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  • McDade Photo McDade, Allison

    7-Eleven, Inc. | Senior Trademark Counsel

  • Valerie Landrio McDevitt Valerie Landrio McDevitt

    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.
  • McGee Photo McGee, Jennifer

    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.
  • McGowan, Bill

    Johnson & Johnson | Patent Attorney

    Bill has been a patent attorney at Johnson & Johnson for over twenty-three years, and he is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Currently, he is a group leader within the J&J law department whose patent team supports the infectious disease, global public health, and pharmaceutical delivery device areas within J&J’s pharmaceutical sector. Prior to his current role, Bill was a group leader of the patent team supporting the over-the-counter pharmaceutical, oral care, and wound care franchises within J&J’s consumer sector.
  • McIntyre, Lisa

    Google | Product Counsel

    In her current role, Lisa leads a legal team at Google, advising on a wide range of legal matters for Google Cloud Platform products and services, attendant to product launch. She began her career as a patent lawyer where she practiced as outside counsel doing both prosecution and litigation, and as in-house counsel at Google before transitioning into a product counsel role. In her current role she leads a team that advises on a variety of legal issues arising in the launch of compliant products, including data privacy, sovereignty, access and security, export, incidents, commercialization and go-to-market, bespoke deal support, open source, and more. With over 20 years of experience as a strategic technology lawyer, Lisa specializes in crafting innovative, risk-mitigating strategies that enable companies to scale, drive revenue, and navigate complex regulatory landscapes.
  • Tina-McKeon-100 McKeon Ph.D., Tina W.

    Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | Partner

    Tina Williams McKeon is a registered patent attorney who focuses her practice on patent prosecution, post-grant proceedings, IP strategy and IP portfolio management for leading universities, research institutions, and corporations in the life sciences, pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields.
  • McKeown Photo McKeown, Scott A.

    Ropes & Gray LLP | Partner

    Scott McKeown is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s intellectual property litigation practice and chair of the firm’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) group.
  • McKown, Jeremy square200 McKown, Jeremy K.

    Johnson & Johnson | Global Patent Head

    Jeremy is the Global Patent Head of Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical business, where he manages a global team of attorneys and professionals focused on creating robust patent portfolios and providing strategic counsel to its’ Innovative Medicine companies. In addition, he advises on material R&D transactions and IP litigations, and actively works with external trade associations to ensure we have meaningful IP policies. Previously, he led the R&D Legal team responsible for drafting and negotiating complex agreements for J&J’s Innovative Medicine companies.
  • McQuade, Jim McQuade, Jim

    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | Partner

    Jim represents clients in high-stakes employment, trade secrets and restrictive covenant litigation throughout the United States.
  • Meddings, Lori200 Meddings, Lori S.

    Quarles & Brady | Partner

    Lori Meddings helps clients protect and enforce their intellectual property throughout the world, with a focus on maximizing the value of the company's trademarks and copyrights and defending against unfair competition in advertising. She is Chair of the firm's Trademark subgroup within the Intellectual Property Practice Group.
  • medina_marilu_200 Medina, Marilú

    The Procter & Gamble Company | Director & Assistant General Counsel

    Marilú Medina is Director & Assistant General Counsel at The Procter & Gamble Company, supporting its Global Privacy, Cybersecurity and Information Technology Law team. Her current work is focused on global employee data privacy compliance, including COVID-19 related privacy issues.
  • Mehta, Seema

    Osha Bergman Watanabe Burton | Partner

    Seema Mehta's practice includes foreign and domestic trademark prosecution and worldwide patent procurement and enforcement, including appeals practice, postgrant proceedings at the USPTO, validity and infringement opinions, IP counseling, IP litigation, and management of IP portfolios in the field of electronics, mechanics, optics, physics, telecommunications, and software, including machine learning and AI applications.
  • Meigs, J. Timothy

    AgBiome, Inc. | Chief IP Counsel

    Tim Meigs has practiced intellectual property law since 1993 and is currently Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at AgBiome, Inc. in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Tim began his practice at patent law firms in Greensboro and Raleigh, NC. He then spent 8 years specializing in biotechnology patent law as an in-house attorney with various incarnations of CIBA-Geigy, Novartis, and Syngenta. Tim then joined the Washington, DC, intellectual property law firm, Sughrue Mion, where he was primarily engaged in biotechnology patent interference practice. In 2005, Tim moved back to NC and spent nearly 17 years with BD (Becton, Dickinson, and Company), where he was responsible for IP matters at BD’s corporate research unit as well as several BD businesses over the years, including BD Surgery and parts of BD Life Sciences.
  • Melehani, Will

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | Partner

    Will Melehani is an Intellectual Property partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Will is a trial lawyer whose practice focuses on all stages of intellectual property litigation and complex commercial cases, including appeals. Over the course of his career, Will has achieved success for clients in a range of fields, including consumer electronics, video games, wireless communications, semiconductor memory, e-commerce, video streaming, telecommunications, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. Will earned his J.D. from UC Berkeley Law in 2012 and has a B.S. in Genetics from UC Davis.
  • Vincenzo Melilli Vincenzo Melilli

    Bugnion S.p.A | Head of Design Law Department

    Vincenzo is the Head of Design Law Department at Bugnion S.p.A.
  • Melissa Beare Melissa Beare

    Nuvectra Corp. | EVP & General Counsel

  • MelnickDCP200 Melnick, Sue

    Bay Equity | Chief Compliance& Operating Officer

    Sue has worked at Bay Equity LLC since 2008 initially as outside counsel and then in 2012 and since in various roles with increasing responsibility. She is responsible for all mortgage operations for the company which operates in 42 states as an independent mortgage bank, as well as managing the legal department in her role as CCO and COO.
  • Melwani Headshot200 Melwani, Dinesh

    Bookoff McAndrews PLLC | Partner

    Dinesh N. Melwani is a partner at Bookoff McAndrews (BoMc). He works closely with clients to develop patent strategies that protect their innovative technologies and maximize the potential for commercial success. In addition to preparing and prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications, Dinesh is often called upon for his ability to translate IP risks into business risks, and provide strategic guidance and oversight. In this regard, Dinesh studies competitor patent portfolios to counsel clients on contemplated products and potential design-arounds.
  • Mertzel, Nancy J.

    Mertzel Law PLLC | Principal and Founder

    Nancy J. Mertzel is the Founder of Mertzel Law PLLC, a boutique intellectual property firm with offices in New York and New Jersey. Nancy handles copyright, trademark, technology, and entertainment disputes and counseling. Her litigation practice concentrates on copyright and trademark infringement. On the transactional side, she handles trademark clearance, prosecution and portfolio management and drafts and negotiates IP agreements. She also advises clients on copyright issues including fair use and artificial intelligence.