Blog

Moderator: Vince Garlock, Executive Director, AIPLA, Arlington, VA

Titans:

Rick Nydegger, AIPLA Past President, Partner, Workman Nydegger, Salt Lake City, UT

Esther Kepplinger, Partner, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich

Tom Irving, Partner, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, Washington, DC

Sponsored in part by:
Barley Snyder, and
Honigman

Speakers

• Garlock, Vincent

  AIPLA | Executive Director

  Vince Garlock is the Executive Director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), a national bar association dedicated to improving the domestic and international IP laws and providing the highest quality of services and programs to its members. Vince is involved in various aspects AIPLA management, and is particularly involved in the shaping, development and communication of policy initiatives.
• Irving, Thomas L.

  The Marbury Law Group, PLLC | Partner

  Tom Irving has more than 46 years of experience in the field of intellectual property law. His practice includes America Invents Act (AIA) post-grant proceedings, due diligence, counseling, patent prosecution, and reissue and reexamination. He counsels clients on a wide range of mainly pharmaceutical matters, including pre-litigation, Orange Book listings of patents covering FDA-approved drugs, infringement issues, enforceability and validity analysis.
• Esther Kepplinger

  Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Chief Patent Counselor

  Esther Kepplinger is Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's chief patent counselor. Her responsibilities include serving as the firm's liaison to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), ensuring that all of its patent filings are conducted in the most efficient and defensible manner, and enhancing the firm's inter partes PTO practice.
• Rick D. Nydegger

  Workman Nydegger | Founder and Senior Counsel

  Rick D. Nydegger is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Utah Supreme Court. He has extensive experience in the prosecution of electronic, software, information science, e-commerce technologies and medical device technologies, and represents many of Workman Nydegger’s major clients in these areas.