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FEDERAL CIRCUIT BAR JOURNAL
VOLUME 35

2025 – 2026

STUDENT EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief
Madelyn Rush

Managing Editor
Sydney Leifermann

Executive Editors
Peter Finnican
Payton Liles

Senior Articles Editor
Bryce Phillips

Articles Editors
Brian Ko
Rachel Lobel
Cameron A. Menendez
Rwei Min

Submissions Editor
Ashlyn Nazari

Senior Notes Editor
Grace Tramack

Notes Editors
Christine Acquah
Samantha Christian
Philip DeCocco
Olaide Lemoru

Senior Staff Members

Christopher Adair
Naomi Adefris
Janeal Beck
Alexander Bugg
Sean Butler
Aria Charles
Oscar Copeland
Haley Curtis
Connor Fairchild
Liheng He

Amanda Hichez
Ben Klein
Selorm Korsorku
Bonny Lee
Wade Marshall
Byron Martinez
Leliana McDermott
Zachary Minsk
Ruwarashe Mukwada
Patrick Murray

Olusegun Olatunji
John Provan
Noah C. Ruffin
Gregory Shumakevich
Victoriana Smith
Charlotte Weiser 
Hunter White
Yunyao Wu
Logan Younce
Kiera Yu

Junior Staff Members

   

 

ASSOCIATION JOURNAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

FACULTY EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Steven L. Schooner
Professor
The George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC		 Joshua I. Schwartz
Professor
The George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC		 John M. Whealan
Associate Dean, Intellectual Property
The George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC
 ASSOCIATION JOURNAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
 

Deborah Miron, Esquire
Executive Director
The Federal Circuit Bar Association
Washington, DC

  
   
  FOUNDER
Gerald H. Bjorge
Washington, DC		  
FEDERAL CIRCUIT BAR ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

Joseph M. Reisman, Ph.D, Esquire
President
Knobbe Martens
Irvine, CA

Patrick Keane
President-Elect
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Alexandria, VA

Jennifer H. Wu, Esquire
Treasurer
Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
New York, NY

Corey Salsberg, Esquire
Secretary
Novartis
Washington, DC

Laura Masurovsky, Esquire
Immediate Past President
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP
Washington, DC

    
EX OFFICIO
Peter R. Marksteiner, Esquire
Chief Executive of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Washington, DC
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Timothy C. Brightbill, Esquire
Wiley Rein LLP		 Azra Hadzimehmedovic, Esquire
Tensegrity Law Group LLP		 Brian McCaslin, Esquire
Sanofi
James ‘Jim’ Calkins, Esquire
Qualcomm Incorporated		 Emily C. Johnson, Esquire
Amgen Inc.		 Erik R. Puknys, Esquire
Finnegan, Henderson, Farrow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
Andrew Dufresne, Esquire
Perkins Coie LLP		 Matthias A. Kamber, Esquire
Paul Hastings LLP		 Susan Swafford, Esquire
United States Merit Systems Protection Board
Rachel Elsby, Esquire
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP		 Jack A. Kelly, Esquire
Supernal LLC		 Andrew Trask
Williams & Connolly LLP
Ann G. Fort, Esquire
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP		 Thomas Krause
United States Patent & Trademark Office		 Irene Yang
Sidley Austin LLP
Erin P. Gibson, Esquire
DLA Piper (US) LLP		 Sandra Kuzmich, Esquire
Haug Partners LLP		 Jennifer Yokoyama, Esquire
Microsoft Corporations
  Laura A. Lydigsen, Esquire
Crowell & Morning LLP