Silvia Xiaoyun Sun (孙筱云) is an experienced intellectual property attorney specializing in entertainment, trademark, copyright, licensing, and general business law. Silvia works closely with media companies, tech startups, filmmakers, musicians, artists, writers, influencers, entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations. She is the owner and writer of the law blog Silvia Legal Discoveries at www.silviadiscoveries.com. Silvia practices law as a legal counsel at the Law Office of Stacy L. Wu, PC in New York city. Prior to this position, Silvia practiced intellectual property law as an associate attorney at a New York and California based entertainment law firm. Silvia also worked for major entertainment and sports companies (such as CBS and MLB) during her legal studies. She is a New York licensed attorney and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English. Silvia received her Juris Doctor degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, with a concentration in Intellectual Property Law. She received her Master of Law degree from University of Illinois School of Law (at Urbana-Champaign) and her Bachelor of Law degree from China Southwest University of Political Science and Law (中国西南政法大学).
Vera is an Associate in the Intellectual Property and Information Technology practice at Borenius Russia. She has a PhD in law and is a trademark and appellations of origin attorney. Vera focuses on the development and implementation of legal protection strategies for intellectual property items, including software and other copyright items, trademarks, innovations, industrial models, and know-how. She provides support in dealings with and conducts due diligence of intellectual property items as well as drafts agreements in the field of intellectual property, including license agreements, commercial concession (franchising) agreements, and agreements for the disposal of rights. She manages trademark profiles, registers intellectual property items in the customs register, and provides support in cases concerning advertising and unfair competition. She represents clients in disputes related to the protection of intellectual property, including in courts and before the Chamber for Patent Disputes, the antitrust authority and other state bodies. Vera advises Russian and foreign clients on issues related to the protection of information, personal data, the regulation of the Internet, and new technologies.
Mr. Sanjaykumar Patel is founder and Patent & Trademark Attorney at EXCELON IP Law Firm with 15 years of experience in IPR Field. He is a registered Indian Patent Agent. He has done B.Pharm and M.Pharm from L.M College of Pharmacy and has done LL.B from M.S University. He is holding P.G Diploma in Patent law from NALSAR University. Previously he had worked with B&S Group (UK), Alembic Pharma, Astron Research of Intas Pharma and Torrent Pharmaceuticals. He is active member of “IP Collegium” Group of Japan managed by Japan Institute for Promoting Invention and Innovation (JIII/JIPII) representing as Patent Attorney from India He is Startup IP Facilitator recognized by DPIIT. He is on IPR panel as IPR experts at Atal incubation center, L.M College of Pharmacy, GTU (Gujarat Technological University), Anand Pharmacy College, L.J Institute of Engg, Arihant Pharmacy College, Swarnim Startup & Innovation University, DD University (DDU), Saurashtra University, RK University and BK Modi Pharmacy college. He has been listed as Top 100 IP leader of India by World IP Forum in 2018. He is seasoned speaker and has delivered many lectures and presentations at National as well as International conferences.
Ms. Arneri practices intellectual property, media & entertainment, employment and corporate law and is a Partner of the bicoastal firm, Cittone Demers & Arneri LLP cdalawllp.com. Ms. Arneri’s practice consists of both transactional and litigation matters. Ms. Arneri’s IP practice focuses on film and television production, music production and Software as a Service products. Ms. Arneri counsels, negotiates and drafts music production agreements and film and television production and distribution agreements (including providing clearance and protection of IP, cast and crew agreements and releases). Ms. Arneri provides trademark protection for SaaS products and negotiates and drafts third party agreements, including SaaS license agreements, SLAs and Terms of Service. Ms. Arneri’s IP litigation practice focuses on trademark and copyright infringement on the plaintiff and defense side. Ms. Arneri has a dedicated pro bono practice and presents and produces a podcast on human rights and the environment, thegravity.fm. Ms. Arneri is a member of both the California and New York bars.
