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Keynote Speakers

Will Covey
Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Acting Deputy Director of the USPTO
Kevin Rhodes
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Affairs Officer and Secretary, 3M, Minneapolis, MN



Speakers
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Adams, Marianne
Major League Baseball | Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property
Marianne C. Adams joined the Major League Baseball legal team in 2009, while still attending law school, and upon graduation assumed the role of a trademark attorney. In her current position she handles a wide variety of worldwide intellectual property issues for all of the Major League Baseball entities, including the 30 Major League Baseball clubs, the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball and other MLB-related entities. Her day-to-day practice focuses on domestic and international trademark prosecution, litigation and clearances, as well as quality control review and enforcement matters. -
Atlass, Michael
Qualcomm
Michael is a speaker on AI in IOT for Emerging Technology Committee at last Annual Meeting. Exposed to AI and ML since at least mid 1980’s as patent practitioner (Reg. No. 30606). Corporate IP practitioner in-house at 6 top corporations in computer, medical and other technology fields. 20 years in Qualcomm working with Open Source and Patent licensing, as well as Standards development, governance, and policy advocacy. Graduate of University Of Miami, School of Law. Undergraduate BS in Computer Studies, with Concentrations in Chemistry and Communications. -
Benjamin, Adrienne
Artist & Cultural Educator
Adrienne Benjamin is an Anishinaabe artist and cultural educator shaping conversations about Indigenous representation and equity. As a multifaceted creator, she channels her experiences as a special needs mother, GBS survivor, and modern Indigenous woman into powerful, socially conscious work. A passionate advocate for justice, Benjamin champions arts and education initiatives within the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and beyond. Benjamin’s work as Minnetonka Moccasin’s reconciliation advisor created avenues for Native artists to receive design fees and product royalties. An accomplished arts administrator and avid collector, Benjamin supports Indigenous and BIPOC artists, amplifying voices often marginalized in creative spaces. Her approach centers on restoring cultural dignity, challenging historical narratives, and creating genuine, respectful collaboration. -
Borella, Ph.D., Michael S.
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP | Co-Chair of MBHB’s Artificial Intelligence Practice Group
Michael S. Borella is Co-Chair of MBHB’s Artificial Intelligence Practice Group and Software and Computing Practice Group. Dr. Borella leverages his knowledge of complex software to help his clients – from individual inventors and global technology companies – solve intellectual property challenges and build and manage patent portfolios. Dr. Borella is a named inventor on more than 70 U.S. patent applications and has drafted or been involved in the prosecution of hundreds of patents in the U.S. and around the world. Clients also seek Dr. Borella’s counsel on patent eligibility, validity, infringement, patentability analyses and litigation matters. -
Boundy, David
Potomac Law Group | Partner
David Boundy is a Partner in our Intellectual Property and Administrative Law practices, advising clients in strategic development of intellectual property as an integrated asset of the business, and synergizing intellectual property with legal, R&D, finance, and marketing. Mr. Boundy is listed as one of the 300 leading intellectual property strategists in the world. He has represented and counseled inventors, investors, startups, and established companies in intellectual property matters. The scope of representation includes patent prosecution, licensing, counseling to avoid litigation, opinions, financing and public offering transactions, due diligence, acquisitions, and spinoffs. His special expertise is in structuring startups’ IP portfolios to maximize financing. -
Boyden, Bruce
Marquette University Law School | Associate Professor
Bruce Boyden is an Associate Professor at Marquette University Law School and the co-director of Marquette’s Intellectual Property Program. He teaches and writes in the areas of copyrights, intellectual property, privacy law, and civil procedure. His most recent scholarship focuses on the history of the doctrine of substantial similarity in copyright law and the impact of AI on US IP law. -
Burke, Julie
IP Quality Pro, LLC | Founder
Julie Burke PhD, is a former quality assurance specialist at the US Patent and Trademark Office. She has a BA in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of London College of Science, Technology and Medicine. After being a constant thorn in management's side for nearly 20 years’ at the US Patent and Trademark Office, Dr. Burke worked 5 years as a Patent Scientist for Knobbe Martens and then founded her own consulting company, IP Quality Pro LLC. -
Carani, Christopher V.
McAndrews, Held & Malloy | Shareholder
Christopher V. Carani is a Shareholder at McAndrews and has been at the firm since 1995. He practices in all areas of intellectual property law with a particular emphasis on design law, which regards the protection and enforcement of rights in the appearance of consumer products. Chris has extensive experience litigating design patent cases, including representations before U.S. district courts, the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the International Trade Commission. In each year since 2019, Chris has been named to the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists list, with IAM magazine noting that he is “one of the world’s leading design patent strategists,” one of the U.S.’s “pre-eminent design law experts,” and “widely regarded as one of the country’s premier design patent lawyers.” In 2023, in Columbia Sportswear v. Seirus, Chris successfully argued a case of first impression before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, creating new law on the issue of the proper scope of comparison prior art used in the design patent infringement analysis. -
Chen, Gang
Crowell & Moring | Partner
Gang Chen (“Gang”), a partner at Crowell & Moring, earned a Ph.D. degree in physics and electric engineering from University of Michigan (with distinction). Gang received his JD from Setal Hall Law School (magna cum laude). Gang handles a large docket of patent prosecution matters in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and litigate complex patent infringement matters in diverse technical fields including quantum information processing. Gang also routinely helps clients with IP due diligence investigations and provides counseling on corporate legal issues involving technological subject matters and general IP portfolio management, transaction, and strategies. Gang previously had extensive research/development experiences in an industrial research lab followed by several years of in-house experiences in handling intellectual property matters such as asset mining, patent assertion and licensing. Gang’s technical experiences span a variety of areas including wireless/wireline telecommunications networks, electronic/optical devices and components, semiconductors, data analytics/modeling, artificial intelligence, autonomies, quantum information processing/computation, and advanced physics and material researches. -
Clouse, Ian
Holland and Hart | Partner
Ian Clouse is a partner at Holland & Hart LLP. He guides clients through the complex interplay between patents and real-world business. He has robust technical experience with semiconductor circuits and fabrication, memory technologies, telecommunications, electrical hardware, materials, digital and analog circuits, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software, cryptocurrency and blockchain, sensor networks optics, home automation, radiation mitigation technology, outdoor equipment, mechanical systems, and more. He also has experience working with various medical device technologies including orthopedic implants, power tools, turbine engines, vehicle-based systems, acoustic control systems, semantic reasoning, controller technologies, enclosure technologies, and mixed-sample gene analysis. -
Collins, Kevin E.
