As Microsoft Corp.’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for intellectual property, Marshall Phelps supervises Microsoft’s intellectual property groups, including those responsible for trademarks, trade secrets, patents, licensing, business development, standards and copyrights. He oversees the company’s management of its intellectual property portfolio, which comprises over 4,000 issued patents, their foreign counterparts and more than 12,000 trademark registrations. In addition, Phelps helps lead Microsoft’s ongoing work with other companies in the technology industry to broaden awareness of intellectual property issues.