Wilcox Assumes Leadership Positions with CMBA & CIPLA
CLEVELAND, OH – July 13, 2009 – Deborah Wilcox, a partner in Baker Hostetler’s Cleveland office and the Ohio coordinator for the firm’s Intellectual Property, Technology and Media Practice, has been appointed the incoming Chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s (CMBA) Intellectual Property Section and elected Vice-President of the Cleveland Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (CIPLA).
Ms. Wilcox, an experienced trademark lawyer, has assumed her role with the CMBA for a one-year term beginning July 1, 2009. Her election to Vice-President of CIPLA, for a one-year term, was confirmed at the organization’s Annual Meeting & Dinner, held May 1, 2009.
The over 5000-member CMBA provides a wide variety of membership services and operates as a center for legal professionalism in the region by educating the bar, providing resources that enhance client service and by promoting integrity and ethical behavior among lawyers. The Intellectual Property Law Section keeps its members up-to-date on issues relating to the practice area, including patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law.
CIPLA was founded, as the Cleveland Patent Law Association, in 1918 by members of the patent profession from Cleveland, Akron and Canton, Ohio. The name was changed to the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association in 1990. The organization is open to members of the Bar with a practice in Intellectual Property Law, patent agents, and law students interested in Intellectual Property Law.
About Baker Hostetler
Founded over 90 years ago in 1916, Baker Hostetler is among the nation’s 100 largest law firms with 600 attorneys coast to coast. The firm has 10 offices nationwide: New York, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Orlando and Washington, D.C. Its five primary practice groups are Business, Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Tax.
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