in San
Francisco played a key role in your
transition to IP? What is it like to be a
woman in the field?
Being in San Francisco was key to Morrison & Foerster and to me getting
deeply involved in biotech IP. San Francisco was one of the first two places in
the country where there was a seriousamount of biotech research going on,
the other place being the Boston/Cambridge area.
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The other issue relevant to being in
California is that there were not and still
are not many women in IP, particularly
in the electronics side of IP. There are a
lot of women who do prosecution in
biotech fields, fewer women who do litigation, very few women who are firstchair trial lawyers of any kind, and even
fewer of them in IP. This is because the
firms who traditionally worked on the
engineering side were patent boutiques
in which everyone had a technical background. The number of engineering
graduates that come out of school every
year in the US was and is overwhelmingly male, which plays a big role in
why you see more men than women in
these fields. There are a lot of people
who think you have to have a technical
background to do what I do. I don’t have
a technical background, and I do just
fine.
Furthermore, for whatever reason,
there are still many people who have
trouble with the concept of a woman as
a first-chair trial lawyer. However, IP has
been a more welcoming field to women
on the West Coast than on the East Coast,
another reason being in San Francisco
helped to shape my career.
What are the trends or challenges in
patent litigation and across trial law that
you have noticed in the past five to 10
years?
If you compare 10 years ago to today, I
think the thing that has changed the
most is that the majority of patent disputes used to be between two companies
that were both in the same business, and
that business was focused on the tech-
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nology the case was about. Now, most
patent disputes that are filed are between a company that is in the business
of owning patents as a plaintiff and a
company that is in a business of doing
something with technology as the defendant. When you have a patent-owning
entity as plaintiff and an operating company as a defendant, it’s a really different
kind of litigation than when you have
two operating entities against one another. This was definitely a factor in the
increase in the number of cases, but it
also changed the nature of the cases.
Another change is that the Supreme
Court is much more interested in IP law
now than it has been in the past three or
four decades. Instead of just thinking
about how the law will develop based on
what the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is doing, you now have to be
aware of how the law will develop based
on what the Supreme Court is doing and
advise clients in that regard.
What advice would you give to aspiring
patent attorneys?
Be fearless. I think that people who really want to be trial lawyers should want
to do IP litigation because there is a lot
of it, and the cases try more often than
other kinds of litigation. The trials are really interesting and fun, and it’s a challenging art to try to make the facts of
your case into a compelling story that
you can tell the jury. It doesn’t matter if
you have a background in technology; it
just means that you are going to learn it
for the case. You just cannot be afraid, either of the technology or of getting up in
court and putting yourself on the line.
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You served as one of the lead counsel for
Apple in Apple v. Samsung. Tell me about
the experience.
I can’t discuss our work for Apple, but I
will say that in my entire career I had
never imagined that I would be standing
up in a courtroom calling the next witness to the stand and then hearing a ruffle behind me as 150 people put their
hands on their touchscreens or keyboards to start Tweeting or live blogging
about what I was going to ask the witness. It was an unbelievable feeling.
I had an interesting experience in
terms of being trained as a trial lawyer.
I was not someone who had progressed
in my career hitched to a particular partner or group of partners. Instead, when
I was a senior associate and then a
young partner in the litigation department, I was a bit of a free agent. I
worked with a variety of very skilled senior trial lawyers. What I learned from
that is that there is no one style or strategic viewpoint that is most effective as an
approach to cases. Seeing different people operate differently and all be successful was at first bewildering, but
eventually proved educational as I realized that there wasn’t a specific pattern
of behavior for me to adopt. Rather, I
needed to figure out what worked best
for me.
The reason I like what I do so much
is that I always find things the most interesting when I am learning them for
the first time. That’s the great thing
about doing trial work and litigation; in
every case, even if it’s in an area of law
that you already know, there is always a
new set of facts and a new challenge.
TOP 10
Top 10
MEREDITH MARTIN ADDY
Steptoe & Johnson
KAREN ARTZ ASH
Katten Muchin Rosenman
JUANITA BROOKS
Fish & Richardson
DALE CENDALI
Kirkland & Ellis
DARALYN DURIE
Durie Tangri
NATALIE HANLON-LEH
Faegre Baker Daniels
BRENDA JARRELL
Choate Hall & Stewart
RACHEL KREVANS
Morrison & Foerster
TINA McKEON
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
PATTY THAYER
Sidley Austin
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NORTHEAST REGIONAL ANALYSIS
Northeast
TOP 250 WOMEN in IP
District of Columbia
The Northeast
Nominations
per state
Connecticut
Delaware
Maryland
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
4
6
3
24
34
5
1
Washington DC 32
Connecticut
Leah Reimer, the co-chairperson of the
chemical, material, and life sciences practice at Cantor Colburn, is a Hartfordbased patent prosecution attorney who
focuses on polymer and materials science, pharmaceuticals, and patent law.
Her clients include technological companies. Her Cantor Colburn colleague and
chemical, material, and life sciences practice co-chairperson Pamela Curbelo specializes in IP agreements and patent
applications. A former IP in-house lawyer
for United Technologies Corporation, she
counsels clients in several industries including aerospace, automotive, and
telecommunications. Elizabeth “Beth”
Alquist at Day Pitney is a trial attorney in
Hartford. She focuses on patent, trade secret, non-competition, trademark, and
copyright matters. Jacqueline Scheib at
Robinson & Cole is chairperson of the IP
and technology practice group. She focuses on trademark, copyright, and joint
ventures, and licensing agreements.
Delaware
Julia Heaney at Morris Nichols Arsht
& Tunnell in Wilmington is a litigator
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who specializes in patent and trade
secret cases. Her clients include the
pharmaceutical, medical devices, and
computer systems industries. Her colleague Karen Jacobs Louden litigates
copyright, trademark, and contract and
licensing disputes. Patricia Smink
Rogowski is based at Novak Druce
Connolly Bove + Quigg’s Wilmington
office. She has experience with patent,
trademark, and copyright prosecution,
including representation of clients before the USPTO. Janet Reed at Potter
Anderson & Corroon focuses on
patents in the biotechnology sector. She
also has experience in licensing and
due diligence matters. Joan Kluger at
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis practices in the firm’s Wilmington and
Philadelphia offices. She focuses on IP
litigation, patents, and trademarks. She
has experience counseling clients in
the telecommunications and physics
fields—and has taught physics as a college-level adjunct professor. Melanie
Sharp at Young Conaway Stargatt &
Taylor in Wilmington specializes in
patent litigation and is the chairperson
of the commercial litigation practice at
the firm.
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Prior to joining Adduci Mastriani &
Schaumberg, Deanna Tanner Okun
was a member of the ITC for 12 years.
She focuses on IP theft and trade matters. Karol Kepchar at Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld specializes in
trademark and copyright matters. Her
casework includes The Coca-Cola Company v. Pepsico and The Nasdaq Stock
Market v. Antarctica Srl.
Cristina Carvalho at Arent Fox concentrates on portfolio management,
trademark, and litigation. Admitted to
practice in both Brazil and the US, her
client list includes Brazilian soccer legend Pelé; Mars, Incorporated; and energy company Petrobas. Pamela Deese,
also at Arent Fox, specializes in brand
management, licenses, sweepstakes,
and advertising. She has experience reviewing promotional materials and
celebrity endorsements. She represented
NBA athlete Jeremy Lin in IP matters
such as the rights of publicity, and trademarks, product counterfeiting, and
licensing.
Roberta L. Horton at Arnold & Porter
concentrates on trademark and copyright matters. She represented Dr.
Martin Luther King’s organization, the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in Southern Christian Leadership
Conference v. Shannon, against a group
declaring that it had registered the SCLC
trademark previously. She won the case
on appeal. Horton was recognized as a
trademark expert in Euromoney’s
Women in Business Law Expert Guide in
2010. Susan Hendrickson, also at
Arnold & Porter, specializes in complex
collaborations and licensing matters.
She also has experience in information
technology and social media issues.
Sarah Kagan at Banner & Witcoff
specializes in patents in the biotechnology sector, with particular experience in
interferences and cancer genetics. Her
clients include individual inventors, academic institutions, and pharmaceutical
companies. Maureen Browne at Covington & Burling concentrates on commercial law, international trade
regulation, and unfair competition. She
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Nominations per firm
Adduci Mastriani & Schaumberg
1
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
3
Arent Fox
2
Arnold & Porter
2
Baker & McKenzie
1
BakerHostetler
1
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll
1
Banner & Witcoff
1
Cantor Colburn
2
Carter Ledyard & Milburn
1
Choate Hall & Stewart
3
Covington & Burling
1
Cowan Liebowitz & Latman
1
Davis Wright Tremaine
3
Day Pitney
1
Dentons
1
DLA Piper
1
Dorsey & Whitney
1
Drinker Biddle & Reath
2
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett &
Dunner
6
Fish & Richardson
5
Foley & Lardner
1
Foley Hoag
2
Foster Murphy Altman & Nickel
1
Goodwin Procter
3
Gordon Feinblatt
1
Greenberg Traurig
1
Hinckley Allen & Snyder
2
Hogan Lovells
2
Jones Day
2
K&L Gates
1
Katten Muchin Rosenman
1
Kelly IP
1
Kenyon & Kenyon
3
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
1
King & Spalding
1
Kirkland & Ellis
4
Ladas & Parry
2
Mayer Brown
2
McCarter & English
1
McDermott Will & Emery
1
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
1
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
2
Morrison & Foerster
1
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
2
Nixon Peabody
1
Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg
1
Nutter McClennen & Fish
1
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1
Potter Anderson & Corroon
1
Reed Smith
1
Robinson & Cole
1
Ropes & Gray
2
Saul Ewing
2
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
1
Scott & Bush
1
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
3
Sughrue Mion
1
Venable
1
Vinson & Elkins
1
Weil Gotshal & Manges
2
White & Case
1
Williams & Connolly
1
WilmerHale
4
Winston & Strawn
1
Woodcock Washburn
1
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor
1
has particular experience handling Section 337 litigation, and achieved a successful licensing and settlement
agreement representing a machine vision manufacturer against Nikon. Ann
Ford at DLA Piper focuses on trademark, copyright law, and IP law on the
Internet. Her clients include the fashion
and communications sectors. She is the
chairperson of the international firm’s
trademark, copyright, and media practice and the vice-chairperson of DLA
Piper’s US IP and technology group.
Jennifer Dean at Drinker Biddle &
Reath focuses on trademark clearance,
brand management, and litigation. Her
experience includes copyright and licensing matters. Mercedes Meyer, also
at Drinker Biddle & Reath, focuses on
patent portfolios in the biotechnology
and pharmaceutical sectors, with an em-
phasis on tissue banking and stem cells.
She has further experience in life sciences areas such as gene therapy, vaccines, and enzymes.
Laura Masurovsky at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner is an
IP litigator for the computer technology,
medical device, and pharmaceutical industries. Her antitrust experience includes representing HTC in the dispute
Apple v. HTC. A favorable settlement
was reached. Doris Johnson Hines,
also at Finnegan, concentrates on ITC litigation and patent law. She represented
FedEx in the dispute BarTex v. FedEx,
which involved bar code technology.
BarTex conceded summary judgment of
invalidity, and a summary affirmation
was reached on appeal in favor of FedEx.
Matters such as licensing, litigation,
due diligence, and portfolio manage-
ment all fall under the umbrella of Esther Lim’s patent practice at Finnegan.
She represented a major electronics
company in a dispute involving PlayStation products. She achieved a favorable
settlement. Franceska Schroeder at
Fish & Richardson focuses on export
controls, commercial contracts, insurance, and risk management. Her clients
include the national security, technology, aviation sectors, and she is legal
counsel to the American Astronautical
Society. Courtenay Brinckerhoff at
Foley & Lardner focuses on patents and
due diligence. She has experience representing the pharmaceutical sector,
which includes trans-dermal products
and enzyme-based technologies. Barbara Murphy at Foster Murphy Altman
& Nickel concentrates on Section 337
cases, anti-dumping, and customs. She
also has experience in trademark and
copyright matters.Jennifer Albert at
Goodwin Procter litigates patent, trademark, and copyright matters. She represented ePlus in patent infringement case
ePlus vs. SAP AG and SAP America. The
patent infringement claims involved
SAP’s enterprise buyer professional and
supplier relationship management products. The case was settled. Kecia
Reynolds at Goodwin Procter is a litigator in patent and Section 337 matters before the ITC. Her work includes
representing the ZTE Corporation and
ZTE (USA) in the patent infringement
investigation by the ITC of Certain Electronic Imaging Devices. Audrey Haroz
Reed at Hogan Lovells focuses on the
technology and life sciences sectors in
relation to the acquisition, protection,
and commercialization of IP. Her experience includes representing Fox Entertainment Group in partnering with NBC
Universal and Providence Equity Partners to create Hulu.com. Also at Hogan
Lovells, Susan Cook is a litigator in
patent, trademark, copyright, and Lanham Act cases. She also has experience
with Section 337 proceedings before the
ITC. Susan Smith at Kenyon & Kenyon
focuses on litigation, patent, and trademark matters. Her clients include Walmart, Apple, Mercedes-Benz USA, and
the Tampa Bay Rays. Her rebranding experience includes the name change of
AIG to Chartis Insurance, and the name
change of CitiFinancial to OneMain Financial. Karen Butcher at Morgan
Lewis & Bockius focuses on mergers
and
acquisitions,
distribution
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agreements, international brand strategy, and licensing agreements. She was
recognized in Euromoney’s Guide to the
World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners in 2012.
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox has
three attorneys in the DC chapter of the
IP Top 250. Monica Talley focuses on
trademark, unfair competition, false advertising, and domain name matters.
She also has experience counseling
clients in brand protection in the
biotechnology, music, entertainment,
and apparel fields. Tracy-Gene Durkin
is the head of the firm’s mechanical
trademark and patent group. She has experience in getting copycat products off
the market and is an adjunct law professor at George Mason University. Lori
Gordon specializes in inter partes matters. She has experience with wireless
communications technologies, internet
applications, telecommunications systems, and software.
At Sughrue Mion, Jody Haller Drake
specializes in trademark law such as the
handling of global portfolios and the
branding process. She was recognized
among top US Lawyers in Euromoney
Legal Media Group’s Guide to the
World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners from 2005 to 2013. Janet Satterthwaite at Venable focuses on
trademark, licensing, and portfolio management, and counterfeiting. Her experience includes leading the amicus curiae
team for Coty supporting Tiffany’s suit
against counterfeit products online in
the dispute Tiffany v. eBay, heard before
the US Supreme Court in 2010. Shamita
Etienne-Cummings at White & Case
leads the 337 International Trade Practice at the firm, with an emphasis on
semiconductor devices and consumer
electronics. She focuses on the technology industry, such as computer software,
internet services, and medical devices.
She represented Google in an ITC investigation and won on five patent counts
involving Google technology. Jessamyn
Berniker at Williams & Connolly concentrates on patent litigation and licensing and her clients include electronic
and pharmaceutical sectors. She represented Pfizer in a Hatch-Waxman matter
regarding the anti-cancer agent Sutent.
