Marylee Jenkins is a partner at the law firm of Arent Fox PLLC and heads the firm’s New York Intellectual Property Group. Ms. Jenkins specializes in 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.

She is the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law’s representative to the Intellectual Property Constituency of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and is a member of the Section’s Council. She is also a former member of the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems (SCOTIS). She is a member of the Committee on Internet Searching and the Domain Name System of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Engineering Council and a member of John Marshall Law School’s Intellectual Property Law Advisory Board.  She writes and lectures frequently on computer and Internet-related intellectual property issues to legal, business and governmental groups at conferences worldwide. She holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, a B.S. in physics from Centre College of Kentucky and a J.D. from New York Law School. Ms. Jenkins is admitted to the bars of New York, Connecticut, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.