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  • Kearns_Jason200 Kerns, Jason E

    United States International Trade Commission | Commissioner

    Jason E. Kearns, a Democrat of Colorado, is the Chair of the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC). Chair Kearns was nominated to the USITC by President Barack Obama on January 17, 2017; renominated by President Donald Trump on June 29, 2017; and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 1, 2018. He was sworn in as a member of the Commission on April 2, 2018, for a term expiring on December 16, 2024. President Trump designated him Chair for the two-year term expiring June 16, 2022.
  • Kessler, Allison (2)200 Kessler, Alison

    LifeSci Consulting

    Alison Kessler is Principal Member and Founder of LifeSci Consulting LLC, where she guides Life Sciences companies through decision-making processes on matters ranging from strategy, intellectual property, and business development. With over 20 years’ experience, Alison has served as General Counsel at Cosette Pharmaceuticals; Vice President, Global Head of Intellectual Property at ConvaTec; Global Head of Patents at Novartis Consumer Health; and US Head of IP, Business Development & Licensing at Sandoz. Alison began her legal career at Goodwin Procter LLP focusing on IP matters in both the corporate and litigation groups.
  • Kewalramani, Shashi H.

    US District Court, Central District of California | United States Magistrate Judge

    Shashi H. Kewalramani was appointed as a United States Magistrate Judge in 2017. Prior to his appointment, Judge Kewalramani maintained a private practice handling intellectual property and commercial litigation on the defense and plaintiff side for his clients, federal criminal defense, and state and federal investigation matters. He is a registered patent attorney, previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central and Northern Districts of California, and was a law clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Schell, the then-Chief Judge in the Eastern District of Texas.
  • Khan, Azam

    Lexset.AI | Co-Founder and COO

    Azam Khan has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries. Azam co-founded Lexset in 2018 and served as the Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, they worked at Intellectual Ventures from 2012 to 2018, holding positions such as Director of Business Development and Director of New Ventures. Before their time at Intellectual Ventures, they worked at USPTO as Deputy Chief of Staff from 2011 to 2012 and at the United States Department of Commerce as a Special Advisor from 2009 to 2011. Azam also briefly served as a Legal Advisor at ICO-EUSR The International Civilian Office - European Union Special Representative in 2009. In 2007, they worked for Obama for America in various roles including Regional Field Director.
  • Khan, Sikander

    Flagship Patents | Founder

    Sikander Khan is the founder of Flagship Patents—a patenting lab in Palo Alto that specializes in building full-stack AI patent portfolios spanning software, hardware, bioinformatics, and medical devices. He believes in describing an AI invention two levels deeper than what has been the norm for patent applications. His patent applications emphasize writing that is technically meticulous, with scope aligned with the clients’ current business goals and desired market positions. His experience includes embedding with AI teams of market leaders like Salesforce and Illumina and developing their AI patent portfolios from inception. He also works with the hottest AI startups in the Valley like SambaNova, Normalyze, and SafeGraph.
  • Sikander Khan web Khan, Sikander M.

    Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

    Sikander Khan specializes in building AI patent portfolios.
  • Khanduri Photo Khanduri, Pratibha

    Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox | Associate

    Pratibha Khanduri, Ph.D., is an associate in Sterne Kessler’s Biotechnology & Chemical Practice group.
  • Kiepura, Helena

    DLA Piper LLP | Partner

    Helena Kiepura is a partner in the Patent Litigation group at DLA Piper LLP (US). She specializes in Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission, and also represents clients in patent and trade secret matters in federal district court and in inter partes review proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Helena has a strong technological background that includes a degree in biology and a wide variety of patent litigation experiences, and examples of the products she has litigated include semiconductors, computer hardware and software, beverage dispensing devices, construction materials, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas equipment, and medical aesthetic technology.
  • Kim, Nicholas Kim, Nicholas

    Microsoft | Senior Attorney, IP Litigation

    Nicholas Kim is a Senior Attorney at Microsoft Corporation and focuses on IP litigation. Mr. Kim joined Microsoft from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division, where he was a trial attorney in the Intellectual Property Section. Before that, Mr. Kim was a patent attorney in private practice in Washington, DC.
  • King, Anna

    Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. | Senior Shareholder

    Anna concentrates her practice on issues arising under trademark, unfair competition, domain name, and copyright law. Her experience in these fields of law includes counseling, prosecution and registration of applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office, internet, licensing, enforcement, oppositions and cancellations. Anna also counsels clients in protecting their trademark portfolios worldwide.
  • Jeffrey Kinrich Kinrich, Jeffrey H.

