Speakers
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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). -
Connor, Cabrach
Connor Lee and Shumaker | Founding Partner
Cabrach Connor handles a wide variety of high-stakes business disputes and focuses on commercial disputes having core issues rooted in technology and intellectual property. Cab has extensive experience in patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation and regularly advises companies and individuals on strategic development, protection, and monetization of intellectual property assets. -
Connors, Michele
Cirrus Logic, Inc. | Assistant General Counsel
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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
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. -
Coyne, Patrick
Finnegan | Partner
Patrick is a trial and appellate attorney. His litigation experience includes patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret claims; licensing; related antitrust and unfair competition issues; general commercial litigation; products liability; and domestic and international arbitration. He also assists clients with strategic portfolio development and management. -
Crane, Sharon
Rothwell Figg | Partner
Sharon Crane is a counsel in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Washington, D.C. office. Her practice focuses on patent prosecution, opinion work, patent interferences, and post-grant practice at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Sharon also provides discerning representation to clients in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. -
Crouch, Dennis
University of Missouri School of Law | Law Professor
Dennis Crouch is a law professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, specializing in intellectual property and technology law. He is well known to the IP community as the founder and author of the popular site, Patently-O. Although a mechanical and aerospace engineer by training, Crouch has been involved with AI and software for decades. His Princeton University undergraduate thesis offered a novel model for neural network design that he termed fractal neural networks and offered an early example of using the massively parallel potential of the internet to facilitate machine learning. -
Crowne, James
AIPLA | Legal Affairs Consultant
James D. Crowne served as the Deputy Executive Director for Legal Affairs of the American Intellectual Property Law Association until his retirement in 2017 and now serves as a legal consultant. Mr. Crowne was primarily responsible for all intellectual property (IP) issues involving the judiciary. He advised the Board of Directors, the Executive Director and senior staff of the AIPLA on substantive and procedural legal issues. In that capacity, he participated in the preparation of nearly 100 AIPLA amicus briefs filed at the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He was also responsible for communicating AIPLA policy positions to the government, to members, and to the public. -
Crumbley, Kit
Bracewell | IP Litigation Partner
Kit Crumbley is an intellectual property litigation partner with Bracewell’s Austin office. He draws on his two decades of experience serving within the US Patent & Trademark Office and the Department of Justice to provide comprehensive intellectual property advice and counsel to businesses across all technology fields, with a particular focus on post-grant validity challenges and the appeals of those proceedings. -
Cruz, Veda
Gearbox Software | Associate Counsel
Veda Cruz is a young attorney who serves as in-house associate counsel at Gearbox Software, developer of the Borderlands games. She received her law degree and MBA simultaneously at the University of Miami, where she previously served as President of the Intellectual Property Law Society at Miami Law. She now resides in Texas, where she enjoys playing video games, reading books, or riding around town on her motorcycle. -
Cudkowicz, Ariel D.
Seyfarth | Partner
Ariel partners with clients to manage day-to-day workplace challenges and design solutions that align with company business goals and culture. When litigation is necessary, he aggressively defends his clients. -
Cuffman, Timothy
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Timothy Cuffman is an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, based in its New York office. He received a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and an executive editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. -
Cummings, Scott W.
Dentons | Partner
Scott Cummings is a leader of Dentons' Post-Grant Group of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice. Dentons’ Post-Grant practice has received national accolades. In the 2018 Patexia IPR Intelligence Report performance ratings, Dentons was ranked number 1 for Petitioner representation, and ranked number 4 overall. -
Cundiff, Victoria A
Paul Hasting LLP | Partner
Victoria A. Cundiff is a partner at Paul Hastings resident in New York, where she is a leader of the Firm’s nationally ranked global trade secrets litigation practice. She works with clients in industries including technology, software, media, financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and sales and distribution organizations. She has tried trade secrets and related commercial and intellectual property disputes throughout the United States and before a variety of arbitration and mediation tribunals. -
Cunningham, Isabella
University of Texas at Austin | Stan Richards Chair in Advertising and Public Relations
Professor Isabella Cunningham holds the Stan Richards Chair in Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the Academic Director of the Tower Fellows Program at the University. Dr. Cunningham serves on several academic committees and is a member of the School Budget Council. She also served as a member of the college Administrative Council, the University Curricular Task Force, the UT Presidential Enrollment Task Force and is a member of the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies School. Dr. Cunningham has served as a director on public and private companies’ boards and several non-profit boards and non-profit institutions including St. Edward’s Board of Trustees, the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.