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  • Reed, Matthew

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Partner

    Matt Reed is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on technology-driven international and domestic arbitration, as well as intellectual property litigation. Drawing on a background in chemical engineering, he has successfully litigated cases across a wide range of industries, including generic pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and semiconductor processing and packaging. Matt is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and a founding member of California Arbitration (CalArb.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing international arbitration in California through education, outreach, and program development.
  • Reilly, Greg

    Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent College of Law | Professor of Law

    Professor Reilly is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent College of Law, where his research and teaching focus on the intersection of patent law and federal courts, with particular emphasis on how institutions and decision makers resolve patent disputes. He graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Timothy B. Dyk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit before spending five years litigating patent cases at Morrison & Foerster LLP. His scholarship has been published in the Boston University, Southern California, Washington University, and Notre Dame law reviews, among others.
  • Reilly, Jay

    Foley Hoag | Partner

    Jay Reilly is a seasoned transactional and corporate advisor with deep experience serving clients across the life sciences and high-tech industries. He represents biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic, and digital health companies—as well as universities and nonprofits—in complex strategic transactions, licensing and collaboration agreements, venture financing and mergers and acquisitions. His work spans both domestic and international markets.
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    Marketing and Sales Resources, Inc. | Executive Recruiter

    Ilene Rein is a Partner and an Executive Recruiter at Marketing & Sales Resources, Inc. After hearing many stories of difficulties in finding employment, Ilene developed the program Pounding Pavement 101 sharing the inside secrets from the view of the Recruiter on how to get hired rapidly! Job seekers in taking Ilene's advice and learning recruiting inside secrets, calls from companies started coming in, interviews scheduled and they became employed!
  • Reinhardt, Hilary

    Johnson & Johnson | Assistant General Counsel, Patents

    Hilary is the Assistant General Counsel, Patents at Johnson & Johnson. Hilary joined J&J in 2016, supporting the Ethicon business in connection with various intellectual property matters. Throughout her career with J&J, Hilary has supported a number of groups in addition to Ethicon including Depuy, and other businesses with regard to digital and data matters. Prior to joining J&J, Hilary was a partner at the law firm, Condo Roccia Koptiw LLP.
  • Reinhart, Torie

    CGG | Global IP Legal Counsel

    Torie Reinhart is a US Patent Attorney and a Texas lawyer with over 20 years of experience in all aspects of IP law and engineering. She started her career as a process engineer at a leading industrial gas and engineering company before shifting to her legal practice in patent preparation and prosecution in oil and gas. Torie also has extensive experience in IP litigation, including pre-litigation analysis, due diligence investigations, opinion preparation, and patent portfolio management. As Global IP Counsel for CGG, a leading data and technology corporation, she enjoys guiding IP strategy and using her expertise in IP to build creative ways to help her organization reach business goals through strategic licensing and partnerships.
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    WIPO | Deputy Director, PCT Legal Division

    Matthias Reischle, a national of Germany, is Deputy Director of the PCT Legal Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Matthias holds a degree from the University of Constance, Germany (1993), and a LL.M in European Legal Studies from the College of Europe, Belgium (1994). After qualifying to practice law in Germany in 1996, he worked as a legal adviser for the International Labour Organization in Geneva.
  • Reyna, Jimmie Reyna, Jimmie V.

    US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | Judge

    The Honorable Jimmie Reyna was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in 2011. Prior to his appointment, Judge Reyna was an international trade attorney and shareholder at Williams Mullen, where he directed the firm’s Trade and Customs Practice Group (1998-2011), led its Latin America Task Force (2006-08), and served on its board of directors (2009-11).
  • Rhodes, Kevin

    3M | Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Affairs Officer and Secretary

    Kevin Rhodes is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Affairs Officer and Secretary, overseeing legal, compliance, government affairs and global security matters for 3M. He leads a global Legal Affairs team that helps guide business opportunities, address enterprise risks, protect intellectual property, shape policy, and strengthen compliance and security. Rhodes has spent more than 20 years with 3M, most recently as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, including leading ongoing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic to combat fraud, counterfeiting, and price gouging of N95 respirators. He previously led the company’s litigation function, and served for more than ten years as chief intellectual property counsel.
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    Wilk Auslander, LLP | Attorney

    As a business litigator with more than 30 years of experience, Stuart brings to his clients a practical sense of how to achieve the client’s business goals in the most businesslike way — without litigation if possible, but by winning when litigation is necessary. Stuart is known for his careful preparation, well-considered strategic sense, clear presentation style, and consistent record of producing results.
  • Richards, Alison

    Global IP Law Group, LLC | Attorney

    Alison has been helping inventors protect investments in their inventions for over 20 years. She holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and has extensive courtroom and trial experience. She is a member of the Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar and has litigated cases in the Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of Texas, the District of Delaware, the Northern District of Illinois, and the Southern, Central and Northern Districts of California. She has successfully argued before the Federal Circuit. She has also successfully represented patent owners in multiple IPR proceedings and has won in PTAB IPR trials.
  • Richards, Marc

