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  • Weeks, Joshua

    Alston & Bird, LLP | Partner

    Joshua Weeks is a partner at Alston & Bird LLP, specializing in intellectual property litigation. He represents clients in complex disputes involving patents, trade secrets, and other forms of intellectual property, litigating cases nationwide in district courts, various state courts, and before the International Trade Commission. Joshua earned his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, and holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering.
  • Weibust, Erik

    Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. | Partner

    Erik Weibust is a Partner in the Boston office of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., where he is Vice Chair of the firm’s Trade Secret & Employee Mobility practice group. Many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, technology, financial services, staffing, and insurance companies look to Erik for thoughtful and practical advice concerning how best to protect their trade secrets and customer relationships from misappropriation by former employees, ex-business partners, competitors, and hostile actors in the United States and abroad, and to avoid liability when hiring from competitors. When necessary, clients rely on Erik for aggressive representation in litigation, where he has won substantial victories in court and at the negotiating table, including broad-reaching injunctive relief and multimillion-dollar payouts, in trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, and breach of restrictive covenant cases.
  • Weil_Michael_200 Weil, Michael D.

    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP | Partner

    Michael Weil represents employers in a wide range of employment disputes, with a focus on class and representative actions asserting multimillion dollars in damages and high stakes noncompete, employee mobility, and trade secrets matters arising from a variety of industries, including life sciences, technology, retail, and financial services, throughout the United States.
  • Weinger, Daniel

    Fortress Bio | Director

    Daniel Weinger is a Director in asset management for IP Investments at Fortress Investment Group. The Fortress IP team makes private equity and credit investments based on the value of intellectual property assets. Daniel advises these investments on monetization strategies to help them realize the full value of their intellectual property. Prior to joining Fortress, Daniel was a partner at Mintz, litigating patent and trade secret cases in the federal district courts, International Trade Commission, and the PTAB and advising clients on IP licensing and other issues. Many of his enforcement campaigns were multinational in nature, requiring enforcement actions in various jurisdictions around the world. He also has advised clients on standard essential patents, including patent pools and individual owners of SEPs across various standards, including ETSI/3GPP, Wi-Fi, ONVIF, compression codecs (including audio and video), and others. Daniel has been named on the IAM Strategy 300 for 2022-2025. Daniel has a JD from Boston College Law School and a BA in computer science from NYU. He is an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School where he teaches a seminar on IP Portfolio Strategy and Monetization.
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    Berman Fink Van Horn, PC | Shareholder

    Neal Weinrich knows trade secrets and restrictive covenants inside and out. A shareholder at Berman Fink Van Horn, Neal counsels clients in all industries on matters involving trade secrets, noncompetes, and other competition-related issues. Neal represents employers and employees, as both plaintiffs and defendants, in disputes throughout Georgia and in other jurisdictions involving noncompetes, customer nonsolicits, nonrecruits, and nondisclosure covenants. Neal also handles a variety of other business-related matters, including complex commercial litigation, contract disputes, cases involving business torts, partnership or shareholder disagreements, and executive compensation disputes.
  • Gary Weinstein

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP | Partner

    Gary Weinstein is a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath. Gary collaborates with in-house counsel, business people and technology teams to help clients monetize technology and intellectual property through licenses and other forms or collaboration. He counsels clients on structuring, drafting, negotiating and reviewing technology and intellectual property agreements—both as licensors and licensees and in joint development agreements, technology transfer, outsourcing, strategic alliances, and joint ventures.
  • Weinstein, Stanton D.
    Stanton D. Weinstein is an experienced IP attorney located near Philadelphia, PA. Stan previously spent much of his career as an in-house intellectual property counsel for a major corporation in the defense electronics industry. Stan's extensive experience includes patent, trademark and copyright law and practice, protection of proprietary information, and other aspects of intellectual property law; U.S. Government procurement regulations and clauses relating to patent rights and data rights; computer law, such as Internet/intranet issues, software licensing, and open source software issues; export controls; and intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
  • Nicholas Weinstock 200x200 Weinstock, Nicholas

