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  • Cleveland, Kristin

    Klarquist | Partner

    Kristin’s practice focuses exclusively on intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, and trade dress cases. She has extensive experience handling all phases of litigation, from obtaining favorable results in early motion practice, to efficient management of cases through discovery, claim construction, summary judgment and trial. She has a national trial practice, litigating in federal district courts around the country, and has argued at the Federal Circuit. Kristin is the chair of the Litigation practice group, serves on the firm’s management committee, and has served in the past as the firm’s managing partner.
  • 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.
  • Coe, Jeffrey

    ON Semiconductor | Sr. Director and Chief Information Security Officer

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    US Department of Commerce | Acting Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration

    Wynn W. Coggins serves as the Acting Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration (CFO/ASA) to support efforts to further the Department’s mission of creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. Acting CFO/ASA Coggins was formally the Acting Secretary for the Department of Commerce after she was she was named by President Joseph R. Biden on January 20. 2021 to serve in that role. On March 3, 2021, Ms. Coggins became the Acting Deputy Secretary. The Commerce Department has an $11B annual budget, 12 operating units, and 47,000 employees.
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    United States Patent and Trademark Office | Legal Advisor in the Office of Patent Legal Administration

    June E. Cohan is a Legal Advisor in the Office of Patent Legal Administration at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Her duties at the USPTO include developing policy positions for examination issues, drafting and implementing rules, acting as a reexamination legal advisor for inter partes and ex parte reexamination proceedings, and providing examiner guidance and training.
  • Cohen, Saul

    Kelly IP | Associate

    Saul Cohen practices in the areas of trademark, copyright, and false advertising law, among others. Saul regularly counsels clients on intellectual property matters and litigates in federal district and appellate courts as well as the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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    Baker Botts | Partner

    Cynthia Cole is the Deputy Department Chair of the Corporate Section in the Palo Alto and San Francisco offices, as well as a former CEO and General Counsel. Her practice focuses on corporate, strategic and technology transactions and data privacy. She advises clients across a wide variety of industries including technology, retail, telecommunications, social media and life sciences. She acts as outside general counsel to a number of executive teams and boards of directors as well as advising on mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and joint development agreements.
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    Dumont | Managing Partner

    Laura Collada has been the managing partner of Dumont since 2008. She has many years of experience in the field of IP. Her practice covers the complete lifecycle of IP rights, from consultancy to application, and from enforcement to dispute resolution.
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    Endstate | CEO

    Bennett Collen is the cofounder/CEO of Endstate, a brand creating the future of product ownership through NFTs and sneakers. He is also an Adjunct Professor teaching Business Applications of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency at Boston College’s MBA program. Prior to Endstate, Bennett was founder/CEO of Cognate, which pioneered the use of smart contracts/NFTs to represent trademark rights. Cognate Acquired by GoDaddy 2018.
  • Collette, Elias

    Canada IP Office | Director General for Innovation, Science and Economic Development

    Elias Collette is the Director General of the Corporate Strategies and Services Branch at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). As a leader, Elias combines a people-first and data- driven approach to CIPO’s mandate to ensure that Canadians unlock the benefits of IP. Prior to coming to CIPO, Elias worked in the Chief Information Office Branch at the Treasury Board Secretariat, and the Real Property Branch at Public Services and Procurement Canada.
  • Collin, Sean

    Elastic NV | Vice President Legal for Innovation

    Sean Collin is Vice President Legal for Innovation (Product, IP, Marketing) at Elastic NV, the world's largest B2B and B2G search, observability, and security software company. He was educated at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand (BCom. LLB (Hons)) and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (LLM (Dist.)). He has been called to the Bar in New Zealand, New South Wales, Australia, and in both New York and California in the United States. He has lectured at Universities, Institutes and Global Conferences in 20 countries on international IP law and technology business.
  • 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.
  • Collins, Lisa

    BakerHostetler | Partner

    Lisa Collins is a partner at BakerHostetler and leads the Intellectual Property team in Atlanta. Her practice focuses on the business and defense of intellectual property, including licensing, tech transactions, indemnification, IP strategy, trade secrets, portfolio management and patent, trademark and technology litigation. Lisa’s extensive litigation background, integrated with her transactional work in intellectual property, allows her to have a deeper understanding of her clients’ business needs and concerns and to bring value to their businesses.
  • Giuseppe Colucci

    LyondellBasell | Lead Counsel

    Giuseppe is a European Patent Attorney and qualified to become a litigator before the upcoming UPC. He teaches in courses leading up to the European Patent Litigator qualification organised by the Politecnico of Milan. He is a board member of the EPLIT (European Patent Litigators Association) and a member of the Litigation Committee of the epi (Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office).
  • 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.
  • Connor, Cabrach

    Connor Lee and Shumaker | Founding Partner

    Cabrach Connor handles a wide variety of high-stakes business disputes and focuses on commercial disputes having core issues rooted in technology and intellectual property. Cab has extensive experience in patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation and regularly advises companies and individuals on strategic development, protection, and monetization of intellectual property assets.
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    Cirrus Logic, Inc. | Assistant General Counsel

  • 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.
  • Correia, Jared

    Red Cave Law Firm Consulting | CEO

    Jared D. Correia, Esq. is the CEO of Red Cave Law Firm Consulting and the COO of Gideon Software. Red Cave offers subscription-based law firm business management consulting for law firms and bar associations. Gideon provides end-to-end intake solutions for high-volume law firms, with included document assembly and esignature features. Correia is a former practicing attorney. He is an internationally-recognized legal technology export, and frequent speaker for legal organizations.