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  • Ward, Trenton A.

    Greenberg Traurig | Shareholder

    Trenton A. Ward has over 20 years of experience in patent law, including serving for five years at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) as a Lead Administrative Patent Judge, among other roles. While serving as a Patent Judge, Trenton adjudicated more than 250 America Invents Act (AIA) trial proceedings, encompassing inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) proceedings. Trenton leverages his experience from the bench to provide the highest level of advocacy to clients on intellectual property matters.
  • ware_donald_square200 Ware, Donald

    Foley Hoag LLP | Partner & Co-Chair of IP Litigation Group

    Donald Ware is a partner and co-chair of the IP Litigation Group in the Boston office of Foley Hoag LLP. His practice focuses on patent litigation, licensing, and counseling. Don has decades of experience in life sciences patent and inventorship disputes, in which he represents global biopharmaceutical companies, universities, and research institutions. He also represents universities and their licensees in Bayh-Dole matters, including Bayh-Dole march-in proceedings.
  • Wasserman, Melissa

    University of Texas at Austin - School of Law | Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law

    Melissa Wasserman joined the University of Texas law faculty in 2016. Her research focuses on the institutional design of innovation policy, with a particular emphasis on patent law and administrative law. Her articles have been published or are forthcoming in both student edited law reviews and peer review journals including Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Texas Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, and American Economics Journal: Economic Policy. Professor Wasserman serves as one of forty Public Members of the Administrative Conference of the United States and served on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association.
  • wassom, brian Square200 Wassom, Brian D.

    Warner Norcross & Judd LLP | Partner

    Brian litigates disputes and counsels clients in a wide range of commercial and intellectual property matters. He has developed a particular focus in matters of creative expression, commercial identity and privacy, which spans the legal doctrines of copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, advertising, journalism and related fields.
  • Watanabe, Yuichi

    Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP | Partner

    Yuichi Watanabe is a partner of Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP, a Houston-based international IP law firm with seven established offices in the United States, France, China, and Japan. Yuichi is well-versed in all facets of U.S. patent law. He represents both domestic and foreign clients across a wide spectrum of industries and is involved in virtually every aspect of patent practice including application drafting and prosecution, due diligence, licensing, district court litigation, ITC investigations, opinion preparation, and global patent portfolio management.
  • Watson, Robert

    Mewburn Ellis LLP | Partner

    Robert Watson is a partner at the leading European IP firm, Mewburn Ellis LLP. He has over 25 years advising on patent work with particular experience in the pharmaceutical and industrial chemistry sectors. His extensive experience in the pharmaceutical sector focuses on working with clients engaged in drug discovery and development. He has advised on the protection of numerous drugs from initial discovery, many of which are in clinical trials, and two of which is approved in many jurisdictions, and on strategies to further protect these commercial drugs across the globe. He also advises on design protection.
  • Weaver, A. Rob

    The Brickell IP Group | Member

    Rob is a registered patent attorney and Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist in Intellectual Property Law. He has dedicated the entirety of his career to the practice of intellectual property law. An accomplished litigator, Rob has represented clients in federal and state courts throughout the country. Rob has led litigation matters covering the entire spectrum of intellectual property issues including patent, trademark, and copyright infringement as well as trade secret misappropriation and related business disputes such as breach of license agreements, breach of restrictive covenants, unfair competition and false advertising claims. In many instances, Rob has worked with insurance companies to resolve advertising injury and media liability claims brought against their insured. Rob has also represented clients in administrative proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office including the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
  • Webb, Carys

    Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP | Associate

    Carys Webb is an associate in the Corporate department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Her practice focuses on advising public and private companies with respect to intellectual property and data privacy issues. Carys received her B.A. in Literature from Yale University. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as the Business and Bluebook Chair of the Harvard Law Review and was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics.
  • Weibust, Erik

    Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. | Partner

    Erik Weibust is a Partner in the Boston office of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., where he is Vice Chair of the firm’s Trade Secret & Employee Mobility practice group. Many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, technology, financial services, staffing, and insurance companies look to Erik for thoughtful and practical advice concerning how best to protect their trade secrets and customer relationships from misappropriation by former employees, ex-business partners, competitors, and hostile actors in the United States and abroad, and to avoid liability when hiring from competitors. When necessary, clients rely on Erik for aggressive representation in litigation, where he has won substantial victories in court and at the negotiating table, including broad-reaching injunctive relief and multimillion-dollar payouts, in trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, and breach of restrictive covenant cases.
  • Weil_Michael_200 Weil, Michael D.

