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Alejandro Menchaca

amenchaca@mcandrews-ip.com
312.775.8103

Alejandro Menchaca Shareholder

312.775.8103

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  • Related Experience
  • Honors & Awards
  • Professional & Community Involvement
  • Recent Publications
  • Recent Presentations

Alejandro Menchaca is a Shareholder at McAndrews. His practice includes every facet of patent, trademark and related law. He has extensive experience in litigation and prosecution of patents and trademarks, including extensive opinion work in each of these area. Alex’s recent areas of focus include litigation and counseling regarding joint development disputes, trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings, and ANDA litigation and counselling. Alex has an intimate understanding of intellectual property law and practice and the challenges his clients face.

Alex is also fluent in Spanish and has represented several Spanish-speaking clients.

Alex previously worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois, Criminal Division. Alex was responsible for directing grand jury investigations leading to criminal indictments. He conducted numerous hearings and trials before many of the judges of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He also represented the U.S. Attorney’s Office before the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in connection with several issues of first impression.

Alex is an Adjunct Professor at the UIC School or Law (FKA The John Marshall Law School) in Chicago, having taught Patent and Trade Secrets Law, Unfair Competition and Consumer Protection, International Intellectual Property Law, and Patent Prosecution (in John Marshall’s Intellectual Property LLM Program). Alex has also taught Intellectual Property Licensing as an Adjunct Professor at the Loyola University School of Law.

EDUCATION

  • Loyola University of Chicago, J.D.
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Ch.E.

BAR ADMISSIONS/REGISTRATIONS

  • Illinois
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education

  • Loyola University of Chicago, J.D.
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Ch.E.

Practices

  • IP Transactions
  • IP Litigation
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Post-Grant Practice
  • Trademarks & Copyrights

Bar Admissions/Registrations

  • Illinois
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Industries

  • Chemical
  • Medical Devices
  • Life Sciences

Related Experience

  • Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois, Criminal Division
  • Adjunct Professor at the UIC School of Law
  • Adjunct Professor at Loyola University School of Law

Honors & Awards

  • Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois President’s Award – 2015
  • Gads Hill George W. Moss Founder’s Award – 2015
  • St. Ignatius Alumni Medal for Leadership and Service – 2016
  • Chicago Bar Association – Vanguard Award, HLAI Recipient – 2018
  • MIT Harold E. Lobdell Distinguished Service Award – 2019
  • MIT Great Dome Award, Class of 1985 – 2020
  • HLAI Lincoln-Juarez Society Member
  • Diversity Scholarship Foundation, Advocate for Diversity Award – 2020
  • MIT George B. Morgan ’20 Award for Distinguished Educational Council Service – 2021

Professional & Community Involvement

  • President, Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois
  • Board Member, HLAI Charities
  • Member of the IP Practice in Latin America Committee, American Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Hispanic National Bar Association, Region IX, Deputy
  • United Neighborhood Organization – Board Member – 2018-Present

Recent Publications

  • The Inner Workings of the BCPIA Patent Dance — View File
  • Delaware ANDA summary judgment approach not as tough as it appears — View File
  • What the Minerva Supreme Court Decision Could Mean for the Medical Device World and Beyond — View File
  • Minerva v. Hologic: A Review in Poetry — View File
  • Federal Circuit Dramatically Narrows Scope of Proper Venue in Paragraph IV Litigation — View File
  • Split Federal Circuit Panel Reinstates Jury Verdict of Induced Infringement in Coreg (carvedilol) Case — View File
  • Minority Powerbroker Q&A: McAndrews’ Alejandro Menchaca, Law360 (January 28, 2015) View File
  • Mixed Signals From Fed. Circ. On Willful Infringement, Law360 (November 26, 2013) View File
  • A New Prefiling Strategy — But Is It Constitutional?, Law360 (March 5, 2012) View File

Recent Presentations

  • Litigation Strategies Affecting U.S. FDA Approval For Generics, Global IP Convention, Bangalore, India, January 23-30, 2013
  • America Invents Act – Guidelines For Applying The Prior Art Provisions, AIPLA IP Practice in Latin America Committee Meeting, Mexico City, June 5-7, 2013
  • Conflicts and Waivers in Patent Law, John Marshall Law School IP Ethics Seminar, Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 2014
  • Trial Tactics in Patent Infringement Litigation, DRI Trial Tactics Seminar, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2015
  • Lectures in Patent Post Grant Proceedings – UIC John Marshall Law School – Fall 2020 Semester
  • 11th Annual Ethics in the Practice of IP Seminar – UIC John Marshall Law School — 2020
  • 12th Annual Ethics in the Practice of IP Seminar – UIC John Marshall Law School — 2021

Practices

  • IP Transactions
  • IP Litigation
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Post-Grant Practice
  • Trademarks & Copyrights

Industries

  • Chemical
  • Medical Devices
  • Life Sciences
  • Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois, Criminal Division
  • Adjunct Professor at the UIC School of Law
  • Adjunct Professor at Loyola University School of Law
  • Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois President’s Award – 2015
  • Gads Hill George W. Moss Founder’s Award – 2015
  • St. Ignatius Alumni Medal for Leadership and Service – 2016
  • Chicago Bar Association – Vanguard Award, HLAI Recipient – 2018
  • MIT Harold E. Lobdell Distinguished Service Award – 2019
  • MIT Great Dome Award, Class of 1985 – 2020
  • HLAI Lincoln-Juarez Society Member
  • Diversity Scholarship Foundation, Advocate for Diversity Award – 2020
  • MIT George B. Morgan ’20 Award for Distinguished Educational Council Service – 2021
  • President, Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois
  • Board Member, HLAI Charities
  • Member of the IP Practice in Latin America Committee, American Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Hispanic National Bar Association, Region IX, Deputy
  • United Neighborhood Organization – Board Member – 2018-Present
  • The Inner Workings of the BCPIA Patent Dance — View File
  • Delaware ANDA summary judgment approach not as tough as it appears — View File
  • What the Minerva Supreme Court Decision Could Mean for the Medical Device World and Beyond — View File
  • Minerva v. Hologic: A Review in Poetry — View File
  • Federal Circuit Dramatically Narrows Scope of Proper Venue in Paragraph IV Litigation — View File
  • Split Federal Circuit Panel Reinstates Jury Verdict of Induced Infringement in Coreg (carvedilol) Case — View File
  • Minority Powerbroker Q&A: McAndrews’ Alejandro Menchaca, Law360 (January 28, 2015) View File
  • Mixed Signals From Fed. Circ. On Willful Infringement, Law360 (November 26, 2013) View File
  • A New Prefiling Strategy — But Is It Constitutional?, Law360 (March 5, 2012) View File
  • Litigation Strategies Affecting U.S. FDA Approval For Generics, Global IP Convention, Bangalore, India, January 23-30, 2013
  • America Invents Act – Guidelines For Applying The Prior Art Provisions, AIPLA IP Practice in Latin America Committee Meeting, Mexico City, June 5-7, 2013
  • Conflicts and Waivers in Patent Law, John Marshall Law School IP Ethics Seminar, Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 2014
  • Trial Tactics in Patent Infringement Litigation, DRI Trial Tactics Seminar, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2015
  • Lectures in Patent Post Grant Proceedings – UIC John Marshall Law School – Fall 2020 Semester
  • 11th Annual Ethics in the Practice of IP Seminar – UIC John Marshall Law School — 2020
  • 12th Annual Ethics in the Practice of IP Seminar – UIC John Marshall Law School — 2021
 

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