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  • Baldini, M. Cristina

    Studio Torta | Partner

    After graduating in Law, Ms. Baldini joined Studio Torta in 1989 and became a partner in 2000. She acquired considerable experience in developing strategies for protecting trademarks in Italy and abroad. She provides advice on the subjects of trademarks, designs, copyright and protection against counterfeiting, including on the web. She frequently speaks in seminars, courses and conferences. For over 10 years she has been collaborating with magazine OICCE Times, regularly publishing articles on trademarks in the oenology sector.
  • Baldwin, Merri

    Rogers Joseph O'Donnell | Shareholder

    Merri Baldwin is a shareholder at Rogers Joseph O’Donnell in San Francisco, where her practice focuses on attorney liability and commercial litigation. She handles claims of legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty, as well as motions to disqualify and for sanctions. She regularly counsels lawyers and law firms on legal ethics and law practice management issues. She represents attorneys in disciplinary matters before the State Bar of California, and has extensive experience handling attorney-client fee disputes.
  • Ball, Jonathan

    Gowling WLG | Partner

    Jon Ball is a highly experienced IP dispute resolution lawyer, with over 20 years' experience in assisting clients achieve their commercial goals across all forms of contentious IP matters, with a particular focus on patent enforcement.
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    United States Customs and Border Protection | Attorney-Advisor

    Alex Bamiagis, Esq. has been an Attorney-Advisor with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) since 2008.
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    Law Offices of Lincoln Bandlow | Founder

    Lincoln Bandlow is the founder of the Law Offices of Lincoln Bandlow in Los Angeles. Lincoln focuses his practice on sophisticated media, First Amendment, intellectual property and other entertainment-related litigation matters. He represents clients in the motion picture, television, publishing, broadcasting, Internet and advertising fields. In addition, Lincoln represents several of the principal underwriters for the media and entertainment industry.
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    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Associate General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel

    Shilpi Banerjee serves as Associate General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Her practice includes oversight of patent prosecution, agreements related to the research enterprise at MSK, including sponsored laboratory research and clinical research, as well as transactional, licensing and litigation matters related to MSK intellectual property.
  • Banner, Brian

    Slayden Grubert Beard | Shareholder

    Brian Banner is the managing shareholder of Slayden Grubert Beard in Austin, Texas. He focuses on patent litigation and has nearly two decades of experience in district courts, the Federal Circuit, and before the PTAB. Brian served as lead IPR counsel in the first-ever sua sponte Director Review of an institution decision in 2022 and has since closely tracked the rise of Director authority. His practice draws on more than seven years of prior industry experience in semiconductors, processor architecture, and software design.
  • Banningan, Megan K.

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP | Partner

    Megan K. Bannigan is a litigation partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, based in New York, focusing on trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, false advertising, design patents, rights of publicity, licensing and other contractual disputes. Ms. Bannigan has extensive trial experience, as well as experience representing clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the International Trade Commission. Recognized by Chambers USA, World Trademark Review, Managing Intellectual Property’s IP STARS, The Legal 500 and Law360 as a top trademark attorney and rising star, she is known for “translat[ing] complex legal issues into clear pragmatic legal advice.”
  • Bansal, Manu

    GE Licensing | Senior Counsel Intellectual Property

    Manu Bansal serves as Senior Counsel Intellectual Property - Licensing at GE Licensing. In this position, Manu provides lead counsel on the licensing of standard essential patents (SEPs), including licensing them on Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory terms. He advises on licensing SEPs through patent pools or other collaborative licensing relationships. An SEP and IP strategy expert with deep, hands-on experience advising transaction leaders on legal matters in real time commercial discussions with third parties.
  • Barbara Fisher

    Lockheed Martin Corporation | Chief IP Counsel

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    Pirkey Barber | Founder

    Bill Barber specializes in trademark law, focusing primarily on litigation and policing, handling cases in federal courts across the U.S. and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
  • Bardini, Ann Bardini, Ann

