September 12-14, 2021
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Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Judge Alan D. Albright

Hon. Alan D. Albright

Judge

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

All Speakers

Meredith Addy

Meredith Addy

Co-Founder & Intellectual Property Litigator

AddyHart P.C.

Shawn Ambwani

Shawn Ambwani

COO and Founder

Unified Patents

Vishal Amin

Head of IP Policy

Intel

Heather Antoine

Partner

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP

Joan Archer

Joan Archer, Ph.D.

Of Counsel

Carlton Fields

Jacob Babcock

CEO

NuCurrent, Inc.

Brent R. Bellows

Partner

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Jill Bindler

Partner

Gray Reed

Russell Binns

CEO & General Counsel

Allied Security Trust

Hon. Ada Brown

United States District Judge

Northern District of Texas

Dan Brown, Ph.D.

Founder and President

Loggerhead Tools LLC

Douglas J. Bucklin, Ph.D.

Senior Attorney

Volpe Koenig

Joseph Cammiso

Brand Protection Manager

Benjamin Cappel

Partner

AddyHart P.C.

Jim Carmichael

James Carmichael

Founder and Managing Partner

Carmichael IP, PLLC

Megan Carpenter

Dean and Professor of Law

UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law

Kimberly Chotkowski

President

Brandywine Ventures LLC

Brad Close

Executive Vice President of Licensing and Transactions

Transpacific IP Group Limited

Carlo Cotrone

Chief IP Counsel

Techtronic Industries (TTI)

Patrick J. Coyne

Partner

Finnegan

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim

Makan Delrahim

Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice

Abha Divine

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Techquity Capital Management

David Djavaherian

Founding Partner

Jayne Durden

Global Director of Trademarks and Brand Protection

Techtronic Industries (TTI)

Rachel Elsby, Ph.D.

Partner

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

Hon. Theodore Essex

Senior Counsel

Hogan Lovells

Steven Geiszler

US Chief IP Counsel

Huawei

Llew Gibbons

Professor of Law

University of Toledo College of Law

Kae Gruner

Counsel

McGuire Woods

Michael Gulliford

Co-Founder & Partner

Soryn IP Capital Management

Phil Hartstein

Co-Founder

Soryn IP Capital

Danielle (DJ) Healey

Senior Principal

Fish & Richardson P.C.

David G. Henry

Partner

Munck Wilson Mandala

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

Sharon Israel

Sharon Israel

Partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon

Kim Jessum

VP Legal, General Counsel

Miranda Y. Jones

Partner, IP Litigator

Porter Hedges LLP

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

Senior Vice President

Global Innovation Policy Center

Jay Knobloch

Executive Vice President for Intellectual Property

Mark Kokes

Chief Licensing Officer & General Manager of Media IP Business

Adeia

John Kolakowski

Director of Patent Licensing

Nokia

Gary Lauder

Managing Director

Robert Leonard

Shareholder

Volpe Koenig

Van Lindberg

Van Lindberg

Partner

Taylor English Duma LLP

Nick-Matich-McKool-Smith

Nicholas Matich

Principal, IP Practice

McKool Smith

Eli Mazour

Partner, Patent Prosecution Lead

Harrity & Harrity, LLP

Matthew McBride

Director of IP Services

CAS

Eileen McDermott

Editor-in-Chief

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Scott McKeown

Shareholder, Post-Grant Proceedings Practice

Wolf Greenfield

Megan McLoughlin

Corporate Counsel

Consumer Safety Technology, Inc.

Wesley McMichael

Shareholder

Volpe Koenig

Chief Judge Paul Michel

Hon. Paul R. Michel

Chief Judge (ret.)

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Raymond Millien

General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Exro Technologies

Micky Minhas

Senior Vice President

Thomas Moga

Thomas Moga

Member, Dykema Gossett

Changhae Park

Senior Vice President, Chief IP Officer

NXP Semiconductors

Kevin Post

Partner

Ropes & Gray

Connie Powell Nichols

Of Counsel & Professor of Law at Baylor Law School

Gray Reed

Jon Putnam

Founder and Principal

Competition Dynamics, Inc.

Gene Quinn

President & CEO

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Hon. Randall R. Rader

Former Chief Judge (ret.)

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Reginald Ratliff

Partner

Vanguard/IP, LLP

Bob Rauker

CEO and Founder of MedicinusIP, LLC

Michael Renaud

Member, Intellectual Property Group

Mintz

Matthew Rizzolo

Matthew Rizzolo

Partner

Ropes & Gray

Erick Robinson

Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Practice Group

Spencer Fane LLP

Chad Rutkowski

Partner, Baker Hostetler

Paul Skiermont

Partner

Skiermont Derby

Mark Snyder

General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary

Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc.

Michael Snyder

Shareholder, Intellectual Property

Volpe Koenig

Sarah Spires

Litigation Partner

Skiermont Derby LLP

Bob Stoll

Robert Stoll

Partner, Co-Chair IP Group, Former Commissioner for Patents, USPTO

Faegre Drinker

Robert Taylor

Founder & Owner, RPT Legal Strategies

Alaina van Horn

Chief of the IP Enforcement (IPE) Branch

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

James Warden

Executive Vice President, Engineering

PanOptis Patent Management, LLC

Scott Weingust

Managing Director, Intellectual Property Valuation Practice, Stout

John White

John White

CEO & Managing Director, PCT+ Learning Center

Partner, Harness IP

Michael Wilson

Co-Chair Patent LItigation

Munck Wilson Mandala

Katharine Wolanyk

Managing Director

Burford Capital

Christine Yun Sauer

Cloud Business Apps, IoT, and AI Attorney

Microsoft

David Yurkerwich

Senior Managing Director & IP Practice Leader

Ankura