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  • Krall, Noreen

    Apple, Inc. | Former Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel

    Noreen is the former Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel for Apple Inc. She was responsible for all aspects of Apple’s global commercial and intellectual property litigation. She lead a team that handled one of the largest litigation dockets in the industry, including competitor and NPE patent litigation in venues across the globe, class actions, competition law cases, commercial disputes, mass tort, small claims and subpoenas.
  • Kramer, David B.

    Gemini Risk Partners, LLC | Principal

    David provides insurance brokerage and risk management to law firms nationwide. He oversees the procurement of professional liability insurance and delivery of risk management services to law firms ranging from one attorney to over 200 attorneys for approximately 200 law firms in 26 U.S. states. He also speaks nationally to various legal associations on insurance and risk.
  • Kresh Mugshot (002) Kresh, Joshua

    George Mason University, Center for Intellectual Property & Innovation Policy | Managing Director

    Joshua Kresh is the Managing Director of the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2) at George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School. He was previously an Associate with DLA Piper in Washington, D.C., where he practiced patent litigation. Joshua received his law degree with honors from The George Washington University Law School, and he holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in computer science from Brandeis University. Joshua is the Chair of AIPLA’s New Lawyers Committee and Co-Mentoring Chair of the Giles Rich American Inn of Court, and he is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Krish Gupta

    Dell Technologies | Senior Vice President, Litigation and Intellectual Property

  • Kristin Neuman

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  • Kronengold Photo Kronengold, Steve

    SRK Law Offices | Team Leader

    With over 25 years of experience, Steve Kronengold, our team leader, advises clients regarding a broad range of business law issues.
  • Kujak, Angela

    The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Senior Director, OSAP Legal Practice

    Angela Kujak is the Senior Director and Head of the OSAP Legal Practice at the Broad Institute and a registered patent attorney. She oversees Broad's intellectual property portfolio, guiding the strategic management of its patents and IP assets. Angela leads a team of over 15 legal professionals, structuring, drafting, and negotiating agreements related to Broad’s strategic transactions, partnerships, and new company formations. Before joining Broad, she held senior roles at UCLA’s Technology Development Group and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
  • Margorzata-Kulczycka-100 Kulczycka Ph.D., Malgorzata (Gosia) A.

    Hickman Palermo Becker Bingham, LLP | Partner

    Dr. Kulczycka is a Partner at Hickman Palermo Becker and Bingham LLP. Her practice emphasizes client counseling, and strategic patent prosecution with special expertise in computer networks, Internet-related technologies, computer software, telecommunications, computer graphics, and electronics.
  • Stephen-Kunin-100 Kunin-Stephen

    Maier & Maier | Partner

    Mr. Kunin is a Partner at Maier & Maier PLLC, where he specializes in all areas of patent practice. His expertise includes post-issuance proceedings at the United States Patent Office, opinions of counsel, advising attorneys and our clients on complex patent prosecution matters, patent litigation strategy, and United States Patent Office patent policy, practice and procedure, for which he is highly sought after for expert testimony.
  • Kevin-Kunzendorf-100 Kunzendorf, Kevin C.

    Sughrue Mion, PLLC | Partner

    Mr. Kunzendorf is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Electrical/Mechanical Patent groups. His litigation practice focuses on intellectual property litigation in a broad range of technology areas in the electronic, mechanical and computer arts, and he has broad experience in discovery matters.
  • Kurt P. Goudy

    IBM Corporation | Intellectual Property Counsel

  • Nate Kurtis

    Broad Institute | Director, Strategic Transactions

  • Kwok-200 Kwok, Annette

    Cronos Group | Senior Corporate Counsel

    Annette is Senior Corporate Counsel at Cronos Group, an innovative global cannabinoid company that aims to improve people’s lives by unlocking the full potential of cannabis.
  • Kwon, Bowon

    Hongseong Branch of Daejeon District/Family Court | Judge

  • Kwong,Stephanie Kwong, Stephanie

    Abbott Laboratories | Senior IP Counsel

    Stephanie Kwong has been working in the patent prosecution field for over 17 years. She is currently Senior Intellectual Property Counsel at Abbott Laboratories in Plymouth, Minnesota within their structural heart division. Prior to her in-house position, she worked at Twin Cities law firms and enjoyed a diverse practice encompassing patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, patentability analysis, FTO, due diligence and competitive monitoring. She currently serves as the President of the Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association.
  • Kyriacou Jr., Stephen

    Aon Litigation Risk Group | Managing Director and Senior Lawyer

    Stephen Kyriacou, Jr. is a Managing Director and Senior Lawyer in Aon's Litigation Risk Group, where he evaluates litigation-related risks and structures and places litigation risk insurance solutions. Prior to moving to Aon, Stephen was a complex commercial litigator in the New York City office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner from 2011 to 2019. While at BSF, Stephen amassed significant trial, appellate, and arbitration experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in the U.S. and abroad across a wide array of practice areas, including securities, antitrust, constitutional, insurance, first amendment, employment, government contracting, and criminal law, as well as in multidistrict and class action litigation.
  • Laakkonen_web200 Laakkonen, Ari

    Powell Gilbert LLP | Partner

    Ari Laakkonen is a partner of Powell Gilbert LLP (www.powellgilbert.com), a London-based specialist intellectual property law firm. Ari has a Computer Science degree and PhD from Kings College, he has a huge breadth of experience in the electronics, IT and telecoms sectors derived from his in-depth technical knowledge from experience as both in-house and external legal counsel.
  • LaFuze, Bill 200 LaFuze, William

    McKool Smith | Principal

    William "Bill" LaFuze is a principal in McKool Smith’s Houston office. Bill’s practice has been directed to a broad range of intellectual property law issues, with a particular focus on patent and other intellectual property litigation and transaction work in the oilfield equipment, telecommunications, smartphone, computer, healthcare, electronics, internet, and a broad range of technical fields. He has represented clients in many district courts throughout the United States and in cases appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C.
  • Lainson, Daphne

    Smart & Biggar | Principal

    Daphne Lainson is a principal in Smart & Biggar's Ottawa office and Chair of the Firm. With close to 25 years of experience in law and patent agency and an advanced degree in chemistry, she has been entrusted with protecting inventions across the spectrum of chemical innovation. Daphne enthusiastically champions and effectively safeguards her clients’ intellectual property rights relating to new drugs, biologics, medical devices, consumer products, agrochemicals, specialty chemicals, industrial chemical processes, oil, gas and petrochemicals.
  • Lamb, Kristin

    OURA | Associate General Counsel

    Kristin Lamb is Associate General Counsel, Senior Director of Intellectual Property and Regulatory Compliance for ŌURA, a late-stage health and wellness wearable startup based in Finland and San Francisco that makes the Oura Ring. Kristin leads all aspects of IP development, protection, and enforcement for the company. Prior to working at ŌURA, Kristin was in private practice with Hogan Lovells in Houston, Texas. She is a former biochemist and patented inventor, studied biochemistry at the University of Colorado, and received her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She is admitted to the California, Colorado, District of Columbia, and Texas bars, and is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO.