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  • Meyer, Abby

    Sheppard Mullin | Partner

    Abby Meyer is a partner in the Business Trial Practice Group at Sheppard Mullin and the co-lead for the firm's Food and Beverage team. A seasoned litigator, she specializes in defending against consumer class actions targeting the food industry and in litigating complex civil business disputes. Ms. Meyer specializes in defending companies against consumer class actions targeting product information found on the labels of packaged goods or associated advertising materials. For instance, she has defended claims such as "natural," "vanilla," "Made in USA," "flushable," and sustainability claims. She has also defended against alleged slack fill, underfill, Proposition 65, and health halo class actions.
  • Meyer, David

    Illumina | Senior Patent Attorney

  • Meyer, Mercedes K.

    Banner Witcoff | Attorney

    Mercedes Meyer, Ph.D., represents leading life science and technology companies maintaining an extensive biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent management, prosecution, opinion and due diligence practice. With a doctorate in virology and degree in chemistry, Mercedes has a deep understanding of complex biotechnology and scientific research, which is key for advising life science clients on commercializing and protecting product innovations as well as performing diligence for investing in new technologies, particularly in corporate joint development projects. Mercedes advises on developing patent strategies, managing the intellectual property rights, and making associated investments and acquisitions. Mercedes also handles patent reexaminations and inter partes matters.
  • Meyer, Michelle

    NIL Network | Founder

    Michelle Meyer has worked in and around college sports for the past 15+ years. She is a former collegiate and professional athlete, coached volleyball at multiple D1 universities, and managed the Olympic pipeline program for USA Beach Volleyball, including the development of the Collegiate Beach National Team. Michelle is deeply passionate about empowering young people to embrace their entrepreneurial side and believes that NIL reform now allows college athletes to explore the same creative opportunities as their peers. She founded NIL Network in November of 2020 as a resource to support athletes, coaches and administrators in navigating the NIL changes coming to college sports. Today, it is recognized as the premier hub of name, image, and likeness industry data and resources.
  • Michael Elkon Michael Elkon

    Fisher & Philips LLP | Partner

    Michael Elkon is a partner in the Atlanta office. He helps companies recruit talent from competitors in a legal fashion and ensures that former employees do not exploit companies' key information and relationships.
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    US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (retired) | Chief Judge

    Paul Michel served on the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for 22 years before retiring as chief judge in 2010 to advocate for reviving the US Patent System. Along with Judge Kathleen O’Malley (Ret), he serves on the Board of Directors of C4IP and on the boards of the Chamber of Commerce’s BASIC Coalition opposing misuse of Bayh-Dole march in powers and the Inventors Defense Alliance defending access to third party litigation financing and thus patent justice for smaller companies and individual inventors.
  • Miles, Wade

    United States Patent and Trademark Office | Primary Patent Examiner and Assistant Outreach Officer, Silicon Valley Regional Office

    Wade is a Primary Patent Examiner in Technology Center 3700 at the USPTO. He started at the USPTO in 2008, and he is currently serving as an Assistant Outreach Officer for the Silicon Valley Regional Office As an examiner, he examines a wide variety of medical devices for patentability, including stents, lancets, heart valves, and surgical robots. Wade has also served on numerous details within the USPTO, including details with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Technical Quality Assurance Shop, and Patent Training Academy. Prior to joining the USPTO, he earned a J.D. from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering from Mississippi State University.
  • Julia Milewski Milewski, Julia

    Crowell & Moring LLP | Counsel

    Julia Milewski is a counsel in the firm’s Litigation Group. Julia’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation in state and federal courts across the country, domestic and foreign alternative dispute resolution, and counseling clients on corporate compliance.
  • Millar, Sheila A.

