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  • Albright, Alan

    US District Court, Western District of Texas | United States District Judge

    Judge Alan Albright is the federal district judge for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division. He was nominated by President Trump in January 2018, Judge Albright earned his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law where he was a member of the Texas Law Review. He clerked for The Honorable James R. Nowlin in Austin, Texas. From 1992–99, he served as a Magistrate Judge. In 2016 he was admitted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is also a member of the American Law Institute. Prior to taking the district court bench in 2018, Judge Albright practiced IP litigation as a partner in the Austin office of Bracewell, LLP. He has run 26 marathons. Judge has two sons and he some day aspires to write his first novel.
  • 0 Jason Alder

    Cellairis Franchise Inc. | General Counsel

    Jason Adler is General Counsel, Vice President, and Secretary for Global Cellular, Inc. located in Alpharetta, Georgia. Mr. Adler is responsible for handling all legal matters for Cellairis and its affiliates, which cover a wide range of legal and business issues including franchise (registration and system compliance), litigation matters, corporate governance and regulatory matters, intellectual property, real estate, labor and employment, celebrity and endorsement law, social media/information technology matters, insurance/risk management, and mergers and acquisitions both in domestic and international forums.
  • Ali-Emil-200 Ali, Emil

    McCabe & Ali, LLP | Partner

    Emil J. Ali provides legal representation of professionals across many regulated industries to limit, defend, and deflect liability in regulatory and professional conduct investigations, enforcement actions, arbitrations, and court cases.
  • Alley200 Alley, Ryan

    Ryan Alley IP Law | Patent Attorney & Engineer

    Mr. Alley provides comprehensive patent procurement and strategy to a broad array of clients. Mr. Alley has prepared and filed hundreds of new patent applications and thousands of responses to office actions, petitions, and appeal briefs in the USPTO in provisional, utility, and design applications, for PCT, foreign-prepared Paris convention, and drafted-from-scratch domestic applications. In cleantech, he has worked with the entire spectrum of clients, from individual inventors, to multi-national conglomerates, to lean start-ups working toward safe and effective global decarbonization.
  • Almeling, David

    O’Melveny & Myers LLP | Partner

    David Almeling is a partner in the San Francisco office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP and one of the country’s leading attorneys in trade secret law. IAM Patent 1000 calls him a “trade secret authority” and “one of the country’s best trade secret litigators.” And Legal 500 lists him as one of nine lawyers nationwide in its Hall of Fame for trade secrets. In addition to representing clients on trade secret matters, David has taught trade secret law at UC Berkeley Law School for the last five years. He has testified at the invitation of Congress on safeguarding trade secrets. His book, Trade Secret Law and Corporate Strategy, is now in its fourth edition. And he is Vice Chair of the Sedona Conference Working Group on trade secrets, which comprises more than one hundred of the leading lawyers, judges, and academics in this field.
  • Al-Shaer, Maram

    Washington University in St. Louis School of Law | 2nd Year Law Student

    Maram Al-Shaer is a second-year law student at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. She has technical experience in the field of computer science primarily relating to cybersecurity and privacy.
  • Altman, James B.

    Foster, Murphy, Altman & Nickel, PC | Attorney

    James Altman represents U.S. and foreign clients in unfair trade litigation, concentrating on Section 337 investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
  • Ambrose, Joseph

    Quarles & Brady | Associate

    Joe Ambrose is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He focuses his practice on all aspects of domestic and international patent preparation and prosecution and assists clients with patentability analyses and infringement and invalidity assessments. Joe’s practice further includes preparing and prosecuting design patents.
  • James-Amend Amend, James M.