Washington University School of Law | Professor of Law
Kevin Emerson Collins is a Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law and Director of Washington University’s Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program. He is a nationally recognized expert on intellectual property law in general and patent law in particular. His scholarship addresses topics such as when patents should grant inventors control over technology that was not developed at the time their patents were filed, whether the discovery of new biomarkers and medical diagnostics should be patent eligible, and how the functional nature of software complicates the use of conventional patent doctrines to curtail the permissible scope of claims to software inventions. He has published work in leading law reviews, including the University of Chicago Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Washington University Law Review. He is currently working on a book project for Cambridge University Press on intellectual property protection for architecture that addresses both the protection to which architects are entitled under four different intellectual property regimes and architects’ curious nonuse of much of that protection. -
Combs, Erik
Pirkey Barber PLLC | Associate
Erik Combs focuses his practice on trademark, copyright, and unfair competition law. He has experience representing clients in contested proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, assisting clients in the management of domestic and international trademark portfolios, and protecting clients’ intellectual property rights with respect to issues particular to the internet, including through UDRP proceedings. Erik also has expertise assisting clients with trademark licensing and transactional matters, as well as software license agreements. -
Contreras, Jorge
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law | James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law
Jorge Contreras is a University Distinguished Professor, the James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. He has previously served as a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Tilburg University and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law. Professor Contreras’s research focuses on intellectual property law and science policy. He has published more than 150 academic articles and chapters and has written or edited 14 books including The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (Hachette/Algonquin, 2021), which was recognized by the New York Times as one of the top nonfiction books of the season. -
Cooper, William
Cooper Legal Group | President
William Cooper is a Patent Attorney, and is admitted to practice in Ohio and the District of Columbia as well as before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Bill is also a member of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association. Bill has experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in many technical areas, including, inter alia, computer hardware and software, search, internet, business methods, semiconductor processing, medical imaging, communications, signal processing, circuitry, logic, lasers, ion implantation, automotive safety, and mechanical and electro-mechanical technologies. -
Cotter, Thomas
University of Minnesota Law School | Taft Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law
Thomas F. Cotter is the Taft Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Professor Cotter's principal research and teaching interests are in the fields of domestic and international intellectual property law, antitrust, and law and economics. Among the books he has authored or edited are FRAND: German Case Law and Global Developments (Peter Georg Picht, Thomas F. Cotter & Erik Habich eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2024); Patent Wars: How Patents Impact Our Daily Lives (Oxford University Press 2018); and Comparative Patent Remedies: A Legal and Economic Analysis (Oxford University Press 2013). Professor Cotter also has authored numerous articles and book chapters, and publishes a blog, ComparativePatentRemedies.com. -
Davis, Laura
DeWitt Law Firm | Partner
Laura is a partner and experienced litigator at DeWitt LLP. She has experience litigating patent (utility and design), trademark, copyright, and trade secret disputes, as well as other commercial disputes. In addition, Laura regularly handles cancellation and opposition proceedings before the TTAB and IPR proceedings before the PTAB. She has obtained successful outcomes at all stages of litigation from preliminary injunctions and summary judgment to trial and appeal. Most recently, she has successfully defeated patent infringement and other related claims on summary judgment while going on to obtain a favorable verdict pursuing trade secret violations in the same case. -
Davis, Theodore
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP | Partner
Ted Davis is a partner in the Atlanta office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where he has practiced trademark, copyright, false advertising, and unfair competition law since 1990. He is a past member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Board of Directors and currently serves as an editor of the A.I.P.L.A. Quarterly Law Journal. He also is a current member of the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors and a former member of the International Trademark Association’s Executive Committee. He frequently serves as an expert witness in trademark-related matters and is an adjunct professor at the Emory University School of Law. -
Eber, Michelle
West U Capital | Managing Director
Michelle is currently Managing Director at West U Capital. Previously she was at Validity Finance where she was responsible for their patent matters, including evaluating new cases for investment and managing funded cases. Michelle brings more than ten years of patent and trade secret litigation experience to West U Capital, including significant courtroom experience. Prior to this, Michelle was special counsel at Baker Botts, where she represented both plaintiffs and defendants in the energy and technology sectors in high-stakes IP cases. -
Eblen, Charlie
Shook, Hardy & Bacon | Partner
Charlie is a versatile and adaptive trial and appellate lawyer who represents clients in high-stakes cases in jurisdictions across the United States. As clients have described him, “He is one of the top young trial lawyers in the country [routinely] tapped to try cases that are ten to a hundred million dollars, if not more. He is in high demand and extraordinarily effective.” -
Gastle, Jim
Terrifio | Co-Founder, Patent Agent
Jim is a Patent Agent and Professional Engineer, with 40 years of experience advising clients across various scientific fields. He focuses on automating Virtual Patent Marking compliance through Terrifio’s online tool Markr™, to reduce internal burdens and maintain enforcement readiness. Recognized as a thought leader, Jim has shared his insights through media and professional appearances across the UK, Europe, and the U.S. His client work centers on addressing marking compliance gaps and quantifying enhanced value outcomes through comprehensive modeling. -
Gerratana, Frank
Calyx Law LLP | Partner
Frank Gerratana is a high-tech and intellectual property attorney at the intersection of law, business, and emerging technology. With degrees in computer science & electrical engineering, he brings deep technical acumen to his clients’ most complex legal challenges. Frank works with a wide range of organizations—from venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 corporations—helping them develop robust patent strategies, navigate legal hurdles, and mitigate IP-related risks. His forward-looking guidance enables companies to protect and commercialize their innovations, whether they involve artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotics, medical devices, microprocessor architecture, or financial technology. -
