Tsan Abrahamson is an attorney at Colbalt LLP, and focuses her practice on strategic counseling in the areas of sweepstakes, intellectual property, advertising, trademark clearance, trademark and copyright prosecution, licensing, and other business transactions.
In addition to her advertising and promotions work, Ms. Abrahamson has successfully prosecuted thousands of trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and internationally, including difficult sound and sensory marks and design marks. She has registered hundreds of copyrights at the U.S. Copyright Office and overseas. She counsels clients in anti-counterfeit business practices, including recording trademarks with U.S. Customs, developing special product lines to avoid entry of grey market goods into the U.S., and working with clients to develop electronic tagging protocols to monitor shipments of merchandise.
Ms. Abrahamson completed her undergraduate work at Dartmouth College, and earned both a JD and MBA from the UCLA School of Law and The Anderson Graduate School of Management.
Marc S. Adler is the principal of his own Intellectual Property consulting firm (Marc Adler, LLC) in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, where he focuses on assisting companies in developing and implementing patent strategies and managing patent operations. He has worked extensively on intellectual property matters worldwide for the past 30 years.
Prior to forming his own consulting practice he was, for 15 years, the Associate General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of Rohm and Haas Company, a twelve billion dollar specialty materials company headquartered in Philadelphia with operations around the world. He is a past president of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel (ACPC). He is currently a member of the USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) and has been involved with patent reform legislation for a number of years, and is currently leading the USPTO’s task force on patent quality.
Mr. Adler earned a J.D. from St John’s University, an M.S. Eng. (chemical engineering) from the University of Florida and a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the City College of New York. He is admitted to the bars of the state of New York, the Federal Circuit and various federal district courts.
Hon. Shara L. Aranoff, a Democrat of Maryland, is the Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission. Chairman Aranoff was nominated to the Commission by President George W. Bush on April 27, 2005, for the term ending December 16, 2012. Her nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 29, 2005, and she was sworn in as a member of the Commission on September 6, 2005.
Prior to her appointment, Chairman Aranoff was Senior International Trade Counsel on the Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where she was responsible for legislative and policy issues on international trade and investment, including the Trade Act of 2002; negotiations involving the World Trade Organization, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, and numerous free trade agreements; trade remedy laws; Trade Adjustment Assistance, and trade-related environment and labor issues.
Earlier in her career, Chairman Aranoff was an Associate at the Washington, DC law firm of Steptoe & Johnson. Prior to that, she served as judicial clerk for the Honorable Herbert P. Wilkins, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court.
Chairman Aranoff earned a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public International Affairs at Princeton University. She earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and attended the University of Geneva Switzerland as a Fulbright Scholar.
Matthew D. Asbell is an Associate at the international intellectual property boutique firm of Ladas & Parry LLP in its New York office. With a background in the entertainment and information technology industries, he has worked extensively in matters involving the use of trademarks in the Web 2.0 / Social Media space.
Mr. Asbell has authored and co-authored publications on the topics of trademark, licensing, copyright, patent, broadcasting and internet and privacy law. He has served as liaison between the ABA Law Student Division and the Section of Intellectual Property Law, and currently is the vice-chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the ABA Young Lawyers Division.
Mr. Asbell earned a B.S. in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and attended the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University School of Medicine. He earned a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was president of the Intellectual Property Law Society and Acquisitions Editor of the top-ranked Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal. He is registered to practice as a patent attorney before the U.S.P.T.O. and is admitted to the bars of New York and New Jersey.
Ian C. Ballon is a shareholder in the Silicon Valley and Los Angeles offices of Greenberg Traurig LLP.
Mr. Ballon represents technology, media and entertainment companies in complex Internet and intellectual property litigation and counseling. He is also the author of the 4-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Legal Treatise with Forms, 2d Edition (West 2009 & Annual Supplements) and The Complete CAN-SPAM Act Handbook (West 2008) and The Complete State Security Breach Notification Compliance Handbook (West 2009). In addition, Mr. Ballon serves as the Executive Director of Stanford University Law School’s Center for E-Commerce.
Mr. Ballon is admitted to practice in California, the District of Columbia and Maryland and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Jonathan Band helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA); database protection legislation; the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; and other federal and state statutes relating to intellectual property and the Internet. He complements this legislative advocacy by filing amicus briefs in significant cases related to these provisions.
In addition, Mr. Band is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and has written extensively on intellectual property and the Internet, including the book Interfaces on Trial and over 60 articles.
Mr. Band earned a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1982 from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985. From 1985 to 2005, Mr. Band worked at the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, including thirteen years as a partner. Mr. Band established his own law firm in May, 2005.
Lawrence (Larry) J. Bassuk is a Deputy General Patent Counsel and Senior Patent Counsel at Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) in Dallas, Texas. He practices intellectual property law, particularly patent prosecution, and represents TI as Trademark Counsel and Copyright Counsel. He also represents TI in the intellectual property rights policies of standards development organizations.
Mr. Bassuk started work as an electronics engineer for Teletype Corporation where he led the design of a microprocessor based communications controller. He started his law career in general practice in 1975. He then specialized in intellectual property law starting in 1978 in private firms in Chicago, Illinois before joining TI in 1988.
Mr. Bassuk teaches general and intellectual property law, in person and on-line, at the University of Texas at Dallas, School of Management. He is a member of the American Bar Association and served as President of the Dallas Fort Worth Intellectual Property Law Association.
He earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1970 from Southern Illinois University and a J.D. in 1975 from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is admitted to the bars of the State of Illinois (inactive), the State of Texas, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
June M. Besek is the Executive Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School. She also heads the Center’s program for intellectual property studies and law reform. She teaches Current Issues in Copyright, and a seminar on legal issues concerning creators, entitled Authors, Artists and Performers. Prior to joining Columbia Law School, Ms. Besek was a partner at a New York City law firm, and Director of Intellectual Property at Reuters in New York.
Ms. Besek is the chair of the Copyright Division of the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law, and also heads the Section’s Copyright Reform Task Force. She is a member of the N.Y. City Bar Association’s Committee on Copyright and Literary Property. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and the board of advisors of Columbia Law School’s Journal of Law & the Arts. She was a member of the Section 108 Study Group, created by the Copyright Office and the Library of Congress. Ms. Besek is the author of many articles and studies on copyright law issues and on digital library issues. She earned a law degree from New York University School of Law and an undergraduate degree, in economics, from Yale University.
Anthony J. Biller is a member at Coats + Bennett, where he leads the firm’s litigation practice, by representing clients in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret lawsuits and related disputes. Mr. Biller also spends a significant amount of his practice advising and assisting clients with managing their intellectual property assets.
He currently chairs the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law Committee on Trademark Litigation, and is the immediate past chair of the committee on Trademarks and the Internet, and was named to the North Carolina Business “Legal Elite” for Intellectual Property in 2008 and 2009.
He served as a United States District Court judicial clerk for the Honorable William L. Osteen, Sr., in the Middle District of North Carolina, and served four years as an officer in the United States Army where, as a Jumpmaster and Ranger, he led soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division.
Mr. Biller earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Campbell University and a B.A. from Purdue University where he was a Distinguished Military Graduate.
Paul A. Bondor is a partner with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, in the firm’s New York office. His practice focuses on the trial of patent infringement disputes, and his efforts have contributed to some of the largest patent jury verdicts in history. Mr. Bondor’s litigation experience spans a wide range of industries, including DRAM design, voice-over-IP technology, computer software, medical devices, as well as other technologies from hybrid electric vehicles to body armor.
Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis LLP in 2004, Mr. Bondor was a partner with Kenyon & Kenyon in New York, which he joined after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Louis L. Stanton in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
He earned a J.D., magna cum laude, in 1993 from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an editor of the Michigan Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He earned a B.S.E., cum laude, in 1990 from Princeton University, where he studied mechanical and aerospace engineering and was elected to Sigma Xi. He is admitted to the bars of New York and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Matthew R. Bryan serves as the Director of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Legal Division, where he reports directly to James Pooley, WIPO Deputy Director General for Patents. He is in charge of PCT-related teaching and training, user relations, the PCT Infoline, the PCT portion of the WIPO website and the legal and informational texts. He often represents the PCT and WIPO at meetings of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law (ABA-IPL), the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA), the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and other international organizations.
Before joining WIPO, Mr. Bryan served as a Law Clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to Judge Randall R. Rader and to Senior Judge Marion T. Bennett.
Mr. Bryan earned a B.A. from Brigham Young University and a J.D. from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. He is a member of the State Bar of California since 1990, and speaks English, Spanish and French.
Charles E. Bullock is an Administrative Law Judge at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC). Prior to joining the USITC in 2002, Judge Bullock was an Administrative Law Judge at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also served as an Administrative Law Judge at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from 1984 until 1996. Before he became an Administrative Law Judge, he was Assistant General Counsel for Pipeline Rates at FERC from 1978 until 1984. He also served in various attorney staff positions at FERC from 1972 until 1978.
Judge Bullock represented the USITC at two conferences concerning Section 337 matters in the People’s Republic of China. Judge Bullock is a member of the American Bar Association, the FORUM of United States Administrative Law Judges, and the Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference.
He earned a J.D. from the George Washington University in 1971 and a B.A. from Bucknell University in 1968. He is admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia.
Jim Burger is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes specializing in representation of technology companies on intellectual property, entertainment content licensing, communications and government policy matters. Mr. Burger joined the firm's Media, Information and Technologies group in January, 1997. Prior to that, Mr. Burger was a Senior Director in Apple Computer's Law Department.
