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  • Madison, Tanya

    Transamerica | Chief Privacy Officer

    Tanya Madison serves as Chief Privacy Officer at Transamerica. With over 20 years of in-house counsel experience, Tanya's career has focused on the lawful collection, use and sharing of personal data with special focus on financial services and FINTECH companies. Tanya and her colleagues focus on developing a principled and holistic approach to privacy legal analysis and engagement worldwide.
  • Maisami, Ceyda

    HP | Head of Patents, IP

    Ceyda Maisami is Associate General Counsel, Head of Patents at HP. She leads a team of attorneys, paralegals and analysts in building and managing patent portfolios as well as supporting pre-litigation, M&A, and transactional matters. In her previous roles at Finnegan and Chadbourne & Parke, Ceyda worked on high profile patent prosecution and litigation matters, in addition to a host of opinion work related to computer hardware, software, wireless communication devices, and financial services. Before her career in intellectual property law, she was an electrical engineer for Osram Sylvania (Siemens Holding).
  • Maisel, Jennifer

    Rothwell Figg | Partner

    Jennifer Maisel (“Jen”), a partner at Rothwell Figg, is a highly skilled strategist and thought leader in intellectual property (IP) law and litigation. She advises both large corporations and emerging companies on protecting and leveraging their groundbreaking innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality, big data, the Internet of Things, privacy, cybersecurity, quantum computing, and blockchain. With technical experience developing language models for natural language processing applications, Jen is uniquely equipped to guide clients through complex IP, data protection, and privacy challenges in the AI space. She is currently counsel to The New York Times in the landmark litigation against Microsoft and Open AI alleging copyright infringement through the training of their generative AI tools.
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    Tee & Howe | Senior Counsel / Patent Attorney

    Dr. Toby Mak is a registered Chinese Patent Attorney and has a Ph.D. in Chemistry. Dr. Toby Mak was born in Hong Kong and graduated from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He worked at one of the largest law firms in Hong Kong for 8 years before joining Tee & Howe.
  • Makover, Matthew

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP | Partner

    Matthew S. Makover is a partner in the Intellectual Property Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Matthew's focus includes intellectual property transactions and counseling. Matthew has advised on intellectual property matters involving the sale and licensing of software, patents, trademarks and copyrights (including media content) and has experience with both private and public mergers and acquisitions, financings and capital market transactions. Matthew also has experience structuring and negotiating project and commercial agreements. Matthew has worked with a number of clients in the software, entertainment, cryptocurrency, gaming, fintech, media, retail, insurance, healthcare, consumer products, manufacturing, telecommunications, gaming and fashion industries.
  • Mark-Malek200 Malek, Mark

    Widerman Malek | Managing Partner

    Mark Malek focuses his practice on representing clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and counseling inventors and businesses on various intellectual property strategies. Mark enjoys working with his clients to understand their long term goals and tailoring their intellectual property strategies to help achieve those goals.
  • Malek-200 Malek, Shabnam

    Brand & Branch LLP | Partner

    Shabnam Malek is a partner at Brand & Branch LLP and co-founder and founding President of the International Cannabis Bar Association. Shabnam’s legal background is in trademark law and she cut her teeth on all things intellectual property as a “big law” associate early in her legal career.
  • Malsbury, A200 Malsbury, Alison

    Harris Bricken | Attorney

    Alison Malsbury has assisted clients with contracts, company formation, intellectual property protection, and regulatory compliance, and enjoys working with creative entrepreneurs at all stages of business development. She has a strong and growing practice representing celebrities on their cannabis endorsement deals and helping cosmetic and skin care companies navigate the complicated laws involving CBD.
  • Mandel, Richard S.

    Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman P.C> | Shareholder

    Richard S. Mandel is a shareholder with Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. in New York City. His practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, including copyright, trademark, unfair competition and Internet issues. Mr. Mandel earned his J.D. in 1985 from New York University School of Law, where he served as an editor on the Law Review, and his BA, summa cum laude, in 1982 from NYU College of Arts and Science, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association commercial panel of arbitrators and the Southern District of New York panel of court appointed mediators.
  • mann_andrew_200 Mann, Andrew

    K&L Gates | Counsel

    Andrew Mann is counsel at the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of the Antitrust, Competition, and Trade Regulation practice group.
  • Manoukian, Minelli

    Center for Art Law | Executive Director

    Minelli Manoukian, Esq. is the Executive Director of the Center for Art Law. There, she manages the daily operations including editing and reviewing articles and the Center’s monthly newsletter, planning and coordinating events, along with training and supervising interns and fellows. Ms. Manoukian has been an attorney since September 2020 and, outside of her legal career, she enjoys moonlighting as a visual artist and performer in her spare time.
  • Margaret A. Esquenet

    Finnegan

  • Dr. Marinakis, Christina

    IMS | Jury Consulting & Strategy Advisor

    Dr. Marinakis has over 20 years of experience in jury research, study, and applied practice in law and psychology. Clients have lauded Christina as an insightful, trusted advisor who is the “best in the business” at jury selection and developing pithy trial themes. Notable successes include assisting the prosecution with jury selection and theme development in State of Minnesota v. Derek Chauvin, advising plaintiffs regarding jury selection and trial themes in Vanessa Bryant v. County of Los Angeles, and performing similar work for the defense in Lanham Act litigation for scrubs’ manufacturer, FIGS, Inc.
  • Fabio-Marino-100 Marino, Fabio E.

    Polsinelli | Office Managing Partner | Practice Chair

    Fabio Marino is an experienced intellectual property trial lawyer who serves as Vice Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property department, as well as practice chair for the Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation group.
  • Marr Photo Marr, David

    Qualcomm Inc. | Vice President, Legal Counsel

    Dave Marr is Vice President, Legal Counsel at Qualcomm Technologies, where he currently leads the open source practice and policy team. Dave’s background in the fields of technology transfer and community licensing practices and has been involved in open source in various capacities since 1998.
  • Marsh. John 200 Marsh, John

    Bailey Cavalieri LLC | Member

    John’s commercial litigation practice concentrates on trade secrets litigation and the enforcement of non-competes throughout the United States. John is listed in the 2016, 2017 and 2018 editions of The Best Lawyers of America for Litigation – Intellectual Property and in the 2009-18 editions of Ohio Super Lawyers, and he is AV® Preeminent™ Rated by Martindale-Hubbell, its highest available rating for legal ability and professional ethics. He has been quoted on trade secret law and restrictive covenant issues by The Wall Street Journal, Inside Counsel, Law360, The National Law Journal, Managing IP and Wired; and his blog, “The Trade Secret Litigator” (www.tradesecretlitigator.com), has been cited by publications including The Wall Street Journal.
  • Martin Photo Martin Ph.D., Alice O.

    Barnes & Thornburg, LLP | Partner

    Dr. Alice Martin advises on domestic and international patent prosecution and litigation opinions.
  • Wallace-200 Martin Wallace, Valencia

    USPTO | Deputy Commissioner for Patents

    As Deputy Commissioner for Patents, Ms. Martin Wallace manages and leads the Patent Organization’s efforts related to international IP harmonization and oversees patent examining functions in Technology Centers that examine the technologies of communication, mechanical engineering, manufacturing and medical devices and processes and design.
  • Martin, Carolyn Wimbly

    Lutzker & Lutzker LLP | Senior Counsel

    Carolyn Martin is currently Senior Counsel at Lutzker & Lutzker, LLP in Washington, D.C. She has over 40 years’ experience as a lawyer, law school professor and executive focusing on intellectual property, communications and mergers and acquisitions law, as well as venture capital. She has proven results working with corporate and nonprofit clients to develop strategies, business ventures and market-driven product introductions.
  • Martin, Tommy

    Baker Botts | Special Counsel

    Tommy Martin's practice centers around complex patent and trade secret litigation before the International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S district courts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Martin represents clients in all phases of pre-trial, trial, post-trial and appeal, as well as before U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).