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Hosted by the Patent Law, Chemical, Biotech & Corporate Practice Committees

Speakers

• Stanton, Brian

  Stanton Consulting | Principal

  Brian R. Stanton, Ph.D. trained as a molecular geneticist specializing in cancer research. After post graduate work utilizing embryonic stem cell technology to study animal development, he joined the US Patent and Trademark Office where he spent 12 years working in biopharmaceutical patenting.
• Jordan, Christina

  Tune Therapeutics | Senior Director, Intellectual Property

  Christina is Senior Director, Intellectual Property at Tune Therapeutics, where she leads IP portfolio strategy, development, and management for various programs including epigenome editing. Prior to joining Tune, she managed global IP portfolio strategy for various programs including cell therapy and gene editing at Juno Therapeutics/Celgene/Bristol Myers Squibb. Previously, she was in-house patent counsel at CoMotion, the University of Washington’s Technology Transfer Office, where she managed all aspects of the life sciences and chemistry patent portfolios for the University of Washington.
• Van Voorhis, Kim

  Nike | Assistant General Counsel, Global IP LItigation

  Kim is Assistant General Counsel, Global IP Litigation & Director of IP Europe at Nike, Inc. She is a committed IP professional, bringing nearly 20 years of experience litigating, managing portfolios, and providing strategic counseling on all aspects of global intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, design, copyright and trade secrets, in both elite law firm and Fortune 100 corporate settings.
• Dinh, Phong

  Microsoft | Senior Counsel - Corporate, External & Legal Affairs

  Phong Dinh is a Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft, where he leads a patent team supporting Microsoft’s Cloud and AI business, including patent portfolio development, IP counseling, M&A transactions, IP licensing, open source usage, and strategic partnerships. He further provides IP counseling and drives the company’s patent and trade secret strategies for Azure AI, which includes Microsoft Speech, Vision, Language, and Decision services. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Dinh was a Senior Associate at Goodwin Procter, where he specialized in patent prosecution and IP litigation before US district courts, the Patent Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
• Burke, Julie

  IP Quality Pro, LLC | Founder

  Dr. Julie Burke is founder of IP Quality Pro LLC, where she acts as an expert witness on patent office procedures and practices. From 1995-2000, Julie examined patent applications directed to cancer treatments. She was promoted into management in Technology Center 1600, where she drafted petition decisions, reviewed quality of Office actions and allowances and evaluated patent examination practices to identify targets for quality improvement.
• Helm, Jeremiah

  Knobbe Martens | Partner

  Jeremiah S. Helm has represented clients in a variety of technological fields, with an emphasis on patent litigation and appellate practice. Jeremiah has appeared before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on a number of occasions, and has argued over a dozen cases before the Court. Before joining the firm in 2017, Jeremiah worked as an Associate Solicitor at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In that role, Jeremiah represented the Director in both district and appellate courts, and provided legal advice about intellectual property law policy and regulation.