    Keller and Heckman LLP | Partner

    Sheila Millar leads Keller and Heckman’s consumer protection regulatory practices and brings deep experience to a range of public policy and regulatory matters, including advertising and promotions, sustainability and environmental claims, connected products, privacy, cybersecurity, and product safety. She counsels United States (U.S.) and international businesses on compliance questions and processes, represents them in regulatory enforcement matters, and advocates on their behalf before federal and state legislative and regulatory bodies.
  • Brandon Miller

    Clarkston Consulting | DE&I Services Lead

    Brandon spearheads professional development, organizational, marketing and training initiatives to help promote diversity and enable an inclusive workplace. He advises clients on DE&I strategy, transformation, and action. Brandon is a certified Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) qualified administrator and coach, a frequent speaker on unconscious bias and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, and a published author. At Clarkston, Brandon is the current Chair of the firm's diversity council.
  • Miller, Kimberly

    Knobbe Martens | Partner

    Dr. Kim Miller is a Partner at Knobbe Martens and serves as a single point of contact for all IP-related matters her clients face. For more established companies, she easily adapts to their processes and procedures, blending seamlessly into their existing corporate structure while adding valuable insight regarding how to better leverage their IP assets. For smaller, emerging and fast-growth companies, Kim works diligently to identify the vision going forward, as well as to provide advice and procedural solutions that fit their agenda today and into the future. Regardless of the size or extent of her clients’ IP assets, Kim is totally dedicated to conserving financial and other resources while seeking to ensure they get what they specifically need to succeed.
  • Millican, Sarani

    Dorsey & Whitney | Associate

    Sarani Rangarajan Millican is an intellectual property litigation associate with Dorsey & Whitney LLP. Sarani has represented her clients in both litigation (from state court to the International Court of Justice) and advocacy contexts (from negotiating housing court disputes to presenting at the United Nations). Sarani’s strengths include translating complex technical information into layman’s terms, finding solutions to messy problems, and effective cross-cultural communication. At Dorsey, Sarani primarily works on trade secret matters and patent infringement disputes.
  • Milligan, Robert

    Seyfarth Shaw | Partner & Co-Chair of Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Competes Practice

    Robert Milligan co-chairs Seyfarth's Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Competes practice group. His practice primarily focuses on trade secret, non-compete, and data theft/protection litigation, investigations, and transactional work on a state, national, and international platform. Robert represents multinational companies in a variety of key industries in trade secrets and restrictive covenant litigation and routinely provides valuable transactional advice on how to best protect valuable intellectual property assets in significant business transactions. He is a recognized national leader in trade secrets law serving on the prestigious Sedona Conference for Trade Secrets Working Group and serving as Vice Chair of the State Bar of California Trade Secrets Interest Group.
  • Mitchell, Gage

    Modern Species | Founder

    Gage sees everything as a design challenge. Whether it's designing new business strategies, designing to solve community problems, or designing your life to be more fulfilling. He’s the founder of Modern Species and Evolve CPG where he helps better-for-the-world brands grow through purpose-driven strategy, design, and community.
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    Paul Hastings, LLP | Partner, Litigation Department

    Naveen Modi is the Global Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property group at Paul Hastings, overseeing the firm’s Global Intellectual Property group consisting of more than 100 attorneys.
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    Intel Corporation | Assistant Director of Patents

    Iris Mok joined Intel Corporation in March 2011 from an acquisition of the wireless business of Infineon Technologies in Munich. She managed a large wireless technology patent portfolio, provides patent related counseling to various business units, and support litigation, licensing, and M&A activities. Now, Iris manages a patent portfolio focusing on Autonomous Platforms technologies, including drones, autonomous driving, robotics, and sensors.
  • Mond, Rebecca

    The Toy Association | Vice President, Federal Government Affairs

  • Monica-Talley Monica Riva Talley

    Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox | Director

    Monica Riva Talley is a director at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox and heads the firm's Trademark & Brand Protection Practice.
  • Moore, Kimberly A.

    United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | Chief Judge

    KIMBERLY A. MOORE was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006 and assumed the duties of Chief Circuit Judge on May 22, 2021. Prior to her appointment, Chief Judge Moore was a Professor of Law from 2004 to 2006 and Associate Professor of Law from 2000 to 2004 at the George Mason University School of Law. She was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law from 1999 to 2000. She served both as an Assistant Professor of Law from 1997 to 1999 and the Associate Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program from 1998 to 1999 at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
  • Moore, Michael Moore, Michael
    Michael Moore is assistant general counsel, senior director, trademarks and copyrights for Mattel Inc, where he is responsible for managing all trademark and copyright matters for Mattel around the world, from clearance and registration, through to disputes and litigation. Since joining Mattel in 2000, Mr Moore has represented Mattel in a number of high-profile and important IP cases, including managing the first EU design rights case ever litigated (Mattel v Simba (UK)), and a UK case involving the SCRABBLE brand against Zynga.