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  • Bongiovanni, Simone

    Council of the National Order of Industrial Property Consultants | Vice President

    Mr. Giovanni joined Studio Torta in 1989 and became a partner in 1995. Since 2011 he has been the Managing Director of the firm. He is a qualified European and Italian Patent, Design and Trademark Attorney. He is a member of various associations, including LES, AIPPI, FICPI, JIPA, IJBG and CCIGI. He is a member of the Council of the National Order of Industrial Property Consultants and a court expert in the Industrial Property Section of the Court of Turin. 
  • Bonilla, Jacqueline Wright

    USPTO PTAB | Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge

    Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge Jackie Bonilla is serving as the Senior Legal Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As the Senior Legal Advisor, she counsels the Director of the USPTO on a wide range of patent-related legal and policy issues, including those relevant to America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB); the process for Director review of PTAB decisions; litigation before the Federal Circuit and Supreme Court; and PTAB and patent-related precedent, Director guidance, and rulemaking.
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    McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP | Partner

    Michael S. Borella is a partner with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP and serves as Chair of the firm’s Software & Business Methods Practice Group. Dr. Borella provides legal and technological advice in support of validity, infringement, patentability analyses, and litigation matters. His expertise includes networking, Internet telephony, wireless communication technologies, telecommunications, financial transactions, cloud computing, routing, TCP/IP, artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer graphics and imaging, voice and facial recognition, robotics, and mobile applications.
  • Boulware, Margaret 200 Boulware, Margaret

    Boulware & Valior | Partner

    In 2010, Ms. Boulware started a woman-owned boutique firm building on her years of experience in international and domestic IP work. She tried the first validity and infringement arbitration of a U.S. patent, which case was tried before the International Chamber of Commerce. She has represented clients in trademark infringement cases including over 100 cases before federal courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In addition to litigation experience, Ms. Boulware has prosecuted patents in chemical, mechanical and biotech areas. She procured pioneer patents on cattle cloning in the U.S. Ms. Boulware supervises international trademark portfolios and advises on international market strategies for clients including Fortune 500 companies. Meg was the first woman president of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and is active in national IP associations.
  • Boundy Photo Boundy, David

    Proper Orange, LLC | Affiliate

    Engineer and nationally-ranked IP and administrative lawyer. Defends small inventors against patent trolls
  • Boushie_Kristopher_200_web Boushie, Kristopher

    NERA Economic Consulting | Director

    Kristopher Boushie is a Director with NERA Economic Consulting in its Washington, DC office. He has over 30 years of experience consulting and testifying on IP related matters including the analysis and quantification of damages from IP infringement/misappropriation, IP valuation and licensing, and royalty auditing. He is a member of NERA’s IP practice and heads its Trade Secrets Task Force.
  • Bowser, Jonathan

    Haynes Boone | Counsel

    Jonathan Bowser is a registered patent attorney focusing on patent litigation disputes before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and federal district courts. Jonathan has been counsel in more than 125 AIA trials before the PTAB, representing both patent challengers and patent owners, and litigates appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He also prepares and prosecutes patent portfolios in the U.S. and abroad with a specific focus on electrical, computer, networking, and medical device technologies. Jonathan is a frequent author and presenter on post-grant issues.
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    Norton Rose Fulbright | Partner

    Felicia Boyd is a Chambers ranked litigator with extensive experience as a leader in complex IP disputes involving patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade dress both in and out of court spanning a diverse array of industries, including financial and investment services, medical devices (such as pacemakers, heart valves, defibrillators and synchronization devices), software, music, pharmaceuticals and manufactured goods.
  • Karen Boyd Karen I. Boyd

    Turner Boyd LLP | Founding Partner

    Karen Boyd is a founding partner of Turner Boyd LLP, representing clients in intellectual property disputes, focusing on patent disputes.
  • Walter Bratic Bratic, Walter

    Whitley Penn | Forensic, Litigation & Valuation Managing Director

    Walter Bratic is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner with more than 30 years of public accounting experience serving a broad spectrum of clients with litigation and valuations both domestically and internationally. Walter has testified in federal, district, bankruptcy, and state court, ICC, ITC and AAA proceedings and has served as a court-appointed expert.
  • Braun, Kerri

