Meredith McKenzie

Meredith McKenzie is an accomplished intellectual property attorney with a robust background at the intersection of engineering and law, currently serving as Deputy Chief Legal Officer specializing in IP, Compliance, and Litigation at Aristocrat Gaming. Her practice focuses on managing comprehensive intellectual property portfolios, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, open source, and privacy matters, with extensive experience in patent litigation. McKenzie's engineering foundation as a former embedded microprocessor design engineer at Intel Corporation, where she co-invented and holds two U.S. patents, underpins her ability to navigate complex technology areas such as networking equipment, routers, switches, cybersecurity solutions, and gaming technology.

Throughout her career, McKenzie has primarily represented operating companies on the defendant side in patent disputes, reflecting her in-house counsel roles. Prior to joining Aristocrat Gaming in October 2021, she spent nearly a decade at Juniper Networks as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Intellectual Property and Operations, where she managed all aspects of the company's IP, including litigation. Her earlier experience includes serving as Senior Director of IP at Symantec Corporation and Director of Litigation, Licensing, and IP at Cypress Semiconductor.

In terms of notable matters, during her tenure at Juniper Networks, McKenzie oversaw high-profile and complex patent litigation cases. Juniper Networks frequently faced challenges from patent assertion entities and successfully defended its patents, including a Federal Circuit affirmance in Juniper Networks, Inc. v. Correct Transmission, LLC (Case No. 23-1046), which upheld patents related to VPLS failure protection in ring networks. Additionally, the Federal Circuit affirmed the cancellation of a patent asserted against Juniper Networks in Juniper Networks, Inc. v. Correct Transmission, LLC (Case No. 23-1236), representing a significant win against a non-practicing entity. McKenzie was also involved in managing inter partes review (IPR) proceedings, with Juniper Networks actively challenging patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and appealing decisions to the Federal Circuit. The sole tracked case for Meredith McKenzie involved her appearing as in-house counsel for the defendant, Juniper Networks, in Sampo IP, LLC v. Juniper Networks, Inc.

Meredith McKenzie earned her J.D. specializing in Intellectual Property from Santa Clara University School of Law and holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is admitted to practice in California.