Goldberg, Joshua
Nath, Goldberg & Meyer | Co-Managing Partner
Joshua Goldberg is Co-Managing Partner and the Partner-in-Charge of the Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Department of Nath, Goldberg & Meyer. Mr. Goldberg’s practice involves preparing and acquiring U.S. and foreign patents for his clients across a wide range of technology areas. His current practice places a particular emphasis on pharmaceutical, agriculture, and alternative energy technologies. He also advises corporate, university, and independent clients not only in how to obtain patents, but also how to bring new products to market without infringing someone else’s patents. -
Hailey, Nick
Oppenheim + Zebrak, LLP | Partner
Nick Hailey is a partner at Oppenheim + Zebrak, LLP, where he represents clients in complex intellectual property litigation involving copyrights, trademarks, and related commercial matters. Nick has argued and tried cases in federal and state courts nationwide. He has successfully represented clients across all stages of litigation, from pre-suit investigation through trial and appeal. Nick plays a central role in representing the firm’s clients in numerous high-stakes, cutting-edge cases—including litigation brought by a group of music publishers against a large AI company for mass copyright infringement. -
Harding, Elizabeth (Liz)
Greenbert Traurig, LLP | Shareholder
Elizabeth (Liz) Harding helps organizations protect and commercialize of their data assets. Liz is qualified in Colorado and the United Kingdom, and has over 20 years of experience focusing on privacy and data matters, including deep familiarity with the GDPR, CCPA, and various other U.S. federal, state, and international privacy and cybersecurity regulations. Liz applies a risk based approach to privacy compliance, marrying deep technical know-how with industry experience. She supports clients across a wide array of industries including advertising, media and telecommunications, entertainment, financial services, health care, hospitality, retail, education, AI, and cloud based technology. -
Heyman, Paula
Maschoff Brennan | Attorney
Paula Heyman has almost 25 years of experience in patent litigation, patent prosecution and licensing. She litigates patent and technology disputes in federal courts across the US and the International Trade Commission (ITC) and in post-grant and patent interference proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Paula also helps clients identify and protect their intellectual property assets in the US and internationally. She handles matters involving a wide range of technologies, including computer chips and computer systems, integrated circuit design and software for the layout of integrated circuits, semiconductor manufacturing technology, telecommunications systems, database management software, website functionality, medical devices, neural network technology, oilfield equipment and associated software, and natural gas processing. -
Holt, Krista
Econ One | Managing Director
Krista Holt is a Managing Director at Econ One. Ms. Holt testifies as an economic damages expert, marketing expert, survey expert, and licensing expert. She provides expert witness testimony for issues related to patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, breach of contract, class action, ITC, antitrust, and false advertising, including strategic consulting, valuation, marketing, licensing, surveys and analysis of damages claimed in litigation and other issues, including lost profits, reasonable royalties, price erosion, accounting of defendant’s profits, restitution, expectation, reliance, domestic industry, injury, bonding, corrective advertising, and diminution in asset and enterprise value. -
Irving, Thomas L.
The Marbury Law Group, PLLC | Senior Partner
Tom Irving is Senior Partner at the Marbury Law Group, after a 47-year career at the world-famous Finnegan firm. Tom practices U.S. patent law, including but not limited to patent law experting in district court litigations, due diligence, counseling, strategy, rendering opinions on inventorship and ownership, patentability, validity and freedom to operate, patent preparation and prosecution in the Chemical and Life Science arts and listing approved drug products and methods of treatment in FDA’s Orange Book.. Tom obtained his undergraduate B.A, degree in chemistry at the University of Utah in 1974. Tom received his law degree from The Duke University School of Law in 1977. Tom is entering his 50th year in the U.S. patent law business and in the very early years was mentored by P.J. Federico, who co-wrote the 1952 Patent Act with Judge Rich. -
Jakobsen Osenga, Kristen
University of Richmond School of Law | Associate Dean, Research Scholar, & Professor of Law
Dean Kristen Jakobsen Osenga teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, patent law, law and language, and legislation and regulation. Some of her recent scholarship focuses on patent eligible subject matter, patent licensing firms, standard development organizations, patent law reform, and claim construction. She has written numerous law review articles on these and other topics, as well as book chapters and op eds on various aspects of patent law. Additionally, she has spoken on patent-related issues at many academic conferences and bar events. Dean Osenga is an active member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. -
Kahana, Eran
Edelman
Eran Kahana is an AI, cybersecurity, and intellectual property lawyer as well as a Fellow at Stanford Law School, a member of the Advisory Board of Stanford Law School’s Stanford Artificial Intelligence & Law Society, an adjunct professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School, and a member of the Scientific Council of the Israeli Association for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence. -
Kahler, Rachel
General Mills | Patent Agent
Dr. Rachel Kahler is a registered U.S. patent agent with General Mills, Inc. in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area. Dr. Kahler joined General Mills in 2013, after working for more than 7 years in law firms preparing and prosecuting patent applications and having support roles in portfolio management, litigation, and freedom to operate investigations. Over more than 15 years, Dr. Kahler has worked with a variety of technologies, but currently focuses on food, biotechnology, and chemistry-related patent prosecution and portfolio management. -
Kapoor, Ishita
Chadha & Chadha | Managing Associate
Ishita Kapoor is a Managing Associate at Chadha & Chadha, with over nine years of experience in intellectual property law. She specializes in providing strategic counselling and securing optimal IP protection for clients across a wide range of industries. Her practice includes patent prosecution, encompassing prior art searches, application drafting, and overall portfolio management. In addition to her prosecution work, she is actively involved in a variety of contentious IP matters. -
Karlen, Christopher
Medtronic | IP Director