As a global general counsel, I lead change in complex international organizations. Using innovation to turn cost centers into value generators and accelerate cross-functional collaboration, I position enterprises to grow while achieving thought leadership on tomorrow’s pressing strategic questions. I enable CEOs and boards to recognize emerging opportunities, then build organizations that transform them into innovative, market-leading positions. Some key results include: ► Supported 3X revenue growth and repositioning at Avanade by creating new capabilities and offerings—while establishing it as the global pace-setter in digital ethics. ► Led ~10 M&A agreements and integrations at Avanade; built the global M&A function at Andersen Consulting. ► Helped to shape Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company’s 5-year plan and drove global change essential to reaching its $5B growth objective. ► Modernized compliance structure, streamlined commercial approach and spearheaded a comprehensive, coordinated response to international governance, regulatory, tax, and employment issues at $41B Honeywell. In today’s data-driven world, innovation unlocks opportunity. A customer-focused business culture with integrity and collaborative leadership ensures those opportunities generate value for shareholders, team members, and society. I look forward to discussing opportunities and challenges international enterprises face in this highly dynamic, data-driven environment.
Dr. Tabrez Ahmad is doctorate in Cyber Law & IPR from AMU Aligarh. He is working as Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean School of Law at GD Goenka University. He is the National Vice-President of law teachers division (India Chapter) of International Council of Jurists (ICJ) London, United Kingdom and Chair Legal Education Section of Indian Netional Bar Association. Prior to joining GDGU he worked as, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean School of Law at Galgotias University, Professor and Dean at University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES) School of Law. He was In-charge IPR Cell, Uttrakhand State Council for Science & Technology (UCOST), Director, Alliance School of Law, Bangalore, Professor of Cyber Law at, KIIT University, Mentor at Technology Business Incubator, NSTEDB, Govt. of India and founding faculty at NUJS Kolkata. Dr. Ahmad is a prolific speaker in the areas of Cyberlaw, IPR & Energy Law and has been the resource person at Biju Pattanaik State Police Academy, Orissa State Judicial Academy, SIPARD Tripura, ICCC Egypt, International Intellectual Property Law Association (IIPLA) Dubai, IIPLA London, BIT’s China, 22nd WMSCI USA, CII, ASSOCHAM, ICLA, CIPAM, ICCC, 6th WIPF, 5th & 11th GIPF, 23rd Convergence India, Meetings International Singapore & Bureau of Police Research Development Govt. of India. He has also practiced for a while at the bar of Delhi High Court and Supreme Court of India. He has authored a pioneering book entitled “Cyber Law, E-commerce and M-commerce”, and published more than 100 papers in reputed journals. He is an active blogger and also on the editorial board of various journals including, JIPR of CSIR, JPL of Canadian Center of Science and Education, Journal of World Review of Business Research Australia etc. As per the New York based Social Science Research Network rankings, he is ranked among the Top 200 Law Authors in the World. He is among the IPLEADERS-2019 Top 100 most followed LinkedIn lawyers and has been ranked at 13th in the world.Dr. Ahmad has 20 years rich & extensive experience in teaching, research & general administration.Specialties: Intellectual Property Law, Cyberlaw, Commercial Law & Energy Law.
Nick Guinn is a registered patent attorney specializing in all aspects of intellectual property, with an emphasis on litigation, primarily trademark, patent, and copyright infringement actions. His practice also includes counseling clients in the areas of unfair competition, trade secrets, and licensing matters. Nick also prosecutes patent and trademark applications and handles various trademark proceedings before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In addition to his practice, Nick immerses himself in the community. He enjoys volunteering with KLRN and Christian Assistance Ministries. He is an active member of his church—teaching Sunday school, coaching high school basketball, and corresponding with missionaries across the world. Nick is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the State of Texas, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Dr Ghafele has been the Director of OxFirst, an award winning IP law and economics consultancy, since 2011. In addition, she has held academic positions in International Political Economy and Business with Oxford University since 2008 and was also a tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in IP Law with Edinburgh University. Prior to that she had post-doctoral assignments at Harvard and U.C. Berkeley. From 2002-2007 she worked for 5 years as an Economist with the U.N.’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the OECD. She started her career with McKinsey in corporate finance. Her Ph.D. was awarded the Theodor Koerner Research Prize by the President of the Republic of Austria. Dr. Ghafele was trained at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, the Sorbonne and Vienna University. During the course of her studies she was fully funded by the Austrian Government because her academic merits were continuously of outstanding quality. She is native in German and fluent in English, French and Italian. Specialties: IP valuation, IP driven growth, IP audits, IP & Open Innovation
As a trademark lawyer, I help creative brands protect not only their logos, slogans, and designs, but I also help improve their understanding of the entrepreneurial journey on my podcast, The A.M. Show for Entrepreneurs, I interview creative brands whose CEO’s have created a life on their terms harnessing ambitiion and motivation on their way to the top. Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, Coolhaus Ice Cream Founder, Author for Disney Pixar’s Coco are just a few of our past guests. (Listen on Itunes, Youtube, SoundCloud, Stitcher). My goal is to encourage aspiring entrepreneurs to act on their ideas and pursue their goals. As a mom, I was also inspired by my kids to create StoweyJoey,com – a line of coloring products for kids and adults to enhance creativity and imagination. Our products have been used in the classroom, at home, outdoors, and for birthday parties. They are available for wholesale and retail purchase. To incorporate StoweyJoey products into your everyday living email us at info@stoweyjoey.com.