Mr. Burger has worked extensively on legal and policy issues arising from the confluence of digital technology, intellectual property protection and government regulation, particularly as affecting the Internet. Mr. Burger has represented technology companies in providing digital video services to motion picture companies and in acquiring motion picture content for digital distribution. Mr. Burger has also participated in resolving such complex issues as DVD copy protection and digital download of music - representing the Computer Industry Group in negotiations developing the DVD Content Scrambling System copy protection rules as well as the Secure Digital Music Initiative.
Mr. Burger earned his Bachelors (with Honors) and Masters degrees from New York University and his J.D., cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the NYU Law Journal.
Edward N. Cahn has been Of Counsel at the law firm of Blank Rome LLP since 1999 focusing on litigation and dispute resolution. While at Blank Rome, Judge Cahn has mediated over 1,000 separate controversies and is reporting a success rate in excess of 80%.
From 1975 to 1998, he served as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and was Chief Judge from 1993 to 1998. He was admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania in 1959 and was in private practice from 1959 to 1974 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Judge Cahn is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Lehigh County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, Judicial Conference of the United States from 1994 to 1996, Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Resources from 1993 to 1998 and Judicial Conference for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals from1993 to 1998. He was a Tresolini Lecturer in Law at Lehigh University. Judge Cahn is a certified panelist of the National Patent Board. He is a member of the Donald E. Wie and, Sr., American Inn of Court. Judge Cahn was Adjunct Professor of Law at Rutgers-Camden Law School from 1985 to1989.
He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. degree from Lehigh University and earned his LL.B. degree from Yale University in 1958. In 2002, Lehigh University awarded Judge Cahn an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws.
Kevin R. Casey is Chair of the Intellectual Property (IP) Group and Co-Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Group with the Philadelphia-based firm of Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, LLP. He also has an active appellate practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is former President of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court, and the Philadelphia IP Law Association. He has taught IP courses at Temple University School of Law as an adjunct professor since 1995 and has authored numerous papers on IP issues.
Mr. Casey considers alternate dispute resolution (ADR) to be an integral part of his practice, participating in various ADR procedures as a party representative and as a neutral. He has been certified as both an arbitrator and a mediator by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
After graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with dual B.S. degrees in Materials Engineering and Mathematics, Mr. Casey earned an M.S. degree from the University of Cincinnati during a four-year stint as an engineer with General Electric. He graduated magna cum laude from the University Of Illinois College Of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He had the privilege of serving for two years (1987-89) as a judicial clerk to The Honorable Helen W. Nies, former Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit.
Chris Castle is Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle, Attorneys, with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, which he founded in 2004. The Firm represents a variety of clients in music, motion pictures and television, as well as technology companies and video game publishers. Mr. Castle also consults leading organizations of public policy matters relating to copyright and artist rights.
Before founding the firm, Mr. Castle was Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs and General Counsel at SNOCAP, Inc., Senior Vice President, Business Affairs at Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. and Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs at A&M Records, Inc. He was of Counsel to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and to Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp.
Mr. Castle is an MBA/JD graduate of Anderson Graduate School of Management and the UCLA School of Law where he was twice elected an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, was a member of the UCLA Law Review. Mr. Castle graduated form UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude.
Barry L. Cohen is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP. He concentrates his practice in the areas of intellectual property litigation, including trademark & copyright infringement and trade secret litigation, as well as commercial and business litigation. He has represented technology, manufacturing and distribution companies in the protection of their intellectual property rights and licensing programs, and has counseled businesses in developing proper intellectual property protection.
Mr. Cohen is the past Chairman of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section and is the current Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Laws Trade Secret and Interference with Contracts Committee. He has also appeared several times as a guest commentator on CNBC's television programs to discuss important IP issues.
Mr. Cohen was a Fellow at Temple University Academy of Advocacy in 2001 and earned a J.D. from Temple University School of Law in 1993 and a B.A. in Economics and History from Emory University in 1990. In 2009, Mr. Cohen was selected as one of Pennsylvania's "Super Lawyers" in the field of Intellectual Property Litigation.
Juliana M. Cofrancesco is a partner with Howrey LLP and has substantial experience in international trade and intellectual property matters representing North American, Asian and European clientele in a variety of industries. Her practice concentrates on counseling and litigation in international trade and intellectual property matters including antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, patent infringement litigation, particularly Section 337 proceedings, Section 201 Safeguard cases, export controls, US Customs matters, and trade preference programs.
She represents clients before the US International Trade Commission, the Department of Commerce, the US Trade Representative's Office, US Customs and Border Protection, NAFTA BiNational Panels, the US Court of International Trade, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the US Supreme Court.
Ms. Cofrancesco serves as Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law's Committee on the International Trade Commission. She served as Past President of the International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association and sits on the Executive Board of the Association.
Ms. Confrancesco earned a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Albany, State University of New York and a JD cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center.
James R. Davis, II is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Arent Fox LLP. He has a broad IP practice with a particular focus on protecting clients' intellectual property from infringement on the Internet and in the international marketplace. Mr. Davis has extensive experience with legal issues related to anti-counterfeiting and Internet law, and he actively monitors current legislative developments in those areas. He has represented clients in numerous adversarial proceedings, including federal lawsuits, T.T.A.B. proceedings and more than 400 disputes under ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP"). He also spends a significant amount of time prosecuting international and domestic trademark portfolios.
Mr. Davis is Vice Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law Special Committee 254 on Trademarks and the Internet, and Chair-Elect for 2010-2011. He also serves on the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s Counterfeiting and Piracy Committee. As an adjunct professor of law, Mr. Davis has taught intellectual property classes at George Mason University School of Law and lectured at American University.
Mr. Davis earned a law degree from the University of Kansas, and earned a B.B.A. in Accounting and M.B.A. from James Madison University.
Pamela M. Deese is a partner in the DC office of Arent Fox’s intellectual property group. Her practice focuses on intellectual property strategic planning, management and licensing, as well as advertising review and substantiation. Ms. Deese also represents clients in related regulatory proceedings, standards development, and patent pools.
Ms. Deese is active in numerous professional associations. She serves as Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law Committee on Technical Standardization and Infrastructure. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Licensing Journal and is the Trademark Licensing columnist for that publication. She holds membership in the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation, Section of Intellectual Property Law, the District of Columbia Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Additionally, she is a member of the Licensing Industry Merchandisers Association.
Ms. Deese is also a member of the Board of Trustees of American University (2001-Pres.) and serves on the Kennedy Center’s Circles Board (2000-Pres.).
Denise W. DeFranco is a partner with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, in the firm’s Cambridge, MA office. She has successfully litigated patent disputes in a wide range of technologies including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, telecommunications, business methods, and electronics.
Ms. DeFranco has been engaged by organizations, such as AIPLA and the Federal Circuit Bar Association, to write amicus briefs in high-profile patent cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit. These cases have included Bilski (statutory subject matter), Pfaff (on sale bar), Festo (doctrine of equivalents), Philips (claim construction), and Merck v. Integra (271(e)(1)).
Ms. DeFranco is currently serving on the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law’s Task Force on Patent Law Reform and its Content Advisory Board. In June 2007, she was selected to serve a three-year term on the Board of AIPLA, after having served as Chair of its Amicus Committee for several years. She has also served on the Board of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and as Chair of its Amicus Committee.
Prior to joining private practice, Ms. DeFranco clerked for the now Chief Judge Paul R. Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and as a Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Ms. DeFranco earned a J.D. from George Washington University and a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University.
Elizabeth H. Dickinson is an Associate Chief Counsel for Drugs in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Food and Drug Administration. She provides legal advice and litigation support for the Office of the Commissioner and the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Her areas of expertise include generic drugs, Hatch-Waxman, orphan and pediatric exclusivity, and follow-on proteins.
Ms. Dickinson earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, and a J.D. from Northeastern University. She was law clerk to the Honorable William B. Bryant of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Dickinson has been with FDA since 1994.
Barry Eagar is a sole practitioner from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Mr. Eager is an Australian and New Zealand registered patent and trade mark attorney. His primary work involves the preparation and filing of patent and trademark applications for local and international clients. He also provides litigation support in patent and trademark disputes.
Mr. Eagar has worked extensively in the fields of mechanical, mining and electrical engineering, software and ecommerce. Prior to entering a solo practice career in July 2009, he was a founding partner of Eagar & Buck which was formed in June 2001 and merged with Cullens Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys in August 2008. His career started in South Africa in 1990 with Adams & Adams where he became a partner in 1998, before immigrating to Australia in 1999, where he joined Pizzeys Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys and re-qualified.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia.
Mr. Eagar has been a speaker at previous American Bar Association conferences, IPSANZ (Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand) and LSI (Law Seminars International).
Steven R. Englund is a partner in Jenner & Block's Washington, DC office. He is a member of the Firm's Creative Content Practice. Mr. Englund has extensive experience in copyright law as well as new media and technology transactions.
Mr. Englund's practice focuses primarily on the use of music and other entertainment content in the digital environment and the application of copyright law to new technologies, as well as on more traditional copyright matters. For over 15 years he has helped shape copyright law for the digital environment by representing the U.S. recording industry in the industry negotiations leading to the enactment of such legislation as the Audio Home Recording Act, the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Small Webcaster Settlement Act and the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act.
Mr. Englund earned a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
Markham C. Erickson is a founding partner of Holch & Erickson LLP, where he represents clients before federal regulatory agencies, courts, and the United States Congress. His practice typically involves engagement on complex issues relating to the Internet, new technologies, and nascent industries. He also has an active practice in Native American law and policy.
Beginning in the mid-1990s, representing Netscape and AOL, Mr. Erickson helped to write and negotiate many of the federal laws that govern e-commerce, technology, and the use of the Internet, including the CAN-SPAM Act, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the DMCA, and the Communications Decency Act.
