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  • Emerson, Lauren

    Leason Ellis | Partner

    Lauren Emerson co-chairs the Trademark and Copyright Practice Group at Leason Ellis where she helps clients establish and enforce intellectual property rights. Lauren counsels household names and new ventures alike across a diverse array of industries including consumer products, fashion, payment technology, energy, telecom, medical devices, retail, software, automotive, and food and beverage.
  • Engellenner, Tom

    Engellenner Law | Principal

    Tom Engellenner is a member of the bar of Massachusetts and New York, and a former President of the Boston Patent Law Association. Tom’s practice includes patents, licensing, trademarks, and litigation. He has more than 40 years of experience in prosecuting and litigating patents and advising clients generally on intellectual property strategies.
  • England, Benjamin

    FDAImports.com, LLC. | CEO & Founder

    Mr. England is the CEO and Founder of Benjamin L. England & Associates, LLC and FDAImports.com, LLC. He routinely represents domestic and foreign companies of all sizes before federal and state regulatory agencies, assisting them in complying with all FDA, CBP, USDA, FTC, EPA, and state requirements. His representation enables his clients to better make, market and move highly regulated products into and around the USA including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, dietary supplements, foods and cosmetics. With over 100 years of former FDA experience in house, his firms, Benjamin L. England & Associates, LLC and FDAImports.com, LLC, have extensive experience in all areas of FDA and CBP compliance as well as pre-market filings (drugs, devices, and dietary supplements) including INDs, IDEs, 510(k)s and EUAs for COVID-related medical products).
  • Ergmann200 Ergmann, Jessica

    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard's Office of Strategic Alliances | Associate Director

    Jess Ergmann is an experienced patent and transactional attorney who is passionate about supporting the development of life saving medical technologies. She has spent the last 12 years developing business focused IP strategies for early stage and large, global companies and VCs in the life sciences field. Jess is currently the Associate Director of Legal at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a research organization dedicated to understanding the root cause of disease, where she focuses on negotiating strategic collaboration and license agreements, developing IP strategies, and managing legal operations. She is also passionate about mentoring and currently serves as the Chair of the Mentoring Committee of AIPLA. Jess is also the past Chair of AIPLA's Corporate Practice Committee.
  • Eric W. Sporre

    Federal Bureau of Investigation | Special Agent in Charge, Tampa Field Office

  • Erik Combs

    Pirkey Barber PLLC | Associate

    Erik Combs focuses his practice on trademark, copyright, and unfair competition law.
  • robert-esposito-100 Esposito, Dr. Robert A.

    RatnerPrestia | Associate

    Dr. Robert A. Esposito is a registered Patent Attorney with over nine years of experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the areas of Electrical and Computer technology.
  • Evan Gumz Evan Gumz

    Hanzo, Inc. | Senior Account Executive, EDiscovery

    Evan is an attorney with a decade of experience in eDiscovery. At Hanzo Evan helps law firms and enterprises find solutions for preserving and collecting dynamic web content including social media, websites, video, and collaborative platforms to the highest standards in authenticity and legal defensibility.
  • Hence Evans200 Evans, Andrea H.

    The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans | Principal

    Andrea Hence Evans, Esq. launched the intellectual property law practice, The Law Firm of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC. Attorney Evans career path is unique since she worked at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for 5 years as both a patent examiner and a trademark examining attorney after graduating from law school.
  • Evans, Jeremy

    California Sports Lawyer | Founder & Managing Attorney

    Jeremy M. Evans represents entertainment, media, and sports clients in contractual, intellectual property, and dealmaking matters. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurs, athletes, entertainers, models, directors, television showrunners and film producers, studios, writers, individuals and businesses in contractual, intellectual property, formation, production, distribution, negotiation, and dealmaking matters.
  • Eyler_Dean_square 200 Eyler, Dean

    Lathrop GPM LLP | Partner

    Dean Eyler is a partner at Lathrop GPM in Minneapolis, where he practices intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. Dean has more than two decades of experience litigating intellectual property cases, with particular emphasis in trademark and unfair competition litigation. Dean has been repeatedly recognized by World Trademark Review, where he has been described as “a go-to on complex or unusual disputes” and “an exemplary brief writer and persuasive oral advocate.” He is the past chair of AIPLA’s Trademark Litigation Committee, and currently the vice-chair of the Trademark Law Committee.
  • Fanchiang, Eric