    Qualcomm | Patent Counsel

  • Weirich200 Weirich, David

    The Proctor & Gamble Company | Vice President and Associate General Counsel - Patents

    David Weirich is Vice President & Associate General Counsel for The Procter & Gamble Company’s global Beauty Care business. P&G is one of the world’s largest consumer products companies with operations in over 180 countries and sales exceeding $76 Billion per year. P&G has an extensive portfolio of intellectual property assets, including patents, designs and many well-known trademarks. David has been in P&G’s Legal Department handling IP matters for over 28 years and throughout his time at P&G has supported each of P&G’s different business units.
  • Wells, Hilary D.

    Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, LLP | Partner

    Hilary Wells is a partner in the firm’s Litigation practice group and serves as the chair for our Data Protection and Cybersecurity team.
  • Kristin M. Whidby Kristin M. Whidby

    Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP | Associate

    Kristin M. Whidby is a litigation associate and registered patent attorney resident in Fried Frank's Washington, DC office.
  • Whipps, Brian C.

    Mueting Raasch Group | Partner

    Serving innovators for over 20 years and protecting inventions around the world. Brian specializes in worldwide patent filing strategies for disruptive technology. He has developed relationships with governmental and non-governmental IP organizations around the globe. Currently he serves as the AIPLA Chair of the International and Foreign Law committee. Previously he served as the AIPLA vice-Chair of the Harmonization committee, and the AIPLA co-Chair of the IP Practice in Europe committee.
  • Whitaker-200 Whitaker, Mark

    Morrison & Foerster | Partner

    Mark Whitaker is the co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice group, with more than 30 years of experience crafting legal strategies in high-stakes patent and trade secret litigation.
  • Whitehair_photo 200 Whitehair, J. Gregory

    IP Resolution Co. | Attorney

    J. Gregory “Greg” Whitehair, Esq., is a long-time IP trial lawyer and patent registrant, and more recently an ADR neutral and Special Master through his company, IP Resolution Co. Greg’s early career included appointment as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Colorado and private practice with several of Denver’s largest firms.
  • Whitehead, Andrew headshot200 Whitehead, Andrew

    Genentech | Assistant General Counsel, Informatics & Personalized Health Care IP

    Andrew Whitehead manages a small team of IP attorneys at Genentech supporting informatics and personalized healthcare initiatives. This includes spearheading patent portfolio development, supporting external partnering, and developing internal open source and data protection best practices.
  • Whitney, Craig

    Proskauer | Partner

    Craig is a seasoned litigator with a focus on all facets of intellectual property. With over two decades of experience, he is a leading false advertising litigator and specializes in IP and complex commercial disputes and counseling, including copyright, trademark and trade secrets. Craig is also a certified arbitrator and has deep experience in class action defense, strategic IP portfolio management, investigations and enforcement.
  • Williams, Adi

    Fish & Richardson P.C. | Associate

    Adi Williams is an associate in the litigation group in the Washington, D.C., office of Fish & Richardson P.C. His practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property litigation and advising, both at the trial and appellate level. He possesses technical expertise in the mechanical and aerospace engineering fields, including in the area of computational fluid dynamics. In addition, he is experienced in patent prosecution, having conducted prior art searches, drafted patent applications, and responded to office actions.
  • Williams, Robert 200x200 Williams, Robert

    Bird & Bird | Partner

    Robert is one of the team's prominent practitioners, with particular experience of complex IP strategy & disputes and advising clients from a range of IP rich industries.
  • Angela Wilson

    GlaxoSmithKline | Senior Counsel, Trademarks and Brand Protection at GSK

    Angela Wilson is Trademark Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”), a science-led global healthcare company, based out of GSK’s U.S. pharmaceutical headquarters in Research Triangle Park (“RTP”), NC.
  • Witz_James_200x200 Witz, James

    Littler Mendelson | Shareholder | Co-Chair, Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets Practice Group

    James M. Witz is a trial lawyer who has experience with a wide range of employment issues.