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| Brett Alten, Director of Patent Development, Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA Katherine Basile, Partner, Novak Druce & Quigg Paul Bawel, Senior Attorney, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA Bill Becker, Senior Director of Intellectual Property, Align Technology, San Jose, CA Archana Bhuta, Director IP, SLT Group, Juniper Networks, CA Lesley Boveri, Associate General Counsel, IP, Phoenix Technologies, Milipitas, CA Julie Q. Brush, Founding Partner, Solutus Legal Search, CA Christopher Byrne, Vice President of IP Strategy, Tessera Technologies, San Jose, CA Jeremiah Chan, Senior IP Counsel, JDSU, MIlipitas, CA Neel Chatterjee, Partner, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Palo Alto, CA T. Rao Coca, Senior Director of Portfolio Development & Licensing, NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA Tanya de la Fuente Holland, Litigation Counsel, SanDisk, CA Jeff Draeger, Director of Patent Analysis, Intel Guy Ellis, Director of Patent Operations, Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA Jonathan Feuchtwang, Vice President of IP, eValve, Inc., Menlo Park, CA David Foster, IP Counsel, Actel Corporation, Mountain View, CA Joshua Galper, Partner, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, DC Bill Geary, Vice President, MPEG LA, Chevy Chase, MD Stephen Gillespie, Partner, Fenwick & West, LLP, San Francisco, CA Marilyn Glaubensklee, Director, Patent Portfolio Development, SanDisk, Milipitas, CA Adam Goldberg, Partner, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, DC Leonard Heyman, IP Counsel, VMware, Palo Alto, CA Diane Honda, Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Extreme Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA Richard Hsu, Partner, Townsend & Townsend & Crew, San Francisco, CA Michael Johnson, Patent Counsel, Qualcomm George Jonas, Head IP Counsel, SunPower Corp., San Jose, CA Jeremy Kashian, Associate General Counsel, NEC Corporation of America, Santa Clara, CA Karineh Khachatourian, Partner, K&L Gates, Palo Alto, CA Ron Laurie, Managing Director, Inflexion Point Strategy, Palo Alto, CA Nicholas N. Leach, Managing Counsel, Chief Patent Counsel, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA Domenic A. Leo, Senior Vice President & General Manager, IP Business, DataCert, Houston, TX Douglas Luftman, Associate General Counsel, IP Palm, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA Taraneh Maghamé, Attorney-at-Law, Cupertino, CA William Mandir, Partner, Sughrue Mion, PLLC, Washington, DC Andre L. Marais, Patent Attorney & Managing Shareholder, Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, San Jose, CA Christopher Marchese, Principal, Fish & Richardson, San Diego, CA Marc R. Mayer, Managing Counsel, IP Practice Group, Agilent Technologies, Loveland, CO NolaMae McBain, Associate General Patent Counsel, Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, CA Lisa McFall, Founder & Managing Director, Ovidian Group, Berkeley, CA Phil McGarrigle, General Counsel & Chief IP Counsel, Nodality, San Francisco, CA Loren McRoss, Senior IP Counsel, Sony Corporation of America, San Jose, CA Suzanne T. Michel, Deputy Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC Carol Webster Millie, Mediator, Silicon Valley Mediation Group, Los Altos, CA Steven A. Moore, Senior Counsel, Foley & Lardner, San Diego, CA John Moriarty, Senior Vice President, Elan Pharmaceuticals, CA Jeffrey Myers, Director & Associate General Counsel, Head of Patent Practice Group, Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA Brian W. Napper, Senior Managing Director - Forensic and Litigation Consulting, FTI Consulting, San Francisco, CA Beatrice Nguyen, Partner, Crowell & Moring, CA Kimberley Nobles, Partner, Crowell & Moring, CA Laura Lee Norris, Principal & Founder, General Counsel Services, Los Gatos, CA Naomi Obinata, Deputy Director, IP Division, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company LTD, San Jose, CA Samir Raiyani, CEO, Dolcera, San Mateo, CA Sam O'Rourke, Associate General Counsel, IP & Litigation, Facebook, Inc., Palo Alto, CA Larry Rozsnyai, Director of IP and Licensing, NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Emeryville, CA Eve Saltman, Vice President, Legal Affairs, OnLive.com, Palo Alto, CA Paul M. Saraceni, Chief IP Officer, RPX, San Francisco, CA Matthew Sarboraria, Sr. Patent Counsel, Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, CA John Scherling, Partner, Sughrue Mion PLLC, San Diego, CA Jay Sha, Partner, Liu Shen & Associates, China Michael J. Shpizner, Vice President & General Counsel, Fujitsu America, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA Joseph Siino, CEO, Ovidian Group, Berkeley, CA Justin Simpson, Patent Attorney, inovia, New York, NY Matthew A. Smith, Author of Inter Partes Reexamination, 2d Ed., a West Publication, Foley & Lardner, Washington, DC Stuart Smolen, IP Director & Associate General Counsel, Juniper Networks, San Jose, CA Saria Tseng, Vice President & General Counsel, Monolithic Power Systems, San Jose, CA Andrew Valentine, Managing Partner, DLA Piper, San Francisco, CA Dana Wagner, Senior Competition Counsel, Google, CA BJ Watrous, Vice President & Associate General Counsel, IP Licensing, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA Brian H. Way, Director of Intellectual Property Law, Altera Corp., San Jose, CA Bobbie Wilson, Chair of IP Litigation Practice Group, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, CA Angela Ziegenhorn, Director of Strategic Licensing, Symantec Corp., Mountain View, CA |
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Speaker Bios
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Speaker Bios
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Brett G. Alten, Ph.D.
