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  • Ochoa, Tyler T.

    High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University | Professor

    Tyler T. Ochoa is a Professor with the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law in California, where he teaches courses in copyright law, trademark law, rights of publicity, and international intellectual property. Professor Ochoa is the author of annual updates to the treatise, The Law of Copyright (West 2024 edition); a co-author of Copyright Law (Carolina Academic Press 12th ed. 2025), a widely-used casebook; a co-author of Under­standing Intellectual Property Law (Carolina Academic Press 2020), a student hornbook; and a co-author of Celebrity Rights: Rights of Publicity in the United States & Abroad (Carolina Academic Press 2d ed. forthcoming 2026). His article, Patent and Copyright Term Extension and the Constitu­tion: A Historical Perspective, 49 J. Copyr. Soc’y U.S.A. 19 (2001), was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ash­croft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003). He has written numerous articles on intellectual property law and has submitted five amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Clara, he was a Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California.
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    Ogden Glazer + Schaefer | Founder

    Erin R. Ogden is a trademark nerd who joins a beer geek, a skydiving nut, and a lederhosen aficionado to have adventures with their clients at the law firm of Ogden Glazer + Schaefer. They love helping with businesses' legal needs as they strategically grow.
  • Okuno Photo Okuno, Akihiko

    SK IP Law Firm | Managing Partner

  • Oliver, Scott

    Husch Blackwell | Partner

    After almost 30 years in practice, Scott is keenly aware of the legal and business issues involved in intellectual property litigation—and that, whether plaintiff or defendant, the costs to clients aren’t merely monetary. As such, he seeks to understand their motivations, concerns, and risk tolerance, always involving clients in the decision-making process, then designs and implements strategies based on their unique business objectives.
  • Oliver, Tom

    Powell Gilbert | Partner

    Tom is a partner at Powell Gilbert, one of Europe’s leading patent litigation law firms. He has a particular focus on high-stakes multi-jurisdictional patent disputes. With a master’s degree in chemistry and biochemistry, Tom has a particular expertise in the life science sector, but also regularly represents clients in disputes covering a wide range of industry sectors and technologies, including engineering, telecoms and electronics. Tom has extensive experience in devising multi-jurisdictional patent litigation strategies for clients and often takes the role of lead European counsel, with responsibility for coordinating multi-jurisdictional legal teams. He has coordinated global patent disputes in more than 30 jurisdictions.
  • KathleenO_Malley-square O'Malley, Kathleen

    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | Judge

    Judge Kathleen O’Malley has served on the bench for over 26 years, first as a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and then as a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In addition to her judicial service, Judge O’Malley worked in private practice and served as chief counsel and chief of staff in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.
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    Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | Partner

    Carl Oppedahl is a frequent speaker on the Patent Cooperation Treaty. He is the author of the Ant-Like Persistence blog.
  • Ortuzar, Santiago

    Alessandri | Partner

    Santiago specializes in intellectual and industrial property, contracts, defense of free competition, defense in cases of infringement of intellectual property, Internet, sanitary records, plant varieties and design of strategies for the global protection and licensing of innovations and patents.
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    Dinsmore | Partner

    Brian O'Shaughnessy, immediate past president of the Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada), Inc. (LES), is an internationally recognized authority in licensing and commercial transactions involving intellectual property rights.
  • Oster, Jeff

    Aardvark Therapeutics Inc | General Counsel

  • Osterbur, Stefan D.

    Van Hoven PC | Partner

    Stefan is co-chair of the 2025 AIPLA Patent Prosecution Boot Camp. Stefan is a partner with Van Hoven P.C., and routinely counsels clients on a wide variety of intellectual property matters, including domestic and foreign prosecution of utility and design patent applications, intellectual property portfolio management, infringement and clearance issues, and intellectual property transactions. Stefan's legal practice also focuses on preparing legal opinions concerning patent infringement and validity, trade secrets, and intellectual property litigation. He also has experience in federal court actions and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, such as Reexaminations and Post Grant Review.
  • Ostiller_Rick_Digital-263x263 Ostiller, Rick

    Ankura | Senior Managing Director

    Rick Ostiller is a Senior Managing Director and leads Ankura’s Northern California forensic accounting practice. Rick has provided accounting and financial consulting services to attorneys and corporate clients in numerous industries. He has testified in several venues, and has extensive experience with high profile investigative projects, damages calculations, lost profits analyses, and other cost analysis studies. He is a CPA in California.
  • The Honorable John B. Owens Honorable John B. Owens

    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Circuit Judge

    Judge Owens clerked for Judge J. Clifford Wallace on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The following year, he clerked for Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Supreme Court. After these distinguished clerkships, Judge Owens worked as trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Litigation (now Consumer Protection Branch) from 1998 to 1999, and as a litigation association at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Washington, D.C. from 2000 to 2001. In 2001, Judge Owens became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California. He transferred to the Southern District of California in 2004. In 2008, he was named Deputy Chief of Major Frauds in that district, and he was elevated to Chief of the Criminal Division in 2010. In 2012, Judge Owens joined the firm of Munger, Tolles, & Olson as a partner.
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    PETOŠEVIĆ | Associate

    Mayya mainly handles trademark enforcement and contentious matters. She coordinates investigations, advises clients on trademark protection and enforcement strategies and represents them before the courts and police and customs authorities.
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    University of Texas at Austin | Program Director, Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions

    DAVID J. PALMER is the program director for intellectual property and technology transactions at the Office of Technology Commercialization, or OTC, at the University of Texas at Austin
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    Mayer Brown | Attorney

    Erick Palmer is a litigator and registered patent attorney in Mayer Brown's Intellectual Property practice. Focusing on patent disputes in federal courts and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), he has worked with industry-leading clients in numerous fields, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical diagnostics and devices, nutraceuticals, and food science, to solve their IP needs.
  • Pampinella_James_Digital-200x200 Pampinella, Jim

    Ankura | Senior Managing Director

    James E. Pampinella is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, based in San Francisco.
  • Papa, Elisabetta

    Societa' Italiana Brevetti S.P.A. | Partner, BoA Member, Head of Patents

    Elisabetta teaches European Patent practice and strategies in courses leading up to European Patent Attorney qualification exams organised by the Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle (R. Schuman University, Strasbourg). She is a former member of the EPO’s EC-III examination committee in charge of marking D papers during the qualifying examination for European Patent Attorneys (EQE).
  • Pappas, Peter-Anthony

    USPTO | Special Advisor

    Peter-Anthony Pappas is the Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
  • Parekh, Aakash

    SparkCognition, Inc. | General Counsel and Secretary

    Aakash Parekh is General Counsel and Secretary of SparkCognition, Inc., an industrial artificial intelligence company based in Austin, TX. In this role, he oversees global legal affairs for SparkCognition and its subsidiary companies, including commercial legal operations, corporate governance, legal compliance, IP strategy, M&A, litigation, corporate financing, public company readiness initiatives, and more. Prior to joining SparkCognition, he spent over a decade in private legal practice authoring, diligencing, licensing, and litigating IP portfolios for a wide array of clients ranging from Fortune 50 conglomerates to early-stage startups.