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How IP Strategies for New Technologies Can Open Gateways

Moderator: Dina Kallay, Ericsson, Inc., Washington, DC

Speakers:

Benjamin Siders, Lewis Rice, St. Louis, MO
Michele Herman, JusTech Law, Bellevue, WA
John Lyon, Thomas Hortemeyer, Atlanta, GA
David Marr, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

Presented by the Electronic and Computer Law, Copyright Law, and Standards and Open Source Committees.

Speakers

• Herman, Michele

  JusTech Law, PLLC | Founder

  Michele’s practice at JusTech Law focuses exclusively on legal and business issues affecting technology development and commercialization such as technology standards, open source software, and intellectual property transactions.
• Kallay, Dina

  Ericsson, Inc. | Head of Antitrust

  A global antitrust lawyer, with unique international antitrust experience, including agency experience from both the U.S. (FTC) and E.U (DG COMP) and extensive work on Asia-Pacific competition issues.
• Lyon, John

  Thomas Horstemeyer, LLP | Partner

  John’s practice areas at Thomas | Horstemeyer include electrical/computer patent prosecution, litigation, and open source software licensing.
• Marr, David

  Qualcomm Inc. | Vice President, Legal Counsel

  Dave Marr is Vice President, Legal Counsel at Qualcomm Technologies, where he currently leads the open source practice and policy team. Dave’s background in the fields of technology transfer and community licensing practices and has been involved in open source in various capacities since 1998.
• Siders, Benjamin J.

  Lewis Rice, LLC | Member

  Ben serves as Practice Group Leader for the Intellectual Property practice group at Lewis Rice in St. Louis, Missouri. Ben enjoys a diverse intellectual property practice that includes patent and trademark prosecution, technology licensing and compliance, and copyright licensing and enforcement. Ben is an avid gamer and former C software engineer, and he now enjoys a niche practice working with video game and board game companies, and he holds a patent on "parallel reality" games (No. 9,078,103). Within AIPLA, he is the current Chair of the Copyright Law Committee and the copyright liaison to the AI Task Force, and he was the lead author on AIPLA’s amicus brief in Warner Chappell v. Nealy. He also co-hosts a podcast called A Lawyer’s Guide to the Galaxy, which explores the intersection of geek culture and the law (but is mostly an excuse to talk about Star Wars).