Director of Patent Development
Apple, Inc.
Brett G. Alten, Ph.D. is the Director of Patent Development at Apple, Inc. Prior to joining Apple, Brett was with Morrison &
Foerster in Tokyo, focusing primarily on patent litigation, adversarial licensing, portfolio review, and IP counseling
generally. Before that, he was with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, & Dunner in Washington DC, YAFO Networks,
Inc. (an optical networking company) in Maryland, and at Fish & Neave in New York City.
Brett received a B.A. (physics) from Clark University in 1985, an M.A. and Ph.D. (both, physics) in 1989 and 1994,
respectively, from The Johns Hopkins University, and a J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law in 1998. He is
registered to practice in New York, D.C., and California, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Brett is currently
the Chair of the IPO’s Software and Business Methods Committee.
Brett is also a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, where he taught physics and started a vocational school.
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Katherine M. Basile
Partner
Novak Druce & Quigg
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Paul Bawel
Senior Attorney
Microsoft
Paul Bawel is a senior attorney at Microsoft Corporation providing IP counseling, litigation and conflict management, rights
procurement and IP transactional services. His current business clients provide Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Operating
System. Mr. Bawel manages patent pool licensing for Microsoft, and has been involved in various patent pool activities for
over 10 years. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, he was the IP Law Director for the Broadband Communications Sector of
Motorola in the Philadelphia area, now the Broadband Home Solutions business. He worked in that business for almost
6 years. Mr. Bawel spent the previous 3 years honing his patent preparation and prosecutions skills as a patent attorney
for GE/RCA Licensing, a business that focused on intellectual property patent procurement and licensing in the consumer
electronics industry. Mr. Bawel attended law school at Nova Southeastern University, graduating in 1995, and passed the
patent bar during his second year there. While still in law school, he worked as a patent agent for World Medical
Manufacturing Corporation, a startup company that developed and manufactured catheters and graft stents. From 1985
until 1993, Mr. Bawel was an electrical engineer for Applied Measurement Systems, a small engineering firm that
specialized in research and development in the field of underwater acoustics for the US Navy. He spent almost 4 years at
the acoustical testing range in Bayview, Idaho working on the development of the Seawolf Class submarine. Mr. Bawel
graduated from Memphis State University (now University of Memphis) in 1984 with a BSEE.
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Bill Becker
Senior Director of IP
Align Technology
Bill Becker is currently the Senior Director of Intellectual Property for Align Technology, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA with
responsibility for intellectual property development, strategy, litigation, licensing and other IP transactional matters,
primarily with respect to patents, trade secrets and other intellectual property. Align is a medical device company engaged
in the design, manufacture and marketing of Invisalign® aligners, the world's leading invisible orthodontic product, and
one of the world’s largest manufacturers of mass customized products.
Mr. Becker was formerly Deputy General Counsel - Intellectual Property for 3Com Corporation in Santa Clara, CA with
primary responsibility for all the intellectual property strategy programs, as well as transactions of 3Com and its
subsidiaries worldwide.
Prior to this, he was the Associate General Counsel and Intellectual Property Counsel of VLSI Technology, Inc. in San
Jose, CA with primary worldwide responsibility for all of its intellectual property, employment, environmental, and
commercial legal matters.
