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  • Kinsel, Grant

    Perkins Coie | Partner

    Grant Kinsel protects the integrity and worth of patents held by some of the world’s largest technology companies, and defends those same companies from claims of patent infringement. Eschewing formulaic roadmaps, Grant’s litigation strategies are distinctive for their effectiveness, efficiency, and novelty, frequently resulting in early, pre-trial resolution and added value for his clients. Getting the right result in patent litigation requires a commitment to creativity, and Grant’s bottom-up approach ensures that the optimum strategy is deployed for each case. Grant designs a strategy—from initial discovery, to motion practice, and ultimately through trial and appeal—to achieve the optimum result tuned to the particular case, client, and facts.
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    Greer Burns & Crain | Partner

    Paul R. Kitch is a partner with Greer, Burns & Crain in Chicago with significant experience in IP prosecution, litigation, and client counseling.
  • Klapow, Mark

    Crowell & Moring LLP | Partner

    Mark Klapow is a Chambers-ranked trial lawyer specializing in high stakes technology disputes. He has tried and obtained significant victories in TROs, injunctions, dismissals, and verdicts in cases involving artificial intelligence, enterprise software, financial services, and emerging technologies. Over 25 years of experience representing startups and Fortune 500 companies in “bet the company” litigation matters, Mark has represented household names like Alcoa, AT&T, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Intel, Lenovo, Molson Coors, StoneX, and Western Union in courts throughout the country.
  • Klein Klein, Halie

    Pace Gallery | General Counsel

    Halie Klein is the General Counsel of Pace Gallery. As General Counsel, she negotiates and drafts agreements and provides strategic advice to Pace on all of the company’s legal matters, including contractual matters, artist agreements, corporate governance, compliance and, most recently, NFTs.
  • Klein, Sheldon

    Lathrop GPM | Senior Counsel

    Sheldon Klein served as President of AIPLA and the U.S. section of AIPPI in 2018-2019 and has held numerous other leadership roles in the Association. His practice focuses on trademark, copyright, unfair competition, advertising, and social media, including availability and infringement opinions, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, and transactions. Sheldon has handled numerous opposition and cancellation proceedings before the USPTO’s Trial and Appeal Board, including a successful opposition, last year, against an application to register BACH N ROLL MUSIC ACADEMY based on his client’s mark BACH TO ROCK.
  • Kliebenstein, Heather

    Merchant & Gould | Managing Partner

    Heather Kliebenstein is the Managing Partner of Merchant & Gould, known for her trademark, copyright and false advertising litigation and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board work. This work includes strategy development, discovery, depositions, expert selection and strategy, summary judgment motions, pre-trial submissions, and first chair trial experience. Heather has handled hundreds of TTAB cases and taken dozens of those matters through the trial process, oral argument and final decision.
  • Knight, Sarah

    Talem IP Law | Founding Partner

    Sarah Knight is a founding partner of Talem IP Law and heads the Patent Team. Sarah’s practice includes patent preparation and prosecution, opinions, and diligence work. She is also involved in counseling clients with respect to patent portfolio generation, management, and strategy for US and international protection.
  • Knowles, Sherry

    Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies | Principal

    Sherry M. Knowles is an intellectual property attorney with 30 years of experience in global corporate and private practice. From 2006-2010, Ms. Knowles was the Senior Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline, where she served as the worldwide head of patents for all litigation and transactional matters, and managed a global department of over 200 people in 12 offices, including in the US (3 offices), Europe (7 offices), China (1 office) and Australia (1 office). At GSK, Ms. Knowles was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, the Technology Investment Board, the Product Management Board, the Legal Management Team and she led the Global Patents Executive Team.
  • Ko, Jim

    Ko IP & AI Law PLLC | Principal Attorney

    Jim W. Ko serves as Principal Attorney at Ko IP & AI Law PLLC, where he provides strategic legal counsel at the intersection of intellectual property and artificial intelligence. With more than 20 years of experience across in-house, law firm, and nonprofit roles, Jim help clients protect their IP assets, manage risk, and navigate the shifting legal and business landscape around AI and emerging technologies. Jim is also the Founder & Executive Director of The AI Rights Project, an independent nonprofit works to ensure that as AI transforms society, law remains grounded in human-scale judgment and decision-making, creativity, and accountability—and grounded by democratic choice.
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    Hyman, Phelps & McNamara | Associate