Chris Karlen is the IP Director for Medtronic’s Structural Heart and Aortic operating unit, overseeing the IP strategy for Medtronic’s portfolio of heart valve products and therapies. As an IP Director with a decade of in-house experience, Chris leads the SH&A IP team in the development of creative IP solutions that further Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending the lives of cardiovascular patients. Chris has held multiple leadership roles at Medtronic in Cardiovascular Diagnostics, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Neuromodulation, and IP Mergers & Acquisitions. Before joining Medtronic, Chris was Senior IP Counsel at 3M and also worked in private practice at Shumaker & Sieffert and Fish & Richardson. Chris has particular interests and expertise in implementing IP strategies where artificial intelligence, sensors, and imaging are used in medical and industrial applications. -
Kauffman, Mike
3M Company | Vice President & General Counsel
Mike is the Vice President & General Counsel for 3M’s Consumer Business Group (CBG) and leads the global CBG general counsel legal team. He engages regularly with leaders at all levels of CBG to develop proactive solutions when business and legal issues intersect. Mike’s primary areas of legal and business expertise include product manufacturing, sales and distribution, commercial transactions, advertising and marketing, promotions and brand activation, product safety and risk management, and regulatory compliance. Mike also works with 3M’s consumer key account business teams that manage the sales relationships of 3M products through physical retail locations and e-commerce platforms globally. -
Kim, Alexander
Greenberg Traurig | Patent Prosecution Shareholder
Alex Kim is a Patent Prosecution Shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Minneapolis office. He protects companies’ innovations and secrets by developing strategic company policies and programs. He also protects companies’ inventions by acquiring patents and the associated monopoly rights for the companies. Alex has wide-ranging experience in prosecuting patent applications in front of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. -
Kitch, Paul
Greer Burns & Crain | Partner
Paul R. Kitch is a partner with Greer, Burns & Crain in Chicago with significant experience in IP prosecution, litigation, and client counseling. -
Konkoly-Thege, Kaniah
Quantinuum | Senior VP Government Relations
Kaniah Konkoly-Thege serves as the Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President of Government Relations for Quantinuum. Kaniah brings over 20 years of legal expertise spanning several industries including cybersecurity, nuclear security, and quantum computing technologies. Kaniah oversees Quantinuum’s legal and government affairs, where she leads a global team responsible for intellectual property, data privacy/security, commercial, corporate, employment, export control, litigation and compliance. In her government relations role, she regularly meets with key government and congressional leaders on trade concerns with emerging technologies, post-quantum cybersecurity preparedness, and supply chain matters. -
Kraus, Jason
Partner | Nelson Mullins
Jason designs and implements international patent strategies that create maximum value for clients. He partners with clients to ensure products avoid infringing competitors' patents and to build international patent portfolios that provide a competitive business advantage. He also works with clients to enforce patents against competitors in patent infringement litigation. Jason has worked with clients in the fields of Medical Devices, Food & Agriculture, and 3D Printing. -
Larus, Christopher
Thompson Hine LLP | Chair of the IP and Technology Litigation Practice
Christopher Larus is the Chair of the IP and Technology Litigation Practice at Thompson Hine LLP. For more than 25 years, Chris has helped his clients protect their intellectual property rights. He tries complex patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and licensing cases. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in courts throughout the country, and in both national and international arbitration. He has extensive experience planning and implementing licensing campaigns involving a broad range of intellectual property assets and technologies. -
Lavender, Mark
Olympus Corporation of the Americas | IP Team Leader
Mark Lavender is an experienced intellectual property attorney with a background in biomedical and mechanical engineering and a passion for medical technologies. He currently leads the IP team at Olympus Corporation of the Americas, focusing on strategic IP management and innovation. -
Lee, Wan Chieh (Jenny)
Haug Partners | Partner
Wan Chieh (Jenny) Lee is a partner in the New York office of Haug Partners. Her practice focuses on strategic counseling, procurement of worldwide patent rights, due diligence, freedom to operate, and intellectual property transactions. She routinely advises clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries regarding patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate, and regulatory exclusivity. Jenny develops and executes patent procurement strategies that are aligned with clients’ immediate and long-term business goals. She leverages her strong ability to digest complex technical information with her experience in both patent procurement and litigation to provide clients with valuable transactional insights. -
Leeds, Jamie
Eli Lilly and Company | Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel
Jamie Leeds is a Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel – Hatch Waxman Litigation at Eli Lilly and Company. Jamie graduated, magna cum laude, from Indiana University School of Law in 1992 and was admitted to the Indiana State Bar. Jamie is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. -
Leinberg, Gunnar
Troutman Pepper Locke | Partner
Gunnar Leinberg is regularly involved with overseeing the development, management, licensing, enforcement, and defense of intellectual property (IP) portfolios for clients. This work includes IP litigation and post-grant administrative proceedings, including inter partes reviews, ex parte reexaminations, reissues, supplemental examinations, and pre-issuance submissions. He also routinely counsels and assists clients with noninfringement and invalidity opinions, due diligence, licensing, and other related transactional matters. Gunnar's technology experience includes work in the software, AI, data communications, electronics, optics, robotics, automation, medical devices, and other industry spaces. He can be reached at gunnar.leinberg@troutman.com. -
Lester, Elizabeth
Equifax | Assistant General Counsel
Elizabeth Lester is Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property at Equifax, where she is responsible for managing the domestic and international IP portfolio and ensuring that the IP strategy is aligned with business strategies. Prior to Equifax, Elizabeth worked for nearly a decade in private practice focusing on patent preparation and prosecution, portfolio management, and IP issues in business transactions. -
Lewellen, Noah
Minnesota Attorney General's Office | Assistant Attorney General
Noah Lewellen is an Assistant Attorney General in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, where he has served in its Public Safety, Health Licensing, Medicaid Fraud, and, most recently, Consumer Protection divisions. His work involves investigating and bringing enforcement actions for violations of Minnesota’s consumer protection laws involving fraud, deceptive trade practices, and false advertising, ranging in scope from individual door-to-door salespeople to international pharmaceutical manufacturers. -
Maisel, Jennifer
Rothwell Figg | Partner
