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Grace Pan Joined Kaye Scholer As Partner In New York

Issued: January 01 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.