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  • 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.
  • Koch, Peter

    PENFORCE | Partner

    Peter is a patent litigator by heart. He assists German and international clients when aggressively enforcing their IP rights or vigorously defending alleged claims of infringement. His main focus is the representation in patent infringement, patent invalidity as well as patent entitlement proceedings. Peter is also handling cases relating to utility models, trade secrets and patent-related anti-trust law and he has substantial experience in license negotiations and IP monetization. His further areas of interest include advising start-up and VC-investments in IP-focused business.
  • Kocialski, Molly

    USPTO | Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional United States Patent and Trademark Office

    As the Regional Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), since January 2016, Mollybeth (Molly) Kocialski carries out the strategic direction of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and is responsible for leading the Rocky Mountain regional office. Focusing on the nine states within this region and actively engaging with the community, Ms. Kocialski ensures the USPTO’s initiatives and programs are tailored to the region’s unique ecosystem of industries and stakeholders.
  • Koempel-Thomas, Bea

    Lee & Hayes | Patent Attorney/Partner

    Bea leads Lee & Hayes’ International Practice. She advises and assists clients on a variety of intellectual property issues including drafting patent applications for international prosecution to enhance the business value of assets and managing international patent portfolios.
  • Koenigsberg, I. Fred

    Retired | Past President, AIPLA

    I. Fred Koenigsberg has spent his career as an attorney specializing in copyright and related intellectual property law. A graduate of Cornell University (B.A., 1967), the Annenberg School of Communications of the University of Pennsylvania (M.A., 1969) and Columbia Law School (J.D., 1972), Koenigsberg spent the first 18 years of his career as in-house counsel for the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP). He then went into private practice as a partner in White & Case, LLP, from which he retired at the end of 2011.
  • Köhler, Martin

    Hoyng ROKH Monegier | Partner

    Martin Köhler has been an attorney since 1998. He is specialized in patent infringement litigation. Martin regularly represents clients in the areas of electronics, telecoms, mechanical and chemical engineering, automotive technology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. He has been lead counsel in numerous patent litigation proceedings including parallel proceedings in other EU countries, the US and in China, Korea and Japan.
  • Kokjohn 200 - Photo Kokjohn, Sydney

    Donaldson Company | Counsel

    Sydney R. Kokjohn is intellectual property counsel at Donaldson Company, Inc. (Bloomington, MN), a global leader in the filtration industry. Prior to joining Donaldson, she worked as a patent attorney at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP in Chicago, IL. Before attending law school, Sydney graduated from Iowa State University (B.S., Chemical Engineering) and was a product development engineer at 3M.
  • Violetta-Kokolus-100 Kokolus, Violetta A.

    Dechert, LLP | Partner

    Violetta Kokolus advises on complex technology and intellectual property transactions.
  • Kole_Pat_200 Kole, Patrick

    Idaho Potato Commission | Vice President Legal & Government Affairs

    Patrick Kole is the Vice President, Legal & Government Affairs for the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC). Mr. Kole has practiced law for the past fourty-two (42) years. He has specialized for the last thirty-one (31) years with the IPC, where he focuses on legal and policy issues impacting agriculture; market access issues, including developing new markets for Idaho® potatoes; and research and technology issues. Mr. Kole has litigated certification mark cases, registered certification marks in jurisdictions around the world and developed legislation that amended the U.S. Lanham act. He has testified before the U.S. Congress several times. Mr. Kole also manages IPC’s government affairs at the Federal, State and local levels and directs the IPC’s Trademark licensing program.
  • Kong, T.O.

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Partner

    T.O. focuses on patent infringement actions, with a particular emphasis on the representation of prominent generic pharmaceutical companies in Hatch-Waxman Act litigation.
  • Konishi, Kay

    Konishi & Nagaoka IP Firm

  • Konkoly-Thege, Kaniah

    Quantinuum | Senior VP Government Relations

    Kaniah Konkoly-Thege serves as the Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President of Government Relations for Quantinuum. Kaniah brings over 20 years of legal expertise spanning several industries including cybersecurity, nuclear security, and quantum computing technologies. Kaniah oversees Quantinuum’s legal and government affairs, where she leads a global team responsible for intellectual property, data privacy/security, commercial, corporate, employment, export control, litigation and compliance. In her government relations role, she regularly meets with key government and congressional leaders on trade concerns with emerging technologies, post-quantum cybersecurity preparedness, and supply chain matters.
  • Korn, David

    Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) | Vice President, IP and Law

    David Korn is Vice President, Intellectual Property and Law for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). He focuses on IP and related issues in Congress, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and other agencies, as well as amicus briefs in cases of interest to PhRMA. He has degrees in biomedical engineering from Duke and Northwestern and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
  • JENNIFER KOVALCIK Kovalcik, Jennifer

    Community Health Systems | Vice President, Technology and Intellectual Property Counsel

    Jennifer is Vice President, Technology & Intellectual Property Counsel for Community Health Systems.