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P. McCoy Smith is the Founding Attorney at Lex Pan Law, an intellectual property law firm in the US, and Opsequio, an open source compliance consultancy. Previously, he spent 20 years in the legal department of a Fortune 50 multinational technology company as a intellectual property specialist, 8 years in private law practice, litigating and prosecuting U.S. patents, and 3 years as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He is licensed to practice law in Oregon, California & New York, and to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. From 2014-2020 was on the editorial board of the Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society (JOLTS), and starting in 2023 will be on the editorial board of the American Intellectual Property Law Quarterly Journal (AIPLAQJ). He is also the author or co-author of chapters on open source and copyright, and patents, in “Open Source Law, Policy & Practice” (2022, Oxford University Press).