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  • LaFuze, Bill 200 LaFuze, William

    McKool Smith | Principal

    William "Bill" LaFuze is a principal in McKool Smith’s Houston office. Bill’s practice has been directed to a broad range of intellectual property law issues, with a particular focus on patent and other intellectual property litigation and transaction work in the oilfield equipment, telecommunications, smartphone, computer, healthcare, electronics, internet, and a broad range of technical fields. He has represented clients in many district courts throughout the United States and in cases appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C.
  • Laganovskis, Sandris

    European Union Intellectual Property Office | Director Institutional and Cooperation Department

    Director Institutional and Cooperation Department (ICD), EUIPO, ES In January 2021 Mr. Laganovskis joined the European Union Intellectual Property Office. He is the Director of the Institutional and Cooperation Department. Before joining the EUIPO, Mr Laganovskis worked for more than 20 years in the public service, in the field of intellectual property and judicial cooperation. Before his tenure as the Head of the Latvian Patent Office (2013 – 2020), he worked for nearly 14 years at the Ministry of Justice of Latvia, holding a number of positions, including being twice posted as a diplomat to Brussels. He was elected and served as the Chair of the Budget Committee of the EUIPO (2018 – 2020), the President of the Patent Cooperation Treaty Union Assembly of the WIPO (2017 – 2020) and was Deputy Chair of the Technical and Operational Support Committee of the EPO from 2016 to 2019.
  • Lainson, Daphne

    Smart & Biggar | Principal

    Daphne Lainson is a principal in Smart & Biggar's Ottawa office and Chair of the Firm. With close to 25 years of experience in law and patent agency and an advanced degree in chemistry, she has been entrusted with protecting inventions across the spectrum of chemical innovation. Daphne enthusiastically champions and effectively safeguards her clients’ intellectual property rights relating to new drugs, biologics, medical devices, consumer products, agrochemicals, specialty chemicals, industrial chemical processes, oil, gas and petrochemicals.
  • Lamb, Kristin

    OURA | Associate General Counsel

    Kristin Lamb is Associate General Counsel, Senior Director of Intellectual Property and Regulatory Compliance for ŌURA, a late-stage health and wellness wearable startup based in Finland and San Francisco that makes the Oura Ring. Kristin leads all aspects of IP development, protection, and enforcement for the company. Prior to working at ŌURA, Kristin was in private practice with Hogan Lovells in Houston, Texas. She is a former biochemist and patented inventor, studied biochemistry at the University of Colorado, and received her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She is admitted to the California, Colorado, District of Columbia, and Texas bars, and is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO.
  • Lamb, Loreto

    Intellectual Property Institute of Canada | Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Stakeholder Relations

    Loreto Lamb is a seasoned professional based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with over two decades of expertise in stakeholder relations, networking, and communications strategy. Loreto holds a key role at the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), where she is dedicated not only to promoting the value of intellectual property for business but also to leading Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives. A fervent advocate for positive and sustainable impacts, Loreto has been instrumental in steering IPIC towards becoming an award-winning organization. Her efforts in EDI have successfully implemented principles, practices, and programs aligning seamlessly with IPIC’s culture.
  • Lambert, Nancy M.

    Donaldson Company Inc. | Senior Corporate Counsel

  • Landers, Amy

    Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | Director of the Intellectual Property Law Concentration

    Amy L. Landers is the Associate Dean of Faculty Scholarship and Director of the Intellectual Property Concentration at the Drexel University School of Law. Formerly a partner in the Intellectual Property section of Orrick LLP, practicing primarily in Silicon Valley, Prof. Landers worked on a number of high-profile patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases. She has recently published the Fourth Edition of Understanding Patent Law (CAP 2024). Her works have been published in major law reviews, and concern patent law, remedies for infringement, and the interface between innovation and intellectual property law.
  • Amy-Landers-100 Landers, Amy L.

    Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program

    Professor Landers is an accomplished legal scholar and practitioner. She was previously distinguished professor of law and director of the Intellectual Property Law Concentration at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law.
  • Landolt Photo Landolt, Karen M.

