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  • Martinez, Richard M.

    Jones Day | Partner

    Rick Martinez's practice focuses on technology and its impact on society.
  • Martinez-Lemke Martinez-Lemke, Sheila

    Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP | Partner

    Sheila Martinez-Lemke is a patent attorney with more than 15 years of experience in all aspects of patent prosecution She specializing in client counseling for strategic development of international patent portfolios.
  • Mason, Andrew

    Klarquist Sparkman | Partner

    Andy Mason (Elec. Eng.) Partner: Andy co-chairs the firm’s post-grant group, has first chaired over 80 IPR trials, has taken/ defended dozens of depositions, and regularly argues before the Board. He also handles related appeals from the Board and has successfully argued before the Federal Circuit, both as appellant and appellee. Andy co-chairs the Federal Circuit Bar Association's PTO Committee and has spoken on PTAB panels at the Federal Circuit’s Bench & Bar conference.
  • Matheson, Julia Anne

    Potomac Law Group | Partner

    Julia Anne Matheson is a Partner in our Trademark Group whose practice covers all areas of trademark, trade dress, product configuration, and unfair competition law including worldwide clearance, portfolio management, and enforcement, due diligence, false advertising, licensing, social media, and internet disputes. She has been lead counsel in well over 100 inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), and has significant experience litigating in federal district courts. Ms. Matheson represents clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies and multi-national organizations in numerous industries including communications/internet, consumer goods, personal care products, retail, food and beverage, fashion, entertainment, pharmaceutical, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and financial services as well as numerous associations and charities.
  • Maurer, Greg

    Klarquist Sparkman | Partner

    Greg Maurer has been a partner at Klarquist for thirty years and has a history of prepara-tion and prosecution of computer-related and bioinformatics patent applications, open-source software, and intellectual property counseling. His experience includes a wide range of software development, artificial intelligence, big data, user interface, bioinformat-ics, and telecommunications technologies, including complex algorithms and numerous programming languages, such as assembly, C++, LISP, Java and various visual and object-oriented languages. Greg’s professional technical experience includes work as a Senior Systems Analyst, with a particular emphasis on system integration and software develop-ment.
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    Harrity & Harrity, LLP | Partner

    Eli Mazour’s practice focuses on helping large technology companies build valuable, high-quality patent portfolios in an efficient manner.
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    Kirkland & Ellis | Partner

    Mary Mazzello is an intellectual property litigation partner in Kirkland’s New York office. Her practice focuses on intellectual property matters, including trademark, copyright, false advertising, and trade secret issues.
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    Waterstone Edge | Attorney & Founder

    RRobert Mazzola, a seasoned corporate and intellectual property lawyer, has steered countless companies to success, from startups to public entities. The focus of his expertise is corporate and intellectual transactions, including patent prosecution. Notably, at Haynes and Boone in Palo Alto, Robert honed his skills in patent prosecution, working with large tech companies. At Pied Parker, he scaled the patent portfolio from a single application to fifty and facilitated seed funding, acquisitions, and partnerships with publicly traded companies.
  • McBride, Scott

    McAndrews Held and Malloy, Ltd | Shareholder

    Scott McBride’s practice focuses primarily on the litigation and trial of patent and complex technology cases in federal courts and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and reexamination proceedings before the Patent Office. Scott has a proven ability to help clients procure or acquire valuable intellectual property to protect their business, reach advantageous arrangements for solving intellectual property disputes where appropriate, and aggressively litigate patents when necessary.
  • McBroom, John

    IBM | Open Technology Counsel

    John McBroom is IBM Open Technology Counsel and provides legal support for IBM's vari-ous open activities across its entire enterprise. John also helps lead IBM's Competition Law Team and serves as Board Secretary of Open Innovation Network (OIN), an institution focused on mitigating patent risk in Open Source Software (OSS). John earned his legal degree from the Duke University School of Law, and prior to joining IBM, served as law clerk for Federal District Court (MN) Judge Ann D. Montgomery and worked for the Faegre & Benson law firm (now Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath) in Minneapolis.
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    McCabe Ali, LLC | Managing Partner

    Michael McCabe. is the Managing Partner of McCabe Ali LLP, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Michael has practiced IP law for 32 years and is a registered patent attorney. Michael’s practice focuses on the intersection of IP and ethics. He has represented hundreds of patent, trademark and intellectual property practitioners, in addition to law firms, students, in-house counsel and government employees in federal ethics investigations, sanctions issues, disciplinary trials, and other professional misconduct matters before the USPTO and various state bars. Michael regularly consults with lawyers and law firm management on risk management, ethics compliance, and internal investigations. He has served as an expert witness on professional conduct issues before state and federal tribunals.
  • McCabe, Monica

    U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright Claims Board | Copyright Claims Officer

    Monica P. McCabe is one of three new copyright claims officers on the newly established Copyright Claims Board (CCB) under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Previously, Monica had chaired the intellectual property department at Phillips Nizer LLP since 2018. She is a veteran copyright litigator with over three decades of experience, representing both users and copyright owners. She has served on numerous alternative dispute resolution panels, including the International Trademark Association, the Southern District of New York, and the New York State Supreme Court Commercial Division.
  • McCloskey, Brian P.

    Avon Worldwide | Chief Intellectual Property Counsel

    Brian oversees Avon’s global intellectual property protection and enforcement strategy and serves as the primary counsel for Avon’s Global Innovation Center.
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    Law Offices of James M. McCormack | Founder

    Mr. McCormack is the former General Counsel and Chief Disciplinary Counsel of the State Bar of Texas (1991-1996) and a former Managing Attorney of the Civil Litigation Section of the Travis County Attorney’s Office in Austin, Texas.
  • McCormack, Myra McCormack, Myra H.
    Until recently, Myra managed a group of patent lawyers who support the Immunology, Infectious Disease and Vaccine Therapeutic Areas for Johnson & Johnson's Pharmaceutical sector where she oversaw the patent portfolios, products, licensing, M&A and diligence activities for J&J's pharm sector particularly in these therapeutic areas.
  • McCrackin, Ann

    UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law | Adjunct Professor

    Ann McCrackin is bridging the gap between AI and IP practice. She is the founder of AI-Enabled Attorney LLC, a consulting and training company that helps IP professionals effectively adopt AI technologies and offers AI training for the broader legal profession. Her expertise stems from over a decade of streamlining IP processes with AI as the founding President of Black Hills IP. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, where she teaches patent prosecution and prepares her students for the evolving role of technology in their practice. Ann's background also includes over 25 years as a patent attorney, including being a shareholder, at Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
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    7-Eleven, Inc. | Senior Trademark Counsel

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    University of South Florida | Associate Vice President

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    Littler Mendelson | Shareholder

    Among his notable successes, Scott secured injunctions enforcing non-compete agreements in three consecutive cases involving quantitative analysts in the high frequency trading industry.
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    Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | Chief Compliance Officer, Vp, Ethics & Compliance

    As Chief Compliance Officer, I am responsible for ensuring that Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. maintain a robust and effective ethics and compliance program.