After spending 18 years as a partner at the New York office of Jones Day, Theresa Gillis moved in April to start an IP practice in Howrey’s New York office. Presently she is the only IP attorney there, but she says that she has a lot of support from Howrey’s strong IP practices in Houston, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, and that the firm plans to expand the practice in New York. Gillis is a litigator
one of her more notable courtroom victories was successfully defending Elekta Instruments, Inc., from claims of infringement in a four-week jury trial. More recently, she successfully represented Eastman Kodak Company in a big dispute with Sony Corporation. Gillis, 58, says of her new leadership role: “I feel energized and infused with youth.”
| WHO | MOVED TO |
| Patent litigators Drew Wintringham and Mark Rueh, both of Clifford Chance | DLA Piper in New York. Wintringham is new head of New York IP practice |
| Trademark attorneys Andrew Baum, Robert Weisbein, and Karin Segall of Darby & Darby | Foley & Lardner in New York |
| Entertainment IP lawyer Robert Rotstein of McDermott Will & Emery | Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp?s new office in New York |
| Daniel Daisak, former chief patent and trademark counsel for Tyco Flow Control and J. Donald McCarthy of Jones Day | Duane Morris, in Princeton, New Jersey and Los Angeles, respectively |
| Patent attorney Michael Jones of Woodcock Washburn | Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia |
| Gregory Bernabeo, Stephen Driscoll, Theodore Naccarella, and Mark Simpson of Synnestvedt & Lechner | Saul Ewing in Philadelphia |
| Patent litigator Brad Needleman of Gibbons | Loeb & Loeb in New York |
| Life sciences lawyer Andrew Serafani of Woodcock Washburn | Fenwick & West in Seattle |
| Robert Freeman, Kristen Mathews, and Jeffrey Neuburger of Thelen Reid Brown | Raysman and Steiner |
| Proskauer Rose in New York | Robert Zielinski, patent attorney and co-chairman of WolfBlock |
| Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in Philadelphia | IP litigators John Gallagher, Gerard Haddad, and Christopher Hu, and patent prosecutor Michael Marcus from Morgan & Finnegan |
| Dickstein Shapiro: Gallagher, Haddad, Hu in New York and Marcus in Washington, D.C. | Patent litigators John Giust and Matthew Bernstein of Fish & Richardson and patent litigators Bryan Sinclair, Karineh Khachatourian, and Jeffrey Ratinoff of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney |
| Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo: Giust and Bernstein in San Diego | Sinclair, Khachatourian, and Ratinoff in Palo Alto |
| IP litigator Allen Rugg of Powell Goldstein | IP boutique Wolf Greenfield & Sacks in Boston |
