Aaron Cooper is of counsel in the firm’s Public Policy and Government Affairs Practice Group. His practice focuses on developing and implementing short and long term policy objectives in the fields of intellectual property, antitrust, communications law, and related areas.
Mr. Cooper returns to the firm after serving more than seven years for Chairman Leahy on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, where he was the Committee’s Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law. In this role, Mr. Cooper had primary responsibility for all aspects of Chairman Patrick Leahy’s intellectual property and antitrust initiatives, including drafting, negotiating and developing the legislative strategy for passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, which brought the most comprehensive change to the nation’s patent laws in more than 60 years.
