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  • Lamb, Loreto

    Intellectual Property Institute of Canada | Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Stakeholder Relations

    Loreto Lamb is a seasoned professional based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with over two decades of expertise in stakeholder relations, networking, and communications strategy. Loreto holds a key role at the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), where she is dedicated not only to promoting the value of intellectual property for business but also to leading Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives. A fervent advocate for positive and sustainable impacts, Loreto has been instrumental in steering IPIC towards becoming an award-winning organization. Her efforts in EDI have successfully implemented principles, practices, and programs aligning seamlessly with IPIC’s culture.
  • Lambert, Nancy M.

    Donaldson Company Inc. | Senior Corporate Counsel

  • Landers, Amy

    Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | Director of the Intellectual Property Law Concentration

    Amy L. Landers is the Associate Dean of Faculty Scholarship and Director of the Intellectual Property Concentration at the Drexel University School of Law. Formerly a partner in the Intellectual Property section of Orrick LLP, practicing primarily in Silicon Valley, Prof. Landers worked on a number of high-profile patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases. She has recently published the Fourth Edition of Understanding Patent Law (CAP 2024). Her works have been published in major law reviews, and concern patent law, remedies for infringement, and the interface between innovation and intellectual property law.
  • Amy-Landers-100 Landers, Amy L.

    Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program

    Professor Landers is an accomplished legal scholar and practitioner. She was previously distinguished professor of law and director of the Intellectual Property Law Concentration at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law.
  • Landolt Photo Landolt, Karen M.

    UT Austin McCombs School of Business | Lecturer

    I have been teaching, coaching, and leading in nonprofit, legal, and academic settings for over 20 years.
  • Lansberry Headshot 200 Lansbery, Kristan

    Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel

    Kristan Lansbery, Ph.D. is a Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., located in Tarrytown, New York. Kristan oversees global patent law matters as a Senior Director within the legal department of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Kristan has more than 15 years of corporate and law firm leadership experience.
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    Shook, Hardy & Bacon | Associate

    Alec is an associate at Shook, Hardy, and Bacon in Kansas City, Missouri where he focuses his practice on telecommunications and software patents. Prior to working at Shook, he worked at the University of Missouri’s Technology Transfer office.
  • Larsen, Per

    Holland & Hart | Partner

    Per Larsen is a Partner at Holland & Hart. Per’s practice focuses on patent counseling and domestic and foreign patent prosecution for the electronic and computer arts. He works with sophisticated technology companies to develop and manage their patent portfolios, and plays a key role in supervising and mentoring junior attorneys on patent-related matters.
  • Larus Photo Larus, Christopher

    Robins Kaplan, LLP | Partner

    For more than 25 years, Chris has helped his clients protect their intellectual property rights. He tries complex patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and licensing cases. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in courts throughout the country, and in both national and international arbitration.
  • Lattimer_Photo_200 Lattimer-Tingan, Chanel

    Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC | Staff Attorney

    Chanel Lattimer is an intellectual property attorney. Chanel's practice focuses on trademark and copyright prosecution, enforcement and litigation, internet domain and social media infringement, cybersquatting issues, and intellectual property transactional matters, including various IP agreements. Currently, Chanel is a Staff Attorney in the IP Group at Royer Cooper Cohen and Braunfeld and is also a freelance IP attorney.
  • Placeholder Image Female Lauchman, Layla

    United States Patent & Trademark Office | Acting Deputy Director, International Patent Legal Administration

    Layla Lauchman is the Acting Deputy Director of the International Patent Legal Administration (formerly PCT Legal) at the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Ms. Lauchman's staff provides training on the filing and prosecution of PCT and U.S. national stage applications to inventors, applicants, patent practitioners and paralegals.
  • Lea, Christy

    Knobbe Martens | Partner

    Christy Lea is Co-Chair of the Medical Device Litigation group at Knobbe Martens, where she has represented clients in medical device and other industries for over two decades. Christy excels in resolving high-stakes patent and trade secret disputes at both the trial and appellate levels. Recently, she achieved a significant claim construction ruling that led to a stipulation of non-infringement for a major medical device client. Additionally, she led a trial team to secure a complete defense jury verdict in a multi-patent infringement case. In another notable case, she co-led a trial team that won a $70 million jury verdict with $21 million in enhanced damages, in a trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit against a former vendor. The verdict was ranked #6 in IP and #21 overall for that year by The National Law Journal.
  • benjamin-leace-100 Leace, Benjamin E.