He serves as lead counsel to Google, eBay, Amazon.com, IAC, Skype, and other Internet and technology companies in the Open Internet Coalition, a coalition representing consumers, grassroots organizations, and Internet and technology companies advocating for “network neutrality” before the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the United States Congress.
Mr. Erickson earned a B.A. in English Literature from Wheaton College (IL) and a J.D., with honors, from George Washington University Law School. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the United States Supreme Court Bar. He is a member of the American Bar Association, where he serves on a variety of intellectual property and technology subcommittees.
Jay Erstling is a professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law and of counsel at Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 2002 to 2007, he served as the Director of the Office of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and Director-Advisor at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. His responsibilities included the administration and reform of the PCT legal framework and PCT policy, the maintenance of effective working relations with all PCT member countries, and daily oversight of the PCT system.
He was twice selected as a Fulbright Scholar (in Cyprus and Sri Lanka), was the recipient of an Indo-American Fellowship, and served as an intellectual property consultant in South Asia, the Middle East, Western Africa, and the Caribbean for the United States Agency for International Development, the U.S. State Department, and The Asia Foundation. He earned both a J.D. and B.S. from Cornell University.
Anna Georges Eshoo is a U.S. politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing California's 14th congressional district. The district, which includes part of Silicon Valley, includes the cities of Redwood City, Sunnyvale and Palo Alto. She is the only member of Congress of Assyrian descent.
Congresswoman Eshoo earned an A.A. in English from Canada College, and an honorary doctorate from Menlo College.
Hon. Michael R. Fleming was appointed to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences as an Administrative Patent Judge on May 1, 1994. Judge Fleming’s has experience in dealing with ex parte appeals involving the electrical arts and interference proceedings.
Judge Fleming worked briefly as an electrical engineer at Naval Facilities Engineering Command and then joined the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner in 1981. He received an Examiner’s Master rating in computer arts in 1984 and became a primary examiner with full signatory authority in 1985. He became a supervisory primary examiner in 1990 for Art Unit 2308 in the complex art area of computer processing using artificial intelligence.
Judge Fleming received the Norman P. Morgenstern Award and the Department of Commerce’s Bronze Medal. Judge Fleming was awarded the Department of Commerce Gold Medal for his participation in the creation of the Examination Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions, which provided major improvement in examining quality and consistency.
Judge Fleming earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1978, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University with emphasis in computers in 1982 and a J.D. from George Mason University Law School in 1986. He was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1986.
Christina D. Frangiosa is Counsel in the Trademark Department of Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, LLP, an intellectual property law firm based in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. Frangiosa concentrates her practice on trademark application prosecution and related litigation, domain name disputes, copyright and trade secret matters. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Frangiosa was a senior litigation associate with Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP in the Philadelphia office.
Ms. Frangiosa currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Federal Trademark Legislation Committee (Committee 201) of the American Bar Association's Section of Intellectual Property Law and as Co-Chair of the Women in IP Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
Ms. Frangiosa graduated from The American University/School of International Service with a B.A. in International Affairs/Russian Area Studies in 1990. She earned a J.D., cum laude, from Temple University School of Law in 1997, where she was Executive Editor of Temple Law Review.
Nicole D. Galli is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group of the Litigation Department of Pepper Hamilton LLP. She focuses her practice on intellectual property disputes and other complex commercial litigation. Ms. Galli has experience litigating patent and patent licensing, trademark, copyright, trade secret, false advertising, consumer fraud, unfair competition, antitrust and general commercial matters.
Prior to joining Pepper Hamilton in 1996, Ms. Galli was an attorney with Dewey Ballantine LLP in New York (now known as Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP). Ms. Galli serves as Chair of the CLE Teleconferences Committee for the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law. She is also a member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, where she serves on several committees and is co-chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
Ms. Galli earned a J.D. in 1992 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A., cum laude, in European history in 1989 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Eileen Garczynski is vice president of Ames & Gough, a specialty insurance and risk management consulting brokerage. Ms. Garczynski is located in the firm’s D.C. office and is an expert on lawyers’ professional liability issues and the needs of law firms around the country. Ms. Garczynski joined Ames & Gough in 2007 and is a lawyer by training with more than 20 years of law firm, risk management and insurance experience. She served as a strategic market planner for LexisNexis for seven years.
Formerly, Ms. Garczynski served as a litigation and risk manager for the American Red Cross. She also served as inside counsel and claims manager for Wausau Insurance Companies and the Travelers Insurance companies.
Ms. Garczynski earned a J.D. in 1996 from the University of Baltimore, School of Law; a certificate in Marketing Strategy from Georgetown University in 2000; and a joint B.A., cum laude, in 1988 from the College of Wooster. She is admitted to the Maryland Bar.
Scott B. Garner is a partner in the Irvine, California office of Howrey LLP. His practice focuses on complex business litigation, with particular emphasis on attorney liability defense. He also has significant experience in the areas of patent infringement litigation, securities litigation, and health care law. Prior to joining Howrey LLP, Mr. Garner was an associate with Howard Rice from 1999 to 2000, and with Latham & Watkins from 1991 to 1999.
He is a member of the American Bar Association and a member of the Board of Governors of the Orange County Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. He also is the co-chair of the Orange County Bar Association Professionalism and Ethics Committee.
Mr. Garner earned a J.D., cum laude, in 1991 from Harvard Law School, and a B.A., with distinction, in 1988 from Stanford University.
Barbara J. Gislason is a solo ‘Super Lawyer’ who practices in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a pioneer in the professional bar who founded both Minnesota’s Art & Entertainment Law and Animal Law Sections. She taught the first Art Law classes at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
Currently, Ms. Gislason is the Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law’s Insurance & Risk Management Committee, and Chair-Elect of the ABA TIPS Intellectual Property Law Committee. She represents two ABA sections as liaison to the ABA Special Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness, and serves as an ABA advisor to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. She is working with other experts in the ABA on cyber security and privacy concerns. In addition, she is the founding chair of the ABA TIPS Animal Law Committee and championed the ABA’s recent unanimous passage of the “Model Act Governing Standards for the Care and Disposition of Disaster Animals.”
Ms. Gislason is a graduate of Carleton College and William Mitchell College of Law. She is admitted to the bars of Minnesota, U.S. District Court Minnesota, U.S. Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court and represents a variety of Art & Entertainment clients in copyright and transactional matters.
Jonathan Gottlieb is Senior Vice President, Litigation, at Fox Group Legal in Los Angeles, where his practice focuses on general litigation matters, with a concentration on the intersection of copyright law and evolving technologies. His work includes litigation and policy work for the production, distribution, and Internet entities affiliated with Fox, including Twentieth Century Fox film, television, and home entertainment divisions, MySpace and IGN Entertainment.
Prior to joining Fox, Mr. Gottlieb was Counsel in the Law and Strategy and Litigation sections at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Los Angeles.
Mr. Gottlieb graduated with highest honors from The George Washington University Law School, where he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and as a member of the Moot Court Board. Following law school, Mr. Gottlieb was a law clerk for The Honorable Roger J. Miner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Joe Gratz is a partner at Durie Tangri LLP. Before becoming a partner, Joe was Durie Tangri's first associate. He was previously an associate at Keker & Van Nest LLP, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr. of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005-06.
Mr. Gratz has litigated a number of important Internet copyright and trademark disputes. He represented Google in negotiating the settlement of class action copyright litigation related to the Google Book Search case and in the Rescuecom v. Google and Vulcan Golf v. Google trademark cases. He successfully defended the Ninth Circuit's judgment in favor of a credit card processing company in Perfect 10 v. VISA against en banc and certiorari attacks. In a pro bono case, Mr. Gratz won summary judgment on behalf of Troy Augusto, an eBay seller of promotional CDs who had been sued by the world's largest record company. He previously represented artist Shepard Fairey in fair use litigation against the Associated Press over the Obama Hope poster.
Mr. Gratz earned a B.A. in English and Theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. In 2005, he earned a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, and Technology (and director of the law school musical).
Gary Greenstein is Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on intellectual property, licensing, and commercial transactions, with specialized expertise in the digital exploitation of intellectual property. He regularly represents companies in transactions with record labels, music publishers, and program suppliers. He advises companies on complex intellectual property matters and frequently assists in the development of new business models. In addition, Mr. Greenstein advises investors on due diligence in the digital media area and companies in all stages of their development cycle.
Mr. Greenstein earned a B.A., cum laude in History from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. (with high honors) from George Washington University Law School.
Hayden W. Gregory is currently the Legislative Consultant for the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law (ABA-IPL) where he keeps ABA-IPL apprised of emerging legislation, bills, and developments and advises on issues on which the Section may want to formulate policy. He also assists the members to select matters to pursue in committees, where substantive work usually originates, and helps nurture the issues to Section Council, which takes action to adopt policy.
Prior to working for the ABA-IPL, Mr Gregory served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration, and earlier for the Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime.
Mr. Gregory earned his A.B. and J.D. from Indiana University.
Clinton H. Hallman, Jr. is the Chief Patent Counsel for Kraft Foods. He has global responsibility for patent matters at Kraft and manages a staff including counsel in the Chicago area, New York and Zurich. His past experience includes both private practice as well as in-house positions at Mobil Oil Corporation and The Altria Group. His background includes managing patent prosecution, opinion work, complex technology transactions, client counseling and litigation.
Mr. Hallman is a 1977 graduate of the US Naval Academy with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a 1994 graduate of the George Mason University School of Law.
Herbert D. Hart III maintains a full-service intellectual property practice in the pharmaceutical, medical device, petroleum, chemical, agribusiness, and aerospace industries.
Mr. Hart is particularly recognized for his expertise in patent interference matters (principally in life science and chemical technologies) and has served as an expert witness on interference law and practice. His work in this area has been broad-ranging, including litigating interference proceedings and counseling clients on interference issues.
