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  • Peters, Grant

    Barnes & Thornburg LLP | Partner

    Grant Peters is a partner in the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP and a registered U.S. Patent Attorney. Grant’s practice focuses on intellectual property strategies including rights planning, creation, management, problem solving, and enforcement. Grant is the go-to resource for patent marking issues and frequently talks on and writes about the topic. Grant also consults with clients on developing and maintaining patent marking programs. Grant has filed, prosecuted, and secured thousands of patents and trademarks domestically and internationally, and uses that experience to counsel clients on IP strategies, risk management, and portfolio design, coordination, and management.
  • Petkovsek, Steven J

    Fish & Richardson P.C. | Principal

    Steven J. Petkovsek focuses his practice on prosecuting patents across many different industries, primarily for computer-related technologies. His clients include small start-ups, large companies, and academic institutions. Steve has prosecuted hundreds of U.S. and foreign patent applications for semiconductors, medical devices, telehealth, machine-learning solutions, digital signal processing, e-commerce, big data and data processing, distributed computing, mechanical devices, telecommunications (4G and 5G), robotics, oil and gas exploration, and autonomous vehicles, among other areas. He has performed validity assessments and generated opinions regarding infringement risks, freedom to operate, pre-suit analysis, and standard essential patents.
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    PETOŠEVIĆ Group | Chairman and CEO

    Slobodan Petošević is PETOŠEVIĆ Group founder, Chairman and CEO. He has been leading the firm with great success for over 25 years, providing guidance and direction to the senior management team and devising strategies to improve client service.
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    IBM Corporation | Counsel, IP Law

    Joe Petrokaitis is currently Counsel, IP Law, at IBM Corporation supporting the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Joe previously supported IBM's blockchain transactional and patent filing activities. Joe received a B.S.E.E. from the University of Connecticut and a J.D. from Pace University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut, and is registered to practice before the USPTO.
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    USG Corporation | Chief Intellectual Property Counsel

    Phil Petti is the Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for the USG Corporation, a member of the Knauf Group, an international leader in residential and commercial building systems. Based at USG's headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, Phil is responsible for USG’s worldwide intellectual property portfolio, licensing, IP litigation, and trade secret protection. This includes protection of USG’s well known SHEETROCK,® DUROCK® and other leading building products and technologies.
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    Polsinelli | Shareholder

    Emily Peyser partners with clients to offer strategic and comprehensive intellectual property strategies to help procure and protect their patent and trademark portfolios.
  • Phelan, Ryan N.

    Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP | Partner

    Ryan N. Phelan is a registered U.S. patent attorney who counsels and works with clients in all areas of intellectual property (IP), with a focus on patents. As a former technology consultant with Accenture and with a background in computer science and engineering, Ryan has extensive experience in computer system, hardware, and software design, engineering, development and related technologies. He represents numerous startup and Fortune 500 clients with patent matters in technical areas and industries including artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous vehicles, robotics, among others.
  • Philmore H. Colburn II

    Cantor Colburn LLP | Co-Managing Partner

  • Pierard, Jill

    MaxCyte | Associate General Counsel - Corporate Affairs

    Jill has more than 20 years’ experience advising clients on intellectual property and corporate law issues, including almost ten years as a trial attorney and more ten years advising corporations in-house. She was previously spent nine years in a dual role at an international multibillion dollar life sciences company leading the corporate legal needs for a $1B business unit and as Global Head of Intellectual Property, leading a team of 7 attorneys. She also spent 2 years as an Associate General Counsel at a pharmaceutical/ medical device company, advising on IP matters. She currently advises MaxCyte on a variety of IP and corporate issues.
  • Pierter, Kasey Boucher

    Pierce Atwood | Associate

    Kasey Boucher Pierter focuses her practice on intellectual property, advertising and unfair competition laws, and technology transactions. Kasey’s work spans an array of industries, including sporting goods, footwear and apparel, cosmetics, food and beverage, automotive, technology, and software. She also works with clients of all sizes, ranging from startups and emerging companies to large organizations.
  • Pinsonneault, Greg Pinsonneault, Gregory

    LitNomics | Managing Director/CEO

    For more than 18 years, Gregory Pinsonneault has delivered consulting services and expert testimony in commercial litigation matters concerning economic, financial, and business issues, primarily focused on the calculation of economic damages. He has consulted in a variety of complex litigation matters, with a focus on all types of intellectual property disputes. Mr. Pinsonneault has consulted on more than 200 different matters, and has been designated as an expert witness or non-litigation project lead in more than 90 matters.
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    Conley Rose, P.C. | President

    Michael Piper is President of Conley Rose, a Texas IP boutique of around 40 timekeepers. We serve as patent and trademark counsel to some of the largest companies in the world and to a host of smaller companies who rely on the firm to be their IP counsel. Michael's practice includes a significant amount of work representing a wide range of companies from small to midsize up to Fortune 100 entities as well as foreign companies as their local patent counsel in the PTO and in their interactions with allies and competitors.
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    Pirkey Barber

    Lou Pirkey is a founding member of trademark specialty firm Pirkey Barber. He has specialized in trademark law, primarily trademark infringement litigation and counseling, for well over 40 years, and is one of America’s most highly recognized authorities in the field.
  • Pittaluga, Martin

    Pittaluga Law | Partner

    Martín is a partner in the Firm. He advises and represents several multinational corporations in intellectual property matters in Uruguay, in particular in the field of trademark litigation and on a wide range of contracts and business deals. He has served as President of the Uruguayan Association of Industrial Property Agents (AUDAPI) and currently chairs the “ASIPI Futuro” Commission of the Inter-American Intellectual Property Association (ASIPI) and coordinates that Association’s Pro Bono Commission. He is also Chair of the Latin America and Caribbean Subcommittee of the Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA).
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    Pizarro Allen, PC | Shareholder, Registered Patent Attorney

    Derrick A. Pizarro focuses his law practice on intellectual property and technology issues. For nearly two decades, he has assisted clients in buying, selling, developing and licensing software, hardware and related services.
  • Plassio, Patrick

    O'Melvany | Counsel

    With a practice including complex commercial disputes of all sorts and a focus on intellectual property and technology-related matters, Patrick Plassio adeptly translates and communicates complicated legal and factual issues to his clients, opposing parties, and courts. Offering key strategic insights and experience in trade secrets, and recognized by The Legal 500 US for his work on those matters, Patrick litigates in state and federal courts across the country, with extensive pretrial and trial experience and successes.
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    Eckert Seamans | Member

    Debora Plehn-Dujowich has extensive experience as a patent attorney focusing on life sciences technologies. Debora's experience includes: conducting patent preparation and prosecution; conducting due diligence; drafting licensing agreements; and preparing patentability opinions, landscape opinions and freedom to operate opinions. Debora has also conducted reexamination and interference proceedings.
  • Plotkin, Mark

    HCA | Senior Technology Counsel

  • Podolsky, Gail

    Carlton Fields | Shareholder

    Gail Podolsky chairs the Technology Industry Group and represents clients at all stages of their growth.
  • Pokalsky, Ann

    Polkalsky Wilczynski Brozek, LLP | Co-Founding Partner

    Ann Pokalsky has been a patent practitioner for more than 25 years. She specializes in the chemical and biological arts, and is co-founding partner of the intellectual property law firm Pokalsky Wilczynski Brozek, LLP, based in Huntington, New York. Ms. Pokalsky focuses her practice in large part on foreign and domestic patent procurement, including reissue applications, reexamination proceedings and appeals. She has obtained numerous patents for clients in the chemical, agricultural and pharmaceutical industries, as well as for universities.