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  • Seling, Tyler

    Moore & Van Allen PLLC | Attorney

    Tyler M. Seling is an attorney with Moore & Van Allen PLLC specializing in trademark and copyright law. As a former Trademark Examining Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Tyler utilizes his firsthand knowledge and expertise on the inner workings of the Trademark Office to guide his clients through complex prosecutorial, enforcement, and transactional matters. Tyler represents individuals and start-ups, small and midsize businesses, and large multinational corporations across a variety of industries, including music and video entertainment; beer and alcohol; food products and services; computer software and hardware; computer and video gaming; outdoor furniture; hardware and security products; HVAC and refrigeration; pharmaceutical, biotechnical, medical and healthcare; clothing and apparel; banking and finance; print and broadcast media, including social media content; and racing entertainment.
  • Selinger, Elise

    Caterpillar, Inc. | Corporate Counsel

    From her decade of experience as a materials engineer to her law practice today, Elise has always been driven by analyzing and improving technologies, and, in her current role, provides broad spectrum IP support. Elise’s professional experience ranges from working for large corporations to working with tech startups and smaller brand owners. She has crafted patents and negotiated agreements to protect innovation across industries including: medical devices, industrial equipment, telecommunications/software, and consumer electronics.
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    Dentons US | Counsel

    Debodhonyaa Sengupta is Counsel at Dentons US. Debodhonyaa has a doctoral degree in chemistry, and advises clients across the globe on matters related to the preparation and prosecution of domestic and international patent applications, patent infringement and validity opinions, due diligence analyses, and freedom-to-operate analyses in the chemical, pharmaceutical and nanotechnology arts.
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    US Conec Ltd. | IP Manager

    Shubhrangshu (Rushi) Sengupta is an in-house Patent Agent at US Conec Ltd. In Hickory, NC. Rushi manages various aspects of the IP Portfolio for US Conec. Prior to joining US Conec, he worked as a Technical Specialist and a Patent Agent at several big and small law firms. Rushi’s technical background is in Electronics and Optical Communications. He is also current Vice-Chair of AIPLA’s Patent Agents Committee.
  • Seth, Neal

    Wiley Rein | Partner

    Neal Seth: Neal is a partner in Wiley's Intellectual Property Group, where he leads the Patent Litigation Practice. He is a past member of the firm’s Management Committee and formerly served as co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Neal has extensive experience as lead counsel litigating pharmaceutical patent matters, including Hatch-Waxman/ANDA litigation and inter partes reviews.
  • Lata Setty

    UnitedLex | Chief Intellectual Property Officer

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    Covington & Burling LLP | Attorney

    Neelofer Shaikh is an attorney in Covington & Burling LLP’s Los Angeles office and a member of the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group. She advises clients on a wide range of privacy, cybersecurity, and consumer protection issues, including privacy and cybersecurity obligations under U.S. federal and state laws, cybersecurity preparedness and incident response, and defending against regulatory inquiries and class-action litigation.
  • Shannon, Andrea

    Norton Rose Fulbright | Senior Associate

    Andrea is a member of the Intellectual Property Brands group. She focuses her practice on trademark and copyright law and manages multiple intellectual property portfolios for clients across various industries. Andrea advises clients on brand selection and clearance efforts and has extensive experience prosecuting applications before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the US Copyright Office. She also handles a broad range of intellectual property-focused transactional matters, including the negotiation of licenses, co-branding agreements, assignments and acquisitions, as well as diligence reviews and troubleshooting intellectual property issues in connection with corporate mergers and acquisitions.
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    Google | Patent Counsel

    Stephen Shaw is a Patent Counsel at Google, previously having been the Director of Intellectual Property at Fitbit, where he led Fitbit’s global intellectual property strategy, patent portfolio planning and development, open-source, IP licensing, due diligence, and contractual issues. Prior to joining Fitbit/Google, Stephen was a senior associate at Hogan Lovells. He also served previously as a patent attorney for Adobe, an Open Source Patent Counsel for Qualcomm, and Head IP Counsel for Gracenote.
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    CommScope | Lead Counsel

