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  • Hudis, Jonathan

    USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board | Administrative Trademark Judge

    Jonathan Hudis is an Administrative Trademark Judge with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). Prior to joining the USPTO, Judge Hudis was in private practice as a partner with the national law firms Quarles & Brady LLP and Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt LLP, respectively. He also served on the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (“TPAC”) of the USPTO, on the Board of directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (“AIPLA”), and was member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law Section (“ABA-IPL”).
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    Honigman | Partner

    Mike Huget is one of Michigan’s leading litigators, focusing primarily on intellectual property, media and entertainment litigation. He has appeared as counsel in more than 250 cases in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, including numerous cases in which he has served as lead trial counsel. Mike is chair of the firm’s Litigation department.
  • Hughey-200 Hughey, Rachel

    Merchant & Gould P.C. | Partner and Shareholder

    Rachel C. Hughey is a Partner and Shareholder at Merchant & Gould P.C. in Minneapolis, MN, and a co-chair of her Firm’s appellate practice. She specializes in complex commercial litigation and appellate level disputes, and has tried cases around the country.
  • Humphrey, Scott

    Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP | Partner

    Scott Humphrey is the Chair of Benesch’s Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants and Unfair Competition Practice Group. He has extensive litigation, arbitration, and counseling experience involving a wide range of complex commercial contract disputes and business torts, including matters arising from trade secret appropriation, breach of restrictive covenants, contract disputes, manufacturing and distribution issues, fraud, and insurance disputes.
  • Eileen-Hunter-100 Hunter, Eileen

    3M Legal Affairs | Senior Intellectual Property Counsel

    Eileen is Senior Intellectual Property Counsel at 3M, where she manages 3M’s intellectual property, class action, and environmental litigation.
  • Huntington, R. Danny

    Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck PC | Partner

    R. Danny Huntington is a partner with Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, PC in Washington, D.C. He is involved in all phases of intellectual property law, including United States and foreign patent prosecution, litigation in the Federal and State Courts, licensing, and general client counseling. He has extensive patent interference experience, with particular expertise in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
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    Finnegan | Of Counsel

    Prior to joining Finnegan, George Hutchinson served for 47 years in the judicial branch of the federal government. He worked at the U.S. Supreme Court for 24 years in various positions, including assistant marshal. In that capacity, he opened and supervised each session of the Court for 10 years. George served as the first clerk of the Federal Circuit and continued in that capacity until his retirement.
  • Huusko, Elisa

    Berggren Oy | Partner

    Elisa Huusko is a licensed legal counsel in Finland and an EU trademark and design attorney. Elisa is a partner at a Finnish IP law firm Berggren Oy and provides legal assistance especially in relation to intellectual property and brand protection strategies, copyright, litigation, contracts, and trademark matters.
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    Sullivan & Cromwell | Partner

    Andrei Iancu was first an aerospace engineer at Hughes Aircraft, then a premier patent trial lawyer, later serving as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. He is presently a litigation partner at Sullivan & Cromwell and a leading voice on IP policy. With David Kappos, he founded the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) and, with former NIST Director Walter Copan, founded the Renewing American Innovation project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
  • Irving, Thomas L.

    The Marbury Law Group, PLLC | Senior Partner

    Tom Irving is Senior Partner at the Marbury Law Group, after a 47-year career at the world-famous Finnegan firm. Tom practices U.S. patent law, including but not limited to patent law experting in district court litigations, due diligence, counseling, strategy, rendering opinions on inventorship and ownership, patentability, validity and freedom to operate, patent preparation and prosecution in the Chemical and Life Science arts and listing approved drug products and methods of treatment in FDA’s Orange Book.. Tom obtained his undergraduate B.A, degree in chemistry at the University of Utah in 1974. Tom received his law degree from The Duke University School of Law in 1977. Tom is entering his 50th year in the U.S. patent law business and in the very early years was mentored by P.J. Federico, who co-wrote the 1952 Patent Act with Judge Rich.
  • Isaac, Elizabeth

