Grace Pan Joined Kaye Scholer As Partner In New York
10 September 2012
IP litigator Grace Pan has joined Kaye Scholer as partner in its New York office. Pan is admitted to practice before the USPTO and a registered Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi in Japan. Formerly a partner in the New York and Tokyo offices of Frommer Lawrence & Haug, Pan has a long history of defending foreign patents in Asia, especially in Japan and Taiwan. Her IP practice has ranged from polymer chemistry to medical devices to semiconductors; she previously served as a lecturer at National Taiwan University, Yang Ming Medical College and the National Defense Medical Center, Tri-Service General Hospital.
High-profile IP litigator Jill Pietrini has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton’s Los Angeles/Century City office as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property group. Pietrini, whose clients include Summit Entertainment, Fifty-Six Hope Road Music, Gwen Stefani, Café Press, Metallica, Will Smith and a host of others from the television, film, music and fashion industries, joins from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo has hired IP litigation partners Howard Wisnia and James Conley for its San Diego office; both arrive from Baker & McKenzie.
Wisnia has experience in medical device, telecommunications, and semiconductor IP litigation. Conley focuses on medical devices and cleantech matters.
