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  • Walter Bratic Bratic, Walter

    Whitley Penn | Forensic, Litigation & Valuation Managing Director

    Walter Bratic is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner with more than 30 years of public accounting experience serving a broad spectrum of clients with litigation and valuations both domestically and internationally. Walter has testified in federal, district, bankruptcy, and state court, ICC, ITC and AAA proceedings and has served as a court-appointed expert.
  • Braun, Kerri

    Cisco Systems, Inc. | Senior Corporate Counsel

    Mrs. Kerri Braun has worked more than 20 years in the field of IP after receiving J.D. and Masters in IP from Franklin Pierce Law Center. She worked in law firms in Atlanta until going in house in 2011, prosecuting patents and trademarks, negotiating license agreements, litigating complex intellectual property matters, and formulating robust trade secret protection programs. Kerri is currently Senior Corporate Counsel, AI/ML, Trade Secrets, and Data Strategy for Cisco Systems, Inc., where she designs and implements solutions for minimizing risk and protecting some of Cisco’s most valuable assets.
  • Brauneis, Robert

    George Washington University Law School | Professor of Law and Co-Director

    Robert Brauneis is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Program and the Center for Law and Technology at the George Washington University Law School. After earning his J.D. magna cum laude at Harvard Law School, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (later Justice Breyer), and to Justice David H. Souter.
  • Breslin, Patrick

    Breslin Consulting | CEO

    Pat Breslin, CEO of Breslin Consulting, is an economist and expert in IP damages, valuation, and economic and financial analysis. He has 25 years of experience in litigation and other dispute resolution contexts, in multiple country jurisdictions. IP types valued include patents, trademarks, trade secrets, technology, know-how, and copyrights. Pat has valued energy- and environmentally-related technologies, and transactions in the oil and natural gas industries.
  • Brinckerhoff_square200 Brinckerhoff, Courtenay

    Foley & Lardner LLP | Partner

    Courtenay Brinckerhoff is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, a Vice Chair of the firm’s IP Department, and immediate past Vice Chair of the firm’s Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice. Over the past 25 years, Courtenay has represented clients in the life sciences space before the U.S. Patent Office, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, including in a multi-party interference proceeding, PTAB trial proceedings, and ANDA litigation. She also is the editor and primary author for the firm’s PharmaPatents blog.
  • Brock, Sean

    GSK | U.S. Vice President

    Sean Brock is an intellectual property strategist focused on protecting and facilitating innovation in the life science sector. He currently serves as the U.S. vice president for pharmaceutical patents at GSK. Over his career, Sean has provided IP guidance to sole inventors, academic institutions, start-ups, midsized biotechs, and some of the world’s largest healthcare companies. He has experience securing and asserting IP rights, defending against infringement allegations, structuring IP transactions, shaping legislation, and almost everything in between.
  • Brody-Tom-200 Brody, Tom

    Affiliated with Patnstr, APC | Independent Consultant

    Presently, Tom is an independent consultant doing patent prosecution work for four different companies in southern California. Tom has 18 years of patenting experience in biotechnology, immunology (vaccines, antibodies, CAR T-cells, dendritic cells), organic chemistry, medical devices, and mechanical devices.
  • Brougher, Joanna

    Indivior, PLC | Patent Attorney

    Joanna is a patent attorney who focuses her practice on all aspects of services related to patents in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including patentability opinions, patent drafting, domestic and foreign patent prosecution, development and management of patent portfolios, and general client counseling during all phases of a product’s lifecycle, from concept to commercialization. Joanna’s patent experience covers a variety of complex and innovative inventions involving small molecule drugs, biologics, cell-based technologies, compositions, drug formulations and drug delivery systems, immunotherapeutics, medical devices, diagnostic tests, nanotechnology, and immunology, particularly vaccines and antibodies. Joanna also has experience counseling clients on the Hatch-Waxman Act and is monitoring developments involving biosimilars under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act.
  • Daniel Brownstone Daniel Brownstone

    Fenwick & West LLP | Partner

    Daniel Brownstone is a partner in the Intellectual Property group of Fenwick & West LLP.
  • Brownstone, Daniel R.

