In anticipation of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals’ panel of judges hearing oral arguments on the campus of the Santa Clara University High Tech Law Institute on November 4, SVIPLA and the High Tech Law Institute will present a panel of former Federal Circuit law clerks to discuss cases affecting intellectual property.

Panelists: Heather Mewes, Partner, Fenwick & West; Madison Jellins, Alston & Bird LLP

Heather Mewes is a partner at Fenwick & West and her practice focuses on patent litigation and appeals with experience in a variety of technological fields, principally relating to bioscience and software technologies.  Ms. Mewes is active in the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.  She clerked for the Honorable William C. Bryson, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and is admitted to practice in that court, as well as all federal courts in California and the Eastern District of Texas.

Madison Jellins is a partner at Alston & Bird Madison in the Intellectual Property – Litigation Group, specializing in pharmaceutical, ANDA and life sciences patent litigation, as well as strategic counseling in pharmaceutical patent and FDA regulatory issues.  She also specializes in appellate matters before the Federal Circuit. She is a former clerk to the Honorable Helen W. Nies, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.