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  • 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

  • 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
  • Brian-Murphy 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, John

    United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Judge

    John Murphy is a judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before being appointed to the court, Judge Murphy was an IP litigation partner at Baker & Hostetler in Philadelphia, where he focused on patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property disputes. He teaches patent litigation and strategy as an adjunct professor at both Villanova Law School and Rutgers Law School. Judge Murphy is co-author of the last three editions of the casebook Patent Litigation and Strategy along with Federal Circuit Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore, Professor Timothy Holbrook, and Andrew Sommer. Judge Murphy also clerked for Chief Judge Moore. He attended Harvard Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Before that, he obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Caltech and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.
  • murphy_photo_AIPLA2021AM 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-Amanda-square200 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 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.
  • Nakajima, Masaru

    Ueda & Nakajima | Founding Partner

    Masaru is a founding partner in the Ueda & Nakajima IP Law firm. He has been a patent attorney since 2006 and is a qualified IP litigator in Japan, as well as a Patent Agent in the US. He drafts and prosecuted patents in various fields related to pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and organic chemistry and also works on freedom-to-operate, infringement, and patent validity opinions, post-grant procedures, and litigations in Japan, as well as in the US, Europe, China, and South Korea.
  • Nakamura, Tomohiro (Tom)

    Konishi & Nakamura | Managing Partner

    Managing Partner, Patent Attorney, Konishi & Nakamura. Field in Practices: Clearance, prosecutions, litigations at the Tribunal & IP High Court, proceeding with recordation of IP rights and enforcement at Japan Customs, mainly for trademarks, designs, unfair competition, copyrights and domain names.
  • 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.
  • Narasimhan, Dev

    Patent Attorney

    Dev Narasimhan is a registered patent attorney (70,051) with Bachelors and Masters degrees in Biomedical Engineering, specializing in Biomaterials and Cell and Tissue Engineering. Dev also has extensive experience as an in-house attorney, where he worked with inventors and stakeholders to obtain global patent protection and counseled on patent matters.
  • Neal Weinrich 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.
  • Neal, Arlene

    Neal Blibo LLC | Managing Partner

    Arlene Neal is a founding member and managing partner of Neal Blibo LLC where she advises clients on a board range of IP and business law matters. Arlene has over two decades of experience in helping multinational companies, start-ups, and solopreneurs efficiently manage and protect business and intellectual assets and secure investments in innovation through IP procurement, enforcement, and IP transfers.
  • Nealey Photo 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.
  • MichaelNeas200 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.