    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP | Partner

    Michael Weil represents employers in a wide range of employment disputes, with a focus on class and representative actions asserting multimillion dollars in damages and high stakes noncompete, employee mobility, and trade secrets matters arising from a variety of industries, including life sciences, technology, retail, and financial services, throughout the United States.
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    Berman Fink Van Horn, PC | Shareholder

    Neal Weinrich knows trade secrets and restrictive covenants inside and out. A shareholder at Berman Fink Van Horn, Neal counsels clients in all industries on matters involving trade secrets, noncompetes, and other competition-related issues. Neal represents employers and employees, as both plaintiffs and defendants, in disputes throughout Georgia and in other jurisdictions involving noncompetes, customer nonsolicits, nonrecruits, and nondisclosure covenants. Neal also handles a variety of other business-related matters, including complex commercial litigation, contract disputes, cases involving business torts, partnership or shareholder disagreements, and executive compensation disputes.
  • Gary Weinstein

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP | Partner

    Gary Weinstein is a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath. Gary collaborates with in-house counsel, business people and technology teams to help clients monetize technology and intellectual property through licenses and other forms or collaboration. He counsels clients on structuring, drafting, negotiating and reviewing technology and intellectual property agreements—both as licensors and licensees and in joint development agreements, technology transfer, outsourcing, strategic alliances, and joint ventures.
  • Weinstein, Stanton D.
    Stanton D. Weinstein is an experienced IP attorney located near Philadelphia, PA. Stan previously spent much of his career as an in-house intellectual property counsel for a major corporation in the defense electronics industry. Stan's extensive experience includes patent, trademark and copyright law and practice, protection of proprietary information, and other aspects of intellectual property law; U.S. Government procurement regulations and clauses relating to patent rights and data rights; computer law, such as Internet/intranet issues, software licensing, and open source software issues; export controls; and intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
  • Nicholas Weinstock 200x200 Weinstock, Nicholas

    Qualcomm | Patent Counsel

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    The Proctor & Gamble Company | Vice President and Associate General Counsel - Patents

    David Weirich is Vice President & Associate General Counsel for The Procter & Gamble Company’s global Beauty Care business. P&G is one of the world’s largest consumer products companies with operations in over 180 countries and sales exceeding $76 Billion per year. P&G has an extensive portfolio of intellectual property assets, including patents, designs and many well-known trademarks. David has been in P&G’s Legal Department handling IP matters for over 28 years and throughout his time at P&G has supported each of P&G’s different business units.
  • Wells, Hilary D.

    Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, LLP | Partner

    Hilary Wells is a partner in the firm’s Litigation practice group and serves as the chair for our Data Protection and Cybersecurity team.
  • Kristin M. Whidby Kristin M. Whidby

    Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP | Associate

    Kristin M. Whidby is a litigation associate and registered patent attorney resident in Fried Frank's Washington, DC office.
  • Whipps, Brian C.

    Mueting Raasch Group | Partner

    Brian is a partner at Mueting Raasch Group specializing in domestic and international patent portfolio procurement and management. Brian’s technical areas include chemical, small molecule, formulation, chemical engineering, optics, semiconductor, and medical devices.
  • Whitaker-200 Whitaker, Mark

    Morrison & Foerster | Partner

    Mark Whitaker is the co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice group, with more than 30 years of experience crafting legal strategies in high-stakes patent and trade secret litigation.
  • Whitehair_photo 200 Whitehair, J. Gregory

    IP Resolution Co. | Attorney

    J. Gregory “Greg” Whitehair, Esq., is a long-time IP trial lawyer and patent registrant, and more recently an ADR neutral and Special Master through his company, IP Resolution Co. Greg’s early career included appointment as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Colorado and private practice with several of Denver’s largest firms.