5/17 - Titans of the IP Bar

Moderator: Vince Garlock, Executive Director, AIPLA, Arlington, VA

Titans:

Rick Nydegger, AIPLA Past President, Partner, Workman Nydegger, Salt Lake City, UT

Esther Kepplinger, Partner, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich

Tom Irving, Partner, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, Washington, DC

Sponsored in part by:
Barley Snyder, and
Honigman

Speakers

• Garlock, Vincent

  AIPLA | Executive Director

  Vince Garlock is the Executive Director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), a national bar association dedicated to improving the domestic and international IP laws and providing the highest quality of services and programs to its members. Vince is involved in various aspects AIPLA management, and is particularly involved in the shaping, development and communication of policy initiatives.
• Irving, Thomas L.

  The Marbury Law Group, PLLC | Senior Partner

  Tom Irving is Senior Partner at the Marbury Law Group, after a 47-year career at the world-famous Finnegan firm. Tom practices U.S. patent law, including but not limited to patent law experting in district court litigations, due diligence, counseling, strategy, rendering opinions on inventorship and ownership, patentability, validity and freedom to operate, patent preparation and prosecution in the Chemical and Life Science arts and listing approved drug products and methods of treatment in FDA’s Orange Book.. Tom obtained his undergraduate B.A, degree in chemistry at the University of Utah in 1974. Tom received his law degree from The Duke University School of Law in 1977. Tom is entering his 50th year in the U.S. patent law business and in the very early years was mentored by P.J. Federico, who co-wrote the 1952 Patent Act with Judge Rich.
• Esther Kepplinger

  Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Chief Patent Counselor

  Esther Kepplinger is Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's chief patent counselor. Her responsibilities include serving as the firm's liaison to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), ensuring that all of its patent filings are conducted in the most efficient and defensible manner, and enhancing the firm's inter partes PTO practice.
• Rick D. Nydegger

  Workman Nydegger | Founder and Senior Counsel

  Rick D. Nydegger is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Utah Supreme Court. He has extensive experience in the prosecution of electronic, software, information science, e-commerce technologies and medical device technologies, and represents many of Workman Nydegger’s major clients in these areas.