    Crowell & Moring | Associate

    Eric Fanchiang is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Orange County office and is a member of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Group. His practice focuses primarily on antitrust litigation for both defendants and plaintiffs and on government investigations. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including technology, transportation, and digital media. Eric represents his clients on a wide range of antitrust issues including standard setting, trade association policies, misuse of patents and trade secrets, and price fixing.
  • Farley, Christine Haight

    American University Washington College of Law | Professor of Law

    Christine Haight Farley is a Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law where she teaches Intellectual Property, Trademark Law, Contracts, Art Law, and Advertising Law. She serves as Co-Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and previously served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs. At American, Professor Farley has received the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Edwin A. Mooers Scholarship Award. She has been a visiting professor at Boston University, the University of Paris West, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Havana, Monash University, and the National Law University in Lucknow, India, and has given lectures on intellectual property in more than twenty-five countries.
  • Farrell, William Farrell, Jr., William P.

    Longford Capital Management, LP | Managing Director and General Counsel

    Bill is responsible for the overall operations of Longford Capital, with a particular focus on transaction sourcing, investment selection, and portfolio management.
  • Fechner, Holly 200 Fechner, Holly

    Covington & Burling LLP | Partner

    Holly Fechner is a Partner at Covington & Burling LLP and Executive Director of Invent Together. Invent Together is dedicated to understanding the gender, race, and other diversity gaps in invention and patenting, and supporting public policy and private initiatives to close them. Nationally ranked by Chambers, Fechner is co-chair of Covington’s technology industry group and received the 2019 American Lawyer Magazine "Dealmaker of the Year" award. Fechner formerly served as Policy Director for Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Chief Counsel for the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee. She graduated from Oberlin College and received her law degree from the University of Michigan.
  • Feldman, Jeffrey D. 200x200 Feldman, Jeff

    Trailblazer | Partner and Co-Founder

    Jeff maintains an active trial and appellate practice, focusing on complex civil and criminal matters.
  • Feng-200 Feng, Li

    Finnegan | Partner

    Dr. Feng practices patent litigation before U.S. district courts, post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), patent prosecution, opinions and counseling, and due diligence.
  • Ferrill, elizabeth square200 Ferrill, Elizabeth D.

    Finnegan | Partner

    Elizabeth Ferrill is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Finnegan LLP. Elizabeth counsels clients who hold design patents as well as those accused of infringement. She has prosecuted families of design patents before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), directed prosecution in foreign countries, and argued appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). She also litigates design patent matters at the U.S. district court level that include trade dress claims.
  • Fiacco_Barbara200 Fiacco, Barbara A.

    Foley Hoag, LLP | Co-Chair, Patent Litigation Practice

    Barbara Fiacco is Co-Chair of the Patent Litigation Practice and represents clients in complex intellectual property and patent litigation matters. Her technology-related practice focuses on the biomedical field, including counsel to companies with activities focusing on recombinant DNA, monoclonal antibodies, small molecule compounds, drug delivery, molecular diagnostics, and medical devices. She has defended pharmaceutical and life sciences clients in significant patent infringement lawsuits that have resulted in summary judgment or other favorable outcomes for her clients. Barbara is also the Immediate Past President of AIPLA
  • Finell, Judith

    Judith Finell MusicServices | Musicologist

    Judith Finell is a musicologist and the president of Judith Finell MusicServices Inc., a music consulting firm in New York and Los Angeles, founded 25 years ago in New York. Since then, she has served as consultant and expert witness involving music copyright infringement, advised on artist career and project development, and a wide variety of music industry topics. Recently, Ms. Finell was honored to be the 2018 commencement speaker at UCLA’s Herb Albert School of Music. She was also interviewed by NBC/Universal for a 2018 documentary entitled “The Universality of Music,” in which she discussed the ways in which she sees music as being an international language that can bridge cultural barriers that spoken language does not.