Mialeeka C. Williams
The Coca-Cola Company
Mialeeka Williams is an accomplished advocate and global innovation transactions counsel with over 15 years of diversified legal and technical experience. She is passionate about innovation and international business transactions. She enjoys structuring and negotiating global intellectual property agreements and has developed keen leadership skills in guiding both in-house and external teams through complex technology transactions.
As a registered patent attorney, she has extensive experience in the commercialization, procurement, protection and enforcement of patent rights. Her intellectual property experience further includes development agreements, technology licensing, patent and trademark prosecution, copyrights, patentability and freedom-to-operate opinions, technology assessment, multi-national trademark and counterfeit goods litigation management and dispute resolution.
Ms. Williams also has experience in privacy, anti-trust, unfair competition and general business transactions. Ms. Williams currently serves as Innovation Counsel for The Coca-Cola Company. She has responsibility for a broad range of transactional and innovation legal matters, including strategic alignment of technology with global growth business plans, innovation agreement negotiation, conflict resolution, strategic partnerships development, open collaboration facilitation, and global patent portfolio management.
Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Ms. Williams worked as in-house counsel for Rhodia Inc. Ms. Williams has also practiced law as an associate at Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin, & Oshinsky LLP and Shanks & Herbert. Prior to becoming an attorney, she served as a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Examiner; and Process Development Engineer for the Proctor & Gamble Cosmetics Company.
Ms. Williams is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Law and has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, cum laude, from Howard University. She is admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of the United States, Commonwealth of Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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