Pamela Cox and Ryan Phelan Honored in IAM Strategy 300 for 2024

Marshall Gerstein is excited to announce that Pamela Cox, Partner and Chair of IP Transactions, and Partner Ryan Phelan are being honored in the “IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2024.” The IAM Strategy 300 is a highly regarded guide that identifies individuals whose knowledge, experience, and leadership in IP strategy have made a significant impact on the industry.

As a patent attorney who has worked in-house, Pam’s practice focuses on unraveling complex deal structures and devising creative agreement solutions as well as IP protection strategies and alternative dispute resolution for clients ranging from multinational corporations to non-profit institutions. A long-time active supporter of advancing the licensing profession and governance, Pam is Past Corporate Secretary and six-year Member of the Board of the Licensing Executive Society International (LESI), Co-Founder and Chair of the Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA), the former President of the Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc., and multi-term former Member of the Board, frequent invited international presenter and instructor including for the Association of University Technology Managers, and an adjunct professor of Intellectual Property Licensing at Northwestern School of Law.

Ryan represents numerous startup and Fortune 500 clients with patent matters in technical areas and industries including artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain and cryptocurrency, medical devices, biometrics data and services, virtual reality, imaging, internet and e-commerce, computer networking, data storage and management, encryption and security, mobile telecommunications, consumer electronics, insurance and finance applications, mechanical devices, among others. Ryan regularly publishes thought leadership articles and speaks on IP law and modern technologies. He frequently writes on the subject of AI at his blog PatentNext at patentnext.com. Ryan also teaches at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, including coursework on Patenting Software Inventions in the United States.