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  • mossoff_adam_200 Mossof, Adam

    Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University | Law Professor

    Adam Mossoff is a law professor at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He teaches a wide range of courses, including patent law, trade secrets, trademark law, property, and remedies, and he has published extensively on topics in property and intellectual property law, innovation policy, and tech policy.
  • Mossoff, Adam

    Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University | Professor

    Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and he is a board member and affiliated scholar at several academic centers, policy organizations, and think tanks. His research on patent law and policy has been relied on by the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, Congress, and the USPTO, FTC, DOJ, and other federal agencies. He has been invited numerous times to testify before the Senate and the House of Representatives on patent policy, including in the two Senate hearings on § 101 reform held in 2019 and 2024.
  • 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 photo200 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

  • 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.
  • Myers, Monty

    Eureka Software Solutions, Inc. | Founder & CEO

    Monty Myers is one of the top software and technology experts in the country. As the founder/CEO of Eureka Software Solutions Inc. based in Austin, Texas, he and his team have delivered numerous successful software products and solutions into the commercial marketplace for a wide range of industries over the last 40+ years. For the last 20 years, Mr. Myers has also served as an expert witness in hundreds of trade secret and IP-focused software and technology disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants ranging from Global conglomerates, Fortune 500 companies, and notable startups. Through this experience, Mr. Myers has accumulated hundreds of hours of testifying experience before juries, judges, arbitrators, and opposing counsel providing him with unique, hard-to-develop insights and perspectives.
  • Myles, Mary Beth

    Greenberg Traurig | Of Counsel

    Mary Beth Myles recently returned to private practice after over nine years at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), where she served first as an Interlocutory Attorney and then as an Administrative Trademark Judge. She is currently Of Counsel at the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig where she counsels clients on all aspects of trademark law, copyright law, brand protection and enforcement, and represents clients in disputes before the TTAB and in federal court.
  • 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.