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Attorney to moderate Women’s Leadership Forum Panel March 24


Brooks Kushman Shareholder Kristin Murphy will moderate a panel discussion at the Women’s Leadership Forum presented by the Women’s Bar Association and the State Bar of Michigan Young Lawyers Section at the University of Detroit Mercy Law School on March 24.

Murphy will join six panelists that include women leaders from various legal fields and lead a discussion on their careers, career paths and challenges unique to women. The event is open to law students as well as attorneys.

Murphy’s practice encompasses all aspects of intellectual property. She advises companies of all sizes on the development of their patent and trademark portfolios, brand enforcement and patent litigation. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of New Hampshire and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Western New England University, where she is a member of the Board of Trustees.

Murphy serves on the Board of Managers of the Michigan Intellectual Property Law Association and is a Council Member of the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Michigan. She has served in leadership roles with the Women’s Bar Association of Oakland County and is heavily involved with Inforum, a professional women’s development alliance.

The SBM Young Lawyers section sponsors activities of interest and value to young lawyers in Michigan while the Women’s Bar Association promotes improvements in the administration of justice and relations between the legal profession and the public, to secure the rights of women in society and to advance the interests of women in the legal profession, and to promote equality and social justice for all people.

 

Brinks attorney to  present at annual Green Tech conference


Keith Weiss, Ph.D., an intellectual property attorney in the Ann Arbor office of Brinks Gilson & Lione, will serve as  the guest luncheon speaker at the 2016 IEEE Annual Green Technologies Conference (Green Tech) being held on April 7 and 8 in Kansas City.

The Green Tech Conference, now in its eighth year, was conceived to address the challenges of securing green and clean energy sources for the 21st century to protect the environment and help build a more resilient power grid. Weiss, along with his Brinks colleagues Jacob  Bachman and David Lindner, both of the Chicago office, will be presenting, “The Evolving Intellectual Property Landscape for Green Technology Relative to Energy Generation, Storage and Distribution” during the  conference’s opening day luncheon.

At Brinks, Weiss focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property agreements with an emphasis on IP portfolio planning, development, and management. Prior to practicing law, he worked for 20 years in R & D management, product development, and technology licensing. Weiss is listed as an inventor on more than 30 U.S. patents regarding advanced materials, components and systems used in the automotive, aerospace, coatings, plastics, and microelectronic industries.

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