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How Patent Exhaustion Affects Claims Strategy, Filing Strategy, and Sales Strategies-Case Law Updates and Real-world Examples

Moderator: Robert Mazzola, Pied Parker, San Francisco, CA

Speakers:

• Kristin L. Murphy, ZF Group, Farmington, MI
• Yar Chaikovsky, Paul Hastings, LLC, Palo Alto, CA
  

Hosted by the Patent Agents and Patent Law Committees

Speakers

• Murphy, Kristin

  ZF Group | Lead Divisional IP Counsel

  Kristin Murphy’s experience spans across all aspects of intellectual property. With respect to patent matters, her career has included domestic and foreign patent prosecution, including as part of strategic patent portfolio development and management. She has extensive experience in patent opinions, intellectual property valuations/due diligence and drafting and negotiation agreements relating to technology and intellectual property.
• Chaikovsky, Yar

  Paul Hastings | Global Co-Chair, IP Practice

  Yar R. Chaikovsky is Global Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. He oversees the firm’s 100-plus lawyer IP practice. Mr. Chaikovsky serves as lead trial counsel for some of the most preeminent global technology companies in their most important matters, litigating in district courts and at the ITC in technology fields as diverse as networking and broadband infrastructure; semiconductors; LEDs; wireless communication standards such as Bluetooth, CDMA, SMS, and WiFi; video compression; navigation systems; software; hardware; consumer electronics; analog devices; and medical devices.
• Mazzola, Robert

  Waterstone Edge | Attorney & Founder

  RRobert Mazzola, a seasoned corporate and intellectual property lawyer, has steered countless companies to success, from startups to public entities. The focus of his expertise is corporate and intellectual transactions, including patent prosecution. Notably, at Haynes and Boone in Palo Alto, Robert honed his skills in patent prosecution, working with large tech companies. At Pied Parker, he scaled the patent portfolio from a single application to fifty and facilitated seed funding, acquisitions, and partnerships with publicly traded companies.