Nethmie is a Master’s Degree Holder in International Studies in Intellectual Property Laws (UK) along with 4 years of working experience.
An excellent leader and a patent attorney with over 10 years of experience in strategic development and management of patent portfolios covering various complex hardware/software technologies, including Wireless, Audio/Video, Cloud computing, AI and Machine Learning, Internet, and Networking technologies. Deep understanding of the patent process and managing large and small teams, including operating a patent department that aligns with specific business needs. A key contributor to the development of TiVo’s content discovery and cloud-DVR patent portfolio, Apple’s Wireless patent portfolio, Qualcomm’s OFDMA patent portfolio, and Nokia’s CDMA patent portfolio.Specialties: Developing and managing patent portfolios, patent acquisitions, patent analysis for licensing and litigation, client counseling, and conducting forward patenting sessions.
Xiaofan ChenPartner, Beijing AWA Asia Xiaofan’s practice focuses on both contentious and non-contentious strategic patent portfolio management, including client counselling on patent prosecution, dispute resolution/litigation and commercialisation advice. He has successfully represented international and domestic clients in patent invalidation, patent infringement and administrative cases. Xiaofan frequently provides clients with opinions on patent validity, patent infringement and freedom-to-operate analysis matters. He also advises on agreements for transferring or licensing patents, non-disclosure agreements/trade secret issues and commercial aspects of patent rights. Xiaofan’s experience and track record in contentious work brings a valuable dimension to the non-contentious patent prosecution and advisory work he undertakes for clients. His technical fields include mechanical engineering and manufacturing, laser imaging and printing/packaging technology, computer science, internet technology, e-commerce, and business methods. In addition to having extensive experience in filing applications and securing patents on behalf of international clients before the China National Intellectual Property Office (CNIPA), Xiaofan is experienced in assisting domestic applicants in securing their patent rights before major patent offices in other jurisdictions. Xiaofan has been admitted to practice before the CNIPA since 2006 and is one of the first patent litigators to be officially registered with the Supreme People’s Court in China. Xiaofan has been recommended for patent prosecution in China in the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals.
Board Member, Intellectual Property Collaborator, and Advisor to Companies: Creator of “Scan Commerce” and “Scan To Connect” “MPOC Mobile Point of Care Testing” and “Haptic Mapping” platforms and patents. University Guest Speaker, Author 300 History Books, History Channel A&E Personality, PBS Host. Pulitzer’s patents have been licensed to more than 330 companies, ranging from early-stage firms to Fortune 100 Industry Leaders such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Verizon, T-Mobile, eBay, IBM, AOL, Cisco, Google, Walgreen Co, TiVo Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.; Crate & Barrel Holdings, Inc.; F5 Networks, Inc.; QuickLogic Corporation; Rackspace Hosting, Inc.; Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.; Zynga Inc., Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Avaya Inc., Ericsson AB, MobiTV, Inc., Nikon Corporation, Pioneer Corporation, NEC Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., Novell, Inc.; Leap Wireless International Inc.; Barnes & Noble, Inc., Broadcom Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated, Intel Corporation, Sony Corporation, HTC Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., Nokia Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Best Buy Co, Inc., Fujitsu Limited, Intuit Inc., and Juniper Networks, IncCopyright 2019 – All Rights Reserved and Enforced.
