Thomas J. Meloro Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8248 F 212-728-9248

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Thomas J. Meloro is a partner in the Intellectual Property and Litigation Departments of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York.  Mr. Meloro focuses on litigation and adversarial matters concerning patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.  His litigation experience has involved the chemical and biotech industries with particular emphasis on pharmaceuticals, medical products, polymers, immunoassays, agricultural chemicals, and food chemistry.

Mr. Meloro's practice includes counseling on patent validity, enforceability and infringement issues, as well as intellectual property licensing and other transactional matters.

Mr. Meloro is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, and also is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association, and the American Bar Association.

Mr. Meloro is an annual lecturer on antitrust law for Franklin Pierce Law Center's Advanced Licensing Institute and contributes an annual updated chapter for Aspen Publishing's Licensing Update.

Prior to joining Willkie, Mr. Meloro was a partner at Kenyon & Kenyon LLP.