Speakers

  • mccabe200 McCabe, Jr., Michael

    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.
  • McCormack, James square200 McCormack, James M.

    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

    AI-Enabled Attorney, LLC | Founder

    Ann McCrackin is a patent attorney, Adjunct Professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, and founder of AI-Enabled Attorney LLC. She provides practical AI training and IP operations consulting for law firms and legal teams, with a focus on helping professionals use AI effectively in real patent and trademark workflows.
  • McDade Photo McDade, Allison

    7-Eleven, Inc. | Senior Trademark Counsel

  • McDermott, Mary

    CNA | Risk Control Consultant

    Mary is a Risk Control Consultant for CNA’s Lawyers Professional Liability Program. In this role, she is part of the CNA team helping insureds practice better by providing risk control services. Mary helps craft risk control publications, and she provides direct assistance to insureds when insureds reach out with a concern about their practice. Mary also presents on risk control and best practices for addressing the latest troubling issue.
  • Valerie Landrio McDevitt Valerie Landrio McDevitt

    University of South Florida | Associate Vice President

  • McDonald_Scott_200x200 McDonald, Scott

    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.
  • McGowan, Shelby

    Kelly IP, LLP | Associate

    Shelby is an associate at Kelly IP, LLP where she represents trademark, copyright, and domain owners at all phases of the intellectual property lifecycle, with a focus on trademark disputes and litigation in federal courts and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She also crafts common-sense prosecution and enforcement strategies to secure strong and practical intellectual property protection. In addition to her practice at KIP, Shelby volunteers with the D.C. Bar’s Small Business Pro Bono Clinic and is a member of AIPLA, INTA, and an LCLD Pathfinder alumnus. Shelby earned her J.D. with honors from American University Washington College of Law, where she served on the American University Law Review and was Co-President of WCL’s Evening Law Student Association.
  • 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.
  • McKinley, Christopher

    Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP | Special Counsel

    Christopher McKinley focuses his practice on commercial litigation with an emphasis on intellectual property law, including litigating high-value patent and trade secret disputes. Chris litigates cases in various forums, including U.S. district courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the International Trade Commission (ITC), and abroad. Chris also assists clients in developing and managing patent portfolios and providing counsel in intellectual property related transactions.
  • 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.