Clark A.D. Wilson. Senior Counsel. Practices. Industries

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Clark A.D. Wilson Senior Counsel Atlanta 191 Peachtree Street NE Suite 3800 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 cwilson@merchantgould.com D 404.954.

1 Clark A.D. Wilson Senior Counsel Atlanta 191 Peachtree Street NE Suite 3800 Atlanta, Georgia D Clark Wilson, an attorney in the Atlanta office, is interested in achieving the best business solution when working with a client to develop a strategy. Whether it is offensive or defensive, guiding the client to an outcome of continued forward progress is his ultimate goal. Clark s practice includes patent prosecution, freedom-to-operate and noninfringement counselling, license negotiation and patent litigation support. Through his counselling, Clark has gained experience with both utility and design patents. He also provides trademark prosecution, trademark litigation support and cancellation and opposition proceedings at the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeals Board (TTAB). Clark has obtained the Board Certified Expert designation in intellectual property by the Florida Bar Association. Throughout his career, Clark has worked with a variety of technologies from a mix of industries. Example industries include medical devices, firearms and shooting sports, construction equipment and materials, consumer chemicals, cable management and connection equipment software. Practices Mechanical Post Grant Proceedings Trademark IP Due Diligence Industries Manufacturing Medical Devices Consumer Products Shooting Sports Building Systems & Construction Automotive & Powersports While working with medical device innovators as both in-house and outside patent counsel, Clark obtained particular experience working on technologies including the following: ophthalmic lenses, surgical implant devices, medical feeding equipment, diagnostic equipment, orthopedic equipment, software, and dental inspection and surgical equipment. He is also a Guest Faculty member of the Master of Biomedical Innovation & Design program at Georgia Tech. In addition, he is Team Leader in the Industry Committee of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Clark is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgia State University College of Law, where he teaches an annual course in International IP Law. He is also a past Chair of the Atlanta Bar Association IP section and a current Executive Board Member of the State of Georgia IP Section. In Clark s spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, attending and watching soccer and football games, and keeping up to date on current affairs. As an Eagle Scout, his Eagle project involved planting 300 trees on a barren hill along a highway in Fairfax, Virginia. Those trees are still growing 20 years later.

neering (M.Eng.) Bioengineering, 2013 Florida Coastal School of Law J.D.

Intellectual Property Summer Institute, 2003 University of Miami B.S. Civil Engineering, 2001 University of Miami B.

Bar, 2006 Florida State Bar, 2005 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2004 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia U.

2 Clark A.D. Wilson SELECTED IN 2017THOMSON REUTERS EDUCATION University of Maryland Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Bioengineering, 2013 Florida Coastal School of Law J.D., 2005, Dean s Scholar University of New Hampshire Visiting Law Student, Franklin-Pierce Law Center Intellectual Property Summer Institute, 2003 University of Miami B.S. Civil Engineering, 2001 University of Miami B.S. Environmental Engineering, 2001 BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS Georgia State Bar, 2009 District of Columbia Bar, 2006 Florida State Bar, 2005 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2004 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

3 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS State Bar of Georgia Intellectual Property Law Section, Executive Committee Member and Networking Committee Chair Atlanta Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section Chair and SpringPosium Chair Atlanta IP Inn of Court Barrister Biomedical Engineering Society Medical Devices Special Interest Group Society of Physician Entrepreneurs Executive Board Member of the Atlanta Chapter AWARDS & RECOGNITION Selected for inclusion in Leadership DeKalb s Class of 2016 Rising Star - Intellectual Property, Georgia SuperLawyers, Board Certification in Intellectual Property, Florida Bar, Book Award for Academic Excellence in IP Law, Florida Coastal School of Law, 2005 Clark A.D. Wilson SELECTED IN 2017THOMSON REUTERS PUBLICATIONS & SPEAKING Blog: In-House Best Practices for Trademark and Copyright Litigation & Portfolio Management, moderator, Intellectual Property Section CLE, Atlanta Bar Association, Feb. 11, 2016 An Intellectual Property: Practical Issue Spotting to Keep Growing Clients Out of Trouble, speaker at conference hosted by the State Bar of Georgia, Oct. 22, 2015 Managing Early Stage Intellectual Property, speaker in Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) Medtech Innovation Speaker Series, Sept. 10, 2015

4 Translation, Intellectual Property and Venture Capital, speaker in webinar for the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), July 29, 2015 That Medical Device Invention Can't Be Patentable...Can It?, guest column in Medical Device Online, June 19, 2015 The Challenges of Innovation and Patentable Subject Matter of Medical Devices, a panel discussion CLE given at the Medical Device & Diagnostic IP Conference in Alexandria, Virginia, March 2015 An Obviousness Perspective for Medical Device Patent Innovators, a panel CLE given at the 5th Annual Medical Device Patents Summit in Chicago, March 2015 Deference to the District Courts: Analyzing the Supreme Court s decision in Teva v. Sandoz, State Bar of Georgia IP Section Newsletter, February 2015 Intellectual Property for Biomedical Innovators, Presentation made to students at the Georgia Tech Master's degree in Biomedical Innovation & Development program, November 2014 Strategies and Tactics in Post-Grant Proceedings, Panel Moderator, Georgia Bar Intellectual Property Law Institute, September 19, 2014 NSF I-Corps Southeast Life Science Startup Accelerator, Keynote Speaker, September 11, 2014 Do You Have Intellectual Property to Protect?, Healthcare Pioneers Conference in Atlanta, GA, June 2014 Venture Capital and Patent Law: Practical Strategies for Patenting an Innovation, speaker in webinar for the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), April 2014 Strategies for Combatting Obviousness post-ksr, Medical Device Patents conference in Chicago, IL, March 2014 First-to-File Update on Patent Law and its Effect on Medical Device Industry, Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry Magazine, March 1, 2013 Patent Law Update Post-AIA and its Impact on the Medical Device Industry, Medical Device & Manufacturing conference in Orlando, FL, February 2013 IP Aspects of Social Media, Georgia Bar Association - Young Lawyers Division, Intellectual Property committee CLE, 2012 Trademark Registration and Practice: An Attorney s Role, CLE, 2012 Protecting Your Brands and Patentable Inventions, Social Media Law conference CLE, 2011 Introduction to Copyright, Trademark and Other IP law, CLE, 2011 Intellectual Property in the Digital Age, Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), 2010 Value Driven IP Protection: Cost Effective Strategies for Securing Your Innovation, Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center, 2010

5 Why Businesses Care about the "In re Bilski Case," CLE Atlanta Bar Association, 2010 Intellectual Property Due Diligence in Investing, The Power of Angel Investing conference at the University of Georgia, 2010 TEACHING Adjunct Professor at Georgia State University School of Law, Spring 2017 Course title: International Intellectual Property Law PRO BONO WORK Georgia Lawyers for the Arts Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation QUOTED 3D printing raises issues of IP protection, by Leslie Johnson, Atlanta Business Chronicle, March 13, 2015

Tiffany D. Gehrke. Associate. Tel

Tiffany D. Gehrke. Associate. Tel Tiffany D. Gehrke Associate Tel 312.474.6656 tgehrke@marshallip.com Tiffany D. Gehrke secures and protects intellectual property rights for a broad range of clients. In this role, her prior experience