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  • Salomon, Louisa

    Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures | Patent Counsel

    Louisa has been providing IP counsel to JHTV since 2012. Much of her practice includes preparation and prosecution of new technologies for inventors from the JHU School of Engineering. She is an accomplished patent attorney with over 15 years of in-house and law firm experience in building and protecting high-value patent portfolios. She is a graduate of Washington University’s School of Engineering with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and University of Miami School of Law.
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    Novartis | Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs

    Corey Salsberg is Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs for Novartis, a global healthcare company that is one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical innovators. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, and California Lawyers for the Arts. A graduate of Stanford Law School and Yale University, Corey is an experienced practitioner with over 20 years of legal, policy and advocacy experience.
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    Squire Patton Boggs | Partner

    Mark Salzberg is a partner in the Washington DC office and a member of the firm’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice group.
  • Samardzich, Andrija

    Office of the Attorney General, Consumer Protection and Advocacy Section, State of Arizona | Assistant Attorney General

  • Samuels-Jeffrey-200 Samuels, Jeffrey

    The University of Akron School of Law | Professor Emeritus

    Mr. Samuels is a Professor Emeritus at The University of Akron School of Law. Mr. Samuels currently serves as an expert witness and consultant in trademark matters and as a panelist under various domain name dispute procedures.
  • Samuels, Lucy

    Gill Jennings & Every LLP | Director, Patents

    Lucy works in the patents area, in drafting and portfolio management and in particular in European Patent Office oppositions. She acts for clients in defence of their own patents and in opposition to those of their competitors. Lucy’s experience in European Patent Office opposition and appeal proceedings is extensive. In over 28 years as a patent attorney, she has represented clients in over 300 opposition and appeal hearings.
  • Sanders, Josh

    GlaxoSmithKline | Assistant General Counsel

  • Sanks, Terry M

    Beusse Sanks, PLLC | Founding Member

    Terry M. Sanks, a registered patent attorney, is a founding member of Beusse Sanks, PLLC, a predominately diverse and minority owned law firm. Terry provides representation in all areas of intellectual property (“IP”) law, including patents, trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets, IP litigation, licensing and IP related transactions. Terry’s practice also includes managing patent and trademark portfolios for Fortune 500 companies, regional companies and universities.
  • Santone, Christopher

    McAndrews | Design Patent Agent

    Christopher Santone is a Design Patent Agent at McAndrews focusing on design patent matters. He has over a decade of experience as an industrial designer. As the first individual to pass the USPTO Design Patent Bar exam, Christopher’s unique background positions him as an exceptional resource for helping clients identify protectable assets and navigate the design patent process.
  • Santoro, Sofia

    Società Italiana Brevetti S.p.A.

    Sofia Santoro is a European and Italian Patent Attorney and a Unified Patent Court Representative, with experience in intellectual property since 2016. Her practice focuses primarily on patent matters in the chemical and pharmaceutical fields, including patent drafting and prosecution, opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office, and strategic patent advice.
  • Sarah Harris

    United States Patent and Trademark Office | General Counsel

  • Sarwate, Sanjiv

    Dell Technologies | Counsel

    Sanjiv D. Sarwate is Counsel, Senior Consultant with Dell Inc. Prior to joining Dell in April 2011, he spent fourteen years in private practice in Chicago, specializing in trademark and copyright law. His duties at Dell include all aspects of trademark practice, with a particular emphasis on anti-counterfeiting enforcement. A frequent speaker on trademark law issues, he also served as an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago from 2006 to 2015. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a masters’ degree from the University of Chicago.
  • Sauceda, Sarah

    AMD | Corporate Counsel

    Sarah Sauceda is an Austin-based attorney practicing in-house on the trademark/copyright team at the semiconductor giant, AMD. Her practice is primarily focused within the spaces of: trademark, copyright, influencers, and marketing.
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    Polsinelli PC | Principal

    Margaux Savee is a principal and patent attorney at Polsinelli, representing Fortune 100 companies in complex patent disputes.
  • Schaaf, Paul

    Federal Bureau of Investigation | Special Agent

  • Schaefer-Lauren-200 Schaefer, Lauren

    Arent Fox | Associate

    Lauren Schaefer represents corporate and individual clients in complex commercial litigation. Lauren specializes in trade secret and restrictive covenant litigation.
  • Schick, Ian

    Paximal | Co-Founder & CEO

    Ian C. Schick is Co-Founder and CEO of Paximal, an agentic AI platform for patent drafting, and has worked on patent automation since 2017, when he co-founded Specifio — the first commercially available mass-content generator in legal tech — which was acquired in 2024.
  • Schildkraut, Mark

    Becton, Dickinson and Company | Associate General Counsel-IP

    Mark Schildkraut is Associate General Counsel-IP at Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a Fortune 500 medical technology company advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care.
  • Schiuma, Daniele

    Muller-Bore & Partner | Partner,

    Dr. Daniele Schiuma is patent attorney and partner at Müller-Boré & Partner Patentanwälte PartG mbB in Munich, Germany since 1997. Daniele has studied physics, completing his diploma thesis in particle physics at the International Research Center CERN in Geneva and obtained his doctorate in law at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich.
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    Wenderoth | Partner

    Amy Schmid is a partner at Wenderoth, and co-chair of the chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical group. Prior to joining Wenderoth in 2004, Amy was a Patent Examiner at the USPTO, handling applications in the Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry Technology Center. Amy’s practice focuses on preparing and prosecuting patent applications, managing and prosecuting applications within worldwide portfolios, and assisting foreign clients with obtaining patent protection in the US.