Bill has also been the Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel of Bourns, Inc. in Riverside, CA and a patent attorney for
General Electric.
He is currently a member of the Board of Directors, San Francisco Area chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel
(ACC) and is co-program chair of the IP/IT committee of ACC National. A graduate of George Washington University Law
School and Carnegie Mellon University, he is a member of the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, California, and the District
of Columbia. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and has received
formal training in mediation.
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Archana Bhuta
Director of IP, SLT Group
Juniper Networks
Archana Bhuta is the Director of IP for the Service Layer Technologies Business Group (SLTBG) at Juniper Networks.
Juniper Networks delivers innovative software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of
networking. Juniper serves more than 30,000 customers and partners worldwide, and generated more than $3 billion in
revenue over the last year. Ms. Bhuta is responsible for counseling the SLT Business Group on a number of legal issues
including technical transactions, licensing and the development of SLT’s patent portfolio.
Before joining Juniper Networks, Ms. Bhuta was Senior IP Counsel at Sun Microsystems where she was responsible for
patent litigation, portfolio development and IP licensing. Prior to joining Sun, Ms. Bhuta was in private practice at Weil
Gotshal & Manges focusing on IP litigation and at Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman focusing on patent prosecution, due
diligence and opinion work.
Ms. Bhuta obtained her J.D. degree from the John Marshall Law School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
Purdue University.
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Julie Q. Brush
Founding Partner
Solutus Legal Search
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Christopher Byrne
Vice President for IP Strategy
Tessera Technologies
Chris Byrne is Vice President for Intellectual Property Strategy for Tessera Technologies, Inc., in San Jose, CA. Chris has
degrees in electrical engineering, psychology and law and is a USPTO registered patent attorney. Chris began his
intellectual property career with Hewlett-Packard and subsequently has held the top IP position at 5 public high-tech
companies. He has complete leadership experience in all aspects of intellectual property development and management,
including licensing, litigation and IP policy issues. Chris has consistently been at the forefront of strategic IP thinking and
practice. Chris is also a board member emeritus and past-president of the Churchill Club, Silicon Valley’s premier
business and technology speakers’ forum. www.churchillclub.org He is also been a charter member and was a
founding co-chair of the clean-tech section of TiE-Silicon Valley, the organizational hub of world’s foremost global network
of entrepreneurs. http://sv.tie.org/homepage Alongside his IP career, Chris has been an active and successful angel
investor, particularly in new media and clean-tech.
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Jeremiah Chan
Senior IP Counsel
JDS Uniphase
Jeremiah Chan is Senior Intellectual Property Counsel for JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU | www.jdsu.com), a global supplier of
broadband and optical solutions. Mr. Chan is responsible for the growth, protection and exploitation of the company’s
intellectual property portfolio with nearly 2000 issued patents. Mr. Chan also manages intellectual property related
litigation and transactions for JDSU, including M&A and the strategic development of JDSU’s intellectual property portfolio,
policies and programs. Prior to joining JDSU, Mr. Chan was in private practice with Fish & Neave focusing on intellectual
property litigation, opinion work, and client counseling. Mr. Chan graduated from U.C. Berkeley and Cornell Law School.
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Neel Chatterjee
Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Neel Chatterjee, a litigation and intellectual property partner in the Silicon Valley office, concentrates his practice on
complex litigation for technology companies. Mr. Chatterjee is nationally recognized for his experience in patent litigation,
Internet liability litigation, trade secrets litigation and technology transactions litigation. He has significant experience
litigating and trying extremely complex disputes where simplifying difficult technical concepts and effective case
management are keys to success. He has particular experience with Internet and computer software, computer
networking and data storage technologies. Neel is a graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School He also has a B.A. with
honors, Economics/Government, Dartmouth College.
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T. Rao Coca
Sr. Director of Patent Portfolio Development and Licensing
Nvidia
T. Rao Coca is the Senior Director of Patent Portfolio Development and Licensing in Nvidia Corporation. He is based in
Santa Clara, California. Rao has a rare combination of hybrid education, experience and cultural background. His first love
of Physics drove him to the pinnacle of leaning of Physics, as evidenced by the degrees he earned. These include a B.S.
degree in Physics and Mathematics, M.A. in Nuclear physics, M. S. in Optical Physics and a Ph. D, in Solid State Physics.
