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  • Vishnubhakat Photo Vishnubhakat, Saurabh

    Texas A&M University School of Law | Professor of Law

    Saurabh Vishnubhakat writes and teaches on intellectual property law, civil procedure, and administrative law, particularly from an empirical perspective.
  • Vo, Nikki

    Meta Platforms, Inc. | Director and Associate General Counsel

    Nikki is a Director and Associate General Counsel at Meta Platforms, Inc. where she helps to manage the company’s litigation docket, with a focus on IP litigation. In addition, her team is responsible for counseling the company on a wide range of legal issues, ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to the metaverse and CDA 230. Currently, her work focuses on managing the global litigation docket involving artificial intelligence and regulations of news content on Meta’s platforms.
  • Voegtli, Naomi

    Honeywell Aerospace | Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel

  • von Muhlendahl, Alexander

    Bardehle Pagenberg | Professor

    The practice of Professor Alexander von Mühlendahl, Dr. iur., J.D., LL.M. (Northwestern) includes providing advice and conducting litigation in the areas of German, European and international trademark, design and unfair competition law.
  • Voyles, James

    Lewis Roca | Of Counsel

    James Voyles is of counsel in the firm's Regulatory and Government Practice Group. James is an experienced lawyer and advisor with significant regulatory, litigation, compliance, legislative, and transactional experience. He provides advice to organizations across numerous sectors that include infrastructure, energy, natural resources, utilities, sportsmen and outdoor recreation, financial institutions, conservation, and real estate. James has successfully handled matters that include permitting energy and infrastructure projects, utility commission proceedings, environmental due diligence, land and species conservation, land use and access, legislative analysis, and notice and comment rulemaking.
  • Wade, Matt Picture200 Wade, Matt

    HP, Inc. | Senior Litigation Counsel

    Matt Wade is a senior litigation counsel with HP inc. In his current role at HP, he coordinates and oversees various intellectual property litigation and provides advice on a wide range of other intellectual property matters.
  • Eric F. Wagner Eric F. Wagner

    Duke University | Associate Director / Legal

    Eric F. Wagner, PhD, JD joined the Duke University Office of Licensing and Ventures (OLV) in May 2009.
  • Wagner, Matthew

    PDC Brands | General Counsel

    Matt Wagner is General Counsel of PDC Brands, a global leader in wellness and personal care headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. PDC’s portfolio includes category-leading brands such as Cantu®, Dr Teal’s®, Eylure®, and Body Fantasies®, sold at major retailers throughout the U.S., U.K., and in more than 80 markets worldwide.
  • Wahl, Bryan. M.D.

    Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: TARS) | General Counsel

    Bryan Wahl is a physician, attorney, and pharmaceutical executive, serving as the General Counsel at Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: TARS) since January 2021 and leading the Legal, Compliance, and Innovation teams. Tarsus has launched the first and only FDA approved treatment for Demodex blepharitis. Bryan is board-certified in internal medicine and also continues to practice medicine as a hospitalist physician since 2002, taking care of patients on the wards and in the ICU.
  • Walker, C200 Walker, Christopher

    The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law | Professor of Law

    Christopher Walker is the John W. Bricker Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Walker clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and worked on the Civil Appellate Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented federal agencies in a variety of regulatory contexts. His publications have appeared in the California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among others. Outside the law school, he serves as one of forty Public Members of the Administrative Conference of the United States and as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He blogs regularly at the Yale Journal on Regulation.
  • wallace_david_200 Wallace, David

    Johnson & Johnson | Group Leader, Health Technology Team

    David Wallace is a member of the Johnson & Johnson Law Department, and Group Leader of the Health Technology Team. In his role as Group Leader, David’s primarily responsible for day-to-day activities regarding the patent aspects of the health technology initiatives across the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies.
  • Waller, Beth Burgin

    Woods Rogers | Principal

    Elizabeth Burgin Waller is a Principal at Woods Rogers. As chair of the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice at Woods Rogers, Beth’s practice is fully devoted to cybersecurity, data privacy, and artificial intelligence (AI). She is a certified Privacy Law Specialist by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), which is accredited by the American Bar Association. In addition, she is a Certified Information Privacy Professional with expertise in both U.S. and European law (CIPP/US & CIPP/E) and a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), also from the IAPP.
  • Wang, Xinghao

    Alibaba Group | Director of Global IP Enforcement

  • Jenifer Ward

    General Electric | Executive IP Counsel - GE Store, Critical Technologies at General Electric Company

  • Ward, Trenton A.

    Greenberg Traurig | Shareholder

    Trenton A. Ward has over 20 years of experience in patent law, including serving for five years at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) as a Lead Administrative Patent Judge, among other roles. While serving as a Patent Judge, Trenton adjudicated more than 250 America Invents Act (AIA) trial proceedings, encompassing inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) proceedings. Trenton leverages his experience from the bench to provide the highest level of advocacy to clients on intellectual property matters.
  • ware_donald_square200 Ware, Donald

    Foley Hoag LLP | Partner & Co-Chair of IP Litigation Group

    Donald Ware is a partner and co-chair of the IP Litigation Group in the Boston office of Foley Hoag LLP. His practice focuses on patent litigation, licensing, and counseling. Don has decades of experience in life sciences patent and inventorship disputes, in which he represents global biopharmaceutical companies, universities, and research institutions. He also represents universities and their licensees in Bayh-Dole matters, including Bayh-Dole march-in proceedings.
  • Warrick, Philip

    Irell & Manella LLP | Partner

    Philip Warrick is based in the Washington, DC office of Irell & Manella LLP, where his practice focuses on intellectual property, including litigation, appellate, and policy matters. Philip has practiced IP law for nearly 20 years, including experience spanning private practice and all three branches of government. He most recently worked in the Solicitor’s Office at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, where he advised on intellectual property and administrative law matters and represented the agency in federal court. He also served as the agency’s IP counsel detailee to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee with Senator Christopher A. Coons.
  • Wasserman, Melissa

    University of Texas at Austin - School of Law | Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law

    Melissa Wasserman joined the University of Texas law faculty in 2016. Her research focuses on the institutional design of innovation policy, with a particular emphasis on patent law and administrative law. Her articles have been published or are forthcoming in both student edited law reviews and peer review journals including Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Texas Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, and American Economics Journal: Economic Policy. Professor Wasserman serves as one of forty Public Members of the Administrative Conference of the United States and served on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association.
  • wassom, brian Square200 Wassom, Brian D.

    Warner Norcross & Judd LLP | Partner

    Brian litigates disputes and counsels clients in a wide range of commercial and intellectual property matters. He has developed a particular focus in matters of creative expression, commercial identity and privacy, which spans the legal doctrines of copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, advertising, journalism and related fields.
  • Watanabe, Yuichi

    Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP | Partner

    Yuichi Watanabe is a partner of Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP, a Houston-based international IP law firm with seven established offices in the United States, France, China, and Japan. Yuichi is well-versed in all facets of U.S. patent law. He represents both domestic and foreign clients across a wide spectrum of industries and is involved in virtually every aspect of patent practice including application drafting and prosecution, due diligence, licensing, district court litigation, ITC investigations, opinion preparation, and global patent portfolio management.