Speakers

Henry Hadad

Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Hon. Andrei Iancu

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

Sullivan & Cromwell

Hon. Kathi Vidal

Partner

Winston & Strawn

Alden Abbott

Former FTC General Counsel; Senior Research Fellow

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Meredith Addy

Co-Founder & Intellectual Property Litigator

AddyHart P.C.

Matthew Bathon

Principal Legal Counsel

Samsung Electronics

Bruce Berman

Chairman and co-founder

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding

Enno Bibow

Strategy & Management Consultant

Dennemeyer

Russell Binns

CEO & General Counsel

Allied Security Trust

Scott R. Boalick

Chief Judge (Retired)

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Hon. Susan G. Braden

Jurist-In-Residence

Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy C-IP2

Randy Canis

Associate General Counsel, Technology, Privacy, and IP

Smarter Technologies

Louis Carbonneau

Founder & CEO

Tangible IP

Thomas Carey

Partner

Sunstein LLP

Ray Chohan

Co-Founder

Patsnap

Elina Litvak Cohen

Chief Legal Officer

QuickNode

Carlo Cotrone

Principal & Strategic Advisor

Quartal IP

Will Covey

Chief Compliance Officer to the Director

USPTO

Arthur Daemmrich

Director, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes

Arizona State University

Cynthia Mitchell

Assistant Chief IP Counsel

Solventum

Libbie DiMarco

Shareholder, Litigation Practice

Wolf Greenfield

Noel Egnatios

Chief Legal Officer

DivX

Hon. Theodore Essex

Senior Counsel

Hogan Lovells

Alfred R. Fabricant

Managing Partner

Fabricant Rubino & Lambrianakos LLP

Claudia Fernandini

Founding Partner - CEO

Mertz IP Consultancy & Innovation Management

Glenn Forbis

Principal

Harness IP

Steve Francis

Strategic Advisor, Retired Homeland Security Investigations Executive

Growth Catalyst Partners

Victoria Friedman

Advisor

MaxVal Group

Allison Gaul

Legal Counsel

Boston Consulting Group

Christopher Geyer

Corporate & Securities, Intellectual Property Counsel

Scale LLP

Llew Gibbons

Professor of Law

University of Toledo College of Law

Phil Goter

Partner

Barnes & Thornburg

Melissa Gray

Intellectual Property and Business Lawyer

The Law Spot

Christopher Grice

Partner

Sage Patent Group

Michael Gulliford

Co-Founder & Partner

Soryn IP Capital Management

Hon. Melissa A. Haapala

Vice Chief Judge

Patent Trial and Appeal Board, USPTO

Henry Hadad

Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel

Bristol-Myers Squibb

David Hall

Founding Partner

Sage Patent Group

Jason Harrier

AI Patent Counsel

Salesforce

Joshua Hartman

Partner

Merchant & Gould

Paul Hashim

Chief Patent Counsel

Huawei

Brandon Helms

Trial Attorney and Patent Litigator, Partner

AddyHart P.C.

Brian Hinman

Chief Commercial Officer

Aon Intellectual Property Solutions

Hon. John W. Holcomb

Judge

U.S. Federal District Court, Central District of California

Hon. Ryan T. Holte

Judge

United States Court of Federal Claims

Hon. Andrei Iancu

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

Sullivan & Cromwell

Brian P. Johnson

Partner

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider

David Jones

Executive Director

High Tech Inventors Alliance

Miranda Y. Jones

Shareholder

Winstead PC

Sivon Kalminov

Director, Intellectual Property Division

Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Jeff Kichaven

Principal Mediator

Jeff Kichaven Commercial Mediation

Hon. F. Scott Kieff

Former ITC Commissioner, Professor of Law

George Washington University Law School

Patrick Kilbride

Policy Advisor, Public Speaker & Corporate Trainer

Kilbride Public Affairs

Suzanne Konrad

Of Counsel

Spencer Fane LLP

Jeffery Langer

General Counsel

Zoeller Company

J. John Lee

Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property

U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary

Ken Lemke

Chief IP Counsel and Associate General Counsel

Brunswick Corporation

Mark Leonard

General Counsel

Sunsweet Growers Inc.