Chris Scharff is a Shareholder at McAndrews who focuses on all areas of intellectual property. Since the enactment of theAmerica Invents Act, Chris’ practice has included a particular emphasis oninter partesreview (IPR) challenges of patentsbefore the U.S. Patent Office. Chris has represented clients in over 65 IPR proceedings in the last five years, resulting inover a dozen early-stage non-institution wins on behalf of patent-owner clients, as well as numerous favorable finaldecisions or settlements for both patent-challenger and patent-owner clients. Patexia named Chris the 31most active IPRpractitioner in 2018, the 45best-performing IPR practitioner the same year, and the 22most active IPR practitioner in2017. He is a frequent speaker and author on IPR topics.Chris’s practice also includes patent litigation through discovery, trial, and appeal. Chris is a member of the bar of both theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Chris regularly represents both plaintiffs anddefendants in disputes ranging from small cases to ones involving hundreds of millions of dollars. He has representedclients in patent disputes on technologies as varied as orthopedic implants, infusion pumps, spinal surgery devices, GPShardware, chemical products, advanced materials, automotive technology, food processing, and wireless communicationtechnology. In addition, Chris also regularly assists clients with patent prosecution, freedom-to-operate opinions, trademarkportfolio management, IP due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, licensing negotiations, and other matters.
Yahaya is the founding Partner of Law Allianz – a Nigerian law firm with coreexpertise in gaming, media, technology, ecommerce and Entertainment witha consulting office in Johannesburg, South Africa. A graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife; He was called to theNigerian Bar in 1993 and admitted as a solicitor England and Wales in 2014.During the course of his professional career He has been legal adviser to AsoSavings and Loans Plc., Company Secretary to First Alliance Pension andBenefits Limited (now ARM Pensions). He Chairs, the Entertainment and Sports committee of the Nigeria BarAssociation – Section on Business Law (SBL), a member of the NigeriaCopyrights Commission’s Copyright law Review committee and Facilitator forthe National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable’s (NASSBER)“Intellectual Property and Ecommerce” working group. In 2015 he wasinducted into the International Masters of Gaming Lawyers (IMGL) – aninvitation only non-profit association of gaming attorneys, regulators,educators, executives and consultants from around the world who arededicated to education and the exchange of professional informationconcerning all aspects of gaming law. Yahaya is one of Africa’s leading gaming consultants; he had advised severalgovernments and is currently advising the Nigeria National LotteryRegulatory commission on its ongoing restructuring, Lagos State Lotteryboard on its proposed Integrated Casino resort and Botswana GamingAssociation on the proposed new casino legal framework. He had also
Stephen J. Strauss is a Shareholder at Buchalter, APC and is the Co-Chair of its Entertainment Industry Group. For over 30 years, Mr. Strauss has specialized in domestic and international trademark, copyright, and unfair competition matters, including licensing, Internet domain name disputes, and litigation. He has prosecuted over two thousand U.S. and foreign trademark and service mark applications, and won over 60 UDRP decisions. Mr. Strauss also provides various legal production services for documentary and narrative films and scripted and unscripted television projects (including development, rights acquisition, rights and title clearances, and IP protection and enforcement). Mr. Strauss represents a number of internationally recognized celebrities, sports personalities, recording artists, chefs, authors, social media influencers, and media and entertainment companies. He also represents a wide range of diverse clients including restaurants, banks and financial institutions, clothing and toy manufacturers, and magazine and book publishers. Mr. Strauss is a member of The Television Academy, the Recording Academy (NARAS), the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and the Visual Effects Society, a non-profit professional, honorary society representing visual effects practitioners in all areas of entertainment. He is also an Adjunct Professor and member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors and Executive Board of the Biederman Entertainment & Media Law Institute at Southwestern Law School. Mr. Strauss lectures widely in the areas of entertainment intellectual property law and celebrity branding. He has lectured before the American Bar Association, the International Trademark Association, the USC Gould Institute of Entertainment Law and Business, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel, WME, SAG-AFTRA, and the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST).
Elizabeth Holland, a senior partner in Goodwin’s IP Litigation group and member of its Partnership Committee, is an experienced trial lawyer who focuses exclusively on patent infringement and related litigation. With over 30 years of experience, Ms. Holland has served as lead trial counsel in numerous patent infringement litigations, licensing disputes, arbitrations and IPR proceedings. Ms. Holland has also argued several Federal Circuit appeals. She has particular expertise in Hatch-Waxman litigation on behalf of both branded and generic drug companies, and in biosimilars litigation. Ms. Holland is consistently ranked among the top lawyers in her field by publications such as Chambers Global, Chambers USA, IAM 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners, The Legal 500 U.S., Managing Intellectual Property, LMG Life Sciences and Euromoney,which have noted her “assured handling of even the most complex pharmaceuticals patent cases” and have described her as “exactly what you want in a first-chair lawyer; she is very skilled in the courtroom, very adept at managing multiple important cases, and well liked by judges.” She has also been noted as being “exceptional on her feet in court;” getting “excellent results;” and “understanding clients’ business goals and litigating with those in mind.” Ms. Holland has twice been named “Hatch Waxman Litigator of the Year” by LMG Life Sciences and has been featured as a “Winning Litigator” by the National Law Journal.
