Blog

10:15 - 11:00 AM

Product Counsel Primer – An Overview of In-House Product Counsel & Related Trends

Speakers

• Carlson, Sonja

  Microsoft | Senior Corporate Counsel

  onja Carlson is Senior Corporate Counsel supporting Microsoft’s Cloud + AI engineering groups, and Co-Chair of the Women’s Employee Resource Group (400+ membership) for Microsoft’s legal group. She is lead counsel for the Dynamics 365 Customer Service group and the Project “Sophia” engineering group (focused on generative AI innovation), advising on a range of cutting-edge technologies and issues, including Artificial Intelligence, data use and privacy, Intellectual Property, and Competition Law.
• Lytle, Rob

  Microsoft Corporation | Assistant General Counsel

  Robert B. Lytle is an Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft Corporation. His practice focuses on patent litigation. Mr. Lytle currently serves as the Finance Officer of the ABA IPL Section.
• Weibust, Erik

  Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. | Partner

  Erik Weibust is a Partner in the Boston office of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., where he is Vice Chair of the firm’s Trade Secret & Employee Mobility practice group. Many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, technology, financial services, staffing, and insurance companies look to Erik for thoughtful and practical advice concerning how best to protect their trade secrets and customer relationships from misappropriation by former employees, ex-business partners, competitors, and hostile actors in the United States and abroad, and to avoid liability when hiring from competitors. When necessary, clients rely on Erik for aggressive representation in litigation, where he has won substantial victories in court and at the negotiating table, including broad-reaching injunctive relief and multimillion-dollar payouts, in trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, and breach of restrictive covenant cases.
• Beck, Russell

  Beck Reed Riden LLP | Founder

  Russell Beck is a business, trade secrets, and employee mobility litigator, nationally recognized for his trade secrets and noncompete experience. He was invited to the Obama White House to develop guidelines for the proper use of noncompetes, and has been cited as an expert on trade secrets and noncompetes by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the White House, the Treasury Department, National Public Radio, the BBC World News Service, PBS Newshour, Le Monde, and many others.
• Duong, Vi

  Adswerve | VP of Legal

  Vi currently VP of Legal at Adswerve, a data, analytics, and media consultancy. She began her legal career at Invention Law Group and Intellectual Ventures, where she focused on negotiating research and development contracts, intellectual property licenses, and joint venture agreements. Vi describes herself as a startup attorney with a diverse background that ranges from negotiating complex transactions to IP to advising executives on legal operations and strategies.
• Go, Adrienne

  eBay, Inc.

  Adrienne Go leads a team of smart customer-obsessed product lawyers at eBay. Her team advises on core user experiences offered to eBay users around the world, including buying, selling, shipping, AI, focused categories, mobile, and trust. Adrienne and team analyze and advise on a wide range of disciplines, including regulatory, consumer protection, intellectual property, privacy, and contract.