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  • Ta Headshot 200 Ta, Janice

    Perkins Coie | Senior Counsel

    Janice Ta focuses her practice on patent, trade secret, trademark, and complex commercial litigation. She represents clients in a range of industries, including computer software and hardware, wireless broadband, telecommunications, semiconductors, light-emitting diodes (LEDS), and biotechnology, helping them protect and maximize the value of their intellectual property portfolios.
  • Tabaddor, Rouz

    First American | SVP & Chief IP/Privacy Officer

    Rouz Tabaddor is the SVP & Chief IP/Privacy Officer at First American, where he leads the strategy and execution of intellectual property, privacy, and risk initiatives that drive innovation, reduce legal exposure, and create enterprise value. With over two decades of legal and business experience, Rouz specializes in aligning IP strategy with company growth, regulatory compliance, AI legal implications and data ethics.
  • Taggart, Leigh200 Taggart, Leigh

    Honigman | Partner

    Leigh Taggart is a partner and an intellectual property litigation attorney with almost 30 years of experience. He litigates patent, trademark, copyright, antitrust, and trade secret matters throughout the U.S. in federal trial and appellate courts and before the International Trade Commission. He also has extensive experience in international intellectual property and contract cases.
  • Talbert, Hayley J.

    Seed IP Law Group, LLP | Partner

    Hayley devotes her time to strategic intellectual property counseling in the electrical, software, and mechanical arts, focusing on efficient and effective patent prosecution. She received a B.S. (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida (2004) and a J.D. from Willamette University College of Law (2008).
  • Talley, Monica Riva

    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, Darren square 200 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 Bio Square200 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_PHOTO_200 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.
  • Dr Stephen Thaler - 200 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 200 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.
  • Till, Mary

    Finnegan Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP | Of Counsel

    Mary C. Till is of counsel in Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP’s Washington, DC office. She leverages her over 30 years of experience in patent law to provide patent prosecution counseling services to a broad range of clients. Drawing on her insider’s perspective with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), her capabilities range from the representation of large corporations to startups and universities needing patent procurement, portfolio evaluations, and portfolio management and strategy services.
  • Tilley, Doug

    Braun Hagey & Borden | Partner

    Doug Tilley is a Partner at Braun Hagey & Borden, a nationally recognized litigation boutique with offices in San Francisco and New York. Doug represents plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes commercial disputes, including trade secret, employee mobility, fiduciary duty, contract, fraud, and intellectual property matters. He has substantial jury trial and arbitral hearing experience, and always crafts litigation strategies with that audience in mind. Doug also helps clients proactively minimize risk by advising on employment issues, intellectual property strategies, regulatory interpretation, and corporate governance.
  • 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.
  • Tishler, Sarah

    Beck Reed Riden LLP | Partner

    Sarah Tishler is a partner at Beck Reed Riden LLP, a nationally-recognized boutique litigation firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Sarah’s practice is concentrated on trade secret and restrictive covenant advising and litigation, employee mobility, and commercial litigation. Sarah has won successful outcomes for clients on both sides of these disputes in all stages of litigation, including the preliminary injunction stage, jury trials, and mediation. Sarah has also counseled clients on the identification and protection of trade secrets, and the enforceability of noncompetes and other restrictive covenants. Sarah was named by the Legal 500 in 2023 and 2024 in the area of Trade Secrets, and by Best Lawyers in 2026 as Ones to Watch for Commercial Litigation.
  • 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.