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Name Firm or Office
Veenker, Vicki S.
Veenker Law Offices
2091 Barbara Drive, Palo Alto, CA, 94303
Phone Email / Website
650-329-9797  
Email: vicki@veenkerlaw.com
Website: VeenkerADR.com
ADR experience
Ms. Veenker has more than 15 years of experience mediating and providing decisions in IP disputes and cases pending in federal courts, the ITC and the US Patent and Trademark Office, including multi-district, multi-patent cases. She has also handled trademark, copyright, trade secret, and breach of contract claims. Parties have ranged from Fortune 50 companies to individuals; subject matter has ranged from complex technologies to copyrighted music to innovative branding. Her neutral work is informed and enriched by 25 years of experience as litigation counsel in patent and other federal cases submitted to mediation, including in this district, as well as her service as lead counsel in both intellectual property and contract arbitrations.
Other ADR Service for Courts or Organizations
International Trade Commission
Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADR PRACTICE AREAS:
Mediation ENE
  • Intellectual Property – Copyright – General/Other
  • Intellectual Property – Copyright – Software
  • Intellectual Property – Patent – General/Other
  • Intellectual Property – Patent – Life Sciences
  • Intellectual Property – Patent – Software/Hardware
  • Intellectual Property – Trade Secrets
  • Intellectual Property – Trademark
  • Unfair Competition
  • Intellectual Property – Copyright – General/Other
  • Intellectual Property – Copyright – Software
  • Intellectual Property – Patent – General/Other
  • Intellectual Property – Patent – Life Sciences
  • Intellectual Property – Patent – Software/Hardware
  • Intellectual Property – Trade Secrets
  • Intellectual Property – Trademark
  • Unfair Competition
Professional Experience
Shearman & Sterling LLP, Menlo Park, California (Founding partner, Silicon Valley Intellectual Property group), 2000 - present; Fish & Neave (now Ropes & Gray), Patent Litigation Partner, Palo Alto, California, 1992 - 2000, New York, New York, 1988 - 1992; Adjunct Professor of Law, Patent Litigation, University of California Hastings College of the Law, 1999-2001; Adjunct Professor of Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution In Patent Cases, Santa Clara University School of Law, 1999; Guest Lecturer, Ethics in IP Practice, Santa Clara University School of Law, 2001; General Counsel, Women's Professional Soccer, 2008-09; Kettering Foundation, Dayton, Ohio, Program Associate 1985, Research Associate 1984
Bar Admissions
Bar: Bar Number: Year of Admission:
Northern District of California: N/A 1992
California: 158,668 1992
Other: Massachusetts, 1988; New York, 1989; U.S.D.C. for the S.D.N.Y. 1989; U.S.D.C. for the E.D.N.Y. 1989; U.S. Ct. App. for the Federal Circuit, 1989; U.S. Ct. App. for the Third Circuit, 1990; U.S.D.C. for the C.D.CA., 1992; U.S.D.C. for the E.D.CA., 1996; U.S.D.C. for the S.D.CA., 1997; U.S.P.T.O 1990.
Legal and Other Professional Education (Degree, School, Year Conferred)
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. 1988; Indiana University at Bloomington, B.S. (Biochemistry) 1985 and B.A. (Political Science) 1985
Publications, Professional Affiliations, Awards, and Specialized Experience or Skills
-Named to The Tech List of the World's Leading Technology Neutrals by the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center each year since its inception; -Selected as one of the 'Top 20 Lawyers Under 40' by California Law Business. -Cited each year since 2001 as a 'highly recommended' intellectual property attorney in Silicon Valley in a listing prepared by the publisher of Global Counsel magazine in conjunction with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. -Board of Directors, Law Foundation of Silicon Valley -Co-chair, CLE International Conference: Intellectual Property and Other Legal Issues in Biotechnology Law, March 2002, San Francisco -Faculty, PLI Conference: Patent Litigation 2002 - 2004 -Faculty, PLI Conference: Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Law 2004 -Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association -American Bar Association, Intellectual Property and Litigation Sections -California Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section -Forum for Women Entrepreneurs -Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Law & Technology, Georgetown University Law Center -Law Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center
Available for sessions in these Northern District of California Counties:
San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Palo Alto, Monterey, Marin County, Sonoma County

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