    Cisco Systems, Inc. | Senior Corporate Counsel

    Mrs. Kerri Braun has worked more than 20 years in the field of IP after receiving J.D. and Masters in IP from Franklin Pierce Law Center. She worked in law firms in Atlanta until going in house in 2011, prosecuting patents and trademarks, negotiating license agreements, litigating complex intellectual property matters, and formulating robust trade secret protection programs. Kerri is currently Senior Corporate Counsel, AI/ML, Trade Secrets, and Data Strategy for Cisco Systems, Inc., where she designs and implements solutions for minimizing risk and protecting some of Cisco’s most valuable assets.
  • Breslin, Patrick

    Breslin Consulting | CEO

    Pat Breslin, CEO of Breslin Consulting, is an economist and expert in IP damages, valuation, and economic and financial analysis. He has 25 years of experience in litigation and other dispute resolution contexts, in multiple country jurisdictions. IP types valued include patents, trademarks, trade secrets, technology, know-how, and copyrights. Pat has valued energy- and environmentally-related technologies, and transactions in the oil and natural gas industries.
  • Brinckerhoff_square200 Brinckerhoff, Courtenay

    Foley & Lardner LLP | Partner

    Courtenay Brinckerhoff is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, a Vice Chair of the firm’s IP Department, and immediate past Vice Chair of the firm’s Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice. Over the past 25 years, Courtenay has represented clients in the life sciences space before the U.S. Patent Office, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, including in a multi-party interference proceeding, PTAB trial proceedings, and ANDA litigation. She also is the editor and primary author for the firm’s PharmaPatents blog.
  • Brock, Sean

    GSK | U.S. Vice President

    Sean Brock is an intellectual property strategist focused on protecting and facilitating innovation in the life science sector. He currently serves as the U.S. vice president for pharmaceutical patents at GSK. Over his career, Sean has provided IP guidance to sole inventors, academic institutions, start-ups, midsized biotechs, and some of the world’s largest healthcare companies. He has experience securing and asserting IP rights, defending against infringement allegations, structuring IP transactions, shaping legislation, and almost everything in between.
  • Brody-Tom-200 Brody, Tom

    Affiliated with Patnstr, APC | Independent Consultant

    Presently, Tom is an independent consultant doing patent prosecution work for four different companies in southern California. Tom has 18 years of patenting experience in biotechnology, immunology (vaccines, antibodies, CAR T-cells, dendritic cells), organic chemistry, medical devices, and mechanical devices.
  • Brougher, Joanna

    Indivior, PLC | Patent Attorney

    Joanna is a patent attorney who focuses her practice on all aspects of services related to patents in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including patentability opinions, patent drafting, domestic and foreign patent prosecution, development and management of patent portfolios, and general client counseling during all phases of a product’s lifecycle, from concept to commercialization. Joanna’s patent experience covers a variety of complex and innovative inventions involving small molecule drugs, biologics, cell-based technologies, compositions, drug formulations and drug delivery systems, immunotherapeutics, medical devices, diagnostic tests, nanotechnology, and immunology, particularly vaccines and antibodies. Joanna also has experience counseling clients on the Hatch-Waxman Act and is monitoring developments involving biosimilars under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act.
  • Daniel Brownstone Daniel Brownstone

    Fenwick & West LLP | Partner

    Daniel Brownstone is a partner in the Intellectual Property group of Fenwick & West LLP.
  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

    NYU Department of Politics

  • Bruce D. Sunstein

    Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

  • Bruce, Shelby

    3M | Senior Trademark Counsel

    Shelby Bruce is Senior Trademark Counsel at 3M where she supports a majority of the divisions in the Safety and Industrial Business Group globally. In this role, Shelby is the primary trademark attorney for these divisions with responsibility for portfolio management, counseling, enforcement, anti-counterfeiting, and trademark agreements. Prior to joining 3M in 2017, Shelby was an Associate at Norton Rose Fulbright in Minneapolis where she worked on a variety of trademark and copyright matters.