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  • 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.
  • Parker, Usha

    PKH IP | Counsel

    Usha Parker focuses her practice on all aspects of patent prosecution related to electrical and mechanical technologies. Usha helps clients protect their intellectual property from the application drafting stage to prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and, when needed, through appeal before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). With over a decade of experience working as an engineer at Motorola and at a Navy lab in a variety of areas, Usha effectively and efficiently understands complex inventions. She also prioritizes learning each client’s business goals to develop a strategic approach to protecting their IP. Usha particularly enjoys working with inventors to draft new applications and guide them throughout the patenting process. Usha’s areas of technical experience include wireless communication, electronic circuits and interconnects, automotive sensor and processing systems, consumer and medical devices, semiconductors and integrated circuit design, machine learning, and software.
  • Parker, Warrington

    Crowell | Partner

    Warrington Parker, the managing partner of Crowell & Moring’s San Francisco office, is an experienced first-chair trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor. He has successfully tried over 20cases encompassing a diverse range of civil and criminal matters, such as securities fraud, money laundering, employment discrimination, wrongful termination, copyright, trade secret, violation of California bond measures statutes, product liability, product defect, and breach of contract. Warrington is also a member of the firm’s Litigation, White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement, and Investigations groups.
  • Mark_Partridge Partridge, Mark V.B.

    Partridge Partners | Founder

    Mark Partridge has successfully represented domestic and international corporations at trial and appellate proceedings.
  • Patel Headshot200 Patel, Monica

    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.
  • Pennington_Tammy200 Pennington Rhodes, Tammy

    Wenderoth | Of Counsel

    Tammy Pennington Rhodes focuses on preparing and prosecuting patent applications related to computer hardware/software systems, communications/networking, and hydrocarbon exploration/production inventions.
  • Pereira, Daniel

    Oblon | Partner

    Daniel Pereira is a partner, Co-Head of the Chemical Practice Group at Oblon, and member of the management committee. His practice focuses on client counseling, portfolio management, patent prosecution, litigation and interferences involving a wide range of technologies including battery materials (including solid electrolytes, solid-state batteries, and anode and cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries), recombinant DNA technology, genetics, immunology, enzymology, medical diagnostics, bioinformatics, microarrays, statistical data analysis, genomics, proteomics, nanotechnology, polymer chemistry, metallurgy, solar technology, imaging, medical devices, optical films, coatings, cosmetics, catalysts, ceramics, alloys, chemical engineering, optical and electronic devices.
  • Jason Perilla Perilla, Jason M.

    Thomas|Horstemeyer, LLP | Partner

    In his practice as a Registered Patent Attorney, Jason’s experience includes the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in various fields, including transmitters and receivers, video processors, software, semiconductor design and manufacturing, medical instruments, power systems, software, and business methods, among others.
  • perlmutter 200 Perlmutter, Shira

    U.S. Copyright Office | Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office

    Shira Perlmutter is the Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office. She was appointed to the position effective October 25, 2020. Perlmutter leads a workforce of over 400 employees, advises Congress on copyright policy, and directs the administration of important provisions of the United States Copyright Act, Title 17.
  • Perry, Mark

    Weil | Partner

    Mark A. Perry is Co-Head of Weil’s Appeals and Strategic Counseling practice and a member of the Firm’s Complex Commercial Litigation practice. He is a veteran U.S. Supreme Court advocate and legal strategist who focuses on complex business cases in trial and appellate courts around the United States. Mark regularly serves as lead outside appellate counsel to major global companies in their most significant matters. His significant appeals have included most areas of business litigation, including securities, intellectual property, employment, and competition law. He has exceptional experience briefing and arguing cases in the Supreme Court of the United States – including winning landmark decisions in Lucia v. SEC, Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, and Janus Capital Group v. First Derivative Traders – and the federal courts of appeals. Mark also regularly represents clients in federal district courts, frequently serving as litigation strategist in class actions and other complex commercial cases.