The ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law is proud to announce that Mark A. Lemley is the 2024 Mark T. Banner Honoree.
Join the Section for the Mark T. Banner Award Luncheon and Presentation during the ABA-IPL Annual Section Meeting—IPL SPRIING, Thursday, April 18, Bethesda North Marriott Hotel.
For more details and registration go to our IPLSPRING page.
The late Mark Banner was chair of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law from 2002 to 2003. He sought, demanded, and attained the very best from himself and everyone. These characteristics made him and those around him seek excellence in all they did: advocacy, work, relationships, intellectual property matters, and work for the ABA-IPL Section.
Mark was widely recognized not only as one of the best IP trial lawyers in the United States, but also as one of the country’s best trial lawyers, period.His work transcended narrow principles of IP decisional law and wove in the fabric of general law to reflect the reality of his legal positions in a way that was reasonable and cogent as well as easily understood. Mark Banner’s extraordinary gift, in addition to his trial expertise, was in teaching, where he always varied the performance to conform to a student’s style. He often said that teaching was his “labor of love.”
The ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law honors these stars of intellectual property law who have risen to the top of the profession.
Ralph Oman, Former U.S. Register of Copyrights Pravel Professorial Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Patent Law, George Washington Law School, Retired
William F. Lee, Partner, WilmerHale
Hon. James D. Smith, Chief IP Counsel at Ecolab Inc., and former first Chief Judge of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Karyn A. Temple, Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel of the Motion Picture Association, and former Register of Copyrights at the U.S. Copyright Office
Philip G. Hampton, II, Senior Partner and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer in the D.C. office of Polsinelli PC. and former Assistant Commissioner for Trademarks at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Robert A. Armitage
Consultant on intellectual property strategy and policy matters and member of the board of directors for the American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation.
Simon Tam
Musician, Author, Entrepreneur, and Activist
John Connell
Partner, Archer & Greiner P.C.
Ron Coleman
Partner, Archer & Greiner P.C.
Joel G. MacMull
Associate, Archer & Greiner P.C.
Hon. Lucy H. Koh
U. S. District Court, Northern District of California
Don W. Martens
Founding Partner, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Dr. Kate Darling
MIT Media Lab Research Specialist, Harvard Berkman Center Fellow, Robot Ethics Expert
Jane C. Ginsburg
Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia University Law School.
Donald R. Dunner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P
Tony Dutra
Legal Editor, Bloomberg BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal
Hayden Gregory
Legislative Consultant, ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law
Hon. Paul R. Michel
Former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Kenneth D. Crews
Lawyer, Professor, and International Copyright Consultant
Hon. Pauline Newman
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Click here to see Judge Newman's acceptance of the 2013 Mark T. Banner Award
Christina Bohannan
Professor, University of Iowa College of Law
Hon. James F. Holderman
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Read Chief Judge James F. Holderman's Tribute to Mark T. Banner
Marybeth Peters
Former Register of Copyrights
Judge Richard Linn
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
