Antoinette (Toni) Tease is a registered patent attorney who practices in the areas of intellectual property and technology law. Before forming her own law firm in 2003, Ms. Tease was General Counsel for Rocky Mountain Technology Group, Inc., a software development company with its worldwide headquarters in Billings, Montana. From 1995 to 2001, Ms. Tease was a member of the law firm of Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Deitrich, P.L.L.P., the region's largest law firm, where she represented clients in both high-tech and traditional industries in intellectual property matters. While at Crowley, Ms. Tease was a partner and Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. Before moving to Montana in 1995, Ms. Tease practiced with the law firms of Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C., and Shearman & Sterling in New York City. After graduation from law school in 1990, Ms. Tease clerked for United States District Judge David A. Ezra in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ms. Tease attended law school at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she was a Notes and Comments Editor for the Connecticut Law Review, and where she graduated with High Honors in the top 3% of her class. Ms. Tease obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University, where she majored in Economics.

Ms. Tease is an active member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law (IPL). She is a current member of Section Council, the governing body of the ABA-IPL Section. She is also Vice Chair of the Content Advisory Board, which is responsible for overseeing all of the Section's intellectual product, including books, periodicals, and the Annual Review. Ms. Tease is former Chair of Division VII, Information Technology, and former Chair of the Computer Software Technology, Computer Programs, and Databases Committees. Ms. Tease has also served on the Section's Strategic Communications Task Force, which engaged in long-range planning for the Section. In addition, Ms. Tease is a current member of the Section's Patent Law Reform Task Force, and she has also served on the Section's Business Method Patents and Chinese Patent Law Reform Task Forces.

Ms. Tease serves on the Board of Advisors for the Montana State University-Billings College of Business and was formerly on the Board of Advisors for the Montana Business Incubator in Billings. She is also a frequent speaker on intellectual property law topics and a former member of the Montana State Bar CLE Institute. In addition to being admitted to practice in Montana, Ms. Tease is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as well as a number of federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Ms. Tease is Treasurer of the Harvard Club of Montana.

Diana Nyquist was raised in Billings, Montana, and has a degree in English Literature from Montana State University-Bozeman. After graduating from college in 1996, Ms. Nyquist spent two years working at an insurance defense law firm in Missoula, Montana. She then moved back to Billings, where she worked as a copywriter and office manager at Walking Star Marketing and Design. There she was responsible for writing press releases, assembling and maintaining a database of press contacts, and researching government and other bidding opportunities.

Ms. Nyquist then went to work for Dietrich and Cole Law Firm as a legal assistant. Among her duties, Ms. Nyquist prepared drafts of estate planning documents and researched and recommended a computer program for file management and contacts. In May 2001, she joined Austin-Lehman Adventures travel outfitters, where she was responsible for maintaining a database of customers and creating and running sales reports.

In 2002, Ms. Nyquist joined First Interstate Bank Operations, where she worked in the ACH (Automated Clearing House) department. There she was responsible for processing the bank's ACH originations files several times a day, totaling millions of dollars a day. She provided customer service and technical support for users of bank-provided ACH software and other ACH software. She also spearheaded the effort to automate the billing process for ACH files, including writing procedures for others to follow.

Ms. Nyquist joined Antoinette M. Tease, P.L.L.C. in December of 2008 because she enjoys the client contact and intellectual challenge afforded by the practice of law.