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  • Bentham_square200 Bentham, Andrew

    J A Kemp | Partner

    Andy joined J A Kemp from Cambridge University in the early 1990s and is an experienced European and UK Patent Attorney in the life sciences field. He is currently particularly active in patent prosecution and oppositions in the areas of antibody therapeutics, gene therapy and transgenic animal platforms for antibody discovery. As a plant scientist by training, he also has a deep understanding of and interest in the complex area of plant patent-eligibility in Europe and a lot of experience in patent and plant variety right work in the agricultural sector.
  • Gary Benton Benton, Gary

    Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center | Founder

    Gary Benton is an internationally recognized Arbitrator and Mediator with over thirty years major law firm and in-house expertise in US and international business, corporate investment, technology and emerging growth matters.
  • Beres, Joel T.

    Stites & Harbison, PLLC | Member

    With more than 25 years of Intellectual Property experience, Joel actively tries cases in both state and federal courts. A founding member and former co-chair of the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Service Group, he manages all aspects of infringement litigation for both federal and state courts, including trial and appellate practice. He has also prepared and prosecuted trademark and copyright applications, prosecuted and defended trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings, negotiated and prepared trademark and copyright assignment and license agreements, and negotiated and prepared software licensing and consulting agreements.
  • berkowitz, Nicole Square200 Berkowitz, Nicole

    Baker Donelson | Associate

    Ms. Berkowitz has a diverse practice assisting clients in various intellectual property and complex commercial litigation matters. She has substantial experience litigating patent, trademark, and copyright infringement disputes as well as trade secret matters.
  • Berman, Debbie

    Jenner & Block | Partner

    First-chair trial lawyer Debbie Berman is co-chair of Jenner & Block’s Business Litigation Practice and its Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants Practice. She is the lead lawyer for Hetronic in the Hetronic. v. Abitron litigation. She also represents Hetronic and its parent, Methode Electronics, Inc., as international coordinating counsel for a number of related trademark and trade dress matters in EUIPO and courts in Germany, with one of those matters having been heard by the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has a long track record of litigating significant trademark and trade secrets cases, including PepsiCo, Inc. v. Redmond, the seminal Seventh Circuit case concerning the inevitable disclosure doctrine, both at the trial and appellate level.
  • Brent K. Bersin Photo200x200 Bersin, Brent

    FTI Consulting | Senior Managing Director

    Brent Bersin is a Senior Managing Director in the Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment of FTI Consulting.
  • Bevacqua-Lynott, Amber

    Buchalter | Senior Counsel

    Amber Bevacqua-Lynott is Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Portland and San Diego offices, and a member of the Firm’s Professional Responsibility and Litigation Practice Groups.  Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott provides guidance and legal representation to attorneys, licensed professionals, and other business clients, including firms and in-house legal departments. Her practice centers on legal ethics, risk management, and discipline defense. She acts as outside counsel to clients in a variety of industries, providing advice and counsel on all manner of ethics issues, including conflicts, confidentiality, malpractice, risk management, and fee issues.
  • Bezak, Christopher

    Continental Automotive Systems | Corporate Counsel

    Christopher Bezak is in-house corporate counsel for Continental Automotive Systems, Inc. in Auburn Hills, Michigan. His work at Continental encompasses all aspects of contracts and patents, including preparation and prosecution, litigation, licensing, and due diligence, with specialization in the areas of software, communications, and artificial intelligence. He is an active, long-standing member of the AIPLA IP Practice in Japan Committee, and is a former partner at the law firm of Sughrue Mion in Washington D.C.
  • Bezos, Salvador M.

    Sterne Kessler | Director

    Salvador M. Bezos is a director in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group. Sal helps clients develop enforceable patent portfolios in a wide range of technical areas, including user interfaces, financial software products, cloud computing, parallel and distributed computer architectures, computer graphics, networking, automotive technology, databases, and computer architectures.
  • Biek, Michael

    DecisionQuest | Director, Northeast Division

    Dr. Michael Biek has over 28 years of experience as a trial consultant, and he has advised clients in over 800 cases. His work includes pre-trial studies, which help attorneys develop case themes, and statistical studies in support of venue motions and jury selections. Dr. Biek is an adept courtroom strategist, and he often advises clients throughout trial in order to help them with their arguments before triers of fact.
  • Bijvank_Koen200 Bijvank, Koen