While working as an aerospace engineer at General Dynamics, Rao pursued law, by attending evening law school, to
complement his technical background with knowledge of the United States laws and became an intellectual property
attorney. Rao is admitted to practice in New York, Ohio, Vermont and the United States Patent Bar. He is admitted to
practice before federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court.
Before joining Nvidia about four years ago, Rao worked as a senior corporate counsel at IBM where, for a period of over 23
years, he held many executive and senior management positions in many IBM’s worldwide locations including a 5 year
assignment as the Assistant General Counsel in charge of IP in IBM’s Asia Pacific Headquarters based in Tokyo, Japan.
Of Indian heritage, Rao has synergistically combined his rich and disciplined Indian cultural upbringing with the
consensus building of the Japanese tradition that he was exposed to while living in Japan and the aggressive and
innovative work ethic prevalent in the United States.
Rao has presented and published over 30 papers and talks in Physics and on many aspects of intellectual property law,
including contributing a chapter on the Semiconductor Chip Protection Laws to the legal treatise “Intellectual Property
Litigation & Licensing”. He is now serving on the prestigious Editorial Board of the AIPLA Quarterly Journal.
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Jeffrey S. Draeger
Director of Patents Analysis and Deputy Director of Patents & Licensing
Intel Corp.
Jeffrey S. Draeger is currently the Director of Patents Analysis at Intel Corporation and Deputy Director of Patents &
Licensing. As Director of Patent Analysis, Mr. Draeger focuses on analysis and use of Intel’s portfolio and analysis
including defense against and/or acquisition of third party patents. Mr. Draeger has been heavily involved in key litigation
and licensing efforts related to processor technology, including both offensive licensing and litigation
efforts and defending the corporation against other companies.
Previously, Mr. Draeger focused on portfolio development and prosecution management, including managing a group of
over 30 patent attorneys and agents responsible for the development of the patent portfolios for Intel’s core technologies (i.
e., processors, chipsets, interconnect, etc.).
Prior to managing portfolio development and prosecution, Mr. Draeger focused on preparation and prosecution of patent
applications, patent analysis, patent portfolio development. Mr. Draeger was also a microprocessor designer at Intel
before going through law school at night at Santa Clara University.
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Guy Ellis
Director of Patent Operations
Intellectual Ventures
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Jonathan D. Feuchtwang
VP, Intellectual Property
Evalve
Jonathan D. Feuchtwang is VP, Intellectual Property at Evalve. Jonathan has over 13 years of intellectual property
experience spanning a diverse array of technology. His intellectual property experience includes all aspects of patent and
trademark prosecution, licensing, patent re-examination and patent interference. His practice has focused exclusively on
medical devices for the past 6 years. Jonathan recently joined Evalve after serving as Vice President of Intellectual
Property at a sister company, Cierra, Inc, which developed minimally invasive solutions for treating patent foramen ovale
(PFO). Prior to his work for Cierra, Jonathan was Asst. Counsel, Patents & Trademarks for Zimmer Technology, a
technology holding company of Zimmer Orthopedics. Jonathan managed Zimmer Orthopedics' global patent and
trademark portfolios. Jonathan was previously an associate attorney at Piper Rudnick's (now DLA Piper) Chicago office,
and an associate attorney at Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd. Jonathan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial
Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Illinois-
Chicago, and a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the Chicago Kent College of Law.
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David Foster
Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property
Actel Corp.
David Foster is Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property at Actel Corporation, a Silicon Valley semiconductor
company that designs, develops, and markets programmable logic devices. Actel's products include field programmable
gate arrays (FPGAs) and programmable system chips (PSCs) as well as supporting products and services. Actel is the
leader in low-power FPGAs and mixed-signal FPGAs, and a leading supplier of high-reliability FPGAs. For the
past seven years, Mr. Foster has managed all aspects of Actel's patent program, including prosecution, strategy, portfolio
development and management, litigation, and licensing, as well as other intellectual property matters including licensing,
trademark, and software issues. Prior to Actel, Mr. Foster held positions at Novalux, Inc., a semiconductor laser startup
and Kenyon & Kenyon, a New York-based intellectual property law firm. Mr. Foster holds a BSE in Systems Engineering
from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School.
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Joshua Galper
Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Joshua P. Galper is a partner in Orrick's Washington, D.C., office, the co-leader of the firm's Law, Policy and Crisis Group
and a member of the Litigation Group.
