BakerHostetler Adds IP Partner from O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco

Melody Drummond Hansen joins BakerHostetler’s San Francisco office, where she will lead the firm’s IP strategy for San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Melody has extensive experience litigating and advising both established technology leaders and emerging companies in diverse technology matters including patents, data security, trade secrets and copyright as well as helping clients overcome regulatory hurdles. Her complex technology experience includes avionics, mobile telecommunications standards, streaming video, voice recognition, artificial intelligence, and hydrogen, electric and autonomous vehicles. She has been recognized as one of California’s Top 100 Women Lawyers, and as a California Trailblazer.