Senior Counsel - Intellectual Property, Baker Hughes Company
After nearly two decades exclusively as an Intellectual Property Attorney, I have recently branched out my repertoire to become an Entrepreneur (in addition to a solo legal practice).
As an Intellectual Property Attorney, I counsel my clients on various Intellectual Property (IP) related issues concerning acquisition, maintenance and enforcement, including litigation (whether in court or in front of an administrative law judge) and licensing (from non-disclosure agreements to asset purchase agreements). For my clients, I have expanded my expertise to include consultation from a business point-of-view, assisting my clients in not only the legal issues relating to IP, but also the strategic issues associated with monetizing an IP portfolio.
As an Entrepreneur, I own a Property Management business, focusing on residential homes in the Central Texas area. Additionally, I own a boutique fitness studio in Austin, Texas, specializing in kickboxing.
Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP
Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Francis J. Menton, Jr. is a partner in the Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the Business Litigation Practice Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Mr. Menton specializes in complex and technical commercial litigation, principally contract and securities claims. He has a nationwide trial practice, and has tried cases in state and federal courts including Colorado, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Puerto Rico, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
Mr. Menton is the author of "New Opportunities for Defendants in Securities Class Actions," Engage (Fall 2007), "Can You Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft?" New York Law Journal (April 29, 2002), and "Top Ten Federal Government Efforts to Suppress Free Speech," Federalist Society Free Speech and Election Law News (Summer 2000, 1999, 1998). He also authored "Evaluating Claims Under The Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995," New York Law Journal (January 6, 1996).
Independent Analyst, None
Allison Hayward most recently served as the Head of Case Selection at the Oversight Board. Previously, she was a Commissioner at the California Fair Political Practices Commission, a Board Member at the Office of Congressional Ethics, and an Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. She also previously worked as Chief of Staff and Counsel in the office of Federal Election Commission Commissioner Bradley A. Smith and practiced election law in California and in Washington DC.
In 1994-1995, Professor Hayward was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs, United States Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit.
She is a member of the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar.
State Immunity From Federal Copyright and Trademark Suits: The Chavez Decision
Robert R. Long
Intellectual Property Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
In April, the Fifth Circuit held in Denise Chavez v. Arte Publico Press, 139 F.3d...
Of Juries And Shampoo: The Supreme Court And The Copyright Act
Timothy M. Morella
Intellectual Property Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
This past March, the U. S. Supreme Court decided a pair of copyright cases, both...
The Urge to Merge: Trends in Bank Mergers
James M. Rockett
Financial Services & E-Commerce Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
When, in the space of a single week, two monumental and very different bank mergers...
Critical Look at the Community Reinvestment Act
Gerald A. Reynolds
Financial Services & E-Commerce Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
Some federal statutes fail to accomplish the goals established by Congress due to false assumption,...
Book Review: The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D., & William D. Danko, Ph.D.
John Pickering
Financial Services & E-Commerce Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthyby Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D., &...
Cities Are Finding Ways to Sweep Gangs off the Streets
Brian Stettin
Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
In the war against violent urban street gangs, police across the nation face a frustrating...
Proposition 226 Paycheck Protection: the California Experience
Charles H. Bell
Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
"Paycheck Protection" legislation has been introduced in nearly a dozen states and in Congress in...
Top Ten Government Efforts to Suppress Free Speech, 1997-1998
Francis J. Menton, Matthew Peterson
Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
We Americans may think we have an inalienable right to free speech: the right to...
Election Law Observer
Allison R. Hayward
Free Speech & Election Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
Cases, cases, casesSeveral recent court decisions should be of interest to activists and campaign finance...
Critical Infrastructure Protection: A New Era of National Security
Walter Gary Sharp
International & National Security Law Practice Group Newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1998
Computers and computer-dependent systems permeate everyone's daily life. From local, state, and federal government decision...