Daniel Melman is a Partner in the Patent Litigation Group at Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz’s New York office. He is an experienced intellectual property litigation and trial attorney, with a focus on patent, trade secret and other complex matters across various technologies, including telecommunications, computer hardware and software, medical devices, electro-mechanical devices, biotechnology, financial services, e-commerce, and the internet. He concentrates his practice on formulating and directing the protection and commercialization of intellectual property assets. Daniel has taken lead roles in all aspects and phases of litigation, trials, and appeals in federal courts throughout the United States, in the United States Patent Office, and in the International Trade Commission as well as coordinating multinational parallel litigation proceedings. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to attending law school, Daniel worked as an engineer at a Fortune 1000 leading supplier of filtration, separation, and purification technologies.
John A. Stone is a partner in the New Jersey and New York offices of DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LP. His commercial litigation practice includes trade secret disputes. Mr. Stone has authored articles and is a frequent lecturer regarding trade secret law. He is also co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section’s Subcommittee on Trade Secrets, and a co-editor of the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Newsletter. He can be contacted at jstone@decotiislaw.com
Jose Mata is registered and licensed to file and prosecute patent applications before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. I have a master’s degree in computer science from Portland State University and 10 years of experience preparing or prosecuting patent applications in a variety of technologies. My practice is limited to preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent applications. Many services are available at a negotiated flat fee. An initial consultation is a flat fee of $125 for the first hour payable at the time of service. An attorney fee for preparing a U.S. non-provisional application for a simple mechanical invention may be a flat fee as low as $3,000. For a more complex mechanical invention, $5,000 or perhaps more, depending on complexity. My attorney fees do not include costs, such as patent office filing fees, fees of patent illustrators, fees of patent search firms, or other out-of-pocket costs. I work on patent applications for mechanical and computer-related inventions. By computer-related, I mean computational hardware, software, networks, mobile devices, telecommunications, semiconductor devices, electrical circuits and more. I enjoy providing many services for a flat fee that is negotiated up front. I like doing work for a flat fee because it makes both your expenses and my income more predictable. However, if you prefer paying by the hour, I can provide my services by the hour as well.
As a registered U.S. Patent Attorney and partner at the intellectual property (IP) law firm of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, I assist companies—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—to develop and protect their innovations and businesses with IP. With an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and experience as a former technology consultant at Accenture, I take a business-focused approach to IP. Companies routinely work with me in a variety of technical areas and industries with which I have expertise, including medical devices, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), computer networking, internet and e-commerce related web systems, client-server architectures, security, cryptography and encryption, blockchain/cryptocurrency, digital rights management, database and information systems, interactive user program guide interfaces, wireless communications, signal processing, mechanical devices, fintech, business methods, among others. I have significant experience with patent preparation and prosecution, patent litigation, copyrights, trademarks, opinion work, and IP transactions. I have personally prepared and prosecuted, or have been involved in preparing and prosecuting, over one hundred (100) patent applications in emerging and technical areas and industries, including in the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions (e.g., Europe, China, Japan). Also, I litigate IP cases in various U.S. district courts and have practiced before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) (including via inter partes review (IPR)), and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). I have experience at all stages of litigation, including pleadings, discovery, summary judgment, and trial. I am honored to have been published in several prestigious IP publications including the World Intellectual Property Review, Bloomberg Law, and IP Litigator, and to have been invited to speak at several IP conferences. Most recently I was a panelist at the University of Illinois Chicago’s 63rd Annual IP Conference speaking on Artificial Intelligence and IP law. As an adjunct professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, I teach coursework on Patenting Software Inventions in the United States. Beyond my legal practice, I enjoy spending time with my family, skiing, playing golf, and computer programming.
