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  • Aaron Fahrenkrog

    Robins Kaplan

  • Mary Abbajay

    Careerstone Group | President

    Mary Abbajay, author of the best-selling Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss is the president of Careerstone Group, LLC, a full service organizational and leadership development consultancy that delivers leading-edge talent and organizational development solutions to business and government.
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    University of Surrey School of Law | Professor of Law and Health Sciences

    Ryan Abbott is Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Partner at Brown, Neri, Smith & Khan, LLP, and a mediator and arbitrator with JAMS.
  • Abe, James

    Alston & Bird | Partner

    James Abe is a partner at Alston & Bird. James focuses on IP litigation and represents many Japanese companies. He is currently the chair of the AIPLA’s Diversity in IP Law Committee. He also chair’s Alston’s Los Angeles Office’s Diversity Committee and is a member of the Los Angeles IPLA Diversity Committee.
  • Abramson, Brian 200 Abramson, Brian Dean

    Treatise Author and Lecturer

    BRIAN DEAN ABRAMSON is the primary author of Vaccine, Vaccination, and Immunization Law, the most comprehensive treatise written with respect to this field of law, published by Bloomberg Law in cooperation with the American Health Law Association in November 2018. Brian previously worked for Bloomberg Law, for whom he authored the vaccine injury claims chapter of Court of Federal Claims: Jurisdiction, Practice, and Procedure, and for whom he wrote extensively in the fields of health and international privacy law.
  • acosta_laura_200 Acosta, Laura

    Goodwin | Managing Director, Diversity, Equity + Inclusion

    Laura Acosta helps organizations unlock collaboration and innovation by disrupting the status quo. She is Managing Director of Diversity, Equity + Inclusion at Goodwin, a global 50 law firm with a history of working on groundbreaking matters and an increasingly focused approach to working with clients in the financial, private equity, real estate, technology and life sciences industries.
  • Adalberto Jordan

    US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

  • adamo-kenneth-r 200 Adamo, Kenneth

    Law Offices of Kenneth R. Adamo | Founder

    Ken has extensive trial experience as lead counsel in jury and nonjury cases before state and federal courts and before the United States International Trade Commission, as well as ex parte and post-grant PTAB experience in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has had substantial experience as lead counsel in arbitrations and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings, and actively practices before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, having appeared in over 45 appeals to date.
  • Adams, Brian photo200 Adams, Brian

    Qualcomm | Associate Patent Counsel

    Brian Adams is Associate Patent Counsel at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. where he currently supports the open source practice and policy team. He has been practicing in the open source legal field since 2012, delivering strategic advice on the Linux Kernel, OpenWrt, and Android. He primarily supports WiFi, Bluetooth, meshnet, IoE and related technologies. Brian is Co-Chair of the IP Licensing & Related Issues Committee at the IPO
  • Adams, Marianne

    Major League Baseball | Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property

    Marianne C. Adams joined the Major League Baseball legal team in 2009, while still attending law school, and upon graduation assumed the role of a trademark attorney. In her current position she handles a wide variety of worldwide intellectual property issues for all of the Major League Baseball entities, including the 30 Major League Baseball clubs, the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball and other MLB-related entities. Her day-to-day practice focuses on domestic and international trademark prosecution, litigation and clearances, as well as quality control review and enforcement matters.
  • Adrian Looney

    Pfizer Inc.

  • Adriana Luedke

    Lockheed Martin Corporation | Director and Associate General Counsel

  • Afshar, Mimi

    North Carolina Central University Law School | Professor and Director of Patent and Trademark Law Clinics

    Mimi Afshar, Professor and Director of Patent and Trademark Law Clinics, North Carolina Central University Law School, Durham, NC Professor Mimi Afshar is the Director of the NCCU Intellectual Property Clinic, and the supervising patent attorney for the Patent Clinic. Prof. Afshar brings almost 18 years of combined private-practice and outside counsel experience to NCCU’s Intellectual Property department, including her experience as a chemical engineer in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Agarwal, Gunjan

    Fox Rothschild LLP | Partner

    A registered patent attorney, Gunjan works closely with domestic and international clients to assist in development and management of worldwide patent portfolios. Her practice includes preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the United States and internationally; opposition and appeal proceedings; strategic patent counseling; preparation of intellectual property (IP) related opinions (e.g., invalidity opinions, non-infringement opinions, freedom to operate opinions, etc.); preparation, negotiation and enforcement of nondisclosure, research and development and licensing agreements.
  • Age, Sabine

    Hoyng Rokh Monegier | Partner

    Sabine has dedicated herself to patent litigation for more than 20 years. She is particularly involved in matters with cross-border aspects implying multiple parallel foreign litigations. She developed particular expertise in matters relating to standard-essential patents in the electronics and telecommunications areas. She is also active in the fields of biotech, pharmacy, chemistry and medical devices, as well as that of domestic appliances and convenience goods. She is active in many professional national and international associations, a regular speaker in conferences and a lecturer on patent litigation in various university courses. Sabine is the managing partner of the French offices.
  • Aistars, Sandra

    Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy | Senior Fellow for Copyright Research and Policy

    Sandra Aistars is Senior Fellow for Copyright Research and Policy and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2). She also leads the law school’s Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Program. Professor Aistars has over twenty years of advocacy experience on behalf of copyright and other intellectual property owners. She has served on trade missions and been an industry advisor to the Department of Commerce on intellectual property implications for international trade negotiations; worked on legislative and regulatory matters worldwide; frequently testified before Congress and federal agencies regarding intellectual property matters; chaired cross-industry coalitions and technology standards efforts; and is regularly tapped by government agencies to lecture in U.S. government-sponsored study tours for visiting legislators, judges, prosecutors, and regulators.
  • Akhlaghi, Babak

    Managing Director | NovoTech Patent Firm

    Babak Akhlaghi serves as the Managing Director of NovoTech Patent Firm, an intellectual property law firm based in Washington, D.C. Distinguished for his expertise in patent law, Mr. Akhlaghi focuses his practice on patent preparation and prosecution, particularly within the fields of electrical engineering and computer science. He has successfully secured patents for groundbreaking technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, medical devices, semiconductors, and mobile applications.
  • Albagli, David

    White & Case | Partner

    David Albagli, PhD is a Local Partner in White & Case's Global Intellectual Property Practice, based in Tokyo since 2010. His practice focuses on intellectual property spanning patent litigation, prosecution, opinion work, patent portfolio development, pre-litigation counseling, and due diligence investigations, as well as technology transactions, license agreements, and trademark matters. Dr. Albagli advises on a wide range of intellectual property and transaction-related matters in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology sectors.
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    Baker Botts | Senior Associate

    Julie Albert's practice centers on branding, advertising and copyright law, ranging from intellectual property litigation to counseling on trademark and copyright law, design patents, trade secrets, gray market and counterfeiting issues, trade dress, domain name disputes, social media and advertising.
  • Daniel Albrecht Daniel Albrecht

    Procter & Gamble | Senior Counsel

    Daniel Albrecht is Senior Patent Counsel at the Proctor & Gamble Company. Dan focuses primarily on patent matters, including client counseling and development of global patent filing strategies, preparation and prosecution patent applications, infringement, clearance, and validity opinions.