    Brinkhof | Partner

    KOEN BIJVANK is a partner at Brinkhof in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Mr. Bijvank is qualified both as an attorney at law (‘advocaat’) and as a Dutch and European patent attorney. He specializes in international patent litigation and oppositions before the European Patent Office. His practice mainly involves patents in the life sciences and pharmaceuticals.
  • Billick, Tim

    TBillick Law | Founder

    Tim is the founder of TBillick Law. After law school, Tim had the privilege of working with very talented attorneys in Seattle. He honed his skills by counseling businesses and individuals on how to resolve their disputes and protect their ideas. He is grateful for that experience and learned over the years that even modest-sized law firms can also make a huge impact on a client’s case.
  • Binns, Micheal

    Meta | Associate General Counsel, Patents, Licensing, and Open Source

    Micheal Binns is Head of Patents & Trade Secrets and a Director and Associate General Counsel on the Patent, Licensing and Open Source team at Meta, formerly Facebook. As a registered patent attorney, Mike’s helped protect global copyrights and trademarks in addition to patent rights for a wide range of industries. At present, he advises on global IP portfolio strategy and risk mitigation related the future of AI, social networking, AR/VR/MR, and the metaverse. Micheal has and continues to protect the knowledge, systems, and inventions that are business-critical drivers of revenue.
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    Companyname | Senior Talent Acquisition

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  • Birss, Colin-sq-photo200 Birss, Sir Colin

    High Court of England and Wales | Judge of the Patents Court

    Sir Colin Birss is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was called to the English Bar in 1990 and practiced in intellectual property law. He was appointed Standing Counsel for the Comptroller 2003-2008 and took silk in 2008. In 2010 he left the Bar to become the new judge of the Patents County Court and Chairman of the UK Copyright Tribunal. His appointment to the Patents County Court (now Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC)) coincided with the introduction of major procedural reforms. In 2013 Colin Birss was appointed to the High Court. He sits in the Chancery Division and is one of the judges nominated to sit in the Patents Court. He is also General Editor of Terrell on the Law of Patents.
  • Judge Cathy Bissoon Cathy Bissoon

    US District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania | District Judge

    Judge Cathy Bissoon was appointed by President Barack Obama as a United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania on October 20, 2011, having previously served on the Court as a magistrate judge from 2008.
  • Blaszkowsky, David Blaszkowsky, David

    Helios Data | Head of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs

    David Blaszkowsky heads strategy and regulatory affairs for Helios Data, Inc.. Helios Data is a Palo Alto-based personal data privacy-enhanced computing and compliance technology company focused on secure data sharing and the elimination of usage risk for personal and proprietary data (e.g., for analytics, commercialization, digitalization). The Helios Data platform is a digital-contract governed secure computing enclave that can be set up instantly between any sharing parties, and which provides Privacy-by Design controls that enable data insights to be extracted with no risk that underlying data (or the algorithm applied to it) can ever be viewed, used, or abused by either counterparty or 3rd parties. What legal contracts or policies document, the Helios Data platform can monitor, measure, and enforce.
  • Bleicher-Esther-headshot 200 Bleicher, Esther W.B.

    Valo Health | Executive Director of Regulatory Policy and Counsel

    Esther W.B. Bleicher is the lead legal business partner supporting Valo's research and development programs, including Valo's use of real-world data, to combine human and machine intelligence to accelerate drug development. She is a Digital Ethics Board Member at Syntropy (Merck/Palantir) and Co-Chair of the Federal Engagement and Regulatory Affairs Committee at the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. Ms. Bleicher’s prior experience includes serving as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Center Director in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and as Deputy Chief of Staff for the FDA Commissioner.
  • Bliss-200 Bliss, Travis

    Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel | Partner

    Travis’s practice is largely focused on obtaining, licensing, monetizing, and enforcing IP protections for inventions relating to biology and life sciences, including a large focus on all types of IP protection for novel plant varieties and related inventions in the agriculture, horticulture, and cannabis/hemp industries.
  • Boalick, Scott200 Boalick, Scott

    USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board | Chief Administrative Patent Judge

    Scott R. Boalick is the Chief Judge for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). In this role, he leads the PTAB as it conducts post-grant trials, including inter partes reviews, post-grant reviews, covered business method patent reviews and derivation proceedings, and as it hears appeals from adverse examiner decisions in patent applications and reexamination proceedings.