NEW YORK CITY - AUGUST 10, 2009 – Marylee Jenkins, a partner in the intellectual property law practice at Arent Fox LLP, has assumed the position of Chair-Elect of the American Bar Association's Section of Intellectual Property Law, the largest intellectual property organization in the world and the oldest substantive Section of the American Bar Association (ABA).

Ms. Jenkins, who heads the Intellectual Property Group in Arent Fox's New York office, most recently served as Vice Chair of the Section of Intellectual Property Law and was elected to the position of Chair-Elect during the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago that concluded on August 4, 2009. As Chair-Elect, Ms. Jenkins will help develop and guide the Section's activities and oversee appointments of Section members to leadership positions as well as liaison positions with other ABA entities. She will become Chair of the Section at the conclusion of the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California.

Ms. Jenkins has been a long-time active member of the ABA. She served as Chair of the Section’s Long Range Planning Committee, a member of the Section’s Council for five years, and Assistant to the Secretary for one year. Ms, Jenkins has chaired Division VII – Information Technology and the Section’s Special Committee on Trademarks and the Internet and as the Section’s Membership Committee Chair and Program Chair of Section activities at the 2008 ABA Annual Meeting in New York City. She has served in a number of Section Liaison roles, including to the Young Lawyers Division (YLD), ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems (SCOTIS), SOC Technology Committee, SOC Liaison to SCOTIS and ABA Commission on Women. She was a committee member of SCOTIS for three years and was appointed ABA Representative to the Intellectual Property Constituency of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for 6 years by the ABA Board of Governors. Ms. Jenkins has also been a council member, director and chair of the Computer and Intellectual Property Law Committee of the ABA Young Lawyers Division and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

The American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession profiled Ms. Jenkins’s career achievements as well as her leadership and contributions to the ABA in its Goal IX Report for 2005, a virtual report card for the Association, that measures women’s progress in leadership positions throughout the ABA.

About Marylee Jenkins:

Ms. Jenkins’s practice focuses on intellectual property matters involving computers and the Internet and she counsels international companies on intellectual property disputes and strategies, portfolio enforcement and management and e-commerce and software development and protection.  Ms. Jenkins has prosecuted numerous domestic and foreign patent applications in the electrical, electromechanical and computer-related areas, including computer hardware and software, Internet and computer-related technologies, telecommunication, information and financial systems, cameras, video camera recorders, optical and vision systems, heating systems and apparatuses, automobiles, electronic article surveillance systems and devices and electrical/mechanical systems and designs; has provided client counseling and opinion work concerning trademark selection, clearance, prosecution, registration, brand management and enforcement; has represented and advised clients in intellectual property and bankruptcy litigations involving technologies directed to electronics, consumer products and services, manufacturing, computer systems and the Internet and medical devices and in patent appeals, reexaminations, reissues and interferences and trademark oppositions before the US Patent and Trademark Office; and has developed and manages intellectual property portfolios for technology and consumer products and services businesses.

Ms. Jenkins 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 on John Marshall Law School’s Advisory Board and as a domain name panelist to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center.

Ms. Jenkins has lectured on a variety of intellectual property issues to bar associations, organizations and institutions throughout the country, has been a contributing writer for numerous legal publications and has been quoted in many notable publications including The New York Law Journal, ABA Journal, The Scientist, Investor’s Business Daily, Microsoft Small Business and Future & Options Weekly.