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  • Eastley-Sherri-200 Eastley, Sherri

    Pirkey Barber PLLC | Member

    Sherri Eastley is a Member at Pirkey Barber PLLC in Austin, Texas, and practices trademark and copyright law with a focus on drafting and negotiating a broad range of sponsorship and endorsement agreements, co-branding agreements, manufacturing, licensing, professional athlete ambassador agreements, and cause marketing agreements.
  • Eber, Michelle

    West U Capital | Managing Director

    Michelle is currently Managing Director at West U Capital. Previously she was at Validity Finance where she was responsible for their patent matters, including evaluating new cases for investment and managing funded cases. Michelle brings more than ten years of patent and trade secret litigation experience to West U Capital, including significant courtroom experience. Prior to this, Michelle was special counsel at Baker Botts, where she represented both plaintiffs and defendants in the energy and technology sectors in high-stakes IP cases.
  • Eblen, Charlie

    Shook, Hardy & Bacon | Partner

    Charlie is a versatile and adaptive trial and appellate lawyer who represents clients in high-stakes cases in jurisdictions across the United States. As clients have described him, “He is one of the top young trial lawyers in the country [routinely] tapped to try cases that are ten to a hundred million dollars, if not more. He is in high demand and extraordinarily effective.”
  • Eichner, Sam

    Pillsbury | Counsel

    Sam Eichner, a member of Pillsbury’s Intellectual Property practice, focuses on copyright and trademark disputes in federal court and before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). As a copyright and trademark litigator, Sam represents clients across industries—from fashion e-tailers and blockchain developers to universities and non-profit organizations. Sam has litigated cases to trial, and resolved many disputes through settlement and mediation, invariably seeking practical business solutions for his clients.
  • Eileen Hunter

    3M | Senior Intellectual Property Counsel

  • Elkins, Linda N.

    Gore Innovation Center | Chief Technical Officer

    Linda is an Innovation Executive and Technical Leader with experience creating and leading corporate innovation centers.
  • Eller, Brian

    North Carolina State University | Assistant Director of Licensing, Physical Sciences

    Brian leads a team of licensing professionals focused on commercializing innovations in the physical sciences. Brian has been with ORC since 2011 and has negotiated and had responsibility for the entire technology transfer life cycle, including drafted a wide variety of contractual agreements with licensees. He also personally manages a select portfolio of inventions arising from the Wilson College of Textiles, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the Nonwovens Institute, and the College of Natural Resources. He also manages a portfolio of traditional copyrights.
  • Elliott, Tara200 Elliott, Tara D.

    Latham & Watkins | Partner

    Tara Elliott is a first-chair trial lawyer whose practice focuses on high-profile intellectual property proceedings and commercial litigation. Ms. Elliott has a unique combination of private practice and government experience that enables her to navigate clients' most complex legal issues.
  • Emeagwali HeadShot200 Emeagwali, Izu

    J.P. Morgan | Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel

    Izu Emeagwali is an Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel at J.P. Morgan. Izu’s expertise focuses on the intersection of technology and law. At J.P. Morgan, Izu counsels the various global businesses and data scientists of the Corporate and Investment Bank on their data use initiatives, including projects using big data, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Primarily, Izu advises on and oversees projects and negotiates agreements involving the sharing and use of J.P. Morgan’s proprietary information. She opines on and helps to implement the legal strategies and processes for sound data use and sharing practices and artificial intelligence initiatives.
  • Emerson, Lauren

    Leason Ellis | Partner

    Lauren Emerson co-chairs the Trademark and Copyright Practice Group at Leason Ellis where she helps clients establish and enforce intellectual property rights. Lauren counsels household names and new ventures alike across a diverse array of industries including consumer products, fashion, payment technology, energy, telecom, medical devices, retail, software, automotive, and food and beverage.
  • Engellenner, Tom

    Engellenner Law | Principal

    Tom Engellenner is a member of the bar of Massachusetts and New York, and a former President of the Boston Patent Law Association. Tom’s practice includes patents, licensing, trademarks, and litigation. He has more than 40 years of experience in prosecuting and litigating patents and advising clients generally on intellectual property strategies.
  • England, Benjamin

