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Dinsmore & Shohl LLP issued the following announcement on May 17,
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to welcome Brendan McCommas as its newest attorney in Washington, D.C. The former United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Chief of Staff and White House Special Assistant to the President will practice with the firm’s leading national Intellectual Property department, which manages the portfolios of multiple top-25 Fortune 500 companies.
McCommas counseled senior White House staff and cabinet officials on a range of intellectual property-related issues, including initiatives targeting the influx of counterfeit goods that damage American businesses. While at the USPTO, he was director Andrei Iancu’s chief advisor in the management of the agency s 13,000 employees and its $3.3 billion budget. McCommas was also a key contributor to the agency’s Section 101 guidance, along with numerous rules for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and he participated in the prepa
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The pandemic and its economic fallout are driving a range of legal and political shifts that businesses will likely face in the coming year, according to three Ward and Smith attorneys presenting during the “Rapid Fire Legal Update” session of the firm’s 2020 In-House Counsel Seminar Virtual Edition.
The pandemic-driven shift to virtual proceedings in litigation depositions, hearings, mediation, arbitration, and trial taking place partially or entirely via videoconferences has important implications for corporate counsel involved in those cases, according to Ward and Smith litigator Amy Wooten, who co-chairs the firm’s Professional Licensing Practice Group and handles complex construction, commercial and directors and officers litigation, among other issues.