    WIPO | Senior Business Analyst

    Ann Bardini, a national of the United Kingdom, is Senior Business Analyst at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) where she has worked since 1990. As Head of the PCT Functional Support Section, she was responsible for the specification of the business requirements, process re-engineering and deployment strategy for the International Bureau’s electronic processing system that led to a fully paperless environment for PCT Operations at WIPO.
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    Beard & Barks PLLC | Partner

    Justen S. Barks is a commercial, intellectual property, and entertainment litigator. His experience in the courtroom helps his clients in their various transaction needs. For his commercial clients, he provides work in the form of risk management counselling, litigation in state and federal courts, mediation, contract drafting and negotiation. His intellectual property practice includes a mix of work with the U.S. Trademark Office, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Copyright Office, and copyright, patent, and trademark litigation.
  • Barnes, Dunstan

    McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP | Partner

    Dunstan H. Barnes practices in all areas of intellectual property law with an emphasis on protecting and analyzing design rights. His work in that area includes drafting and prosecuting design patent applications and conducting opinion work and due diligence investigations. In addition, drawing on his doctorate work in materials science and metallurgy, Dr. Barnes has considerable experience drafting and prosecuting utility patent applications across a range of technological fields and industries.
  • Barone, Monica Barone, Monica

    Qualcomm | Senior Legal Counsel

    Ms. Monica Barone is Sr. Director, Legal Counsel for Qualcomm, where she focuses on Technical Standards Policy and Intellectual Property Rights policies, laws, rules and regulations both domestically and internationally. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Ms. Barone’s experience included over 15 years in the Telecommunications industry where she represented her clients in various settings including state and federal regulatory bodies, courts, contract negotiations and associations.
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    Mayer Brown LLP | Partner

    William J. Barrow is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office and a member of the Intellectual Property Group. Bill protects and defends clients’ intellectual property rights in district courts throughout the country, and before the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Having begun his career prosecuting electrical and computer software patents, Bill is often sought out for his understanding of the interplay between litigation and USPTO procedure. His experience in this regard leads to the early identification of favorable case strategies and mechanisms for implementing those strategies in concert with his clients’ business goals.
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    Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | Partner

    John P. Barry is Head of Weil’s Employment Litigation Practice Group. He is a well-regarded trial lawyer and corporate counselor who has more than 25 years of experience advising companies and their executives, directors, and HR leaders on sensitive and significant employment law issues in the courtroom, boardroom, enforcement, and transactional contexts.
  • Barton, Matt

    Forresters IP LLP | Partner

    Dr Matt Barton is a European and UK patent attorney and UPC representative. He obtained a PhD in chemistry from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2001 before joining Forresters IP LLP the same year. He has been a partner in the firm since 2008, at the same time relocating to Munich, Germany, where he now leads Forresters’ German office. He specialises in patents in the fields of small molecules, battery materials, chromatography and metallurgy. He has vast experience of EPO opposition and appeal proceedings, having been lead attorney on more than 90 matters to date, both in defence and attack.
  • Bartow, Nicole

    Rivian Automotive, LLC | Chief Litigation Counsel

    Nicole Bartow is Chief Litigation Counsel at Rivian Automotive, LLC. Rivian exists to create products and services that help our planet transition to carbon neutral energy and transportation, and in support of this mission Rivian designs, develops, and manufactures category-defining EVs and sells them directly to customers in the consumer and commercial markets. At Rivian, Nicole leads the team that manages the company’s litigation across a wide range of substantive areas including commercial matters and contracts, intellectual property, regulatory and competition, consumer rights/protection, torts/personal injury, real estate and securities. Rivian’s Product Defense and Legal Operations legal functions also report to Nicole.
  • Batzli, Brian

    Merchant & Gould | Partner & Chairman Emeritus

    Brian Batzli is an intellectual property attorney and partner at Merchant & Gould’s Minneapolis office. He is also now Chairman Emeritus, having led the firm as CEO, Managing Director and Chairman from 2011 to mid-2018. He is also a Past President of AIPLA.