LMG’s Life Sciences recognized her as a
“Life science star” in the area of patent
litigation in 2012 and 2013. At WilmerHale, Amy Wigmore focuses on patent
and commercial litigation in the biotech12
nology industry. She has experience in and contract disputes in the technologialternative dispute resolution proceed- cal sector, including pharmaceutical
ings, unfair competition, trade secrets, products and telephone services. Maia
and test security issues. Linda McLeod Harris at Nixon Peabody is a patent litiat the newly formed boutique firm Kelly gator who also handles trade secret and
IP was awarded “Best in trademark” at false advertising matters.
Anita Varma at Ropes & Gray focuses
Legal Media Group Americas Women in
Business Law Awards in 2012. She spe- on patent portfolios for life sciences comcializes in trademark prosecution. She panies. She was recognized as a 2012
previously served as an examining attor- “Life sciences star” in Euromoney Legal
ney at the USPTO and a Trademark Media Group’s publication Life Sciences.
Trial and Appeal Board interlocutory at- Denise DeFranco at Finnegan has
torney and administrative trademark patent and litigation experience, including the representation of branded drug
judge.
companies against possible generics in
abbreviated new drug application
Maryland
(ANDA) litigation. Andrea Robidoux at
Gordon Feinblatt’s Martha Lessman Choate Hall & Stewart has experience in
Katz specializes in data security matters, drug discovery, due diligence, and litigalicensing, and e-commerce, with a focus tion on behalf of pharmaceutical compaon technology transactions such as sub- nies, including organic chemistry and
scription agreements and website legal small
molecule
pharmaceuticals.
terms. Sherry Flax at Saul Ewing’s Bal- Brenda Jarrell, also at Choate Hall &
timore office focuses on trademarks and Stewart focuses on the pharmaceutical
copyrights. She also has experience in and biotech industries in IP licensing
the business sector in patent, unfair and litigation matters. She also has expecompetition, litigation and domain rience counseling in patent portfolio isname disputes. Gianna Arnold, alsoat sues. Jennifer Camacho at Greenberg
Saul Ewing, focuses on patent, trade- Traurig focuses on due diligence, patent
mark, copyright, sponsored research, infringement, and IP litigation in the life
and licensing. She is experienced advis- sciences and chemical industries. She
ing on due diligence matters regarding was shortlisted for Euromoney’s “Best in
mergers and acquisitions and public life sciences” award at the 2013 Ameristock offerings.
cas Women in Business Law Awards.
She was selected “Life science star” in
Euromoney LMG’s publication Life SciMassachusetts
ences in both editions of the publication,
At Hinckley Allen & Snyder, Andrea 2012 and 2013.
Mealey focuses on trademark selection
Leslie McDonell at Finnegan specialand prosecution in the business sector izes in patent portfolios, infringement,
including computer software and pub- and inventorship in the pharmaceutical,
lishing. She also has experience with do- biotechnology, and medical device inmain name and design patent disputes. dustries. She reached a favorable settleBarbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag special- ment in Chiron v. Eli Lilly and Vertex
izes in patents in the life sciences sector Pharmaceuticals, in which she represuch as small molecule compounds and sented Eli Lilly against infringement
medical devices. She also represents the charges related to the creation of a small
education industry. Also at Foley Hoag, molecule therapeutics. She was listed as
Beth Arnold has patent experience in a star in the 2012 edition of Euromoney
the pharmaceutical and biotechnology LMG’s Life Sciences. Mary Ferguson,
sectors. She also has due diligence and also at Finnegan, focuses on patent litimergers and acquisitions experience.
gation and opinion work involving moAt WilmerHale, Cynthia Vreeland lecular biology and cell biology. She also
specializes in patent and trade secret lit- has experience in due diligence and disigation. Her experience includes repre- covery requests. Janis Fraser focuses on
senting Facebook in the patent dispute patent advice on topics such as genes,
Yahoo v. Facebook, after Yahoo claimed antibodies, and recombinant DNA. She
infringement of 10 of its patents. A favor- was selected as a 2012 “Life science star”
able settlement was reached. Lisa Piroz- in Euromoney LMG’s Life Sciences in
zolo, also at WilmerHale, is a litigator 2012. Choate Hall’s Karen Copenhaver
with experience in patents, licensing, focuses on technology transfer and li-
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censing, and has particular experience
in software licensing. Jolynn Lussier at
the Boston office of Fish & Richardson
focuses on patent cases and appeals. She
also has experience in copyright and
trademark matters. Cynthia Johnson
Walden, also at Fish & Richardson, focuses on trademark and copyright in the
Boston office of Fish & Richardson. She
also has experience in copyright and unfair competition matters. She was listed
in Euromoney LMG’s Guide to the
World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners from 2008 to 2012.
Deborah Benson at Hinckley Allen
& Snyder focuses on trademark and
copyright law, including copyright, due
diligence, licensing, and asset transfers.
Christine Vito at K&L Gates in Boston
focuses on patent infringement and portfolio development. She specializes in the
life and medical sciences sectors. Elizabeth Hanley at McCarter & English specializes in chemistry and biotechnology
patent law. She focuses on prosecution,
licensing, and due diligence with particular experience in small molecule, organic chemistry, and drug delivery
matters. Sarah Chapin Columbia at
McDermott Will & Emery focuses on
patent, trademark, and copyright matters. Her patent infringement litigation
experience includes representing Lycos
in Lycos v. Blockbuster, which involved
recommendation software.
Amy Mandragouras at Nelson
Mullins Riley & Scarborough focuses on
patents, due diligence, and licensing in
the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and
sustainable energy sectors. Her experience also includes drug discovery technologies. Jill Gorny Sloper, also at
Nelson Mullins, focuses on patents, due
diligence, and freedom to operate investigations in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life sciences sectors. She
specializes in the field of therapeutic antibodies. Lisa Adams at Nutter McClennen & Fish concentrates in patent and
trademark law in the medical and life
sciences areas. Her patent prosecution
and portfolio development clients include all Johnson & Johnson companies
and DePuy Spine.
New York
Pamela Church at Baker & McKenzie
specializes in licensing, publishing, outsourcing, and financial transactions. She
counseled Prime View International on
IP issues when it acquired stock of E Ink, strategic counseling and opinions, and
a large electronic paper display materi- due diligence. She was named a “Life
als and IP company. Heather McDon- sciences star” in the 2012 LMG Life Sciald at BakerHostetler litigates in IP and ences publication.
anti-counterfeiting matters, with many
Adriane Antler at Jones Day is expenotable clients in the fashion industry. rienced in IP matters in the biotechnolShe trains law enforcement officers in ogy and pharmaceuticals fields. She
trademark counterfeiting and related is- specializes in patent infringement and
sues. Rose Auslander at Carter Ledyard validity opinions. She was named a “Life
& Milburn focuses on trademark, do- sciences star” in LMG’s 2012 edition of
main name, licenses, and copyright liti- Life Sciences. Laura Coruzzi, also at
gation. Among the character properties Jones Day, focuses on patent litigation
she works to protect are the Hulk and and prosecution in life sciences fields
the Muppets. At Cowan Liebowitz & Lat- such as genetic engineering, molecular
man, Mary Kevlin focuses on trade- biology, virology, vaccines, immunolmark, copyright, and unfair competition ogy, therapeutic antibodies, biologic and
law. She was involved in one of the first small molecule therapeutics, diagnoscases to be heard under the Anticyber- tics, drug discovery, and drug delivery.
piracy Statute, which involved the New She was named to the top 10 list of
York Yankees website domain name.
“America’s best life sciences litigators” in
Davis Wright Tremaine has three the US by Managing Intellectual PropNew York members of the IP Top 250. erty in June 2012. She represents Myriad
Roxanne Elings focuses on trademark Genetics in Association for Molecular
and brand management. In the case The Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, a dispute
North Face Apparel and PRL USA v. Fu- involving the patentability of isolated
jian Trading, she obtained an order to DNA molecules. The Supreme Court upshut down counterfeiters’ websites and held the patent eligibility of synthetic
had confiscated their profits. Alexandra DNA, but not naturally occurring DNA
Nicholson focuses on trademark and segments. Karen Artz Ash at Katten
copyright for media and entertainment Muchin Rosenman focuses on tradeclients. Some of her representative expe- marks and copyrights, structuring and
rience includes trademark counsel for administration of IP, and establishing
HBO, Virgin Enterprises, and Sesame holding companies and trusts. She has
Workshop, the producer of Sesame more than 20 years of experience in
Street. Marcia Paul focuses on copy- fashion law, and also represents the pubright, trademark, and litigation with a lishing, banking, financial services, and
focus on media companies. She repre- consumer electronics industries.
sented Dish Network against DirecTV in
Elizabeth Gardner at Kenyon &
a false advertising case. The case was Kenyon focuses on licensing and transsettled.
fer of IP rights such as patentability, vaMonica Richman at Dentons focuses lidity, and infringement. She has
on license, agency, distribution, sponsor- litigation experience in the chemical,
ship, endorsement, strategic alliance, materials, pharmaceutical, electrical,
marketing, procurement, and manufac- and medical products industries. Elizaturing agreements. Among the parties beth Holland, also at Kenyon & Kenyon,
she represents are clients in the enter- has patent litigation experience for phartainment, fashion, and financial services maceutical, chemical, medical device,
industries. Sandra Edelman at Dorsey and consumer products industries. She
& Whitney focuses on trademark and was named a leading patent lawyer in
unfair competition, copyright and false the US in Euromoney’s Expert Guide to
advertising law, brand name clearance, the World’s Leading Women in Business
advertising claims review, and licensing Law in 2013.
issues. Many of her clients are in the
Lisa Pearson at Kilpatrick Townsend
pharmaceutical, cosmetics, publishing, & Stockton focuses on copyright, tradeand banking industries. Kristen McCal- mark, unfair competition, and internetlion at Fish & Richardson focuses on related disputes. She was recognized in
trademark, copyright, trade dress, and Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leadunfair competition litigation. Her clients ing Trade Mark Law Practitioners in
include the entertainment, arts, and 2012. Kathleen “Katie” McCarthy at
media industries. Marta Gross at Good- King & Spalding has more than 20 years
win Procter focuses on patent litigation, of experience in litigation in trademark,
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copyright, false advertising, right of publicity, unfair competition, and internet
matters.
At Kirkland & Ellis, Claudia Ray focuses on copyright, trademark, internet,
and trade secret issues. She represented
Rain Corp., the creator of “Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles,” in a copyright infringement and breach of contract
dispute against the producers of the
show’s London and New York productions. Patricia Carson specializes in
patent litigation matters such as IP due
diligence and licensing. She represented
Genentech and settled the dispute
Genentech v. Amgen, which regarded infringement of patents for producing proteins recombinantly. Dale Cendali
focuses on copyright, trademark, internet, and patent disputes. Dale was
named “Best in copyright “ by Euromoney’s Legal Media Group at its
2012 and 2013 “Americas Women in
Business Law Awards.” Leora Ben-Ami
focuses on biotechnology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and chemistry,
mechanical devices, and electronics. In
Pfizer v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, she
successfully defended Pfizer’s patents on
Celebrex.
Bharati Bakshani at Ladas & Parry
specializes in international trademark
prosecution and enforcement. She has
experience with clearance and adoption
of marks, prosecution of marks, oppositions, infringement, cancellation actions,
and drafting and negotiating worldwide
co-existence agreements. She advised
on trademark issues involved in PPG’s
$1.05 billion acquisition of AkzoNobel’s
North American architectural coatings
business. Janet Cord, also at Ladas &
Parry, focuses on patent applications in
the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biochemistry, chemistry, and medical devices industries. She also has patent
infringement and trade secret litigation
experience.
Lisa Ferri at Mayer Brown focuses on
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patent and IP litigation in the life sciences field. She has experience with
biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and
medical device patent cases. Terri Gillis,
also at Mayer Brown, specializes in
patent infringement, enforceability, misuse and validity, copyright infringement
and validity, trademark infringement
and dilution, unfair competition, and
trade secrets. Patricia Martone at Morrison & Foerster has 36 years of experience litigating IP patent cases. She
represented Polaroid in the high-stakes
patent infringement and damages trials
in Polaroid v. Kodak. Lynn Bayard at
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
focuses on copyright and trademark
matters. She represents the media and
entertainment industries. Denise Loring is a retired partner at Ropes & Gray
who focused on biotech and pharmaceutical litigation, including ANDA litigation representing innovator companies.
Constance Huttner at Vinson & Elkins
focuses on patent and technical litigation involving ANDAs, trade secrets, advertising, and licensing disputes. She
also has experience providing patent
opinions for matters including mergers
and acquisitions.
At Weil Gotshal & Manges, Randi
Singer focuses on copyright and Lanham Act false advertising and trademark
litigation, privacy, and right of publicity.
She has litigated on behalf of The Walt
Disney Company and Marvel Comics in
a copyright ownership dispute involving
Marvel
characters.
Elizabeth
Weiswasser, also at Weil, focuses on
patent and IP matters such as biologic
and pharmaceutical technologies. She
also specializes in diligence-related issues in the life sciences sector. Jane
Love at WilmerHale focuses on patents,
portfolio management, freedom-to-operate assessments, and interferences in
the pharmaceutical and life sciences
areas. Virginia Richard at Winston &
Strawn focuses on trademark and copy-
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right licensing, website development
agreements, content licenses, software
licensing, and technology agreements.
Her clients include software firms,
healthcare providers, and financial services companies.
Pennsylvania
Diane Elderkin at Akin Gump Strauss
Hauer & Feld focuses on patent infringement cases in the biotechnology area. A
member of the American College of
Trial Lawyers, she won a jury verdict in
a patent infringement suit on behalf of
her client Janssen Biotech against Abbott GMBH, in which the jury decided
that two patents brought against
Janssen’s antibody drug product Stelara
were invalid. Barbara Mullin, is also an
IP litigator at Akin Gump. In a patent infringement suit in 2009, she won a $1.67
billion verdict for her clients Centocor
Ortho Biotech and New York University
against Abbott Laboratories’ product Humira. Hara Jacobs at Ballard Spahr litigates patent, trademark, and copyright
matters. In American Board of Internal
Medicine v. Arora Board Review, she
won a permanent injunction against a
test preparation company that had possession of copyrighted examination
questions. Maria Bernier at Reed Smith
handles prosecution of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. She also has experience with website development and
domain name disputes. Nancy Frandsen at Woodcock Washburn focuses on
trademarks, copyrights, and domain
name disputes. She also had experience
in dilution, fair use, and comparative advertising.
Rhode Island
Christine Bush at Scott & Bush handles
patent, trademark, and unfair competition matters. She also has experience in
licensing and non-disclosure issues.
