Speakers

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

    Brown, Neri, Smith & Khan, LLP (BNSK) | Partner

    Ryan Abbott, MD, JD, PhD, Solicitor Advocate, FCIArb, is partner at Brown, Neri, Smith & Khan, LLP, a consultant solicitor at Keystone Law, a mediator and arbitrator at JAMS, Inc. and Professor of Law and Health Sciences at University of Surrey School of Law.
  • Akhlaghi, Babak

    NovoTech Patent Firm | Founding Director

    Babak Akhlaghi is the Founding Director of NovoTech Patent Firm, a Washington, D.C.-based intellectual property law firm focused on helping startups, emerging companies, and technology-driven businesses build and leverage patent portfolios to support fundraising, commercialization, licensing, acquisitions, and long-term competitive advantage.
  • 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.
  • Bemben, Richard

    Sterne Kessler | Director

    Rick is a director in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group and a Co-Chair of the firm’s PTAB Practice. He holds degrees in computer and electrical engineering and served as an examiner before starting his practice. Rick is a recognized leader in post-grant proceedings before the PTAB.
  • Bernstein, Frank

    Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP | Partner

    Frank Bernstein is a partner in the Intellectual Property & Technology Group at Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP. Frank uses his extensive US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and district court experience to think outside the box, helping clients obtain and defend challenging patents.
  • Bettridge, Paul

    Carpmaels & Ransford | Partner

    Paul is a UK and European Patent Attorney and UPC Representative, handling patent prosecution, European-wide clearance and defensive IP strategies, and contentious work, both at the EPO and UPC. At the UPC, Paul has acted before the Paris and Milan Local Divisions and the Court of Appeal, including preliminary injunction, revocation and infringement actions. Paul’s technical background is engineering, and his work spans a wide variety of technologies focusing in particular on consumer products and medical devices.
  • Binns, Micheal

    ADAPT. Legal | Co-Founder

    Micheal Binns is an AI and innovation executive focused on building and advising AI-powered businesses, who until August 2026 served as Director and Associate General Counsel at Meta Platforms, where as Head of Patents and Trade Secrets he led global patent, trade secret, design, and licensing strategy across artificial intelligence, AR/VR/MR, wearables, and social platforms.
  • Blake, Mark

    Medtronic | Head of IP Litigation

  • Boelling, Markus

    Mitscherlich PartmbB | Senior Partner

    Dr. Markus B. Bölling is a German attorney-at-law and Senior Partner with Mitscherlich PartmbB in Munich. He advises national and international clients on the enforcement of intellectual property rights and unfair competition law, with particular experience in matters involving product imitations, counterfeits, and other infringing products.
  • Boyd, Felicia200 Boyd, Felicia J.

    Norton Rose Fulbright | Head of Brands

    Felicia Boyd is a Chambers ranked litigator with extensive experience as a leader in complex IP disputes involving patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade dress—both in and out of court—spanning a diverse array of industries, including financial and investment services, medical devices (such as pacemakers, heart valves, defibrillators and synchronization devices), software, music, pharmaceuticals and manufactured goods. With more than three decades of practice, she has obtained several victories as a litigator, including preliminary injunction motions, summary judgment motions, favorable settlements and jury verdicts at trial.
  • Broughan, Thomas

    Morrison Foerster

    Tom's practice focuses on district court litigation involving high-stakes patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation claims. Over the past 10 years, over half of his work has involved litigation for MedTech companies over high-tech medical devices.
  • Butler, Marla

    Thomson Hine | Partner and Firmwide Chair, Divesity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative

    Marla Butler is a Partner in the Business Litigation and Intellectual Property practice groups at Thompson Hine LLP. She represents clients in the medical, semiconductor, power, networking and other high-tech industries in high-stakes commercial litigations, arbitrations and trials.
  • Carpenter, Megan

    UNH Franlin Pierce Law School | Professor of Law

    Megan Carpenter is an internationally recognized leader in intellectual property, technology, innovation, and legal education. She is a Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, where she served as the first female Dean from 2017 to 2025. At Franklin Pierce, she significantly strengthened the intellectual property program, increased enrollment, transformed the financial position of the institution, and led the creation of innovative academic programs. During her tenure, she was named one of the Most Influential People in Legal Education by National Jurist.
  • Carrier, Michael

    Rutgers Law School | Board of Governors Professor

    Michael A. Carrier is a Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers Law School, where he specializes in antitrust and IP law. He is co-author of the leading IP/antitrust treatise, IP and Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles Applied to Intellectual Property Law and the author of Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law.
  • Che, Jennifer