    Sara W. Koblitz advises FDA-regulated clients on a range of issues with a particular focus on Hatch-Waxman patent and exclusivity, biosimilars, and the Orange Book. She helps drug and device manufacturers in various stages of product development and guides clients through the applicable regulatory requirements with respect to applications and submissions, device classification, potential exclusivities, promotional issues, and post-marketing requirements.
  • Koch, Peter

    PENFORCE | Partner

    Peter is a patent litigator by heart. He assists German and international clients when aggressively enforcing their IP rights or vigorously defending alleged claims of infringement. His main focus is the representation in patent infringement, patent invalidity as well as patent entitlement proceedings. Peter is also handling cases relating to utility models, trade secrets and patent-related anti-trust law and he has substantial experience in license negotiations and IP monetization. His further areas of interest include advising start-up and VC-investments in IP-focused business.
  • Kocialski, Molly

    USPTO | Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional United States Patent and Trademark Office

    As the Regional Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), since January 2016, Mollybeth (Molly) Kocialski carries out the strategic direction of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and is responsible for leading the Rocky Mountain regional office. Focusing on the nine states within this region and actively engaging with the community, Ms. Kocialski ensures the USPTO’s initiatives and programs are tailored to the region’s unique ecosystem of industries and stakeholders.
  • Koempel-Thomas, Bea

    Lee & Hayes | Patent Attorney/Partner

    Bea leads Lee & Hayes’ International Practice. She advises and assists clients on a variety of intellectual property issues including drafting patent applications for international prosecution to enhance the business value of assets and managing international patent portfolios.
  • Koenigsberg, I. Fred

    Retired | Past President, AIPLA

    I. Fred Koenigsberg has spent his career as an attorney specializing in copyright and related intellectual property law. A graduate of Cornell University (B.A., 1967), the Annenberg School of Communications of the University of Pennsylvania (M.A., 1969) and Columbia Law School (J.D., 1972), Koenigsberg spent the first 18 years of his career as in-house counsel for the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP). He then went into private practice as a partner in White & Case, LLP, from which he retired at the end of 2011.
  • Köhler, Martin

    Hoyng ROKH Monegier | Partner

    Martin Köhler has been an attorney since 1998. He is specialized in patent infringement litigation. Martin regularly represents clients in the areas of electronics, telecoms, mechanical and chemical engineering, automotive technology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. He has been lead counsel in numerous patent litigation proceedings including parallel proceedings in other EU countries, the US and in China, Korea and Japan.
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    Donaldson Company | Counsel

    Sydney R. Kokjohn is intellectual property counsel at Donaldson Company, Inc. (Bloomington, MN), a global leader in the filtration industry. Prior to joining Donaldson, she worked as a patent attorney at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP in Chicago, IL. Before attending law school, Sydney graduated from Iowa State University (B.S., Chemical Engineering) and was a product development engineer at 3M.
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    Dechert, LLP | Partner

    Violetta Kokolus advises on complex technology and intellectual property transactions.
  • Kolakowski, John

    Nokia Technology Standards | Head of IP Policy and Advocacy, Americas

    John Kolakowski is Head of IP Policy and Advocacy, Americas for Nokia Technology Standards. He is an intellectual property counsel and business advisor with over 15 years of in-house worldwide telecommunications patent policy, licensing and litigation experience at Nokia and 10 years of prior private practice district court and ITC patent litigation experience at Morrison & Foerster LLP.
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    Idaho Potato Commission | Vice President Legal & Government Affairs

    Patrick Kole is the Vice President, Legal & Government Affairs for the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC). Mr. Kole has practiced law for the past fourty-two (42) years. He has specialized for the last thirty-one (31) years with the IPC, where he focuses on legal and policy issues impacting agriculture; market access issues, including developing new markets for Idaho® potatoes; and research and technology issues. Mr. Kole has litigated certification mark cases, registered certification marks in jurisdictions around the world and developed legislation that amended the U.S. Lanham act. He has testified before the U.S. Congress several times. Mr. Kole also manages IPC’s government affairs at the Federal, State and local levels and directs the IPC’s Trademark licensing program.
  • Kong, T.O.

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Partner

    T.O. focuses on patent infringement actions, with a particular emphasis on the representation of prominent generic pharmaceutical companies in Hatch-Waxman Act litigation.