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  • 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.
  • Oppedahl, Carl 200 Oppedahl, Carl

    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.
  • oShaughnessy, B square200 O'Shaughnessy, Brian

    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.
  • Pak, Mayya200 Pak, Mayya

    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.
  • Palmer, David square200 Palmer, David

    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
  • Palmer, Erick 200 Palmer, Erick J.

    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.
  • Parker Dupree, Lynn

    Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP | Partner

    Lynn Parker Dupree, leader of Finnegan’s privacy practice, focuses on privacy compliance, governance, and counseling for clients navigating the dynamic legal and regulatory privacy landscape. Her years of privacy experience in government and the private sector provide her with the sharp ability to provide actionable privacy advice and guidance, and a keen understanding of the ways technology can be used to protect individual privacy. Prior to joining the firm, she served as chief privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In that role, Lynn was responsible for advising the secretary of homeland security on matters involving privacy for the department and ensuring the department complied with privacy laws, regulations, and federal guidance.
  • Parker, Usha

    PKH IP | Counsel

    Usha Parker focuses her practice on all aspects of patent prosecution related to electrical and mechanical technologies. Usha helps clients protect their intellectual property from the application drafting stage to prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and, when needed, through appeal before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). With over a decade of experience working as an engineer at Motorola and at a Navy lab in a variety of areas, Usha effectively and efficiently understands complex inventions. She also prioritizes learning each client’s business goals to develop a strategic approach to protecting their IP. Usha particularly enjoys working with inventors to draft new applications and guide them throughout the patenting process. Usha’s areas of technical experience include wireless communication, electronic circuits and interconnects, automotive sensor and processing systems, consumer and medical devices, semiconductors and integrated circuit design, machine learning, and software.
  • Parker, Warrington

    Crowell | Partner

    Warrington Parker, the managing partner of Crowell & Moring’s San Francisco office, is an experienced first-chair trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor. He has successfully tried over 20cases encompassing a diverse range of civil and criminal matters, such as securities fraud, money laundering, employment discrimination, wrongful termination, copyright, trade secret, violation of California bond measures statutes, product liability, product defect, and breach of contract. Warrington is also a member of the firm’s Litigation, White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement, and Investigations groups.
  • Mark_Partridge Partridge, Mark V.B.

    Partridge Partners | Founder

    Mark Partridge has successfully represented domestic and international corporations at trial and appellate proceedings.
  • Patel Headshot200 Patel, Monica

    IBM | Managing Attorney, Global Executive

    Monica Patel is a Managing Attorney and Global Executive at IBM out of its San Francisco, California office. Monica is responsible for IBM’s global talent management, and serves as both the Watson Media managing attorney and the AI Applications lead attorney for IBM. Monica has more than 19 years of experience as an attorney, 13 of which have been with IBM where she has held increasing responsibilities over the years.