    Eagle IP | President and Managing Director

    Jennifer Che is President and Managing Director of Eagle IP, a boutique patent firm headquartered in Greater China. A U.S. patent attorney with a deep understanding of cross-border U.S.-China patent matters, Jennifer combines nearly 15 years of in-house IP leadership experience in Boston, including roles at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Flagship-founded Axcella, with more than eight years advising clients on China patent strategy from Asia.
  • Chernoff, Michael

    Clerq | Director of IP Strategy

    Michael Chernoff is Director of IP Strategy at Clerq (formerly NLPatent), the AI clerk for patent professionals, where he leads work on the company’s agentic patent research workflows and advises on product direction and market strategy.
  • Corboy, Grant

    USPTO, Office of Enrollment Discipline (OED) | Staff Attorney

    Mr. Corboy joined the Office of Enrollment Discipline (OED) as a Patent Attorney in 2016. As a member of the Patent Pro Bono Team, he is dedicated to making sure that all inventors have access to the patent system, including those who are financially under-resourced. In addition to his Patent Pro Bono responsibilities, Mr. Corboy also serves as a Staff Attorney investigating discipline and enrollment matters.
  • Curtis, Anthony

    Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner | Principal

    Tony Curtis is a Partner at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner. His practice includes patent procurement, portfolio management and strategic counseling in a wide range of electrical, software, and mechanical technologies. Tony previously worked as senior counsel in patent operations and portfolio management in the communications field at Verizon and Motorola Solutions. He has worked on diverse technology, including short and long-range telecommunication devices, semiconductor devices, materials, and processing, software (including AI), healthcare-related software and devices, big data analysis and usage, Internet-related software including advertising, and business methods.
  • Damman, Kirk

    Lewis Rice | Member

    Kirk A. Damman is a Member at Lewis Rice who helps companies protect and leverage innovations across a broad range of technologies and industries. His intellectual-property practice focuses on patent prosecution and innovation-protection strategies, including patent, trademark, and copyright applications; trade-secret policies; IP licensing and other innovation-related agreements; and IP-dispute counseling.
  • Diego Castro, Luis

    Eproint | Partner

    Luis Diego Castro, attorney and Notary Public, is a Partner at Eproint, Chair of the IP Practice in Latin America Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Costa Rican Biotech Cluster (CR Biomed) and a lecturer on intellectual property at Costa Rican and international universities.
  • Ergmann, Jessica

    Sagacity Legal | Head of IP Transactions

    For over 15 years, Jess Ergmann has driven high-value technologies from the lab to the global marketplace. As Head of IP Transactions at Sagacity Legal, a practice she leads alongside her longtime mentor and firm founder, Randi Karpinia, Jess develops practical transactional frameworks and commercial strategies that turn complex IP assets into scalable revenue streams.
  • Fach, Bradley

    UNC Charlotte | Director of Patents, Licensing, and Legal Operations

    Bradley (Brad) Fach is a Registered Patent Practitioner and Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) with over 25 years of experience in patent lifecycle management and IP strategy.
  • Fiacco, Barbara A.

    Foley Hoag, LLP | Partner

    Barbara Fiacco is a Partner, co-chair of the Intellectual Property Department and co-chair of the Patent, Trade Secrets, and Related Rights Litigation Practice at Foley Hoag LLP.
  • Fishel, Erica

    GTC Law Group | Counsel

    Erica A. Fishel, Ph.D., J.D. is Counsel at GTC Law Group, where she advises clients on patent prosecution, portfolio development, and intellectual property strategy, with a particular focus on life sciences and biotechnology. A registered patent attorney and molecular biologist, Erica works with universities, research institutions, emerging companies, and other innovators to develop patent strategies that align scientific innovation with long-term commercial objectives.
  • Flores, Fernanda

    American Arbitration Association–International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) | Director of Business Development and ADR Services

    Fernanda Flores is Director of Business Development and ADR Services at the American Arbitration Association–International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR), based in the Los Angeles Regional Office. She is also part of the AAA’s National Technology Practice.
  • Fonteles Cabral, Filipe

    Dannemann Siemsen | Partner

    Filipe Fonteles Cabral is a Brazilian attorney and partner at Dannemann Siemsen, a leading intellectual property firm in Latin America. He holds a PhD in Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and is the author of the book Artificial Intelligence and Patents: Foundations, Inventorship and the Theory of Entrepreneurship (2025). With 30 years of practice, he focuses on intellectual property and technology laws.
  • Ghose, Mony