    UT Austin McCombs School of Business | Lecturer

    I have been teaching, coaching, and leading in nonprofit, legal, and academic settings for over 20 years.
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    Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel

    Kristan Lansbery, Ph.D. is a Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., located in Tarrytown, New York. Kristan oversees global patent law matters as a Senior Director within the legal department of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Kristan has more than 15 years of corporate and law firm leadership experience.
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    Shook, Hardy & Bacon | Associate

    Alec is an associate at Shook, Hardy, and Bacon in Kansas City, Missouri where he focuses his practice on telecommunications and software patents. Prior to working at Shook, he worked at the University of Missouri’s Technology Transfer office.
  • Larsen, Per

    Holland & Hart | Partner

    Per Larsen is a Partner at Holland & Hart. Per’s practice focuses on patent counseling and domestic and foreign patent prosecution for the electronic and computer arts. He works with sophisticated technology companies to develop and manage their patent portfolios, and plays a key role in supervising and mentoring junior attorneys on patent-related matters.
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    Thompson Hine LLP | Chair of the IP and Technology Litigation Practice

    Christopher Larus is the Chair of the IP and Technology Litigation Practice at Thompson Hine LLP. For more than 25 years, Chris has helped his clients protect their intellectual property rights. He tries complex patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and licensing cases. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in courts throughout the country, and in both national and international arbitration. He has extensive experience planning and implementing licensing campaigns involving a broad range of intellectual property assets and technologies.
  • Lattimer_Photo_200 Lattimer-Tingan, Chanel

    Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC | Staff Attorney

    Chanel Lattimer is an intellectual property attorney. Chanel's practice focuses on trademark and copyright prosecution, enforcement and litigation, internet domain and social media infringement, cybersquatting issues, and intellectual property transactional matters, including various IP agreements. Currently, Chanel is a Staff Attorney in the IP Group at Royer Cooper Cohen and Braunfeld and is also a freelance IP attorney.
  • Placeholder Image Female Lauchman, Layla

    United States Patent & Trademark Office | Acting Deputy Director, International Patent Legal Administration

    Layla Lauchman is the Acting Deputy Director of the International Patent Legal Administration (formerly PCT Legal) at the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Ms. Lauchman's staff provides training on the filing and prosecution of PCT and U.S. national stage applications to inventors, applicants, patent practitioners and paralegals.
  • Lavender, Mark

    Olympus Corporation of the Americas | IP Team Leader

    Mark Lavender is an experienced intellectual property attorney with a background in biomedical and mechanical engineering and a passion for medical technologies. He currently leads the IP team at Olympus Corporation of the Americas, focusing on strategic IP management and innovation.
  • Lea, Christy

    Knobbe Martens | Partner

    Christy Lea is Co-Chair of the Medical Device Litigation group at Knobbe Martens, where she has represented clients in medical device and other industries for over two decades. Christy excels in resolving high-stakes patent and trade secret disputes at both the trial and appellate levels. Recently, she achieved a significant claim construction ruling that led to a stipulation of non-infringement for a major medical device client. Additionally, she led a trial team to secure a complete defense jury verdict in a multi-patent infringement case. In another notable case, she co-led a trial team that won a $70 million jury verdict with $21 million in enhanced damages, in a trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit against a former vendor. The verdict was ranked #6 in IP and #21 overall for that year by The National Law Journal.
  • benjamin-leace-100 Leace, Benjamin E.

    Ratner Prestia | Shareholder

    Benjamin is a member of the RatnerPrestia’s Management Committee and devotes the majority of his time to handling litigation for our clients and the balance of his time in IP counseling and transactions.
  • Leaper, Matthew

    DataFeel | Founder & CEO

    Matthew Leaper is the Founder and CEO of DataFeel® - a B2B company working to commercialize a proprietary line of haptic technologies with broad applications in communications and therapy. Mr. Leaper is a registered professional engineer (NE, Mechanical) and patent attorney (USPTO, NJ, NY) with 10,000+ hours of billable experience at boutique intellectual property law firms on the American East Coast and the Canadian West Coast. He founded the company in 2017 and has been building its IP portfolio ever since, resulting in two issued US patents across six open patent families in Canada, Europe, and the US with dozens of pending or allowed claims and trademark protections in nine countries around the world.
  • LECOMTE_AIPLA_PIC_200 Lecomte, Linda

    Wuersch & Gering | Partner

    Linda Lecomte's practice concentrates on patent and trade secrets counseling, procurement, and acquisitions. She specializes in electrical, computer software, design, biomedical, aerospace, and mechanical arts. While she has litigated and arbitrated in the patent, trade secret, and licensing practices, in the US and assisting abroad, Linda enjoys strengthening IP portfolios and trade secret protocols. Prior to joining Wuersch & Gering, Linda was a partner at Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, including serving in their Germany office, for several years.