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2026 Spring Meeting Planning Committee

Nancy Mertzel
Officer-in Charge
Mertzel Law, PLLC
New York, NY

Brad Chin
Board Liaison
Duane Morris
Washington, DC

Ury Fischer
Chair
Lott & Fischer
Coral Gables, FL

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Felicia Boyd
Vice Chair
Norton Rose Fulbright
Minneapolis, MN

Ali Anoff
Procter & Gamble Company
Cincinnati, OH

Brian Batzli
Merchant & Gould
Minneapolis, MN

Erin Block
DeWitt, LLP
Brookfield, WI

Ping Cao
BeOne Medicines
West Chester, PA

Santosh Chari
CPST Intellectual Property
Toronto, ON, Canada

Kristin Cleveland
Klarquist Sparkman
Portland, OR

Ian Clouse
Holland & Hart LLP
Salt Lake City, UT

William Cooper
Cooper Legal Group
Hinckley, OH

Iva Dincheva
Fox Rothschild
New York, NY

Azade Dogan
Woodland Hills, CA

Karl R. Fink
Nixon Peabody, LLP
Chicago, IL

Adam Fowles
Haynes Boone
Plano, TX

Joshua Goldberg
Nath, Goldberg & Meyer
Brooklyn, NY

Brian Gray
Brian Gray Law
Toronto, ON, Canada

Alyssa Heminger
The George Washington University Law School
Washington, DC

Rafael Heres
Legarreta Y Asociados, S.C.
Mexico City, Mexico

Seth Hudson
Maynard Nexsen
Charlotte, NC

Elizabeth Isaac
Spencer Fane
Oklahoma City, OK

Shradha Jaiswal
AOP Health
Washington, DC

Benjamin Keim
Newport IP, LLC
Belleview, WA

Tracy Kepler
CNA
Chicago, IL

Zong-Wei (Wade) Lin
W&A Intellectual Property Law
Edmonds, WA

Margarita Lopez
Lancaster, CA

Praveen Manimangalam
Florida International University
Irving, TX

Nicolas Marquez Peraca
Norton Rose Fulbright
Houston, TX

John Marsh
Bailey Cavalieri
Avondale, PA

Richard Matthews
Williams Mullen
Raleigh, NC

Jennifer Nall
DLA Piper
New York, NY

Margaret Polson
Polson IP Law
Westminster, CO

Hannah Powell
Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP
Half Moon Bay, CA

Cole Price
Howard University School of Law
Washington, DC

Gagana Reddy
The George Washington University School of Law
Washington, DC

Marc Richards
Crowell & Moring LLP
Chicago, IL

Brian Rojas
Cliffside Park, NJ

Ned Sackman
Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer
& Nelson, P. A.
Manchester, NH

Ayyah Saleh
The George Washington University School of Law
Washington, DC

Neil Smith
Alamo, CA

Barrett Spraggins
Spraggins, LLP
Austin, TX

Brian Stanton
Raymond, NE

Jessie Suen
Squire Patton Boggs
San Francisco, CA

Kelu Sullivan
Kelly IP
Washington, DC

Christopher Turoski
University of Minnesota
Law School
Minneapolis, MN

Gene Volchenko
Smith Gambrell
Chicago, IL

Stanton D. Weinstein
Fort Washington, PA

Frank West
Oblon
Alexandria, VA