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  • Burke, Julie

    IP Quality Pro, LLC | Founder

    Dr. Julie Burke is founder of IP Quality Pro LLC, where she acts as an expert witness on patent office procedures and practices. From 1995-2000, Julie examined patent applications directed to cancer treatments. She was promoted into management in Technology Center 1600, where she drafted petition decisions, reviewed quality of Office actions and allowances and evaluated patent examination practices to identify targets for quality improvement.
  • Buss, Melissa E.

    3M Company | Assistant Chief Intellectual Property Counsel & Global IP Team Leader

    Melissa is an Assistant Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and Global IP Team Leader at 3M Company based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been practicing law for 3M since her graduation from law school in 2000. She is the currently the Global IP Team Leader for 3M’s Industrial Adhesives & Tape Division, which has the largest product portfolio within 3M with $3 Billion in WW sales. After the COVID pandemic started, Melissa was asked to become the Global IP attorney for 3M’s Disposable Respirator Business, which includes N95 masks, and has approximately $1.5 Billion in WW sales. Prior to these assignments, Melissa was the Global IP Team leader for a large Health Care Division with over $1 Billion in WW sales.
  • Marla Butler Marla Butler

    Thomson Hine | Partner and Firmwide Chair, Divesity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative

    Marla Butler is a Partner in the Business Litigation and Intellectual Property practice groups at Thompson Hine LLP. She represents clients in the medical, semiconductor, power, networking and other high-tech industries in high-stakes commercial litigations, arbitrations and trials.
  • Byrne, Linda

    The Toro Company

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    IBM Corporation | Chief Trademark Counsel

    Valerie L. Calloway is Managing IP Law Attorney and Chief Trademark Counsel for IBM. Ms. Calloway leads the global team that legally protects IBM’s brands and manages administrative matters globally for IBM’s IP Law Department. Prior to joining IBM, Ms. Calloway served as Chief IP Counsel for two companies, where she worked at each to maintain, enforce, and continue developing global intellectual property portfolios. During her more than 20 years of practice in the intellectual property profession, Ms. Calloway has worked as both in-house and outside counsel for several Fortune 1000 firms. Prior to attending Law School, Ms. Calloway was employed in manufacturing management.
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    Patterson + Sheridan LLP | Associate

    Kyrie Cameron joined the firm in 2015 and has since developed a diverse range of technical expertise, with special emphasis on energy, oil and gas, and electronics and semiconductor technologies. Inspired by a love for science and strong family ties to the legal industry, Kyrie obtained her undergraduate degree in biology from Baylor University and immediately began carving out a reputation for herself as a valued contributor at South Texas College of Law.
  • Camillo, Nick

    Volkswagen Group of America | Senior Counsel

    Nick Camillo is Senior Counsel at the Volkswagen Group of America. He is a registered patent attorney who started his career prosecuting software patents on behalf of a top Fortune 50 software company. He also has experience prosecuting electrical, mechanical, and biomedical patents. Although starting his legal career in the patent field, His practice has since expanded to include a variety of legal issues, including promotional contracts, federal intellectual property (“IP”) litigation, advertising and marketing counseling, privacy law, search and seizure of counterfeit goods, and domestic and international IP enforcement and portfolio management, among others.
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    The Proctor & Gamble Company | Director & Assistant General Counsel

    Jason has served as in-house patent and brand counsel with The Procter & Gamble Company for over 20 years, leading the IP strategies of numerous consumer products business units, including Fabric & Home Care, Beauty Care, Feminine Care, Corporate Innovation, Oral Care, and Personal Health Care.
  • Camusso, Alberto

    Jacobacci Avvocati | Partner

    Alberto Camusso is a partner in the Turin office of Jacobacci Avvocati. Alberto's practice covers all areas of intellectual property, with a strong focus on patent and trade secrets litigation. He routinely acts for major international clients assisting them in devising and implementing IP rights enforcement strategies. He has acted in landmark cases before the Italian courts, including the Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice, and in various opposition cases involving legal issues before the European Patent Office.
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    Canady + Lortz LLP | Founding Partner