    Fenwick | Partner

    Dan pairs his knowledge of computer science and economics with his experience in strategic intellectual property and patent counseling to offer companies of all sizes unparalleled IP guidance. Dan collaborates closely with both established enterprises and emerging startups as they evolve and leverage new technologies, such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence, to ultimately drive growth and success by taking a holistic and strategic approach to their intellectual property portfolios. His diverse client base includes companies in financial and consumer services, fintech, software, and aviation. Software companies like Dropbox and New Relic turned to Dan for their first patents, helping ensure they had a strong footing to grow into the major industry players they are today. Dan also manages large patent portfolios for more mature companies, including working with WhatsApp to strategically grow and manage their portfolio prior to the company’s acquisition by Meta.
  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

    NYU Department of Politics

  • Bruce D. Sunstein

    Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

  • Bruce, Shelby

    3M | Senior Trademark Counsel

    Shelby Bruce is Senior Trademark Counsel at 3M where she supports a majority of the divisions in the Safety and Industrial Business Group globally. In this role, Shelby is the primary trademark attorney for these divisions with responsibility for portfolio management, counseling, enforcement, anti-counterfeiting, and trademark agreements. Prior to joining 3M in 2017, Shelby was an Associate at Norton Rose Fulbright in Minneapolis where she worked on a variety of trademark and copyright matters.
  • Bruno, Enrica

    Steinfl+Bruno, LLP | Founder and Partner

    Enrica Bruno is an EPO-Qualified U.S. Patent Attorney, Founder and Managing Partner of the firm Steinfl + Bruno LLP. Enrica is past Co-Chair of the AIPLA Harmonization Committee, and AIPLA IPP in Europe Committee as well as Liaison of the California Lawyers Association to the US Bars EPO Liaison Council, and CEIPI tutor. Enrica has extensive professional experience in the U.S. and Europe in drafting prosecuting and managing world-wide patent portfolios as well as developing intellectual property strategies to protect innovations, in biotechnology, chemistry and other technical fields.
  • Bryant, Robert G.

    Technoir, LLC | Founder

    Robert G. Bryant holds a BS in Chemistry, and a Doctor of Science - honoris causa from Valparaiso University, and a MS and Ph.D. from the Polymer Institute at the University of Akron. He joined NASA Langley Research Center as a Materials Engineer in 1990 focusing on aerospace polymers and composites, and has held the following positions: Research Materials Engineer, Branch Head, and Chief Engineer for Materials and Structures. In 2012, Dr. Bryant formed a consulting firm, Technoir LLC which has grown in size with members offering subject matter expertise in areas related to materials, processing, structural design, testing and analysis.
  • gatling_kimberly_200 Bullock Gatling, Kimberly

    Fox Rothschild LLP | Partner and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer

    Greensboro attorney Kimberly Bullock Gatling has built a reputation for her expertise in the field of intellectual property, licensing and litigation, while contributing to the growth of the legal profession in her role as partner and the first chief diversity & inclusion officer for one of the nation’s most prestigious law firms, Fox Rothschild LLP.
  • Burgin Waller, Beth

    Woods Rogers | Principal

    As chair of the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice at Woods Rogers, Beth’s practice is fully devoted to managing technology related risks related to cybersecurity, data privacy, and artificial intelligence (AI). Beth’s credentials in the field are extensive. Chambers USA ranked Beth among its top attorneys nationally in its cybersecurity and privacy rankings in 2025. Clients interviewed by the guide said that she is a trusted legal partner known for her sharp expertise, commercial insight, and practical problem-solving.
  • Hopkins-200 Burke Hopkins, Lavonne

    Dell Technologies | Senior Legal Director, Cybersecurity, Product & Application Security and Dell Digital (IT)

    Lavonne Burke Hopkins currently serves as Senior Legal Director, Cybersecurity, Product & Application Security and Dell Digital (IT) for Dell Technologies, Inc. In this role, Lavonne is responsible for providing key legal support to Dell’s Chief Information Security Officer and global cybersecurity and IT organizations.
  • Burke, Joshua

    Pirkey Barber PLLC | Senior Counsel

    Josh Burke is Senior Counsel at Pirkey Barber PLLC where he handles a wide range of trademark matters including searching and clearance, prosecution, enforcement, and licensing. Prior to joining Pirkey Barber last year, Josh spent 22 years at General Mills as Senior Intellectual Property Counsel - Trademarks, managing their global portfolio of beloved food brands, including Haagen-Dazs, Betty Crocker, Lucky Charms and Cheerios. Josh has a BA in Economics from Grinnell College and a JD with High Distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law.
  • Burke, Julie

    IP Quality Pro, LLC | Founder

    Julie Burke PhD, is a former quality assurance specialist at the US Patent and Trademark Office. She has a BA in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of London College of Science, Technology and Medicine. After being a constant thorn in management's side for nearly 20 years’ at the US Patent and Trademark Office, Dr. Burke worked 5 years as a Patent Scientist for Knobbe Martens and then founded her own consulting company, IP Quality Pro LLC.