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Patents & Trade Secrets

Moderator: Blair Jacobs, McKool Smith, Washington, DC

Protecting Trade Secrets In Commerce, In Litigation and Around The World
Mark Klapow, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Washington DC

7 Words You Can Never Say to the USPTO
Ryan Pool, Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC, Arlington, VA

Claims Matter:  Even for Damages
Kristin Cleveland, Klarquist Sparkman LLP, Portland, OR

Speakers

• Klapow, Mark

  Crowell & Moring LLP | Partner

  Mark A. Klapow is a partner in the firm's Litigation Group. He litigates complex commercial and intellectual property disputes, including trade secrets cases. Mark has represented Fortune 500 companies including Alcoa, AT&T, Caterpillar, Dow, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Intel, Lenovo, Molson Coors, and Western Union in federal and state courts across the country.
• Cleveland, Kristin

  Klarquist | Partner

  Kristin’s practice focuses exclusively on intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, and trade dress cases. She has extensive experience handling all phases of litigation, from obtaining favorable results in early motion practice, to efficient management of cases through discovery, claim construction, summary judgment and trial. She has a national trial practice, litigating in federal district courts around the country, and has argued at the Federal Circuit. Kristin is the chair of the Litigation practice group, serves on the firm’s management committee, and has served in the past as the firm’s managing partner.
• Pool, Ryan

  Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C. | Partner

  Ryan Pool is a Partner at MWZB who specializes in chemical and life sciences patent prosecution. He is experienced in patent drafting, patent prosecution, and portfolio management. His practice has involved considerable work in the international patent sphere and he is the current Chair of the AIPLA IP Practice in Europe committee. Mr. Pool is interested in using data to find patent prosecution advantages for is clients to increase both prosecution effectiveness and efficiency. He has authored a number of papers to that end. His works have published in both US and international patent law industry publications. He will be discussing one such work today.
• Jacobs, Blair M.

  McKool Smith | Shareholder

  Blair M. Jacobs is a Shareholder at McKool Smith in Washington, DC. Mr. Jacbos represents high technology innovators large and small, Mr. Jacobs serves as lead trial counsel and strategist in intellectual property and trade secret matters in district courts nationwide and is a leading practitioner at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, where he has presented numerous oral arguments. He has served as lead appellate counsel on several well-known, precedential opinions shaping patent law.