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  • Cotton, Amy

    US Trademark Office | Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy

    Amy Cotton is the Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy. In this role, Ms. Cotton oversees the Legal Policy Office, the Petitions Office, 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. Ms. Cotton joined the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 1998 as a trademark examining attorney. She moved to the Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA) in 2001, where she served as the Senior Counsel for Trademarks from 2003 to 2021, providing domestic and international policy advice to the USPTO and U.S. government agencies and technical assistance to global trademark offices.
  • 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Gearbox Software | Associate Counsel

    Veda Cruz is a young attorney who serves as in-house associate counsel at Gearbox Software, developer of the Borderlands games. She received her law degree and MBA simultaneously at the University of Miami, where she previously served as President of the Intellectual Property Law Society at Miami Law. She now resides in Texas, where she enjoys playing video games, reading books, or riding around town on her motorcycle.
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    Seyfarth | Partner

    Ariel partners with clients to manage day-to-day workplace challenges and design solutions that align with company business goals and culture. When litigation is necessary, he aggressively defends his clients.
  • Cuffman, Timothy

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

    Timothy Cuffman is an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, based in its New York office. He received a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and an executive editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.
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    Dentons | Partner

    Scott Cummings is a leader of Dentons' Post-Grant Group of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice. Dentons’ Post-Grant practice has received national accolades. In the 2018 Patexia IPR Intelligence Report performance ratings, Dentons was ranked number 1 for Petitioner representation, and ranked number 4 overall.
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    Paul Hasting LLP | Partner

    Victoria A. Cundiff is a partner at Paul Hastings resident in New York, where she is a leader of the Firm’s nationally ranked global trade secrets litigation practice. She works with clients in industries including technology, software, media, financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and sales and distribution organizations. She has tried trade secrets and related commercial and intellectual property disputes throughout the United States and before a variety of arbitration and mediation tribunals.
  • Cunningham, Isabella

    University of Texas at Austin | Stan Richards Chair in Advertising and Public Relations

    Professor Isabella Cunningham holds the Stan Richards Chair in Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the Academic Director of the Tower Fellows Program at the University. Dr. Cunningham serves on several academic committees and is a member of the School Budget Council. She also served as a member of the college Administrative Council, the University Curricular Task Force, the UT Presidential Enrollment Task Force and is a member of the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies School. Dr. Cunningham has served as a director on public and private companies’ boards and several non-profit boards and non-profit institutions including St. Edward’s Board of Trustees, the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
  • Philip Cupitt

    Marks & Clerk | Partner

    Philip is a UK and European Patent Attorney who specialises in protecting inventions in all fields of engineering. His technical experience includes software, telecommunications, medical devices, electronics, mechanical engineering and manufacturing.
  • Curcio, Tanya

    Kelly IP | Of Counsel

    Tanya Curcio counsels clients regarding a wide range of trademark and copyright issues. For over a decade she has managed global trademark portfolios and handled complex copyright registration, administration and enforcement issues. Tanya began her legal career at a boutique entertainment firm in New York City, where she negotiated and drafted recording, publishing, and other entertainment-related agreements for high-profile clients, including recording artists, music publishers, producers, songwriters, and music-based online platforms.
  • 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.
  • Curtis, Emily

    Carlex Glass America | Intellectual Property Counsel

    Emily Curtis is Intellectual Property Counsel at Carlex Glass America, LLC, an automotive glass supplier. Emily manages the global intellectual property needs of Carlex, including protection of intellectual property assets, management of trademark and patent portfolios, and defensive patent analysis.
  • Dahan, Tal

    CyberArk Software | Intellectual Property Manager

    Tal Dahan serves as the IP Manager at CyberArk Software, the global leader in Identity Security. As a seasoned patent attorney with more than 16 years of experience in IP litigation and prosecution, Tal Joined CyberArk Software in 2020 to provide comprehensive counsel on a range of IP matters. Positioned within the Product & Technology group, Tal plays a pivotal role in steering CyberArk’s global innovation and IP strategy, encompassing AI-related initiatives.
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    Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian | Of Counsel

    Mr. Daniels heads the firm’s litigation group, where he handles litigation matters in district courts and at the International Trade Commission. Mr. Daniels also counsels clients by providing infringement and validity opinions, as well as guiding clients’ strategies using post-grant tools such as inter partes review and reexamination.