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  • Teboul, Elina

    The Lightup Lab | Founder

    Elina Teboul is an executive coach and the founder of The LightUp Lab, through which Elina seeks to inspire and empower people and organizations through positive psychology, mindfulness and coaching training.
  • TERRY_PHOTO_200 Terry, Tammy J.

    Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton | Partner

    Tammy Terry is an IP litigator and registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Terry’s practice includes IP litigation and dispute resolution representing companies on the cutting edge of technology in a variety of industries and disciplines. Ms. Terry has trial experience in a variety of complex commercial litigation cases, including first and second chair trial experience in patent litigation, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and trade secret misappropriation cases.
  • Dr Stephen Thaler - 200 Stephen Thaler

    Imagination Engines, Inc. | President and CEO

    Dr. Stephen Thaler earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, his thesis research dealing with radiation damage in silicon. In conducting this research, he simulated such damage in computational lattice models, forerunners of modern-day artificial neural networks
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    IBM

    Yeen Tham is an intellectual property and patent attorney at IBM, based in New York. As the Watson Research Site Counsel for IBM, she facilitates IBM’s legal strategy for artificial intelligence, supporting IBM’s accomplishment as a cutting-edge industry innovator with sixteen hundred IBM AI patents granted in 2018. Her career at IBM has included legal support of IBM’s Watson Research Lab as Site Counsel and Manager as well as analytics software and solutions as Senior Attorney under the Cross Brand team. Yeen has handled joint development and research collaboration transactions, source code licensing, acquisitions and divestitures, procurement of high-value patents, and patent docket management.
  • Thomae, Christian

    Dumont | Partner

    Christian is an Attorney at Law specialized in Intellectual Property since 1998. He is currently Partner and Head of Trademarks at Dumont, firm he joined in 2016. With a very strong focus on trademarks and geographical indications, but also fluent in cultural misappropriation, copyright and other fields of IP and associated litigation, he has assisted IP holders throughout the years with the protection of their rights globally, acquiring vast experience in developing protection strategies according to the needs of each client to achieve their secure entry into and permanence in different markets. He also has experience in e-commerce, domain names, UDRP and LDRP proceedings and matters related to the protection of rights on the Internet.
  • Thomas, Shane

    United States Patent and Trademark Office | Special Program Examiner, International Patent Legal Administration

    Shane Thomas is a Special Program Examiner with the International Patent Legal Administration at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Shane develops and provides training to USPTO patent examiners for both international and national stage applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, gives seminars on the PCT to both foreign examiners and various external IP organizations, and participates in a number of PCT-related special projects for the USPTO - including serving as the technical lead for the USPTO’s PCT Chapter I search and examination outsourcing contracts.
  • Timberlake, Edward

    IP and Transactions Clinic at Franklin Pierce Center for IP | Clinical Professor

    Ed Timberlake currently teaches Trademark Searching in the Hybrid JD program at UNH Law and is a clinical professor and interim director of the Intellectual Property and Transactions Clinic at the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property.
  • Tittemore, Lisa

    Sunstein LLP | Partner

    Lisa is a partner at Sunstein LLP, a Boston-based intellectual property law firm. As Chair of the firm’s Litigation Practice, Co-Chair of the DEI Committee, and a member of the Management Committee, she is regularly engaged in matters involving innovation. Lisa is an experienced litigator, serving as lead counsel in patent, trademark and copyright litigation in federal courts throughout the United States. Lisa has extensive experience in intellectual property matters, providing strategic counsel to clients on both domestic and international issues and guiding the firm’s efforts in protecting and enforcing clients’ valuable brands and ideas.
  • Tom DeSimone Tom DeSimone

    MiMedx Group, Inc. | Senior Counsel

    Tom DeSimone focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and patent office trials.
  • Toppin Photo Toppin, Catherine J.

    Clements Bernard Walker

    Catherine Toppin began her career as an Examiner with the USPTO before joining a Boston based law firm, as an Associate. Prior to joining CBW, Ms. Toppin previously held the role of Senior Patent Counsel and Manager, within the Global Patent Operation of General Electric’s Corporate legal department.
  • Ernie Torain

    ITW | Deputy General Counsel at ITW

  • Toru Matsuoka

    Japanese Patent Office

  • Tostmann, Holger

    Wallinger, Ricker, Schlotter Tostmann | Partner

    Holger is German and European Patent Attorney and UPC representative at Wallinger, Ricker, Schlotter, Tostmann since 2008. Holger holds a doctorate in chemistry, respectively and specializes in patent prosecution with an international focus as well as in opposition (appeal) proceedings Holger’s technical expertise is based on a long research career, 5 years of which were spent at top notch US research facilities and includes chemical engineering, polymer chemistry, materials science, biophysical chemistry and pharmaceuticals.
  • tottis, kevin square200 Tottis, Kevin

    TottisLaw | Managing Partner

    For the better part of the past four decades, Kevin’s litigated commercial and intellectual property cases around the country. He currently heads up TottisLaw, a Chicago litigation boutique he started after several years as a partner in a national law firm. Last month, TottisLaw was one of only a dozen firms recognized for its intellectual property practice by Chambers in its inaugural Chicago “Regional Spotlight Guide” of small and midsized law firms.
  • Towers, Cindy

    JURISolutions Legal | Co-Founder, President, CEO

    Cynthia (“Cindy”) Funaro Towers, Esq. is Co-Founder, President, and CEO of JURISolutions Legal (JSL), an award-winning legal services innovator and one of the largest WBENC-certified legal services and recruitment firms in the country. Since 1997, JSL has specialized in the development and strategic utilization of legal talent, and JSL’s newest service line, jurisADVANCE, offers customized DEI consulting services for law firms and corporate legal departments.
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    Tara Trask LLC | President of Trask Consulting

    Tara Trask is the President of Trask Consulting, a boutique litigation strategy, jury research and trial consulting firm with offices in San Francisco, Houston and New York. Ms. Trask’s practice focuses on civil litigation with an emphasis on complex commercial litigation; including intellectual property, (patent and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation) antitrust, securities, breach of contract and fraud.
  • Traub, Florian

    Pinsent Mason | Partner

    Florian heads Pinsent Masons' trade mark and brand protection team based in our London office, with extensive experience in domestic and international filing, prosecution and portfolio management. This includes worldwide trade mark and design clearance, filing and prosecution, contentious registry proceedings including opposition, invalidity and revocation actions in the UK, EU, Germany and throughout the world, brand exploitation and commercialisation and advice on infringement matters as part of the broader IP team.
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    Susman Godfrey, LLP | Partner

    Max Tribble, a permanent member of Susman Godfrey’s Executive Committee, is well-recognized as one of the premier trial lawyers in America.
  • Tridico, Anthony

    Finnegan | Partner

    Anthony Tridico, Ph.D. is a U.S. patent lawyer and a partner in Finnegan's Washington, DC Office. He spent many years as Managing Partner of Finnegan's European Offices, where he gained significant knowledge of the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the diversity of laws and practice among the European national systems. His knowledge of the various legal systems and how they differ from the U.S. allows Anthony to effectively counsel clients across life sciences industries with global interests in intellectual property.
  • Tripodi II, Paul D.

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP | Partner

    Paul is a partner in the Irvine and Los Angeles offices, where his practice focuses on intellectual property (IP) litigation, including patent litigation, trade secret misappropriation, and related licensing and contract disputes. He has been involved in both bench and jury trials in federal district courts, as well as proceedings before various international tribunals, the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Paul has served as a pro bono prosecutor in nearly a dozen criminal matters, including as lead counsel in numerous related jury trials.