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  • Canady, Karen 200 Canady, Ph.D., Karen S.

    Canady + Lortz LLP | Founding Partner

    Dr. Karen Canady is managing partner of the Los Angeles office of canady + lortz LLP, where she specializes in patent prosecution and client counseling, primarily serving universities and start-ups in the biotechnology industry. Her technical emphasis is in diagnostics and therapeutics, including vaccines, stem cells, biomarkers, personalized medicine, gene therapy, and recombinant molecules.
  • Candido, Amy 200x200 Candido, Amy

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Partner

    Amy Candido is a trial lawyer who focuses on high-stakes, complex intellectual property matters. She has extensive experience litigating patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and other IP in “bet the company” cases nationwide on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. Amy has tried numerous jury and bench trials, securing courtroom victories in a variety of difficult cases. Her trial victories include The National Law Journal’s Top Verdict of 2014 and three complete defense verdicts in the Eastern District of Texas.
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    Shanghai Office of NTD | Senior Partner

    Ms. Cao serves as the principal of NTD Shanghai Office.
  • Caprihan Headshot - 200 Caprihan, Kakoli

    United States Patent and Trademark Office | Associate Solicitor

    Kakoli Caprihan is an Associate Solicitor at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. As Associate Solicitor, Kakoli serves as legal counsel to the United States Patent and Trademark Office on intellectual property law matters. Kakoli has more than 20 years of experience as an attorney in both public and private practice, and has been pursuing her current role with the USPTO since November 2012.
  • Carani, Christopher V.

    McAndrews, Held & Malloy | Shareholder

    Christopher V. Carani is a Shareholder at McAndrews and has been at the firm since 1995. He practices in all areas of intellectual property law with a particular emphasis on design law, which regards the protection and enforcement of rights in the appearance of consumer products. Chris has extensive experience litigating design patent cases, including representations before U.S. district courts, the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the International Trade Commission. In each year since 2019, Chris has been named to the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists list, with IAM magazine noting that he is “one of the world’s leading design patent strategists,” one of the U.S.’s “pre-eminent design law experts,” and “widely regarded as one of the country’s premier design patent lawyers.” In 2023, in Columbia Sportswear v. Seirus, Chris successfully argued a case of first impression before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, creating new law on the issue of the proper scope of comparison prior art used in the design patent infringement analysis.
  • Carlson, Sonja

    Microsoft | Senior Corporate Counsel

    onja Carlson is Senior Corporate Counsel supporting Microsoft’s Cloud + AI engineering groups, and Co-Chair of the Women’s Employee Resource Group (400+ membership) for Microsoft’s legal group. She is lead counsel for the Dynamics 365 Customer Service group and the Project “Sophia” engineering group (focused on generative AI innovation), advising on a range of cutting-edge technologies and issues, including Artificial Intelligence, data use and privacy, Intellectual Property, and Competition Law.
  • Carpenter, Megan

    UNH Franlin Pierce Law School | Law School Dean

    Megan M. Carpenter is dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law. Dean Carpenter is an internationally known expert in intellectual property, with particular interests in entrepreneurship, branding, and the arts. Prior to joining UNH Law, Dean Carpenter was founder and co-director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University School of Law, where she also served as Professor of Law and Faculty Director of three intellectual property and entrepreneurship-related clinical programs.
  • carroll, michael square200 Carroll, Michael

    American University Washington College of Law | Professor of Law

    Michael W. Carroll is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (2009 – present). He teaches and writes about intellectual property law and cyberlaw. Professor Carroll's research focuses on the search for balance in intellectual property law over time in the face of challenges posed by new technologies. His research includes projects about the social costs imposed by one-size-fits-all intellectual property rights and about the history of copyright in music.
  • Cartwright, Karishma Jiva

    Pierce Atwood | Associate

    Karishma Cartwright focuses her practice on drafting and prosecuting software-based patent applications, including machine-learning algorithms and AI systems, for large and small corporations, startups, and universities. She also has experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions for the following technology areas: business methods, financial methods, network communications, electronics, medical devices, and mechanical systems.
  • Cary, Judson

    CableLabs | Vice President & Deputy General Counsel

    Judson Cary is Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at CableLabs, a non-profit research and development organization owned by the global cable industry. He also serves as General Counsel of the Society of Cable and Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), the ANSI-accredited standards body for the cable industry.
  • Cassell, Justin

    Workman Nydegger | Shareholder

    Justin Cassell provides legal counsel to clients on a wide array of patent matters, encompassing patent procurement, opinion formulation, and licensing agreements. He has drafted and prosecuted many patent applications in close collaboration with inventors, effectively facilitating the transition of PCT national stage applications into the United States. Furthermore, he maintains close cooperation with foreign counsel regarding national stage applications submitted to patent offices outside of the United States.
  • Cassell-Justin-100 Cassell, Justin J.

