Margaret Millikin

Margaret (“Peggy”) Millikin is an advisory director in the Firm’s Tulsa office and  practices in all phases of intellectual property law, with particular emphasis on patent and trademark matters.  She has represented large, international clients as well as small business owners and individual inventors in corporate and law firm settings and has gained experience and insights into the needs of clients with widely varying goals, backgrounds and financial means.  

Ms. Millikin is experienced in helping clients create strategies for managing intellectual property as business assets and has managed the global intellectual asset portfolios for several international businesses.  She possesses extensive experience addressing intellectual property issues in business transactions and has lead the intellectual property function on a number of multi-national acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures.   In a growing, global market, Ms. Millikin assists U.S. based clients with existing or expanding sales and operations beyond U.S. borders by coordinating with local counsel to address intellectual property concerns abroad, including export control matters and IP tax strategies.
In technology matters, Ms. Millikin’s experience spans a broad range of technical disciplines from polymer and glass chemistries to paper and fiber forming technologies and drilling equipment.  She counsels clients on patent protection, licensing and enforcement, including private and government entities.  Her transactional experience includes joint development agreements, IP licensing agreements, consulting agreements, research agreements, software licensing, product supply agreements,  government contracts, web agreements, secrecy agreements and distributorship agreements, among others.

In 1984, Ms. Millikin graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering and  worked for a time as a research chemist with Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation before attending law school at the University of Tulsa, where she received  a Juris Doctor with honors in 1989. 

Before joining the firm, Ms. Millikin was a corporate intellectual property attorney with Owens Corning, Honeywell International and Hercules Incorporated, and she managed the US IP office for   Basell N.V. (a joint venture of BASF and Royal Dutch Shell).    Prior to gaining corporate experience, Ms. Millikin was an associate in private law firm settings with McKinney & Stringer, P.C. and Rosenstein, Fist and Ringold.