    Jim Shead is the Lead Counsel at CommScope where he is responsible for providing legal support directly to the General Counsel and to all departments, primarily in the area of litigation support and management.
  • Sheckler, Victoria

    RIAA | Deputy General Counsel

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    McDermott Will & Emery | Partner

    Michael J. Sheehan concentrates his practice on employment litigation with a focus on prosecuting and defending unfair competition litigation involving large scale raiding, inevitable disclosure of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty and non-compete agreements.
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    University of Nebraska College of Law | Law Professor

    Dr. Christal Sheppard has over 3 decades of science, intellectual property law and policy experience covering a large proportion of the IP ecosystem. Her experience includes serving as chief counsel of patent and trademarks in the United States House of Representatives, as the first Director of the first USPTO Regional Office, as a member of the Administration's Public Patent Advisory Committee, and in the International Trade Commission’s General Counsel’s Office. Currently she is Lecturer at University of Nebraska College of Law, and has served as a Distinguished Fellow at the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center.
  • Sherman, Audrey

    3M | Division Scientist

    Ms. Sherman has over 30 years of experience with all aspects of R&D Laboratory Operations, organic synthesis, and addition/condensation polymerizations. Her experience covers the synthesis and characterization, to large scale manufacturing polymerization processes including Reactive extrusion/coating/Solventless extrusion processing and release liner technologies. She holds over 160+ US Patents and is the first and only woman at 3M to hold 100 patents.
  • Shier, Vincent K.

    Haynes Boone | Partner

    Vincent K. Shier, Ph.D. is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Washington, D.C. office. Vince holds a doctorate degree in biological chemistry and has practiced IP law for more than two decades, preparing and prosecuting patent applications, counseling clients in strategic IP considerations, IP due diligence, and representing clients in post-grant proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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    United States Patent & Trademark Office – Texas Regional Office | Regional Director

    As the Regional Director of the Texas Regional United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Hope Shimabuku carries out the strategic direction of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and is responsible for leading the Texas regional office. Focusing on the region and actively engaging with the community, Ms. Shimabuku ensures the USPTO’s initiatives and programs are tailored to the region’s unique ecosystem of industries and stakeholders.
  • Sholder, Scott

    Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP | Partner

    Scott Sholder is a partner with Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP in New York and co-chairs the firm’s litigation group. His practice focuses on litigation, counseling, and dispute resolution in connection with entertainment, media, and intellectual property matters. Scott represents and advises clients ranging from individuals and small business to major corporations and A-list talent across various industries (including music, publishing, visual and fine arts, film, and television) in copyright, trademark, right-of-publicity, unfair competition, and commercial and business disputes, as well as defamation defense. He is a frequent writer and speaker on topics landing at the intersection of new technology and IP law, particularly the impact of generative AI on copyright law, and has experience litigating cases on the cutting edge of copyright law, including several of the pending generative AI copyright infringement class action lawsuits.
  • Shukla, Darcy

    Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A | Principal

    Darcy is a registered patent attorney focusing on patent prosecution in the electronics, software, computer architecture, and wireless communication arts.
  • Siders, Benjamin J.

    Lewis Rice, LLC | Member

    Ben serves as Practice Group Leader for the Intellectual Property practice group at Lewis Rice in St. Louis, Missouri. Ben enjoys a diverse intellectual property practice that includes patent and trademark prosecution, technology licensing and compliance, and copyright licensing and enforcement. Ben is an avid gamer and former C software engineer, and he now enjoys a niche practice working with video game and board game companies, and he holds a patent on "parallel reality" games (No. 9,078,103). Within AIPLA, he is the current Chair of the Copyright Law Committee and the copyright liaison to the AI Task Force, and he was the lead author on AIPLA’s amicus brief in Warner Chappell v. Nealy. He also co-hosts a podcast called A Lawyer’s Guide to the Galaxy, which explores the intersection of geek culture and the law (but is mostly an excuse to talk about Star Wars).
  • Siegal, Kyle N.

    Skysong Innovations | Senior VP of Life Sciences and Chief Patent Counsel

    Kyle joined Skysong Innovations in January 2017 and serves as Senior VP and Chief Patent Counsel.