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  • Smith, James Donald

    Ecolab USA | Deputy General Counsel - Litigation & IP

    James Donald Smith serves as Deputy General Counsel of Ecolab USA. In his current position, Smith oversees the company’s general litigation function (mass torts, products liability, personal injury, etc.) and its global operations relating to patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and other matters related to protection of Ecolab innovation. Early in his career, Smith served as a judicial clerk to now retired Chief Judge Paul Michel at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He also practiced with Arnold White & Durkee and, later, Dewey Ballantine, serving as the office managing partner of Dewey's Texas office. Mr. Smith, who is also a former Assistant Dean of the law school at Emory University in Atlanta, has experience both as a patent litigator and patent prosecutor, and he has led in-house IP teams for three multi-national corporations, serving as Lexmark’s Chief IP Counsel, Nokia’s Global Director of Licensing, and as Associate General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel of Baxter.
  • Smith, Tyson

    Pirkey Barber, PLLC

    Tyson focuses on trademark, copyright, and unfair competition law. His trademark practice includes policing, litigation, and assisting clients in the selection, clearance, and registration of trademarks.
  • Smith, William F.

    Baker & Hostetler | Of Counsel

    Bill Smith is a former administrative patent judge at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He focuses his practice on advising clients in complicated patent matters, including reexamination proceedings, appeals, interferences, post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and patent litigations.
  • Smith-Carra, Heather

    Banner Witcoff | Attorney

    Heather works with clients around the world to manage, protect, and enforce their trademark, copyright, and trade dress rights. Heather represents clients ranging from startups to international corporations to pro bono organizations on a variety of intellectual property issues, including worldwide trademark and copyright prosecution, counseling and enforcement matters, as well as cancellation and opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). She has significant experience navigating clients through the entire trademark process from trademark clearance searches to new application filings to responding to refusals and handling registration and renewals.
  • Smolczynski, Vince

    Seyfarth Shaw | Associate

    Vince's experience spans a wide range of technical areas, including pharmaceutical, chemical, biomedical devices, electronic devices, and business methods. He is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Smythe, Alexandra

    IDE Group | Director of Regulatory Affairs

    Alexandra Low Smythe is Director of Regulatory Affairs for IDE Group, a global medical device commercialization firm building meaningful medtech ventures. She has nearly a decade of experience deeply involved in all phases of the medical device product lifecycle, managing both global regulatory and the intellectual property strategy for multiple employers and clients, including a major innovator in the radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging industry. With a unique background combining engineering and law, Alexandra carefully balances maintaining regulatory compliance and respecting and protecting intellectual property rights with achieving strategic business objectives.
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    Polsinelli | Counsel

    Tasha is an experienced litigator for a wide array of intellectual property (IP) matters, including patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright litigation. She also assists clients with technology transactions, commercialization strategies for their IP, and cybersecurity and data privacy issues. She has experience with patent matters across a wide range of technologies, including smart home technology, software, computer hardware, advanced systems for aircraft, medical devices, and oilfield technology.
  • Snow, Jeffrey

    Pryor Cashman LLP | Chair, Patent Group

    Jeffrey L. Snow is the Chair of Pryor Cashman’s Patent Group and serves as a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Litigation Groups. Jeffrey combines deep intellectual property prosecution and counseling knowledge with significant commercial litigation experience to provide end-to-end service for a wide range of clients. He is an experienced litigator who has served as lead counsel in numerous proceedings before federal courts and administrative tribunals.
  • Sobon, Wayne

    Juul Labs | Vice President, Intellectual Property

    Wayne Sobon is Vice President, Intellectual Property at JUUL Labs, Inc., based in San Francisco, California. JUUL’s mission is to transition the world’s billion adult smokers away from combustible cigarettes, eliminate their use, and combat underage usage of our products.
  • Soldatini, Andrea

    Societa Italiana Brevetti S.p.A. | Partner

    Andrea Soldatini is a Partner at Società Italiana Brevetti S.p.A.. and head of the patent/design department of the Florence Office. He has 25-years experience in patent filing and prosecution in Italy and abroad (in particular EP and PCT procedures), Design Registration procedures in Italy and abroad (in particular, Community Design Registrations and International Registrations under the Hague System).
  • Jesse Solomon Jesse Solomon

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | Partner

    Mr. Solomon is a partner in Davis Polk’s Litigation Department, practicing in the Washington DC office.
  • Song-200 Song, Mandy

    Bayes PLLC | Founding and Managing Partner

    Mandy Song, Ph.D. brings more than a decade’s experience in patent practice, including patent prosecution, client counseling, patent portfolio management & transactions, patent litigation in U.S. federal district courts and Section 337 investigations at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), and post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). She has significant experience in a wide range of electrical, computer, and biomedical technologies.
  • Soni, Pankaj200 Soni, Pankaj

    Remfry & Sagar | Partner

    Pankaj Soni leads the Patent Litigation practice at the Firm with several successes before High Courts in India for Fortune 500 clients. He is recognised for his expertise in creating successful litigation strategy and handling technical aspects of claim construction and infringement/invalidity analysis.
  • Soroush, Ali

    United States Patent and Trademark Office | Primary Patent Examiner (TC1600)/ Assistant Outreach Detailee Silicon Valley Regional Office

    Mr. Soroush has served the USPTO for over 17 years as a patent examiner in the biotechnology area, with special focus on pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and herbicides. Also, Mr. Soroush contributed to several projects including the development of Global Dossier and the implementation of WIPO standard ST.26 (presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using xml). Further, he was on detail with the Office of Solicitor and served as a trainer in the Patent Academy.
  • South, Clint

    Ballard Spahr LLP | Counsel

    Clinton South is a member of the Intellectual Property Department and of the Chemical and Pharmaceutical practice teams in Ballard Spahr’s Patents Group. Clint’s practice focuses on drafting and prosecuting domestic and foreign patent applications, opinion work, client counseling, intellectual property litigation, and proceedings at the USPTO—including post-grant and inter partes review proceedings.
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    Burford Capital | Director

    Stephanie Southwick is a Director with responsibility for originating new business with law firms and companies as part of Burford’s US commercial investment team.
  • spangenberg200 Spangenberg, Erich

    IPwe | CEO

    Erich is the CEO and co-founder of IPwe, a company using blockchain and AI to create the patent asset class by making it easy and far less expensive to analyze, interact with and transact in patents. He is regularly recognized as one of the world’s top 50 IP strategists, credited with being one of the people that is changing the way people think about and use patents.
  • Spears_Photo_200 Spears, Steven

    Baker Hughes, a GE Company | Global IP Litigation Counsel

    Attorney specializing in patent, trade secret, and other technology-related controversies and litigation involving the biotechnology, chemical and petrochemical industries.
  • Spector, Elaine

    Harrity & Harrity LLP | Partner

    Elaine Spector is a partner at the IP boutique, Harrity & Harrity and the firm’s first female partner. She is a passionate advocate for women’s leadership in intellectual property and serves on the Board of IPO Education Foundation, US IP Alliance and Patent Pathways. With a background in mechanical engineering and close to three decades in patent law, Elaine empowers women in IP to build strong, authentic personal brands and break new ground in the field.
  • Spence, Nicole

    IBM Corporation | Counsel, Data, AI and Automation

    Nicole A. Spence is an IBM Brand Counsel for the Data, AI and Automation business unit. As a Brand Counsel, Nicole supports various IBM software and hardware products in the Data, AI and Automation portfolio, including IP, M&A, data privacy, marketing, AI and data governance, transactions and litigation. In addition, Nicole is one of IBM’s AI and IP Policy attorneys for North America.