Viren Soni is Director, Patent Counsel at CME Group. He Manage patent portfolio and develop patent strategies for business units implementing a variety of software and computer-based technologies that focus on trading applications, infrastructure, security, global connectivity and data services needed for a high-speed, low latency trading lifecycle Provide training on IP protection and employee innovation program corporate-wide domestically and abroad Work closely with engineers and business leaders to harvest inventions and evaluate invention disclosures
As Counsel with IBM Federal, I work with business clients to successfully obtain, manage, and close-out complex government contracts. Specifically, I negotiate the trickier parts of prime contract and subcontracts agreements, as well as providing guidance to the business team on the requirements for compliance with FAR provisions. Additionally, I helped craft and implement our contracts for emerging areas, such as cloud and cognitive computing, as well as contracts for advanced analytics platforms and cybersecurity products. Further, I am leading IBM’s GDPR compliance effort for our U.S. Federal contracts. Finally, I have led our negotiations for numerous cloud engagements within Federal and have gained expertise in deploying blockchain. Prior to coming to IBM, I was a trial attorney at the Department of Justice. As a trial attorney with the National Courts Section, I was the primary attorney on dozens of cases. I developed an expertise in bid protest jurisdiction, along with Fifth Amendment jurisprudence. Although my primary responsibility was Government contracts, I also handled appeals, and matters involving international trade. I argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on numerous appeals, including one that determined the fate of bid protest jurisdiction in the Court of Federal Claims. I successfully argued numerous motions to dismiss against represented parties, and succeeded in obtaining the dismissal of a class action. I was also the attorney responsible for obtaining the favorable disposition in Doe v United States, in which the Court of Federal Claims held that Judah and Nitol (the Trust Island cases) had been implicitly overturned. I also successfully prepared a case for trial, conducted and defended numerous lay and expert depositions, and concluded a favorable settlement. Included in this preparation was preparing witnesses for deposition and trial, and negotiating with opposing counsel.
Heather N. Bowen, Esq. is a solutions-oriented commercial attorney with demonstrated experience advising on startup & business, intellectual property, technology transactions, media, and data privacy & security matters. She has served as corporate counsel to global companies in both the media & entertainment and healthcare technology spaces. Heather has also guided over 125 startup businesses in New York avoid pitfalls as they navigated from newly-commenced startups to established and successful corporate entities. She continues to be a thought leader through frequent publications in the legal press, speaking engagements, and leadership in multiple bar association committees. Heather also serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Anselmo Academy of Music and the Arts and as a multi-instrumentalist herself, she encourages her community to be empowered through music, arts, and education.
Robert Holloway, founder at the Midwest Korean Translation. The Midwest Korean Translation Team specializes in enhancing businesses and law firms by building genuine relationships that pierce the language barrier. We do this through interpretation, translation, and educating our clients on advanced cultural etiquette.
Dr. Hans Joachim Fuchs, Ingenieur und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, ist Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter von CHINABRAND CONSULTING, einem auf China und Asien fokussierten Beratungsunternehmen und IP-Serviceprovider mit Büros in München, Boston und Shanghai. Berufliche Stationen: Direktor bei Deloitte, Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung bei Braxton Associates, Vizedirektor der Prognos AG und Projektleiter bei der Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt. Dr. Hans Joachim Fuchs, Engineer and Economist, is Founder and General Manager of CHINABRAND CONSULTING, a China- and Asia-focused management consultancy and IP service provider with offices in Munich, Boston, and Shanghai. He was a Director with Deloitte, Member of the Board with Braxton Associates, Vice Director of Swiss Prognos AG and Manager with the German Handelsblatt Publishing Group.
Ms. Deepali Paun (MSc; LLM), Founder-IP BRICKLAYER, is Registered Indian Patent Agent and Attorney. She has been serving diverse clientele for IP protection since nine years now; focusing on counselling on patentatable matter, conducting extensive prior art searches, drafting and prosecuting patent applications in India and outside. Besides, she has experience in filing and prosecution of Trademarks, Copyrights and Design applications. She has pen down various articles for local and international publications and have co-authored Handbook on IP for Start-Ups and Entrepreneurs. She has also been mentoring start-ups for obtaining IP protection, delivering lectures and taking awareness sessions, induction programs for faculties, start-ups, R&D teams, students and inventors. Her dynamic participation in International conferences and knowledge building adds to her expertise in guidance to her clientele in international IP portfolio building. She has been recognised as Top Emerging IP Player by The IPR Gorilla Conference.