Mr. Galper assists clients with problems and issues at the intersection of the law, the media and policy. He focuses on
managing and mitigating legal, media and political risks for strategic and high-profile issues through legal, policy,
communications and crisis management advice. Mr. Galper regularly counsels clients in civil, securities, commercial
and criminal litigation, congressional and regulatory investigations, and business, transactional, employment and
environmental matters.
Mr. Galper's clients include public and private U.S. and multinational companies across a broad range of industries,
including telecommunications, hospitality, travel, entertainment, life sciences, accounting, investment management,
financial services, private equity, real estate development, higher education and emerging technology. He also advises
nonprofits, municipalities, individuals and a Native American tribe.
Mr. Galper has extensive experience in political communications, speechwriting and strategy honed in presidential,
statewide, congressional and municipal campaigns, as well as on Capitol Hill and in a governor's office. In 2004 and
2008, he was a member of the onsite speechwriting teams at the Democratic National Convention, where he worked with
podium speakers to draft their speeches and help them with their presentations.
Outside Orrick, Mr. Galper is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a class
on crisis management and strategic communications. He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations,
serves on the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association, and is a member of the Board of Directors of
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's D.C. Metropolitan Area Chapter.
Mr. Galper is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
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William L. Geary, Jr.
Vice President
MPEG LA
Bill Geary is Vice President of Business Development at MPEG LA, where he is responsible for identifying, organizing, and
facilitating new patent pools for licensing by the company. For more than ten years he has been involved in the formation
and operation of patent pools in a wide variety of technologies.
Before joining MPEG LA, Mr. Geary was General Patent Counsel in the Samsung Electronics Washington, DC office where
he handled worldwide patent licensing and litigation for eleven years and negotiated hundreds of patent license
agreements and directed dozens of litigations in the U.S. and overseas.
Prior to becoming a patent attorney, Mr. Geary worked as an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute and
Harris Corporation. He has degrees in law, electrical engineering, and an MBA.
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Stephen Gillespie
Partner
Fenwick & West, LLP
Stephen D. Gillespie is a partner in the Intellectual Property Transactions Group of Fenwick & West LLP, a premier Silicon
Valley law firm specializing in technology and life sciences matters. Mr. Gillespie provides strategic and legal advice to
software, new media and technology companies. He helps his clients build their value while maximizing options for
liquidity through careful management of the legal and intellectual property aspects of their technology development and
distribution. He helps structure, draft and negotiate key deals, including national and international development and
distribution deals, licenses, and strategic alliances. He also manages the intellectual property aspects of mergers and
acquisitions, including as lead outside IP counsel on acquisitions for Cisco, Symantec, Electronic Arts and other
acquirers. In addition, he has significant experience in open source business models and export control regulations.
Among his recent clients are:
- Enterprise Software/Infrastructure: Cisco; Symantec; Interwoven; The TriZetto Group; Splunk
- Entertainment Software: Electronic Arts; Cryptic Studios; Robot Entertainment; Stormfront Studios; XPD Media
- Mobile Content/New Media: Glu Mobile; Verisign/Jamster (joint venture with 20th Century Fox); MobiTV; Rhythm
NewMedia; SendMe Mobile; Cordiant
- Open Source: MySQL; Splunk; Pioneers of the Inevitable (Songbird); Medsphere Systems
Mr. Gillespie’s work on open source includes:
- Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference and LinuxWorld regarding open source licensing;
- Counseling MySQL on dual licensing and GPL issues for many years, including in its acquisition by Sun Microsystems;
- Counseling Cisco, Symantec, Electronic Arts and other acquirers regarding open source issues in their mergers and
acquisitions;
- Monitoring and reporting to clients regarding the Free Software Foundation's GPL revision process leading to GPLv3;
- Counseling dozens of technology companies regarding open source business models and compliance issues.
Mr. Gillespie has been a frequent speaker and writer on intellectual property issues in mergers and acquisitions,
technology licensing, and open source business models. He is the author of “Intellectual Property Issues in Merger and
Acquisition Agreements” in Intellectual Property in Business Transactions (CEB 2008) and “Losing Control: Indirect Sales
Strategies and Unauthorized Distribution of Software” in 4 World Licensing Law Report No. 6, (June 2002).
Mr. Gillespie received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in rhetoric from the University of California at
Berkeley. He attended law school at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, receiving his J.D. in
1994 and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy in 1995.
