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  • 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, Stephanie

    NLPatent | CEO and Co-Founder

    Stephanie Curcio is a recognized leader at the intersection of artificial intelligence and patent law, with a focus on modernizing patent practice through workflow-aligned AI. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of NLPatent, where her work centers on applying proprietary AI models to support established patent research and intelligence workflows by automating high-friction tasks, surfacing conceptually relevant context, and reducing manual review - while preserving practitioner judgment, legal rigor, and explainability.
  • 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.
  • Dantzler, Denise

    &AI | Patent Attorney

    Denise Dantzler is a patent attorney with experience as a product engineer at a San Francisco-based legal tech startup providing AI-powered solutions for patent practitioners, where she defined patent-specific product requirements across core features and workflows. She previously practiced at boutique IP law firms in Kansas City and Washington, D.C., strengthening U.S. and foreign patent portfolios for global leaders in advanced materials, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. She holds a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law and an M.S. in Materials Science & Engineering from Stanford University.
  • Darville, Brian

    Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. | Senior Counsel

    Brian Darville chairs the Trademark and Copyright Practice Group at Oblon. He has over two decades of litigation experience in federal courts throughout the U.S. focused primarily on trademark and copyright litigation.
  • Daspit, Jacqueline

    Becton, Dickinson and Company | Associate General Counsel

  • Davis, Laura

    DeWitt Law Firm | Partner

    Laura is a partner and experienced litigator at DeWitt LLP. She has experience litigating patent (utility and design), trademark, copyright, and trade secret disputes, as well as other commercial disputes. In addition, Laura regularly handles cancellation and opposition proceedings before the TTAB and IPR proceedings before the PTAB. She has obtained successful outcomes at all stages of litigation from preliminary injunctions and summary judgment to trial and appeal. Most recently, she has successfully defeated patent infringement and other related claims on summary judgment while going on to obtain a favorable verdict pursuing trade secret violations in the same case.
  • Davis, Theodore

    Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP | Partner

    Ted Davis is a partner in the Atlanta office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where he has practiced trademark, copyright, false advertising, and unfair competition law since 1990. He is a past member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Board of Directors and currently serves as an editor of the A.I.P.L.A. Quarterly Law Journal. He also has served on the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors and the International Trademark Association’s Executive Committee. He frequently serves as an expert witness in trademark-related matters and is an adjunct professor at the Emory University School of Law. His articles on intellectual property subjects have appeared in such general-purpose journals as the Minnesota Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Wake Forest Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Florida Law Review, and the Akron Law Review, as well as in specialized publications like the Trademark Reporter, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law, and the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal.
  • Dayton, Katherine Lyon

    Fross Zelnick | Associate

    Katherine Lyon Dayton excels at developing effective strategies to secure and enforce clients’ intellectual property rights in difficult and multijurisdictional situations. She advises on international trademark clearance, registration, opposition, and cancellation actions, as well as other enforcement matters.
  • de Andrés Gómez, Paula

    Berggren | Partner

    Paula is a Partner at Berggren and leads the firm's office in Alicante, Spain. She has over 23 years of experience in the IP field with a primary focus on design rights and for the past 15 years she has offered strategic counsel to both national and international clients and has managed extensive design portfolios.
  • de Mattos Siqueira, Joana

    Montaura Pimenta Machado & Vierira de Mello | Partner

    Joana de Mattos Siqueira is partner and part of the firm’s trademarks team. With more than 20 years of experience acting an attorney in Intellectual Property, her practice involves all procedures for registration of trademarks before the INPI, including opposition and other administrative petitions, as well as strategic analysis for complex trademark issues, with the aim of avoiding litigation, where possible.
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    SABIC | Sr. Counsel, Intellectual Property

    Matt is Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property at SABIC, handling all types of intellectual property matters for SABIC’s Specialties business.
  • deangelis Square200 DeAngelis, Justin D.

    Quarles & Brady | Associate

    Justin DeAngelis is a patent attorney in the Chicago office of Quarles & Brady LLP where his practice focuses on domestic and international patent prosecution, freedom to operate analyses, and infringement analyses for design and utility patents. He is currently the Chair of the International Policy & Practice Subcommittee of the AIPLA Industrial Designs Committee, Co-Chair of the Young Members' Committee of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC), and on the Board of Directors of the Kettle Moraine Land Trust in Southeastern Wisconsin. Justin received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
  • Dearing, Lea 200x200 Dearing, Lea

    Berman Fink Van Horn PC | Shareholder

    A Shareholder at Berman Fink Van Horn, Lea counsels companies regarding disputes that arise in every day operations.
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    Johnson & Johnson | Chief Intellectual Property Counsel

    Robert DeBerardine is Worldwide Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of Johnson & Johnson where he manages a group of about 270 IP professionals, of whom about 110 are patent and trademark attorneys. Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Robert was Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Sanofi. Prior to Sanofi, Robert served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Abbott Laboratories.