Mark Watson

Mark Watson currently serves as Senior Counsel for Intellectual Property at Nordson Corporation since December 2020. Previously, Mark was a Partner and Intellectual Property Attorney at Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP from January 2008 to December 2020, earning recognition as the "Lawyer of the Year" for Patent Law in Cleveland by The Best Lawyers in America© in 2021 and featured in the same publication for Patent Law in 2020-2021. Early career experience includes roles as a Law Clerk at Renner Otto in 2007 and as a Senior Electrical Design Engineer at Ford Motor Company from 2001 to 2007, following positions as Operations Manager at CORSA Performance Exhausts and Design/Manufacturing Engineer at Ford Motor Company from 1990 to 1999. Mark holds a JD from Cleveland State University College of Law, an MBA from Ashland University, and a BSEE from Case Western Reserve University.