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  • Hicks, Jack

    Womble Bond Dickinson LLP | Partner

    Jack Hicks practices patent and trademark law with the international law firm of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP. He has worked with clients in a broad range of industries and technologies, helping manage IP matters, from Federal and State litigation to international patent and trademark filing strategies. Prior to becoming an attorney, Jack was a design engineer on airborne radar and optics applications for a major aerospace company. Jack also regularly represents clients based outside the US, including Europe and Asia, as well as US companies doing business overseas.
  • Hightower, Susan

    US District Court for the Western District of Texas | United States Magistrate Judge

    Susan Hightower has served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, since 2019. Previously, she served for nearly seven years as a judge on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; was a member of Pirkey Barber PLLC, where her practice focused primarily on trademark litigation; and was a senior associate with Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. Judge Hightower, an Austin native, received a BA (with College Honors) from Austin College, an MA in journalism from The University of Texas at Austin, and a JD (Conferred with Distinction) from Stanford Law School. She also served as a clerk for Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Before law school, Judge Hightower was a professional journalist, most notably working as a reporter and editor for The Associated Press for six years.
  • Hildy Bowbeer

    US District Court, District of Minnesota

  • drew_hirshfeld_square200 Hirshfeld, Drew

    Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner | Principal

    Mr. Hirshfeld was a long-tenured employee of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and was named one of Managing IP’s Top 50 Most Influential People in IP in 2021 (Managing IP is part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC group). Mr. Hirshfeld began his career at the USPTO as a Patent Examiner in 1994, and has held a variety of senior management positions. He was named Commissioner for Patents in 2015, and performed the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO from January 2021 to April 2022. Most recently, Mr. Hirshfeld served as Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Deputy Director.
  • Hjelle square200 Hjelle, Lucas

    Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, PA | Principal

    Lucas Hjelle has been a patent attorney at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner for the last twelve years. Lucas received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, with a focus on digital signal processing and location-based technologies. He then worked full-time in Electrical Engineering and Aerospace for over ten years, including hardware engineering at LinksPoint (Norwalk, CT), GPS and INS engineering at Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, MA), and Senior Navigation Engineer at Honeywell (Minneapolis, MN). Lucas received his J.D. degree from William Mitchell College of Law, with a focus on Intellectual Property and legal research.
  • Hoffer-200 Hoffer, Lauren

    Dell Technologies | Sr. Litigation Counsel for IP Matters

    Lauren Hoffer is Sr. Litigation Counsel for IP Matters at Dell Technologies. In this role, she handles day to day strategy and logistics with outside counsel on Dell’s patent litigation in federal district court and the International Trade Commission.
  • Holcomb, John

    US District Court, Central District of California | United States District Court Judge

    John W. Holcomb is a U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California, Southern Division, in Santa Ana, California. Judge Holcomb was nominated for that position by President Donald J. Trump in November 2019 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in September 2020.
  • Hollingsworth, Mark Headshotsquare200 Hollingsworth, Mark

    Mueting Raasch Group | Shareholder

    Mark is a registered patent attorney and shareholder at Mueting Raasch Group in Minneapolis. Mark practices in the areas of domestic and international patent procurement and related opinion work in the electrical, electronics, and electromechanical arts. Mark was a Research Engineer at ARCO Solar and a Senior Electrical Engineer at Litton Aero Products Division in Southern California. Mark co-founded the Intellectual Property law firm of Hollingsworth Davis, LLC (2005-2019), and was listed in IAM 1000 World's Leading Patent Professionals 2012-2018 and 2020.
  • Holloway, Chloe

    Hoffmann Eitle | British and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative

    Chloe joined the Munich office of Hoffmann Eitle in 2016. Prior to joining Hoffmann Eitle, Chloe worked for a large Italian IP firm in Milan and for a boutique firm in Mexico City. Chloe works on drafting and prosecuting patent applications in a variety of different technical fields within chemistry, including organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceuticals and materials chemistry. She specialises in opposition and appeal proceedings before the EPO and has represented both patent proprietors and opponents in these proceedings.
  • Holt, Krista

    Econ One | Managing Director

    Krista Holt is a Managing Director at Econ One. Ms. Holt testifies as an economic damages expert, marketing expert, survey expert, and licensing expert. She provides expert witness testimony for issues related to patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, breach of contract, class action, ITC, antitrust, and false advertising, including strategic consulting, valuation, marketing, licensing, surveys and analysis of damages claimed in litigation and other issues, including lost profits, reasonable royalties, price erosion, accounting of defendant’s profits, restitution, expectation, reliance, domestic industry, injury, bonding, corrective advertising, and diminution in asset and enterprise value.
  • Hong, Mae

