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Ryan Alley IP Law | Patent Attorney & Engineer

Mr. Alley provides comprehensive patent procurement and strategy to a broad array of clients. Mr. Alley has prepared and filed hundreds of new patent applications and thousands of responses to office actions, petitions, and appeal briefs in the USPTO in provisional, utility, and design applications, for PCT, foreign-prepared Paris convention, and drafted-from-scratch domestic applications. In cleantech, he has worked with the entire spectrum of clients, from individual inventors, to multi-national conglomerates, to lean start-ups working toward safe and effective global decarbonization.

Almeling, David

O’Melveny & Myers LLP | Partner

David Almeling is a partner in the San Francisco office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP and one of the country’s leading attorneys in trade secret law. IAM Patent 1000 calls him a “trade secret authority” and “one of the country’s best trade secret litigators.” And Legal 500 lists him as one of nine lawyers nationwide in its Hall of Fame for trade secrets. In addition to representing clients on trade secret matters, David has taught trade secret law at UC Berkeley Law School for the last five years. He has testified at the invitation of Congress on safeguarding trade secrets. His book, Trade Secret Law and Corporate Strategy, is now in its fourth edition. And he is Vice Chair of the Sedona Conference Working Group on trade secrets, which comprises more than one hundred of the leading lawyers, judges, and academics in this field.

Al-Shaer, Maram

Washington University in St. Louis School of Law | 2nd Year Law Student

Maram Al-Shaer is a second-year law student at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. She has technical experience in the field of computer science primarily relating to cybersecurity and privacy.

Altman, James B.

Foster, Murphy, Altman & Nickel, PC | Attorney

James Altman represents U.S. and foreign clients in unfair trade litigation, concentrating on Section 337 investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).

Ambrose, Joseph

Quarles & Brady | Associate

Joe Ambrose is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He focuses his practice on all aspects of domestic and international patent preparation and prosecution and assists clients with patentability analyses and infringement and invalidity assessments. Joe’s practice further includes preparing and prosecuting design patents.

Amend, James M.

JAMS | Case Manager

James M. Amend, Esq. brings over 40 years of intellectual property experience to his JAMS practice, including seven years as Chief Circuit Mediator for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Anderson, Maria

Knobbe Martens | Partner

Ms. Anderson joined the firm as a partner in the Seattle office in January 2008. Ms. Anderson has extensive experience in comprehensive, strategic client counseling in all aspects of intellectual property. She has been very active in the prosecution of patent applications in the computer science and ecommerce fields since 1993.

Andreoli, Angelica

Shook Hardy & Bacon | Associate

Angelica concentrates her practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property counseling. While in law school, Angelica earned the highest grade in artificial intelligence law for her paper on quantum computers. Angelica was a patent legal intern for IBM; she conducted inventor and examiner interviews, drafted responses overcoming statutory rejections, and drafted a patent for a computer application.

Nicole Wanty

Talem IP Law LLP

Anna Naydonov

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP | Partner

Anna Naydonov’s practice focuses on trademark and false advertising litigation. She routinely litigates high-stakes cases for some of the world’s most renowned brands before federal trial and appellate courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Anne M. Murphy

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences | Chief IP Counsel

Anoff, Ali

Procter & Gamble | Director & Assistant General Counsel - Patents

Ali Anoff is Director and Assistant General Counsel at Procter & Gamble. She is the primary patent attorney for Olay® skin care, a brand with net sales of more than $1 billion annually. Ali provides strategic legal counsel to the business to create and protect global intellectual property assets. Her practice focuses on IP strategy development, preparation and prosecution of global patent applications, freedom-to-practice assessments, enforcement, and due diligence.

Antcliff, Jennifer

Carpmaels & Ransford | Partner

Jenny is a partner in the firm’s Dispute Resolution team. Her patent litigation expertise focusses on biotechnology and pharmaceutical products, including blockbuster small molecule drugs, therapeutic antibodies, enzyme replacement therapies and orphan medicines. Jenny also specialises in complex SPC litigation and associated regulatory advice, many cases involving references to the CJEU or EFTA Court, including C-493/12 Eli Lilly v Human Genome Sciences, E-16/14 Pharmaq v Intervet, C-577/13 Actavis v Boehringer Ingelheim, C-443/17 AbraxisBioscience and, most recently, Teva v Janssen Pharmaceutica (Xeplion).

Aquilina, James

Quarles & Brady, LLP | Partner

James J. Aquilina is a member of the Intellectual Property practice group and has extensive practice experience in all aspects of U.S. intellectual property law.

Aristedes Mahairas

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | Special Agent in Charge

He has served as the FBI's Legal Attache' in Athens, Greece, and was a Supervisor on the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Armitage, Robert A.

AIPLA Past President

Bob Armitage is a consultant on IP strategy and policy. Mr. Armitage served for a decade as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Eli Lilly & Co. Prior to assuming his general counsel role at Lilly, he had been Lilly’s Vice President and General Patent Counsel and a Partner with Vinson & Elkins, LLP.

Armond, Michelle

Armond Wilson LLP | Founding Partner

Michelle Armond is an intellectual property trial attorney litigating patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. IAM 1000 lauded her as “brilliant” and an “outstanding lawyer who ranks among the best PTAB specialists nationwide.” Her “winning formula fuses her Caltech electrical engineering education with her natural talent for writing” (Daily Journal). Michelle represents Fortune 500 companies, international market leaders, universities, and innovators as lead counsel in legally and technically challenging cases. She also is hired by other attorneys to lead on difficult aspects of their cases. Her work encompasses inter partes review (IPR) and reexamination at the U.S. Patent Office, litigation in federal court, and appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. As lead counsel and a former law clerk at the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C., she litigates with an eye towards defending the decision on appeal.

Armstrong, Katherine

Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP | Counsel

Katherine E. Armstrong assists clients with compliance matters related to U.S. federal and state privacy and data security laws, and more recently the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the NYDFS Cyber Regulations.

Armstrong, MaryAnne

Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP | Partner

Dr. Armstrong is experienced in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, including in the fields of immunology, pharmaceutical chemistry, biotechnology, vaccines, organic chemistry, assay and drug screening systems, devices and plant patents.

Arneson, Laura

Mueting Raasch Group | Attorney

Laura N. Arneson is a patent attorney experienced in the areas of biotechnology and the biomedical sciences. She will soon start an in-house position after seven years at Mueting Raasch Group in Minneapolis, MN.

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