A. Douglas Melamed

A. Douglas Melamed is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilmer Cutler  Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.  He has more than thirty years experience in antitrust counseling; in non-merger investigations and litigation, particularly in the technology, telecommunications, media and financial services sectors; and in the merger review process.  He has litigated cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, lower federal and state courts, and before the FTC.  He has been involved in most of the leading recent cases at the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust, including the Microsoft, Rambus and Philips/ITC cases.  Mr. Melamed served in the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, from October 1996 to January 2001, as Acting Assistant Attorney General and, before then, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General.  He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1967 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1970, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Charles M. Merrill of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.