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Karin Swope is focused on client success. As a member of the firm’s nationally recognized Complex Litigation Group, Karin represents clients in intellectual property litigation and counseling, consumer protection law, ERISA law, antitrust and securities litigation. Ms. Swope has represented clients for over 20 years in state and federal courts across the country, as well as proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She has represented companies and sovereign nations in protecting their intellectual property rights. She has protected the retirement funds of employees whose employers had breached their fiduciary duties in violation of ERISA, in cases against Washington Mutual, State Street Bank and Regions Financial Corporation, among others. She has filed amicus briefs in ERISA cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. She has helped consumers fight against unfair and deceptive practices, and has helped to change consumer protection law in the process. She has also represented shareholders in complex securities litigation in state and federal courts.. Following her graduation from Columbia Law School, Karin served as a law clerk to the Honorable John C. Coughenour in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Cowen of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Seattle University School of Law since 2008.

Kate Spelman has more than 30 years of experience providing strategic advice, design and implementation counsel for large, mid-sized and startup companies on copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent matters, both nationally and internationally, and has a special focus on media, licensing and mass digitization issues. Kate advises and counsels clients on the development, production, sale and defense of work related to emerging content distribution strategies and challenges, special issues in news reporting including repurposing content, and firewall and paywall configuration in light of changes in the fair use defense.. Kate is a frequent speaker on the progress of emerging copyright and digital publishing issues, and has advised authors, nonprofit and for-profit publishers, and internet service providers on the new language and provisions of the changed, global distribution environment. She has represented large digital publishing companies in international distribution agreements as well as represented developers and designers who are building and launching tools for online transmissions, storytelling, expression and art.. Additionally, Kate has experience assisting clients with Open Source licensing issues, including Open Source integrated licenses, audits, mergers and acquisitions due diligence, and compliance negotiations. Kate also helps clients design independent holding companies in the U.S. and in offshore intellectual property asset management. She has experience with intellectual property asset audits, and has assisted companies in proactive and reactive Sarbanes-Oxley compliance reporting requirements.

Michael Leonard is the president and co-founder of LeonardPatel. His practice is focused primarily on intellectual property matters, including patent and trademark prosecution, drafting opinions, and litigation support. Mr. Leonard also counsels small businesses on business issues and strategy. Mr. Leonard has assisted clients with procuring patents in numerous fields, including aerospace, complex software technologies such as operating systems and modeling software, mobile telecommunications, optics, robotics, jet and rocket engines, electronics and circuit fabrication, materials, medical devices, and machine tools. Prior to his career as an intellectual property attorney, Mr. Leonard was a software engineer and a consultant. Some of the technologies he assisted in developing include a Java-based embedded operating system, client and server-side business applications, databases, and software for mobile devices.

PILLOFF & PASSINO LLP provides boutique intellectual property services to clients across the globe. Capitalizing on our extensive years of big law firm experience, we provide high quality legal services in a small firm environment. Each partner has over 15 years of experience in intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, designs, counseling, and litigation.. Rachel K. Pilloff manages the firm’s patent and trademark practices. Rachel assists independent inventors, emerging companies, and large Fortune 500 corporations maximize their intellectual property rights across the globe.

An entrepreneur who works and lives passionately everyday. Telecommunications engineer turned patent lawyer. Created a number business ventures, not the least of which is a fantastic law firm with talented legal and technical minds. Award winning filmmaker, aspiring music producer, fashion designer, and principal in a start-up that is launching a new line of spirits. Enjoys volunteering for great causes. What may be viewed as vices: cigars and cars. Let's enhance the world together!. Keth Ditthavong co-founded an Internet start-up in the early ‘90s using his expertise as data and telecommunications engineer (holding a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering). As an engineer, he worked at Verizon and the MITRE Corporation. His love of entrepreneurship remained in tack after attending law school and working at boutique and major law firms. In 2000, Keth co-founded his own law firm, presently known as Ditthavong & Steiner, P.C. -- with offices in Washington, D.C., New York, San Diego, and Taipei. He grew the firm from 2 people to over 60 employees and positioned the firm as an international powerhouse in intellectual property. Keth also pursues other business ventures in film and music, fashion, beverage, as well as software. His biggest accomplishment has been the people he gets to work with each and every day.Ditthavong & Steiner, P.C.’s highlights:• Technical expertise in virtually every discipline• Five former Administrative Patent Judges• Over 25 years of litigation experience at the trial and appellate levels, including ITC• One of the first to file an Inter Partes Reexam (IPR)• In-depth experience with Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs)• Keen attention to managing resources/costs• Flexible fee structures from hybrid hourly to full contingency• Expert consultation on validity/invalidity, claim construction, and unenforceability issues arising in litigation and IPRs• Expert witness experience on patent procedures and inequitable conduct• Truly an international firm with professionals speaking over 10 languages