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JENNIFER A. ALBERT
GOODWIN PROCTER
901 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel:
202.346.4322
Email:
[email protected]
Jennifer Albert is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Litigation Department
and member of its Patent Litigation Practice. Ms. Albert’s practice primarily focuses on patent litigation. She has served as first-chair trial
counsel in cases involving a wide range of technologies in district
courts throughout the United States and at the International Trade Commission. Most recently, she served as first-chair in a contempt trial for
ePlus, a leading provider of IT products and services, conducted before
the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The Court
found that Lawson Software was in contempt of the court’s permanent
injunction order because its allegedly redesigned electronic procurement systems were not more than colorably different from the systems
found to infringe in the original trial and that they still infringed ePlus’s
patent. Additionally, she served as trial counsel to OSRAM GmbH in a
series of cases involving patents on light-emitting diode (LED) technology and related strategic intellectual property matters. This was the
largest litigation to date in the area of light-emitting diodes – the future
of lighting technology due to their greater efficiency and environmental
benefits. Because of the market-shaping importance of these cases,
they received much attention in the media, most notably the New York
Times and Wall Street Journal.
Ms. Albert’s intellectual property litigation work also includes trademark and copyright infringement claims; unfair competition and deceptive trade practices; misappropriation of trade secrets in the U.S.
district and before the International Trade Commission. She has also
served as appellate counsel in appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ms. Albert is a frequent featured speaker at various industry seminars and events and she has co-authored numerous articles and publications. In 2012 and 2013, Ms. Albert was named to the DC Super
Lawyers listing for Intellectual Property Litigation. Ms. Albert has also
received a perfect 5.0 AV Peer Rating from Martindale for the past two
years and has also been recognized by The Legal 500 – United States
for her patent litigation work. From 2003-2011, Ms. Albert served as
general counsel to the American Intellectual Property Law Association
(AIPLA). Ms. Albert has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue
University and she obtained her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Ms. Albert is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and
South Carolina, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; U.S.
Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Federal and District of Columbia Circuits; U.S. Court of Federal Claims; and U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Columbia, Maryland, and South
Carolina.
KAREN ARTZ ASH
KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN
575 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022-2585
Tel:
(1) 212 940 8554
Fax:
(1) 212 940 8776
Email:
[email protected]
Website: www.kattenlaw.com
Karen Artz Ash is a pioneer in fashion law who focuses her practice
on trademark and copyright matters. She has represented clients ranging from high-end designers and celebrities to retailers and apparel
companies, and has been lauded by clients, colleagues, and legal
ranking organizations such as New York Metro Super Lawyers and
New York magazine’s Women Leaders in the Law and World Trademark Review 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals.
She writes regularly on the topics of fashion licensing and trademark
practice for leading industry publications and is an adjunct professor
at New York Law School. She is also a contributing author of a fashion
law textbook and a book for fashion designers scheduled for release in
2013.
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PAMELA T. CHURCH
BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP
452 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Tel:
+1 212 626 4976
Fax:
+1 212 310 1603
Email:
[email protected]
Pamela Church is a partner in the IP Practice of Baker & McKenzie LLP.
She serves as head of the New York office’s IP group and is a member
of the firm’s Global IP Steering Committee.
Ms Church is a trademark and copyright specialist who concentrates on transactions involving the development, exploitation and
transfer of intellectual property rights, including licensing, technology
transfer, joint ventures, research and development, franchising, print
and electronic publishing, e-commerce, outsourcing, IP securitization,
restructurings, and post-closing integrations.
She advises clients on comprehensive global trademark portfolio
and brand management, including clearance opinions, trademark registration programs, opposition/cancellation actions, settlement and coexistence agreements, trademark usage policies, prevention of
trademark dilution and genericness, and online anti-counterfeiting and
enforcement strategies.
Ms Church also handles a wide array of legal and compliance issues impacting e-commerce and advertising and marketing campaigns,
particularly involving new technologies, and the emerging opportunities and risk management issues presented by social media platforms
operating in the global marketplace. Such areas include user-generated content, privacy and data protection, social media policies and
applicable industry guidelines and best practices. Ms Church clears
content, negotiates sponsorship, endorsement, advertising, product
placement and media production agreements, and advises clients on
compliance with regulations governing promotions, such as contests,
sweepstakes and charitable sales promotions.
Ms Church’s clients fall into a wide range of traditional and emerging industries in which leveraging IP rights is key, such as media and
entertainment, fashion and luxury, consumer products, software, technology, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, electronics and financial
services.
On a pro bono basis, Ms Church represents various not-for-profit organizations on their use of social media to promote their causes including The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
She is a frequent speaker and author on the evolving landscape of
digital media, and has consistently been recognized as a leader in intellectual property by publications such as Chambers and US Legal
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MARTA E. GROSS
GOODWIN PROCTER
The New York Times Building
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Tel:
212.459.7499
Email:
[email protected]
Marta Gross is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Litigation Department
and a member of its Patent Litigation Practice. For more than 25 years,
she has focused her practice on patent matters, including patent litigation, strategic counseling and opinions, and patent-related due diligence. Ms. Gross joined Goodwin Procter as a partner in 2003. Prior
to joining the firm, Ms. Gross was a partner at Fish & Neave.
Upon joining the firm, Ms. Gross organized and developed the
strategic patent counseling practice to support the world’s largest
generic pharmaceutical company. She continues to lead this team
which provides validity and infringement advice and opinions, as well
as strategic counseling to companies in the life sciences.
A major portion of Ms. Gross’s practice has always included patent
litigation. Recently, Ms. Gross has acted as lead counsel for Roxane
Laboratories in several Hatch-Waxman patent infringement actions involving pharmaceutical drugs. In addition, she is lead counsel in a
major patent litigation for Makhteshim Agan of North America
(MANA) and Control Solutions (CSI) in an action brought in North Carolina by BASF and Bayer on patents relating to the pesticide fipronil.
The district court granted MANA’s and CSI’s motion for summary judgment of no infringement, which was affirmed by the Federal Circuit,
and Ms. Gross’s clients have launched the first generic fipronil termiticide.
Ms. Gross is a member of the New York City Bar Association and
served a three-year term as chair of its Patents Committee. She is also
a member of the ABA, AIPLA and NYIPLA and serves on various committees on those organizations. Ms. Gross created and organized the
PLI Program on Understanding Patent Law and has chaired that program on all nine occasions that it has been offered by PLI.
Ms. Gross has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she obtained her J.D. from Suffolk University School of Law (Evening Division, cum laude) while working full
time. She worked as an engineer for eight years after her graduation
from MIT and first worked at General Electric for three years where she
participated in GE’s Manufacturing Management Program. Thereafter,
she worked at Millipore Corporation having major managerial responsibilities. From these positions Ms. Gross gained real-world perspectives regarding the kinds of problems her corporate clients face and
finding practical solutions to those problems.
Ms. Gross was named a “Life Sciences Star” in the 2012 LMG Life
Science Survey, which recognizes the preeminent life sciences practitioners in the United States. She is also listed in New York Super
Lawyers 2012.
Ms. Gross is admitted to the bars of New York and Massachusetts,
the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and various federal courts.
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KECIA J. REYNOLDS
GOODWIN PROCTER
901 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel:
202.346.4222
Email:
[email protected]
Kecia Reynolds is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Litigation Department
and a member of its Patent Litigation Practice. Ms. Reynolds has extensive trial experience with patent and trademark infringement actions.
She focuses her practice on representing clients in Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission (ITC). Ms. Reynolds
has participated in more than 25 ITC investigations and has a wealth
of knowledge and keen insights into the practice and procedures of the
ITC. Her patent expertise extends to industries involving computer hardware and software, pharmaceutical chemistry, and biotechnology. Ms.
Reynolds’ practice also focuses on representing clients in Abbreviated
New Drug Application (ANDA) district court litigation and in Inter
Partes Review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Ms. Reynolds is an active speaker, both domestically and abroad,
on matters involving practice and procedures at the ITC, the domestic
industry requirement at the ITC, discovery in U.S. courts and biotechnology law. She is co-author of “Where to Bring Process Claims: Hints
From Sucralose” (2013). Prior to joining Goodwin Procter in 2012,
Ms. Reynolds was a senior investigative attorney in the International
Trade Commission’s Office of Unfair Import Investigations, where she
focused on patent and trademark infringement matters.
Ms. Reynolds has a B.S. in Biology from Norfolk State University
and she obtained her J.D. from University of Miami School of Law.
Ms. Reynolds is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and
Virginia, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
JANET SATTERTHWAITE
VENABLE LLP
575 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Tel:
202.344.4974
Fax:
202.344.8300
Email:
[email protected]
Janet Satterthwaite’s clients appreciate her creative, strategic, and
practical advice and her one-stop versatility on contentious and noncontenious trademarks and domain names.
Ms Satterthwaite provides global trademark counseling and enforcement to key US brands, including an Ivy League university, a
global higher educational institution, a large hedge fund, a major maritime conglomerate, a major trade association, a major construction
company, and a brewery and distillery company. Ms Satterthwaite
serves as US trademark counsel to global brands, including the world’s
leading cigar and pipe-tobacco company, a prominent UK footwear
brand, a major chipset manufacturer, and a major cycling wear company. She is popular with clients in Europe, where she has held leadership positions in Marques, the European Trademark Owners’
Association, and where her language skills prove useful. She is well
known for her expertise in domain name and ICANN matters and has
written and spoken on trademarks, domain names, and social media
in various countries.
Also a seasoned trademark litigator, Ms Satterthwaite has been
lead counsel on many trademark, domain name, copyright, and false
advertising lawsuits in federal courts in New York, Virginia, Maryland,
California, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Louisiana, Colorado, New
Mexico, Iowa, Florida, South Carolina, Texas, and North Carolina, as
well as foreign countries. Many of these cases resulted in preliminary
and permanent injunctions in favor of her clients. She also handles
dozens of administrative litigation matters before the Trademark Trial
and Appeal Board and provides trademark and survey expert support
to all Venable trademark litigation matters, including landmark cases
such as Wal-mart v. Samara (US Supreme Court ) and Gibson Guitars
v. Paul Reed Smith (6th Circuit). She led a team that authored amicus
curiae briefs on behalf of Coty, Inc., in the Court of Appeals and The
Supreme Court in the seminal case Tiffany v eBay. Recent litigation successes include an injunction on behalf of an Ivy League university
against an infringing tutoring agency, an injunction against an impersonator of a hedge fund running a Ponzi scheme, ICANN-related litigation, and international legal battle across Europe for another hedge
fund.
Ms Satterthwaite has played a key part in growing the Venable
Trademark Group since joining the firm in 1996. She and her group
have received numerous prestigious awards and rankings, in which Ms
Satterthwaite has been called “innovative” and a “fierce defender of
the rights of her clients.” Other women standouts in IP in the group include the versatile partner Jackie Patt and rising star senior associate
Rebecca Liebowitz, who both manage global trademarks for several
household name brands.
Ms Satterthwaite has a BA from Yale, studied law at Cambridge
University in the UK, and obtained her law degree from The University
of Virginia.
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ANITA VARMA
ROPES & GRAY
Prudential Tower
800 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02199
Tel:
1 617 951 7796
Fax:
1 617 235 0811
Email:
[email protected]
Anita is co-head of Ropes & Gray's Intellectual Property Rights Management Practice Group and has over 20 years of experience in intellectual property law as a lawyer and as a Patent Examiner at the
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Her experience
as a Patent Examiner provides unique insights into the workings of the
USPTO. As a UK Solicitor, she is also qualified to practice before the
European Patent Office.
Anita focuses her practice on developing, analyzing, and managing
patent portfolios in diverse areas of technology for life sciences companies. She leverages this broad patent experience to counsel clients on
transactional matters in connection with financial investments, mergers
and acquisitions, and collaborations. Anita combines her patent experience with an understanding of regulatory exclusivities to help clients
evaluate target portfolios and conduct worldwide due diligence assessments. She has conducted numerous pre-litigation assessments and rendered opinions regarding patentability, validity, non-infringement,
freedom-to-use, Orange Book listing and delisting matters, and advised
clients regarding the follow-on biologics legislation.
Anita’s experience includes:
Representative Litigations
• Promote Innovation, LLC v. Intendis, Inc. (Eastern District of Texas),
2:10-cv-00247-TJW.
• Novartis Vaccines v. Wyeth (Eastern District of Texas),
2:08-cv-00067-TJW-CE.
• Genetics Institute v. Novartis Vaccines (District of Delaware),
1:08-cv-00290-SL.
• Abbott Laboratories et al. v. Bayer Healthcare LLC (District of Massachusetts), 09-CV-40002-FDS.
• Novartis Vaccines et al v. Bayer Healthcare LLC (Eastern District of
Texas), 2:08-cv-00068-TJW.
Representative Transactions
• Performed IP diligence to support a multi-billion dollar transaction
involving the acquisition of a publicly-traded company in the diabetes space.
• Represented a private equity client in their bid to acquire a large
European specialty pharmaceutical company. This included reviewing the target company’s worldwide portfolio of about 1500
patents, analyzing seven ongoing ANDA litigations and conducting
a competitive patent landscape analysis.
• Represented a pharmaceutical company in conducting due diligence on a portfolio covering a new formulation of an existing drug
to structure a Supply and Manufacturing Agreement.
• Represented a pharmaceutical company to conduct freedom to operate studies on at least 100 drug products to be marketed in
emerging markets such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Malaysia,
South Africa etc. We considered patent assessments and any available regulatory exclusivities to determine the extent and duration of
patent and regulatory coverage.
• Represents a pharmaceutical company in conducting a world-wide
pre-litigation assessment of their patent portfolios covering therapeutic products in clinical trials.
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South
TOP 250 WOMEN in IP
tries. Her practice includes entity formation, joint venture agreements, debt and
equity financing, and corporate governance. She has represented clients regarding pilot and series contracts with
major network TV companies and DJ
residencies.
The South
Nominations
per state
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Florida
Ava Doppelt at Allen Dyer Doppelt Milbrath & Gilchrist handles trademark,
publishing, licensing, and copyright matters. She also has experience in business
litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Leslie Lott at Lott & Fischer in
Coral Gables specializes in US and international patents, trademark, and copyright. She was appointed to serve on the
Trademark Public Advisory Committee
of the USPTO. Jennie Malloy at Malloy
& Malloy has experience in applied sciences and handles patent prosecution as
well as litigation at the trial and appellate levels. Leora Herrmann at Peretz
Chesal & Herrmann in Miami specializes in patents, litigation, and licensing
related to computer software, publishing, and home furnishing design. She
won summary judgment and appeals for
a major comic book publisher in two
copyright ownership litigations.
