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  • Gills Pic square200 Gills, Jeanne M.

    Foley & Lardner | Partner

    Jeanne M. Gills is a partner and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. She also serves as vice chair of the firm’s national Intellectual Property Department focusing on Strategic Marketing & Business Development, and she previously served as vice chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice.
  • Gilmore, Richard C.

    Maschoff Brennan | Shareholder

    Rick is a partner in the Salt Lake office of Maschoff Brennan Gilmore Israelsen & Mauriel. He is involved in all aspects of intellectual property law, with a focus on patent and trademark application preparation and prosecution domestically and internationally. He represents large and small clients from a diverse range of industries and often works directly with in-house counsel to develop and maintain their worldwide patent and trademark portfolios. Rick is a frequent speaker on patent and trademark matters and has taught many law school classes on patent and trademark issues.
  • Gilmore, vanessa square200 Gilmore, Vanessa D.

    US District Court for the Southern District of Texas | Judge

    In 1994 when Judge Vanessa Diane Gilmore was sworn in, she was then the youngest sitting federal judge in the nation. The native of Silver Spring, Maryland was also the youngest member of her freshman class at her alma mater, Hampton University in Virginia. Gilmore decided to undertake a career in law after she represented herself and won a minor civil lawsuit. She graduated from the University of Houston Law Center in 1981. In 1982, Gilmore began a 13-year tenure at a Houston law firm known as Vickery, Kilbride, Gilmore and Vickery where she specialized in civil litigation. Gilmore also became an active member of the Houston civic community, serving on the boards of a number of civic and charitable organizations including a term as president of the YWCA of Houston. She also became involved in the Texas political arena while serving as counsel and teacher in the area of election law.
  • Giovannini, Francesca square200 Giovannini, Francesca

    Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton | European & Italian Patent Attorney

    Francesca Giovannini is European and Italian patent attorney with a chemical engineering background. She is registered on the French list of persons qualified in industrial property, patent section. She has been working in IP for more than 20 years in Italy, Germany and France, both in private practice and in-house.
  • Glenn Gundersen

    Dechert LLP

  • Gluck200 Gluck, Jeffrey

    Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel | Partner

    Jeffrey Gluck is presently a partner with Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science, a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, and a doctorate in electrical engineering, as well as a law degree. His career in intellectual property was preceded by an eleven year career as an engineering professor and as an engineer. He has been practicing intellectual property law since 1994, initially as a patent examiner, and then, since 1999, as a patent agent and as an attorney.
  • Go, Adrienne

    eBay, Inc.

    Adrienne Go leads a team of smart customer-obsessed product lawyers at eBay. Her team advises on core user experiences offered to eBay users around the world, including buying, selling, shipping, AI, focused categories, mobile, and trust. Adrienne and team analyze and advise on a wide range of disciplines, including regulatory, consumer protection, intellectual property, privacy, and contract.
  • James Goepel Goepel, James

    Fathom Cyber LLC | CEO

    Fathom CyberTM makes cybersecurity and data privacy make senseTM for officers, directors, and employees. James ("Jim") Goepel is CEO and General Counsel for Fathom Cyber.
  • Goldberg, Joshua

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

    Joshua Goldberg, partner in Finnegan’s Washington, DC office, is a former leader of Finnegan’s PTAB trials section, focusing on inter partes review (IPR), post grant review (PGR), and ex parte reexamination (EPR) proceedings before the USPTO, as well as related appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has served as lead or backup counsel in more than 350 PTAB proceedings across a wide range of technologies, representing both petitioners and patent owners.
  • Goldberg, Joshua B.

    Nath, Goldberg & Meyer | Co-Managing Partner

    Joshua Goldberg is Co-Managing Partner and the Partner-in-Charge of the Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Department of Nath, Goldberg & Meyer. Mr. Goldberg’s practice involves preparing and acquiring U.S. and foreign patents for his clients across a wide range of technology areas. His current practice places a particular emphasis on pharmaceutical, agriculture, and alternative energy technologies. He also advises corporate, university, and independent clients not only in how to obtain patents, but also how to bring new products to market without infringing someone else’s patents.
  • Mitchell-Goldberg-100 Goldberg, Mitchell S.

    US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Judge

    Judge Goldberg was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on October 31, 2008. Judge Goldberg’s career as a practicing attorney started at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office where he worked in both the trial and appellate divisions. He later joined the law firm of Cozen O’Connor, where his practice focused on commercial litigation.
  • 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.
  • Goldstein, Tom200 Goldstein, Thomas

    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

  • Gonzalez-Vargas, Mariana

    Basham | Partner

    Mariana Gonzalez, partner at Basham, Ringe y Correa, has over 17 years of experience in patent prosecution, IP transactions, and litigation, particularly in the life sciences sector. With degrees in chemistry and law, a master’s in top management, and the Certified Licensing Professional® credential, Mariana offers integrated scientific and legal expertise. A recognized specialist on Mexico’s linkage system and data exclusivity, Mariana also has research experience, including a stay at Ohio State University focusing on DNA base characterization through ultrafast laser spectroscopy. Mariana has acted as an expert witness in significant pharmaceutical litigations, contributing expert opinions in complex cases. Author and co-author of several articles and publications, Mariana has been a frequent speaker in Mexico and abroad at events organized by leading professional associations.
  • Goo, Valerie

    Crowell & Moring | Partner

    Valerie Goo is a nationally recognized trial lawyer in Crowell & Moring’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Management Board. With over 30 years of experience, she has successfully led high-stakes trials and managed landmark cases involving complex commercial litigation, trade secrets, trademark infringement, copyright, right of publicity, unfair competition, false advertising, consumer class action, and general business disputes. Valerie regularly represents companies in intellectual property litigation and has successfully tried cases to verdict, obtained and defended against temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions in trademark cases, and prevailed on summary judgment in defensive trademark cases. She also has state and federal appellate experience, including oral argument before the Ninth Circuit, and experience in trademark prosecution and enforcement.
  • 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.