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  • LOURIE, Alan square200 Lourie, Alan

    US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | Circuit Judge

    Circuit Judge Alan D. Lourie was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on April 6, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush. He was formerly Vice President, Corporate Patents and Trademarks, and Associate General Counsel of SmithKline Beecham Corporation.
  • Love, Nathaniel

    Sidley Austin LLP | Partner

    Nat Love is a trial lawyer who helps companies across the life sciences and information technology fields resolve challenging problems presented by patent, trade secret, and other commercial litigation. Nat tackles complex economic issues, including those presented in preliminary injunction proceedings and by patent and trade secret damages claims. He also has extensive experience in patent and breach of contract cases involving patents declared essential to technology standards, and has litigated multiple injunctions in such cases on appeal. Nat leads the drafting of appellate briefs in his matters arising in the district courts and the USPTO and has argued multiple cases in the courts of appeal, including the Second, Seventh, Ninth, and Federal Circuits.
  • Loza, Christina

    Managing Partner | Loza &Loza

    Christina “Tina” Loza founded Loza & Loza, LLP in 2005 and currently acts as managing partner of the firm, a distributed and mostly virtual intellectual property boutique. Tina is a registered patent attorney but enjoys practicing mostly trademark prosecution and litigation. Tina is a former President of NAWBO-CA and NAWBO-IE and currently sits on the boards of the 100 Mile Club and FAR For A Reason. She is also an adjunct professor at University of La Verne – School of Law, where she teaches Intellectual Property Law and Trademark Law.
  • Lui, Cathy

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe | Litigation Partner

    Cathy Lui is a litigation partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and she is based in the San Francisco office. Cathy primarily specializes in trade secrets litigation and her practice crosses all industries and sectors including tech, life sciences, retail, and financial services, among others. Cathy also engages in complex commercial litigation including employee mobility, false advertising, and other commercial disputes. Her matters are often high-profile and industry changing. For her achievements, Legal500 has repeatedly recognized her as a “Next Gen Lawyer” in Trade Secrets and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association honored Cathy as a 2019 Best Lawyer Under 40. Cathy is also very involved in her community and with DEI initiatives. She previously served as Orrick’s hiring partner for San Francisco, was a Fellow with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, and a former co-chair of the Judiciary Committee for the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area.
  • Lujin, Pat

    Shook, Hardy & Bacon | Partner

    Pat is a partner in the Kansas City office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon. His practice focuses on patent and trademark litigation involving computer hardware and software, automotive, and video game technology. Pat represents clients in federal courts across the country and in inter partes review proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He frequently speaks and writes on current patent issues, and he has co-authored two amicus briefs filed in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the Intellectual Property Owners Association: WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical (2018) and Alice Corp v. CLS Bank (2014). Prior to rejoining Shook in 2002, Pat served as in-house patent counsel for Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. Pat worked as an electrical engineer before law school.
  • Luo Photo Luo, Juhua

    CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office

    Mr. Luo's practice focuses mainly on prosecution of patent.
  • Lynch, Cynthia C.

    Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO | Administrative Trademark Judge

    Cynthia C. Lynch currently serves as an Administrative Trademark Judge on the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO. She also holds the position of Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University Law School, where she teaches Trademark and Unfair Competition Law. From 2006 to 2015, she was the USPTO’s Administrator for Trademark Policy and Procedure, responsible for the development and dissemination of trademark regulations and trademark examination policy, and oversight of the Trademark Legal Policy Office and Petitions Office. She previously served as an Associate Solicitor at the USPTO for five years, where she litigated trial and appellate trademark and patent matters in the federal courts, and regularly assisted the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office on I.P. cases at the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Lynn, Barbara M.G.

    United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas | District Judge

    The Honorable Barbara M. G. Lynn is a Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, with chambers in Dallas, Texas. Lynn was in private practice from 1976 to 1999 at the law firm Carrington Coleman in Dallas. Lynn was the firm’s first female associate (1976 – 1982) and then became the firm’s first female partner (1983 – 1999) prior to joining the bench. On March 25, 1999, Lynn was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated by Harry Barefoot Sanders, Jr. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 17, 1999 and received her commission on November 22, 1999. On May 1, 2016, she became the Chief Judge of the Northern District of Texas, the first woman to hold the position.
  • Lyon Photo Lyon, John

