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  • 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.
  • Deberardine, Robert200 DeBerardine, Robert

    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.
  • DeFranco, Denise

    Johnson & Johnson | Global Head of IP Litigation

    Denise DeFranco is the Global Head of IP Litigation at Johnson & Johnson. In that capacity, she manages the team of lawyers who are responsible for Johnson & Johnson’s patent litigation around the globe. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Denise was a Partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP. She clerked for The Honorable Paul R. Michel at the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and served as a Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Denise received her J.D. from The George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C. and her B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA.
  • Degnan-Lauren-square200 Degnan, Lauren

    Fish & Richardson P.C.

    Lauren A. Degnan is a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer who handles high-stakes IP disputes that can weave their way through a complex maze of multi-jurisdiction litigation, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Her experience across all forums makes her adept at developing coordinated, sophisticated strategies that often result in securing fast, favorable outcomes for clients. While Lauren has served as lead counsel for numerous complex patent infringement cases, her strategic writing abilities are an equally noteworthy talent.
  • Deka, Monisha Deka, Monisha

    US International Trade Commission | Investigative Attorney

    Monisha Deka (Mo) has been an Investigative Attorney at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington DC for almost 8 years. Investigative attorneys advocate on behalf of the public interest in intellectual property investigations initiated under 19 U.S.C. 1337, commonly referred to as Section 337 litigations.
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    NOVUM Consulting Group | Founder and President

    Stephen Dell is the Founder and President of NOVUM Consulting Group. With more than eighteen years of professional experience in financial consulting and valuation services, he focuses on assisting clients with complex intellectual property damage analysis, commercial disputes, and valuations.
  • Mary Boney Denison Mary Boney Denison

    The United States Patent and Trademark Office | Commissioner of Trademarks

    Mary Boney Denison is the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Commissioner for Trademarks.
  • Derron Blakely Derron Blakely

    Elbit Systems of America | General Counsel

  • Paul Derry

    Venner Shipley | Partner and Patent Attorney

    Paul Derry is a partner at Venner Shipley, and a European Patent Attorney and a Chartered (UK) Patent Attorney. He specialises in the fields of software, electronics, telecommunications and medical devices, representing a number of companies in these sectors.
  • Chris DeSantis
    For almost 30 years Chris has been an independent organizational behavior consultant. He is a trusted partner to some of the world’s largest companies in the professional services, tech, and pharma industries hired to solve some of their most chronic business problems by offering user-friendly solutions aligned with the company’s strategic initiatives. Before striking out on his own he was the Director of Training and Development for the American Medical Association and was part of the Human Resource Development group for Brunswick Corporation.
  • Dhavan, Gauri200 Dhavan, Gauri

    ZOLL Medical Corporation | Chief Intellectual Property Officer

    Gauri Dhavan, Ph.D., J.D., is VP, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at ZOLL Medical Corporation, a company that develops and markets medical devices and software solutions in the resuscitation and acute critical care field. At ZOLL, Gauri leads a team of intellectual property counsel in managing all aspects of intellectual property, including patent prosecution and portfolio management, intellectual property litigation, risk mitigation, M&A due diligence, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and data security. Prior to joining ZOLL, she was a patent litigator at the law firms of Fish & Richardson and Goodwin Proctor.
  • Diaw, Amadou K.

    Goodwin Procter | Partner

    Amadou Diaw is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice. Amadou’s IP litigation practice focuses on representing defendants and plaintiffs in IP litigation including patent infringement and trade secret matters. He has handled all aspects of IP litigation matters from pre-suit investigation and pre-response issues through trial preparation and trial. Amadou’s experience includes arguing dispositive, claim construction and numerous other motions and issues before district courts.
  • Dienes, Jennifer 200 Dienes, Jennifer

    US International Trade Commission | Investigative Attorney

    Jennifer Dienes has been an Investigative Attorney at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington DC for 1 year. Investigative attorneys advocate on behalf of the public interest in intellectual property investigations initiated under 19 U.S.C. 1337, commonly referred to as Section 337 litigations.
  • DingerPC_C_Henry 200 Dinger, Henry

    Goodwin | Deputy General Counsel

    Henry Dinger is Deputy General Counsel and Chair of Goodwin's Ethics Advisory Committee. Mr. Dinger, who joined Goodwin in 1978, focuses on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret litigation and advising clients concerning a range of intellectual property issues. In recent years, he has concentrated on patent issues in the pharmaceutical industry and on the representation of clients in appellate matters involving patent law, federal jurisdictional issues and First Amendment claims.
  • Dinh, Phong

    Microsoft | Senior Counsel - Corporate, External & Legal Affairs

    Phong Dinh is a Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft, where he leads a patent team supporting Microsoft’s Cloud and AI business, including patent portfolio development, IP counseling, M&A transactions, IP licensing, open source usage, and strategic partnerships. He further provides IP counseling and drives the company’s patent and trade secret strategies for Azure AI, which includes Microsoft Speech, Vision, Language, and Decision services. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Dinh was a Senior Associate at Goodwin Procter, where he specialized in patent prosecution and IP litigation before US district courts, the Patent Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.