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  • plehn-dujowich_debora 200 Plehn-Dujowich, Debora

    Eckert Seamans | Member

    Debora Plehn-Dujowich has extensive experience as a patent attorney focusing on life sciences technologies. Debora's experience includes: conducting patent preparation and prosecution; conducting due diligence; drafting licensing agreements; and preparing patentability opinions, landscape opinions and freedom to operate opinions. Debora has also conducted reexamination and interference proceedings.
  • Plotkin, Mark

    HCA | Senior Technology Counsel

  • Podolsky, Gail

    Carlton Fields | Shareholder

    Gail Podolsky chairs the Technology Industry Group and represents clients at all stages of their growth.
  • Pokalsky, Ann

    Polkalsky Wilczynski Brozek, LLP | Co-Founding Partner

    Ann Pokalsky has been a patent practitioner for more than 25 years. She specializes in the chemical and biological arts, and is co-founding partner of the intellectual property law firm Pokalsky Wilczynski Brozek, LLP, based in Huntington, New York. Ms. Pokalsky focuses her practice in large part on foreign and domestic patent procurement, including reissue applications, reexamination proceedings and appeals. She has obtained numerous patents for clients in the chemical, agricultural and pharmaceutical industries, as well as for universities.
  • Polott, Anita

    Morgan Lewis | Co-Managing Partner

    Anita B. Polott leads the firm’s global trademark and copyright practice, a team of more than 40 lawyers and professionals focused on brand-related intellectual property (IP) law, including litigation, transactions, counseling, and portfolio management services. Anita sets and implements brand protection strategies and manages US and international trademark portfolios across various industries. She also regularly handles the IP aspects of corporate transactions, trademark and copyright licenses, and related agreements; advises clients on enforcement and litigation strategy; and represents clients in federal court and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and International Trade Commission. In addition, Anita serves as co-managing partner of the firm’s 300+-lawyer Washington, DC office.
  • Polson, Margaret square Polson, Margaret

    Polson Intellectual Property Law | Founder and Principal Attorney

    Margaret Polson is founder and principal attorney for Polson Intellectual Property Law. Overseeing the preparation and prosecution of utility and design patent applications, trademarks, and copyrights, she also assists clients with licensing and intellectual property strategy and management.
  • Pool, Ryan

    Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C. | Partner

    Ryan Pool is a Partner at MWZB who specializes in chemical and life sciences patent prosecution. He is experienced in patent drafting, patent prosecution, and portfolio management. His practice has involved considerable work in the international patent sphere and he is the current Chair of the AIPLA IP Practice in Europe committee. Mr. Pool is interested in using data to find patent prosecution advantages for is clients to increase both prosecution effectiveness and efficiency. He has authored a number of papers to that end. His works have published in both US and international patent law industry publications. He will be discussing one such work today.
  • Porter, Lucy

    Bracewell | Counsel

    Lucy works across client organizations to develop and implement data privacy solutions that are compliant with global regulations tailored to the client’s needs. Lucy also has experience in advising clients with the protection, maintenance, licensing and transfer of intellectual property assets, as well as in the prosecution and management of trademark portfolios.
  • Poticha, David 200 Poticha, David

    Biodesix Inc. | Head of Legal

    David Poticha is the Head of Legal for Biodesix, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado based company focused on lung disease diagnostics, in particular COVID and lung cancer. While with Biodesix David has been the sole attorney during 2 acquisitions, 5 product launches and in October of 2020 a successful IPO. He has managed the entire intellectual property estate and been responsible for all transactional deal flow between Biodesix and its corporate and academic partners.
  • Powitzky Steely, Rachel

    Foley & Lardner LLP | Partner

    Rachel Powitzky Steely is a leading female trial lawyer in Texas. Rachel has been recognized as one of the top 50 female lawyers in Texas, selected as a Houston elite 100 lawyer and was named a top 20 female trial lawyer by Texas Lawyer Magazine, the only trade secret/employment attorney to receive the honor. Rachel’s trial experience includes employment, commercial, corporate and insurance matters. She has won multimillion dollar verdicts and defended companies against claims exceeding 100 million dollars.
  • Prasad, Priya

    ExxonMobil | Counsel

  • Pratt_Andrew Square200 Pratt, Andrew F.