Mr. Hart is widely published in the field of intellectual property law and has provided expert commentary on the law in legal, business, and scientific publications. He is a frequent speaker at bar association conferences and American Chemical Society national meetings.
He is one of a small number of attorneys recognized in both Euromoney’s "Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Experts" and in its "Guide to the World's Leading Trademark Law Practitioners", as well as in Law Bulletin’s guide to “Leading Lawyers in Intellectual Property Law”; he has also been regularly named an “Illinois Super Lawyer.”
Mr. Hart earned a J.D. in 1977 and a B.A. in Chemistry in 1974 from Indiana University.
Erik Hawes is a partner with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in the firm's Houston office. He practices primarily in the area of patent litigation -- including related issues such as licensing, indemnity, and freedom-to-operate analyses -- and is a member of Morgan Lewis's litigation and intellectual property departments. Mr. Hawes has handled patent cases across the country in a wide variety of industries, including computer hardware and software, consumer products, medical devices, and electrical distribution equipment.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis at the beginning of 2008, Mr. Hawes was a partner in the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski and, prior to attending law school, he worked at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Mr. Hawes earned a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1995 and a B.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1992.
Janet S. Hendrickson is an attorney with Senniger Powers LLP in St. Louis, Missouri. She specializes in patent related issues, including the development, management, and enforcement of worldwide patent portfolios. She has experience in counseling pharmaceutical, chemical, and food science companies, including Fortune 500 companies as well as start-up companies and universities. She works closely with her clients to protect their commercially important products and to help them achieve their business goals while avoiding infringement of competitors' patents.
Ms. Hendrickson earned a B.A. in chemistry from Cornell College, a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a J.D. from the University of Toledo. She is currently serving as Vice Chair of the Women in IP committee and is actively involved in the Patent System Policy Planning committee of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law.
Erin Hennessy is a partner in the intellectual property corporate practice in the Seattle office of K&L Gates. She focuses her practice on counseling a wide range of clients in the field of intellectual property generally, with particular emphasis on trademark law. She has extensive experience in the media and telecommunications industries.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Hennessy was Assistant General Counsel and Chief Trademark Counsel for Time Warner, Inc. In addition to managing the Trademark Department, she also handled trademark matters for various Time Warner businesses including trademark counseling, clearance, registration, protection and enforcement; domain name and internet-related issues; litigation, licensing and transactional work. She also helped to further the development of company policies on evolving trademark issues such as trademark dilution, domain name tasting, cybersquatting, keyword advertising and spyware. In addition, Ms. Hennessy served as lead intellectual property counsel for several of Time Warner’s major corporate transactions including the $9.6 billion spin-off of Time Warner Cable and the $2.6 billion divestiture of Warner Music Group Inc. to Edgar Bronfman et al.
Ms. Hennessy earned a J.D. from Widener University School of Law in 1996, and a B.A. from Miami University in 1992.
Michele Herman is a partner with Woodcock Washburn in Seattle, Washington. Before rejoining Woodcock Washburn in 2005, Ms. Herman formed and managed both the Corporate Standards Strategy and Intellectual Property Strategy teams at Microsoft, where she held several positions including that of Associate General Counsel in its IP and Licensing Group and also Senior Director of Intellectual Property Strategy. Her current practice at Woodcock Washburn focuses on standards, open source software and technology licensing.
Ms. Herman also serves as adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law where she co-teaches a course on standards and open source software. She has also held several leadership roles on standards and open source committees in organizations such as the ABA, AIPLA and IPO.
Ms. Herman earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law.
Timothy Holbrook is a Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, where he teaches classes in Patent Law, International Patent Law, Patent Litigation, Trademark Law and Policy, and Property Law.
Prof. Holbrook has published widely on issues of patent law with his most recent articles appearing in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, William and Mary Law Review, Washington University Law Review, SMU Law Review and twice in Science magazine. He is the co-author of Patent Litigation and Strategy (3d ed.) with Judge Kimberly A. Moore and Chief Judge Paul R. Michel, both of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Before joining the Emory faculty, Prof. Holbrook was a tenured professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He served as the Edwin A. Heafey Jr. Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and also has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He was a scholar-in-residence at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary).
He is a summa cum laude graduate of North Carolina State University, where he earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and earned a JD from Yale School of Law. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Glenn L. Archer Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
David Hricik is a Law Professor at Mercer University School of Law, where he teaches Law of Lawyering (ethics); Patent Law & Litigation; Civil Lawsuits; Remedies; Property, Intellectual Property and the Internet and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Prior to joining Mercer’s School of Law, Prof. Hricik practiced law for 14 years in Texas. He also taught part time at the University of Houston and the University of Texas.
He earned a B.A. from the University of Arizona and a J.D. from Northwestern University Law School.
Jonathan Hudis is a partner in Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt’s Trademark and Copyright Practice Group. He counsels clients in trademark, copyright, unfair competition and trade secrets matters. He has several years of practical intellectual property litigation experience in contested court matters and administrative proceedings.
In addition, Mr. Hudis is a lecturer and an author of articles on trademark and copyright law, and presently is an Adjunct Professor of trademark and unfair competition law at the George Mason University School of Law.
Mr. Hudis is also a member of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation and Section of Intellectual Property Law; American Intellectual Property Law Association, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, Professional Programs and AIPLA Fellows Committees.
Mr. Hudis earned a Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School (1987) and a B.S., magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany (1984).
Ms. Jessum is Of Counsel at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP in Philadelphia. Ms. Jessum's practice is concentrated in patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret matters. She represents chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients in both intellectual property litigation and transactional matters, including licensing, client counseling, and patent and trademark prosecution.
Ms. Jessum received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and applied science from Lehigh University in 1992 and her master’s degree in biopharmaceuticals from University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She was awarded her law degree and Certificate in Intellectual Property Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology in 1997. Ms. Jessum is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Illinois and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
She served as chair of the 2009 Spring Conference for the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, and is currently the chair for this year’s conference.
Philip S. Johnson is Chief Patent Counsel for Johnson & Johnson, having joined the corporation in January 2000 after 27 years in private practice serving clients including Johnson & Johnson. In this position, he oversees about 100 patent attorneys in the US & Europe, and advises Johnson & Johnson’s top management on patent matters relating to its 200 plus operating companies worldwide.
Mr. Johnson is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Education Fund, President of INTERPAT (the international association of research based pharmaceutical Chief Patent Counsel), Chair of the PhRMA’s IP Focus Group, and Member of the Steering Committee of the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform. Mr. Johnson also serves on the Board of Directors of the Intellectual Property Owners Association, the Board of the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation, and the National Advisory Board of the Monell Chemical Senses Center.
Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Johnson was a senior partner and co-chair of litigation in the intellectual property law firm of Woodcock Washburn in Philadelphia.
Mr. Johnson is a frequent speaker, and has testified before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on the subject of patent law reform. Mr. Johnson earned a B.S., cum laude with distinction in biology from Bucknell University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Kenneth M Kaufman’s practice focuses on entertainment and media law, copyright, Internet law, content and music licensing, e-commerce and the evolving new technologies in the entertainment and computer fields.
Mr. Kaufman represents a wide range of clients in the entertainment, computer, online, sports and communications industries, including television networks, computer and Internet technology companies, media and technology investors, private equity firms, television and video producers, website operators, telecommunication companies, new media entrepreneurs, music publishers, recording artists and authors.
Mr. Kaufman earned an A.B., magna cum laude from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Kathi Kedrowski is a Managing Director with Navigant Consulting, Inc. and leads the Intellectual Property Practice Segment.
Kathi, a CPA, has spent over 24 years involved in a variety of economic, business and financial analyses on behalf of clients in intellectual property, licensing and other disputes. She also advises clients on the strategic use of Intellectual Assets. She has testified as an expert at both trial (bench and jury) and deposition, including Federal Court, State Court, Bankruptcy Court and national and international Arbitration Tribunals.
Ms. Kedrowski also serves as an adjunct instructor at the University of Chicago’s Graham School of General Studies, where she teaches Financial Accounting. Besides her CPA certification, she has received the Licensing Executives Society’s Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) designation and is certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) from the AICPA. She serves on the AICPA’s National Forensic and Litigation Services Committee and as an Editorial Advisor for the AICPA’s Journal of Accountancy.
Ms. Kedrowski earned a B.S. degree in Accounting from Loyola University of Chicago.
J. Michael Keyes is a partner at K&L Gates and has a national practice centered on intellectual property litigation. Mike’s most recent jury trial resulted in a complete defense verdict on behalf of Abercrombie & Fitch who was sued for alleged trademark infringement and dilution of the Levi Strauss & Co. “arcuate” trademark.
Mr. Keyes is an active member of the intellectual property bar. He is the founder of the Spokane County Bar Association Intellectual Property Section, the immediate past chair of the Washington State Bar Association Intellectual Property Section, and past co–chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Copyright Litigation Committee.
Mr. Keyes is an adjunct professor at Gonzaga University School of Law where he has taught Trademark & Unfair Competition Law, Internet and the Law, Legal Research & Writing, and has coached the American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition Teams. His articles on intellectual property have appeared recently in the law reviews of the Seattle University Law School and the University of Michigan Law School.
Mr. Keyes earned a J.D., magnum cum laude, from Gonzaga University in 1998. He earned a LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Before entering law school, he earned a B.M. in Piano Performance from Loyola University of New Orleans.
Michael L. Kiklis is a partner with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP in the Washington, D.C. office. He focuses his practice on software patent law. He has worked extensively in matters involving software patent litigation and counseling.
