September 29, 2024-October 1, 2024
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Speakers

Subject to change.

Confirmed Speakers

Alden Abbott

Alden Abbott

Former FTC General Counsel; Senior Research Fellow

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Ola Adekunle

Senior Patent Counsel

Google

Joe Allen

Joseph Allen

Executive Director

Bayh-Dole Coalition

Ratib Ali

Economist

Competition Dynamics

A’Tolani Akinkuotu

Associate General Counsel

Meta

Jacob Babcock

CEO

NuCurrent, Inc.

Brent R. Bellows

Partner

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Russell Binns

CEO & General Counsel

Allied Security Trust

Hon. Susan G. Braden

Jurist-In-Residence

Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy C-IP2

Kathleen Bradish

Vice President and Director of Legal Advocacy

American Antitrust Institute

Joshua Budwin

Principal

McKool Smith

Krisha Cerilli

Deputy Assistant Director, Technology Enforcement Division

Federal Trade Commission

Sukla Chandra

Senior Managing Director of Licensing & Technology Investments

GE Licensing

Brad Close

Executive Vice President of Licensing and Transactions

Transpacific IP Group Limited

Mark Cohen

Senior Tech Fellow

Asia Society

Stephanie Curcio

IP Lawyer, Co-founder & CEO

NLPatent

Matthew Cutler

Principal

Harness IP

Joe Doyle

Intellectual Property Manager

Enterprise Ireland

David Duski

Principal

Charles River Associates

Jim Edwards

James Edwards

Founder and CEO

ELITE Strategic Services

Tim Fink

Partner, former Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judge

O’Melveny & Myers

Susi Fish

Partner, European Patent Validations Group Lead

Boult Wade Tennat

Deborah Garza

Vice Chair

Rule Garza Howley LLP

Dean Geibel

Chief Patent Counsel

Samtec, Inc.

Pinar Gencer

Senior Associate

Competition Dynamics

Devon Grant

Devon Grant

Senior Patent Counsel

Visa

Michael Gulliford

Co-Founder & Partner

Soryn IP Capital Management

Hon. Melissa A. Haapala

Vice Chief Judge

Patent Trial and Appeal Board, USPTO

Henry Hadad

Henry Hadad

Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Jason Harrier

Founder and General Counsel

IP Copilot

Joshua Hartman

Partner

Merchant & Gould

Jing He

Managing Partner

Gen Law Firm

Aaron Hoag

Chief, Technology and Digital Platforms Section, Antitrust Division

U.S. Department of Justice

Hon. Linda Horner

Acting Senior Lead Administrative Patent Judge

Patent Trial and Appeal Board, USPTO

Kate Hudson

Associate Vice President & Counsel for Government Relations and Public Policy

Association of American Universities

Andrei Iancu

Hon. Andrei Iancu

Former Under Secretary of Commerce for IP & Director of the USPTO

Sullivan & Cromwell

Marylauren Ilagan

Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property

Olaplex, Inc.

Chris Israel

Senior Partner

ACG Advocacy

Joe Janas

Assistant General Counsel, Vice President Intellectual Property

Wells Fargo

Emily Johnson

Emily Johnson

Head of IP Policy & Advocacy

Amgen

Gina Johnson

Gina Johnson

Chief Legal Officer

Ridge

Philip S. Johnson

Chair, Steering Committee

Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform

András Jókúti

Director, Patent and Technology Law Division

WIPO

Sivon Kalminov

Director, Intellectual Property Division

Canon U.S.A., Inc.

David J. Kappos

Hon. David Kappos

Former Under Secretary of Commerce for IP & Director of the USPTO

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Stephen Key

Stephen Key

Contributor to Forbes; Entrepreneur; Author; Speaker

Stephen Key Media, LLC

Patrick Kilbride

Patrick Kilbride

Policy Advisor, Public Speaker & Corporate Trainer

Kilbride Public Affairs

Hon. Michael Kim

Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judge

USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Sherry Knowles

Principal

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Suzanne Konrad

Partner/U.S. Patent Attorney

Global IP Counselors

Andrew Koopman

Shareholder, Electrical & Computer Science Practice Group Co-Leader

Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney

Peter Lambrianakos

Partner

Fabricant LLP

Evan Langdon

Partner

Fabricant LLP

Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard

General Counsel

Sunsweet Growers Inc.