Jennifer Maisel (“Jen”), a partner at Rothwell Figg, is a highly skilled strategist and thought leader in intellectual property (IP) law and litigation. She advises both large corporations and emerging companies on protecting and leveraging their groundbreaking innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality, big data, the Internet of Things, privacy, cybersecurity, quantum computing, and blockchain. With technical experience developing language models for natural language processing applications, Jen is uniquely equipped to guide clients through complex IP, data protection, and privacy challenges in the AI space. She is currently counsel to The New York Times in the landmark litigation against Microsoft and Open AI alleging copyright infringement through the training of their generative AI tools. -
Mason, Andrew
Klarquist Sparkman | Partner
Andy Mason (Elec. Eng.) Partner: Andy co-chairs the firm’s post-grant group, has first chaired over 80 IPR trials, has taken/ defended dozens of depositions, and regularly argues before the Board. He also handles related appeals from the Board and has successfully argued before the Federal Circuit, both as appellant and appellee. Andy co-chairs the Federal Circuit Bar Association's PTO Committee and has spoken on PTAB panels at the Federal Circuit’s Bench & Bar conference. -
Maurer, Greg
Klarquist Sparkman | Partner
Greg Maurer has been a partner at Klarquist for thirty years and has a history of prepara-tion and prosecution of computer-related and bioinformatics patent applications, open-source software, and intellectual property counseling. His experience includes a wide range of software development, artificial intelligence, big data, user interface, bioinformat-ics, and telecommunications technologies, including complex algorithms and numerous programming languages, such as assembly, C++, LISP, Java and various visual and object-oriented languages. Greg’s professional technical experience includes work as a Senior Systems Analyst, with a particular emphasis on system integration and software develop-ment. -
McBroom, John
IBM | Open Technology Counsel
John McBroom is IBM Open Technology Counsel and provides legal support for IBM's vari-ous open activities across its entire enterprise. John also helps lead IBM's Competition Law Team and serves as Board Secretary of Open Innovation Network (OIN), an institution focused on mitigating patent risk in Open Source Software (OSS). John earned his legal degree from the Duke University School of Law, and prior to joining IBM, served as law clerk for Federal District Court (MN) Judge Ann D. Montgomery and worked for the Faegre & Benson law firm (now Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath) in Minneapolis. -
McCabe, Jr., Michael
McCabe Ali, LLC | Managing Partner
Michael McCabe. is the Managing Partner of McCabe Ali LLP, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Michael has practiced IP law for 32 years and is a registered patent attorney. Michael’s practice focuses on the intersection of IP and ethics. He has represented hundreds of patent, trademark and intellectual property practitioners, in addition to law firms, students, in-house counsel and government employees in federal ethics investigations, sanctions issues, disciplinary trials, and other professional misconduct matters before the USPTO and various state bars. Michael regularly consults with lawyers and law firm management on risk management, ethics compliance, and internal investigations. He has served as an expert witness on professional conduct issues before state and federal tribunals. -
McCrackin, Ann
UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law | Adjunct Professor
Ann McCrackin is bridging the gap between AI and IP practice. She is the founder of AI-Enabled Attorney LLC, a consulting and training company that helps IP professionals effectively adopt AI technologies and offers AI training for the broader legal profession. Her expertise stems from over a decade of streamlining IP processes with AI as the founding President of Black Hills IP. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, where she teaches patent prosecution and prepares her students for the evolving role of technology in their practice. Ann's background also includes over 25 years as a patent attorney, including being a shareholder, at Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. -
McIntyre, Lisa
Google | Product Counsel
In her current role, Lisa leads a legal team at Google, advising on a wide range of legal matters for Google Cloud Platform products and services, attendant to product launch. She began her career as a patent lawyer where she practiced as outside counsel doing both prosecution and litigation, and as in-house counsel at Google before transitioning into a product counsel role. In her current role she leads a team that advises on a variety of legal issues arising in the launch of compliant products, including data privacy, sovereignty, access and security, export, incidents, commercialization and go-to-market, bespoke deal support, open source, and more. With over 20 years of experience as a strategic technology lawyer, Lisa specializes in crafting innovative, risk-mitigating strategies that enable companies to scale, drive revenue, and navigate complex regulatory landscapes. -
Mehta, Seema
Osha Bergman Watanabe Burton | Partner
Seema Mehta's practice includes foreign and domestic trademark prosecution and worldwide patent procurement and enforcement, including appeals practice, postgrant proceedings at the USPTO, validity and infringement opinions, IP counseling, IP litigation, and management of IP portfolios in the field of electronics, mechanics, optics, physics, telecommunications, and software, including machine learning and AI applications. -
Melehani, Will
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | Partner
Will Melehani is an Intellectual Property partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Will is a trial lawyer whose practice focuses on all stages of intellectual property litigation and complex commercial cases, including appeals. Over the course of his career, Will has achieved success for clients in a range of fields, including consumer electronics, video games, wireless communications, semiconductor memory, e-commerce, video streaming, telecommunications, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. Will earned his J.D. from UC Berkeley Law in 2012 and has a B.S. in Genetics from UC Davis. -
Moy, Carl
Mitchell Hamline School of Law | Professor of Law, Director, IP Institute
Professor Carl Moy was appointed Director of the Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s Intellectual Property Institute in 2024. He has been a full-time tenured faculty member for over thirty years, during which time he has focused on the school’s highly respected patent law curriculum. He is the author of Moy’s Walker on Patents, cited by the United States Supreme Court and recognized as the pre-eminent treatise on U.S. patent law, and has been a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Patent, Copyright, and Unfair Competition Law, Munich, Germany. He is a former patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., attorney at Merchant & Gould, Minneapolis, and patent agent at Parkhurst & Oliff, Alexandria, VA. -
Murthy, Sanjay
McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd | Shareholder
A Shareholder at McAndrews, Sanjay Murthy is a nationally recognized trial attorney who has been involved in more than 15 trials. He has deep experience representing leading life science and technology companies in federal district courts, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and in Section 337 investigations in the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). In addition to an active litigation practice, he manages patent portfolios for several leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies. He also leverages his trial experience to assist his clients with freedom-to-operate matters, due diligence investigations, patent portfolio audits, and licensing and collaboration transactions. -
Ochoa, Tyler T.
