Phoenix Office
One Renaissance Square Two North Central Avenue
Phoenix,
Arizona
85004
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Professional Experience
May Mowzoon represents companies in the finance, software and health care industries. Her practice emphasizes patent, trademark and copyright law, and software and intellectual property licensing. Her recent experience includes:
- Preparing and prosecuting domestic and foreign patent applications in a variety of technologies including:
e-commerce, computer software and networks, encryption, data mining, business processes, health care
and medical devices.
- Consulting with clients in the development and protection of their patent portfolios including: patentability studies, patent (in)validity analyses, patent infringement analyses, competitor surveillance, and use of electronic patent portfolio landscaping tools.
- Counseling clients in the selection, clearing, applying, protecting, and licensing of their trademarks.
- Conducting website and software audits including accessing a company’s assets and liabilities in light of licensing terms and copyright law.
- Assisting a company entering into a software development agreement in defining each party’s role.
- Due diligence counseling on potential business collaborations.
- Creating a set of best practices for a company involved in refurbished equipment having hardware and software.
- Providing expertise in a copyright litigation matter of a nation wide retailer.
Education and Honors
- Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (J.D., cum laude, 2004)
Arizona State Law Journal. Order of the Barristers. Pedrick Scholar.
- Arizona State University (Doctoral Candidate, 2001)
- Arizona State University (M.S., summa cum laude, 2001)
Degrees in Bioengineering; graduate school honoraries; research assistant; research emphasis in the fields of neuroscience, biomechanics, robotics, motor control and algorithmic optimization.
- Arizona State University (B.S., summa cum laude, 1991)
Bar Admissions
Arizona,
2005
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 2006
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2005
Professional and Civic Activities
- Maricopa County Bar Association (Member; Chair, Diversity Committee).
- State Bar of Arizona (Member).
- American Intellectual Property Law Association (Member).
- Arizona BioIndustry Association (Member).
- Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (Fellow).
- Honorable Ann. S. Timmer, Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals Division One (Law Clerk).
- National Science Foundation (Fellow, 1993-1996).
- Quarles & Brady Diversity Committee (Representative).
Selected Presentations/Publications
- Co-author, “Unlimited? Introducing the New Generic Top Level Domains,” Quarles & Brady Intellectual Property Law Update, March 2009.
- Co-author, “Are Process Patents Passé?” Quarles & Brady Intellectual Property Law Update, January 2009.
- Co-presenter, “Data Security In The Retail Electronic Payment Industry,” Patent Examiner’s Technology Seminar, United States Patent and Trademark Office, June 2008.
- Co-presenter, “Avoiding The Mines In Data Mining,” Continued Legal Education presentation.
- Co-author, “Genebank Management: A Review of Salient Ethical, Legal and Social Issues,” 45 Jurimetrics,
205-224, 2005.
- Author, “Access Versus Incentive: Balancing Policies in Genetic Patents,” 35 Arizona State Law Journal 1007, 2003.
- Presenter, “Simultaneous Prediction Of Human Arm Trajectories And Muscle Stress Levels,” Neuroscience Conference, Los Angeles, California, November 1998.
- Presenter, “Prediction Of Efficient Muscle Stress Levels,” Society for Neuroscience - Arizona Chapter, Tucson, Arizona, January 1998.
- Co-presenter, “Development of Neuroprosthetic Arm Control Concepts,” Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Annals of Biomedical Engineering Society 626 V10 N5, October 1991.
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