Mr. Kiklis has written and lectured extensively on cutting-edge intellectual property topics, including willful patent infringement as well as issues specific to software patent law. He is the recipient of the Rossman Award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society, given annually to the author of the article in the Society’s Journal that, in the opinion of the judges, makes the greatest contribution to the field of patents, trademarks or copyrights. He is also the recipient of the Boston University Metropolitan College Computer Science Distinguished Alumni award.
Mr. Kiklis earned a J.D., magna cum laude, in 1993 from Syracuse University College of Law, a M.S. in computer science in 1988 from Boston University, and a B.S. in computer science in 1985 from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Before attending law school, he worked as a software developer for several of the computer industry’s leading companies.
Sherry M. Knowles is Senior Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of GlaxoSmithKline, where she serves as the worldwide head of patents and trademarks for both litigation and transactional matters. Ms. Knowles joined GSK in September 2006. Prior to that, she was a partner in and founder of the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Practice at King & Spalding LLP.
Ms. Knowles is a frequent speaker on key issues relating to intellectual property matters that affect the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. She has received substantial attention for her role in the case of GlaxoSmithKline and Tafas v. Dudas, 541 F. Supp. 2d 805 (E.D. Va. 2008), in which GSK obtained a preliminary injunction, and along with sole inventor Tafas, a permanent injunction, to stop the implementation of the Final Rules published by the USPTO in August 2007 which would limit the number of continuations and claims that could be presented by patent applicants.
Ms. Knowles earned a B.S., cum laude, with distinction in chemistry from Duke University and earned a M.S. in organic chemistry from Clemson University. Prior to attending law school, she spent several years at SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) as a pharmaceutical synthetic chemist. She earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia where she was a Benjamin Phillips Scholar and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
Eric R. Lamison is a founding partner for the intellectual property trial practice group for Kirkland & Ellis LLP's San Francisco office. Mr. Lamison began his career in Kirkland's Los Angeles office, practicing there from 1995-2002. His practice involves patent, trade secret, trademark, trade dress, antitrust, licensing, contract, and business tort litigation. His practice includes patent infringement jury trial experience and trial experience before the United States International Trade Commission. Mr. Lamison represents clients in intellectual property matters involving many subjects, including computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biochemistry, and other technical areas.
Mr. Lamison earned a B.S., and was valedictorian from Michigan State University and a J.D., magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
David Lender is co-chair of Weil Gotshal’s 160-lawyer Complex Commercial Litigation practice and a member of the firm’s 15-person Management Committee. He specializes in complex commercial litigation, with particular emphasis in patent and intellectual property law. Over the past several years, he has successfully tried numerous cases, in both federal and state courts.
Mr. Lender earned a J.D. degree with High Honors, Order of the Coif from Duke University School of Law in 1993, and a B.A. degree, cum laude, from Duke University in 1990.
Deshan Li is a senior partner of Unitalen Attorneys at Law, which is one of the largest IP law firms in China and has more than 20 offices. Dr. Li began his patent practice in 1996 as a patent attorney and attorney at law. His legal experience covers all areas of IP laws, including patent procurement, reexamination, invalidation, patent infringement litigation, patent licensing and patent transferring.
Dr. Li has been actively engaged in patent theory and practice research and published articles in influential IP magazines, such as the Chinese publication, Intellectual Property. He is the co-author of “Chinese Patent Course”. Dr. Li also speaks frequently about the Chinese patent law and practice in international conferences and seminars.
He also serves as director of Chinese Group of AIPPI, member of LES, FICPI and IPO and director of ACPAA.
Dr. Li earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1996 from Frankfurt University, Germany, and a LL.M. in 2001 from Peking University. He was admitted to the bar in 1997, and qualified as a patent attorney in 1998.
Paul J. Luckern has been a permanent administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) since August 1984. On July 3, 2008 the Chairman named Judge Luckern as Chief Administrative Law Judge at the ITC, effective July 6, 2008.
From 1956 to 1960 Judge Luckern was a patent examiner in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He received an LL.B (J.D.) Degree from Georgetown University in 1959. From 1960 to 1962 Judge Luckern worked under a contract as patent consultant in Basil, Switzerland for J.R. Geigy, A.G. From 1962 to 1964, he was a technical advisor to the late Hon. I. Jack Martin of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Judge Luckern started as an associate with Fish & Neave, of New York City in August, 1964 and later became a junior partner there. In 1971 he resigned from that firm to become a trial attorney in intellectual property with the U.S. Department of Justice. Judge Luckern received U.S. Department of Justice Special Commendation awards for outstanding service in 1975 and 1979.
Judge Luckern was appointed an administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration in Pittsburgh, Pa., in November 1981. He was on detail with the ITC from April 30, 1984 to August 13, 1984.
Judge Luckern earned a B.S. degree in chemistry, cum laude, from Georgetown University and an M.S. degree in organic chemistry from Cornell University and an LL.M degree from Georgetown University in 1964.
Andrew B. Lustigman is the principal of The Lustigman Firm, P.C., a New York City boutique law firm where he concentrates in advertising and marketing law. A significant portion of his practice involves representing advertising agencies and marketers in connection with legal compliance matters, including clearance of advertising and marketing materials in all channels, as well as handling the legal aspects of sweepstakes, contests, and other promotional marketing techniques. In addition, he defends inquiries and litigation brought by various federal and state regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general. He routinely handles competitor challenges before the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau and in federal court.
Mr. Lustigman frequently writes and speaks on subjects relating to claim advertising and promotional marketing law. He is the Chair of the American Bar Association Special Committee on Promotions and Marketing Law. He serves on the law committees for the Promotion Marketing Association and on the Consumer Affairs Committee for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Mr. Lustigman graduated magna cum laude from The American University, Washington College of Law where he was Managing Editor of The American University Law Review. Andrew is the past president of the New York Chapter of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms.
Joel Lutzker is General Counsel for both Ocean Tomo, LLC and its newly formed subsidiary, Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc (“IPXI”). Mr. Lutzker has over 30 years of law firm experience in patent, copyright and other intellectual property litigation, prosecution and transactional matters. He has negotiated numerous domestic and international licenses. Mr. Lutzker has also acted as an arbitrator and mediator in domestic and international intellectual property disputes. As General Counsel for Ocean Tomo, Mr. Lutzker has been responsible for all legal matters concerning Ocean Tomo’s live intellectual property auctions. As General Counsel for IPXI, Mr. Lutzker is intimately involved in the development of its new Unit License Right program which is the world’s first transparently tradable non-exclusive intellectual property license right.
Mr. Lutzker earned a B.A. cum laude in Physics from New York University College of Arts and Sciences and a J.D. from New York University, School of Law.
Richard S. Mandel is a partner with the New York law firm of Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. He practices as a litigator focusing on intellectual property disputes, including copyright, trademark, unfair competition and Internet related issues. He has litigated cases in a variety of fields, including in the sports and entertainment, food, restaurant and hospitality and drug industries. Prior to joining the firm in 1988, Mr. Mandel was an associate in the New York firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
Mr. Mandel currently serves as a member on the commercial panel of the American Arbitration Association and also acts as a mediator in the Southern District of New York’s mediation program. He has previously served as an Adjunct Professor at the Cardozo School of Law teaching the Advanced Trademarks Seminar. He has also written and lectured on a variety of topics relating to copyright and trademark law.
Mr. Mandel earned a J.D. in 1985 from New York University School of Law, where he served as an editor on the New York University Law Review. He earned a B.A., magna cum laude, in 1982 from New York University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa.
As Assistant General Counsel and Chief Patent Counsel, David L Marcus has primary responsibility for patent infringement and other technology-related litigation at Comcast. He also has primary responsibility for the legal aspects of pre-litigation patent licensing, counseling and investigations, patent portfolio development and management, and patent due diligence and support in Comcast’s merger and acquisition activities.
Before joining Comcast, Mr. Marcus was a partner in the Philadelphia office of Woodcock Washburn, LLP.
Before attending law school, Mr. Marcus was a Lieutenant and Submarine Warfare Officer in the United States Navy. He held various positions and spent several years onboard the fast-attack submarine USS-Helena (SSN-725) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Mr. Marcus is a magna cum laude graduate of Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (J.D.), a summa cum laude graduate of Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (B.S. Mathematics) and a graduate of the United States Navy’s Nuclear Engineering Program.
Mark A. McCamish is the Global Head of Biopharmaceutical Development for Sandoz International, a Division of Novartis. He leads research and development of all biologics at Sandoz, which is the world leader in development and commercialization of follow-on biologics or biosimilars. His responsibilities include leadership involving selection of the target, cloning, technical development, scale-up, pre-clinical and clinical development and interfaces with regulatory authorities worldwide. He is a senior executive with extensive therapeutic and commercial experience in global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Previously Dr. McCamish was Senior VP and Chief Medical Officer at three biotechnology companies and held senior positions at Amgen and Abbott Laboratories. He has held professorships and maintained academic practices at the University of California, Davis and The Ohio State University.
He has published broadly in several therapeutic areas in multiple journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Lancet.
Dr. McCamish earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in exercise physiology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His PhD is in human nutrition from Penn State University and his M.D. is from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. McCamish is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Nutrition and Metabolism and he is licensed as a physician and surgeon in California and Ohio.
James G. McEwen, is a Partner at Stein McEwen LLP and has prepared and been involved in patent validity and infringement opinions, reissue and reexamination proceedings, intellectual property licensing and settlement negotiations, intellectual property licensing with elements of the Federal government, trademark prosecution, domain name disputes, trade secret protection, and provided litigation support in patent infringement claims.
Mr. McEwen is a frequent author and lecturer of numerous articles on various intellectual property and licensing topics, and is most recently a coauthor of “Intellectual Property in Government Contracts: Protecting and Enforcing IP at the State and Federal Level”.
