Communications Personals
Vinson & Elkins hires from Perkins Coie IP lawyers Christopher Kao and David Tsai as partners, to work on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrets litigation, and Kao is also managing partner of the Palo Alto office ... Sage Communications hires Catherine Melquist, ex-MTN Government, as senior vice president, satellite division, succeeding Penelope Longbottom, head of the Longbottom Communications division that Sage acquired two years ago and who is retiring Oct. 31 ... Personal BlackBox hires Patrick Deegan, ex-Institute of Data Driven Design, as chief technology officer ... Inrix hires Chris Handley, ex-Vodafone, as vice president-product management and analytics.
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FCC Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council names Brian Scarpelli, Telecommunications Industry Association, co-chairman, Secure Hardware and Software-Security by Design working group ... Ogilvy & Mather Chief Digital Officer Brandon Berger to keynote advertising track at NAB's Content and Communications World conference Nov. 12, Javits Convention Center, New York ... Lobbyist registrations: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, American Continental Group, effective Aug. 3, and Daniel Kostenbauder, Mehlman Castagnetti, both effective Aug. 4, and Rock Creek Counsel, effective Aug. 5.