UPSTO, USDOJ and District Judges to Update Industry and Take Questions in Boston

Boston, MA: Global IP Strategy Hub is pleased to announce that Mark Abumeri, Attorney Advisor Enforcement, US Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO); Anand Patel, Senior Counsel, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, USDOJ and Honourable Judge Cathy Bissoon, United States District Judge for The Western State of Pennsylvania, will be updating the industry at Global IP Strategy Hub’s 2^nd Annual Trade Secret IP Protection & Litigation Boston scheduled for September 17-18^th 2024.

Mark Abumeri, Mr. Patel and Honourable Judge Cathy Bissoon join a distinguished faculty of senior executives from leading organizations, including:

• Honourable Faith Hochberg, United States District Judge (Retired)
• Ruth Ma Swilling, Chief IP Counsel & General Counsel – Engineering, Raytheon
• Ken Corsello, IP Law Counsel, IBM
• Mike Binns, Head of Patents & Trade Secrets, Meta
• Hannah Joseph, Director of Trade Secret, Regeneron
• Steve Kurlowecz, Chief IP Counsel, Kyndryl
• Julie Lappin, Senior Intellectual Property Counsel, Nestle
• Victoria Cundiff, Adjunct Professor, Penn Cary Law School – University of Pennsylvania

Unlike other events, participants will benefit from key updates and enhanced benchmarking:

• Concrete examples of how industry and outside counsels manage trade secret misappropriation.
• Determine the latest updates and effects of non-competes relating to trade secret protection.
• Discover the role of AI in the protection and exposure of trade secrets.
• “War Stories” and evaluating damages in trade secret litigation scenarios.
• For the first time, audience members will engage in anonymous polling on the debate: “To Track or Not to Track Your Trade Secret”.
• Global Trade Secret IP legal updates from Europe and China.

You can download the full agenda here.
More information about the event is available here.