Omar Jabri is a Senior Director in the Intellectual Property department at Apotex, a Canadian pharmaceutical company which distributes drugs in over 115 countries around the globe. Mr. Jabri advises Apotex on all day-to-day matters relating to generic drug approval, including pre-submission diligence, including patent analysis, and oversight of external counsel involved in litigations over Apotex’s drug products. He is also Lead Attorney for Apobiologix, Apotex’s biosimilars division. Mr. Jabri graduated from the University of Toronto with a Hon. B.Sc. (2000), and received law degrees from the University of Ottawa (2004) and Harvard Law School (2006). He is admitted to practice in Ontario and New York State.
Jeffrey Alan Hovden, Partner, Robins Kaplan LLP Practices in the area of patent litigation, with a focus on generic pharmaceutical patent cases under the Hatch-Waxman Act and within the biotechnology industry. Has litigated numerous patent infringement and invalidity actions, including many cases involving top-selling worldwide prescription drugs for both generic and name-brand clients. Routinely advises clients on their intellectual property portfolios and has extensive experience with the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act’s drug-approval provisions and their attendant regulations; provides infringement, validity, and due diligence opinions. Experienced with copyrights, particularly those involving functional works; counsels biotechnology clients regarding licensing matters. Provides analysis of current legal issues facing the health and life sciences industry in the Robins Kaplan Trial Attorneys Blog.
Greg Y. Sato is Managing Counsel in Intel’s Patent Transactions Group, which focuses on counseling and advising in connection with worldwide patent transactions, such as licenses, cross-licenses, acquisitions and sales, related corporate patent strategy as well as pre-litigation patent assertions. Among his other projects, Greg created and currently co-manages Intel’s worldwide Patent Sales Program and was a primary contributor to Intel regularly being a top patent seller. Greg is a leading expert in IP strategy and transactions. He also has deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions and has worked on over 60 transactions with an aggregate deal value in excess of $15 billion. In addition, Greg has extensive experience in licensing and technology transactions, open source, industry standards, transfer pricing and corporate law. Greg is a frequent speaker at prominent IP events and conferences, including the Hispanic National Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Business Congress Asia, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the Keizai Society. During his career, Greg has received multiple awards for his professional work as well as for his pro bono and community service activities, including the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Office of Human Relations, Santa Clara County, in 2009. Before joining Intel, Greg was a Director at eSilicon, a semiconductor design services start-up in Silicon Valley (which was subsequently acquired by Inphi Corporation and Synopsys, Inc.), and worked at Fenwick & West LLP, a national technology-focused law firm that is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings. During law school, Greg was a judicial extern for the now retired Honorable Vaughn Walker (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California). Before beginning his legal career, Greg also worked for TRW, IBM and Microsoft (in engineering and technical roles).
An MIT graduate with multiple degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Heidi has been a patent attorney in Israel and a US patent agent for 30 years. As managing patent attorney at her own boutique patent firm, Heidi Brun Associates, she specializes in turning complicated concepts and highly mathematical ideas into readily understandable patent applications. She is an expert at working with inventors, turning their often- complex visions into elegant and defensible patent applications. Heidi has helped many clients, large and small, to manage their patent portfolios as well as to budget them. Over the years, Heidi has written patents for dozens of success stories within the Israeli hi-tech field, including Wix, GSI Technology, Sure Universal, One Smart Star, SodaStream, Given Imaging, IBM, VocalTec, and Scitex. Heidi has also trained numerous Israeli patent attorneys. Her students have pursued illustrious careers both in-house, at large law firms; and creating their own successful patent practices.
Tyler is Managing Director –Asia for EverEdge. He leads the company’s intangible asset valuations team, as well as headingup finance and operations. In recent years’ Tyler has establishedthe company’s Singapore office and its alliance with IPOS International, a subsidiary of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. Tyler has worked with leading Singapore and international companies such as Singtel, Danone, Singapore Power, ST Aerospace and more, to help them find ways to better leverage and value their intangible assets. Prior to joining EverEdge, Tyler worked in New York for Deloitte and Goldman Sachs, advising Wall Street banks and financial institutionsand working on a number of high-profile transactions including the Facebook IPO and the Apple Bond Offering. Tyler is a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA) and a Chartered Valuer and Appraiser (CVA). He also holdsan MBA from the University of Utah.