    Thomas Horstemeyer, LLP | Partner

    John’s practice areas at Thomas | Horstemeyer include electrical/computer patent prosecution, litigation, and open source software licensing.
  • Rob Lytle Photo Lytle, Rob

    Microsoft Corporation | Assistant General Counsel

    Robert B. Lytle is an Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft Corporation. His practice focuses on patent litigation. Mr. Lytle currently serves as the Finance Officer of the ABA IPL Section.
  • Ma, Jameson square200 Ma, Jameson

    Bookoff McAndrews PLLC | Partner

    Jameson helps startups and Fortune 100 companies alike develop intellectual property to protect their market share. Jameson also help his clients mitigate risk by analyzing competitor IP, and challenging competitor patents via post-grant proceedings at the USPTO.
  • Macedo, Charles

    Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP | Partner

    Charles R. Macedo, a physicist by training, litigates in all areas of intellectual property law, including patent, trademark and copyright law, with a special emphasis in complex litigation and appellate work. Companies and individuals from a wide range of industries turn to him to develop offensive and defensive strategies for the development and enforcement of their patent and trademark portfolios.
  • MacKendrick, Scott

    Bereskin & Parr | Partner

    Scott MacKendrick is a partner with Bereskin & Parr LLP, a past member of the firm’s Executive Committee, and the past chair of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
  • Mackenzie, Stephen200 MacKenzie, Stephen
    Stephen MacKenzie is Senior Counsel IP and IP Litigation at Koch Companies Public Sector, which is the Legal, Government, and Public Affairs division for Koch Industries, Inc. based in Wichita, Kansas.  Steve focuses his practice on prosecution strategy, IP management and counseling, M&A, and licensing.  Prior to joining Koch, Steve worked in private practice as a patent litigation attorney in Wilmington, Delaware.
  • Madison, Tanya

    Chief Privacy Officer | Global Chief Privacy Officer

    Tanya Madison serves as Chief Privacy Officer at Transamerica. With over 20 years of in-house counsel experience, Tanya's career has focused on the lawful collection, use and sharing of personal data with special focus on financial services and FINTECH companies. Tanya and her colleagues focus on developing a principled and holistic approach to privacy legal analysis and engagement worldwide.
  • Maisami, Ceyda

    HP | Head of Patents, IP

    Ceyda Maisami is Associate General Counsel, Head of Patents at HP. She leads a team of attorneys, paralegals and analysts in building and managing patent portfolios as well as supporting pre-litigation, M&A, and transactional matters. In her previous roles at Finnegan and Chadbourne & Parke, Ceyda worked on high profile patent prosecution and litigation matters, in addition to a host of opinion work related to computer hardware, software, wireless communication devices, and financial services. Before her career in intellectual property law, she was an electrical engineer for Osram Sylvania (Siemens Holding).
  • mak, toby200 Mak, Toby

    Tee & Howe | Senior Counsel / Patent Attorney

    Dr. Toby Mak is a registered Chinese Patent Attorney and has a Ph.D. in Chemistry. Dr. Toby Mak was born in Hong Kong and graduated from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He worked at one of the largest law firms in Hong Kong for 8 years before joining Tee & Howe.
  • Makover, Matthew

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP | Partner

    Matthew S. Makover is a partner in the Intellectual Property Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Matthew's focus includes intellectual property transactions and counseling. Matthew has advised on intellectual property matters involving the sale and licensing of software, patents, trademarks and copyrights (including media content) and has experience with both private and public mergers and acquisitions, financings and capital market transactions. Matthew also has experience structuring and negotiating project and commercial agreements. Matthew has worked with a number of clients in the software, entertainment, cryptocurrency, gaming, fintech, media, retail, insurance, healthcare, consumer products, manufacturing, telecommunications, gaming and fashion industries.
  • Mark-Malek200 Malek, Mark

    Widerman Malek | Managing Partner

    Mark Malek focuses his practice on representing clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and counseling inventors and businesses on various intellectual property strategies. Mark enjoys working with his clients to understand their long term goals and tailoring their intellectual property strategies to help achieve those goals.
  • Malek-200 Malek, Shabnam

    Brand & Branch LLP | Partner

    Shabnam Malek is a partner at Brand & Branch LLP and co-founder and founding President of the International Cannabis Bar Association. Shabnam’s legal background is in trademark law and she cut her teeth on all things intellectual property as a “big law” associate early in her legal career.