10/20 - PM Concurrent Track 1 - Cybersecurity and Patents

October 20, 2023 2:15 PM to 4:00 PM

Location

Potomac C, 1-3

Cybersecurity, Privacy and Surveillance: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!

Moderator: Tanya Madison, Aristocrat Technologies, Las Vegas, NV

 

The Do’s and Don’ts of Monitoring and Surveillance: Balancing the Protection of an Employer’s Trade Secrets with the Privacy of Employees

 

Speaker: Marci Rozen, ZwillGen, Washington, DC

Data and Online Assets in IP Transactions in the US and Abroad

 

Speaker: Dave Kappos, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, NY

 

Hosted by: Privacy and Data Security, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Trade Secret Law Committees

 

3:00 - 3:15 PM Break

 

How to Maximize Your Patent Term - Mechanics and Strategies for Acquiring the Longest-Lived Patents

Moderator: Debora Plehn-Dujowich, Eckert Seamans, Philadelphia, PA 

Speakers:

Kimberly Miller, Knobbe Martens, San Diego, CA

Angela Sebor, Tolmar, Inc., Fort Collins, CO

Ben Heller, Kilburn & Strode, London, UK

 

Hosted by: Patent Law and Food and Drug Committees

Speakers

  • Kappos, David J.

    Cravath Swaine & Moore, LLP | Partner

    David J. Kappos is Co-Chair of Cravath's Intellectual Property Practice. He is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost leaders in the field of intellectual property, including intellectual property management and strategy, the development of global intellectual property norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets.
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    Tolmar | Director Intellectual Property

    Angie Sebor is the Director Intellectual Property at Tolmar, Inc., a Colorado-based, fully integrated pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative, specialty pharmaceutical products in the areas of urology, oncology, pediatric endocrinology and men’s health. Angie is a registered U.S. patent agent with a Ph.D. in Immunology and more than 27 years’ experience in patent law, both as an in-house practitioner and in private practice, primarily in the areas of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
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    Eckert Seamans | Member

    Debora Plehn-Dujowich has extensive experience as a patent attorney focusing on life sciences technologies. Debora's experience includes: conducting patent preparation and prosecution; conducting due diligence; drafting licensing agreements; and preparing patentability opinions, landscape opinions and freedom to operate opinions. Debora has also conducted reexamination and interference proceedings.
  • Rozen, Marci

    ZwillGen | Senior Legal Director

    Marci Rozen counsels companies on a wide variety of issues involving cybersecurity and privacy. She has extensive experience in cybersecurity preparedness counseling, including policy development, risk assessment, and compliance with laws, regulations, and standards. She also advises on security issues in vulnerability disclosure programs, contracting, vendor management, due diligence, and mergers and acquisitions.
  • Miller, Kimberly

    Knobbe Martens | Partner

    Dr. Kim Miller is a Partner at Knobbe Martens and serves as a single point of contact for all IP-related matters her clients face. For more established companies, she easily adapts to their processes and procedures, blending seamlessly into their existing corporate structure while adding valuable insight regarding how to better leverage their IP assets. For smaller, emerging and fast-growth companies, Kim works diligently to identify the vision going forward, as well as to provide advice and procedural solutions that fit their agenda today and into the future. Regardless of the size or extent of her clients’ IP assets, Kim is totally dedicated to conserving financial and other resources while seeking to ensure they get what they specifically need to succeed.
  • Heller, Ben

    Kilburn & Strode | Counsel

    Ben is Counsel at Kilburn & Strode and handles a wide variety of patent applications spanning a broad range of technologies within the chemical field, specialising in particular in the areas of small molecule pharmaceutical chemistry, drug delivery formulations, polymers, composite materials, organic electronic materials and electrochemistry. He has a key role in the firm’s pharmaceutical chemistry practice, representing clients at all stages of the development process for clinical trial drug candidates and marketed drug products. He has particular expertise in obtaining supplementary protection certificate (SPC) protection across Europe for approved drug products.
  • Madison, Tanya

    Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. | Global Chief Privacy Officer and Senior VP

    Tanya Madison serves as Global Chief Privacy Officer and Senior Vice President at Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. In her role Tanya oversees Aristocrat’s Privacy Office and works very closely with various internal and external stakeholders to develop a maintain a robust privacy program globally.