    Analysis Group | Managing Principal

    Mr. Kinrich consults on cases involving financial and economic analysis, accounting, business valuation, statistics, and mathematical modeling.
  • Kinsel, Grant

    Perkins Coie | Partner

    Grant Kinsel protects the integrity and worth of patents held by some of the world’s largest technology companies, and defends those same companies from claims of patent infringement. Eschewing formulaic roadmaps, Grant’s litigation strategies are distinctive for their effectiveness, efficiency, and novelty, frequently resulting in early, pre-trial resolution and added value for his clients. Getting the right result in patent litigation requires a commitment to creativity, and Grant’s bottom-up approach ensures that the optimum strategy is deployed for each case. Grant designs a strategy—from initial discovery, to motion practice, and ultimately through trial and appeal—to achieve the optimum result tuned to the particular case, client, and facts.
  • Kitch Photo Kitch, Paul

    Greer Burns & Crain | Partner

    Paul R. Kitch is a partner with Greer, Burns & Crain in Chicago with significant experience in IP prosecution, litigation, and client counseling.
  • klapow200 Klapow, Mark

    Crowell & Moring LLP | Partner

    Mark A. Klapow is a partner in the firm's Litigation Group. He litigates complex commercial and intellectual property disputes, including trade secrets cases. Mark has represented Fortune 500 companies including Alcoa, AT&T, Caterpillar, Dow, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Intel, Lenovo, Molson Coors, and Western Union in federal and state courts across the country.
  • Klein Klein, Halie

    Pace Gallery | General Counsel

    Halie Klein is the General Counsel of Pace Gallery. As General Counsel, she negotiates and drafts agreements and provides strategic advice to Pace on all of the company’s legal matters, including contractual matters, artist agreements, corporate governance, compliance and, most recently, NFTs.
  • Klein, Sheldon

    Lathrop GPM | Senior Counsel

    Sheldon Klein served as President of AIPLA and the U.S. section of AIPPI in 2018-2019 and has held numerous other leadership roles in the Association. His practice focuses on trademark, copyright, unfair competition, advertising, and social media, including availability and infringement opinions, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, and transactions. Sheldon has handled numerous opposition and cancellation proceedings before the USPTO’s Trial and Appeal Board, including a successful opposition, last year, against an application to register BACH N ROLL MUSIC ACADEMY based on his client’s mark BACH TO ROCK.
  • Kliebenstein, Heather

    Merchant & Gould | Partner

    Specializing in intellectual property litigation, Heather served as the chair of Merchant & Gould’s litigation group and now as the Managing Partner. Her work focuses on complex intellectual property disputes involving copyright, trademark, patent, false advertising trade secret and contract claims. Heather is an adept communicator. Focusing on jury trials, Heather connects with juries by simplifying complex concepts and focuses on strategy development at each stage of litigation to prepare the case for trial. Heather graduated from the University of Texas School of Law.
  • Knight, Sarah 200 Knight, Sarah

    Talem IP Law | Partner

    Sarah Knight is a founding partner of Talem IP Law, managing their patent practice group. She was the chair of AIPLA’s Patent Law Committee from 2017 to 2019. Sarah has a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida (go Gators!). She is a guest lecturer in their Electrical and Computer Engineering Department with the selfish purpose to inspire and identify future IP practitioners (that she can hire).
  • Knowles, Sherry

    Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies | Principal

    Sherry M. Knowles is an intellectual property attorney with 30 years of experience in global corporate and private practice. From 2006-2010, Ms. Knowles was the Senior Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline, where she served as the worldwide head of patents for all litigation and transactional matters, and managed a global department of over 200 people in 12 offices, including in the US (3 offices), Europe (7 offices), China (1 office) and Australia (1 office). At GSK, Ms. Knowles was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, the Technology Investment Board, the Product Management Board, the Legal Management Team and she led the Global Patents Executive Team.
  • Koblitz, Sara200 Koblitz, Sara W.

    Hyman, Phelps & McNamara | Associate

    Sara W. Koblitz advises FDA-regulated clients on a range of issues with a particular focus on Hatch-Waxman patent and exclusivity, biosimilars, and the Orange Book. She helps drug and device manufacturers in various stages of product development and guides clients through the applicable regulatory requirements with respect to applications and submissions, device classification, potential exclusivities, promotional issues, and post-marketing requirements.