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  • 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.
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    MiMedx Group, Inc. | Senior Counsel

    Tom DeSimone focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and patent office trials.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Bishop Rock | Founder

    Brian Trotter is a Patent Agent based in Austin, TX. Brian founded Bishop Rock, LLC, in 2019 after a 23 year career in semiconductor design. Brian worked at Cirrus Logic and Maxim Integrated/Analog Devices doing mixed-signal circuit design for audio and power management. One of the chips he worked on may be in your pocket or your laptop bag right now. Brian passed the Patent Bar in 2019 and opened up his consultancy business. Brian is now focused on using his unique technical background to help technology companies, from the Fortune 500 to solo startups, design and execute their IP strategies to protect their critical innovations and maximize their profitability.
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    Kirkland & Ellis, LLP | Partner

    Ellisen Turner is an Intellectual Property partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He is a well-known IP strategist and litigator who combines business acumen with a deep knowledge of intellectual property law to support his clients’ business goals and maximize the value of their technology. He has helped clients secure victories in patent and trade secret litigations that have led to billions in total client compensation, and has successfully defended matters with billions in revenue at stake.
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    HP | Deputy General Counsel and Chief of IP

    Phyllis T. Turner-Brim is Deputy General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at HP Inc. In this role Phyllis has global responsibility for HP’s IP strategies, enforcement, acquisition and monetization. Along with leading HP’s global IP team, Phyllis regularly advises HP’s C-suite and is a member of HP’s Global Legal Affairs leadership team. Immediately prior to HP, Phyllis was VP and Assistant General Counsel at Starbucks Coffee Company, where she led the legal teams supporting intellectual property, technology, marketing, global supply chain, food safety and quality.
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    Harvard Law School | Inaugural Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law

    Rebecca Tushnet is the inaugural Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on the intersection between intellectual property and advertising law and freedom of speech.
  • Tysver, Dan

    Bitlaw | Advisor

    Dan Tysver has over thirty years of experience securing patents for cutting-edge software technologies. An advisor to innovators, he navigates the complexities of patent law to protect digital advancements, from blockchain to AI. Dan’s interest in AI began in law school, where he studied artificial intelligence and legal reasoning, and AI programming. His third-year paper explored case-based legal reasoning using a logic engine he built in Prolog. This early exposure shaped his perspective on the intersection of law and artificial intelligence.