    Dunlap Codding | Director & Shareholder

    Elizabeth Isaac is a Director, Shareholder, and Registered Patent Attorney at Dunlap Codding where she leads the firm’s Design Group. She helps innovators, entrepreneurs, artists, and businesses protect their inventions, brands, designs, and other creative works to leverage their intellectual property portfolios and enhance their business options. She counsels clients regarding a breadth of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other proprietary rights—with an emphasis on creatively and strategically identifying holistic and dynamic ways enforce, defend, and improve the value of various technological and creative assets worldwide.
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    Shook Hardy and Bacon | Partner

    Sharon Israel is a partner in the Houston office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., specializing in intellectual property law with an emphasis in patent litigation. Sharon has acted as counsel in cases before district and appellate courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the International Trade Commission. Sharon is a frequent speaker on patent-related topics, and has served in leadership roles in numerous organizations, including serving as President of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
  • Issac, Roy 200 Issac, Roy

    Bristol Myers Squibb | Senior Intellectual Property Counsel

    Roy Issac Ph.D., J.D. is a patent attorney at Bristol Myers Squibb. Roy has extensive experience in pharmaceutical patent law. Prior to Bristol Myers Squibb, Roy has served as in-house counsel for Allergan and Gilead Sciences. Roy received his Ph. D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from Purdue University and J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law.
  • Jacob Chacko Jacob Chacko

    Brown Brothers Harriman | Senior Vice President

  • Jacobs, Blair M.

    McKool Smith | Shareholder

    Blair M. Jacobs is a Shareholder at McKool Smith in Washington, DC. Mr. Jacbos represents high technology innovators large and small, Mr. Jacobs serves as lead trial counsel and strategist in intellectual property and trade secret matters in district courts nationwide and is a leading practitioner at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, where he has presented numerous oral arguments. He has served as lead appellate counsel on several well-known, precedential opinions shaping patent law.
  • Seth-Jaffe-100 Jaffe, Seth

    LEO Cyber Security | General Counsel

  • Jakobsen Osenga, Kristen

    University of Richmond School of Law | Associate Dean, Research Scholar, & Professor of Law

    Dean Kristen Jakobsen Osenga teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, patent law, law and language, and legislation and regulation. Some of her recent scholarship focuses on patent eligible subject matter, patent licensing firms, standard development organizations, patent law reform, and claim construction. She has written numerous law review articles on these and other topics, as well as book chapters and op eds on various aspects of patent law. Additionally, she has spoken on patent-related issues at many academic conferences and bar events. Dean Osenga is an active member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
  • Jalali Photo Jalali, Laleh

    Alliance IP, LLC | Patent Attorney

    Laleh Jalali has over 25 years of experience as a U.S. patent attorney, including patent prosecution, patent portfolio management, patent analysis in the context of offensive and defensive patent assertions, patent pageants and patent licensing negotiations.
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    James Pooley PLC | Founder

    James Pooley is one of the world’s foremost experts in trade secret law and management. His legal treatise, “Trade Secrets,” updated semi-annually, is the leading lawyer’s desk reference on the subject. His latest business book is “Secrets: Managing Information Assets in the Age of Cyberespionage” (Verus Press, 2015).
  • Jardine, Jason

    Knobbe Martens | Partner

    JASON J. JARDINE is a Partner of the San Diego office of Knobbe Martens, one of the top intellectual property firms in the nation and worldwide. Mr. Jardine represents a diverse clientele in all aspects of intellectual property acquisition, protection and enforcement across the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Jardine’s experience spans the full range of life science disciplines, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, neutraceuticals and medical devices, and also chemistry, clean technology and hydrogen fuel cells, semiconductors, metal works/mining, action sports and fashion. He is skilled in the area of computer science inventions related to hospital and emergency data management and the gamification of data.