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As we approach Veterans Day, we honor and express our deep gratitude to America’s veterans, who have served our country with unwavering dedication and bravery. These individuals have demonstrated exceptional courage, commitment, and selflessness.

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As we approach Veterans Day, we honor and express our deep gratitude to America’s veterans, who have served our country with unwavering dedication and bravery. These individuals have demonstrated exceptional courage, commitment, and selflessness.This year the national theme is “service.” To our veteran lawyers and business professionals, we thank you for your service. Your experience, discipline, and leadership have enriched our firm, and we are grateful for your contributions.In commemoration of Veterans Day, the MoFo Vets Affinity Network hosted a Military Leaders’ Forum on November 8: a webinar panel of retired and currently serving military leaders across the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, and U.S. Coast Guard, and moderated by MoFo partner Mark Whitaker and associate Matt Blum. The guest speakers will share their experiences in their military and post-military, civilian careers, focusing on mentorship of people, task management, overcoming personal and professional challenges, and other lessons learned on leadership.In addition, the Morrison & Foerster Foundation has made a donation to Swords to Plowshares, an organization dedicated to supporting nearly 3,000 homeless, low-income, and at-risk veterans in the Bay Area every year.<a href="/culture/diversity" target="_self">Learn more</a> about MoFo’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

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Mark Whitaker is co-chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and has more than 30 years of experience crafting legal strategies in high-stakes patent and trade secret litigation.Mark sees the whole board for each of his clients, and works closely with them to define a successful litigation outcome and determine the best path to achieve that goal. He has extensive experience navigating the rules and procedures in the nation’s top patent litigation venues, including U.S. district courts, the International Trade Commission, and the Court of Federal Claims.Mark regularly acts as lead counsel in matters involving technologies such as semiconductors, photo/optical technologies, chemicals, and database analytics. His clients do business in a broad range of industries including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer products, and telecommunications. He often leads a team of MoFo lawyers representing several defendants in parallel multipatent litigations.A past president of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, Mark was elected to their prestigious Fellows membership in 2019. He is a frequent speaker at the American Bar Association, the Practising Law Institute, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and numerous CLE events all over the country. He is also the current co-chair of MoFo’s Diversity Strategy Committee, building on decades of experience leading law firm diversity and inclusion efforts. Additionally, Mark currently serves on Law360’s Intellectual Property Editorial Advisory Board, having been selected twice since 2021.Mark is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, having served first as a surface warfare officer and later as a member of the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Following his military service, he began his private-practice legal career as a commercial litigator before concentrating on IP and technology litigation.

Mark L. Whitaker

Partner

Matt Blum is an associate in the Technology Transactions Group, where he represents and advises clients on a wide range of business transactions and other matters relating to development or use of technology and products and services across various sectors, including software, hardware, and information technology services; life sciences, including healthcare, medical device, and pharmaceuticals; manufacturing, distribution, and supply; energy; and government and defense.Matt has worked with individual clients and public, private, and government entities of all sizes on various technology and intellectual property matters and related business transactions, including technology and research development, technology and products manufacturing, software licensing and as-a-service platforms and other offerings, technology outsourcing, and numerous other matters involving the licensing or subscription, procurement, sale, or other commercialization of intellectual property and technology products and services, and the use of such things in commercial business and government-related applications. Matt also counsels clients on related matters involving information security, and he regularly works with clients on intellectual property and information technology matters as part of technology-related litigation and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions as well as private equity and venture capital financing.Prior to going into private practice, Matt was an associate business officer and in-house legal counsel at a global enterprise software company, where he advised the company’s business, sales, and professional services teams on government and commercial software licensing and cloud services transactions, including product and service pricing, government and commercial resale and teaming engagements, and overall deal strategy, legal risk, and revenue recognition matters. During law school, he also gained experience in administrative law matters as a legal intern at the First District Legal Office of the United States Coast Guard and as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Gardner, Jr. of the Massachusetts Trial Court, District Court Department, where he was involved with a number of criminal, civil, housing, mental health, and other types of cases.Matt has extensive experience as an accomplished United States Army officer and active-duty veteran, having served as a military intelligence officer with the 1st Infantry Division, 66th Military Intelligence Brigade (Theater), and U.S./NATO special operations task force components, including assignments in Afghanistan, the Middle East, Germany, and the United States. He currently serves as a military intelligence officer in the United States Army Reserve.Matt earned his law degree from Suffolk University Law School. During this time, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Suffolk Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy, a staff member of the Moot Court Honor Board, an officer and member of the Suffolk Law Armed Services Association, and a founding officer of the National Security Law Association. He holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, with a minor in law, policy, and society, from Northeastern University.Matt is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He also is a member of the Boston Bar Association.

Matthew Blum

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