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Chair
Mr. Walter F Wolf, III
Entergy Services, Inc
639 Loyola Avenue
NOLA 70113
Phone 504-569-4330
wwolf@entergy.com
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Vice Chair
Neil Coig
Roy, Kiesel, Keegan & DeNicola
650 Poydras Street, Suite 2323
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Tel: 504-717-4600
Fax: 504-569-0400
E-Mail: njc@rkkdlaw.com
www.rkkdlaw.com
Neil Coig is a Louisiana native, born in New Orleans, and raised in Metairie and Mandeville, Louisiana. Upon graduating Mandeville High School, he moved to Baton Rouge and attended LSU, earning a Baccalaureate of Science degree in Marketing and Chemistry. Immediately following, he completed LSU Law School in 2001 while clerking for one of his law professors, ultimately obtaining his Juris Doctorate. Neil was subsequently licensed to practice law in the State of Louisiana and Texas, registered as a Patent Agent before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and was licensed a Real Estate Agent before the Louisiana Real Estate Commission.
Neil is currently a member of the Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Federal and American Bar Associations, and is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He also is a past Chair and serves on the Baton Rouge Bar Association's Volunteer Committee and has served as Chair of the Association's Technology Committee.
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Treasurer
Vanessa M. D'Souza
Patent Attorney
GARVEY, SMITH, NEHRBASS & NORTH, L.L.C.
3838 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite 3290
Metairie, LA 70002-1767, U.S.A.
Tel: 504-835-2000, ext. 234
Fax: 504-835-2070
Cel: 504-450-3885
E-Mail: dsouza@gsnn.us
www.neworleanspatents.com
Vanessa M. D'Souza is a recent graduate of Tulane Law School where she focused on intellectual property law. During law school, Vanessa was a member of the Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property and was elected to serve as Editor-in-Chief for Volume 10. She was also a member of the Tulane Inn of Court, Student Bar Association, and served as representative to the American Bar Association. Her work experience includes externships with judges from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeal, and Louisiana 24th Judicial District Court. In 2003, Vanessa received a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and a Business minor from Tulane University.
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Secretary
Keith M. Landry
Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P.
201 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70170
Tel: 504-582-8702
Fax: 504-589-8702
E-Mail: klandry@joneswalker.com
Keith M. Landry is a partner in the Business Section of his firm and has
been practicing intellectual property law for over 15 years. He regulary
represents clients in a full range of intellectual property matters
including patent, trademark, copyright, software and trade secret matters
and in relation to the enforcement or defense of intellectual property
infringement claims. He also represents clients in the technology, software
and biotechnology fields in connection with complex licensing and other
business transactions involving the acquisition, financing, development and
other commercialization of intellectual property assets. He is presently
serving as the Chair of his firm's Biotech and Bioinnovation Practice Group.
He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and his law degree from the University
of Virginia in 1992. He
is registered to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office.
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Immediate Past Chair
Len R. Brignac
King, Krebs & Jurgens, PLLC
201 St. Charles Avenue, 45th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70170-1034
Tel: 504-569-1639
Fax: 504-582-1233
E-mail: lbrignac@klb-law.com
www.kingkrebs.com
Len R. Brignac was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1983, he graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science in microbiology. He graduated cum laude from Tulane Law School in 1987. He is a registered patent attorney and works primarily in the fields of Commercial Litigation, Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, Employment Law, Environmental and Toxic Tort. He is a member of the New Orleans Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, Florida Bar Association and the Maritime Law Association.
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