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  • Guetlich, Mark200 Guetlich, Mark

    Viziv Technologies | Chief IP Counsel

    Mark Guetlich is Chief IP Counsel at the emerging technology startup Viziv Technologies. Mr. Guetlich has held previous government, industry, and law practice positions as Senior Counsel for International Policy and Government Affairs at the USPTO, founder of the Global IP Group, PLLC advising law firms in India and US, VP Managing Director of Patents at the SAP AG headquarters in Walldorf, Germany, and Director of International Patents and Licensing for Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.
  • Gureff, Jenae

    Cantor Coburn LLP | Partner in Charge

    Jenae Gureff is the Partner in Charge of the Cantor Colburn Washington, DC office. She has an extensive foreign practice and counsels international clients in regard to U.S. strategy. Her practice focuses on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications and opinion work related to medical devices and other mechanical technologies. Jenae also maintains a widespread design patent practice.
  • Gwin, H Sanders 200 Gwin, H. Sanders

    Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A | Principal

    H. Sanders Gwin, Jr. is a Principal of Shumaker & Sieffert. Sanders specializes in patent preparation/prosecution and patent infringement/validity counseling in the chemical, materials and software fields.
  • Haider, Ameera

    Quarles & Brady, LLP | Associate

    Ameera Haider is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group and focuses her practice on IP-intensive transactions.
  • Hailey, Nick

    Oppenheim + Zebrak, LLP | Partner

    Nick Hailey is a partner at Oppenheim + Zebrak, LLP, where he represents clients in complex intellectual property litigation involving copyrights, trademarks, and related commercial matters. Nick has argued and tried cases in federal and state courts nationwide. He has successfully represented clients across all stages of litigation, from pre-suit investigation through trial and appeal. Nick plays a central role in representing the firm’s clients in numerous high-stakes, cutting-edge cases—including litigation brought by a group of music publishers against a large AI company for mass copyright infringement.
  • Dawn Hall Hall, Dawn

    FTI Consulting | Senior Managing Director

    Dawn Hall is a Senior Managing Director in the Dispute Advisory Services (“DAS”) practice within the Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment at FTI Consulting and is the co-leader of the Intellectual Property practice. She is based in New York.
  • Halpenny, Genevieve

    Barclay Damon LLP | Associate

    Genevieve M. Halpenny is an associate at Barclay Damon LLP and uses her PhD in chemistry to advocate for clients who are seeking patents in a variety of chemical, engineering and scientific disciplines. Genevieve has worked with clients to protect their intellectual property rights in matters before federal courts, state courts, and the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Genevieve has also helped clients protect and monetize their technologies through licensing and other deals.
  • Hamidi - 200 Hamidi, Arash

    Bookoff McAndrews PPLC | Patent Attorney

    Arash Hamidi is an Associate Patent Attorney at Bookoff McAndrews where he counsels clients ranging from global corporate entities to new startups on developing domestic and international patent portfolios.
  • Hampton, Phillip200 Hampton, II, Philip G.

    Polsinelli | Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer and Senior Partner

    Mr. Hampton, a multi-faceted IP law practitioner for more than 40 years, focuses on patent and trademark litigation, patent and trademark counseling, trademark prosecution, and licensing and merchandising agreements based on patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights as well as transactions related to the transfer of intellectual property pursuant to corporate acquisitions.
  • Hannon, Christian

    United States Patent and Trademark Office | Patent Attorney, Office of Policy and International Affairs

    Dr Hannon serves as a Patent Attorney with the USPTO’s Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA) in which he represents the United States before UPOV. Prior to joining OPIA, for ten years, Dr Hannon served as a patent examiner in the wireless telecommunications field. During his employment at the USPTO, Dr Hannon has served in the Office of the Secretary and Director as an expert advisor. He has also served on detail to the Office of the Solicitor and in OPIA prior to joining there full time.
  • Hansen, Melissa

    Washington State Wine | Research Program Director

    As the Washington wine industry’s point person on grape and wine research for nearly 8 years, Melissa leads the Washington wine industry’s own competitive research grant program and the statewide research grant program at Washington State University. The industry’s overall research goal is to improve wine quality. She is a board member of the National Grape Research Alliance and chair of the organization’s Integrated Production Systems Committee. She has also held leadership positions with the Northwest Center for Small Fruits Research, a consortium of industry and scientists in the Northwest, and currently is on the steering committee of the West Coast Smoke Exposure Task Force.
  • Hansen_square Hansen, Robert M.