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Marilyn Glaubensklee
Patent Portfolio Development Director
SanDisk
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Adam Goldberg
Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Adam Goldberg is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, and a member of the firm's Litigation Group. Mr. Goldberg
focuses his litigation practice on providing clients strategic and crisis communications counsel to support and further their
legal objectives. His counsel includes advising clients on regulatory, Congressional and criminal investigations, on
transactions, and on crisis prevention, mitigation and response for potential and current high-profile matters.
He has worked for public and private companies and individuals across many industries, including the financial,
pharmaceutical, automotive, telecommunications, hospitality, technology and hedge fund sectors. This work has included
advising clients that have sought to build support or opposition to transactions, that have had to defend themselves
publicly against litigants, regulators, and short attacks, and that have had to work with the media in connection with other
legal matters.
Mr. Goldberg served in the White House as Special Associate Counsel to the President from 1996 to 1999, providing
advice on crisis communications and political strategy for the campaign finance, Monica Lewinsky, technology-transfer,
and other investigations. Serving as a White House spokesman on such issues, Mr. Goldberg worked on the
Congressional, Department of Justice, and Independent Counsel inquiries.
He is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School, where he teaches a class on crisis management and
communications. He is also the published co-author of articles on Congressional investigations and crisis
communications.
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Leonard Heyman
IP Counsel
VMWare, Inc.
Leonard Heyman is IP Counsel at VMWare, Inc. He collaborates with engineers on a regular basis to obtain patent
protection both by preparing patents in-house and working with outside attorneys doing the same. Previously, he was a
Patent Examiner and Primary Patent Examiner from 1991-1996. He has prepared and prosecuted patent applications,
and supported litigation, at boutique patent law firms until 2007. Leonard received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Mechanical Engineering from Old Dominion University in 1990 and J.D. from University at Buffalo Law School in 1999. He
is admitted to the New York and Connecticut Bars, and Registered as an in-house practitioner in California.
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Diane Honda
Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Extreme Networks
Diane Honda is currently the Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary for Extreme Networks, Inc. and has more than
20 years of technical and legal experience in high technology companies. At Extreme Networks, Diane oversees
worldwide legal matters including securities compliance, intellectual property, litigation, subsidiary management,
employment, regulatory compliance, strategic alliances, and transactions. Diane previously held senior business and
legal leadership positions at both public and private technology companies including Speedera Networks, Riverstone
Networks, and Hewlett Packard Company. She started her career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard, and in
addition to her legal roles, has held management positions in product development, customer support, and information
technology.
Diane holds a J.D. from Santa Clara Law School (cum laude) and a B.S in Applied Math Computer Science and Industrial
Management from Carnegie Mellon. She also completed executive leadership courses at the University of Michigan and
Harvard.
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Richard Hsu
Partner
Townsend & Townsend & Crew
Richard Hsu is Chair of Townsend's Technology Licensing Practice Group, which advises companies on licensing
transactions and associated intellectual property issues. He has extensive experience in licensing, development,
acquisitions, service, purchase and other partnering agreements for a variety of industries, including semiconductors, life
sciences, medical devices, hardware, software, nanotechnology, entertainment, multimedia and telecommunications.
In addition to structuring and negotiating technology transactions, Mr. Hsu is also Co-Chair of Townsend's Open Source
Practice Group, which provides strategic advice and advises clients on innovative open source business strategies. Mr.
Hsu has expertise in intellectual property asset management and Sarbanes Oxley compliance, having assisted
numerous clients to develop and implement strategies to acquire, protect, enforce and commercialize various forms of
intellectual property.
Prior to joining Townsend, Mr. Hsu was a Senior Attorney at Venture Law Group, where he represented over 100 venture
backed startup technology companies. Mr. Hsu was also former general counsel at Cyrano Sciences, Inc. (acquired by
Smiths Detection), a venture-backed company founded by Caltech Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, where his pivotal
management role was featured on television station KWHY and in the Los Angeles Daily Journal (March 1998).
A frequent lecturer on licensing and intellectual property issues, Mr. Hsu has published a book on patents (Fairmont
Press 1997) and written articles for the San Francisco Daily Journal, New York Times, Communications of the ACM and
the Los Angeles Business Journal. He has also been quoted in numerous publications, including the Caltech News,
Corporate Counsel and the Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Hsu is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law, J.D., and California Institute of Technology, B.S., Engineering
and Applied Science, with honors.
