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  • Arriola, Kimberly

    Pirkey Barber | Associate

    Kimberly Arriola focuses her area of practice on trademark law. Kimberly regularly advises clients on prosecution matters, including trademark selection, clearance, and prosecution of trademark applications in the United States and abroad. Kimberly also has experience assisting clients with domestic and international enforcement matters.
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    Fross Zelnick | Partner

    Mr. Tucker focuses his practice on international trademark matters, handling global trademark portfolios for clients in various industries and advising clients on trademark clearance, registration, licensing, policing, enforcement, and opposition matters.
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    Southern District of Texas, Houston Division | Senior US District Judge (Inactive)

    Senior United States District Judge Nancy Atlas was appointed to the bench in 1995 for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, and took inactive status in 2021. Judge Atlas served on the U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Security from 2005 to 2015 and was its chair from 2010 to 2015. Locally, Judge Atlas chaired the Southern District’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program and Court Security Committee for most of her judicial tenure.
  • Awakessien Jeter, Ukeme

    Taft Stettinius & Hollister | Partner

    Ukeme is a partner in Taft’s Intellectual Property practice group, where she focuses on negotiating and structuring intellectual property licenses, options, and related agreements. From startups to major corporations, she helps companies whose core assets are intellectual property and investors who want to invest in them, identify, finance, and monetize the technologies, processes, products, and brands that will create the most value for them.
  • Baird Photo copy Baird, Steve

    Greenberg Traurig LLP | Shareholder

    Steve provides strategic guidance on trademark usage and clearance, branding strategies, domestic and worldwide portfolio management, litigation and enforcement, internet domain name and trademark disputes, licensing, and prosecution.
  • Baker, Mike

    Mosaic451 | Managing Director

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    Kirkland & Ellis | Partner

    W. Todd Baker is an IP litigation partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Todd is experienced handling post-grant matters at the USPTO including all aspects of IPR proceedings at the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). He advises clients on issues of patentability, derivation, inventorship and priority related to post grant matters before the PTAB as a supplement or an alternative to traditional litigation-based patent validity challenges.
  • Bald, Stephanie

    Kelly IP | Partner

    Stephanie Bald focuses her practice on trademark litigation, disputes, and strategic counseling. She represents clients in federal courts across the country and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). She also handles domain name disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and has significant experience managing global trademark portfolios and advising clients on the selection, use, registration, enforcement, and licensing of trademarks.
  • Baldini, M. Cristina

    Studio Torta | Partner

    After graduating in Law, Ms. Baldini joined Studio Torta in 1989 and became a partner in 2000. She acquired considerable experience in developing strategies for protecting trademarks in Italy and abroad. She provides advice on the subjects of trademarks, designs, copyright and protection against counterfeiting, including on the web. She frequently speaks in seminars, courses and conferences. For over 10 years she has been collaborating with magazine OICCE Times, regularly publishing articles on trademarks in the oenology sector.
  • Ball, Jonathan

    Gowling WLG | Partner

    Jon Ball is a highly experienced IP dispute resolution lawyer, with over 20 years' experience in assisting clients achieve their commercial goals across all forms of contentious IP matters, with a particular focus on patent enforcement.
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    United States Customs and Border Protection | Attorney-Advisor

    Alex Bamiagis, Esq. has been an Attorney-Advisor with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) since 2008.
  • Bandlow, Lincoln 200 Bandlow, Lincoln

    Law Offices of Lincoln Bandlow | Founder

    Lincoln Bandlow is the founder of the Law Offices of Lincoln Bandlow in Los Angeles. Lincoln focuses his practice on sophisticated media, First Amendment, intellectual property and other entertainment-related litigation matters. He represents clients in the motion picture, television, publishing, broadcasting, Internet and advertising fields. In addition, Lincoln represents several of the principal underwriters for the media and entertainment industry.
  • Banerjee_Shilpi_200 Banerjee, Shilpi

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Associate General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel

    Shilpi Banerjee serves as Associate General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Her practice includes oversight of patent prosecution, agreements related to the research enterprise at MSK, including sponsored laboratory research and clinical research, as well as transactional, licensing and litigation matters related to MSK intellectual property.
  • Banningan, Megan K.

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP | Partner

    Megan K. Bannigan is a litigation partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, based in New York, focusing on trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, false advertising, design patents, rights of publicity, licensing and other contractual disputes. Ms. Bannigan has extensive trial experience, as well as experience representing clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the International Trade Commission. Recognized by Chambers USA, World Trademark Review, Managing Intellectual Property’s IP STARS, The Legal 500 and Law360 as a top trademark attorney and rising star, she is known for “translat[ing] complex legal issues into clear pragmatic legal advice.”
  • Bansal, Manu

    GE Licensing | Senior Counsel Intellectual Property

    Manu Bansal serves as Senior Counsel Intellectual Property - Licensing at GE Licensing. In this position, Manu provides lead counsel on the licensing of standard essential patents (SEPs), including licensing them on Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory terms. He advises on licensing SEPs through patent pools or other collaborative licensing relationships. An SEP and IP strategy expert with deep, hands-on experience advising transaction leaders on legal matters in real time commercial discussions with third parties.
  • Barbara Fisher

    Lockheed Martin Corporation | Chief IP Counsel

  • Barber Photo Barber, Bill

    Pirkey Barber | Founder

    Bill Barber specializes in trademark law, focusing primarily on litigation and policing, handling cases in federal courts across the U.S. and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
  • Bardini, Ann Bardini, Ann

    WIPO | Senior Business Analyst

    Ann Bardini, a national of the United Kingdom, is Senior Business Analyst at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) where she has worked since 1990. As Head of the PCT Functional Support Section, she was responsible for the specification of the business requirements, process re-engineering and deployment strategy for the International Bureau’s electronic processing system that led to a fully paperless environment for PCT Operations at WIPO.
  • Barks, Justen200 Barks, Justen S.

    Beard & Barks PLLC | Partner

    Justen S. Barks is a commercial, intellectual property, and entertainment litigator. His experience in the courtroom helps his clients in their various transaction needs. For his commercial clients, he provides work in the form of risk management counselling, litigation in state and federal courts, mediation, contract drafting and negotiation. His intellectual property practice includes a mix of work with the U.S. Trademark Office, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Copyright Office, and copyright, patent, and trademark litigation.
  • Barnes, Dunstan

    McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. | Partner

    Dunstan H. Barnes is a Partner at McAndrews and practices in all areas of intellectual property law with emphasis on protecting and analyzing design rights. In 2021, Dunstan was honored as a 40 Under Forty attorney in Illinois. Dunstan is the current Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Design Rights Committee and Vice Chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Industrial Designs Committee. He has been an invited speaker at conferences including AIPPI World Congress, AIPLA Annual Meeting, ABA-IPL Spring Meeting, and USPTO Design Day.