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  • lersen200 Larsen, Alec

    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.
  • Larus Photo Larus, Christopher

    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.
  • Ledeboer, Bernard

    V.O. Patents & Trademarks | Partner

    Bernard Ledeboer is a Board Member of the European Patent Litigators Association. He started his career as an Patent Attorney with V.O. in 1997. Before, he worked at a large law firm in Amsterdam. He holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering, and an LLM in Intellectual property litigation.
  • Bernard Ledeboer

    European Patent Litigators Association | Board Member

  • LaToya Lee

    Clarkston Consulting | Associate Partner

    LaToya works with global companies to guide them through transformational changes. LaToya has experience managing complex program developments for some of the world's largest companies. With a passion and deep expertise in diversity, equity, and inclusion, she has supported the growth of Clarkston's DE+I services, helping clients develop innovative strategies to improve inclusivity in the workplace. At Clarkston, LaToya leads their Quality and Compliance practice, is a delivery partner for their DE&I practice and is the Chair Emeritus of the firm's diversity council.
  • Lee_Headshot200 Lee, Dustin

    University of Maryland, Baltimore Office of Technology Transfer | Senior Patent Attorney

    Dustin Lee is a Senior Patent Attorney specializing in medical devices, software, and emerging technologies. Additionally, Dustin manages UMB’s Medical Device Prototype Lab. He was an engineer and patent attorney in private practice before joining the Office of Technology Transfer.
  • Lee, Paul

    Dexcom | Associate General Counsel

    Paul is currently an Associate General Counsel (Senior Director of Intellectual Property) at Dexcom, where he manages the company’s patent portfolio related to continuous glucose sensor technology. In this role, Paul provides legal services and counseling on matters related to intellectual property, including patent litigation, post-grant proceedings, patent procurement, product clearance, opinions, and licensing. Prior to Dexcom, Paul was an intellectual property attorney at Morrison & Foerster, where he conducted intellectual property due diligence investigations used by venture capital firms for investment decisions and developed IP strategy for startup medical device companies.
  • Lee, Roger

    Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney | Shareholder

    Roger H. Lee focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on inter partes matters before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has extensive experience before the PTAB and has successfully represented petitioners and patent owners in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings.
  • Lee Stephen Lee, Stephen

    Target | Chief IP Counsel

    Stephen Lee has been with Target for nearly 15 years, where his practice has covered the entire spectrum of I.P. matters, as he had been responsible for all trademark, copyright and patent work. Particularly rewarding is the fact that his team provides legal services and advice to practically every business team within Target and has touched almost every one of Target’s key strategic initiatives. He manages a team of 19 high-functioning I.P. professionals, and he has first-hand experience leading his team through the ups and downs of the retail landscape transformation.
  • Lee, Wan Chieh (Jenny)

    Haug Partners | Partner

    Wan Chieh (Jenny) Lee is a partner in the New York office of Haug Partners. Her practice focuses on strategic counseling, procurement of worldwide patent rights, due diligence, freedom to operate, and intellectual property transactions. She routinely advises clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries regarding patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate, and regulatory exclusivity. Drawing from her extensive experience across all aspects of patent practice, Ms. Lee develops and executes patent procurement strategies that are aligned with clients’ immediate and long-term business goals, including product life cycle management under the Hatch-Waxman Act and the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act.
  • Leeds, Jamie

    Eli Lilly and Company | Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel

    Jamie Leeds is a Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel – Hatch Waxman Litigation at Eli Lilly and Company. Jamie graduated, magna cum laude, from Indiana University School of Law in 1992 and was admitted to the Indiana State Bar. Jamie is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  • Leibovitch, David

    Counsel | Robinson & Cole LLP

    David W. Leibovitch focuses his practice on the prosecution of utility and design patent applications, freedom-to-operate and invalidity opinions, post-grant proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and District Court patent litigation. David assists Fortune 500 companies, medium-sized enterprises, small businesses and micro-entities with a range of patent matters. He also conducts intellectual property due diligence investigations to assist with mergers and acquisitions.