    GE HealthCare | Chief IP Counsel

    Mony Ghose is Chief IP Counsel at GE HealthCare, where she leads a team focused on creating value from innovation. She brings deep in-house experience in IP assessment, strategy development, and execution across telecommunications, aerospace, life sciences, and medical devices, with prior leadership roles at Danaher and Becton Dickinson and Company.
  • Gong, Steve

    Google Global Patents | Senior Patent Counsel and Head of Data Science, AI and Operations

    Steve Gong is Senior Patent Counsel and Head of Data Science, AI and Operations for Google Global Patents, where he leads the data science, technology, and operations organization supporting the company's patent function.
  • Goodrum200 Goodrum, Garfield

    Garfield Goodrum Design Law

    Garfield Goodrum has over 20 years’ experience in IP, working with internationally known brands and designs. Garfield has cleared and prosecuted registrations for hundreds of trademarks and copyright-protected works, and litigated numerous design, copyright and trademark infringement and inter partes matters. In 2009, Garfield won a $774,000 jury verdict for willful design copyright infringement in U.S. federal court. Garfield is chair of the Industrial Design Committee of AIPLA – the American Intellectual Property Law Association, a member of INTA – the International Trademark Association and the Copyright Society of the U.S.
  • Grunebach, Georgann

    The Law Offices of Georgann S. Grunebach

    Georgann Grunebach builds patent portfolios! A hallmark of her practice is that she quickly understands complex technical and legal issues and then provides insightful solutions in a timely and always respectful manner to her fellow IP and general legal collaborators. She is a patent attorney, product counsel, contracts administrator, program manager, inventor, and licensing professional offering clients over thirty years of legal experience.
  • Hall, Dawn

    FTI Consulting | Senior Managing Director

    Dawn Hall is a Senior Managing Director in the Dispute Advisory Services (“DAS”) practice within the Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment at FTI Consulting and is the leader of the Intellectual Property Practice. Dawn Rice Hall is a recognized expert in complex financial, accounting and damages related matters and has been qualified as a damages expert in court.
  • Hartwig, Henning

    Bardehle Pagenberg

    Henning Hartwig’s practice involves prosecution and litigation of IP rights in the fields of trademark, design, copyright and unfair competition law. His practice focuses primarily on national and international industrial design law, particularly multinational design infringement proceedings as well as invalidity proceedings before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante and the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg.
  • Kelleher, Kimberly

    USPTO | OED Director

    Kimberly C. Kelleher is Deputy General Counsel and Director of the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She joined the USPTO in October 2012 as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of Enrollment and Discipline. As an Attorney Advisor, Ms. Kelleher investigates grievances alleging misconduct by practitioners, evaluates applications and conducts moral character investigations of applicants requesting registration before the USPTO, and assists with outreach to USPTO stakeholders.
  • Kepler, Tracy L

    Pilot Legis RPG | Executive Director

    Tracy L. Kepler is the Executive Director of Pilot Legis RPG and an SVP in the Professional Services Group with AON. In those roles, she leads the strategic, operational & external initiatives of a national consortium of mid-sized law firms committed to excellence in professional liability risk management.
  • Klapow, Mark

    Crowell & Moring LLP | Partner

    Mark Klapow is a Chambers-ranked trial lawyer specializing in high stakes technology disputes. He has tried and obtained significant victories in TROs, injunctions, dismissals, and verdicts in cases involving artificial intelligence, enterprise software, financial services, and emerging technologies. Over 25 years of experience representing startups and Fortune 500 companies in “bet the company” litigation matters, Mark has represented household names like Alcoa, AT&T, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Intel, Lenovo, Molson Coors, StoneX, and Western Union in courts throughout the country.
  • Knight, Sarah

    Talem IP Law | Founding Partner

    Sarah Knight is a founding partner of Talem IP Law and heads the Patent Team. Sarah’s practice includes patent preparation and prosecution, opinions, and diligence work. She is also involved in counseling clients with respect to patent portfolio generation, management, and strategy for US and international protection.
  • Kolakowski, John

    Nokia Technology Standards | Head of IP Policy and Advocacy, Americas

    John Kolakowski is Head of IP Policy and Advocacy, Americas for Nokia Technology Standards. He is an intellectual property counsel and business advisor with over 15 years of in-house worldwide telecommunications patent policy, licensing and litigation experience at Nokia and 10 years of prior private practice district court and ITC patent litigation experience at Morrison & Foerster LLP.
  • Kushwaha, Hetal

    Hetal Kushwaha Business Development Services | Owner and Founder

    Hetal Kushwaha is the owner and founder of Hetal Kushwaha Business Development Services, where she helps IP lawyers develop the relationships, reputation, and business development skills that support long-term career growth.
  • Lindner, David

