Paul Liu is the Head of Intellectual Property at TuSimple, a global self-driving truck company based out of San Diego. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where he teaches in the areas of patent and intellectual property lawwith the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Law School Clinic Certification Program. Paul brings over a decade of intellectual property experience from roles in both private practice and in-house. He is a frequent speaker and moderator on topics related to intellectual property and patent law.
Justin Krieger is a partner in Kilpatrick Townsend’s Denver and Washington, D.C. offices and has more than 20 years of experience handling intellectual property matters. Justin is a registered patent attorney who focuses on AIA Trials (inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR)), district court litigation, and patent prosecution, and client counseling. He has an outstanding record as lead counsel in IPR and PGR proceedings and frequently speaks on practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). He focuses his practice on the chemical, energy, medical device, metallurgy, nanotechnology, mechanical engineering and consumer products industries. Justin is an active member of the PTAB Committees for the Federal Circuit Bar Association and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and of the Committee on Patents and Related Matters for the American Chemical Society. He is also an active member of the Trials Committee of the PTAB Bar Association.
Corporate & Tech lawyer, UAE, and the US. The Middle East and South Asia expert. Top-tier M&A, tech transactions, and cross-border corporate & commercial specialist. Covering the US, the UAE, and key markets in Asia including India, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Sai has advised clients in the energy, maritime, life sciences, logistics and manufacturing spaces and provided advice on matters related to media & entertainment, supply chain and procurement, tech & IP (data protection, cybersecurity, blockchain), JVs, reorgs and financings (debt or equity) for domestic and international clients. He provides strategic counseling to early-stage, emerging and high-growth companies and their funders – be they PE/VC funds or angels. Sai has also advised on vessel sales, charterparty arrangements, sale-and-leasebacks, ship arrests and other maritime regulatory issues. Notably, he led the ship sales and closings of 20 tanker vessels from a Saudi Aramco subsidiary to the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia in a USD 1.3 billion merger creating one of the world’s largest shipping companies and resulting in the largest merger in the history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Additionally, Sai advises individual and corporate clients with business interests in and related to India. He maintains high profile relationships with legal and business contacts throughout India. Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Sai was a founding partner at a law firm based in Washington, D.C. where he represented food & beverage industry clients, e-commerce portals, franchises, startups, investors and new/digital media companies of various sizes. He was also a Senior Associate and interim head of the Corporate Department at various international law firms based in Dubai. Before practicing law, Sai worked at the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice where he assisted in U.S. federal prosecutions.
Priya is the Deputy General Counsel at Ribbon Communications in the USA and former General Counsel of Edgewater Networks, a market leader in enabling real-time cloud communications and analytics, Priya led the company through a public acquisition by Ribbon Communications in August 2018. She currently serves as Deputy General Counsel at Ribbon. Priya advises on all legal aspects of structuring and executing multi-year enterprise deals, strategic software licensing, IP portfolio management, and open source compliance. Priya’s practice, over the past two decades, includes product and technology counseling for companies in Denver, Boston, D.C., Chicago, and the Bay Area. Prior to Ribbon, Priya held leadership roles at Capgemini, King & Spalding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Nextel Communications, where she was a strategic legal advisor advancing the company’s business goals. Priya also served as a Judicial Extern to a Federal Magistrate in the Northern District of Ohio and co-authored a publication titled, “Protecting Your Personal Privacy: A Self-Help Guide for Judges and their Families.” Priya regularly participates as a conference speaker and moderates panels on Trade Secrets, Intellectual Property Risks, and Strategic Business Counseling. She received her J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law and her B.A. Honors in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Priya was also an LL.M Honors Candidate in Information Technology and Privacy Law at The John Marshall Law School.
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