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  • 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.
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    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.
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    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-200 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.
  • David-Newman Newman, David L.

    Gould & Ratner | Partner

    Leading Gould & Ratner's Intellectual Property Group, David Newman focuses his practice in the areas of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
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    Barker Brettell | Head of Cosmetics Sector

    Rosalyn Newsome has over 20 years’ experience handling all aspects of trade mark work. She routinely conducts global brand clearance work and creates global filing strategies to complement business drivers, timeframes and budget considerations.
  • Newton, Andrew

    Qualcomm, Inc. | Senior Patent Counsel

    Andrew Newton is Senior Patent Counsel for Qualcomm, Inc., where he leads the local area connectivity (LAC) patent portfolio team, and manages a team of 5G and LAC attorneys. Andrew has extensive experience in foreign and domestic patent preparation and prosecution, as well as patentability, infringement and invalidity analyses. His practice experience includes district court litigation, ITC § 337 investigations, and supporting Qualcomm’s patent licensing business. Prior to working at Qualcomm, Andrew practiced patent prosecution and patent litigation at Fish & Richardson in San Diego, California. Andrew earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering from Kansas State University, his Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law, and his Master in Business Administration from the University of San Diego School of Business.
  • Ney, Joshua E.

    Barnes & Thornburg, LLP | Partner

    Josh Ney counsels life science companies in patent procurement, freedom-to-operate, due diligence and litigation matters. With a Ph.D. in chemistry, Josh practices in a range of technology areas, including small molecule drugs, lipid nanoparticles, mRNA therapeutics, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, flow cytometry technology, and polymer chemistry. Josh helps life science clients protect their assets throughout the product life-cycle, including patent drafting and prosecution, counseling regarding patent and regulatory exclusivity, and patent enforcement.
  • Nguyen, Jessica

    Lexion | Chief Legal Officer

    Jessica Nguyen is the Chief Legal Officer of Lexion, the simple AI-powered, no-code, intake, workflow, and contract repository – one place to manage all tasks and contracts and replaces 3+ separate tools. Jessica has played an integral role in building the Lexion product, company, and brand. She has an extensive in-house legal career at companies of various sizes and stages and has been the first legal hire that built out the legal function of a company 3 times. Prior to Lexion, she was the General Counsel and first in-house attorney of PayScale, a Microsoft Office 365 attorney, and the first in-house attorney at Avalara. Jessica has been recognized as the 2020 “Startup GC of the Year” by Corporate Counsel magazine, a 2019 Top 100 Legal Influencers by The Business Journals, Best Under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and a 2018 Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40.
  • Nguyen, Xuan-Thao

    Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law | Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation

    Professor Nguyen is an internationally known legal scholar renowned for her expertise in the intersections of Intellectual Property, Contracts, Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy, Licensing and Taxation. She is the Gerald L. Bepko Endowed Chair in Law at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law. She held the Garvey Schubert Barer Visiting Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law (2018-2019). She recently received the Trustees Teaching Award (2020).
  • Nicholas J. Landau

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  • Nichols Matkaiti, Erin

    Donaldson Company, Inc. | Intellectual Property Counsel

    Erin Nichols Matkaiti is intellectual property counsel at Donaldson Company, Inc., a leader in advancing filtration for a cleaner world. Prior to transitioning to a corporate role, her practice was focused on patent prosecution for clients in the electrical, mechanical, and electro-chemical fields.
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    Mitchell Hamline School of Law | Dean

    A longtime legal educator and activist on behalf of LGBTQ rights, Anthony Niedwiecki began serving as president and dean at Mitchell Hamline School of Law on July 1, 2020.
  • Nielsen, Carol

    Nielsen IP | Attorney at Law

    Carol’s practice is focused on intellectual property investigations, portfolio management and international procurement of patent and trademark rights. She has special expertise working with the pharmaceutical, chemical and oil and gas industry. Carol also serves clients in the procurement of intellectual property rights for new products, systems, processes, and designs and management of global patent and trademark portfolios. Carol brings significant litigation experience to her legal services having handled disputes over intellectual property rights in Federal Court. She has held key roles on various trial teams, taken and defended depositions, and prepared key pleadings and legal briefs both in trial and appellate courts. Carol has appeared before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. She has successfully resolved contractual disputes for clients in both Texas and Illinois state courts. Carol has also handled trademark opposition and cancelation proceedings before the US Trademark Trial & Appeal Board.
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    Handsfree Labs/Kizik | Chief IP Officer and General Counsel

    Previously an intellectual property partner in BigLaw, Eric now serves as the Chief IP Officer and General Counsel for HandsFree Labs/Kizik, the global leader in hands-free footwear technologies, based in Utah. Eric’s experience includes prosecution, enforcement and transactional matters relating to all forms of IP. Eric enjoys hiking and fly fishing.
  • Ken Nigon Photo200 Nigon, Ken
    Ken’s practice focuses on US and international patent protection for computer hardware, software, and business methods.
  • Nijm, Toni

    Anaqua | Chief Product Officer

    Toni Nijm is Chief Product Officer at Anaqua, which he joined in July 2025 after co-founding and serving as CEO of RightHub. He spent seven years at CPA Global, rising from Head of Service Platform Solutions through Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product and Strategy Officer to Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, and earlier founded and led Ipendo AB, having begun his career as a systems designer at Ericsson and a patent attorney at Awapatent.