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Michael Johnson
Patent Counsel
Qualcomm
Michael has worked for Qualcomm’s MEMS technology (QMT) group for the past five years. QMT has developed the
industry’s first MEMS display for mobile devices, the display offering low power consumption and superb viewing quality in
a wide range of environments, including bright sunlight. Michael has been responsible for a broad range of legal matters
for the division including domestic and foreign patent portfolio management and development, acquisitions,
misappropriation, licensing, copyright, and more.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, Michael worked at several Bay Area patent boutiques, including Flehr Hohbach Test Albritton &
Herbert, and Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman. Michael received his BSEE from the University of Houston, cum laude, and
his law degree from Santa Clara School of Law.
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George Jonas
Head IP counsel
SunPower Corporation
George Jonas is Head IP Counsel at SunPower Corporation, a manufacturer and installer of photovoltaic solar panels. In
this role, he is responsible for coordinating all patent filings and patent litigation, trademark filings and enforcement, IP-
related transactional matters and counseling.
Prior to joining SunPower, he was the division counsel for 3M Innovative Properties Company Optical Services Division as
well as the Office Supply and Stationery Products Division prior to that. In this capacity, he was responsible for patent
application filings, intellectual property transactions and litigation, and advising on strategic decisions regarding
intellectual property strategy.
Prior to joining 3M, George was an associate at Kinney & Lange in Minneapolis, where he focused primarily on patent
prosecution.
George received is J.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1998 and obtained an undergraduate degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Marquette University in 1993.
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Jeremy Kashian
Associate General Counsel
NEC Corporation of America
Jeremy Kashian is Associate General Counsel for NEC Corporation of America in Santa Clara, California . She joined
NEC in 2000 and has had a wide variety of responsibilities in the areas of commercial contracts, licensing, corporate,
litigation management, labor and employment and compliance. Her current responsibilities include handling all aspects
of employee and benefit related matters and litigation management in North America. Prior to joining NEC, Ms. Kashian
served in the Public Defender’s Office and practiced employment and general litigation with Sacramento based law firms.
She is past president of ACC's San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. She currently serves as a member of the board of
directors of a couple non-profit organizations dedicated to serving the legal and other needs of foster and underprivileged
children.
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Karineh Khachatourian
Partner
K&L Gates
Karineh Khachatourian is an intellectual property litigator in the Palo Alto office of K&L Gates. She focuses her practice on
the representation of high-technology clients in such areas as silicon wafer inspection, integrated circuit stimulation tools,
computer software and hardware, including application delivery and server load balancing, related consumer electronics
and computer peripherals, and LCD technology.
Ms. Khachatourian's work includes: High-technology and design patent infringement and licensing disputes; Inventorship
and ownership issues; Trade secret misappropriation, particularly with competitors and departing employees; and
Trademark infringement issues. Additionally, Ms. Khachatourian has handled civil litigation matters involving technology,
including claims of patent indemnification, breach of contract and patent royalty issues. She has also represented
technology companies in breach of contract claims and enforcement of non-solicitation clauses involving competitors and
departing employees. She has represented clients in multiple federal U.S. district courts throughout the U.S., including
the Northern District of California, Central District of California, Southern District of California, Western District of
Washington, District of Delaware, Southern District of Texas (Houston), and District of Arizona. She has also represented
clients in the San Mateo, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and Alameda Superior Courts in California and Harris
County (Houston) in Texas.
Before joining K&L Gates, Ms. Khachatourian led an intellectual property practice at a prominent California law firm. In
2005, as part of the three-month volunteer program, she was seconded to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office,
where she served as a Deputy District Attorney prosecuting misdeameanors. In that capacity, of the cases that went to
trial, she tried six cases to verdict with a 5 to 1 record.
Ms. Khachatourian received her J.D. at George Washington University and her B.A. at New York University (magna cum
laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She is admitted to the Bars of California and Massachusetts.
She is President, Women's Intellectual Property Lawyers Association; Member, Forum of Women Executives, Silicon
Valley; and Advisory Board Member, IP Counsel Café.
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Dan Lang
Director - Intellectual Property
Cisco Systems, Inc.
