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  • 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.
  • Connors Photo Connors, Michele

    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.
  • Corsello, Kenneth

    IBM | Attorney

    Ken is an attorney at IBM. He focuses on drafting and negotiating agreements for patent transactions and, as IBM’s US Trade Secrets counsel, on coordinating IBM’s trade secret management program.
  • 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.
  • Cotton, Amy

    US Trademark Office | Acting Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy

    Amy Cotton is the acting Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy. In this role, Ms. Cotton oversees the Offices of Trademark Policy, Petitions, and ID-Class, as well as the Trademark Assistance Center, the Office of Trademark Quality Review and Training, the Trademark Law Library, Customer Experience, and Trademark Outreach.
  • Courage, Noel

    Bereskin & Parr LLP | Partner

    Noel Courage is a partner in the intellectual property law firm Bereskin & Parr LLP which has offices in Toronto and Montreal, Canada. He is a lawyer and a US and Canadian patent agent. Noel helps with patenting and licensing of life science inventions. Noel has been helping companies and universities commercialize their inventions internationally for over 20 years.
  • Covey_Will_200 Covey, Will

    USPTO Office of Enrollment and Discipline | Deputy General Counsel and Director

    As Deputy General Counsel and Director for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED), Will Covey is responsible for ensuring that the nation's patent attorneys and agents are of good moral character and sufficiently knowledgeable to practice before the USPTO Mr. Covey's team of attorneys and other professionals develop and administer a registration examination designed to measure applicants' knowledge of patent law and practice. Successful applicants are registered to practice by OED. In addition, OED investigates complaints of unethical conduct made against individuals practicing patent or trademark law before the USPTO.
  • Coyne, Patrick

    Finnegan | Partner

    Patrick is a trial and appellate attorney. His litigation experience includes patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret claims; licensing; related antitrust and unfair competition issues; general commercial litigation; products liability; and domestic and international arbitration. He also assists clients with strategic portfolio development and management.
  • Crane, Sharon

    Rothwell Figg | Partner

    Sharon Crane is a counsel in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Washington, D.C. office. Her practice focuses on patent prosecution, opinion work, patent interferences, and post-grant practice at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Sharon also provides discerning representation to clients in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors.
  • Crouch, Dennis

    University of Missouri School of Law | Law Professor

    Dennis Crouch is a law professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, specializing in intellectual property and technology law. He is well known to the IP community as the founder and author of the popular site, Patently-O. Although a mechanical and aerospace engineer by training, Crouch has been involved with AI and software for decades. His Princeton University undergraduate thesis offered a novel model for neural network design that he termed fractal neural networks and offered an early example of using the massively parallel potential of the internet to facilitate machine learning.
  • Crowne, Jim 200 Crowne, James

    AIPLA | Legal Affairs Consultant

    James D. Crowne served as the Deputy Executive Director for Legal Affairs of the American Intellectual Property Law Association until his retirement in 2017 and now serves as a legal consultant. Mr. Crowne was primarily responsible for all intellectual property (IP) issues involving the judiciary. He advised the Board of Directors, the Executive Director and senior staff of the AIPLA on substantive and procedural legal issues. In that capacity, he participated in the preparation of nearly 100 AIPLA amicus briefs filed at the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He was also responsible for communicating AIPLA policy positions to the government, to members, and to the public.
  • 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.