High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University | Professor
Tyler T. Ochoa is a Professor with the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law in California, where he teaches courses in copyright law, trademark law, rights of publicity, and international intellectual property. Professor Ochoa is the author of annual updates to the treatise, The Law of Copyright (West 2024 edition); a co-author of Copyright Law (Carolina Academic Press 12th ed. 2025), a widely-used casebook; a co-author of Understanding Intellectual Property Law (Carolina Academic Press 2020), a student hornbook; and a co-author of Celebrity Rights: Rights of Publicity in the United States & Abroad (Carolina Academic Press 2d ed. forthcoming 2026). His article, Patent and Copyright Term Extension and the Constitution: A Historical Perspective, 49 J. Copyr. Soc’y U.S.A. 19 (2001), was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003). He has written numerous articles on intellectual property law and has submitted five amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Clara, he was a Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California. -
Parker, Warrington
Crowell | Partner
Warrington Parker, the managing partner of Crowell & Moring’s San Francisco office, is an experienced first-chair trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor. He has successfully tried over 20cases encompassing a diverse range of civil and criminal matters, such as securities fraud, money laundering, employment discrimination, wrongful termination, copyright, trade secret, violation of California bond measures statutes, product liability, product defect, and breach of contract. Warrington is also a member of the firm’s Litigation, White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement, and Investigations groups. -
Pedersen, Brad
EnQuanta | Chief Strategy and Legal Officer
Brad Pedersen is a seasoned professional with more than 35 years of experience as outside IP counsel at both small and large firms, as in-house IP counsel, and as an inventor and entrepreneur. He has both an in-depth understanding of patent law and patent office proceedings and extensive experience in technology and innovation that enables him to bring real-world practicality to his strategy and legal work. His contributions to the field of IP law include serving as a past Board member of AIPLA and co-authoring a Bloomberg BNA Treatise on the America Invents Act. He is a named inventor on more than two dozen issued U.S. patents ranging from medical devices to unmanned aircraft. He is currently the Chief Strategy and Legal Officer for EnQuanta, a company at the forefront of providing innovative quantum cyber resilience solutions. -
Peters, Grant
Barnes & Thornburg LLP | Partner
Grant Peters is a partner in the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP and a registered U.S. Patent Attorney. Grant’s practice focuses on intellectual property strategies including rights planning, creation, management, problem solving, and enforcement. Grant is the go-to resource for patent marking issues and frequently talks on and writes about the topic. Grant also consults with clients on developing and maintaining patent marking programs. Grant has filed, prosecuted, and secured thousands of patents and trademarks domestically and internationally, and uses that experience to counsel clients on IP strategies, risk management, and portfolio design, coordination, and management. -
Polson, Margaret
Polson Intellectual Property Law | Founder and Principal Attorney
Margaret Polson is founder and principal attorney for Polson Intellectual Property Law. Overseeing the preparation and prosecution of utility and design patent applications, trademarks, and copyrights, she also assists clients with licensing and intellectual property strategy and management. -
Pooley, James
James Pooley PLC | Founder
James Pooley is one of the world’s foremost experts in trade secret law and management. His legal treatise, “Trade Secrets,” updated semi-annually, is the leading lawyer’s desk reference on the subject. His latest business book is “Secrets: Managing Information Assets in the Age of Cyberespionage” (Verus Press, 2015). -
Puri, Ashe
Nixon Peabody LLP | Partner
Ashe focuses his practice on litigating patent infringement disputes. He has served as lead counsel in dozens of cases throughout the United States across a broad range of technologies, including electronics, computer systems, medical devices, and consumer products. Most recently, Ashe successfully obtained a preliminary injunction in a patent infringement case pending the Southern District of New York that resulted in the court enjoining the accused infringer from selling the accused product. Ashe has also been a member of numerous trial teams. -
Rhodes, Kevin
3M | Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Affairs Officer and Secretary
Kevin Rhodes is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Affairs Officer and Secretary, overseeing legal, compliance, government affairs and global security matters for 3M. He leads a global Legal Affairs team that helps guide business opportunities, address enterprise risks, protect intellectual property, shape policy, and strengthen compliance and security. Rhodes has spent more than 20 years with 3M, most recently as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, including leading ongoing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic to combat fraud, counterfeiting, and price gouging of N95 respirators. He previously led the company’s litigation function, and served for more than ten years as chief intellectual property counsel. -
Richter, Miriam
Harvey Milk Foundation | General Counsel