    Venable LLP | Partner

    Andrew Pratt is a partner in Venable’s Washington, DC-based Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He has significant experience advising clients on intellectual property issues and litigating intellectual property disputes in federal courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
  • Prezioso, Patricia

    Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. | Member of the firm

    Patricia Prezioso, Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group, is an active litigator and counselor, who is based in New Jersey. Her practice focuses on assisting businesses with reducing risk, addressing employee claims and disputes against their employers in federal and state courts, as well as administrative agencies, assessing and protecting trade secrets and confidential information, and defending or prosecuting claims relating to employee misappropriation and restrictive covenant violations. Her extensive management-side employment litigation and counseling experience includes litigating disputes concerning trade secrets, restrictive covenants, discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, employee classification, and wage and hour issues. She counsels on reducing risk, trade secret protection strategy, protocols and policies, and provides human resource support for employment actions.
  • Prieto, Violeta

    United States Patent and Trademark Office | Primary Patent Examiner, and Assistant Outreach Coordinator

    Violeta Prieto is a Primary Patent Examiner in the optical measurement and testing area with emphasis in interferometry, spectroscopy, and colorimetry. She recently served in the Patent Training Academy as a Training Assistant and is currently an Assistant Outreach Coordinator for the Western Regional Office, supporting programs for inventors, entrepreneurs, and other communities in the western United States along with K-12 STEM activities. Violeta holds a PhD in Physics from University of Maryland.
  • Prosser, Tony

    Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies | Partner

    Anthony R. Prosser, Ph.D., is a Partner with Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies (KIPS) in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Prosser focuses on complex organic chemistry patent matters including drafting and prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications directed to new chemical compounds and synthetic methodology, due diligence, freedom to operate analysis, and patentability investigations. Dr. Prosser’s technical areas of expertise include organic synthesis, process chemistry, medicinal chemistry, nucleoside chemistry and drug discovery and development. Dr. Prosser has spoken and written on a wide range of topics including recent panels on the use of artificial intelligence in drug design and the conflicting application of double patenting to patent term adjustment. Dr. Prosser has published over a dozen scientific and legal articles.
  • prost square 200 Prost, Sharon

    US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | Chief Judge

    SHARON PROST was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001 and assumed the duties of Chief Circuit Judge on May 31, 2014. Prior to her appointment, Judge Prost served as Minority Chief Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, and Chief Counsel of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate from 1993 to 2001. She also served as Chief Labor Counsel (Minority), Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources from 1989 to 1993.
  • Pruthi, Parag

    NIKSUN | Founder, CEO & Chairman

    Dr. Pruthi is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of NIKSUN, which he has grown from a startup to a highly successful global company in the cyber security, wireless, and network monitoring markets.
  • Puknys_Erik_200 Puknys, Erik

    Finnegan | Partner

    Erik Puknys is a seasoned litigator, representing clients across industries in intellectual property disputes filed in state and federal district courts and government agencies. His career in intellectual property began more than 25 years ago, when he joined the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner. Erik lectures on patent and trade secret law at conferences hosted by industry, government, and academic organizations. He has been recognized as a leading patent litigator in California by Intellectual Asset Management, an “IP Star” in Palo Alto by Managing Intellectual Property, and for “superior client service” in The 2015 BTI Client Service All-Stars.
  • Laura Purcell Verdun

    Voicetrainer, LLC | Founder

    Laura Purcell Verdun is owner and solo practitioner of Voicetrainer, LLC based in Washington, DC. She is a licensed and certified Speech-Language Pathologist, and Professional Communication Coach, with over 30-years of experience.
  • Pytel-200 Pytel, Melissa

    Entrada Therapeutics | Head of Intellectual Property

    Melissa Pytel is the Head of Intellectual Property at Entrada Therapeutics and has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property law. She has served as a both in-house counsel and outside counsel in the life sciences industry with a focus on biotechnology, small molecule pharmaceuticals and medical devices and has successfully advised companies ranging from biotech and medical device startups to multinational corporations. Melissa has extensive experience in developing and executing IP strategies that align with business objectives, helping companies navigate complex patent landscapes to secure competitive advantage and optimize portfolio value. Her expertise includes patent prosecution, due diligence, freedom-to-operate analyses, licensing and IP transactions.