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  • Bezak, Christopher

    Continental Automotive Systems | Corporate Counsel

    Christopher Bezak is in-house corporate counsel for Continental Automotive Systems, Inc. in Auburn Hills, Michigan. His work at Continental encompasses all aspects of contracts and patents, including preparation and prosecution, litigation, licensing, and due diligence, with specialization in the areas of software, communications, and artificial intelligence. He is an active, long-standing member of the AIPLA IP Practice in Japan Committee, and is a former partner at the law firm of Sughrue Mion in Washington D.C.
  • Bezos, Salvador M.

    Sterne Kessler | Director

    Salvador M. Bezos is a director in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group. Sal helps clients develop enforceable patent portfolios in a wide range of technical areas, including user interfaces, financial software products, cloud computing, parallel and distributed computer architectures, computer graphics, networking, automotive technology, databases, and computer architectures.
  • Biek, Michael

    DecisionQuest | Director, Northeast Division

    Dr. Michael Biek has over 28 years of experience as a trial consultant, and he has advised clients in over 800 cases. His work includes pre-trial studies, which help attorneys develop case themes, and statistical studies in support of venue motions and jury selections. Dr. Biek is an adept courtroom strategist, and he often advises clients throughout trial in order to help them with their arguments before triers of fact.
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    Brinkhof | Partner

    KOEN BIJVANK is a partner at Brinkhof in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Mr. Bijvank is qualified both as an attorney at law (‘advocaat’) and as a Dutch and European patent attorney. He specializes in international patent litigation and oppositions before the European Patent Office. His practice mainly involves patents in the life sciences and pharmaceuticals.
  • Billick, Tim

    TBillick Law | Founder

    Tim is the founder of TBillick Law. After law school, Tim had the privilege of working with very talented attorneys in Seattle. He honed his skills by counseling businesses and individuals on how to resolve their disputes and protect their ideas. He is grateful for that experience and learned over the years that even modest-sized law firms can also make a huge impact on a client’s case.
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    Companyname | Senior Talent Acquisition

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    High Court of England and Wales | Judge of the Patents Court

    Sir Colin Birss is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was called to the English Bar in 1990 and practiced in intellectual property law. He was appointed Standing Counsel for the Comptroller 2003-2008 and took silk in 2008. In 2010 he left the Bar to become the new judge of the Patents County Court and Chairman of the UK Copyright Tribunal. His appointment to the Patents County Court (now Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC)) coincided with the introduction of major procedural reforms. In 2013 Colin Birss was appointed to the High Court. He sits in the Chancery Division and is one of the judges nominated to sit in the Patents Court. He is also General Editor of Terrell on the Law of Patents.
  • Judge Cathy Bissoon Cathy Bissoon

    US District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania | District Judge

    Judge Cathy Bissoon was appointed by President Barack Obama as a United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania on October 20, 2011, having previously served on the Court as a magistrate judge from 2008.
  • Blaszkowsky, David Blaszkowsky, David

    Helios Data | Head of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs

    David Blaszkowsky heads strategy and regulatory affairs for Helios Data, Inc.. Helios Data is a Palo Alto-based personal data privacy-enhanced computing and compliance technology company focused on secure data sharing and the elimination of usage risk for personal and proprietary data (e.g., for analytics, commercialization, digitalization). The Helios Data platform is a digital-contract governed secure computing enclave that can be set up instantly between any sharing parties, and which provides Privacy-by Design controls that enable data insights to be extracted with no risk that underlying data (or the algorithm applied to it) can ever be viewed, used, or abused by either counterparty or 3rd parties. What legal contracts or policies document, the Helios Data platform can monitor, measure, and enforce.
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    Valo Health | Executive Director of Regulatory Policy and Counsel

