Speakers
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Moy, Carl
Mitchell Hamline School of Law | Professor of Law, Director, IP Institute
Professor Carl Moy was appointed Director of the Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s Intellectual Property Institute in 2024. He has been a full-time tenured faculty member for over thirty years, during which time he has focused on the school’s highly respected patent law curriculum. He is the author of Moy’s Walker on Patents, cited by the United States Supreme Court and recognized as the pre-eminent treatise on U.S. patent law, and has been a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Patent, Copyright, and Unfair Competition Law, Munich, Germany. He is a former patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., attorney at Merchant & Gould, Minneapolis, and patent agent at Parkhurst & Oliff, Alexandria, VA. -
Mueller, Craig
FisherBroyles, LLP | Partner
Craig’s practice primarily focuses on preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the mechanical, software, electrical, electro-mechanical, and civil areas of technology. His practice also includes advising clients on various intellectual property protection strategies; drafting and prosecuting design patent applications; protecting foreign intellectual property rights; drafting patentability, freedom to operate, and invalidity opinions; analyzing domestic and foreign patent rights; performing and supervising patent-related searches; preparing and prosecuting trademark and copyright applications; and drafting technology-related agreements. -
Mueller, Lisa
Casimir Jones | Casimir
For over twenty-five years, Lisa has provided strategic counsel on complex patent issues to clients in the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemistry sectors. She brings an in-depth knowledge and extensive experience to her work advising clients on the global patent protection, freedom to operate and validity of blockbuster drugs they aim to produce and distribute. With a background in chemistry and biology, Lisa provides advice on the full spectrum of global intellectual property portfolio management including patent prosecution, opposition and other post-grant proceedings, and diverse regulatory matters. -
Mueting, Ann
Mueting, Raasch Group | Founding Shareholder
Ann M. Mueting, Ph.D., J.D., is a founding shareholder of the firm Mueting Raasch Group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which began in 1995 and represents Fortune 500 companies, biomedical firms, universities, various mid-size and startup companies, as well as individual entrepreneurs. Ann is a patent attorney practicing in the areas of patent prosecution, due diligence, and related opinion work with emphasis in chemical and biotechnology patent law. -
Mulcahy, John
Finnegan | Partner
john's practice includes litigation before federal district courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), client counseling and opinions, and patent prosecution and post-grant proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). -
Mulgrew, John
Uber Technologies, Inc. | Global Head of IP and AGC for Product Legal and Marketing Legal
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Mulraine, Loren
Belmont University College of Law | Law Professor
Professor Mulraine is a well-known authority on Copyright matters. He is a law professor at the Belmont University College of law and accomplished entertainment law attorney. At Belmont University, he serves as the Director of Music and Entertainment Law Studies and teaches Copyright Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property Law, Media Law, Film and TV Transactions, Sports Law and other related courses. As an entertainment attorney, Professor Mulraine has represented many well-known artists and writers, including Grammy, Dove and Stellar award winners, and gold and platinum selling artists, in addition to producers, filmmakers and a myriad of other clients in the entertainment industry. Professor Mulraine himself is known in the industry as a songwriter and an independent gospel artist. He has released six solo albums and several singles. His studio credits include performing as a vocalist on the Grammy award-winning “Tribute: The Songs of Andrae’ Crouch.” -
Murata, Jason
Axinn | Partner, Intellectual Property Ligitation Group
Jason Murata is a partner in the intellectual property litigation group and chair of Axinn's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. Jason’s practice involves all aspects of pre-trial, trial and appeals, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, technology, consumer products and food industries. He also bring his extensive litigation experience to bear on complex issues relating to managing companies’ IP strategies. Within AIPLA, Jason is a co-leader of the DEI Task Force in the Diversity in IP Committee, and a co-chair of the IP Practice in Japan Committee -
Murphy, Brian G.
