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  • Sanks, Terry M

    Beusse Sanks, PLLC | Founding Member

    Terry M. Sanks, a registered patent attorney, is a founding member of Beusse Sanks, PLLC, a predominately diverse and minority owned law firm. Terry provides representation in all areas of intellectual property (“IP”) law, including patents, trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets, IP litigation, licensing and IP related transactions. Terry’s practice also includes managing patent and trademark portfolios for Fortune 500 companies, regional companies and universities.
  • Santone, Christopher

    McAndrews | Design Patent Agent

    Christopher Santone is a Design Patent Agent at McAndrews focusing on design patent matters. He has over a decade of experience as an industrial designer. As the first individual to pass the USPTO Design Patent Bar exam, Christopher’s unique background positions him as an exceptional resource for helping clients identify protectable assets and navigate the design patent process.
  • Santoro, Sofia

    Società Italiana Brevetti S.p.A.

    Sofia Santoro is a European and Italian Patent Attorney and a Unified Patent Court Representative, with experience in intellectual property since 2016. Her practice focuses primarily on patent matters in the chemical and pharmaceutical fields, including patent drafting and prosecution, opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office, and strategic patent advice.
  • Sarah Harris

    United States Patent and Trademark Office | General Counsel

  • Sarwate, Sanjiv

    Dell Technologies | Counsel

    Sanjiv D. Sarwate is Counsel, Senior Consultant with Dell Inc. Prior to joining Dell in April 2011, he spent fourteen years in private practice in Chicago, specializing in trademark and copyright law. His duties at Dell include all aspects of trademark practice, with a particular emphasis on anti-counterfeiting enforcement. A frequent speaker on trademark law issues, he also served as an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago from 2006 to 2015. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a masters’ degree from the University of Chicago.
  • Sauceda, Sarah

    AMD | Corporate Counsel

    Sarah Sauceda is an Austin-based attorney practicing in-house on the trademark/copyright team at the semiconductor giant, AMD. Her practice is primarily focused within the spaces of: trademark, copyright, influencers, and marketing.
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    Polsinelli PC | Principal

    Margaux Savee is a principal and patent attorney at Polsinelli, representing Fortune 100 companies in complex patent disputes.
  • Schaaf, Paul

    Federal Bureau of Investigation | Special Agent

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    Arent Fox | Associate

    Lauren Schaefer represents corporate and individual clients in complex commercial litigation. Lauren specializes in trade secret and restrictive covenant litigation.
  • Schick, Ian

    Paximal | Co-Founder & CEO

    Ian C. Schick is Co-Founder and CEO of Paximal, an agentic AI platform for patent drafting, and has worked on patent automation since 2017, when he co-founded Specifio — the first commercially available mass-content generator in legal tech — which was acquired in 2024.
  • Schildkraut, Mark

    Becton, Dickinson and Company | Associate General Counsel-IP

    Mark Schildkraut is Associate General Counsel-IP at Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a Fortune 500 medical technology company advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care.
  • Schiuma, Daniele

    Muller-Bore & Partner | Partner,

    Dr. Daniele Schiuma is patent attorney and partner at Müller-Boré & Partner Patentanwälte PartG mbB in Munich, Germany since 1997. Daniele has studied physics, completing his diploma thesis in particle physics at the International Research Center CERN in Geneva and obtained his doctorate in law at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich.
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    Wenderoth | Partner

    Amy Schmid is a partner at Wenderoth, and co-chair of the chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical group. Prior to joining Wenderoth in 2004, Amy was a Patent Examiner at the USPTO, handling applications in the Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry Technology Center. Amy’s practice focuses on preparing and prosecuting patent applications, managing and prosecuting applications within worldwide portfolios, and assisting foreign clients with obtaining patent protection in the US.
  • Schmidt, David Ph.D.

    Knobbe Martens | Partner

    Dave Schmidt is a partner at intellectual property law firm Knobbe Martens. Dave’s practice involves global strategic patent procurement, patent portfolio management, intellectual property due diligence, licensing, and general counseling on infringement, including pre-litigation strategy. Dave currently represents clients in a variety of technologies, with an emphasis on medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and materials. In the medical field, Dave has extensive experience in wound care, endoscopy, drug delivery, cardiovascular, and orthopedic technologies.
  • Schmidt, Stephanie

    Norton Rose Fulbright | Associate

    Stephanie practices in Austin, Texas in the Intellectual Property Brands group at Norton Rose Fulbright. Stephanie earned her B.S. in business administration from the University of Southern California and her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Her practice focuses primarily on trademark and copyright matters, including counseling clients on selecting and clearing trademarks, prosecuting applications for trademark registrations before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and internationally, developing and policing trademark portfolios, and preparing licensing agreements.
  • Schnapp, Daniel

    Dentons | Partner

    Dan is a Partner at Dentons New York office and is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology group with a focus on IP and complex commercial litigation. Dan handles high-profile matters involving claims of copyright and trademark infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, false advertising, trade dress infringement and defamation before federal and state courts and arbitration forums. Dan has also advised and defended clients in a variety of false-advertising matters, including enforcement actions instituted by the Federal Trade Commission, matters before the National Advertising Division (NAD), and class actions alleging fraud and misleading statements in advertising.
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    Choate Hall & Stewart, LLP | Counsel

    Stephanie Schonewald counsels biotech and pharmaceutical companies on the strategic development of patent portfolios and patent prosecution.
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    Burns & Levinson LLP | Partner

    Mark Schonfeld concentrates his practice in complex business and intellectual property litigation, especially protection of corporate intellectual property through effective methods of trademark, copyright and patent litigation.
  • Schramm, Peter

    MLL Legal | Partner

    Peter Schramm is co-head of the IP team of MLL Legal, one of the largest and most well-known IP teams in Switzerland. Peter has special experience in complex IP litigation matters. He has been involved in many landmark IP cases in Switzerland, in particular protecting well-known brands, products and technologies, and has coordinated several large multiple jurisdiction disputes, with a special focus on Germany, the further EU countries, the UK and the US. In addition, he advises his clients on strategic IP issues and on IP transaction matters in close cooperation with the M&A and Finance teams at MLL Legal.
  • Schumacher, AJ

    Kelly, IP | Partner

    AJ’s practice primarily focuses on all aspects of trademark law, ranging from counseling, prosecution, and global portfolio management to enforcement and other contentious matters, including disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, both in the U.S. and internationally. He also has significant experience handling domain name disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), as well as crafting global domain name acquisition strategies. In addition, AJ has handled various copyright, due diligence, and advertising matters. AJ has worked with clients of all sizes, from beginning-stage startups to unicorns and Fortune 5 companies, and some of the world’s most famous brands across various industries, such as the professional sports, fashion, beauty, fintech, finance, telehealth, and insurance industries.