Blog

Year in Review

Speakers

• Pytel, Melissa

  Entrada Therapeutics | Head of Intellectual Property

  Melissa Pytel is the Head of Intellectual Property at Entrada Therapeutics and has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property law. She has served as a both in-house counsel and outside counsel in the life sciences industry with a focus on biotechnology, small molecule pharmaceuticals and medical devices and has successfully advised companies ranging from biotech and medical device startups to multinational corporations. Melissa has extensive experience in developing and executing IP strategies that align with business objectives, helping companies navigate complex patent landscapes to secure competitive advantage and optimize portfolio value. Her expertise includes patent prosecution, due diligence, freedom-to-operate analyses, licensing and IP transactions.
• Mandel, Richard S.

  Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman P.C> | Shareholder

  Richard S. Mandel is a shareholder with Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. in New York City. His practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, including copyright, trademark, unfair competition and Internet issues. Mr. Mandel earned his J.D. in 1985 from New York University School of Law, where he served as an editor on the Law Review, and his BA, summa cum laude, in 1982 from NYU College of Arts and Science, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association commercial panel of arbitrators and the Southern District of New York panel of court appointed mediators.
• Crouch, Dennis

  University of Missouri School of Law | Law Professor

  Dennis Crouch is a law professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, specializing in intellectual property and technology law. He is well known to the IP community as the founder and author of the popular site, Patently-O. Although a mechanical and aerospace engineer by training, Crouch has been involved with AI and software for decades. His Princeton University undergraduate thesis offered a novel model for neural network design that he termed fractal neural networks and offered an early example of using the massively parallel potential of the internet to facilitate machine learning.