    Lathrop GPM | Counsel

    Mae Hong serves as counsel in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, assisting clients of all sizes in all aspects related to both domestic and international patent applications, with a particular emphasis in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and chemistry. Mae counsels clients on patent and infringement defenses and various other intellectual property-related issues and analyzes clients’ patent portfolios to help identify and determine patentable subject matter for newly developed technologies. Mae has extensive experience in freedom-to-operate, patent validity, and non-infringement analysis.
  • Hopkins, Lavonne

    Johnson & Johnson | Senior Counsel, Global Technology Transactions

    Lavonne Hopkins represents clients across numerous industries on complex data privacy and cybersecurity matters.
  • Horstman, Raija

    Crowell & Moring | Counsel

    Raija Horstman is an experienced litigator focused in multiple areas of complex commercial litigation, including trade secrets, false advertising, unfair competition, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and consumer and employment class actions. Raija is a counsel in the Los Angeles office of Crowell & Moring.
  • Horstman, Raija

    Crowell Moring | Counsel

    Raija Horstman is an experienced litigator focused in multiple areas of complex commercial litigation, including trade secrets, false advertising, unfair competition, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and consumer and employment class actions.
  • Howell, Matthew

    Haseltine Lake Kempner | Partner

    Matthew Howell is a European and UK Patent Attorney, a patent attorney litigator and a UPC representative. He is a partner at Haseltine Lake Kempner and leads the UPC team there. He is actively involved in litigation before the UPC, as well as in drafting and prosecuting patents around the world, predominantly in the field of electronics and related technologies.
  • Hoyng, Willem

    Hoyng Rokh Monegier | Partner

    Willem’s practice primarily consists of litigating in the field of intellectual property law. Willem acts before all the national courts (the courts of first instance, the courts of appeal and the Supreme Court). He also regularly litigates before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Patent Office (EPO). Willem is also involved in advising on European patent strategies and coordinating and conducting European patent proceedings. He is the adviser of many innovative Dutch and foreign multinationals, including pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies.
  • Hricik, David

    Mercer University School of Law | Professor

    Professor David Hricik received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Arizona, and his law degree with Honors from Northwestern University School of Law. He practiced with Baker Botts and litigation boutiques from 1988 to 2002, litigating cases primarily involving patent infringement, legal malpractice, and general complex commercial matters. He is now a solo practitioner, representing practitioners and others before the Office of Enrollment and Discipline and in other disciplinary matters, consulting with firms about ethical issues, and serving as an expert witness. In 2021, he became a registered mediator.
  • Hrivnak, Bret

    Hahn Loeser | Partner

    As a patent and trademark attorney, Bret A. Hrivnak counsels clients on the protection of U.S. and international intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and domain names. Bret manages worldwide IP portfolios and develops global strategies for IP protection. Bret’s IP experience includes prosecuting and defending disputes arising under state, federal and international laws, including proceedings before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
  • Hsieh, Timothy

    Oklahoma City University School of Law | Assistant Professor of Law

    Timothy T. Hsieh (pronounced “Shay”) joined the faculty of the Oklahoma City University School of Law in the Fall of 2021 as an Assistant Professor of Law, where he focuses his research, teaching and scholarship in the areas of Intellectual Property (“IP”) as well as Law & Technology, particularly in Patent Law, Antitrust Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, Trade Secret Law, hybrids between all of those IP forms, Computer, Internet & Social Media Law, Information Technology & Privacy Law, Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) Law, Law & Literature/Film, Entertainment & Sports Law, and Asian American Legal Studies.
  • Huang, Christina

    Faegre Drinker | Deputy Lead, Patent Practice

    Christina Huang is the Deputy Lead for the Patent Practice and the Co-Chair for the AI Working Group in the Patent Practice at Faegre Drinker. Drawing on 20+ years of software and electronics industry experiences, an academic background in multiple fields, and experience as in-house IP counsel for a multinational corporation, Christina helps clients to define and develop business-minded strategies to protect and grow their IP assets and mitigate IP related risks. She provides comprehensive IP services, including patent drafting and prosecution, freedom-to-operate and invalidity opinions, IP agreement drafting and negotiations, inter partes review, and patent and copyright litigation.