Georgia
Elizabeth Borland at Smith Gambrell &
Russell specializes in patent, trademark,
and copyright litigation. Among her
many clients are poultry processing ma-
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chines, laminated flooring companies,
and airline ticketing systems. Laura
Fahey Fritts at Kasowitz Benson Torres
& Friedman specializes in patents in the
pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Among her higher-profile matters
is Takeda Pharmaceuticals v. Teva Pharmaceuticals (D. Del.), in which she represented Teva on cases concerning
lansoprazole. Virginia Carron at
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett &
Dunner litigates on patents and trademarks. In addition to IP-related casework, Carron also has represented
disabled military veterans at the appellate level in disability compensation matters. Rebecca Kaufman at King &
Spalding focuses on the life sciences sector. She has experience in patents and
due diligence. She represents life sciences companies, investors, and research organizations. Tina Williams
McKeon at Kilpatrick Townsend &
Stockton focuses on patents and portfolios for the life sciences and biotechnology sectors. She has experience with
pharmaceuticals, cardiac technology,
and imaging and diagnostics. Margaret
Marshall at Greenberg Traurig focuses
on the media and entertainment indus-
Martha Barber at Alston & Bird specializes in trademark, copyright, and domain name matters. She has been
featured in Euromoney’s Guide to the
World’s Leading Trademark Law Practitioners. Susan Jackson, the intellectual
property practice chairperson at K&L
Gates, focuses on patents, trademarks,
copyrights, and unfair competition. She
specializes in the chemical industry in
matters such as medical devices, pigments, and fuel cells. Arlene Hanks at
Moore & Van Allen focuses on trademarks, copyright, and licensing. She
also has experience in due diligence and
mergers and acquisitions in industries
including banking, food products, clothing, and computer software. Julie
Richardson at Myers Bigel in Raleigh
specializes in patent prosecution for biomedical devices. She previously worked
in engineering and manufacturing for
General Electric.
Texas
At Baker & McKenzie’s Dallas office,
Nicole Emmons specializes in trademark and brand management. She also
has experience in Internet law and domain name matters. Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell & Giuliani focuses on
patents, licensing, validity opinions, and
trademark. Many of her clients work in
computer software, energy, and explosives. Elizabeth King at Conley Rose
handles trademark counseling and domain disputes. She has testified as an expert witness on US Trademark Office
policies. Linda Merritt, also at Fulbright,
specializes in trademark, trade dress,
and copyright matters. She represents
clients in the software, financial, food
product, and pharmaceutical industries.
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SOUTH REGIONAL ANALYSIS
Nominations per firm
Allen Dyer Doppelt Milbrath & Gilchrist 1
Alston & Bird
1
Baker & McKenzie
1
Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch
1
Bracewell & Giuliani
1
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
1
Conley Rose
1
Dentons
1
DLA Piper
1
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett &
Dunner
2
Fulbright & Jaworski
2
Greenberg Traurig
2
Haynes and Boone
1
Hunton & Williams
1
Jones Day
1
K&L Gates
1
Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman
1
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
1
King & Spalding
2
LeClairRyan
1
Lott & Fischer
1
Malloy & Malloy
1
Moore & Van Allen
1
Myers Bigel
1
Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier &
Neustadt
1
Parsons Behle & Latimer
2
Peretz Chesal & Herrmann
1
Pirkey Barber
1
Richard Law Group
1
Smith Gambrell & Russell
1
Thompson & Knight
1
Vinson & Elkins
1
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Hilda Galvan at Jones Day concentrates a “Life sciences star” in Euromoney
mainly on patent litigation. She repre- LMG’s Life Sciences in 2012 and 2013.
sented IBM in patent disputes against Claudia Frost at DLA Piper litigates on
Amazon.com. Wendy Larson at Pirkey matters including oil and gas, product liBarber litigates in trademark law. She ability, and health care. She is recogspecializes in Internet-related matters nized in Euromoney’s Guide to Leading
such as cybersquatting, social media, US Litigators and Guide to Leading
and keyword advertising. She has repre- World Litigators.
sented 3M in a number of matters.
Molly Richard at Richard Law Group
specializes in trademark and copyright. Virginia
She also has experience in opinion work MaryAnne Armstrong at Birch Stewart
and domain name disputes and man- Kolasch & Birch in Falls Church focuses
ages the portfolios of several major inter- on patents in the pharmaceutical and
national clients. Jane Brandt at chemical industries. She was named a
Thompson & Knight has been defending “Life sciences star” by LMG Life Sciences
an ITC action brought against her client, in 2012. Erin Dunston at Buchanan Ina memory hard drive manufacturer, in gersoll & Rooney focuses on patent prosa patent infringement case. Purvi Patel ecution in the biotechnology and
at Haynes and Boone focuses on trade pharmaceuticals industries. She has exdress, copyright, and Internet issues. She perience in classic infringement and dehas experience in sweepstakes issues, claratory
judgment
cases,
and
advertising issues, and domain name Paragraph IV cases. Erika Harmon
disputes.
Arner at Finnegan Henderson, Farabow,
Gina Shishima at Fulbright & Ja- Garrett & Dunner concentrates on
worski’s Austin office handles patent patents and litigation. She specializes in
matters for biotech clients. The head of electronic technology, computer softthe international firm’s US IP transac- ware, and the Internet. She represented
tions and patent prosecution practice, Lawson in ePlus v. Lawson Software as
she has experience with small molecule a defendant-appellant before the Fedtherapies, vaccine applications, and eral Circuit , which ruled that ePlus was
drug screening. Mary-Olga Lovett at not entitled to damages and Lawson’s
Greenberg Traurig focuses on patents, software product has no infringement
trade secrets, litigation, and product lia- claim. Maya Eckstein at Hunton &
bility matters. She defended a Fortune Williams focuses on patents and litiga500 medical device manufacturer in a tion in the technology field. She was inlawsuit regarding fraudulent marketing cluded in Benchmark Litigation’s Top
practices. Jill McWhirter’s IP practice at 250 Women in Litigation in 2012. Leslie
King & Spalding includes many energy Spasser at LeClairRyan specializes in
industry clients. In addition, she has cloud computing and hosted services
managed the IP portfolios of Coca-Cola and trademark licensing. She has expeand UPS. At Vinson & Elkins, Margaret rience in data security issues and conSampson has experience in Hatch-Wax- sumer protection law. Roberta “Robin”
man patent litigation, drug delivery sys- Bren, the co-chairperson of the copytems, and genetic engineering. She also right practice group at Oblon Spivak Mcfocuses on joint ventures and mergers Clelland Maier & Neustadt concentrates
on trademark and copyright law. She
and acquisitions.
Peg Donahue Hall at Dentons fo- also is experienced in matters relating
cuses on IP matters in the health and life licensing, unfair competition, and false
sciences sectors. She was recognized as advertising.
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Midwest
TOP 250 WOMEN in IP
The Midwest
Nominations
per state
Illinois
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Ohio
Wisconsin
Illinois
Nerissa Coyle McGinn at Loeb & Loeb focuses on privacy law, IP law, and trademark clearance. Her clients include
Turner Broadcasting, Wm. Wrigley Jr.
company, the New York Giants, and the
Washington Redskins. Mary Squyres at
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione focuses on international trademark litigation and licensing and prosecution for clients in the
transportation, consumer retail, and food
industries. At Katten Muchin Rosenman,
Kristin Achterhof is an IP litigator who
handles a range of sub-practice IP areas
including copyright, trademark, trade
dress, and patent infringement. Her clients
include Universal Studios, Home Box Office (HBO), and Motorola Mobility. Helen
Minsker at Banner & Witcoff deals with
trademark, unfair competition laws, and
copyright law. She also has experience
with prosecution of applications before
the USPTO. Claudia Stangle at Leydig
Voit & Mayer focuses on IP matters such
as trademarks, trade dress, and copyrights.
Her clients include the pharmaceuticals,
consumer goods, and financial services industries. Linda DeBruin at Kirkland &
Ellis litigates patent cases for clients in the
computing and telecommunications sec-
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tors, including BlackBerry in a multipatent dispute settled before trial.
Jeanne Gills is an IP litigator at Foley
& Lardner. Her experience includes
patent infringement cases such as Gharb
v. Coca-Cola, in which she represented
Coca-Cola in a matter involving a security system on a mobile phone. The case
was dismissed with prejudice in CocaCola’s favor. Julie Katz at Symbus handles IP portfolios, trademarks, and
copyrights. Her patent infringement experience includes Daiichi Sankyo Co. v.
Apotex, in which she was successful in
invalidating the patent on Daiichi’s
Floxin Otic, also known as ofloxacin, an
antibiotic used to treat ear infections.
Margaret Duncan is head of the
Chicago IP litigation practice at McDermott Will & Emery. She handles a range
of sub-practice areas such as patent,
trademark, copyright, software and computer technology. Meredith Martin
Addy at Steptoe & Johnson handles IP litigation at the trial and appellate levels,
including arguing before the Federal Circuit. Her patent litigation experience includes Abbott Labs. v. Sandoz, in which
she defended Sandoz in a case relating to
the antibiotic Omnicef and generic cef-
dinir. She was successful in denying Abbott Labs’ request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary
injunction against Sandoz. Pamela
Ruschau at Leydig Voit & Mayer is experienced in litigation in the mechanical,
chemical, and pharmaceutical sectors. A
trained automotive engineer, she also
prepares patents and licensing issues
and specializes in mechanical applications. Lily Rin-Laures at Marshall Gerstein & Borun focuses on patent
portfolios in the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry, with an emphasis
on FDA regulations and clinical product
development. Rin-Laures, a trained medical doctor, was recognized as a 2012
“Life Sciences Star” in Managing IP
LMG Life Sciences in 2012. Barnes &
Thornburg’s Melissa Vallone focuses on
unfair competition, copyright, domain
name, and commercial contract issues.
She successfully represented IHOP in a
trade dress infringement dispute against
a restaurant in IHOP v. Langley. Many
clients of Dentons’s Natalie Spears are
media companies looking to secure access to trial documents, including of
such headline-making cases such as the
prosecution of disgraced former Illinois
governor Rod Blagojevich and former
newspaper publisher Conrad Black. Zareefa Burki Flener at Ladas & Parry focuses on patent and trademark
prosecution, IP litigation, and licensing.
She has particular experience in HIV
transmission and pathology and mapping of the human genome. Janet
Garetto, the office managing partner of
Nixon Peabody’s Chicago presence, specializes in IP litigation. She has representative experience in technical patents,
silicone products, medical devices, and
dental implants. Jodi Rosen Wine at
Nixon Peabody is a litigator who focuses
on a range of technology-related IP subpractice areas including patent, copyright, and trademark. She has experience
with medical devices, currency processors, and automotive components. Christine Dudzik at Kelley Drye focuses on
patent litigation in the technology sector.
Her experience includes Markman hearings and Hatch-Waxman litigation.
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MIDWEST REGIONAL ANALYSIS
Michigan
Nominations per firm
BakerHostetler
Banner & Witcoff
Barnes & Thornburg
Bodman
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Dentons
Dorsey & Whitney
Edwards Wildman Palmer
Fish & Richardson
Foley & Lardner
Harness Dickey & Pierce
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn
Jones Day
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Kirkland & Ellis
Ladas & Parry
Leydig Voit & Mayer
Loeb & Loeb
Marshall Gerstein & Borun
McDermott Will & Emery
Merchant & Gould
Michael Best & Friedrich
Nixon Peabody
Porter Wright
Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Steptoe & Johnson
Symbus
Taft Stettinius & Hollister
Thompson Hine
Wood Herron & Evans
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1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
Susan Kornfield at Bodman has litigated
IP matters such as copyrights, trademarks,
e-commerce, and noncompete agreements. She has been an expert witness in
IP cases and also has experience in computer and entertainment law. Lisabeth
Coakley at Harness Dickey & Pierce focuses on trademark and anti-counterfeiting matters. She also has experience with
customs enforcement and seizures and domain name disputes. Anessa Owen
Kramer at Honigman Miller Schwartz and
Cohn focuses on trademark issues and has
particular experience with anti-cybersquatting and keyword advertising matters.
Minnesota
Elizabeth Buckingham at Dorsey &
Whitney focuses on trademark, copyright, entertainment, and Internet law. In
a Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy proceeding, she won the domain name back
from a cybersquatter in Imation Corp. v.
James Huxley aka OM Enterprises. At
Fish & Richardson, Dorothy Whelan focuses on patent portfolios and post-grant
proceedings, with particular experience
in the chemical and materials science
sectors. She also specializes in inter
partes and ex parte reexamination. Ann
Cathcart Chaplin, also at Fish &
Richardson, has litigation experience in
patent and trade secret matters. This experience involves technologies such as
chemicals, medical devices, semiconductors, and software. Jan Conlin at Robins
Kaplan Miller & Ciresi was named one of
the Top 250 Women in Litigation by
Benchmark Litigation in 2013, as well as
shortlisted for the publication’s “Female
Litigator of the Year-Midwest” award. She
represented Eolas Technologies and the
regents of the UC in Eolas Technologies
and The Regents of the University of California v. Microsoft Corporation. The jury
awarded her clients a settlement worth
$520.6 million, and the amount Microsoft
was ordered to pay totaled $565,894,868,
which included prejudgment interest.
Missouri
Tawni Wilhelm at Shook Hardy &
Bacon in Kansas City specializes in
patent protection focusing on industries
such as biotechnology, medical device
technology, and pharmaceuticals. She
also has extensive experience in ex parte
and inter partes reexamination. Jean
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Dickman, also at Shook Hardy & Bacon,
focuses on a range of IP sub-practice
areas including patent portfolios, infringement, and due diligence. She represents clients in the technology sector
including the pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and consumer products industries.
Ohio
After previously serving as chief senior
counsel for the Central Government of
India, Monica Verma at BakerHostetler
advises clients doing business in both
India and the US on IP issues relating to
software and technology. Her colleague
Deborah Wilcox focuses on copyright
and trademark in the merchandising and
entertainment sectors. Meredith Wilkes
at Jones Day is a trial lawyer who specializes in brand protection and enforcement.
She represented Deckers in Deckers Outdoor Corporation v. Dr. Jay’s, in which she
achieved permanent injunction against Dr.
Jay’s in the sale of counterfeit UGG boots.
Holly Kozlowski at Porter Wright focuses
on IP patent matters in a range of technical fields such as organic and pharmaceutical chemistry, biotechnology, and
chemical engineering. Margaret Lawson
at Taft Stettinius & Hollister handles several IP sub-practice areas such as trademark, copyright, and right of publicity. She
has representative experience in sectors
such as biomedical technology, publishing, and computer software.
Megan Dortenzo at Thompson Hine
has technical experience in patent, copyright, and trade secret matters including
technologies such as open source software, medical devices, and printer technologies. Beverly Lyman, practices at
both the Cincinnati and Atlanta offices at
Thompson Hine. She prosecutes before
the USPTO in technological matters such
as pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
Lori Krafte at Wood Herron & Evans has
experience with advertising, copyrights,
domain name disputes, and trademarks.
Wisconsin
Wendy Ward is a patent litigator at Merchant & Gould in Madison. Her industries
of expertise include industrial chemistry
and pharmaceuticals, and her clients include generic pharmaceutical companies.
Billie Jean Smith’s background as an engineer helps her in her patent, trademark
and copyright practice at Michael Best &
Friedrich in Milwaukee.
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Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC is one of the nation’s largest intellectual property law firms and is internationally known,
operating globally since 1921. Our lawyers provide counseling, licensing, litigation and prosecution services that
range from patents and copyrights to anti-counterfeiting and foreign rights. We have more than 120 intellectual property professionals with scientific and engineering degrees. Their technical disciplines range from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and chemical engineering to the computer sciences and genetics, as well as materials
and metallurgical engineering, chemistry, physics, biochemistry and agricultural engineering.