Ms. Richter is a graduate of The University of Miami School of Law, cum laude, where she was Associate Editor of the Inter-American Law Review. Her experience includes an internship at the United States Patent and Trademark Office during law school, under the tutelage of the current TTAB Acting Chief Judge, Thomas Shaw. Ms. Richter is also General Counsel to the Harvey Milk Foundation where, among other matters, she handles the global protection and publicity rights of the slain gay rights activist on behalf of the Milk family and the Foundation. She also has extensive experience protecting brands in the highly competitive gaming industry. -
Ritchie, Lorelei
University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law | Grosscurth Chair in Intellectual Property and Professor of Law
Professor Ritchie joined the faculty at the University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law as the Grosscurth Chair in Intellectual Property and Professor of Law in 2024. She is an expert in intellectual property and commercial law. Professor Ritchie has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a juris doctor from Columbia University School of Law. She has taught at law schools around the country including, most recently, the University of Florida. She also previously served as a judge at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board). -
Roberts, Jack
Charles River Associates | Associate
Jack Roberts is an Associate Principal at Charles River Associates based in Chicago, Jack has over 8 years of consulting experience analyzing damages and valuation issues in complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on matters involving intellectual property rights. His experience includes a broad range of disputes, including patent and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, breach of contract and other types of disputes. Jack also has significant valuation experience outside of litigation for a variety of business purposes, including mergers and acquisitions, licensing transactions, and strategic decision making. -
Rogers, Jennifer
Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A | Principal
Jennifer Rogers is a registered patent attorney and Principal at the law firm of Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A. Her law practice focuses on patent preparation, patent prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and foreign offices, and client counseling, in the areas of software and electronics. Jennifer has drafted and prosecuted patent applications that cover a wide variety of computer- and software-related technologies, including data compression, computer networks, computer security, mobile devices, radio-frequency identification, and others. -
Schick, Ian
Paximal | Co-Founder & CEO
Ian Schick is a pioneer at the intersection of artificial intelligence and intellectual property law, dedicated to transforming how patents are drafted and managed through the use of advanced generative AI. With a background in science and engineering, he has developed proprietary AI systems that streamline patent preparation, enhance drafting consistency, and reduce costs while keeping attorneys in control of strategic decisions. His work redefines efficiency in legal practice and has influenced how firms think about quality and scale in patent portfolios. A frequent speaker and widely cited author, Ian’s thought leadership is helping shape the future of legal automation and responsible AI integration across the IP landscape. -
Seling, Tyler
Moore & Van Allen PLLC | Attorney
Tyler M. Seling is an attorney with Moore & Van Allen PLLC specializing in trademark and copyright law. As a former Trademark Examining Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Tyler utilizes his firsthand knowledge and expertise on the inner workings of the Trademark Office to guide his clients through complex prosecutorial, enforcement, and transactional matters. Tyler represents individuals and start-ups, small and midsize businesses, and large multinational corporations across a variety of industries, including music and video entertainment; beer and alcohol; food products and services; computer software and hardware; computer and video gaming; outdoor furniture; hardware and security products; HVAC and refrigeration; pharmaceutical, biotechnical, medical and healthcare; clothing and apparel; banking and finance; print and broadcast media, including social media content; and racing entertainment. -
Seth, Neal
Wiley Rein | Partner
Neal Seth: Neal is a partner in Wiley's Intellectual Property Group, where he leads the Patent Litigation Practice. He is a past member of the firm’s Management Committee and formerly served as co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Neal has extensive experience as lead counsel litigating pharmaceutical patent matters, including Hatch-Waxman/ANDA litigation and inter partes reviews. -
Sholder, Scott
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP | Partner
Scott Sholder is a partner with Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP in New York and co-chairs the firm’s litigation group. His practice focuses on litigation, counseling, and dispute resolution in connection with entertainment, media, and intellectual property matters. Scott represents and advises clients ranging from individuals and small business to major corporations and A-list talent across various industries (including music, publishing, visual and fine arts, film, and television) in copyright, trademark, right-of-publicity, unfair competition, and commercial and business disputes, as well as defamation defense. He is a frequent writer and speaker on topics landing at the intersection of new technology and IP law, particularly the impact of generative AI on copyright law, and has experience litigating cases on the cutting edge of copyright law, including several of the pending generative AI copyright infringement class action lawsuits. -
Siders, Benjamin J.
