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  • Sujek Photo Sujek, Angela

    Honigman | Partner

    Angela Sujek is an experienced intellectual property attorney focusing her practice on trademark and copyright clearance, prosecution, and enforcement; advertising and marketing; licensing; and corporate transactions involving intellectual property assets.
  • Sullivan, Kelu

    Kelly IP, LLP | Of Counsel

    Kelu Sullivan is a skilled trademark and copyright lawyer who focuses on providing practical and realistic advice to help clients make strategic decisions in sync with their business goals.
  • Sundby, S Sundby, Suzannah K.

    Managing Partner | Canady + Lortz LLP

    Suzannah practices all aspects of intellectual property law across diverse technologies including biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmaceuticals, microfluidics, diagnostics, medical devices, and nanotechnology. Her legal practice involves patent preparation and prosecution, licensing, opinion work, post-grant proceedings, strategic planning, and client counseling. Ms. Sundby has experience assisting start-up biotech companies with the preparation and prosecution of their foundation patents, nondisclosure agreements, and related IP issues.
  • Svoboda, C Svoboda, Craig

    Alvotech | Global Head Intellectual Property

    Craig Svoboda has extensive experience with patents and intellectual property in the pharmaceutical industry. He has served as in-house counsel for innovator small molecule and biologics and most recently with the biosimilar company Alvotech. Craig’s skills includes patent drafting, prosecution and portfolio management; client advising including patentability, freedom to operate, non-infringement and validity opinions; licensing including IP diligence, contract drafting and negotiations. Craig’s former and current roles include strategic counseling and creative applications of providing legal advice to efficiently and effectively influence fast moving product development.
  • Swedlow, Bea

    Honigman | Co-Managing Partner

    With wide-ranging litigation experience, Bea Swedlow has a particularly strong focus on litigating patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, copyright, and false advertising matters. She represents major clients from such industries as software, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, higher education, consumer goods, retail, and internet/social media. Bea also advises right holders in a broad range of industry sectors, including fashion, consumer products, food and beverage, and retail on strategies to strengthen IP protection and enforcement, assisting owners of iconic brands with their patent, trademark, and copyright needs.
  • Swint Photo Swint, Kate

    Pirkey Barber, PLLC | Associate

    Kate is an associate at Pirkey Barber PLLC in Austin, where her practice focuses on trademark and copyright law.
  • Szweras, Melanie

    Bereskin & Parr LLP | Partner

    Melanie Szweras is a partner with Bereskin & Parr LLP and a member of the Life Sciences practice group. She is also co-leader of the Privacy/Regulatory, Advertising, Marketing practice group. Melanie’s practice focuses on drafting and prosecution of applications relating to biologics, diagnostics, biotechnology, food and pharmaceuticals. Melanie offers strategic advice and expertise to her clients, provides validity and freedom to operate opinions and is involved in related patent litigation and licensing.
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    Perkins Coie | Senior Counsel

    Janice Ta focuses her practice on patent, trade secret, trademark, and complex commercial litigation. She represents clients in a range of industries, including computer software and hardware, wireless broadband, telecommunications, semiconductors, light-emitting diodes (LEDS), and biotechnology, helping them protect and maximize the value of their intellectual property portfolios.
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    Honigman | Partner

    Leigh Taggart is a partner and an intellectual property litigation attorney with almost 30 years of experience. He litigates patent, trademark, copyright, antitrust, and trade secret matters throughout the U.S. in federal trial and appellate courts and before the International Trade Commission. He also has extensive experience in international intellectual property and contract cases.
  • Hayley-Talbert Talbert, Hayley J.

    Seed IP Law Group, LLP | Partner

    Hayley devotes her time to strategic intellectual property counseling in the electrical, software, and mechanical arts, focusing on efficient and effective patent prosecution. She received a B.S. (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida (2004) and a J.D. from Willamette University College of Law (2008).
  • Talley, Monica Riva

    Sterne Kessler | Director

    For more than 25 years Monica Riva Talley has specialized in strategic trademark counseling and portfolio enhancement, developing anti-counterfeiting solutions and strategies, and resolving trademark disputes. She is particularly sought after for her expertise in enforcing brand rights against infringers and counterfeiters seeking to profit from her clients' well-known brands. In addition to managing her robust practice, Ms. Talley has worked as an adjunct professor teaching trademark law at The George Washington University Law School. She also frequently speaks and writes on trademark issues to a variety of public and private audiences and has been active for many years in leading IP organizations, including The International Trademark Association (INTA) and the Intellectual Property Owner's Association (IPO). She is the vice chair of IPO's Anti-Counterfeiting Committee and serves on INTA's Brands and Innovation Committee.
  • Tang, Darren square 200 Tang, Daren

    World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | Director General - Elect

    Mr Daren Tang, Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) has been officially appointed as the next Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). WIPO is a specialised United Nations (UN) agency based in Geneva, Switzerland, with 193 member states and an annual revenue in excess of S$600 million. Mr Tang will take over the helm of WIPO on 1 October 2020 for a term of six years. This marks the first time a Singaporean will lead a UN agency, and WIPO’s first Director General from Asia.
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    Kramer Levin | Director of Legal Recruiting and Diversity

    In her role as director of legal recruiting and diversity, Lauren Tapper works with firm leadership to develop and implement Kramer Levin’s strategic recruiting and diversity initiatives.
  • Taylor, Clint

    Kelly IP, LLP | Partner

    Clint focuses his practice on trademark and copyright counseling, prosecution, enforcement, and litigation. He has spent his career helping clients of all sizes navigate the trademark registration process and successfully enforcing those rights. He provides practical advice to clients to assist them in selecting and enforcing their trademarks consistent with their goals.
  • Taylor, Daniel

    Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins | Attorney

    Daniel Taylor is a patent attorney at Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins who specializes in District of Delaware IP litigation. His practice consists of both lead and Delaware counsel roles and also includes commercial disputes over contracts, license agreements, and other causes of action that overlap with patent, trademark, and copyright. He spent five years as a judicial law clerk in the District of Delaware where he clerked for judges including District Judge Hon. Sue L. Robinson and Chief Magistrate Judge Hon. Mary Pat Thynge. Daniel comes to the legal profession after working in the technology industry as a product marketer and industry analyst. He transitioned to the law by first passing the USPTO registration examination and then working during law school as a patent agent for a semiconductor manufacturer. Daniel graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law and holds a bachelors degree in Engineering Mechanics from Johns Hopkins University.
  • 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
  • Tham, Yeen 200 Tham, Yeen

    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.