Our expertise has become a critical asset in today’s volatile legal environment. All fields of intellectual property are
experiencing dramatic changes, making it increasingly challenging to protect technology and brands globally. Our
large-scale operations meet these challenges by employing lawyers who specialize in each area of intellectual property. Such specialization allows us to deliver state-of-the-art legal strategies and effectively handle every IP issue confronting your business. Our extensive legal experience includes:
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Former In-House IP Counsel
Former Patent Examiners
Industry and Executive Experience
A Vast Array of Technical Backgrounds
Our domestic and international patent practice is second to none. We also have lawyers focusing exclusively on
worldwide trademark and Internet issues, and our partners spend significant time providing opinions relevant to all
aspects of intellectual property, including due diligence. Our litigation practice focuses exclusively on resolving IP
disputes quickly and effectively.
We understand that quality work is our clients’ most important objective because their competitive advantage hinges
upon it. We deliver strategies without having to “reinvent the wheel” each time, because our lawyers specialize and
do not merely dabble in their areas of focus.
We are privileged to represent some of the most successful and sophisticated companies worldwide, including many
Fortune 100 and 500 companies, and we have been ranked on a national level by several well-respected publications
in the industry, including:
• Intellectual Property Today-Top Patent Firms, ranked 5th nationally for obtaining more than 2,800 patents
• US News and World Report-2013 Best Lawyers and Tier 1 Best Law Firms
• Managing Intellectual Property-2013 Top Patent Prosecution Firm in the Midwest
We have offices in metropolitan Detroit, MI, St. Louis, MO and Washington, DC, each of which focuses exclusively
on intellectual property. We are one of the very few intellectual property firms in the world with substantial offices
near both of the USPTO offices. This provides our attorneys with a vehicle for face-to-face attorney/Examiner interviews
on behalf of our clients.
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West
TOP 250 WOMEN in IP
The West
Nominations
per state
California
Colorado
Oregon
Washington
California
Susan Gorman, sole practitioner at Gorman IP Law in San Diego, focuses on
patent prosecution in the biotechnology,
biochemistry, and pharmaceuticals sectors, and holds a PhD during which time
she studied genetics of pine trees. She
also has experience with trademark
clearance opinions and trademark applications. Judith Szepesi at Blakely
Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman focuses on
patents and patent prosecution. Many of
her clients are in the telecoms and computing sectors on both the software, and
hardware sides. Karen Frank, a former
president of the Copyright Society of the
USA, practices IP and business law at
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass in San
Francisco. Her clients include the advertising, food and beverage, and entertainment industries, including a major
music company in its ongoing litigation
in northern California. Heidi Keefe at
Cooley in Palo Alto litigates patent trials
in the technical field. Her clients include
Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft, eBay,
and HTC.
Jill Cohen, the chairperson of the
entertainment transactions practice at
Davis Wright Tremaine in LosAngeles is
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experienced in entertainment transactions for motion picture studios and
cable networks. She analyzes rights issues and drafts agreements. Kelli
Sager, also at Davis Wright Tremaine,
focuses on media and entertainment
law including securing access for
media to records on high-profile criminal cases such as for Phil Spector,
Winona Ryder, and O.J. Simpson. She
represented Universal Pictures in Diaz
v. NBC Universal, successfully obtaining dismissal of libel class action which
was based on the film “American Gangster.” Deborah Fishman at Dickstein
Shapiro in Palo Alto concentrates on
patent litigation in the biopharmaceuticals and medical devices fields. She represented Amgen in the patent
infringement dispute Pieczenik v.
Amgen. The case was dismissed at the
hearings stage. Lisa Haile at DLA
Piper’s San Diego office handles patent
protection matters for clients primarily
in the pharmaceutical sector, including
work involving virology, molecular biology, and drug delivery systems. Daralyn Durie, one of the co-founders of
San Francisco firm Durie Tangri, has
tried several patent cases for several
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household-name clients, including social media clients such as Twitter and
LinkedIn, and life sciences clients such
as Genentech. She successfully represented California State University
against a group of CSU students in a
dispute involving fee increases. Sally
Abel of Fenwick & West specializes in
trademark-related matters, including
portfolios and trademark rights online.
She was recognized in Euromoney
Legal Media Group’s Guide to the
World’s Leading Women in Business
Law as one of the top trademark
lawyers in the US in both 2010 and
2012. Debra Wong Yang at Gibson
Dunn & Crutcher specializes in corporate crime and compliance. She formerly served as the US Attorney for the
Central District of California.
IP-focused firm Fish & Richardson
has three members of California’s IP
Top 250 contingent. Juanita Brooks focuses on IP, product liability, and qui
tam litigation. In July she knocked out a
$149 million suit brought by Baxter
against her client Fresenius USA. Lisa
Greenwald-Swire focuses on trademark, copyright, domain name, and licensing issues. She focuses on the new
media and entertainment sector. Lisa
Martens concentrates her practice on
trademarks for industries including food
service, healthcare, and apparel. She
also focuses on domain name and licensing issues.
Greenberg Traurig has three lawyers
among California’s IP Top 250. Heather
Meeker focuses on licensing and mergers and acquisitions for several industries including educational clients,
communications, and medical devices.
She was recognized in Euromoney’s
“Guide to the World’s Leading Women in
Business Law” in 2012. Susan Heller
specializes in trademarks for clients including Fortune 500 companies and entertainment figures. She was shortlisted
for Euromoney’s “Best in trademark”
award at the 2013 Americas Women in
Business Law Awards. Valerie Ho at
Greenberg Traurig focuses on patents,
trademark, copyright, and anti-counterfeiting litigation.
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Nominations per firm
Bingham
Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass
Cooley
Davis Wright Tremaine
Dickstein Shapiro
DLA Piper
Dorsey & Whitney
Durie Tangri
Faegre Baker Daniels
Fenwick & West
Fish & Richardson
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Greenberg Traurig
Holland & Hart
Irell & Manella
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K&L Gates
Kaye Scholer
Keker & Van Nest
Kenyon & Kenyon
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Kirkland & Ellis
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Ladas & Parry
Latham & Watkins
Loeb & Loeb
Manatt Phelps & Phillips
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp
Morrison & Foerster
Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Perkins Coie
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Sheridan Ross
Sidley Austin
Stoel Rives
Stolowitz Ford Cowger
Susan Gorman IP
Tonkon Torp
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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Jane Shay Wald is partner emeritus matters primarily for clients in the life
at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles. She sciences, computer sciences, and elecconcentrates on trademark, unfair com- tronic media sectors. Elizabeth Linford
petition, false advertising, and copyright. at Ladas & Parry in Los Angeles specialShe was the counsel for the briefs on be- izes in trademark prosecution, digital
half of Dastar in the Lanham Act dispute brands protection, and copyrights. The
Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox Film be- head of the firm’s digital brands practice,
fore the US Supreme Court. Susan Hol- she also has experience in domain name
lander of K&L Gates has experience in disputes and portfolio management.
many IP sub-fields, including trade- Roxanne Christ at Latham & Watkins’s
mark, copyright, unfair competition, and Los Angeles office focuses her practice
false advertising disputes. She has repre- on IP-related media and technology
sented HTC, T-Mobile, 24-Hour Fitness, transactions, portfolios, patents, and
and Francis Ford Coppola Winery.
trademarks. She has represented The
Rhonda Trotter, based in Los Ange- Walt Disney Company, Sony Online Enles, is the head of Kaye Scholer’s trade- tertainment, and Takeda Pharmaceutimark, copyright, and false advertising cal. Laura Wytsma at Loeb & Loeb
group. She recently represented Central focuses on patents, false advertising,
South Distribution as lead counsel in defamation, and Lanham Act violations.
Burtscher v. Moore in a breach of con- A recent high-profile representation of
tract and copyright infringement suit hers was on behalf of Marilyn Monroe
with regards to recordings of American LLC regarding the classic film star’s
Idol contestant and musician Adam post-mortem publicity rights. Shari
Lambert. Sheri Jeffrey, also at Kaye Sc- Wollman at Manatt Phelps & Phillips foholer, represents clients in the entertain- cuses on patents, copyright, and trade sement industry. She focuses on licensing cret litigation. She specializes in the
and distribution agreements. Christa entertainment and media industries.
Anderson of Keker & Van Nest litigates Karin Pagnanelli at Mitchell Silberberg
for several household names such as & Knupp concentrates on copyright,
Intel, Google, American Honda, Broad- piracy, trademark, defamation, and uncom, and Sutter Health. She represented fair competition. In a recent trademark
Google in Oracle America v. Google, a infringement dispute, she represented
patent and copyright dispute. All claims Take2 Interactive and Rockstar Games
of infringement were rejected and there against a Los Angeles business regardwere no damages. Megan Whyman ing the “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas”
Olesek at Kenyon & Kenyon in Palo Alto game and Sony Music in another tradefocuses on technology-related patent lit- mark infringement lawsuit relating to
igation. She successfully represented the UK boy band One Direction, filed by
Sony in the trade secrets case a US-based group sharing the same
MedioStream v. Microsoft. The court dis- name.
missed MedioStream’s complaint.
Catherine Polizzi at Morrison & FoJennifer Arkowitz at Kilpatrick erster in Palo Alto focuses on patents,
Townsend & Stockton in San Francisco due diligence, and portfolio manageconcentrates on trademark and copy- ment in the life sciences sector. She was
right law. She has represented wireless recognized as a “Life science star” by
headset manufacturer AliphCom in mul- Euromoney LMG’s Life Sciences in 2012
tiple trademark-related matters, as well and 2013, and she won Euromoney’s
as nutritional company Clif Bar in a “Best in life sciences” award at the 2013
trademark infringement suit. Diana Americas Women in Business Law
Torres at Kirkland & Ellis focuses her Awards. Gladys Monroy, also at Morripractice on IP matters such as trade se- son & Foerster, specializes in patent
crets and unfair competition for the en- portfolio management, interferences, retertainment and media industry. She examinations, reissues, and due dilirepresented Twentieth Century Fox Film gence. The patents she wrote for her
in David Hayter v. Twentieth Century client Chiron led to the creation of bloodFox and Newmarket Press, which in- screening technology to detect for Hepavolved credit disputes and rights with re- titis C. Morrison & Foerster’s Kate
gards to false advertising and antitrust Murashige specializes in patent proselaws. Lisa Kobialka at Kramer Levin cution work. She represented the UniNaftalis & Frankel focuses on patents, versity of California regarding a bovine
trade secrets, and unfair competition growth hormone patent. She secured liT O P 2 5 0 W O M E N I P S TA R S 2 0 1 3
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censing revenue for the university val- District of California. Victoria Maroulis,
ued around $250 million. She was recog- also at Quinn Emanuel, focuses on
nized as a “Life sciences star” by patent litigation. She represented Cisco,
Euromoney LMG’s Life Sciences in 2013. Belkin, NETGEAR, and D-Link in a
Rachel Krevans is nationally known for patent infringement case involving wireher representation of Apple in the ongo- less routers and won summary judging litigation in connection with Apple v. ment of non-infringement and invalidity.
Samsung. Krevans joins her colleague
Sasha Rao at Bingham McCutchen in
Polizzi in winning at the 2013 Eu- Palo Alto focuses on patent infringeromoney Women in Business Law ment, Hatch-Waxman cases, copyrights,
Awards; in her case, taking home the and trade secrets. She successfully rep“Best in patent” award.
resented Transmeta in the patent inKatherine “Katy” Basile at Novak fringement case Transmeta v. Intel
Druce Connolly Bove & Quigg special- regarding microprocessor technology.
izes in trademarks and licensing issues. The case settled for $250 million.
She is experienced in litigation before
Patty Thayer at Sidley Austin concenthe Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. trates on patent litigation in the life sciAlso a member of the Novak Druce ences sector. Her experience includes
team is Pam Fulmer, whose experience biopharmaceuticals, drug delivery sysis in patent, copyright, and trademark tems, and medical devices. She won the
infringement litigation. She represented “Best in life sciences award” at the 2012
WPI in Whittemore Peterson Institute for Euromoney LMG’s Americas Women in
Neuro-Immune Disease v. Judy Mikovits, Business Law Awards. Karen Ballack at
a trade secrets and breach of contract Weil Gotshal & Manges represents techdispute in which she obtained a prelim- nology companies in IP transactions.
inary injunction. She is currently han- She represented Symantec in its $115
dling patent litigation matters involving million acquisition of LiveOffice Holdstreaming video technology. Annette ings from Summit Partners and LiveOfHurst at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in fice management. Based in the Palo Alto
San Francisco successfully defended office of White & Case, Jeannine Sano
DISH network against Fox’s motion for focuses on patent litigation involving
a preliminary injunction attempting to technologies such as microprocessors,
shut down Hopper DVR and its Prime- chipsets, memory, image sensors, and
Time Anytime and AutoHop features. software. She represented Autodesk in
She was named “Female Litigator of the the patent litigation dispute American
Year – West” by Benchmark Litigation in Imaging Services v. Autodesk regarding
2013. She was also recognized in Bench- CAD software. Stefani Shanberg at Wilmark Litigation’s “Top 250 Women in son Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati specialLitigation” in 2012. Her Orrick col- izes in technological patent litigation
league Stephanie Sharron focuses on with a focus on ITC investigations. Her
IP transactions in the life sciences and clients include Google, Spotify, and
technologies sector. She specializes in Symantec. Suzanne Bell, also at Wilson
privacy, data security, and Internet Sonsini, focuses on technology and IP
safety issues.
transactions. She has experience in
Bobbie Wilson at Perkins Coie in San cloud computing, electronics, and digital
Francisco specializes in patents, trade media.
secrets, Internet privacy, and Section
230 litigation under the Communications Decency Act. She is representing Colorado
Craigslist against scrappers trying to Based in Denver, Natalie Hanlon-Leh
profit from content on the website. Viola focuses on patent, copyright, and tradeKung, also at Perkins Coie, concentrates mark at Faegre Baker Daniels. She repon patents in the life sciences sector. Her resented USA Hockey and obtained a
practice matters include neurological seizure order for counterfeit merchandiseases, gene expression, and chemical dise at the 2002 Winter Olympics held in
formulations. Jennifer Kash at Quinn Salt Lake City. She was named 2013 ColEmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan focuses orado “Outstanding IP Litigator of the
on patents, trade secrets, and antitrust Year” by Managing IP. Her Faegre coldisputes. She successfully represented league Nina Wang focuses on IP litigaYahoo! when it filed a multi-patent law- tion. She successfully represented
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ment in post-Supreme Court proceedings regarding a patent license in LabCorp v. Metabolite. Andrea Anderson at
Holland & Hart in Boulder focuses on
trademarks. She also has experience in
matters pertaining to gray-market goods,
counterfeit goods, and domain names.
Sabrina Stavish at Sheridan Ross is
based in Denver and focuses on trademarks, copyrights, and Internet domain
names. She also has experience with
software development, licensing, and
marketing agreements. Lisa Osman at
Dorsey & Whitney specializes in trademark protection, brand development,
and Internet and domain name matters.
The industries she represents include
consumer products, software, and financial services.
Oregon
Anne Glazer at Stoel Rives specializes
in trademark, copyright, and trade secret issues. She also has experience in
advertising compliance, franchising,
software, and patents. Graciela Cowger
at Stolowitz Ford Cowger focuses on
patent prosecution in the electronics,
software, and communications industries. She also has experience in infringement analysis and portfolio evaluation.