Lewis Rice, LLC | Member
Ben serves as Practice Group Leader for the Intellectual Property practice group at Lewis Rice in St. Louis, Missouri. Ben enjoys a diverse intellectual property practice that includes patent and trademark prosecution, technology licensing and compliance, and copyright licensing and enforcement. Ben is an avid gamer and former C software engineer, and he now enjoys a niche practice working with video game and board game companies, and he holds a patent on "parallel reality" games (No. 9,078,103). Within AIPLA, he is the current Chair of the Copyright Law Committee and the copyright liaison to the AI Task Force, and he was the lead author on AIPLA’s amicus brief in Warner Chappell v. Nealy. He also co-hosts a podcast called A Lawyer’s Guide to the Galaxy, which explores the intersection of geek culture and the law (but is mostly an excuse to talk about Star Wars). -
Sry, Jon
3M | Senior IP Counsel
Jon Sry is Senior IP Counsel at 3M, supporting multiple divisions within the Safety and Industrial Business Group. In addition, he serves as an office leader in AI, championing innovation and efficiency throughout the legal department. A skilled prompt engineer, Jon is continuously exploring cost-effective legal applications by harnessing the power of commercial large language models (LLMs). In his policy-focused endeavors, Jon was instrumental in drafting 3M’s generative AI use guidelines to ensure responsible and ethical implementation of emerging technologies. He also led the AI Governance Subcommittee on behalf of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), benchmarking policies and best practices among top organizations. -
Stuckwisch, Sue
Alvarez & Marsal Disputes an Investigations, LLC | Managing Director
Ms. Stuckwisch specializes in economics, finance, complex data, advanced quantitative methods, and statistics. Ms. Stuckwisch has testified in federal, state, and bankruptcy courts in matters involving patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, antitrust, the Lanham Act, false advertising, class actions, unfair competition, breach of contract, employment disputes, and fraud. Ms. Stuckwisch earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in operations research from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Science in Economics with concentrations in econometrics and statistics and a Master of Business Administration from Arizona State University. -
Taylor, Daniel
Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins | Attorney
Daniel Taylor is a patent attorney at Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins who specializes in District of Delaware IP litigation. His practice consists of both lead and Delaware counsel roles and also includes commercial disputes over contracts, license agreements, and other causes of action that overlap with patent, trademark, and copyright. He spent five years as a judicial law clerk in the District of Delaware where he clerked for judges including District Judge Hon. Sue L. Robinson and Chief Magistrate Judge Hon. Mary Pat Thynge. Daniel comes to the legal profession after working in the technology industry as a product marketer and industry analyst. He transitioned to the law by first passing the USPTO registration examination and then working during law school as a patent agent for a semiconductor manufacturer. Daniel graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law and holds a bachelors degree in Engineering Mechanics from Johns Hopkins University. -
Tysver, Dan
Bitlaw | Advisor
Dan Tysver has over thirty years of experience securing patents for cutting-edge software technologies. An advisor to innovators, he navigates the complexities of patent law to protect digital advancements, from blockchain to AI. Dan’s interest in AI began in law school, where he studied artificial intelligence and legal reasoning, and AI programming. His third-year paper explored case-based legal reasoning using a logic engine he built in Prolog. This early exposure shaped his perspective on the intersection of law and artificial intelligence. -
Van Voorhis, Kim
Nike | Assistant General Counsel, Global IP LItigation
Kim is Assistant General Counsel, Global IP Litigation & Director of IP Europe at Nike, Inc. She is a committed IP professional, bringing nearly 20 years of experience litigating, managing portfolios, and providing strategic counseling on all aspects of global intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, design, copyright and trade secrets, in both elite law firm and Fortune 100 corporate settings. -
Verma, Divyendu
Duxlegis Attorneys | Managing Partner
Mr. Verma is an Advocate and registered Patent, Design & Trademark Attorney in INDIA, UAE & USA. In over 20+ years of experience, Mr. Verma has amassed vast experience in IP strategic advisory, patent drafting, prosecution and litigation. Mr. Verma has handled and managed large IP projects for multiple national and international clients involving framing IP strategy and IP implementation framework, assisting clients to build their IP portfolio. Specifically, in High Tech industry, he has handled a variety of issues including protection of software patents in India. He has advised on issues related to SEPs, technology standards and indemnification for Patent/IP-Infringement. -
Wagner, Matthew
PDC Brands | General Counsel
Matthew Wagner is General Counsel for PDC Brands and has over 20 years of experience in private practice, focused on intellectual property, federal litigation, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. Prior to joining the company, Wagner served as a Partner at the Stamford-based law firm Diserio Martin where he chaired the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. Additionally, Matt is an active member of AIPLA, AIPPI-US and AIPPI: he served on the AIPLA Board of Directors from 2017-2020, and is past-chair of the Copyright Law Committee, among other things; currently, Matt is Vice Chair of the Special Committee on Legislation for AIPLA, a member of the Steering Committee for AIPPI-US; and a member of the Amicus Briefs Committee for AIPPI. He is an active member of other substantive committees and was elected to the AIPLA Fellows in 2021. -
Weeks, Joshua
Alston & Bird, LLP | Partner
Joshua Weeks is a partner at Alston & Bird LLP, specializing in intellectual property litigation. He represents clients in complex disputes involving patents, trade secrets, and other forms of intellectual property, litigating cases nationwide in district courts, various state courts, and before the International Trade Commission. Joshua earned his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, and holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering. -
Weinger, Daniel
Fortress Bio | Director
Daniel Weinger is a Director in asset management for IP Investments at Fortress Investment Group. The Fortress IP team makes private equity and credit investments based on the value of intellectual property assets. Daniel advises these investments on monetization strategies to help them realize the full value of their intellectual property. Prior to joining Fortress, Daniel was a partner at Mintz, litigating patent and trade secret cases in the federal district courts, International Trade Commission, and the PTAB and advising clients on IP licensing and other issues. Many of his enforcement campaigns were multinational in nature, requiring enforcement actions in various jurisdictions around the world. He also has advised clients on standard essential patents, including patent pools and individual owners of SEPs across various standards, including ETSI/3GPP, Wi-Fi, ONVIF, compression codecs (including audio and video), and others. Daniel has been named on the IAM Strategy 300 for 2022-2025. Daniel has a JD from Boston College Law School and a BA in computer science from NYU. He is an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School where he teaches a seminar on IP Portfolio Strategy and Monetization. -
Young, Laurie
Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner | IP Attorney
Laurie Young is an intellectual property attorney with Schwegman, Lundberg and Woessner. Before joining SLW, she was Senior Intellectual Property Counsel Katun Corporation. While at Katun she managed all intellectual property matters, both domestic and foreign. This included managing patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret matters and any business matters which may relate to intellectual property. Laurie was also Data Privacy Officer for Katun Corporation. When Laurie is not handing intellectual property matters, she loves to bake cookies (even placing at the Minnesota State Fair three times for her cookie entries). -
Zimmerman, Sommer
Ballard Spahr LLP
Sommer S. Zimmerman is a member of the Ballard Spahr Patent Group’s Life Sciences team. Her practice focuses on various aspects of patent prosecution, due diligence, and freedom to operate analysis, working primarily with clients in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, chemical, and food and beverage industries.