    The Marbury Law Group | Partner

    Robert (Bob) Hansen was a founding partner of Hansen Huang Technology Group, LLP which merged with Roberts Mardula & Wertheim, LLC to form The Marbury Law Group. Mr. Hansen has extensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent preparation and prosecution; patentability, validity, and infringement opinions; sale and licensing of intellectual property; strategic patent portfolio development; and litigation.
  • Harding, Elizabeth (Liz)

    Greenbert Traurig, LLP | Shareholder

    Elizabeth (Liz) Harding helps organizations protect and commercialize of their data assets. Liz is qualified in Colorado and the United Kingdom, and has over 20 years of experience focusing on privacy and data matters, including deep familiarity with the GDPR, CCPA, and various other U.S. federal, state, and international privacy and cybersecurity regulations. Liz applies a risk based approach to privacy compliance, marrying deep technical know-how with industry experience. She supports clients across a wide array of industries including advertising, media and telecommunications, entertainment, financial services, health care, hospitality, retail, education, AI, and cloud based technology.
  • Harkavy, David

    Ankura | Managing Director, Intellectual Property Practice

    David Harkavy is a Managing Director at Ankura based in Chicago. David has 23 years of experience assisting clients with forensic accounting and economic damages issues. His expertise includes economic damages in a variety of litigation settings and valuations of intellectual property assets and businesses. David has testified in depositions, state and federal courts, and arbitration settings on economic damages in commercial litigation matters, including claims of patent and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, fraud, and antitrust.
  • Harlan-200 Harlan, Jim

    InterDigital Communications | Director, Standards and Competition Policy

    Jim Harlan joined InterDigital in 2015, where actively represents the company and its interests before policy makers at governmental agencies, administrations and enforcers, as well as with policy committees for various SDOs, Consortia and Associations.
  • Harrier, Jason

    IP Copilot | Founder & General Counsel

    Jason Harrier is Founder & General Counsel at IP Copilot, an idea management platform powered by AI that is focused on helping innovators discover and share their best ideas faster than ever. Jason previously was Head of IP and Lead AI Counsel for Plaid where he helped develop Plaid's first IP and AI programs and Chief Patent Counsel for Capital One where his team built a new patent program that recently resulted in Capital One owning the world's largest financial institution patent portfolio.
  • Harris Photo Harris, Jonathan

    Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP | Partner

    A patent trial lawyer with over two decades of experience, Jonathan Harris focuses his practice on patent litigation and contested Patent Office proceedings.
  • Harris, Phil

    Holland & Hart | Partner

    Phil Harris is a partner, registered patent attorney, and patent practice group leader at Holland & Hart. His practice focuses on client counseling along with preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications (with special focus on cutting-edge technology) for clients of various structures and industries, including wireless communications, network design, machine learning and artificial intelligence, memory and computer architecture, circuit and chip design, methods of manufacturing, medical devices, and other complex technologies.
  • Harris, Savaria

    Johnson & Johnson | VP Law, Patient Engagement & Customer Solutions, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies

    Savaria is Vice President of Law for Patient Engagement & Customer Solutions (PECS) at the Janssen North America Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson. In this role, she advises the PECS leadership team on innovative ways to compliantly support patients starting and staying on therapy. Since joining Johnson & Johnson in 2016, Savaria has advised business leaders on innovative patient assistance programs across all Janssen therapeutic areas.
  • Harrison - Headshot200 Harrison, Robert

    Sonnenberg Harrison | Founding Partner

    Dr. Robert Harrison is a Founding Partner of the technology law boutique firm of SONNENBERG HARRISON. He has a BA in Physics from Oxford University, an M.Sc. in Solid State Physics, and a Ph.D. in Semiconductor Engineering from the University of Sheffield, UK. He has been working in the field of intellectual property since 1987 and started his career as an Examiner in the European Patent Office before joining IBM Germany. He is a registered German, French, and European patent and trademark attorney. His work focuses on advising companies on intellectual property and data rights in the fields of semiconductors, chemical engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence, photonics, telecommunications, microtechnology, and biophysics.