Vicki Ballou at Tonkon Torp focuses on
patent, trademark, and copyright licenses. Her clients include technology
and manufacturing companies.
Utah
Margaret Niver McGann at Parsons
Behle & Latimer focuses on trademark
law. She has experience in brand name
clearance, registration, use, and protection. Juliette White, also at Parsons
Behle, focuses on IP and antitrust matters. She also concentrates on Internet
infringement matters such as domain
disputes and social media such as Tumblr and Pinterest.
Washington
Cindy Caditz at Davis Wright Tremaine
focuses on trademarks. She is representing Sunbeam in Sunbeam Products v.
Osram in a dispute over trademark registration. At Knobbe Martens, Maria Anderson has experience in patent
prosecution in the computer science and
e-commerce fields. She also focuses on
trademark portfolios and assets.
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K&L Gates has three members of IP
Top 250’s rankings in Washington state.
C. Rachal Winger focuses on patents in
the life sciences sector. Her experience
includes pain management, therapeutics for cancers, mental disorders, and
regenerative stem cell technologies.
Martha Dawson specializes in electronic discovery and records management. She advises clients on litigation
readiness and collection issues. Pallavi
Mehta Wahi is the co-chairperson of the
firm’s India practice. She focuses on
commercial and corporate IP litigation.
She has experience in discovery, motion
practice, and trial practice.
Five women represent Perkins Coie,
based out of the international firm’s Seat-
tle headquarters. Grace Han Stanton focuses on trademark and brand clearance, copyright protection, advertising
compliance review and liquor licensing,
and regulatory matters. She represents
Fortune 500 companies, wineries and
breweries, and software companies.
Heidi Sachs specializes in trademark,
copyright, domain name, and trade secret issues. She handles Boeing’s trademark portfolio. Lynne Graybeal focuses
on trademark, copyright, Internet and
social media issues, and entertainment
law. She also concentrates on software
license agreements, web-based content
license agreements, and literary rights
agreements. Amanda Beane is a commercial litigator who focuses on class
actions involving consumer protection
and privacy. She successfully represented Washington Families Standing
Together in Doe v. Reed, in which the
Supreme Court ruled that release of referendum petitions does not facially violate the First Amendment. Lynn
Hvalsoe focuses on technology transactions, specializing in joint development
agreements, patent licensing, and IP
monetization counseling. She also has
experience in due diligence, trademark,
copyright, and software development issues. From 1988-96 Hvalsoe served as
general counsel for Nintendo of America, and was responsible for the legal
management of the electronics company’s IP portfolio.
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LISA KOBIALKA
VIOLA KUNG
KRAMER LEVIN NAFTALIS & FRANKEL LLP
990 Marsh Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Tel:
650.752.1711
Fax:
650.752.1811
Email:
[email protected]
Lisa Kobialka, a partner in the firm’s intellectual property department in
the Silicon Valley office, focuses on both litigation and counseling
clients in the area of complex intellectual property and general litigation matters. She has handled trials and evidentiary hearings in numerous jurisdictions across the United States involving claims for patent
infringement, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition and
trademark infringement, as well as breach of contract and tort claims.
She has represented clients as both plaintiff and defendant in over 85
litigations throughout the country. Most recently, she tried several multipatent cases in the District of Delaware, involving antivirus software
and computer products and social networking architecture. She represents clients in a variety of technology-related industries, with a particular emphasis on the life sciences, computer sciences, and the electrical
arts.
Ms Kobialka is active in the intellectual property legal community
and has been a long term member of several intellectual property organizations, including the American IP Association. She is presently a
lifetime member of the Japanese American Bar Association, and has
memberships with the American Bar Association, the California Bar Association, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and
the Women’s Intellectual Property Law Association.
Ms Kobialka received her JD from the University of San Francisco
School of Law, her MM from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music,
and her BA from the University of California, Davis.
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PERKINS COIE LLP
3150 Porter Drive
Palo Alto, California
94304
Tel:
650.838.4457
Fax:
650.838.4657
Email:
[email protected]
Viola Kung is a partner in Perkins Coie’s patent procurement practice
focusing on patent prosecution and patent counseling in the chemical,
pharmaceutical, diagnostics, biotechnology, and small molecule arenas, including methods for treating inflammatory diseases, ophthalmic
diseases, neurological diseases, neuropsychiatric diseases, pulmonary
diseases, autoimmune diseases, and pain; pharmaceutical formulations, chemical formulations, new chemical entity, chemical processes,
medical devices, nucleotide derivatives, monoclonal antibodies, in vitro
diagnostics, immunoassays, gene expression, antisense, RNA transformation vectors, recombinant viral nucleic acids, DNA sequencing,
tumor suppressor genes, fusion proteins, interferons, electrophoretic
displays, silica filter media, sol gels, and carbon nanotubes.
She is experienced in reexamination, appeal, and interference proceedings before the US Patent and Trademark Office. Her other client
counseling activities include opinion work, freedom-to-operate and due
diligence evaluation.
Dr Kung received her BS in chemistry from National Taiwan University, PhD in chemistry/biochemistry from University of California at
Berkeley, and JD from Santa Clara University. She had worked for Liposome Technology, Inc., Molecular Devices Corp., and Metra Bosystems, Inc. as a research scientist and development director before she
switched her career to patent law. Prior to joining Perkins Coie, Dr.
Kung was a partner in the patent prosecution group at Howrey LLP and
a patent agent at Rae-Venter Law Group.
Through her extensive research and industrial training, she has
broad R&D experience in formulation, assay development, in vitro diagnostics, protein and DNA interaction, lipid bilayer membrane, conjugation chemistry and molecular biology.
She is an inventor of a total of 21 US patents in the areas of immunoassay methods and kits; kinetic microtiter plate readers, heptane
derivatized membrane, DNA detection methods; DNA-protein separation methods; liposome formulations, protein conjugation, bone resorption, and biotin reagents. She also has numerous publications in
scientific journals.
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BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN
1117 S. California Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1106
Tel:
+1.650.849.4885
Fax:
+1.650.849.4651
Email:
[email protected]
Sasha Rao, a partner in Bingham’s Intellectual Property group, is a seasoned trial lawyer with an established record of success in patent litigation for many of the world’s leading technology companies. With
nearly 17 years’ experience and a degree in physics, Sasha’s strong
technical background and extensive experience in high-tech matters allows her to quickly master a wide range of technologies and simplify
the presentation of complex technical arguments, helping ensure her
clients are provided with courtroom winning results. Sasha’s experience includes jury and bench trials, Markman hearings and International Trade Commission investigations. Sasha also advises clients on
strategic matters involving patent infringement, Hatch-Waxman cases,
copyrights, trade secrets and other intellectual property issues.
Sasha was recognized as a “Top 75 IP Litigator in California” by
the Daily Journal (2013); an “IP Star” by Managing IP magazine
(2013); a “Top 250 Women in IP” by IP Stars (2013); a “Women
Leader in Tech Law” by The Recorder (2013); a “Woman of Influence”
by the Silicon Valley Business Journal (2013) and as a “Rainmaker” by
the MCCA’s Diversity & The Bar magazine (2012).
Representative matters
• Confidential client — Represented confidential technology client in
securing a summary judgment ruling of non-infringement in a Central District of California case involving four patents. Following a favorable claim construction ruling for our client that led directly into
summary judgment motions, the Court granted our client’s summary
judgment motion of non-infringement of all asserted claims.
• Confidential clients — Represented two technology clients as defendants in securing victory in a case brought by Eolas Technologies
Inc. on two patents that it contended cover all websites containing
interactive content. After a four-day invalidity trial involving multiple
defendants, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict that
all asserted claims of both patents are invalid.
• Transmeta Corp. v. Intel Corp. — Represented Transmeta in a
patent infringement lawsuit involving microprocessor technology.
Case settled favorably for $250 million, which was one of the top
patent damage settlements in 2007.
• Compaq Computer Corp. v. eMachines — Represented Compaq in
patent infringement action asserting computer systems patents. Obtained summary judgment of infringement of nine patents relating to
personal computer subsystems. Obtained permanent injunction before trial against further infringement of two patents. Damages
claim was in excess of $200 million before trebling. Case settled
favorably through mediation two weeks before trial.
• Lucent v. Periphonics — Represented Lucent in patent infringement
action asserting patents regarding interactive voice technology.
Case settled favorably through mediation after the Markman hearing.
• Purdue Pharma Products L.P. v. Par Pharmaceuticals — Represented
Purdue Pharma and associated companies in a Hatch-Waxman
patent infringement lawsuit involving controlled-release tramadol.
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Industry specialties: Healthcare IT, Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Software & Computer Services, Technology
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Trademark Prosecution
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Fenwick & West
Patent Contentious
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Sally Abel
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Kristin Achterhof
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Illinois
Industry specialties: Communications, Consumer Products, Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Technology
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Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB
Opposition
Lisa Adams
Nutter McClennen & Fish
Massachusetts
Industry specialties: Chemicals, Consumer Products, Mechanical Products and Processes, Medical Devices
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Re-examination, Trademark Clearance
Meredith Martin Addy
Steptoe & Johnson
Illinois
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Pharmaceuticals, Software & Computer
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Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Jennifer Albert
Goodwin Procter
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Business Methods, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Internet, Software & Computer
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Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Elizabeth “Beth” Alquist
Day Pitney
Connecticut
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Internet, Internet (Domain Names),
Manufacturing
Key legal specialties: Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Andrea Anderson
Holland & Hart
Colorado
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Media, Sports and Entertainment,
Technology Hardware & Equipment, Transportation
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Christa Anderson
Keker & Van Nest
California
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Industry specialties: Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Financial Services, Software & Computer Services,
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Maria Anderson
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Washington
Industry specialties: Business Methods, Consumer Products, Internet, Software & Computer Services,
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Re-examination
Adriane Antler
Jones Day
New York
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals,
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Re-examination, International Work: Europe
Jennifer Arkowitz
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
California
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Internet, Internet (Domain Names),
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Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
MaryAnne Armstrong
Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch
Virginia
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals,
Universities and Research
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
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Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Clean Technology, Pharmaceuticals,
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Massachusetts
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Foley Hoag
Patent Contentious
NAME
Beth Arnold
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Venture Capital
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Gianna Arnold
Saul Ewing
Maryland
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Universities and Research, Venture Capital
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination, International Work:
Europe
Karen Artz Ash
Katten Muchin Rosenman
New York
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Manufacturing
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work:
Europe
Rose Auslander
Carter Ledyard & Milburn
New York
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports
and Entertainment, Publishing
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition
Bharati Bakshani
Ladas & Parry
New York
Industry specialties: Chemicals, Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Financial Services, Industrial
Products
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Karen Ballack
Weil Gotshal & Manges
California
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Internet, Medical Devices, Software & Computer Services, Technology
Hardware & Equipment
Vicki Ballou
Tonkon Torp
Oregon
Industry specialties: Internet, Manufacturing, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Software & Computer Services,
Technology Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Martha Barber
Alston & Bird
North Carolina
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Financial Services, Manufacturing,
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Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Katherine “Katy” Basile
Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg
California
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Medical Devices,
Technology Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition, International
Work: Europe, International Work: Asia
Lynn Bayard
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
New York
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Media, Sports and
Entertainment, Publishing
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Amanda Beane
Perkins Coie
Washington
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TOP 250 WOMEN IN IP
Counseling
Industry specialties: Clean Technology, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Internet, Software & Computer
Licensing
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
California
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Patent Contentious
NAME
Suzanne Bell
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence
Leora Ben-Ami
Kirkland & Ellis
New York
Deborah Benson
Hinckley Allen & Snyder
Massachusetts
Maria Bernier
Reed Smith
Pennsylvania
Jessamyn Berniker
Williams & Connolly
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Orange Book
Elizabeth Borland
Smith Gambrell & Russell
Georgia
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Industrial Products, Internet (Domain Names)
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Key legal specialties: Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition
Jane Brandt
Thompson & Knight
Texas
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Industry specialties: Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Software & Computer Services, Technology Hardware &
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Equipment, Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation
Roberta “Robin” Bren
Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt
Virginia
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Healthcare Equipment & Services,
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Medical Devices, Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB
Opposition
Courtenay Brinckerhoff
Foley & Lardner
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and Research
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book, International Work: Europe
Juanita Brooks
Fish & Richardson
California
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Orange Book
Maureen Browne
Covington & Burling
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Software & Computer Services, Technology
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Hardware & Equipment, Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation
Elizabeth Buckingham
Dorsey & Whitney
Minnesota
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Healthcare Equipment & Services,
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Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Christine Bush
Scott & Bush
Rhode Island
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Healthcare IT, Internet (Domain Names), Mechanical Products and
Processes, Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
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TOP 250 WOMEN IN IP
Licensing
Counseling
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Media, Sports and Entertainment,
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Washington DC
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Patent Contentious
NAME
Karen Butcher
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Pharmaceuticals, Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, International Work: Europe, International
Work: Asia
Cindy Caditz
Davis Wright Tremaine
Washington
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Industry specialties: Chemicals, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Jennifer Camacho
Greenberg Traurig
Massachusetts
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Clean Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Venture Capital
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Virginia Carron
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Georgia
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Industry specialties: Chemicals, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Mechanical Products and Processes
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work:
Europe
Patricia Carson
Kirkland & Ellis
New York
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Post-grant Proceedings
Cristina Carvalho
Arent Fox
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names),
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Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition
Dale Cendali
Kirkland & Ellis
New York
Ann Cathcart Chaplin
Fish & Richardson
Minnesota
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Medical Devices,
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Technology Hardware & Equipment
Roxanne Christ
Latham & Watkins
California
Pamela Church
Baker & McKenzie
New York
Industry specialties: Internet, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Publishing, Software & Computer Services
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International Work:
Europe, International Work: Asia
Lisabeth Coakley
Harness Dickey & Pierce
Michigan
Industry specialties: Automobiles & Parts, Consumer Products, Healthcare Equipment & Services, Manufacturing
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Jill Cohen
Davis Wright Tremaine
California
Sarah Chapin Columbia
McDermott Will & Emery
Massachusetts
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Counseling
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Business Methods, Internet, Mechanical Products and Processes, Medical
Licensing
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Minnesota
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi
Patent Contentious
NAME
Jan Conlin
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Devices
Susan Cook
Hogan Lovells
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Pharmaceuticals,
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Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Karen Copenhaver
Choate Hall & Stewart
Massachusetts
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Industry specialties: Healthcare IT, Internet, Technology Hardware & Equipment, Universities and Research,
Venture Capital
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Janet Cord
Ladas & Parry
New York
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and Research
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Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Re-examination, International Work: Europe, International
Work: Asia
Laura Coruzzi
Jones Day
New York
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Venture Capital
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Interferences, Opinion Work, Re-examination, International Work: Europe
Graciela Cowger
Stolowitz Ford Cowger
Oregon
Industry specialties: Communications, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Software & Computer Services,
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Telecommunications, Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Re-examination, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Nerissa Coyle McGinn
Loeb & Loeb
Illinois
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition
Pamela Curbelo
Cantor Colburn
Connecticut
Industry specialties: Automobiles & Parts, Chemicals, Manufacturing, Mechanical Products and Processes
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Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, International Work: Europe, International Work: Asia
Martha Dawson
K&L Gates
Washington
Jennifer Dean
Drinker Biddle & Reath
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet (Domain Names), Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work:
Europe
Linda DeBruin
Kirkland & Ellis
Illinois
Industry specialties: Internet, Software & Computer Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment,
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Telecommunications, Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Pamela Deese
Arent Fox
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and Entertainment, Publishing,
Technology Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Due Diligence, Trademark Clearance
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Counseling
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Licensing
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Business Methods, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Medical Devices,
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Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Massachusetts
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Patent Contentious
NAME
Denise DeFranco
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Orange Book, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination, Trade Secret / Unfair
Competition
Jean Dickman
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Missouri
