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Best Practices Workshop

The Communication Wizard will discuss the “six deadly sins” of written and oral communication, and then direct a series of vignettes to demonstrate best practices.


Moderator: Stacy Lewis, Finnegan, Washington, DC

Instructor: Tom Irving, Finnegan, Washington, DC


Vignette Actors:
Elizabeth Dougherty, USPTO, Alexandria, VA
Aisha Mahmood Haley, Reichman Jorgensen, Washington, DC
Hira Javed, American University College of Law, Washington, DC
Anna Ziskind Lloyd, Oblon
Leon Lum, Novo Nordisk
Ted Mayle, Kilpatrick Townsend
Angela Nieves, St. Thomas University College of Law, Miami Gardens, FL
Gabe Olander, Applied Materials
Laura Powell, Fish & Richardson, Washington, DC
Meredith Schoenfeld, USPTO, Alexandria, VA
Vlad Semendyai, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, DC
Aastha Tandon, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Brian Trotter, Bishop Rock, Austin, TX
Chris Weber
Bruce Wu, Nutcracker Therapeutics, 

To view bios and headshots of our vignette actors, click here.

Speakers

• 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.
• Lewis, Stacy

  Finnegan Henderson | Law Clerk

  Co-authored dozens of articles about U.S. patent law including extensive writing on U.S. patent law, planning and executing effective patent prosecution, conducting due diligence assessments; Skilled Law Clerk at intellectual property law firm Finnegan in chemical practice group for over 25 years;