Mr. McEwen earned a B.S. from the University of Texas, and a J.D. from George Washington University National Law Center. He is currently the chair of Committee 402 for University Intellectual Property Law within the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law.
Mercedes K. Meyer, Ph.D., is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Drinker & Biddle and strategizes with her biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients on their patent portfolio development and maintenance. She has an extensive biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent prosecution practice.
She drafts and prosecutes U.S. utility and provisional patent applications, as well as oversees their foreign counterpart applications. She advises on biotechnology related bioethics issues, such as tissue banking and stem cells. Ms. Meyer also obtains patent term extensions related to FDA approval and Supplemental Protection Certificates (SPCs) and their equivalents abroad. She assists her clients to protect their rights over a wide range of biotechnology related areas including antibodies, proteins, viral vectors, genomics, vaccines, stem cell research, gene therapy, drug screening and identification, protein and tissue arrays, cancer therapeutics, cancer diagnostics and X-ray protein crystallography.
Ms. Meyer earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Bryn Mawr College, a Ph.D. in Virology from the University of Texas, and a J.D. from the University of Houston.
Paul R. Michel was appointed as a Circuit Judge to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. On December 25, 2004, after 16 years on the court, he assumed the duties of Chief Judge. Chief Judge Michel has written over 300 opinions in patent, trademark, takings, contract, tax, international trade, veterans’ rights, and government personnel cases. He is the recipient of the Eli Whitney Prize, the Katz-Kiley Prize, and the Jefferson Medal for “outstanding contribution . . . to the progress of science and useful arts.” In 2003, he was named by Managing Intellectual Property magazine as one of the 50 most influential people in the world in intellectual property.
Prior to his appointment to the court, Chief Judge Michel served in the executive and legislative branches of the government for 22 years. Following graduation from Williams College in 1963 and the University of Virginia Law School in 1966, he served as Assistant District Attorney and Deputy District Attorney for Investigations in Philadelphia under Arlen Specter; as Assistant Special Watergate Prosecutor under Leon Jaworski, responsible for the Howard Hughes-Bebe Rebozo investigation; and under Dick Thornburgh as Deputy Chief of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section directing the “Koreagate” investigation. In 1978 he was appointed by Benjamin Civiletti as Associate Deputy Attorney General, helping to supervise U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, and the Marshals Service. From April 1981 until his appointment to the court in March of 1988, he served on Senator Arlen Specter’s staff, including as Chief of Staff.
He has taught at The George Washington University School of Law and other law schools, made many presentations to various city, state, national and international bar associations and participated in the training of judges of other nations. With two co-authors, he helped produce a casebook for law students, entitled, Modern Patent Litigation and Strategy. He has published numerous articles on appellate advocacy.
Randal S. Milch is executive vice president and general counsel of Verizon. He leads the company’s legal, regulatory and security groups.
From 2006 until being named to his current position in October 2008, Mr. Milch served as the senior vice president and general counsel of Verizon Business, responsible for all legal services and external affairs support for the company’s global enterprise carrier. Before that, Mr. Milch served as the senior vice president and general counsel of Verizon's domestic telecom business. He was appointed to the latter position in 2000, upon the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE.
Before the merger, Mr. Milch was associate general counsel at Bell Atlantic with oversight of state regulatory matters in New York and New England. Previously, Mr. Milch served as vice president, general counsel and secretary of Bell Atlantic-Maryland, Inc. He began his telecommunications career as counsel to the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland in 1993.
Prior to his role with Bell Atlantic, Mr. Milch was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine. Mr. Milch began his legal career as a clerk to Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., Chief Judge Emeritus of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Mr. Milch earned a J.D. from New York University Law School and a B.A. from Yale University.
Joel Miller practices law in West Orange, New Jersey, specializing in patent, trademark, copyright, and antitrust law. He has served as a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and as patent counsel for an aerospace division of the former Singer Company, and was associated with the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
Mr. Miller has litigated intellectual property, antitrust, and commercial matters and has served as an arbitrator in a patent licensing dispute. In addition, he has secured patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and has negotiated intellectual property licenses and related agreements. He has worked in a variety of technologies including telecommunications, semiconductors, avionics, medical electronics, and computer hardware and software.
Mr. Miller is a member of the American Bar Association (chair Patentable Subject Matter Subcommittee of the Software Technology Committee, Section of Intellectual Property Law, 2008-2009), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (co-chair, Patents and Legislative Affairs Subcommittee of the Electronic and Computer Law Committee, 2008-2009), the New Jersey States Bar Association (chair, Computer-Related Law Committee, 1993-95), the International Trademark Association, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has developed and chaired clinical trial advocacy programs for the American Bar Association (Section of Litigation) and the International Trademark Association.
Mr. Miller earned a B.D. in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette College in 1975 and a J.D. from the University of Miami in 1978. He is a member of the District of Columbia, New Jersey, and New York Bars, admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Gregory Morse is the Director of the Central Reexamination Unit at the United State Patent and Trademark Office. During his time at the USPTO, he has examined and supervised examiners in art areas as varied as material handling, business methods, compilers and software development, and computer security and cryptography. He served on a one-year assignment to the group developing the Electronic Filing System software and recently completed a three-year assignment to the Office of the Commissioner for Patents. For the past year, he has been the Director of the Central Reexamination Unit, a group of 59 examiners and five supervisors dedicated to handling ex parte and inter partes reexaminations.
Mr. Morse has a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Virginia and Computer Science and Law degrees from George Mason University.
Michael O'Donnell is the Founder and a Director of iCopyright, Inc., based in Seattle Washington. He specializes in digital content technologies and services, especially as they relate to copyright licensing and protection. Previous to starting iCopyright in 1998, Mr. O'Donnell served as Director of Electronic Commerce for Design Intelligence, and as Director of Online Services for CompuServe SPRYNET.
Mr. O'Donnell has served as Chairman of the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) committee on Internet Marketing & Business Models; as Chairman of the e-Business Division; and as a board member of the SIIA Content Division. He is the primary author of, "ESD & The Electronic Commerce Value-Chain: Trends & Implications for the Software Industry," and "A New Model for Publishing on the Internet." He is also the author of two white papers on publisher internet business models. He has also served as Chairman of the Board for the Northwest Entrepreneur Network.
Mr. O’Donnell attended the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Executive Program for Growing Companies, and did his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida.
Maria Pallante joined the U.S. Copyright Office as Deputy General Counsel in January 2007. In this capacity, she shares with the General Counsel the responsibility for the Copyright Office’s regulatory activities, litigation, and legislative activities. She assists the Register of Copyrights in advising Congress and coordinates on legal issues with the Department of Justice, other agencies of government, the courts, the legal community, and a wide range of interests affected by the copyright law. She was with the Copyright Office previously, from 1996 through the end of 1997, as a senior policy advisor in the Office of Policy and International Affairs.
Prior to joining the Copyright Office, Ms. Pallante worked for eight years for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and its five international art museums (1999-2007), most recently serving as the Associate General Counsel and Director of Licensing. She also worked for two New York-based authors’ organizations: the Authors Guild (Authors League of America) (1991-1993) and the National Writers Union (1993-1995). She practiced law for a short time with the Washington, DC firm Lichtman, Trister and Ross, where she focused on both authors and exempt organizations.
Ms. Pallante has served on numerous professional committees and is a frequent speaker at conferences and symposiums in the copyright community.
Arthur Patterson is a Senior Vice President of DecisionQuest, one of the nation’s leading trial consulting firms, resident in the firm’s State College, Pennsylvania office. For over 20 years, Dr. Patterson has provided research and strategic counsel to over 300 clients worldwide including law firms, governmental entities and corporations. In the course of his long career, he has done it all—including conducting surrogate jury research groups, preparing witnesses, creating juror attitude and decision maker surveys and providing expert testimony on juror biases. Prior to joining DecisionQuest, Dr. Patterson was a tenured professor at Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Patterson uses his extensive experience and creative skills to help clients deal with real world problems. He applies his psychological knowledge to the problems of trial teams and other clients to help them persuade juries and other key decision makers.
He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Northwestern University, and his B.A. from Clark University.
Carlos Perez-Albuerne is a partner at Choate Hall & Stewart LLP and is a member of the firm’s Hiring, Diversity and Technology Committees. He focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation.
Mr. Perez-Albuerne has served as a Special Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County. In that role, he was responsible for the investigation, preparation and trial of numerous criminal matters for the County.
He earned a B.S. from Clarkson University and a J.D. cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center.
Michael Potenza is an attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. Mr. Potenza’s practice focuses on a wide variety of litigation involving the Internet and intellectual property matters, and he has counseled, among others, the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, The New York Times Company, The Washington, Post Company, Gannett Company, Newsday, Mead Data Central, Alcon Laboratories, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Amazon.com on copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights.
Mr. Potenza joined Debevoise in 1997. He graduated magna cum laude form Yale College in 1990, where he earned a B.A. in History, and from Harvard Law School, where he earned a J.D. magna cum laude in 1995. Mr Potenza also has served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable William G. Bassler, US District Court for the District of New Jersey and to the Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr., US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Mary E. Rasenberger is of counsel in the Intellectual Property and Technology Group at Skadden, Arps, focusing on copyright, publishing, technology and media law. Ms. Rasenberger represents publishing, entertainment, communications and technology companies in copyright infringement cases, Copyright Office rulemakings and ASCAP/BMI proceedings; negotiates publishing-, film-, music- and television-related agreements; counsels on digital rights management, including the Google Books Settlement; and advises on numerous other copyright-related matters.
Ms. Rasenberger earned a B.A. from Columbia University, Barnard College, a M.A. from Boston University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Teresa Stanek Rea is partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Crowell & Moring, LLP and is a member of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law.