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Consumer Products, Healthcare IT, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Peg Donahue Hall
Dentons
Texas
Ava Doppelt
Allen Dyer Doppelt Milbrath & Gilchrist
Florida
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Media, Sports and Entertainment,
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Pharmaceuticals, Publishing
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB
Opposition
Megan Dortenzo
Thompson Hine
Ohio
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Industry specialties: Business Methods, Internet, Medical Devices, Software & Computer Services,
Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work
Christine Dudzik
Kelley Drye
Illinois
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and Research
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book, Post-grant Proceedings
Margaret Duncan
McDermott Will & Emery
Illinois
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Financial Services, Internet, Software & Computer Services
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Trademark Clearance, International
Work: Europe
Erin Dunston
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
Virginia
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings
Daralyn Durie
Durie Tangri
California
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Tracy-Gene Durkin
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
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Washington DC
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Mechanical Products and Processes,
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Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work:
Asia
Maya Eckstein
Hunton & Williams
Virginia
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Industry specialties: Financial Services, Internet, Software & Computer Services, Telecommunications,
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Telecommunications (Mobile)
Sandra Edelman
Dorsey & Whitney
New York
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, Publishing
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Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Dianne Elderkin
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Pennsylvania
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names),
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Counseling
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Licensing
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
New York
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Davis Wright Tremaine
Patent Contentious
NAME
Roxanne Elings
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition,
International Work: Asia
Nicole Emmons
Baker & McKenzie
Texas
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Industrial Products, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and
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Entertainment, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Shamita Etienne-CummingsWhite & Case
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Communications, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Internet, Technology Hardware &
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Equipment, Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation
Mary Ferguson
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Massachusetts
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book, International Work: Europe
Lisa Ferri
Mayer Brown
New York
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Orange Book, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Barbara Fiacco
Foley Hoag
Massachusetts
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Healthcare Equipment & Services, Medical Devices, Universities
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and Research
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Opinion Work
Deborah Fishman
Dickstein Shapiro
California
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Software & Computer Services, Technology
Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Re-examination, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Sherry Flax
Saul Ewing
Maryland
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet (Domain Names), Manufacturing, Software & Computer
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Services
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition
Zareefa Burki Flener
Ladas & Parry
Illinois
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Universities and
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Research
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work:
Europe, International Work: Asia
Ann Ford
DLA Piper
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names),
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Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Nancy Frandsen
Woodcock Washburn
Pennsylvania
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports
and Entertainment, Publishing
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB
Opposition
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Massachusetts
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Counseling
Fish & Richardson
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and
Licensing
Janis Fraser
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
California
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass
Patent Contentious
NAME
Karen Frank
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Research
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Re-examination
Laura Fahey Fritts
Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman
Georgia
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Industry specialties: Chemicals, Mechanical Products and Processes, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Orange Book
Claudia Frost
DLA Piper
Texas
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Industry specialties: Chemicals, Energy, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Software & Computer Services,
Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, ITC Litigation, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International Work: Europe
Pam Fulmer
Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg
California
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Industry specialties: Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and Entertainment, Software & Computer
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Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Hilda Galvan
Jones Day
Texas
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Industry specialties: Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Internet, Software & Computer Services,
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Telecommunications, Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Post-grant Proceedings, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Elizabeth Gardner
Kenyon & Kenyon
New York
Janet Garetto
Nixon Peabody
Illinois
Industry specialties: Chemicals, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Industrial Products, Manufacturing, Medical
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Devices
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Terri Gillis
Mayer Brown
New York
Jeanne Gills
Foley & Lardner
Illinois
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Industry specialties: Automobiles & Parts, Consumer Products, Energy, Telecommunications (Mobile)
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Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Anne Glazer
Stoel Rives
Oregon
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Healthcare IT, Software & Computer
Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Lori Gordon
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Financial Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment,
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Telecommunications, Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Susan Gorman
Gorman IP Law
California
Industry specialties: Alternative Energy, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Re-examination, Trademark Clearance, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
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Perkins Coie
Counseling
Licensing
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
Lynne Graybeal
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Massachusetts
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Patent Contentious
NAME
Jill Gorny Sloper
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Washington
Industry specialties: Media, Sports and Entertainment, Publishing, Software & Computer Services, Technology
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Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Lisa Greenwald-Swire
Fish & Richardson
California
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Marta Gross
Goodwin Procter
New York
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book, Post-grant Proceedings
Lisa Haile
DLA Piper
California
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and Research
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Re-examination, International Work: Europe
Jody Haller Drake
Sughrue Mion
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear,
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Media, Sports and Entertainment, Publishing
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Arlene Hanks
Moore & Van Allen
North Carolina
Industry specialties: Financial Services, Healthcare IT, Internet (Domain Names), Mechanical Products and
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Processes, Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Elizabeth Hanley
McCarter & English
Massachusetts
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings
Natalie Hanlon-Leh
Faegre Baker Daniels
Colorado
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Industry specialties: Chemicals, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Software &
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Computer Services, Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Re-examination
Erika Harmon Arner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Virginia
Industry specialties: Business Methods, Financial Services, Internet, Software & Computer Services,
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Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination, Trade Secret / Unfair
Competition
Audrey Haroz Reed
Hogan Lovells
Washington DC & New York
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Industry specialties: Automobiles & Parts, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Pharmaceuticals, Software &
Computer Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment
Maia Harris
Nixon Peabody
Massachusetts
Industry specialties: Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Healthcare Equipment & Services, Mechanical Products
and Processes, Medical Devices
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TOP 250 WOMEN IN IP
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Counseling
California
Licensing
Greenberg Traurig
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Financial Services, Media, Sports and
Copyright
Susan Heller
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Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Delaware
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Patent Contentious
NAME
Julia Heaney
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Entertainment, Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work:
Asia
Susan Hendrickson
Arnold & Porter
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Healthcare IT, Internet, Pharmaceuticals, Technology Hardware & Equipment
Leora Herrmann
Peretz Chesal & Herrmann
Florida
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Publishing, Software & Computer Services
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Key legal specialties: Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Valerie Ho
Greenberg Traurig
California
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Medical Devices
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress
Elizabeth Holland
Kenyon & Kenyon
New York
Susan Hollander
K&L Gates
California
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Financial Services, Internet (Domain
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Names), Manufacturing
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Roberta Horton
Arnold & Porter
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Communications, Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet (Domain
Names), Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair
Competition
Annette Hurst
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
California
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Industry specialties: Communications, Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Software &
Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition
Constance Huttner
Vinson & Elkins
New York
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Industry specialties: Business Methods, Chemicals, Financial Services, Media, Sports and Entertainment,
Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International Work: Asia
Lynn Hvalsoe
Perkins Coie
Washington
Susan Jackson
K&L Gates
North Carolina
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TOP 250 WOMEN IN IP
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet (Domain Names), Software &
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Counseling
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Licensing
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Pennsylvania
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll
Patent Contentious
NAME
Hara Jacobs
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition,
International Work: Europe
Karen Jacobs Louden
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Delaware
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Industry specialties: Business Methods, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Industrial Products, Mechanical
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Products and Processes, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman
Brenda Jarrell
Choate Hall & Stewart
Massachusetts
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and
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Research, Venture Capital
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Sheri Jeffrey
Kaye Scholer
California
Doris Johnson Hines
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Telecommunications,
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Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Re-examination
Sarah Kagan
Banner & Witcoff
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Universities and Research
Key legal specialties: Interferences
Jennifer Kash
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
California
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Industry specialties: Business Methods, Internet, Software & Computer Services, Technology Hardware &
Equipment, Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Julie Katz
Symbus
Illinois
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Chemicals, Internet (Domain Names),
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Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Martha Lessman Katz
Gordon Feinblatt
Maryland
Industry specialties: Financial Services, Healthcare IT, Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Software & Computer
Services
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International Work:
Europe
Rebecca Kaufman
King & Spalding
Georgia
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Venture Capital
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Re-examination
Heidi Keefe
Cooley
California
Industry specialties: Business Methods, Internet, Software & Computer Services, Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: Re-examination
Karol Kepchar
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Washington DC
Mary Kevlin
Cowan Liebowitz & Latman
New York
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TOP 250 WOMEN IN IP
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Counseling
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Licensing
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Energy, Software & Computer Services
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Texas
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Conley Rose
Patent Contentious
NAME
Elizabeth King
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance
Joan Kluger
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
Delaware
Industry specialties: Industrial Products, Mechanical Products and Processes, Medical Devices, Technology
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Hardware & Equipment, Universities and Research
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, International Work: Europe, International Work: Asia
Lisa Kobialka
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
California
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Industry specialties: Clean Technology, Communications, Internet, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications
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Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition,
International Work: Asia
Susan Kornfield
Bodman
Michigan
Holly Kozlowski
Porter Wright
Ohio
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Lori Krafte
Wood Herron & Evans
Ohio
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet (Domain Names), Publishing
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB
Opposition
Anessa Owen Kramer
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn
Michigan
Industry specialties: Automobiles & Parts, Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet (Domain
Names), Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB
Opposition
Rachel Krevans
Morrison & Foerster
California
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Medical Devices, Software & Computer
Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Interferences, ITC Litigation, Re-examination, Trade Dress, International Work: Asia
Viola Kung
Perkins Coie
California
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Industrial Products, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Re-examination
Wendy Larson
Pirkey Barber
Texas
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names),
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Universities and Research
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Margaret Lawson
Taft Stettinius & Hollister
Ohio
Esther Lim
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Alternative Energy, Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Software & Computer Services,
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Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, ITC Litigation, Opinion Work, International Work: Asia
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TOP 250 WOMEN IN IP
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet (Domain Names),
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Counseling
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Licensing
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
California
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Ladas & Parry
Patent Contentious
NAME
Elizabeth Linford
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Manufacturing, Technology Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Denise Loring
Ropes & Gray
New York
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Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices,
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Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book
Leslie Lott
Lott & Fischer
Florida
Jane Love
WilmerHale
New York
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals,
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Universities and Research
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings
Mary-Olga Lovett
Greenberg Traurig
Texas
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Industry specialties: Industrial Products, Mechanical Products and Processes, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals,
Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Interferences, Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Jolynn Lussier
Fish & Richardson
Massachusetts
Beverly Lyman
Thompson Hine
Ohio & Georgia
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and
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Research, Venture Capital
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, International Work: Europe
Jennie Malloy
Malloy & Malloy
Florida
Amy Mandragouras
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Massachusetts
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and Research
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, International Work: Europe, International Work: Asia
Victoria Maroulis
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
California
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Consumer Products, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Medical Devices,
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Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Hatch-Waxman, ITC Litigation, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International
Work: Asia
Margaret Marshall
Greenberg Traurig
Georgia
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Industry specialties: Media, Sports and Entertainment, Software & Computer Services, Venture Capital
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, International Work: Europe
Lisa Martens
Fish & Richardson
California
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Technology Hardware &
Equipment, Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
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TOP 250 WOMEN IN IP
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Industry specialties: Chemicals, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Medical Devices, Technology Hardware &
Counseling
Licensing
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
New York
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Morrison & Foerster
Patent Contentious
NAME
Patricia Martone
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Equipment, Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: International Work: Europe, International Work: Asia
Laura Masurovsky
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Mechanical Products and Processes,
Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Hatch-Waxman, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Kristen McCallion
Fish & Richardson
New York
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and Entertainment
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Kathleen “Katie” McCarthy King & Spalding
New York
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names),
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Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Heather McDonald
BakerHostetler
New York
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Manufacturing, Media, Sports
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and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Leslie McDonell
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Massachusetts
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination, International Work:
Europe
Margaret Niver McGann
Parsons Behle & Latimer
Utah
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet, Software & Computer Services
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Linda McLeod
Kelly IP
Washington DC
Jill McWhirter
King & Spalding
Texas
Andrea Mealey
Hinckley Allen & Snyder
Massachusetts
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Healthcare Equipment & Services,
Industrial Products, Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Heather Meeker
Greenberg Traurig
California
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Medical Devices, Software & Computer Services, Technology Hardware &
Equipment, Universities and Research
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, International Work: Europe, International Work: Asia
Pallavi Mehta Wahi
K&L Gates
Washington