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC
Mr. Murphy counsels advertising agencies, advertisers, and entertainment companies as they develop and produce advertising and entertainment properties across all media. Mr. Murphy has been named 2018 Attorney of the year for Advertising Law by Best Lawyers. -
Murphy, Brian P.
Haug Partners | Partner
From September 2013 through September 2017, Mr. Murphy served as an Administrative Patent Judge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. During that time he presided over nearly 200 post grant review trial proceedings (Inter Partes Review, Post Grant Review, and Covered Business Method Review). As a PTAB trial judge he presided over interlocutory discovery and motion proceedings, heard oral argument, and drafted numerous substantive decisions. For three years he served as a Lead Judge on the PTAB leadership team, which included management, supervision, and mentoring of Administrative Patent Judges trained in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and chemical arts. -
Murphy, Kristin
ZF Group | Lead Divisional IP Counsel
Kristin Murphy’s experience spans across all aspects of intellectual property. With respect to patent matters, her career has included domestic and foreign patent prosecution, including as part of strategic patent portfolio development and management. She has extensive experience in patent opinions, intellectual property valuations/due diligence and drafting and negotiation agreements relating to technology and intellectual property. -
Murphy, Ph.D., Amanda K.
Finnegan | Partner
Amanda Murphy, Ph.D., focuses her practice on strategic client counseling, portfolio management, and patent prosecution for a range of clients, including small startup companies, research foundations, and large biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. -
Murthy, Sanjay
McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd | Shareholder
A Shareholder at McAndrews, Sanjay Murthy is a nationally recognized trial attorney who has been involved in more than 15 trials. He has deep experience representing leading life science and technology companies in federal district courts, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and in Section 337 investigations in the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). In addition to an active litigation practice, he manages patent portfolios for several leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies. He also leverages his trial experience to assist his clients with freedom-to-operate matters, due diligence investigations, patent portfolio audits, and licensing and collaboration transactions. -
Gary Myers
University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia | Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law
Gary Myers is the Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia. -
Nall, Jennifer
DLA Piper LLP | Partner
Jennifer Nall is a trial lawyer and registered patent attorney with experience assisting clients to procure, enforce, defend, license, and litigate intellectual property rights in high-technology cases. Her litigation experience extends to all phases of patent litigation and she practices in front of numerous district courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the Federal Circuit, the International Trade Commission and the Supreme Court. -
Neal Weinrich
Berman Fink Van Horn, P.C. | Shareholder
Neal F. Weinrich is a shareholder at Berman Fink Van Horn. Neal’s practice focuses on resolving business disputes through litigation, arbitration, and mediation. -
Nealey, Tara
Polsinelli, PC | Shareholder, Practice Chair
Dr. Tara Nealey is a member of the Science and Technology practice group, with a background in academic physiology research. She focuses on advising clients with intellectual property questions related to life science technologies. -
Neas, Michael
USPTO | Deputy Director of the International Patent Legal Administration
Michael Neas is the Deputy Director of the International Patent Legal Administration (formerly PCT Legal) at the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Mr. Neas’ staff provides training on the filing and prosecution of PCT and U.S. national stage applications to inventors, applicants, patent practitioners and paralegals. -
Nelson, Amy
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | Acting Deputy Solicitor
Amy Nelson is the Acting Deputy Solicitor in the Solicitor’s Office at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She joined the Solicitor’s Office in 2010, following several years as a litigator at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. She served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Sharon Prost at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and for the Honorable Edward Damich at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Prior to that, she was a patent examiner and supervisor in biotechnology for nearly a decade. She holds a J.D. from George Washington University Law School, a Ph.D. in plant biology from Ohio State University, and a B.A. in biology from Dartmouth College. -
Nelson, Dale
Donaldson + Callif | Partner
Dale is a partner at Donaldson + Callif, a boutique firm that specializes in documentary and independent film production, clearance and fair use, championing the free speech rights of filmmakers, podcasters and other artists to tell their stories, their way.