Ms. Rea is recognized throughout the professional community for the depth and breadth of her knowledge in the area of intellectual property. In a career spanning more than 25 years, she often has been on the leading edge of emerging trends and developments. In recognition, she was named to the Best Lawyers in America© for Biotechnology Law.
Ms. Rea focuses on patent litigation, reexamination, interferences, as well as patent procurement and portfolio management. She has significant experience in drafting infringement and validity opinions and licensing matters. She represents emerging companies, corporations and universities. Ms. Rea is a registered pharmacist in the State of Michigan and she has worked as a hospital pharmacist. She was also a corporate patent attorney.
Ms. Rea speaks annually on Hatch-Waxman issues for Food and Drug Law Institute. She is also on the Advisory Board of BNA’s Pharmaceutical Law and Industry Report as well as the Life Sciences Law and Industry.
Ms. Rea is Immediate Past President of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She was President of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Board and she was Chair of the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
Gwilym Roberts is a partner at the London based patent and trade mark firm of Kilburn & Strode LLP. With twenty years experience in developing and managing patent portfolios for a range of high tech clients, Mr. Roberts is able to meld his extended experience of international patent practice with a strong expertise in European patent law. His clients range from spinouts through to multinationals bringing a breadth of knowledge and allowing transfer of experience and expertise between the different business structures he works with.
Mr. Roberts is a visiting professorial fellow at Queen Mary College University of London and a visiting research fellow at Bournemouth University, leads the UK profession’s liaison with both the UK Intellectual Property Office and European Patent Office, and is President of the British Group of UNION – a pan-European confederation of patent practitioners. He lectures regularly in the US and Europe, has authored numerous papers, is editor of the UK Profession’s Patents Training Manual and author of “A Practical Guide to Drafting Patents” published by Sweet & Maxwell.
Matt Robinson leads Attributor, Inc.’s business and corporate development functions as well as all strategic partnership initiatives. He also serves as the company’s general counsel. Mr. Robinson has been working with internet and new media companies for the past decade, focusing on the intersection of content, technology and law. Before joining Attributor in 2006, he spent 6+ years at Yahoo!, most recently as Vice President and Associate General Counsel overseeing the global product counseling team.
Mr. Robinson earned a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
David Ross Rosenfeld limits his practice to matters relating to legal ethics and professional responsibility. He provides ethics counsel to attorneys, law firms, and corporate legal counsel and represents attorneys and law firms in disciplinary matters, disqualification and sanction motions and related ethics matters before federal and state courts and disciplinary and regulatory administrative agencies.
Mr. Rosenfeld has been qualified as an expert in federal and state judicial proceedings on legal ethics, professional responsibility, and the standard of care applicable to attorneys and lectures and writes extensively on the subject of ethics and professional responsibility. He has served on the Virginia State Bar Standing Committee on Legal Ethics and the Virginia State Bar Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Committee, and was Chairman of the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board.
Mr. Rosenfeld taught legal ethics at George Mason University Law School for many years, and is the author of Lawyer Discipline in Virginia, a book published by the Virginia Law Foundation, now in its second edition. He is a graduate of George Washington University Law School.
H. Alan Rothenbuecher is a partner with Schottenstein Zox & Dunn Co., LPA’s Cleveland office and serves as coordinator of the firm’s Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants and Unfair Competition Practice Area. His practice consists of complex business litigation involving trade secrets as well as false advertising, business torts and infringement.
Mr. Rothenbuecher has successfully litigated or resolved trade secret and corporate theft actions on behalf of national and international companies. Results obtained include multi-million dollar judgments, injunctions precluding use of trade secrets, and court orders preventing competition and proposed employment of former employees.
He serves as vice-chair of the Trade Secrets and Interference with Contracts Committee of the American Bar Association and board member and secretary of the Manufacturers Association of Plastics Processors. He is a member of the Ohio State, Cleveland Metropolitan and Akron Bar Associations. He serves the community as committee chairperson of the Battered Women’s Shelter of Summit and Medina Counties, Ohio.
He earned an undergraduate degree from University of Michigan and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University.
Euene C. Rzucidlo is a partner at Hershkovitz and Associates and was previously Senior Counsel with Hunton & Williams, in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Rzucidlo has been in the private practice of patent law since 1985. Prior to that time, he served in the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner in the chemical arts and later as an Examiner-In-Chief (now known as an Administrative Patent Judge) on the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences for seven years.
Mr. Rzucidlo has participated in many interferences and reexaminations. He was Vice Chair and Chair of the AIPLA Interference Committee and he is a member of the Contested Cases Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law and is also a member of the IPO Contested Cases Committee.
In addition, Mr. Rzucidlo is a lecturer in Interference and Reexamination Procedure and Practice at Franklin Pierce Law Center. His experience in patent office practice provides keen insight into the development of patent interference strategies as well as in Ex Parte and Inter Partes Reexamination strategies.
He earned a J.D. in 1974 from Catholic University of Law, and a B.S., in 1963 from Stevens Institute of Technology in Chemistry.
Harrie R. Samaras founded the ADR & Law Office of Harrie Samaras where her practice includes serving as an Arbitrator and Mediator for parties involved in intellectual property and business/technology disputes.
Previously, she was a Shareholder with the law firm of RatnerPrestia where she chaired the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. In addition to trial and appellate work, Ms. Samaras’ practice consisted of counseling and representing clients in ADR processes and serving as a Neutral. Before joining RatnerPrestia, Ms. Samaras served as Vice President of IP Legal for an internationally based drug delivery company and as Director of IP Litigation for a Fortune 500 telecommunications company. Earlier in her career, Ms. Samaras worked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as a staff attorney under Chief Judge Howard T. Markey and as a law clerk to Chief Judge Helen W. Nies. Ms Samaras began her career in intellectual property law serving as a Patent Examiner in the biomedical arts at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Ms. Samaras chairs the ADR Committee for the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law and is Vice Chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the AIPLA.
Ms. Samaras earned a LL.M. degree in Patent and Trade Regulation Law in 1991 from the George Washington University School of Law and a J.D. in 1984 from the University of Baltimore School of Law. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in the Life Sciences and Chemistry from the University of Maryland in 1976 and 1978, respectively.
Kirk T. Schroder is a partner at Schroder Fidlow & Titley, PLC and has an extensive entertainment and arts law practice. He serves as counsel for production companies and film financiers who have distribution agreements with major Hollywood studios for theatrical motion pictures.
Mr. Schroder earned a B.A. and J.D. form the University of Richmond, and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Charles E. Schumer is the senior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected in 1998, he defeated three-term Republican incumbent Al D'Amato and went on to be re-elected in 2004.
Before his election to the U.S. Senate, Congressman Schumer served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1999. He represented New York's 16th congressional district, which was later redistricted to the 10th congressional district in 1983 and to the 9th congressional district in 1993.
Congressman Schumer was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 2005 to 2009, in which post he oversaw a total of 14 Democratic gains in the Senate in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Elected vice-chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus in 2006, he is the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin.
Congressman Schumer earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Sean M. SeLegue, a director at the San Francisco firm Howard Rice Nemerovsky Canady Falk & Rabkin, defends and counsels attorneys in civil and disciplinary matters, including legal malpractice and malicious prosecution cases, and has handled numerous disqualification motions. Among other activities relating to the law governing lawyers, he has served as both Chair and Vice-Chair of the State Bar of California Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, and he has taught legal ethics at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
In addition to his trial practice, Mr. SeLegue also maintains an active appellate practice in all areas of civil law and is certified as an appellate specialist by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
Mr. SeLegue graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating, he clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Ami Patel Shah, is a senior patent attorney with Intel Corporation, in the company’s Virginia office. She is currently responsible for Intel’s global wireless patent portfolio and practices in all aspects of patent law, US and International, trade secrets, US export controls and various wireless standards issues.
Prior to joining Intel, in 2003, Ms. Shah was an associate with both Dorsey & Whitney and Fish & Richardson in their respective Washington DC offices. She served as a patent examiner with the U.S. Patents and Trademark Office from 1994 until joining Fish & Richardson in 1996.
Ms. Shah has lectured on legal topics relating primarily to US patent prosecution and India’s Intellectual Property Rights. She is a member of the American Bar Association and Intellectual Property Owners Association.
She earned a J.D. in 1994, a M.S. in computer engineering in 1991 and a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1990.
Charles W. Shifley is an attorney with Banner & Witcoff and focuses his practice on intellectual property cases and trials. He has served as lead and co-counsel in numerous successful trials and appeals for Fortune 100 and additional companies, across the country. Technical subjects have included in-building wireless systems; airbag actuation electronics; internet delivery software; digital video disks; photochemistry; photographic software; engines, electronic components, and automotive hardware; human heart pacemakers and defibrillators; welding equipment; computerized controls; high technology valves; industrial franchise operations; high-technology metal casting and consumer goods. He has generated several large claims for damages, including one for $30 million based on $300,000 in accused sales. He has been consistently sensitive to costs and client communication.
Mr. Shifley earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, summa cum laude, and a J,D, cum laude, both from The Ohio State University.
Albert D. Shuldiner was appointed Vice President and General Counsel of iBiquity Digital in early 2001. He is responsible for overseeing the company's legal affairs, and shaping the company's regulatory and intellectual property strategies, including representing the company before US and international government agencies and industry standard setting boards.