    Crowell & Moring | Partner

    David P. Lindner is a Partner in Crowell & Moring’s Patents Practice Group. He is experienced in all facets of patent protection, including litigation, counsel, and U.S. and foreign prosecution. He applies his extensive technical background to enforce or safeguard clients’ innovations in a wide array of technologies, including telecommunication systems, sensor technologies, internet and mobile applications, medical devices, and mechanical consumer products.
  • Maebius, Steve

    Foley & Lardner LLP | Partner

    Drawing upon over 30 years of experience, Steve Maebius is a patent attorney and partner at Foley & Lardner LLP, where he helps clients protect their innovations and transact business involving intellectual property assets. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he was a patent examiner in the Biotechnology Group of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, gaining experience examining small molecule drugs as well as biologics.
  • Manzer, Stefan

    Ter Meer & Partner | Partner

    Stefan Manzer, M.Sc. is a German and European Patent Attorney, authorized to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and a partner at TER MEER & Partner in Munich. His practice focuses on complex patent litigation and cross-border patent litigation strategy, particularly in the fields of telecommunications, electronics, consumer devices, and display technologies.
  • McCrackin, Ann

    AI-Enabled Attorney, LLC | Founder

    Ann McCrackin is a patent attorney, Adjunct Professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, and founder of AI-Enabled Attorney LLC. She provides practical AI training and IP operations consulting for law firms and legal teams, with a focus on helping professionals use AI effectively in real patent and trademark workflows.
  • Mertzel, Nancy J.

    Mertzel Law PLLC | Principal and Founder

    Nancy J. Mertzel is the Founder of Mertzel Law PLLC, a boutique intellectual property firm with offices in New York and New Jersey. Nancy handles copyright, trademark, technology, and entertainment disputes and counseling. Her litigation practice concentrates on copyright and trademark infringement. On the transactional side, she handles trademark clearance, prosecution and portfolio management and drafts and negotiates IP agreements. She also advises clients on copyright issues including fair use and artificial intelligence.
  • Mudd, Jason

    Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. | Partner

    Jason Mudd is a partner and chair of the Patent Post-Grant and PTAB Practice in the IP Litigation Practice Group at Shook, Hardy & Bacon. Jason was involved in arguing the first ever IPR before the PTAB following passage of the 2011 America Invents Act. For this achievement, he was named an “IP MVP” by IP Law360 and an “IP Trailblazer and Pioneer” by the National Law Journal.
  • Myers, Monty

    Eureka Software Solutions, Inc. | Founder & CEO

    Monty Myers is one of the top software and technology experts in the country. As the founder/CEO of Eureka Software Solutions Inc. based in Austin, Texas, he and his team have delivered numerous successful software products and solutions into the commercial marketplace for a wide range of industries over the last 40+ years.
  • Neal, Arlene

    Neal Blibo LLC | Managing Partner

    Arlene Neal is a founding member and managing partner of Neal Blibo LLC where she advises clients on a board range of IP and business law matters. Arlene has over two decades of experience in helping multinational companies, start-ups, and solopreneurs efficiently manage and protect business and intellectual assets and secure investments in innovation through IP procurement, enforcement, and IP transfers.
  • Nijm, Toni

    Anaqua | Chief Product Officer

    Toni Nijm is Chief Product Officer at Anaqua, which he joined in July 2025 after co-founding and serving as CEO of RightHub. He spent seven years at CPA Global, rising from Head of Service Platform Solutions through Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product and Strategy Officer to Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, and earlier founded and led Ipendo AB, having begun his career as a systems designer at Ericsson and a patent attorney at Awapatent.
  • Noonan, Kevin

    McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP | Partner

    Kevin E. Noonan is co-Chair of MBHB’s Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Practice Group. Dr. Noonan is an experienced patent lawyer, molecular biologist and renowned thought leader in biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent law. Over the past 30 years, he has counseled some of the largest biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in the world on intellectual property issues.
  • Olson, Shana

    Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC | Counsel

    Shana L. Olson is counsel at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC, where she focuses on trademark protection as part of a multidisciplinary brand strategy. She advises clients on U.S. and international trademark clearance, prosecution, enforcement, and portfolio management, with significant experience in inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
  • Osha, John

    Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP | Founding Partner

    John leverages his more than 35 years of IP experience to provide effective strategic counseling to his clients and to mentor younger attorneys and agents in the firm. His practice covers the full scope of IP with special emphasis on management of complex international IP portfolios. John founded Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP in Houston, Texas in 1998, currently leads the firm’s electronics, optics, and physics group and chairs the firm’s international practice with offices in France, China, Japan and the U.A.E.