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  • Osterbur, Stefan D.

    Van Hoven PC | Partner

    Stefan is co-chair of the 2024 AIPLA Patent Prosecution Boot Camp. Stefan is a partner with Van Hoven P.C., and routinely counsels clients on a wide variety of intellectual property matters, including domestic and foreign prosecution of utility and design patent applications, intellectual property portfolio management, infringement and clearance issues, and intellectual property transactions. Stefan's legal practice also focuses on preparing legal opinions concerning patent infringement and validity, trade secrets, and intellectual property litigation. He also has experience in federal court actions and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, such as Reexaminations and Post Grant Review.
  • Ostiller_Rick_Digital-263x263 Ostiller, Rick

    Ankura | Senior Managing Director

    Rick Ostiller is a Senior Managing Director and leads Ankura’s Northern California forensic accounting practice. Rick has provided accounting and financial consulting services to attorneys and corporate clients in numerous industries. He has testified in several venues, and has extensive experience with high profile investigative projects, damages calculations, lost profits analyses, and other cost analysis studies. He is a CPA in California.
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    PETOŠEVIĆ | Associate

    Mayya mainly handles trademark enforcement and contentious matters. She coordinates investigations, advises clients on trademark protection and enforcement strategies and represents them before the courts and police and customs authorities.
  • Palmer, David square200 Palmer, David

    University of Texas at Austin | Program Director, Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions

    DAVID J. PALMER is the program director for intellectual property and technology transactions at the Office of Technology Commercialization, or OTC, at the University of Texas at Austin
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    Mayer Brown | Attorney

    Erick Palmer is a litigator and registered patent attorney in Mayer Brown's Intellectual Property practice. Focusing on patent disputes in federal courts and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), he has worked with industry-leading clients in numerous fields, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical diagnostics and devices, nutraceuticals, and food science, to solve their IP needs.
  • Pampinella_James_Digital-200x200 Pampinella, Jim

    Ankura | Senior Managing Director

    James E. Pampinella is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, based in San Francisco.
  • Papa, Elisabetta

    Societa' Italiana Brevetti S.P.A. | Partner, BoA Member, Head of Patents

    Elisabetta teaches European Patent practice and strategies in courses leading up to European Patent Attorney qualification exams organised by the Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle (R. Schuman University, Strasbourg). She is a former member of the EPO’s EC-III examination committee in charge of marking D papers during the qualifying examination for European Patent Attorneys (EQE).
  • Pappas, Peter-Anthony

    USPTO | Special Advisor

    Peter-Anthony Pappas is the Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
  • Parekh, Aakash

    SparkCognition, Inc. | General Counsel and Secretary

    Aakash Parekh is General Counsel and Secretary of SparkCognition, Inc., an industrial artificial intelligence company based in Austin, TX. In this role, he oversees global legal affairs for SparkCognition and its subsidiary companies, including commercial legal operations, corporate governance, legal compliance, IP strategy, M&A, litigation, corporate financing, public company readiness initiatives, and more. Prior to joining SparkCognition, he spent over a decade in private legal practice authoring, diligencing, licensing, and litigating IP portfolios for a wide array of clients ranging from Fortune 50 conglomerates to early-stage startups.
  • Parker Dupree, Lynn

    Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP | Partner

    Lynn Parker Dupree, leader of Finnegan’s privacy practice, focuses on privacy compliance, governance, and counseling for clients navigating the dynamic legal and regulatory privacy landscape. Her years of privacy experience in government and the private sector provide her with the sharp ability to provide actionable privacy advice and guidance, and a keen understanding of the ways technology can be used to protect individual privacy. Prior to joining the firm, she served as chief privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In that role, Lynn was responsible for advising the secretary of homeland security on matters involving privacy for the department and ensuring the department complied with privacy laws, regulations, and federal guidance.
  • Mark_Partridge Partridge, Mark V.B.

    Partridge Partners | Founder

    Mark Partridge has successfully represented domestic and international corporations at trial and appellate proceedings.
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    IBM | Managing Attorney, Global Executive

    Monica Patel is a Managing Attorney and Global Executive at IBM out of its San Francisco, California office. Monica is responsible for IBM’s global talent management, and serves as both the Watson Media managing attorney and the AI Applications lead attorney for IBM. Monica has more than 19 years of experience as an attorney, 13 of which have been with IBM where she has held increasing responsibilities over the years.
  • Patnaik, Goutam

    Desmarais LLP | Partner

    Gooch partners with innovators to resolve their most challenging intellectual property and commercial matters, with a particular emphasis on patent and trademark disputes. He has particularly deep experience with Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and litigation in key patent venues such as the U.S. District Courts for the Western District of Texas, the District of Delaware, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
  • Patterson, Jessica

    International Patent Legal Administration, USPTO | Director, International Worksharing Planning and Implementation Office

    Jessica Patterson works in the International Worksharing Planning and Implementation Office in the International Patent Legal Administration at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Patterson, Kaci headshot 200 Patterson, Kaci

    Social Good Solutions | Founder & Chief Architect

    Kaci launched Social Good Solutions (SGS) in 2014 after nearly 18 years of working in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. Always with an eye toward human and community development, Kaci has designed SGS to work with philanthropic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and public entities to co-create, operationalize and manage strategic initiatives from concept to implementation, using a racial justice and inclusive, democratic framework to guide the work.
  • Patty II, R. Andrew (Drew)

    Phelps Dunbar LLP | Partner

    Mr. Patty is a Partner with the law firm Phelps Dunbar LLP. He leads the firm’s Artificial Intelligence Working Group and is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) and Cybersecurity Practice Groups. A graduate of Tulane University and the University of North Carolina School of Law, he has extensive experience in preparing and prosecuting patents in the chemical, medical device and mechanical fields, as well as the software and financial services fields. His chemical experience includes preparation and prosecution in the fields of lithium battery chemistry, organo-metallic chemistry, biocides, catalyst reactions, pharmaceuticals and their intermediates, and bromine chemistry, amongst others.
  • Paul E. Burns

    Procopio

  • Pedersen, Brad

    EnQuanta | Chief Strategy and Legal Officer

    Brad Pedersen is a seasoned professional with more than 35 years of experience as outside IP counsel at both small and large firms, as in-house IP counsel, and as an inventor and entrepreneur. He has both an in-depth understanding of patent law and patent office proceedings and extensive experience in technology and innovation that enables him to bring real-world practicality to his strategy and legal work. His contributions to the field of IP law include serving as a past Board member of AIPLA and co-authoring a Bloomberg BNA Treatise on the America Invents Act. He is a named inventor on more than two dozen issued U.S. patents ranging from medical devices to unmanned aircraft. He is currently the Chief Strategy and Legal Officer for EnQuanta, a company at the forefront of providing innovative quantum cyber resilience solutions.
  • Pegram-John-2017-200 Pegram, John

    Fish & Richardson P.C. | Of Counsel

    John B. Pegram is Of Counsel at Fish & Richardson P.C., a multi-office law firm concentrating in IP and technology law, based in the New York City office. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his law degree from New York University.
  • Pelletier, Dean Pelletier, Dean A.

    Pelletier Law | Founder

    Dean has been practicing IP law for 25 years and focuses on leveraging patents and trade secrets. Dean’s litigation, trial and appellate experience includes experience in federal and state courts and at the ITC.