    JAMS | Case Manager

    James M. Amend, Esq. brings over 40 years of intellectual property experience to his JAMS practice, including seven years as Chief Circuit Mediator for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  • Anastasi, Salvatore

    Barley Snyder | Partner

    Sal Anastasi is a patent attorney and chairs the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He counsels clients on all aspects of intellectual property, including domestic and international patent preparation and prosecution and intellectual property litigation. He prepares and prosecutes U.S. and international patent applications in the electrical and electromechanical arts including communication systems, control systems, optics, software, business methods and Internet-related technologies, and also prepares and prosecutes trademark applications. Sal litigates intellectual property matters and prepares licensing agreements, patentability, trademark, validity and infringement opinions.
  • Anderson-Maria-01-WEB 2015-08-01 Anderson, Maria

    Knobbe Martens | Partner

    Ms. Anderson joined the firm as a partner in the Seattle office in January 2008. Ms. Anderson has extensive experience in comprehensive, strategic client counseling in all aspects of intellectual property. She has been very active in the prosecution of patent applications in the computer science and ecommerce fields since 1993.
  • Andreoli, Angelica

    Shook Hardy & Bacon | Patent Attorney

    Angelica’s practice focuses on patent prosecution and intellectual property counseling. She represents clients in all aspects of preparation and prosecution of U.S. and international patent applications in a number of diverse technology areas. Angelica is committed to assisting clients in acquiring, protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights across various technological domains. These include computer software and technology; artificial intelligence, including large language models; life sciences; biotechnology; telecommunications; scanning devices; and mechanical arts. Her knowledge and experiences have equipped her to navigate complex patent matters with precision and proficiency. Angelica currently serves on secondment for a multinational e-commerce company.
  • Nicole Wanty

    Talem IP Law LLP

  • Anna-Naydonov Anna Naydonov

    Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP | Partner

    Anna Naydonov’s practice focuses on trademark and false advertising litigation. She routinely litigates high-stakes cases for some of the world’s most renowned brands before federal trial and appellate courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Anne M. Murphy

    Beckman Coulter Life Sciences | Chief IP Counsel

  • Anoff, Ali

    Procter & Gamble | Director & Assistant General Counsel - Patents

    Ali Anoff is Director and Assistant General Counsel at Procter & Gamble. She is the primary patent attorney for renowned brands such as Olay® skin care, as well as Old Spice®, Secret®, and Native® antiperspirant and deodorants. Ali provides strategic legal counsel to the business to create and protect global intellectual property assets. Her practice focuses on IP strategy development, preparation and prosecution of global patent applications, conducting freedom-to-practice assessments and enforcement.
  • Antcliff_C&R_Profile square200 Antcliff, Jennifer

    Carpmaels & Ransford | Partner

    Jenny is a partner in the firm’s Dispute Resolution team. Her patent litigation expertise focusses on biotechnology and pharmaceutical products, including blockbuster small molecule drugs, therapeutic antibodies, enzyme replacement therapies and orphan medicines. Jenny also specialises in complex SPC litigation and associated regulatory advice, many cases involving references to the CJEU or EFTA Court, including C-493/12 Eli Lilly v Human Genome Sciences, E-16/14 Pharmaq v Intervet, C-577/13 Actavis v Boehringer Ingelheim, C-443/17 AbraxisBioscience and, most recently, Teva v Janssen Pharmaceutica (Xeplion).
  • Aquilina Photo Aquilina, James

    Quarles & Brady, LLP | Partner

    James J. Aquilina is a member of the Intellectual Property practice group and has extensive practice experience in all aspects of U.S. intellectual property law.
  • Aristedes Mahairas Aristedes Mahairas

    Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | Special Agent in Charge

    He has served as the FBI's Legal Attache' in Athens, Greece, and was a Supervisor on the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
  • Armitage 200 Armitage, Robert A.

    AIPLA Past President

    Bob Armitage is a consultant on IP strategy and policy. Mr. Armitage served for a decade as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Eli Lilly & Co. Prior to assuming his general counsel role at Lilly, he had been Lilly’s Vice President and General Patent Counsel and a Partner with Vinson & Elkins, LLP.