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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, 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.

Tapper, Lauren

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, 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.

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

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

MiMedx Group, Inc. | Senior Counsel

Tom DeSimone focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and patent office trials.

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

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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