Speakers

Speakers list in alphabetical order. More speakers are added every day, check back often!
  • Ali-Emil-200 Ali, Emil

    McCabe & Ali, LLP | Partner

    Emil J. Ali provides legal representation of professionals across many regulated industries to limit, defend, and deflect liability in regulatory and professional conduct investigations, enforcement actions, arbitrations, and court cases.
  • Anoff, Ali

    Procter & Gamble | Director & Assistant General Counsel - Patents

    Ali Anoff is Director and Assistant General Counsel at Procter & Gamble. She is the primary patent attorney for renowned brands such as Olay® skin care, as well as Old Spice®, Secret®, and Native® antiperspirant and deodorants. Ali provides strategic legal counsel to the business to create and protect global intellectual property assets. Her practice focuses on IP strategy development, preparation and prosecution of global patent applications, conducting freedom-to-practice assessments and enforcement.
  • Berezutskaya, E. Kate

    Greer Burns & Crain, Ltd. | Partner

    Kate Berezutskaya is a licensed U.S. patent attorney with over 15 years of experience in representing clients in connection with numerous patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including patent drafting and prosecution, appeals, and re-exam proceedings. She develops, procures, manages and defends global patent portfolios, and counsels clients regarding patent exclusivity, patent due diligence, license agreements, freedom-to-operate opinions and inventorship/ownership.
  • 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.
  • Crumbley, Kit

    Bracewell | IP Litigation Partner

    Kit Crumbley is an intellectual property litigation partner with Bracewell’s Austin office. He draws on his two decades of experience serving within the US Patent & Trademark Office and the Department of Justice to provide comprehensive intellectual property advice and counsel to businesses across all technology fields, with a particular focus on post-grant validity challenges and the appeals of those proceedings.
  • Curtis, Tony200 Curtis, Anthony

    Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner | Attorney

    Tony Curtis is a registered patent attorney at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner. His practice includes patent procurement, portfolio management and strategic counseling in a wide range of electrical, software, and mechanical technologies.
  • DeFranco, Denise

    Johnson & Johnson | Global Head of IP Litigation

    Denise DeFranco is the Global Head of IP Litigation at Johnson & Johnson. In that capacity, she manages the team of lawyers who are responsible for Johnson & Johnson’s patent litigation around the globe. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Denise was a Partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP. She clerked for The Honorable Paul R. Michel at the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and served as a Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Denise received her J.D. from The George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C. and her B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA.
  • Ergmann200 Ergmann, Jessica

    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard's Office of Strategic Alliances | Associate Director

    Jess Ergmann is an experienced patent and transactional attorney who is passionate about supporting the development of life saving medical technologies. She has spent the last 12 years developing business focused IP strategies for early stage and large, global companies and VCs in the life sciences field. Jess is currently the Associate Director of Legal at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a research organization dedicated to understanding the root cause of disease, where she focuses on negotiating strategic collaboration and license agreements, developing IP strategies, and managing legal operations. She is also passionate about mentoring and currently serves as the Chair of the Mentoring Committee of AIPLA. Jess is also the past Chair of AIPLA's Corporate Practice Committee.
  • Herman Photo Herman, Michele

    JusTech Law, PLLC | Founder

    Michele’s practice at JusTech Law focuses exclusively on legal and business issues affecting technology development and commercialization such as technology standards, open source software, and intellectual property transactions.
  • 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.
  • Kepler, Tracy L

    CNA | Rick Control Consulting Director, Lawyers' Professional Liability Program

    Tracy L. Kepler is the Risk Control Consulting Director for CNA’s Lawyers Insurance Program. In this role, she designs and develops content and distribution of risk control initiatives relevant to the practice of law. She collaborates with the underwriting and claims teams to develop and execute strategies for the profitable growth of the program. Tracy lectures frequently at CNA-sponsored events and at state and local bar associations and national seminars hosted by industry-leading organizations. She also writes articles focusing on law firm risk control and professional responsibility issues.
  • Kujak, Angela

    The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Senior Director, OSAP Legal Practice

    Angela Kujak is the Senior Director and Head of the OSAP Legal Practice at the Broad Institute and a registered patent attorney. She oversees Broad's intellectual property portfolio, guiding the strategic management of its patents and IP assets. Angela leads a team of over 15 legal professionals, structuring, drafting, and negotiating agreements related to Broad’s strategic transactions, partnerships, and new company formations. Before joining Broad, she held senior roles at UCLA’s Technology Development Group and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
  • 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.
  • Lotfi, Seema
    Sima has experience in both patent prosecution and litigation, and has focused her practice on prosecuting patents in the areas of biotechnology and machine learning, as well as post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
  • Ney, Joshua E.

    Barnes & Thornburg, LLP | Partner

    Josh Ney counsels life science companies in patent procurement, freedom-to-operate, due diligence and litigation matters. With a Ph.D. in chemistry, Josh practices in a range of technology areas, including small molecule drugs, lipid nanoparticles, mRNA therapeutics, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, flow cytometry technology, and polymer chemistry. Josh helps life science clients protect their assets throughout the product life-cycle, including patent drafting and prosecution, counseling regarding patent and regulatory exclusivity, and patent enforcement.
  • Stadheim Photo Stadheim, Theresa

    Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP | Special Counsel

    Theresa focuses her practice on drafting and prosecuting patent applications within the areas of wireless technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and memory devices. Theresa first became interested in patent law when she was an engineer within electrical and software development. In her roles she interacted with in-house patent attorneys and was drawn to better understanding how to protect innovation.
  • 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.