    FDAImports.com, LLC. | CEO & Founder

    Mr. England is the CEO and Founder of Benjamin L. England & Associates, LLC and FDAImports.com, LLC. He routinely represents domestic and foreign companies of all sizes before federal and state regulatory agencies, assisting them in complying with all FDA, CBP, USDA, FTC, EPA, and state requirements. His representation enables his clients to better make, market and move highly regulated products into and around the USA including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, dietary supplements, foods and cosmetics. With over 100 years of former FDA experience in house, his firms, Benjamin L. England & Associates, LLC and FDAImports.com, LLC, have extensive experience in all areas of FDA and CBP compliance as well as pre-market filings (drugs, devices, and dietary supplements) including INDs, IDEs, 510(k)s and EUAs for COVID-related medical products).
  • Ergmann200 Ergmann, Jessica

    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard's Office of Strategic Alliances | Associate Director

    Jess Ergmann is an experienced patent and transactional attorney who is passionate about supporting the development of life saving medical technologies. She has spent the last 12 years developing business focused IP strategies for early stage and large, global companies and VCs in the life sciences field. Jess is currently the Associate Director of Legal at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a research organization dedicated to understanding the root cause of disease, where she focuses on negotiating strategic collaboration and license agreements, developing IP strategies, and managing legal operations. She is also passionate about mentoring and currently serves as the Chair of the Mentoring Committee of AIPLA. Jess is also the past Chair of AIPLA's Corporate Practice Committee.
  • Eric W. Sporre

    Federal Bureau of Investigation | Special Agent in Charge, Tampa Field Office

  • robert-esposito-100 Esposito, Dr. Robert A.

    RatnerPrestia | Associate

    Dr. Robert A. Esposito is a registered Patent Attorney with over nine years of experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the areas of Electrical and Computer technology.
  • Evan Gumz Evan Gumz

    Hanzo, Inc. | Senior Account Executive, EDiscovery

    Evan is an attorney with a decade of experience in eDiscovery. At Hanzo Evan helps law firms and enterprises find solutions for preserving and collecting dynamic web content including social media, websites, video, and collaborative platforms to the highest standards in authenticity and legal defensibility.
  • Hence Evans200 Evans, Andrea H.

    The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans | Principal

    Andrea Hence Evans, Esq. launched the intellectual property law practice, The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC. Attorney Evans career path is unique since she worked at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for 5 years as both a patent examiner and a trademark examining attorney after graduating from law school.
  • Evans, Jeremy

    California Sports Lawyer | Founder & Managing Attorney

    Jeremy M. Evans represents entertainment, media, and sports clients in contractual, intellectual property, and dealmaking matters. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurs, athletes, entertainers, models, directors, television showrunners and film producers, studios, writers, individuals and businesses in contractual, intellectual property, formation, production, distribution, negotiation, and dealmaking matters.
  • Eyler_Dean_square 200 Eyler, Dean

    Lathrop GPM LLP | Partner

    Dean Eyler is a partner at Lathrop GPM in Minneapolis, where he practices intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. Dean has more than two decades of experience litigating intellectual property cases, with particular emphasis in trademark and unfair competition litigation. Dean has been repeatedly recognized by World Trademark Review, where he has been described as “a go-to on complex or unusual disputes” and “an exemplary brief writer and persuasive oral advocate.” He is the past chair of AIPLA’s Trademark Litigation Committee, and currently the vice-chair of the Trademark Law Committee.
  • Fanchiang, Eric

    Crowell & Moring | Associate

    Eric Fanchiang is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Orange County office and is a member of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Group. His practice focuses primarily on antitrust litigation for both defendants and plaintiffs and on government investigations. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including technology, transportation, and digital media. Eric represents his clients on a wide range of antitrust issues including standard setting, trade association policies, misuse of patents and trade secrets, and price fixing.