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Charter
The Committee plans to continue to study issues raised by the IPO Board of Directors (“Board”), the Trial Division of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Trial Division”), and the members of the Committee, related to contested case proceedings before the... more

Membership Listing

Chair: Michael J. Blake, Eastman Chemical Co.
Chair: Matthew Rainey, Intellectual Ventures, LLC
Vice Chair: Herbert D. Hart, III, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
Board Liaison: Michael L. Glenn, Dow Chemical Co.
Staff Liaison: Elizabeth A. Richardson, Intellectual Property Owners Association

 Members
  Robert Abrahamsen
  Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

  Mehran Arjomand
  Morrison & Foerster, LLP

  Oliver R. Ashe, Jr.
  Ashe, P.C.

  J. Steven Baughman
  Ropes & Gray LLP

  William P. Berridge
  Oliff & Berridge, PLC

  Scott A. Burow
  Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

  Mark Charles
  Procter & Gamble Co.

  Mark James DeBoy
  Sughrue Mion, PLLC

  Gregory S. Discher
  Covington & Burling LLP

  Thomas Donovan
  Barnes & Thornburg LLP

  Erin Marie Dunston
  Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

  Joan Ellis
  Perkins Coie, LLP

  Eldora Ellison
  Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC

  Michael L. Goldman
  Nixon Peabody, LLP

  Raymond W. Green
  Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

  Brenda O. Holmes
  Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

  R. Danny Huntington
  Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck

  Azy Kokabi
  Sughrue Mion, PLLC

  Paul Kokulis
  Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

  Kevin B. Laurence
  Stoel Rives LLP

  Joseph Lucci
  Woodcock Washburn, LLP

  Kurtis MacFerrin
  Life Technologies Corporation

  Lissi Mojica Marquis
  Novak, Druce & Quigg, LLP

  Sandip H. Patel
  Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

  Bradley D. Pedersen
  Patterson Thuente Christensen Pedersen, P.A.

  Eugene C. Rzucidlo
  Hunton & Williams

  Michael Siekman
  Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

  Clyde Lewell Smith
  Thompson Coburn LLP

  Matthew Smith
  Foley & Lardner, LLP

  Michael Sofocleous
  Law Office of Michael Sofocleous

  Bruce H. Stoner, Jr.
  Greenblum & Bernstein, PLC

  Doreen Yatko Trujillo
  Cozen O'Connor, PC

  Ross Viguet
  Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

  Todd R. Walters
  Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

  Martin M. Zoltick
  Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck