LINZY MCCARTNEY

As a member of Meta’s Patent, Licensing, and Open Source team, Linzy McCartney counsels business and engineering teams on IP issues and sets strategy for several of Meta’s patent portfolios. Before joining Meta, Linzy served as an Administrative Patent Judge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Linzy also spent several years in private practice focusing on patent prosecution and patent litigation and served as a law clerk to Circuit Judge Richard Linn of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Magistrate Judge Kevin S.C. Chang of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Linzy earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of North Dakota and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.