Marie MacNichol

Mediator and Intellectual Property Attorney

Marie MacNichol LLC

William Mansfield

Director of Intellectual Property

ABRO Industries

Nick-Matich-McKool-Smith

Nicholas Matich

Principal, IP Practice

McKool Smith

Stephen McBride

Counsel

Villegas & Cefo, LLP

Idris McKelvey

Vice President, Patent Counsel

The Estée Lauder Companies

Scott McKeown

Shareholder, Post-Grant Proceedings Practice

Wolf Greenfield

Mike McLean

Chief Executive Officer

Innovation Asset Collective

Clint Mehall

Partner

Davidson Kappel, LLC

Greg Meyer

Principal

Harness IP

Chief Judge Paul Michel

Hon. Paul R. Michel

Chief Judge (ret.)

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Anup Misra

Managing Director - IP

Curiam Capital LLC

John Miller

Senior Corporate Counsel

Pfizer

Cynthia Mitchell

Assistant Chief IP Counsel

Solventum

Joseph Monaghan

Joseph Monaghan

Patent Attorney

Withrow Terranova

James Moore

Of Counsel

Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney

Kayleigh Nauman

Kayleigh Nauman

Intellectual Property Attaché for North America

The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office

Judge Pauline Newman

Hon. Pauline Newman

Circuit Judge

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Brian O’Shaughnessy

Partner, Chair of IP Transactions and Licensing Group

Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

Daniel Papst

Daniel Papst

Managing Director

Papst Licensing GmbH & Co.

Changhae Park

Senior Vice President, Chief IP Officer

NXP Semiconductors

Shira Perlmutter

Register of Copyrights and Director

U.S. Copyright Office

Anthony Prosser, Ph.D.

Anthony R. Prosser

Partner

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Jon Putnam

Founder and Principal

Competition Dynamics, Inc.

Gene Quinn

President & CEO

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Renée C. Quinn

Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Sarah J. Ring

Partner

Porter Hedges LLP

Matthew Rizzolo

Matthew Rizzolo

Partner

Ropes & Gray

John Rogitz

Managing Attorney

Rogitz & Associates

Thara Russell

Director, Assistant General Counsel for IP

Capital One

Matteo Sabattini

President and Chief Licensing Officer

Convida

Corey Salsberg

Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs

Novartis

Hans Sauer

Deputy General Counsel, VP for IP

Biotechnology Industry Organization

Bilal Sayyed

Counsel

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Jon Scahill

Chief Executive Officer

Quest Patent Research Corporation

Steve Schley

EVP & IP Practice Leader

UnitedLex

Meredith Schoenfeld

Assistant General Counsel

U.S. National Science Foundation

Russell Slifer

Former Deputy Director of the USPTO; Principal

Schwegman, Lundberg & Woesner

Coke Morgan Stewart

Coke Morgan Stewart

Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Robert Stoll

Former Commissioner for Patents, USPTO

Stoll Patent Consulting and Expert Testimony LLC

Chris Storm

IP Legal Director

Uber

Sean Sullivan

Sean Sullivan

Vice President & Chief Patent Counsel

Axcelis Technologies

Brienne Terril

Co-Head Intellectual Property

The Bank of New York Mellon

Mark Vallone

Chief Patent Counsel, Americas

IBM

Alaina van Horn

Chief of the IP Enforcement (IPE) Branch

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Bryant Wade

Principal

Harness IP

Joe Walsh

Principal

Harness IP

Austin Walters

Founder & CEO

IP Copilot

Jolene Wang

Associate

Ropes & Gray LLP

Benjamin Weed

General Counsel

Ridge

Geoffrey White

Geoffrey White

Manufacturing Executive

Advanced Construction Robotics

Leo White

Leo White

Chief IP & Associate General Counsel

The Duracell Company

Ada Wong

Vice President of Intellectual Property

Brightseed, Inc.

Conrad Wong

IP Attaché for Guangzhou, China

USPTO

Koren Wong-Ervin

Partner

Jones Day

John Yun

Associate Professor of Law

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School

John Zacharia

Former Federal Prosecutor; Founder

Zacharia Law PLLC

Wen Xie

Owner

Lux Lumen Intellectual Property PC