Speakers

Meredith Addy

Co-Founder & Intellectual Property Litigator

AddyHart P.C.

Vishal Amin

Head of IP Policy

Intel

Brent R. Bellows, Ph.D.

Partner

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Marc Booth

Chief Intellectual Property Officer

Acacia Research Corporation

Makan Delrahim

Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice

Hon. Theodore Essex

Senior Counsel

Hogan Lovells

Glenn Forbis

Principal

Harness IP

Douglas H. Frank, Ph.D.

Senior Consultant

Brattle

Kirk Goodwin

Assistant General Counsel, Global Patents, Whirlpool Corporation

Michael Gulliford

Founding Partner

Soryn IP Capital

Robert Hart

Co-Founder & Partner

AddyHart, P.C

Phil Hartstein

Co-Founder

Soryn IP Capital

David G. Henry

Partner

Munck Wilson Mandala

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; Partner

Irell & Manella

Emily Johnson

Head of IP Policy & Advocacy

Amgen

Philip S. Johnson

Chair, Steering Committee

Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform

Miranda Y. Jones

Partner, IP Litigator

Porter Hedges LLP

Sherry Knowles

Principal

Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Evan Langdon

Partner, Chair, International Trade Commission (ITC) Litigation Practice

Fabricant LLP

Scott McKeown

Partner, Chair, PTAB Group

Ropes & Gray

Vince Mutolo

Senior Managing Director in Investment Banking

Hon. Kathleen O’Malley

Of Counsel

Irell & Menella LLP

Chad Pannell

Partner

AddyHart P.C.

Robert Pechman

Chief IP Counsel, Seagate Technology

Gene Quinn

President & CEO

IPWatchdog, Inc.

P. Andrew Riley

Attorney At Law

Mei & Mark, LLP

Matthew Rizzolo

Partner

Ropes & Gray

Erick Robinson

Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Practice Group

Spencer Fane LLP

Josef Schenker

Senior Attorney

Ropes & Gray

Lloyd Smith

IP Litigation Group Chair

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney

Mandy Song, Ph.D.

Founding and Managing Partner, Bayes PLLC

David M. Stein

Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP

Jonathan Stroud

General Counsel

Unified Patents

Sean Thompson

Director of IP Investment Strategies and General Counsel

Parabellum Capital

Jamie Underwood

Partner

Latham & Watkins

Wendy Verlander

Managing Shareholder, Verlander LLP

Todd Walters

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

Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney

Christine Yun Sauer

Cloud Business Apps, IoT, and AI Attorney

Microsoft