NEW YORK CITY - AUGUST 18, 2010 — Arent Fox’s Marylee Jenkins, a partner in the firm’s intellectual property law practice, has assumed the office of Chair 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). She became Chair at the conclusion of the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting held last week in San Francisco. Marylee had served as Chair-Elect over the past year.

As Chair, Marylee will develop and guide the Intellectual Property Section’s activities internally and work with other ABA groups, outside organizations, associations, and government entities both nationally and internationally. She intends to continue and expand the Section’s role as an influential thought leader on a variety of legal, legislative and administrative matters, including patent reform, USPTO strategic plan initiatives, and intellectual property protection and enforcement.

Long History of ABA Involvement

Marylee has been a long-time active member of the ABA. She has served as Chair of the Section’s Long Range Planning Committee, a member of the Section’s Council, and Assistant to the Secretary. She has chaired Division VII – Information Technology, the Section’s Special Committee on Trademarks and the Internet, the Section’s Membership Committee, and was Program Chair of the Section’s 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.

Marylee has served as a committee member of SCOTIS and was appointed 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 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.

About Marylee Jenkins

Marylee heads the intellectual property group in Arent Fox’s New York office focusing on intellectual property matters involving computers and the Internet. She counsels national and international companies on intellectual property disputes and strategies, portfolio enforcement and management, and e-commerce and software development protection.

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 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.

Marylee 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.