    Ratner Prestia | Shareholder

    Benjamin is a member of the RatnerPrestia’s Management Committee and devotes the majority of his time to handling litigation for our clients and the balance of his time in IP counseling and transactions.
  • Leaper, Matthew

    DataFeel | Founder & CEO

    Matthew Leaper is the Founder and CEO of DataFeel® - a B2B company working to commercialize a proprietary line of haptic technologies with broad applications in communications and therapy. Mr. Leaper is a registered professional engineer (NE, Mechanical) and patent attorney (USPTO, NJ, NY) with 10,000+ hours of billable experience at boutique intellectual property law firms on the American East Coast and the Canadian West Coast. He founded the company in 2017 and has been building its IP portfolio ever since, resulting in two issued US patents across six open patent families in Canada, Europe, and the US with dozens of pending or allowed claims and trademark protections in nine countries around the world.
  • LECOMTE_AIPLA_PIC_200 Lecomte, Linda

    Wuersch & Gering | Partner

    Linda Lecomte's practice concentrates on patent and trade secrets counseling, procurement, and acquisitions. She specializes in electrical, computer software, design, biomedical, aerospace, and mechanical arts. While she has litigated and arbitrated in the patent, trade secret, and licensing practices, in the US and assisting abroad, Linda enjoys strengthening IP portfolios and trade secret protocols. Prior to joining Wuersch & Gering, Linda was a partner at Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, including serving in their Germany office, for several years.
  • Ledeboer, Bernard

    V.O. Patents & Trademarks | Partner

    Bernard Ledeboer is a Board Member of the European Patent Litigators Association. He started his career as an Patent Attorney with V.O. in 1997. Before, he worked at a large law firm in Amsterdam. He holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering, and an LLM in Intellectual property litigation.
  • Bernard Ledeboer

    European Patent Litigators Association | Board Member

  • LaToya Lee

    Clarkston Consulting | Associate Partner

    LaToya works with global companies to guide them through transformational changes. LaToya has experience managing complex program developments for some of the world's largest companies. With a passion and deep expertise in diversity, equity, and inclusion, she has supported the growth of Clarkston's DE+I services, helping clients develop innovative strategies to improve inclusivity in the workplace. At Clarkston, LaToya leads their Quality and Compliance practice, is a delivery partner for their DE&I practice and is the Chair Emeritus of the firm's diversity council.
  • Lee_Headshot200 Lee, Dustin

    University of Maryland, Baltimore Office of Technology Transfer | Patent Attorney

    Dustin E. Lee is a patent attorney and leader of the medical device innovation team at University of Maryland, Baltimore Office of Technology Transfer. He was previously an engineer and attorney in private practice. Dustin received his BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, JD from Michigan State University, and MBA from the University of Maryland R.H. Smith School of Business with focuses on innovation management, strategy, and finance.
  • Lee, Paul

    Dexcom | Associate General Counsel

    Paul is currently an Associate General Counsel (Senior Director of Intellectual Property) at Dexcom, where he manages the company’s patent portfolio related to continuous glucose sensor technology. In this role, Paul provides legal services and counseling on matters related to intellectual property, including patent litigation, post-grant proceedings, patent procurement, product clearance, opinions, and licensing. Prior to Dexcom, Paul was an intellectual property attorney at Morrison & Foerster, where he conducted intellectual property due diligence investigations used by venture capital firms for investment decisions and developed IP strategy for startup medical device companies.