    Esther W.B. Bleicher is the lead legal business partner supporting Valo's research and development programs, including Valo's use of real-world data, to combine human and machine intelligence to accelerate drug development. She is a Digital Ethics Board Member at Syntropy (Merck/Palantir) and Co-Chair of the Federal Engagement and Regulatory Affairs Committee at the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. Ms. Bleicher’s prior experience includes serving as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Center Director in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and as Deputy Chief of Staff for the FDA Commissioner.
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    Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel | Partner

    Travis’s practice is largely focused on obtaining, licensing, monetizing, and enforcing IP protections for inventions relating to biology and life sciences, including a large focus on all types of IP protection for novel plant varieties and related inventions in the agriculture, horticulture, and cannabis/hemp industries.
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    USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board | Chief Administrative Patent Judge

    Scott R. Boalick is the Chief Judge for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). In this role, he leads the PTAB as it conducts post-grant trials, including inter partes reviews, post-grant reviews, covered business method patent reviews and derivation proceedings, and as it hears appeals from adverse examiner decisions in patent applications and reexamination proceedings.
  • Bob Bahr

    USPTO

  • Boclin, Ricardo square200 Boclin, Ricardo
    Ricardo Boclin is a seasoned professional working with Intellectual Property for more than 20 years, mainly on the consultancy related to patent and industrial design prosecution. He is a mechanical engineer and attorney at law and recently assumed the role as Technical and Legal Director at Clarke Modet Brazil.
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    D Young & Co | Partner

    Jana is a German lawyer based in the D Young & Co office in Munich and a former examiner at the European Trade Mark and Designs Office (EUIPO).
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    Greenfield LLC | Partner

    Dave is Of Counsel, Greenfield LLP, a Silicon Valley business litigation firm. He is a trial lawyer with over 25 years’ experience handling patent infringement, trade secret and numerous other technology-focused litigations. Before coming to Greenfield, Dave was an equity partner in the IP litigation departments at several AmLaw 100 firms. He has successfully tried numerous patent litigations to favorable jury verdict. Dave also is a frequent speaker on trade secrets, including a recent Webinar sponsored by the NYC Bar Association titled New York and California Trade Secrets Litigations: Differences and Best Practices.
  • Bond, Annette

    Definitive Style | Personal Style Expert

    The CEO and founder of Definitive Style, Annette Bond shows successful women how to use their wardrobe to express their style, confidence, and influence from the inside out. She combines her 30 years of style and image expertise as a certified Image Consultant and More Alive With Color Expert. Her work is very specialized and sought-after, as she is ONE of only 50 women in the U.S. certified in the niche: Fashion Feng Shui.
  • Bongiovanni, Simone

    Council of the National Order of Industrial Property Consultants | Vice President

    Mr. Giovanni joined Studio Torta in 1989 and became a partner in 1995. Since 2011 he has been the Managing Director of the firm. He is a qualified European and Italian Patent, Design and Trademark Attorney. He is a member of various associations, including LES, AIPPI, FICPI, JIPA, IJBG and CCIGI. He is a member of the Council of the National Order of Industrial Property Consultants and a court expert in the Industrial Property Section of the Court of Turin. 
  • Bonilla, Jacqueline Wright

    USPTO PTAB | Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge

    Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge Jackie Bonilla is serving as the Senior Legal Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As the Senior Legal Advisor, she counsels the Director of the USPTO on a wide range of patent-related legal and policy issues, including those relevant to America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB); the process for Director review of PTAB decisions; litigation before the Federal Circuit and Supreme Court; and PTAB and patent-related precedent, Director guidance, and rulemaking.
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    McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP | Partner

    Michael S. Borella is a partner with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP and serves as Chair of the firm’s Software & Business Methods Practice Group. Dr. Borella provides legal and technological advice in support of validity, infringement, patentability analyses, and litigation matters. His expertise includes networking, Internet telephony, wireless communication technologies, telecommunications, financial transactions, cloud computing, routing, TCP/IP, artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer graphics and imaging, voice and facial recognition, robotics, and mobile applications.