NEW YORK—July 31, 2006— Marylee Jenkins, who heads the New York Office of Arent Fox’s Intellectual Property Group, began serving her term as President of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) at the association’s annual meeting on May 24. Jenkins’ practice focuses on intellectual property matters involving computers and the Internet and counsels international companies on intellectual property disputes and strategies, portfolio enforcement and management and e-commerce and software development and protection. NYIPLA was founded in 1922 and was conceived as an association through which patent lawyers in New York could make their views known in Washington and provide support for the judiciary. Today, NYIPLA promotes the development and administration of intellectual property interests in New York and throughout the country with its membership consisting of 1,500 intellectual property attorneys practicing throughout the United States and abroad.

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