    Crowell & Moring LLP | Partner

    Marc Richards is a partner with Crowell & Moring LLP – With more than 25 years of experience in IP law, Marc Richards has helped secure and defend the innovations for the world’s largest high performing companies and for the newest high tech start-ups. His current practice focuses on assisting clients in developing and managing patent portfolios in emerging technologies such as, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, block chain technology, and cloud computing. As a seasoned patent attorney, his experience in litigation, patent office inter partes proceedings and patent prosecution translates into confident navigation of complex intellectual property matters.
  • Richmond, Douglas

    Lockton Companies | Senior Vice President

    Doug Richmond is a Senior Vice President with the Lockton Companies, where he advises Lockton’s law firm clients on professional responsibility and liability issues. He joined Lockton after retiring as a Managing Director of Aon’s Professional Services Practice, where he led Aon’s loss prevention services across all professions. Before joining Aon, Doug was a partner with Armstrong Teasdale LLP in Kansas City, Missouri (1989–2004), where he had a broad civil trial and appellate practice. He is a former member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability (2020–2023) and the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (2016–2019). Doug earned his J.D. from the University of Kansas..
  • Richter, Miriam

    Harvey Milk Foundation | General Counsel

    Ms. Richter is a graduate of The University of Miami School of Law, cum laude, where she was Associate Editor of the Inter-American Law Review. Her experience includes an internship at the United States Patent and Trademark Office during law school, under the tutelage of the current TTAB Acting Chief Judge, Thomas Shaw. Ms. Richter is also General Counsel to the Harvey Milk Foundation where, among other matters, she handles the global protection and publicity rights of the slain gay rights activist on behalf of the Milk family and the Foundation. She also has extensive experience protecting brands in the highly competitive gaming industry.
  • Ricketts, Allison Strickland

    Fross Zenick | Partner

    Allison Strickland Ricketts specializes in all aspects of trademark selection, registration, and maintenance. She has evaluated thousands of trademark clearance searches, prosecuted thousands of U.S. trademark applications, and maintained hundreds of trademark registrations in compliance with strict U.S. standards for use in commerce. She has deep experience in transactions, due diligence, agreements, and licenses involving trademark rights. Allison received her JD from Columbia Law School and has practiced Trademark law for more than 25 years. She is a frequent speaker on the practice of trademark law.
  • Rios, Roberto

    ASIPI | Patent Agent

    A registered Patent Agent with the USPTO and has over 23 years of experience in the area of patents, including been a former Patent Examiner for the USPTO. He collaborates as an expert consultant through seminars and training workshops for professionals in Latin America with the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO), and the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI), among others. He is the director of the patent area and coordinator of international services for Puerto Rico and the United States at the law firm Hoglund & Pamias, PSC and is the current President of the Patent Committee at ASIPI.
  • Rishi, Ashwat

    Baker Botts | Special Counsel

    Ashwat Rishi is a special counsel in the Intellectual Property section of the New York office of Baker Botts. His practice encompasses global patent portfolio strategy, IP counselling, patent litigation, and IP transactions and licensing. His diverse technical experience spans medical devices, mechanical and electro-mechanical products, digital health, data management, data communication and integration, optics, and artificial intelligence.
  • Ritchie, Lorelei

    University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law | Grosscurth Chair in Intellectual Property and Professor of Law

    Professor Ritchie joined the faculty at the University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law as the Grosscurth Chair in Intellectual Property and Professor of Law in 2024. She is an expert in intellectual property and commercial law. Professor Ritchie has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a juris doctor from Columbia University School of Law. She has taught at law schools around the country including, most recently, the University of Florida. She also previously served as a judge at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board).
  • Ritscher, Michael

    MLL Legal AG | Founding Member

    Michael Ritscher studied at the University of Zurich and received his PhD, then passed the bar exam, completed an LL.M. at Georgetown University and, after research stays at Stanford University and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, founded the intellectual property team of the Swiss law firm MLL Legal AG, which he has headed ever since.  As a former lecturer at the ETH Zurich and at the University of Lucerne and as acting president of the INGRES Swiss Institute for the Protection of Intellectual Property, Michael Ritscher has, in addition to his work as an attorney and arbitrator in national and international disputes and as special judge at the Zurich Court of Commerce, also dealt scientifically with trademark law and all other areas of intellectual property law.
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    Becton, Dickinson and Company | Chief Counsel, Intellectual Property

    Scott Rittman is the Chief Counsel – Intellectual Property at Becton, Dickinson and Company, leading all worldwide IP activities for BD. BD is a global medical technology company headquartered in New Jersey, with more than 70,000 associates serving over 190 countries. Scott began his career with Finnegan, Henderson in Washington D.C. and then moved in-house with Lucent Technologies and then its spin-off Agere Systems, before joining BD. Scott received his Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, as well as his law degree.