ArentFox Schiff

Patent

Partner

Marylee has been an intellectual property partner for over 20 years in the New York Office of ArentFox Schiff and founded and served as head of the New York Office’s Intellectual Property Group for over 12 years. Marylee counsels Fortune 500 companies, international businesses, and emerging technologies regarding intellectual property litigation and strategies, portfolio enforcement and management, and technology development, licensing, and protection. Her depth of knowledge and expertise in intellectual property law enables her to counsel clients from numerous industries on patent, trademark, and copyright matters. She has spent her entire career with an eye toward the future, working with government and legal organizations to improve existing laws and shape new ones as technology continues to change rapidly. Her leadership in the law is buttressed by her commitment to her clients representing a wide variety of industries including software and computer systems, consumer products and fashion design, information and financial services, biotech and medical devices, food and beverage, and real estate and construction.

Marylee was a member of John Marshall Law School’s Intellectual Property Law Advisory Board and was a member of Columbia Engineering School’s Engineering Council. Marylee was a member of the Committee on Internet Searching and the Domain Name System of the National Academy of Sciences’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board that published the “Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation” report. Marylee is involved in a variety of professional associations and organizations. She is an active member of the American Bar Association and is Past Chairperson of its Section of Intellectual Property Law. She has previously served as a member of the Section’s council and has also been the Section’s assistant to the secretary, Division VII chairperson as well as chairperson and liaison to several different Section committees and ABA entities.

Marylee was appointed the ABA representative to the Intellectual Property Constituency of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for six years by the ABA Board of Governors. She is currently serving again as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems, is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and was recently appointed to the Appointed Standing Committees of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). Marylee has been a council member and director of the ABA Young Lawyers Division. She has been a member of the International Trademark Association’s Internet Committee as well as many other INTA committees over the past several years. Marylee is a past president of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association and was the Association’s treasurer and a member of its board of directors. She serves as a domain name panelist to the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center.

New York Law School, JD Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, BS, Mechanical Engineering Centre College, BS, Physics