    Dr. Karen Canady is managing partner of the Los Angeles office of canady + lortz LLP, where she specializes in patent prosecution and client counseling, primarily serving universities and start-ups in the biotechnology industry. Her technical emphasis is in diagnostics and therapeutics, including vaccines, stem cells, biomarkers, personalized medicine, gene therapy, and recombinant molecules.
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    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Partner

    Amy Candido is a trial lawyer who focuses on high-stakes, complex intellectual property matters. She has extensive experience litigating patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and other IP in “bet the company” cases nationwide on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. Amy has tried numerous jury and bench trials, securing courtroom victories in a variety of difficult cases. Her trial victories include The National Law Journal’s Top Verdict of 2014 and three complete defense verdicts in the Eastern District of Texas.
  • Cao Photo Cao, Wen

    Shanghai Office of NTD | Senior Partner

    Ms. Cao serves as the principal of NTD Shanghai Office.
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    United States Patent and Trademark Office | Associate Solicitor

    Kakoli Caprihan is an Associate Solicitor at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. As Associate Solicitor, Kakoli serves as legal counsel to the United States Patent and Trademark Office on intellectual property law matters. Kakoli has more than 20 years of experience as an attorney in both public and private practice, and has been pursuing her current role with the USPTO since November 2012.
  • Christopher V. Carani Carani, Christopher V.

    McAndrews, Held & Malloy | Shareholder

    Chris has extensive experience litigating design patent cases, including representations before U.S. district courts, the Federal Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court and the ITC. In 2015, IAM Magazine included Chris in its IAM Patent 1000 referring to him as one of the U.S.’s “pre-eminent design law experts.” In the 2016, IAM Magazine noted that he “is one of the nation’s top design patent specialists.”
  • Carlson, Sonja

    Microsoft | Senior Corporate Counsel

    onja Carlson is Senior Corporate Counsel supporting Microsoft’s Cloud + AI engineering groups, and Co-Chair of the Women’s Employee Resource Group (400+ membership) for Microsoft’s legal group. She is lead counsel for the Dynamics 365 Customer Service group and the Project “Sophia” engineering group (focused on generative AI innovation), advising on a range of cutting-edge technologies and issues, including Artificial Intelligence, data use and privacy, Intellectual Property, and Competition Law.
  • Carpenter, Megan

    UNH Franlin Pierce Law School | Law School Dean

    Megan M. Carpenter is dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law. Dean Carpenter is an internationally known expert in intellectual property, with particular interests in entrepreneurship, branding, and the arts. Prior to joining UNH Law, Dean Carpenter was founder and co-director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University School of Law, where she also served as Professor of Law and Faculty Director of three intellectual property and entrepreneurship-related clinical programs.
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    American University Washington College of Law | Professor of Law

    Michael W. Carroll is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (2009 – present). He teaches and writes about intellectual property law and cyberlaw. Professor Carroll's research focuses on the search for balance in intellectual property law over time in the face of challenges posed by new technologies. His research includes projects about the social costs imposed by one-size-fits-all intellectual property rights and about the history of copyright in music.
  • Cartwright, Karishma Jiva

    Pierce Atwood | Associate

    Karishma Cartwright focuses her practice on drafting and prosecuting software-based patent applications, including machine-learning algorithms and AI systems, for large and small corporations, startups, and universities. She also has experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions for the following technology areas: business methods, financial methods, network communications, electronics, medical devices, and mechanical systems.
  • Cary, Judson

    CableLabs | Vice President & Deputy General Counsel

    Judson Cary is Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at CableLabs, a non-profit research and development organization owned by the global cable industry. He also serves as General Counsel of the Society of Cable and Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), the ANSI-accredited standards body for the cable industry.
  • cassell, Justin-Square Cassell, Justin

    Workman Nydegger | Shareholder

    Justin counsels clients on patent procurement, intellectual property due diligence, validity and infringement, strategic international IP protection, post-grant proceedings, and preliminary patent enforcement and defense actions.