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• Baldini, M. Cristina

  Studio Torta | Partner

  After graduating in Law, Ms. Baldini joined Studio Torta in 1989 and became a partner in 2000. She acquired considerable experience in developing strategies for protecting trademarks in Italy and abroad. She provides advice on the subjects of trademarks, designs, copyright and protection against counterfeiting, including on the web. She frequently speaks in seminars, courses and conferences. For over 10 years she has been collaborating with magazine OICCE Times, regularly publishing articles on trademarks in the oenology sector.
• Meigs, J. Timothy

  AgBiome, Inc. | Chief IP Counsel

  Tim Meigs has practiced intellectual property law since 1993 and is currently Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at AgBiome, Inc. in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Tim began his practice at patent law firms in Greensboro and Raleigh, NC. He then spent 8 years specializing in biotechnology patent law as an in-house attorney with various incarnations of CIBA-Geigy, Novartis, and Syngenta. Tim then joined the Washington, DC, intellectual property law firm, Sughrue Mion, where he was primarily engaged in biotechnology patent interference practice. In 2005, Tim moved back to NC and spent nearly 17 years with BD (Becton, Dickinson, and Company), where he was responsible for IP matters at BD’s corporate research unit as well as several BD businesses over the years, including BD Surgery and parts of BD Life Sciences.
• Hartwig, Henning

  Bardehle Pagenberg

  Dr. Henning Hartwig’s practice involves prosecution and litigation of IP rights in the fields of trademark, design, copyright and unfair competition law, with a focus on industrial design law, particularly multinational infringement proceedings and invalidity proceedings before the EUIPO and the Court of Justice of the EU, including the landmark case “Nintendo v Bigben”. As the editor of the four-volume casebook “Design Protection in Europe”, the only one of its kind, Henning has unique access to unpublished decisions of Community and national design infringement courts throughout Europe.
• Wu, Michael

  Chang Tsi & Partners | Partner

  Mr. Michael Wu specializes in matters related to patent infringement, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and unfair competition litigation, enforcement of intellectual property rights through administrative procedures and patent invalidation proceedings. Mr. Wu has earned licenses to practice as an attorney at law and as a patent attorney. Wu has a unique understanding of mobile telecommunications patent litigation, software patent litigation, and copyright litigation related to the internet.
• Rovira, Gonzalo

  Bayer Group | Director of Intellectual Property & Licensing for Latin America

  Gonzalo Rovira, is currently Director of Intellectual Property & Licensing for Latin America at Bayer Group. He born in 1972. He is a patent lawyer. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) and a Master of Intellectual Property and Commerce degree from the Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire, USA. He is a registered Intellectual Property Agent.
• Ciesliga, Camille

  MaxCyte, Inc. | Associate General Counsel, Intelletual Property

  Camille Ciesliga is Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property for MaxCyte, Inc., a global cell engineering company driving the next generation of cell-based medicines based on proprietary flow electroporation technology. Ms. Ciesliga is a registered patent attorney with over 16 years of relevant legal experience providing strategic counseling relating to all aspects of intellectual property, including patent procurement, opinions drafting, client counseling, and litigation.
• Shier, Vincent K.

  Haynes Boone | Partner

  Vincent K. Shier, Ph.D. is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Washington, D.C. office. Vince holds a doctorate degree in biological chemistry and has practiced IP law for more than two decades, preparing and prosecuting patent applications, counseling clients in strategic IP considerations, IP due diligence, and representing clients in post-grant proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).