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TOP 250 WOMEN IN IP
Licensing
Counseling
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Industrial Products, Internet, Software & Computer Services,
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Texas
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Norton Rose Fulbright
Patent Contentious
NAME
Linda Merritt
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work:
Europe
Mercedes Meyer
Drinker Biddle & Reath
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Clean Technology, Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Interferences, Opinion Work, Orange Book, Re-examination
Helen Minsker
Banner & Witcoff
Illinois
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names)
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Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB
Opposition
Gladys Monroy
Morrison & Foerster
California
Industry specialties: Alternative Energy, Biotechnology, Clean Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Venture Capital
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Barbara Mullin
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Pennsylvania
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book, Post-grant Proceedings
Kate Murashige
Morrison & Foerster
California
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and Research
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings
Barbara Murphy
Foster Murphy Altman & Nickel
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Industrial Products, Technology
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Hardware & Equipment, Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Alexandra Nicholson
Davis Wright Tremaine
New York
Deanna Tanner Okun
Adduci Mastriani & Schaumberg
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Mechanical Products and Processes, Software &
Computer Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation
Lisa Osman
Dorsey & Whitney
Colorado
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products
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Key legal specialties: Post-grant Proceedings, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair
Competition, International Work: Europe
Karin Pagnanelli
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp
California
Industry specialties: Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and
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Entertainment, Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Purvi Patel
Haynes and Boone
Texas
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports
and Entertainment, Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
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Industry specialties: Communications, Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Media, Sports and
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Counseling
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Licensing
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
New York
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Davis Wright Tremaine
Patent Contentious
NAME
Marcia Paul
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
Entertainment, Publishing
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International Work: Europe
Lisa Pearson
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
New York
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Media, Sports and
Entertainment, Publishing
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB
Opposition
Lisa Pirozzolo
WilmerHale
Massachusetts
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and Research
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Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, ITC Litigation
Catherine Polizzi
Morrison & Foerster
California
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Venture Capital
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book, International Work: Europe
Sasha Rao
Bingham
California
Industry specialties: Business Methods, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Internet, Pharmaceuticals,
Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Interferences, ITC Litigation, Re-examination, Trade Secret / Unfair
Competition
Claudia Ray
Kirkland & Ellis
New York
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Industry specialties: Communications, Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Media, Sports and
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Entertainment, Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition
Janet Reed
Potter Anderson & Corroon
Delaware
Leah Reimer
Cantor Colburn
Connecticut
Kecia Reynolds
Goodwin Procter
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Mechanical Products and Processes
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Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, International Work: Asia
Constance Rhebergen
Bracewell & Giuliani
Texas
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Industry specialties: Alternative Energy, Chemicals, Clean Technology, Energy, Mechanical Products and
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Processes
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, International Work: Europe
Molly Richard
Richard Law Group
Texas
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet (Domain Names), Software &
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Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition,
International Work: Europe
Virginia Richard
Winston & Strawn
New York
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear,
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Financial Services, Healthcare Equipment & Services
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition,
International Work: Asia
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TOP 250 WOMEN IN IP
Copyright
Licensing
Counseling
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Mechanical Products and Processes,
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
North Carolina
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Myers Bigel
Patent Contentious
NAME
Julie Richardson
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Medical Devices
Monica Richman
Dentons
New York
Industry specialties: Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and
Entertainment, Publishing
Key legal specialties: Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB
Opposition, International Work: Europe, International Work: Asia
Lily Rin-Laures
Marshall Gerstein & Borun
Illinois
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Venture Capital
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings
Andrea Robidoux
Choate Hall & Stewart
Massachusetts
Industry specialties: Chemicals, Medical Devices, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Venture Capital
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book
Jodi Rosen Wine
Nixon Peabody
Illinois
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Industry specialties: Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Software & Computer Services, Technology Hardware &
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Equipment, Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Pamela Ruschau
Leydig Voit & Mayer
Illinois
Industry specialties: Industrial Products, Manufacturing, Mechanical Products and Processes, Medical Devices,
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Transportation
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work
Heidi Sachs
Perkins Coie
Washington
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Industry specialties: Aerospace & Defense, Consumer Products, Internet, Manufacturing, Medical Devices
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International Work:
Europe, International Work: Asia
Kelli Sager
Davis Wright Tremaine
California
Margaret Sampson
Vinson & Elkins
Texas
Industry specialties: Alternative Energy, Biotechnology, Clean Technology, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book, Re-examination
Jeannine Sano
White & Case
California
Industry specialties: Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Internet, Software & Computer Services,
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Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Re-examination
Janet Satterthwaite
Venable
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Financial Services, Internet (Domain
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Names)
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe
Jacqueline Scheib
Robinson & Cole
Connecticut
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Venture
Capital
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Franceska Schroeder
Fish & Richardson
Washington DC
Industry specialties: Aerospace & Defense, Software & Computer Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment
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Counseling
Licensing
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
California
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Patent Contentious
NAME
Stefani Shanberg
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet, Technology Hardware & Equipment, Telecommunications
(Mobile)
Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation
Melanie Sharp
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor
Delaware
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Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Stephanie Sharron
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
California
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International Work: Europe, International
Work: Asia
Jane Shay Wald
Irell & Manella
California
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Media, Sports and Entertainment,
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Gina Shishima
Fulbright & Jaworski
Texas & New York
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals,
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Interferences, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Randi Singer
Weil Gotshal & Manges
New York
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Media, Sports and
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Patricia Smink Rogowski
Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg
Delaware
Industry specialties: Automobiles & Parts, Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Mechanical
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Billie Jean Smith
Michael Best & Friedrich
Wisconsin
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Financial Services, Industrial Products, Medical Devices
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trade Dress
Susan Smith
Kenyon & Kenyon
Washington DC
Leslie Spasser
LeClairRyan
Virginia
Industry specialties: Financial Services, Healthcare IT, Internet, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Software &
Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Natalie Spears
Dentons
Illinois
Industry specialties: Communications, Consumer Products, Internet, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Publishing
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Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Mary Squyres
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Illinois
Industry specialties: Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Universities and Research
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Trademark Clearance, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
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Licensing
Counseling
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Financial Services, Internet (Domain
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Illinois
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Leydig Voit & Mayer
Patent Contentious
NAME
Claudia Stangle
Patent Prosecution
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Names), Media, Sports and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition,
International Work: Europe
Grace Han Stanton
Perkins Coie
Washington
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names),
Software & Computer Services
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
Sabrina Stavish
Sheridan Ross
Colorado
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports
and Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International Work:
Europe, International Work: Asia
Judith Szepesi
Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman
California
Industry specialties: Communications, Software & Computer Services, Technology Hardware & Equipment,
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Monica Talley
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Consumer Products, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Pharmaceuticals,
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Telecommunications
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition
M Patricia Thayer
Sidley Austin
California
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Healthcare Equipment & Services, Medical Devices, Software & Computer
Services
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination, TTAB Opposition
Diana Torres
Kirkland & Ellis
California
Industry specialties: Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Financial Services, Internet, Media, Sports and Entertainment,
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Rhonda Trotter
Kaye Scholer
California
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Financial Services, Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Media, Sports and
Entertainment
Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition,
International Work: Europe
Melissa Vallone
Barnes & Thornburg
Illinois
Anita Varma
Ropes & Gray
Massachusetts
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Orange Book, Post-grant Proceedings, International Work:
Europe
Monica Verma
BakerHostetler
Ohio
Industry specialties: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Software & Computer Services, Technology Hardware &
Equipment
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, International Work: Asia
Christine Vito
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Industry specialties: Clean Technology, Medical Devices, Software & Computer Services, Technology Hardware &
Counseling
Licensing
Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
Massachusetts
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
WilmerHale
Patent Contentious
NAME
Cynthia Vreeland
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Cynthia Johnson Walden
Fish & Richardson
Massachusetts
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Internet, Internet (Domain Names), Technology Hardware & Equipment
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, TTAB Opposition, International Work: Europe,
International Work: Asia
Nina Wang
Faegre Baker Daniels
Colorado
Industry specialties: Business Methods, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Financial Services, Medical Devices,
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Key legal specialties: ITC Litigation, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, International Work: Asia
Wendy Ward
Merchant & Gould
Wisconsin
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman, Opinion Work, Orange Book
Elizabeth Weiswasser
Weil Gotshal & Manges
New York
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Hatch-Waxman, Orange Book
Dorothy Whelan
Fish & Richardson
Minnesota
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Juliette White
Parsons Behle & Latimer
Utah
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Healthcare Equipment & Services, Internet, Internet (Domain Names),
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Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Trade Dress, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Megan Whyman Olesek
Kenyon & Kenyon
California
Amy Wigmore
WilmerHale
Washington DC
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Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals
Key legal specialties: Hatch-Waxman
Deborah Wilcox
BakerHostetler
Ohio
Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Financial Services, Industrial Products, Internet (Domain Names), Media,
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition,
International Work: Asia
Tawni Wilhelm
Shook Hardy & Bacon
Missouri
Industry specialties: Biotechnology, Healthcare IT, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Software & Computer
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work, Post-grant Proceedings, Re-examination
Meredith Wilkes
Jones Day
Ohio
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Industry specialties: Consumer Products, Fasion, Apparel, and Footwear, Internet, Internet (Domain Names)
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Key legal specialties: Trade Dress, Trademark Clearance, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition
Tina Williams McKeon
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Georgia
Industry specialties: Academic Research and Medical Centers, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Medical Devices,
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work
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Industry specialties: Business Methods, Consumer Products, Internet, Software & Computer Services, Technology
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Copyright
SEE BIO
Trademark Contentious
LOCATION
California
Trademark Prosecution
FIRM
Perkins Coie
Patent Contentious
NAME
Bobbie Wilson
Patent Prosecution
PRACTICE AREA BREAKDOWN
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Hardware & Equipment
Key legal specialties: Antitrust, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition, TTAB Opposition
C Rachal Winger
K&L Gates
Washington
Industry specialties: Alternative Energy, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Universities and
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Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Opinion Work
Shari Wollman
Manatt Phelps & Phillips
California
Debra Wong Yang
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
California
Industry specialties: Internet, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Telecommunications (Mobile)
Key legal specialties: Due Diligence, Trade Secret / Unfair Competition
Laura Wytsma
Loeb & Loeb
California & Washington DC
Industry specialties: Automobiles & Parts, Consumer Products, Media, Sports and Entertainment, Technology
Hardware & Equipment
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Index of Firms
Adduci Mastriani & Schaumberg, 10,
11, 44
Dorsey & Whitney, 11, 13, 22, 25, 26, 32,
35, 44
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, 10,
11, 14, 35, 40, 44
Drinker Biddle & Reath, 11, 34, 44
Allen Dyer Doppelt Milbrath &
Gilchrist, 19, 20, 35
Alston & Bird, 19, 20, 31
Arent Fox, 10, 11, 33, 34
Arnold & Porter, 6, 10, 11, 39
Baker & McKenzie, 11, 13, 16, 19, 20,
33, 36
BakerHostetler, 11, 13, 22, 43, 48, 49
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, 11,
14, 40
Banner & Witcoff, 10, 11, 21, 22, 40, 44
Barnes & Thornburg, 21, 22, 48
Bingham, 25, 26, 45
Bingham McCutchen, 29
Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch, 20, 30
Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, 24,
25, 48
Bodman, 22, 41
Keker & Van Nest, 25, 30
Kelley Drye, 35
Kelly IP, 11, 12, 43
Durie Tangri, 9, 24, 25, 35
Kenyon & Kenyon, 5, 11, 13, 25, 37, 39,
47, 49
Edwards Wildman Palmer, 22
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, 9, 11,
13, 19, 20, 25, 30, 45, 49
Faegre Baker Daniels, 9, 25, 26, 38, 49
Fenwick & West, 24, 25, 30
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett
& Dunner, 5, 11, 19, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40,
41, 43
King & Spalding, 11, 13, 19, 20, 40, 43
Kirkland & Ellis, 9, 11, 14, 21, 22, 25,
31, 33, 34, 45, 48
Fish & Richardson, 9, 11, 13, 22, 24, 25,
32, 33, 36, 38, 42, 43, 46, 49
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, 5, 25,
30
Foley & Lardner, 11, 21, 22, 32, 37
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, 25,
28, 41
Foley Hoag, 11, 12, 31, 36
Foster Murphy Altman & Nickel, 11, 44
Fulbright & Jaworski, 20, 47
Ladas & Parry, 11, 14, 21, 22, 25, 31, 34,
36, 42
Latham & Watkins, 25, 33
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, 24, 25, 50
LeClairRyan, 20, 47
Goodwin Procter, 6, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17,
30, 38, 45
Leydig Voit & Mayer, 21, 22, 46, 48
Loeb & Loeb, 21, 22, 25, 34, 50
Gordon Feinblatt, 11, 12, 40
Lott & Fischer, 19, 20, 42
Gorman IP Law, 37
Malloy & Malloy, 19, 20, 42
Bracewell & Giuliani, 19, 20, 45
Greenberg Traurig, 11, 12, 19, 20, 24,
25, 33, 39, 42, 43
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, 21, 22, 47
Harness Dickey & Pierce, 22, 23, 33
Marshall Gerstein & Borun, 21, 22, 46
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, 20, 35
Haynes and Boone, 20, 44
Mayer Brown, 11, 14, 36, 37
Cantor Colburn, 10, 11, 34, 45
Hinckley Allen & Snyder, 11, 12, 13, 32,
43
McCarter & English, 11, 13, 38
Carter Ledyard & Milburn, 11, 13, 31
Choate Hall & Stewart, 9, 11, 12, 34, 40,
46
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, 24, 25, 37
Conley Rose, 19, 20, 41
Cooley, 24, 25, 40
Covington & Burling, 10, 11, 32
Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, 11, 13, 40
Davis Wright Tremaine, 11, 13, 24, 25,
26, 33, 36, 44, 45, 46
Day Pitney, 10, 11, 30
Dentons, 11, 13, 20, 21, 22, 35, 46, 47
Manatt Phelps & Phillips, 25, 50
Hogan Lovells, 11, 34, 38
McDermott Will & Emery, 11, 13, 21,
22, 33, 35
Holland & Hart, 25, 26, 30
Merchant & Gould, 22, 49
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn,
22, 41
Michael Best & Friedrich, 22, 47
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, 25, 44
Hunton & Williams, 20, 35
Moore & Van Allen, 19, 20, 38
Irell & Manella, 25, 47
Morgan Lewis & Bockius, 11, 33
Jones Day, 11, 13, 20, 22, 30, 34, 37, 49
K&L Gates, 11, 13, 19, 20, 25, 27, 34, 39,
43, 48, 50
Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman,
19, 20, 37
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, 10, 11,
39, 40
Morrison & Foerster, 7, 9, 11, 14, 25, 41,
43, 44, 45
Myers Bigel, 19, 20, 46
Dickstein Shapiro, 24, 25, 36
Katten Muchin Rosenman, 9, 11, 13, 15,
21, 22, 30, 31
DLA Piper, 5, 11, 20, 24, 25, 36, 37, 38
Kaye Scholer, 25, 40, 48
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough,
11, 13, 38, 42
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Nixon Peabody, 11, 12, 21, 22, 37, 38, 46
Venable, 11, 12, 17, 46
Norton Rose Fulbright, 44
Vinson & Elkins, 11, 14, 20, 39, 46
Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg,
10, 11, 25, 31, 37, 47
Weil Gotshal & Manges, 11, 14, 25, 26,
31, 47, 49
Nutter McClennen & Fish, 11, 13, 30
White & Case, 11, 12, 25, 26, 36, 46
Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier &
Neustadt, 20, 32
Williams & Connolly, 11, 12, 32
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, 25, 26,
39, 47
Parsons Behle & Latimer, 20, 43, 49
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, 11, 14, 31
Peretz Chesal & Herrmann, 19, 20, 39
Perkins Coie, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 38, 39,
41, 46, 48, 50
WilmerHale, 11, 12, 14, 42, 45, 49
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 25,
26, 32, 47
Winston & Strawn, 11, 14, 45
Wood Herron & Evans, 22, 41
Woodcock Washburn, 11, 14, 36
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, 10,
11, 47
Pirkey Barber, 20, 41
Porter Wright, 22, 41
Potter Anderson & Corroon, 10, 11, 45
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan,
25, 26, 40, 42
Reed Smith, 11, 14, 32
Richard Law Group, 20, 45
Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi, 22, 34
Robinson & Cole, 10, 11, 46
Ropes & Gray, 11, 12, 14, 18, 42, 48
Saul Ewing, 11, 12, 31, 36
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, 10,
11, 41
Scott & Bush, 11, 14, 32
Sheridan Ross, 25, 26, 48
Shook Hardy & Bacon, 22, 34, 49
Sidley Austin, 3, 9, 25, 26, 48
Smith Gambrell & Russell, 19, 20, 32
Steptoe & Johnson, 9, 21, 22, 42
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, 11, 12,
35, 37, 48
Stoel Rives, 25, 26, 37
Stolowitz Ford Cowger, 25, 26, 34
Sughrue Mion, 11, 12, 38
Susan Gorman IP, 25
Symbus, 21, 22, 40
Taft Stettinius & Hollister, 22, 41
Thompson & Knight, 20, 32
Thompson Hine, 22, 35, 42
Tonkon Torp, 25, 31
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