Intellectual Property Law Update 2026

Nick Headland is a practicing litigation attorney at Margolis Edelstein. He is a 2022 graduate of Temple Beasley School of Law. At Temple law, he developed a fascination with Intellectual Property, a passion he carries to this day. He is particularly interested in how the speed in technological innovation has created challenges for regulatory bodies, particularly in artificial intelligence. He enjoys listening to oral argument sessions from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and reading on current issues in Patent law.

Mr. Zale is the owner of Zale Patent Law, Inc. (“ZPL”), Scranton, PA. ZPL provides Intellectual Property and Business law solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. He received his B.S. in Physics from Wilkes University and his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University. When employed as a Programmer Analyst, he updated code for unique NASA bit-slice processors at the Kennedy Space Center, FL that simulated the functioning of the five general purpose computers on the STS Space Shuttles. Mr. Zale then coded war game testing programs for the AEGIS Battleship of the US Navy. He later upgraded satellite land bases for the US Army at Tobyhanna, PA. Following his work with the US Army, he studied at Franklin Pierce Law Center (now UNH Law School) in Concord, NH with an emphasis in Intellectual Property Law. After passing the PA and NJ Bars, and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) bar exam, Mr. Zale was admitted to practice IP Law before the USPTO. After practicing IP Law at one of the original Patent Law firms in Philadelphia, advanced to become Patent Counsel at the GE Corporate Research & Development Center in Niskayuna, NY. There he prosecuted patent applications for inventions related to MRI, computer guided surgery, digital signal processing, satellite communication, early cellular telephone CDMA communication, and computer surface rendering. Mr. Zale then accepted a position at Tyco Healthcare Group LP (now Covidien) in Mansfield, MA managing several large IP portfolios globally. Following his work at TYCO, he served as Senior IP Counsel for ALSTOM Power in Windsor, CT managing several large IP portfolios relating to power plants globally. His responsibilities included defending ALSTOM’s patent applications and enforcing ALSTOM’s IP Licenses in the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Zale then took a position with GTC Law Group, LLP of Westwood, MA that is one of the premier IP strategy law firms. GTC worked with many Boston start-up companies and venture capital firms. Mr. Zale re-opened his Intellectual Property Law Firm in northeastern PA counseling startups and small business entities in IP and business law. Mr. Zale has now expanded his IP firm to a second office in Haverhill, MA.