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  • Kendall, Elizabeth

    Caterpillar inc. | Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property

    Elizabeth R. Kendall is a patent attorney at Caterpillar Inc. Her practice focuses on a variety of aspects of intellectual property law, including drafting and prosecuting design, plant, and utility patent applications for U.S. and foreign patent offices, as well as performing state-of-the-art, patentability, freedom-to-operate, and validity analyses in the electrical, mechanical, biomedical, chemical, and nuclear arts.
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    Venner Shipley, LLP | Partner

    Richard Kennedy is a European and UK patent attorney, and a partner at Venner Shipley LLP, a full-service IP law firm based in the UK.
  • Kepler, Tracy L

    CNA | Rick Control Consulting Director, Lawyers' Professional Liability Program

    Tracy L. Kepler is the Risk Control Consulting Director for CNA’s Lawyers Insurance Program. In this role, she designs and develops content and distribution of risk control initiatives relevant to the practice of law. She collaborates with the underwriting and claims teams to develop and execute strategies for the profitable growth of the program. Tracy lectures frequently at CNA-sponsored events and at state and local bar associations and national seminars hosted by industry-leading organizations. She also writes articles focusing on law firm risk control and professional responsibility issues.
  • Esther Kepplinger Esther Kepplinger

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Chief Patent Counselor

    Esther Kepplinger is Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's chief patent counselor. Her responsibilities include serving as the firm's liaison to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), ensuring that all of its patent filings are conducted in the most efficient and defensible manner, and enhancing the firm's inter partes PTO practice.
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    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.
  • Kesan, Jay P.

    Key Kesan Dallmann PLLC | IP Litigator and Scholar

    Jay P. Kesan, Ph.D., J.D., is a well-recognized and accomplished patent attorney for over 25 years. He has been actively involved in every aspect of patent litigation – as counsel, Special Master, appellate counsel, expert, and in mediation and arbitration. Jay has also served as an expert in numerous patent lawsuits in the communication and computer areas. He worked for several years as a research scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He is an inventor and holds 20+ U.S. patents. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and he received his J.D., summa cum laude, from Georgetown University. He was Professor and H. Ross & Helen Workman Research Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 24+ years.
  • 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.
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    Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

    Sikander Khan specializes in building AI patent portfolios.
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    Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox | Associate

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

    The George Washington University Law School | Stevenson Bernard Professor of Law

    The Honorable F. Scott Kieff is the Stevenson Bernard Professor at GW Law School, founder of Kieff Strategies, and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. After nomination by President Obama and unanimous confirmation by the Senate, he was Commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission from 2013-2017. He served during the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations as an SGE in the SES in the national security defense intelligence community as well as on matters of economics, innovation, and oversight and compliance. He was previously a professor of law and medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis and a Senior Fellow at Hoover. A former law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge Giles S. Rich, he is a graduate of Penn Law School and MIT, where he studied molecular biology and microeconomics. He was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2012 and the Academia Europaea in 2024.
  • 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, Alexander

    Greenberg Traurig | Patent Prosecution Shareholder

    Alex Kim is a Patent Prosecution Shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Minneapolis office. He protects companies’ innovations and secrets by developing strategic company policies and programs. He also protects companies’ inventions by acquiring patents and the associated monopoly rights for the companies. Alex has wide-ranging experience in prosecuting patent applications in front of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
  • 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.
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    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.