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  • 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.
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    Orrick | Partner

    Andrew Silverman is an appellate lawyer focusing on high-stakes, precedent-setting cases nationwide. A distinguishing feature of Andrew’s practice is that clients routinely call on him in the trial court to win the case long before the appeal.
  • Silverman, Eric E.

    Genentech, Inc. | Senior IP Attorney

    Eric E. Silverman, PhD has over twenty years of intellectual property experience spanning a wide range of industries and technologies. Eric started his IP career as a patent examiner at the USPTO, where he became a primary examiner of patent applications in technologies including pharmaceutical formulations, drug delivery, medical devices, implants, and cosmetics. He then spent several years in large international law firms where his practice included IP litigation, prosecution, and due diligence in technologies such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, solar power, petrochemicals, oil and gas, and ceramics.
  • Silverman, Eric E.

    BioMarin Pharmaceutical | Director, Chemistry Intellectual Property Counsel

    Eric E. Silverman, PhD has nearly twenty years of experience in intellectual property. His expertise spans a wide array of intellectual property matters, including patent preparation, prosecution and strategy, trade secret protection, counseling, licensing, and diligence. Eric has counseled clients in a wide array of technologies including pharmaceuticals, industrial chemistry, adhesives, oil and gas, biological testing, food science, and consumer products. Eric is currently a Director, Intellectual Property Counsel at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc in San Rafael CA.
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    Kirkland & Ellis, LLP | Partner

    Recognized as a “Next Generation Lawyer” (Legal 500), Joshua Simmons focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and counseling, as well as regulatory and legislative policy.
  • Simpson, Toby

    Hoffmann Eitle | British and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative

    Toby Simpson's patent practice lies principally in the fields of pharmaceuticals and chemistry. He specialises in drafting and prosecuting patent applications directed to pharmaceutical products (including new chemical entities, peptide and antibody therapeutics, pharmaceutical formulations, polymorphs, salts, new medical uses and dosage regimes), cosmetic products, personal care products, medical devices, polymers, energy storage devices and fuels. He also advises clients in relation to SPCs, orphan drug designations, clinical trial exemptions and regulatory data protection. A keen problem solver, Toby is frequently entrusted by clients with technically and legally challenging cases.
  • Sinclair, Karen

    Harvard Office of Technology Development | Director of Intellectual Property

    Karen Sinclair oversees the development of Harvard’s patent portfolio. Working closely with other Directors in OTD, Karen advises on OTD-wide productivity as well as patent strategies to maximize the value of IP to facilitate commercialization efforts. She has the honor of directing a team of skilled attorneys and paralegals who secure Harvard’s patent rights and fulfill Harvard’s patent related obligations.
  • Singer, Neil

    ZeroWheel, LLC | CEO, CTO, and Founder

    Neil Singer, PhD is the CEO, CTO, and founder of ZeroWheel, LLC, based in Armonk, NY. ZeroWheel is a high-end, motorized, fitness product, focused on making core development efficient, and accessible for users of all levels. Dr. Singer is an optimization expert specializing in dynamic systems and motor control technology. He received his BS in 1983, SM in 1985 and PhD in 1989, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Mechanical Engineering department. Dr. Singer’s research focuses on machine design, dynamics, control and optimization of dynamic systems. He has published 39 technical papers, holds 19 patents, and his Input Shaping® technology for machine vibration reduction is taught in dozens of universities and used in millions of machines worldwide. He has also taught several courses at MIT.
  • Skulikaris, Yannis

    European Patent Office | Director Operations in the field of Information and Communications Technology

    Yannis Skulikaris works in the European Patent Office as Director Operations in the field of Information and Communications Technology.
  • Slifer, Russ

    Black Hills IP | CEO

    Russ Slifer is the CEO of Black Hills IP and is also a registered patent attorney and principal of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner. He has focused exclusively on intellectual property law since 1994 helping a wide variety of clients build patent portfolios to protect their innovations, including individual inventors, universities, and Fortune 100 companies.
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    Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg, LLP | Partner

    Wendi concentrates her practice on intellectual property law and complex commercial litigation.
  • Smaby, Jonathan

    Texas Center for Legal Ethics | Executive Director

    Jonathan Smaby has served as the Executive Director of the Texas Center for Legal Ethics in Austin since 2009. The Center promotes the ethical practice of law by attorneys and educates the public regarding legal ethics and the justice system. The Center also administers the Justice James A. Baker Guide to Ethics and Professionalism in Texas CLE course, a four-hour program required of all newly-licensed attorneys by the Supreme Court of Texas.
  • Smalley, Laura W.

    Harris Beach PLLC | Partner

    Laura W. Smalley is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Harris Beach PLLC, one of the leading law firms in New York State as ranked by the National Law Journal. She was selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America and represents clients in patent licensing, litigation and prosecution. Laura focuses on protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights and clients’ development of their technology. She has litigated numerous patent infringement suits involving medical devices, electronic components and imaging technology, including acting as trial counsel in a patent infringement action over key components for pacemakers and implantable defibrillators that resulted in a $27 million judgment.
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    Relativity Space | Assistant General Counsel and Head of IP

    Bridget Smith is Assistant General Counsel and Head of Intellectual Property at Relativity Space, an American aerospace manufacturing company that develops manufacturing technologies, launch vehicles, and rocket engines for commercial orbital launch services.
  • Smith, Dorothie

    Meta | Patent Counsel

    Dorothie Smith is a patent counsel working in the patent field at a leading silicon valley technology company. She specializes in patent prosecution for software-related inventions, with a focus on AR, VR, and other immersive technology. Dorothie began her career as a patent examiner and has held roles in both law firms and in-house, including experience in product cybersecurity and open-source licensing.
  • Smith, James Donald

    Ecolab USA | Deputy General Counsel - Litigation & IP

    James Donald Smith serves as Deputy General Counsel of Ecolab USA. In his current position, Smith oversees the company’s general litigation function (mass torts, products liability, personal injury, etc.) and its global operations relating to patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and other matters related to protection of Ecolab innovation. Early in his career, Smith served as a judicial clerk to now retired Chief Judge Paul Michel at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He also practiced with Arnold White & Durkee and, later, Dewey Ballantine, serving as the office managing partner of Dewey's Texas office. Mr. Smith, who is also a former Assistant Dean of the law school at Emory University in Atlanta, has experience both as a patent litigator and patent prosecutor, and he has led in-house IP teams for three multi-national corporations, serving as Lexmark’s Chief IP Counsel, Nokia’s Global Director of Licensing, and as Associate General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel of Baxter.
  • Smith, Tyson

    Pirkey Barber, PLLC

    Tyson focuses on trademark, copyright, and unfair competition law. His trademark practice includes policing, litigation, and assisting clients in the selection, clearance, and registration of trademarks.