Victoria Libin

Fractional General Counsel & Former Chief Compliance Officer

Otto Licks

Founding Partner

Licks Attorneys

Benjamin Mak

Principal

Smart & Biggar LP

Joseph Matal

Principal

Clear IP, LLC

Nicholas Matich

Principal, IP Practice

McKool Smith

Eli Mazour

Of Counsel

Foley & Lardner LLP

Stephen McBride

Counsel

Villegas & Cefo, LLP

Brendan McCommas

Senior Counsel, Former Chief of Staff, USPTO

Husch Blackwell

Eileen McDermott

Editor-in-Chief

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Scott McKeown

Shareholder, Post-Grant Proceedings Practice

Wolf Greenfield

Kevin McLintock

Associate General Counsel - Head of WW IP Strategy, Patents and Trademarks

Logitech

Kevin McPherson

Counsel

Lee & Hayes, P.C.

Bryan Mechell

Partner

Robins Kaplan LLP

Hon. Paul R. Michel

Chief Judge (ret.)

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Anup Misra

Founder

Misra IP Litigation PLLC

Joseph Monaghan

Patent Attorney

Withrow Terranova

Tilman Müller

Partner

Bardehle Pagenberg

David Muus

Head of Legal Operations

Sisvel Group

Hon. Pauline Newman

Circuit Judge

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Joss Nichols

Senior Director of Legal & Head of Compliance

Samsara Inc.

Hon. Grace Karaffa Obermann

Administrative Patent Judge

Patent Trial and Appeal Board, USPTO

Carlos Olarte

Partner

OlarteMoure

Brian O’Shaughnessy

Partner, Chair of IP Transactions and Licensing Group

Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

Daniel Papst

Managing Director

Papst Licensing GmbH & Co.

Changhae Park

Senior Vice President, Chief IP Officer

NXP Semiconductors

James Pooley

IP Litigator and Trade Secret Expert

James Pooley, PLC

Chen Qian

Deputy General Counsel, Intellectual Property

DrFirst, Inc.

Gene Quinn

Founder & CEO

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Renée C. Quinn

President

IPWatchdog, Inc.

Hon. Randall R. Rader

Former Chief Judge (ret.)

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Leanne Rakers

Principal

Harness IP

Jessica Richard

Vice President, Federal Public Policy

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Douglas Robinson

Principal

Harness IP

John Rogitz

Managing Attorney

Rogitz & Associates

Hon. Gerald E. Rosen

Mediator/Arbitrator, Former Chief Judge, US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

JAMS

Vincent Rubino

Partner

Fabricant Rubino & Lambrianakos LLP

Jennifer Russell

Associate General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel

Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.

Thara Russell

Director, Assistant General Counsel for IP

Capital One

Matteo Sabattini, Ph.D.

Executive Advisor, Government Affairs

Sisvel Group

Corey Salsberg

Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs

Novartis

Joel Samuels

Principal

Harness IP

Jon Scahill

Chief Executive Officer

Quest Patent Research Corporation

Laura Smalley

Partner

Harris Beach Murtha

Caren Yusem Sterne

Counsel

AddyHart P.C.

Robert Stoll

Former Commissioner for Patents, USPTO

Stoll Patent Consulting and Expert Testimony LLC

A.J. Sutton

Managing Intellectual Property Counsel and Prosecution Part Leader, North America IP Team

LG Energy Solution

Michael Tierney

Vice Chief Judge (Retired)

PTAB

Zach Toczynski

Senior Director of Global Brand Protection

Levi Strauss & Co.

Julie Tolek

Trademark Attorney

Dilworth IP

Marlene Valderrama

Principal Intellectual Property Assets Manager

Halliburton

Mark Vallone

Chief Patent Counsel, Americas

IBM

Alaina van Horn

Chief of the IP Enforcement (IPE) Branch

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Hon. Kathi Vidal

Partner

Winston & Strawn

Bryan Walker

Senior IP Counsel

3M

Todd Walters

Shareholder, Chair, Patent Office Litigation Practice and Co-Chair, IP Section

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney

Brad Watts

Vice President, Innovation Policy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Brian Weinhaus

Director of Corporate Security Operations

Moderna

John White

Special Counsel and Expert Witness

Harness IP

Leo White

Chief IP & Associate General Counsel

The Duracell Company

Koren Wong-Ervin

Partner

Jones Day

Wen Xie

Owner

Lux Lumen Intellectual Property PC

John Zevitas

Vice President and Managing Legal Counsel

T. Rowe Price