    Workman Nydegger | Shareholder

    Justin counsels clients on patent procurement, intellectual property due diligence, validity and infringement, strategic international IP protection, post-grant proceedings, and preliminary patent enforcement and defense actions.
  • Casson, Lawrence

    Duane Morris | Special Counsel

    Lawrence P. Casson practices in the area of intellectual property law. Dr. Casson has experience in patent portfolio analysis, patent validity and infringement opinions, and patent drafting and prosecution, with particular emphasis on biotechnology. His experience includes interference practice and pharmaceutical litigation. He has worked on matters involving immunology; antibodies and phage display; peptidomimetics; vaccines; target identification and small molecule drug discovery and development; enzyme replacement therapy; treatment of neoplastic, metabolic, and infectious disease; prokaryotic and eukaryotic gene expression; RTKs and signal transduction; stem cell therapeutics and assays; diagnostic and forensic testing and profiling; cell biology; plant molecular biology; macromolecular crystallography; DNA chips and microarrays; natural products and neutraceuticals; nanoparticles; and polymers.
  • Jie Chai Chai, Jie

    Tian Yuan Law Firm | Partner

    Mr. Chai’s practice covers a wide range of outbound and inbound transactions, including FDI, ODI, cross-border M&A and financing matters, and he has extensive experience in legal service for investment and development as well as construction of major power, mining, natural resources, and a wide range of industries.
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    Paul Hastings | Global Co-Chair, IP Practice

    Yar R. Chaikovsky is Global Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. He oversees the firm’s 100-plus lawyer IP practice. Mr. Chaikovsky serves as lead trial counsel for some of the most preeminent global technology companies in their most important matters, litigating in district courts and at the ITC in technology fields as diverse as networking and broadband infrastructure; semiconductors; LEDs; wireless communication standards such as Bluetooth, CDMA, SMS, and WiFi; video compression; navigation systems; software; hardware; consumer electronics; analog devices; and medical devices.
  • Trevor J. Chaplick Chaplick, Trevor J.

    Greenberg Traurig, LLP | Shareholder

    Trevor J. Chaplick focuses his practice on representing technology and growth companies, underwriters, private equity firms, and venture capital funds in a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, financings, as well as in general corporate and securities law matters.
  • Chapple PhotoSQUARE200jpg Chapple, Scott

    Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation | Head of Pharmaceutical Patents

  • Charrington, Laurie 200 Charrington, Laurie

    Intel Corporation | Associate General Counsel

    Laurie Charrington is Associate General Counsel and Patent Litigation Team Lead in Intel’s Intellectual Property Legal Group. In this role, Laurie manages significant patent litigation and IP-related threats to Intel, including matters threatening billions of dollars of revenue and where an adverse outcome could materially impact Intel's business. Laurie manages a global portfolio, and leads cases and teams in the US, Germany, Japan, France, Brazil, India, and the Netherlands. In addition to her responsibilities as Associate General Counsel, Laurie co-leads Intel Legal’s Diversity and Inclusion Team and serves on the General Counsel’s Black Leadership Advisory Council.
  • Chatterjee, Neel

    Goodwin Proctor | Partner

    Neel Chatterjee is a partner in Goodwin’s Intellectual Property practice. An internationally recognized technology litigator and trial lawyer, Neel has a proven track record of wins in hard-to-win technology cases. Neel has a passion for representing entrepreneurs and disruptive technology companies, even at their earliest stages. His cases often break new ground in undefined areas of the law. Neel has substantial expertise handling disputes related to patents, trade secrets, copyrights, internet law, and complex commercial technology issues. Neel also has a fascination with legal issues in pop culture, science fiction and fantasy.
  • Chen, Gang

    Crowell & Moring | Partner

    Gang Chen (“Gang”), a partner at Crowell & Moring, earned a Ph.D. degree in physics and electric engineering from University of Michigan (with distinction). Gang received his JD from Setal Hall Law School (magna cum laude). Gang handles a large docket of patent prosecution matters in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and litigate complex patent infringement matters in diverse technical fields including quantum information processing. Gang also routinely helps clients with IP due diligence investigations and provides counseling on corporate legal issues involving technological subject matters and general IP portfolio management, transaction, and strategies. Gang previously had extensive research/development experiences in an industrial research lab followed by several years of in-house experiences in handling intellectual property matters such as asset mining, patent assertion and licensing. Gang’s technical experiences span a variety of areas including wireless/wireline telecommunications networks, electronic/optical devices and components, semiconductors, data analytics/modeling, artificial intelligence, autonomies, quantum information processing/computation, and advanced physics and material researches.