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Amicus Brief Committee
The IPO Board of Directors established the Amicus Brief Committee to provide advice concerning how IPO should respond to intellectual property disputes moving through the courts. The committee is tasked with making a threshold determination that the matter presented raises a significant issue affecting intellectual property owners, and, where IPO’s advocacy would assist a favorable outcome from IPO’s strategic perspective, with recommending to the IPO Board of Directors the position IPO should take as amicus based on the interests of intellectual property owners and obtaining adequate and effective protection for those rights consistent with the rights of the public to freely enjoy public domain subject matter. The Committee focuses its efforts on intellectual property and legal issues that broadly impact intellectual property ownership and enforcement and will not recommend that IPO file amicus briefs in disputes implicating only the interests of the litigants.
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Amicus Brief Committee Procedures
Chair:Laura Sheridan, Google LLC
Vice Chair:Joshua L. Simmons, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Vice Chair:Paul H. Berghoff, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
Vice Chair:Wendy C. Larson, Pirkey Barber PLLC
Staff Liaison:Hannah Denny, Intellectual Property Owners Association
Staff Liaison:Samantha Grover, Intellectual Property Owners Association
Members
- Brittany AmadiWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
- Scott BarkerMicron Technology, Inc.
- Gregory A. CastaniasJones Day
- Dan ChoiMicrosoft Corporation
- Theodore H. Davis, Jr.Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Anthony DiBartolomeoSAP SE
- Andrew T. DufresnePerkins Coie, LLP
- Jake FeldmanKenvue
- David A. LaneJohnson & Johnson
- Steven D. MaslowskiAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
- Jeff MyersApple Inc.
- Troy PrinceRTX Corporation
- Erik R. PuknysFinnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
- Corey SalsbergNovartis
- Jessica M. SinnottDuPont
- Eley O. ThompsonFoley & Lardner LLP