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Overview
Mary McNeill focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, including both utility and design patent, copyright, and trademark disputes. Her experience spans database management systems, blade servers, smart phone design, integrated circuits, and virus detection technology...
Mary McNeill focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, including both utility and design patent, copyright, and trademark disputes. Her experience spans database management systems, blade servers, smart phone design, integrated circuits, and virus detection technology...
Mary McNeill focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, including both utility and design patent, copyright, and trademark disputes. Her experience spans database management systems, blade servers, smart phone design, integrated circuits, and virus detection technology.
Mary has taken and defended numerous depositions in multimillion and billion dollar intellectual property cases, including means-plus-function and heuristics software patent inventors, 30(b)(6) corporate designees, high-level executives, board members, and third parties. She has successfully argued discovery motions and participated in trials, including preparing witnesses, drafting cross-examinations of lay and expert witnesses, conducting preliminary examination of potential jurors, drafting high-priority objections, and crafting arguments for pretrial motions. Mary also has extensive experience running discovery and motion practice in multimillion dollar matters.
Prior to joining Jones Day, Mary drafted and coauthored winning briefs, including motions to compel, motions for summary judgment, pretrial motions, and motions to transfer venue. Her trial experience includes The Smartphone Wars; a lengthy jury trial in a stock option backdating case brought by the SEC; serving on the trial team for a multimillion dollar wrongful termination and breach of contract suit, which resulted in a favorable settlement 10 days into trial; and preparing for a multimillion dollar, multipatent trial in the Eastern District of Texas.
During law school, Mary worked for the in-house legal department of the country's largest telecommunications corporation. She is a member of the State Bar of California and editor of two of the bar's quarterly publications, the Business Law News and California Real Property Journal.
About Mary H. McNeill
Current Employment Position(s)
- Associate
Practice Areas
- Intellectual Property
- Patent Litigation
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
Other Affiliations
- The State Bar of California, 2005 - Present (Legal & Style Editor)
Education
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, 2008
J.D.
Honors: cum laude
Law Journal: Hastings Law Journal, Editorial Staff - University of California, Los Angeles, California, 2005
B.A.
Honors: summa cum laude
Major: Communication Studies
Fraternities and Sororities
- Phi Beta Kappa
Office Information
Address
555 California Street26th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone
Fax
- (415) 875-5700
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