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  • Golden, John

    The University of Texas School of Law | Edward S. Knight Chair in Law

    John Golden is the Edward S. Knight Chair in Law, Entrepreneurialism and Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he has taught administrative law, contracts, patent law, seminars relating to innovation and intellectual property, and a seminar on disaster and emergency law. From 2011 to 2022, he served as faculty director of the Andrew Ben White Center in Law, Science and Social Policy. John has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, and an A.B. in Physics and History from Harvard College. After law school, John clerked for the Honorable Michael Boudin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court. John also worked as an associate in the intellectual property department of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.
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    Goldstein & Russell, P.C. | Partner

    Tom Goldstein is an appellate advocate, best known as one of the nation’s most experienced Supreme Court practitioners. He has served as counsel to a party in roughly 150 merits cases at the Court. He recently argued his 45th. Only 3 lawyers in the Court's modern history have argued more cases in private practice. He has been counsel on more successful petitions for certiorari over the past decade than any other lawyer in private practice. Over the past fifteen years, the firm's petitions for certiorari have been granted at a higher rate than any private law firm or legal clinic.
  • Gonell, Fabian photo Gonell, Fabian

    Qualcomm | Senior Vice President, Licensing Strategy

    Fabian Gonell is Senior Vice President, Licensing Strategy and Legal Counsel of Qualcomm's Technology Licensing division, where his responsibilities include developing the Company’s licensing strategy, negotiating license agreements, and overseeing the company's compliance with the rules of standards organizations. He has played a major role in structuring and negotiating license agreements with many of Qualcomm’s licensees, including Apple, Samsung, LGE, Ericsson, and Nokia/Microsoft, as well as in Qualcomm’s response to regulatory investigations of Qualcomm’s licensing practices.
  • Gongola, Janet

    Patent Trial and Appeal Board | Vice Chief Judge for Engagement

  • good, Ed 200 Good, Ed

    Trainer, Author, Editor

    Ed Good provides on-site training programs in effective writing to corporations, law firms, and governmental agencies. More than 10,000 professionals have attended Ed's programs in the U.S., Europe, China, and Taiwan. He served as Counsel and Writer-in-Residence at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, in Washington, D.C. At Finnegan, he wrote proposals that resulted in significant legal work at Fortune 50 corporations.
  • Goodman, Jordana

    Chicago-Kent School of Law | Assistant Professor

    Jordana R. Goodman joined Chicago-Kent College of Law as an assistant professor in August 2023. Goodman is an expert on gender and race equity issues in STEM fields. Her research explores the intersection of diversity, equity, and inclusion and intellectual property law.
  • Goodrum200 Goodrum, Garfield
    Garfield Goodrum has over 20 years’ experience in IP, working with internationally known brands and designs. Garfield has cleared and prosecuted registrations for hundreds of trademarks and copyright-protected works, and litigated numerous design, copyright and trademark infringement and inter partes matters. In 2009, Garfield won a $774,000 jury verdict for willful design copyright infringement in U.S. federal court. Garfield is chair of the Industrial Design Committee of AIPLA – the American Intellectual Property Law Association, a member of INTA – the International Trademark Association and the Copyright Society of the U.S.
  • Gosse, David

    Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery | Partner

    David A. Gosse represents clients in PTAB and district court litigation, with deposition and courtroom experience in both venues. His practice also includes acquisition of patent rights in the electronic, software, and mechanical fields. Dave is a partner with Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery in Chicago, Illinois; and he is the outgoing chair of the AIPLA PTAB Trial Committee.
  • Goulart, Joaquim

    Dannemann Siemsen | Partner

    With over 25 years of experience, Joaquim is a partner at Dannemann Siemsen and is currently responsible for the litigation group. He specializes in patent and trademark litigation, with substantial success in a number of litigations in Brazil. He received his law degree at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, specialized in Economic and Corporate Law at Fundação Getulio Vargas and received his LLM in Intellectual Property Law from John Marshall Law School.
  • Gourvitz Pic square200 Gourvitz, Evan

    Ropes & Gray | Counsel

    Evan Gourvitz has successfully litigated intellectual property disputes and counseled clients on intellectual property protection, as both outside and in-house counsel, for more than 20 years.
  • Grady, Douglass

    Baker & Hostetler | Partner

    Douglas (“Doug”) Grady is a 19th year patent litigator at Baker & Hostetler; he has appeared in more than 100 civil actions in courts and tribunals across the United States and internationally. His clients include Fortune 50 companies, technology giants, emerging and fast-growth companies, sole entrepreneurs, and State governments. He has in-depth experience across an eclectic range of technologies including system and application software, electrical digital data, machining elements, subterranean mining, petroleum refining, thin film coating, cellular communications and handsets, integrated circuits, and others. Prior to law, Doug was a Seattle-based high-altitude mountain guide for Mountain Madness, working in the great mountain ranges of North America, the Andes, and the high Himalaya.
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    Mewburn Ellis | Partner

    Emma works across all stages of the IP lifecycle from drafting and prosecuting patents to managing offensive and defensive opposition proceedings at the EPO.
  • Graif, Michael

    Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. | Partner

    Mr. Graif is an intellectual property attorney whose practice encompasses trademark and copyright enforcement, technology transactions and licensing, and online protection and enforcement. He advises clients on fair use, generative AI, and branding in the metaverse, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US. Mr. Graif’s clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in a broad range of industries, including software, sports, toys, manufacturing, entertainment, and digital & social media.
  • Graves, Franklin

    HCA Healthcare | Technology Counsel

    Franklin Graves is an in-house technology, IP, and media law attorney in Nashville, TN and Tech Counsel for HCA Healthcare. He is a graduate of Belmont University College of Law (J.D.), and Samford University (B.A.). He is a former Young Lawyer Fellow and Young Lawyer Council member with the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law (ABA-IPL). Franklin currently serves as co-chair of the ABA-IPL’s Copyright and Emerging Technology Committee.
  • Gray, Kim

    IQVIA | Chief Privacy Officer--Global

  • Gray Photo copy Gray, Naomi Jane

    Shades of Gray Law Group, PC | Principal

    Naomi Jane Gray is a principal in the law firm Shades of Gray Law Group, PC.
  • grayson200 Grayson, Angela

    Precipice IP | Founder and Principal Member

    Angela J. Grayson, CIPP/US, CLP is an accomplished nationally recognized lawyer, speaker, and author. She is Principal Member and Founder of Precipice IP PLLC. PRECIPICE is an award-winning consultancy and technology law boutique specializing in patent, trademark, copyright, and data law. PRECIPICE helps entrepreneurs and technology-focused businesses protect their products, brands, designs and data.
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    Wilson Sonsini | Partner

    Lora Green is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the post-grant review practice. From 2001 to 2018, Lora was an administrative patent judge at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which included serving as a lead administrative patent judge from 2011 to 2017. While at the USPTO, she managed post-grant review proceedings, such as inter partes and covered business method reviews.
  • Greene, Rachel

    Greene IP | Founder

    Rachel Greene is the founder of Greene IP, a growing intellectual property transaction firm in Sugar Land, Texas. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia. She worked as a process development engineer at BASF for three years, then she earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Houston in 2003.
  • Greenleaf, Kevin

    Dentons US LLP | Counsel

    Kevin is computer engineer with several years of experience in-house and as a senior component design engineer at one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers. He has nearly two decades of experience in USPTO post-grant proceedings and currently leads Dentons post-grant team. Kevin has handled 100s of post-grant proceedings at the USPTO, including reexams, interferences, reissues, IPRs, and PGRs. He also counsels clients on patent prosecution, litigation, and transactions.