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  • Ciesliga, Camille

    MaxCyte, Inc. | Associate General Counsel, Intelletual Property

    Camille Ciesliga is Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property for MaxCyte, Inc., a global cell engineering company driving the next generation of cell-based medicines based on proprietary flow electroporation technology. Ms. Ciesliga is a registered patent attorney with over 16 years of relevant legal experience providing strategic counseling relating to all aspects of intellectual property, including patent procurement, opinions drafting, client counseling, and litigation.
  • Cindy Huang Cindy Huang

    American Express | Counsel, IP Law & Strategy

  • Ciolino, Dane S.

    Loyola University New Orleans College of Law | Alvin R. Christovich Distinguished Professor of Law

    Dane S. Ciolino serves as the Alvin R. Christovich Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. His current scholarly and teaching interests at Loyola include Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Advocacy, and Criminal Law.
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    Bass Berry & Sims, PLC | Member

    For almost 30 years, Terry Clark has counseled technology companies on intellectual property related matters including patent portfolio development, strategic planning and IP protection through litigation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
  • Cleveland, Kristin

    Klarquist | Partner

    Kristin’s practice focuses exclusively on intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, and trade dress cases. She has extensive experience handling all phases of litigation, from obtaining favorable results in early motion practice, to efficient management of cases through discovery, claim construction, summary judgment and trial. She has a national trial practice, litigating in federal district courts around the country, and has argued at the Federal Circuit. Kristin is the chair of the Litigation practice group, serves on the firm’s management committee, and has served in the past as the firm’s managing partner.
  • Coe, Jeffrey

    ON Semiconductor | Sr. Director and Chief Information Security Officer

  • Coggins, Wynn 200 Coggins, Wynn

    US Department of Commerce | Acting Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration

    Wynn W. Coggins serves as the Acting Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration (CFO/ASA) to support efforts to further the Department’s mission of creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. Acting CFO/ASA Coggins was formally the Acting Secretary for the Department of Commerce after she was she was named by President Joseph R. Biden on January 20. 2021 to serve in that role. On March 3, 2021, Ms. Coggins became the Acting Deputy Secretary. The Commerce Department has an $11B annual budget, 12 operating units, and 47,000 employees.
  • june-cohan June Cohan

    United States Patent and Trademark Office | Legal Advisor in the Office of Patent Legal Administration

    June E. Cohan is a Legal Advisor in the Office of Patent Legal Administration at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Her duties at the USPTO include developing policy positions for examination issues, drafting and implementing rules, acting as a reexamination legal advisor for inter partes and ex parte reexamination proceedings, and providing examiner guidance and training.
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    Baker Botts | Partner

    Cynthia Cole is the Deputy Department Chair of the Corporate Section in the Palo Alto and San Francisco offices, as well as a former CEO and General Counsel. Her practice focuses on corporate, strategic and technology transactions and data privacy. She advises clients across a wide variety of industries including technology, retail, telecommunications, social media and life sciences. She acts as outside general counsel to a number of executive teams and boards of directors as well as advising on mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and joint development agreements.
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    Dumont | Managing Partner

    Laura Collada has been the managing partner of Dumont since 2008. She has many years of experience in the field of IP. Her practice covers the complete lifecycle of IP rights, from consultancy to application, and from enforcement to dispute resolution.
  • Collen IMG_square200 Collen, Bennett

    Endstate | CEO

    Bennett Collen is the cofounder/CEO of Endstate, a brand creating the future of product ownership through NFTs and sneakers. He is also an Adjunct Professor teaching Business Applications of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency at Boston College’s MBA program. Prior to Endstate, Bennett was founder/CEO of Cognate, which pioneered the use of smart contracts/NFTs to represent trademark rights. Cognate Acquired by GoDaddy 2018.
  • Collette, Elias

    Canada IP Office | Director General for Innovation, Science and Economic Development

    Elias Collette is the Director General of the Corporate Strategies and Services Branch at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). As a leader, Elias combines a people-first and data- driven approach to CIPO’s mandate to ensure that Canadians unlock the benefits of IP. Prior to coming to CIPO, Elias worked in the Chief Information Office Branch at the Treasury Board Secretariat, and the Real Property Branch at Public Services and Procurement Canada.
  • Collin, Sean

    Elastic NV | Vice President Legal for Innovation

    Sean Collin is Vice President Legal for Innovation (Product, IP, Marketing) at Elastic NV, the world's largest B2B and B2G search, observability, and security software company. He was educated at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand (BCom. LLB (Hons)) and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (LLM (Dist.)). He has been called to the Bar in New Zealand, New South Wales, Australia, and in both New York and California in the United States. He has lectured at Universities, Institutes and Global Conferences in 20 countries on international IP law and technology business.
  • Collins, Lisa

    BakerHostetler | Partner

    Lisa Collins is a partner at BakerHostetler and leads the Intellectual Property team in Atlanta. Her practice focuses on the business and defense of intellectual property, including licensing, tech transactions, indemnification, IP strategy, trade secrets, portfolio management and patent, trademark and technology litigation. Lisa’s extensive litigation background, integrated with her transactional work in intellectual property, allows her to have a deeper understanding of her clients’ business needs and concerns and to bring value to their businesses.
  • Giuseppe Colucci

    LyondellBasell | Lead Counsel

    Giuseppe is a European Patent Attorney and qualified to become a litigator before the upcoming UPC. He teaches in courses leading up to the European Patent Litigator qualification organised by the Politecnico of Milan. He is a board member of the EPLIT (European Patent Litigators Association) and a member of the Litigation Committee of the epi (Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office).
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    Cirrus Logic, Inc. | Assistant General Counsel

  • Correia, Jared

    Red Cave Law Firm Consulting | CEO

    Jared D. Correia, Esq. is the CEO of Red Cave Law Firm Consulting and the COO of Gideon Software. Red Cave offers subscription-based law firm business management consulting for law firms and bar associations. Gideon provides end-to-end intake solutions for high-volume law firms, with included document assembly and esignature features. Correia is a former practicing attorney. He is an internationally-recognized legal technology export, and frequent speaker for legal organizations.
  • Cotton, Amy

    US Trademark Office | Acting Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy

    Amy Cotton is the acting Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy. In this role, Ms. Cotton oversees the Offices of Trademark Policy, Petitions, and ID-Class, as well as the Trademark Assistance Center, the Office of Trademark Quality Review and Training, the Trademark Law Library, Customer Experience, and Trademark Outreach.
  • Courage, Noel

    Bereskin & Parr LLP | Partner

    Noel Courage is a partner in the intellectual property law firm Bereskin & Parr LLP which has offices in Toronto and Montreal, Canada. He is a lawyer and a US and Canadian patent agent. Noel helps with patenting and licensing of life science inventions. Noel has been helping companies and universities commercialize their inventions internationally for over 20 years.
  • Covey_Will_200 Covey, Will

    USPTO Office of Enrollment and Discipline | Deputy General Counsel and Director

    As Deputy General Counsel and Director for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED), Will Covey is responsible for ensuring that the nation's patent attorneys and agents are of good moral character and sufficiently knowledgeable to practice before the USPTO Mr. Covey's team of attorneys and other professionals develop and administer a registration examination designed to measure applicants' knowledge of patent law and practice. Successful applicants are registered to practice by OED. In addition, OED investigates complaints of unethical conduct made against individuals practicing patent or trademark law before the USPTO.