Paul Adams is the CEO of EverEdge, a global advisory and transaction firm specialisingin intangible assets. EverEdge helps companies and capital providers convert intangible assets (such as data, design, inventions, brands, software and content) into business impact: increased margins, market share and enterprise value. Paul has been ranked as one of the top intellectual property strategists in the world for the last eightyears consecutively and is a prior recipient of the Global IP Leader Award. Paul is a respected Director of several New Zealand and Singapore based organizations and is also Chairman of a CEO Institute syndicate. Prior to EverEdge, Paul served as Intellectual Property Manager for the New York Stock Exchange listed Brunswick New Technologies. He was the founding incubator manager of The Icehouse Incubator, named one of the top 10 technology incubators in the world by Forbes magazine. He has served on the advisory board of the New Zealand government’s commercialisation vehicle Callaghan Innovation and on the Board of Lewis Holdings, a $350M private investment vehicle.
David A. Prange is a partner at Robins Kaplan and leads the firm’s trade secret subgroup. Mr. Prange focuses his practice on complex business litigation with an emphasis on intellectual property, including patent, trade secret, trademark, and license disputes in federal and state courts across the United States.
Christopher K. Larus Partner; Chair, National IP and Technology Litigation Group Robins Kaplan LLP Christopher K. Larus chairs the national intellectual property and technology litigation group at Robins Kaplan LLP. For more than 25 years, he has helped his clients protect their IP rights. He tries complex trade secret, patent, trademark copyright, and licensing cases in courts around throughout the United States and in both national and international arbitration.
General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at SilcoTek Corporation, Pennsylvania
Brad combines his extensive legal experience and background in engineering with the valuable insight of a former patent examiner to help clients creatively advance their patent applications and strategically develop their portfolios. He concentrates his practice on prosecution, counseling, and litigation in all areas of intellectual property. Brad has years of patent drafting experience in a range of industries and technologies, including mechanical, software, and business method arts. He frequently prepares freedom-to-practice opinions and has served on a number of successful Banner Witcoff teams that have obtained favorable rulings for clients in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings and patent litigation. He enjoys working with clients to craft innovative strategies to build and protect their patent portfolios, both domestically and internationally. He has spoken at numerous conferences and authored several articles on a variety of intellectual property topics, including IPR proceedings and prosecution strategies in light of the America Invents Act.
Intellectual Property Consultant European and Italian Patent Attorney EU and Italian Trademark and Design Attorney With more than 40 year of experience, Mr. Roberto Dini is one of the best known and appreciated Intellectual Property experts. He began his career with Indesit where he was Head of the Patent and Trademark Office. In 1982 Mr. Dini founded Sisvel, which has soon become a world leader in managing Intellectual Property and maximizing the value of patent rights. With Sisvel he has developed invaluable experience in setting up and managing patent pools and other forms of IP aggregation. He has extensive expertise in filing and prosecuting patents; drafting contracts for the acquisition or licensing of patents; negotiating with multi-national companies; and assisting patent owners in enforcing their patent rights, especially in the consumer electronics field. In 1987 Mr. Dini founded Metroconsult, an Intellectual Property consultancy firm with offices in Turin, Milan and Genoa, wherein he transferred the experience acquired from the industrial world, providing his clients with high-quality services “tailored” to the needs of each individual client. Mr. Dini is a Member of the Italian Industrial Property Consultant Association, a registered Patent Attorney before the European Patent Office (EPO) and Trademark and Design attorney before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). He is member of different IP Associations and past President of LES (Licensing Executives Society) Italy.
David Wanetick is a world-renowned authority on the issue of intellectual property valuation. His clients include law firms; emerging, mid- and large-sized companies; national laboratories; technology transfer offices; inventors; venture capitalists, and private equity firms. The valuations David performs are primarily conducted in the context of negotiating licensing agreements, mergers and acquisitions, patent sales, capital raises, and litigation support. He developed and runs the Certified Patent Valuation Analyst designation. David is the author of The Strategic Negotiator: A Manual for Negotiating at the Elite Level. For more than 20 years, David has negotiated licensing transactions, spin-offs, capital raises, joint-ventures, and exits alongside and against Fortune 500 companies, government entities, universities, commercial bankers, private equity firms, and venture capitalists. David is the Chief Executive Officer of The Institute for Strategic Negotiations, which maintains the world’s largest library of negotiating courses. For more information or to contact David, please visit his Company Profile Page.
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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