Prior to joining iBiquity Digital, Mr. Shuldiner was an attorney in the Washington, DC office of Vinson & Elkins where he assisted emerging technology companies in their regulatory and corporate structuring activities. For the past five years, he has represented iBiquity Digital, leading its efforts to develop and implement iBiquity Digital's regulatory strategy. In this capacity, he was a primary author of the company's October 1999 petition for rulemaking, which initiated the FCC's current consideration of its AM and FM digital broadcast technology. He also represented the company before the National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Mr. Shuldiner earned a Bachelor's Degree in international studies from The Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
William Simmons is an associate at Sughrue Mion and works out of the Washington office. His practice focuses on worldwide procurement, defense and enforcement of patents in the biotechnology, chemical and nanotechnology industries. Dr. Simmons works in all areas of patent law, including interferences, reexaminations, oppositions and prosecution. He prepares opinions regarding patentability and infringement and conducts freedom-to-operate analyses.
Dr. Simmons earned a B.S. in Molecular Biology from Long Island University, a M.S. in Biological Sciences from New York University, a Ph.D. in Biological & Biomedical Sciences from The State University of New Jersey at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey., and a J.D. from New York Law School.
David Simon is of chief patent counsel at Intel Corporation. Previously, Mr. Simon was a partner at Loeb & Loeb in 1997 as well as a partner at Spensley Horn Jubas & Lubitz from 1982-1995.
Mr. Simon earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Political Science form Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979 and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1982.
Kate Spelman manages the copyright and trademark portfolios of many Fortune 500 companies, celebrities, and nationally recognized non-profit organizations. She has prosecuted thousands of trademark and copyrights worldwide, including difficult "ingredient" marks and other unique trademarks. She has been a frequent speaker on the progress and issues of the Google Book Settlement; and has advised authors, as well as nonprofit and for-profit publisher who are struggling to understand and cope with the Google Book Settlement.
In addition to her counseling and transactional work, Ms. Spelman has extensive litigation experience, and is an expert in anti-counterfeiting enforcement and has worked with U.S. Customs to detect counterfeit merchandise at U.S. borders.
Ms. Spelman has also managed, written, and argued over two dozen seizure and impound complaints, motions and orders in the federal district courts of Seattle, San Francisco, Long Beach, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Her special expertise in the area of copyright law has also led her to serve as a non-testifying expert witness for U.S. copyright litigation infringement actions.
Ms. Spelman earned a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. in Classics and Latin from the University of Michigan.
Robert L. Stoll was sworn in as Commissioner for Patents on October 5, 2009. Prior to that, Mr. Stoll was Dean of Training and Education. In that capacity he directed efforts to train foreign officials and the public on all aspects of intellectual property. Before his appointment as Dean in 2007, Mr. Stoll served as director of the Office of Enforcement for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for five years beginning in 2002.
In 1995, Mr. Stoll became the Administrator of the Office of Legislative and International Affairs for USPTO. Mr. Stoll was appointed Executive Assistant to the USPTO Director in 1994 and was responsible for providing technical and policy assistance to the Director. He also helped develop and plan USPTO strategic goals, objectives, and priorities, and served as a liaison with patent and trademark bar groups and academic and scientific communities.
Mr. Stoll joined the Federal Service in 1979 as a Chemical Engineering Researcher in metallurgy at the United States Bureau of Mines, where he worked until 1982. He joined the USPTO in 1982 as a Patent Examiner, reviewing patents for metal containing complexes and compounds. In 1990, he became a Supervisory Patent Examiner, managing the examination of classified chemical applications, radioactive bio-treating compositions, and liquid crystals.
Mr. Stoll earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland. While working at USPTO, he earned a J.D. from Catholic University and became a member of the Maryland Bar.
M. Kelly Tillery, a national authority in intellectual property litigation, is a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP and a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and Commercial Litigation Practice Group.
Mr. Tillery focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and is known for his work in securing injunctions to protect the interests of his clients. He has long been in the forefront of obtaining individual, national and facility injunctions and orders of seizure to protect the trademarks and copyrights of famous performing artists and athletes as well as major software publishers, novelty and jewelry manufacturers and clothing designers. His 30 years of litigation experience includes protecting copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, patents, trade secrets, domain names, names and likenesses and proprietary/confidential information. He also has extensive experience in a wide variety of commercial litigation.
Mr. Tillery is a frequent lecturer and author on intellectual property and internet law topics. He often serves as an expert on intellectual property issues and as an arbitrator in intellectual property disputes and internet domain name disputes.
He is a graduate of Swarthmore College (with High Honors) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Fabricio Vayra is assistant general counsel at Time Warner, Inc. Previously, Mr. Vayra was a member of ICANN IRT in 2009, of counsel for AOL LLC from 2004-2005, and an associate at Arent Fox PLLC from 2000 to 2005.
Mr. Vayra earned a B.S. in Business Marketing from George Mason University and a JD from George Mason University School of Law.
Marta L. Villarraga is a Principal in Exponent’s Biomechanics practice, in the firm’s Philadelphia, PA office. Dr. Villarraga specializes in evaluation of medical devices. She has experience with orthopedic, spinal, reconstructive surgery, and diagnostic medical devices from product liability, intellectual property, regulatory, compliance, and product development perspectives. Dr. Villarraga has served as a testifying expert in patent infringement cases of medical devices. She has participated in patent cases from both the invalidity and infringement perspectives. She has testified in trial in both Federal and State court, as well as before an arbitration tribunal.
Dr. Villarraga serves on the editorial board of the ASTM International Journal of Testing and Evaluation and is also a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. She is a member of North American Spine Society, Orthopedic Research Society, American Society for Testing and Materials and the Food and Drug Law Institute.
She earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in 1996, a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in 1992, and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering (magna cum laude) from Tulane University in 1990.
Cynthia Vreeland is a partner in WilmerHale’s Litigation/Controversy Department and Vice Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. She focuses her practice on patent and trade secret litigation and has represented a wide range of clients in a variety of commercial matters. Her intellectual property clients have included companies in the fields of wireless devices, semiconductor chips, computer storage, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, superconducting materials, machine vision, voice messaging, and computer software. She also has represented clients in a rage of other business disputes, including, contract, antitrust, fraud, and trademark litigation. Ms. Vreeland received a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1990 and earned a B.A. summa cum laude from Baylor University in 1987.
Thomas J. Wallen is a solo practitioner at Thomas J. Wallen, P.E., Attorney at Law, LLC and also serves as an Adjuct Professor of Chemistry at Germanna Community College. Previously, he was the President at Rappahannock Enginerring, Inc., and specialized in risk analysis, process design, biomedical materials production and medical device design. In addition, Mr. Wallen served as the Patent Examiner for the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 1978 to 1990.
He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Catholic University of America, a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and a J.D. from Appalachian School of Law.
Mr. Wallen is a member of the American Bar Association, the Virginia Bar association, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Howard P. Walthall is a partner at Burr and Forman LLP and practices in the firm’s Litigation and Intellectual Property sections, where he specializes in complex civil litigation, including business disputes relating to intellectual property and technology, and advises clients on intellectual property issues.
Mr. Walthall has experience with the full spectrum of issues and claims that can come into play in commercial litigation, including contract, fraud, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, patent, copyright, false advertising, and unfair competition, as well as the corporate law issues involved in disputes between business owners and investors. He has worked with a wide variety of industries and technologies, including medical implants and products, high speed scanning devices, waste disposal technology, printing ink formulations, and automotive components. He also has significant experience with cases involving custom software and website design and development.
Mr. Walthall earned a B.S.E., cum laude, from Duke University School of Engineering and a J.D., summa cum laude, from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. While in law school he was Editor-In-Chief of the Cumberland Law Review.
Robert S. Weisbein is a partner in Foley’s IP Litigation and Trademark, Copyright & Advertising Practices. He has litigated trademark, unfair competition and copyright and false advertising matters for clients such as Burlington Coat Factory, Nokia, Yahoo!, Toys "R" Us and Emerson Radio Corporation. Mr. Weisbein is experienced with dispute proceedings before the federal courts, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the National Advertising Division of Better Business Bureaus, Inc., various name dispute arbitration panels, as well as mediations before private and court appointed mediators, and mediations conducted under the auspices of the International Trademark Association. He also counsels clients in the areas of trademark and copyright clearance protection and advertising substantiation and clearance.
Mr. Weisbein has spoken extensively on various topics of trademark law including trademark litigation, trade dress, dilution and Internet-related issues.
He earned a J.D. from Emory University (1982) and a B.A. in political science from George Washington University (1979). He is admitted to practice in New York and Georgia.
Madelyn Wessel is Associate General Counsel at the University of Virginia, focusing on intellectual property, copyright, licensing, technology, libraries, and special issues arising in the area of digital scholarship. She has lectured on copyright, digital responsibilities, legal and policy frameworks for sustaining digital scholarship, fair use and censorship in recent years to groups as diverse as the National Association of College and University Attorneys, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Art Libraries Society of North America, College and University Auditors, Digital Library Federation, Music Library Association, EDUCAUSE, and the Visual Resources Association.
Ms. Wessel teaches the graduate seminar in Legal Issues in Higher Education at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. She served as Deputy and later Chief Deputy City Attorney for Portland, Oregon from 1989-2001 and as an Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Opinions Division, Massachusetts Department of Justice from 1987-1989.
She earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Boston University and has been admitted to practice in Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
Bradley C. Wright is an attorney at Banner & Witcoff and concentrates on prosecution, litigation and counseling in patent and copyright matters, especially in the electrical and computer areas, including Internet and e-commerce. He has drafted and prosecuted numerous patent applications in such technologies as computer hardware and software, cable TV systems, electrical devices, facsimile systems, neural networks, smart cards, Internet applications, operating systems, computer games, business methods, mobile telephones, and video processing techniques.
In addition, Mr. Wright has won several appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. His litigation experience includes researching and drafting successful motions for summary judgment, intervention, and dismissal, as well as evidentiary issues. He has also successfully argued and briefed appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Wright earned a B.S.E.E from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a J.D. form George Mason University.
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