As Director of Intellectual Property at Cisco Systems, Inc., Dan Lang leads a team focused on strategy, standards, and
policy in the intellectual property area. Prior to assuming his current position, Dan managed Cisco’s industry-leading
patent portfolio development effort and also worked on disputes and litigation. Prior to joining Cisco in 2004, Dan was a
partner at the patent boutique firm of Ritter, Lang and Kaplan and also previously practiced at Ritter, Van Pelt, and Yi and
Townsend and Townsend and Crew.
Dan has a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law, an MS from Stanford University, and a BS from Case Western Reserve
University. Dan is a member of the California Bar and is also registered by the USPTO.
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Ron Laurie
Managing Director
Inflexion Point Strategy
Ron Laurie is Managing Director of Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC, the first intellectual property investment bank, which he
co-founded in 2004. Inflexion Point represents technology companies and institutional investors in the acquisition and
sale of high-quality patent portfolios having strategic value and in the sourcing and execution of IP-intensive M&A
transactions. Ron has worked in Silicon Valley for over 40 years, initially as a software engineer and then as an IP lawyer
advising computer, communications, semiconductor, media and financial services companies on IP strategy, a subject
he has taught at Stanford and Boalt (UC-Berkeley) law schools. Ron was a founding partner of the Silicon Valley offices of
Skadden Arps (in 1998) Weil Gotshal (in 1991) and Irell & Manella (in 1988). The focus of Ron's prior legal practice was
on the strategic use of IP assets in complex business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, technology spin-
outs, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, and he led IP teams in some of the largest technology deals ever done, worth
over $50 billion in the aggregate. Ron is a registered patent attorney and has authored a number of landmark patents
including the Priceline “reverse-auction” patent which was the first Internet business method patent to attract national
attention.
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Nicholas N. Leach
Managing Counsel, Chief Patent Counsel
Chevron
Nicholas N. Leach is Chief Patent Counsel for Chevron Corporation, responsible for procuring, managing, and protecting
Chevron's intellectual property rights and intangible assets globally. Nick is actively involved in a broad range of IP-related
transactions, legal enforcement proceedings and development of the company's intellectual asset strategy.
Prior to joining Chevron in 2007, Nick was Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. In that
role he was responsible for management of Kimberly-Clark's global portfolio of patents, industrial designs, trade secrets
and proprietary information, oversaw global patent enforcement proceedings and other significant intellectual property
matters across all product/technology categories. In addition to his in-house experience, Nick practiced intellectual
property law in private law firms in Delaware , New York , and Georgia .
Nick received his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Nick’s personal interests include enjoying life and traveling with his wife and two sons, scuba diving, running and
supporting youth soccer.
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Domenic A. Leo
Sr. Vice Present and General Manager
DataCert
Domenic A. Leo, DataCert's senior vice president and general manager, IP Business, is a respected legal technology
thought-leader with more than 30 years of experience practicing law and implementing global technology solutions. Prior
to DataCert, he served in multiple senior management roles at Master Data Center, a unit of Thomson Scientific &
Healthcare. As vice president of professional services and best practices, he defined and guided the strategic
objectives and operations of the company's professional services and worked with Fortune Global 1000 corporations
such as Honeywell, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer and ExxonMobil. Before beginning a career in legal and IP technology, he
was assistant general counsel for a Michigan-based savings and loan company. His scope of responsibilities included
protecting the company's legal interests and managing legal department operations. He is a workgroup chair for the
Uniform Task Based Management System (UTBMS) and is co-chair of the American Intellectual Property Law
Association's (AIPLA) IP Assets Subcommittee for Cost Management. He is a member of the International Trademark
Association (INTA), the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) and the Licensing Executives Society (LES). Leo earned a
bachelor's degree in political science and public administration from Oakland University and a juris doctorate from the
Michigan State University School of Law.
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Douglas B. Luftman
Associate General Counsel, IP
Palm
Douglas Luftman is Associate General Counsel of Intellectual Property at Palm, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California. Palm, Inc. is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, and is renowned for its rich history of innovation, dating
back to the original category-defining Palm Pilot personal digital assistant and more recently the Treo™ smartphone and
the Foleo™ mobile companion.
Mr. Luftman’s current areas of focus include strategic intellectual property counseling, patent portfolio development,
intellectual property assertion and licensing strategy, IP asset acquisitions, standards development strategy, IP and
technology licensing and open source management strategy. Prior to joining Palm, Mr. Luftman’s roles have included
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Caspian Networks, Inc., West Coast Counsel of CIENA Corporation and
Senior Intellectual Property Counsel for Intel Corporation’s Communications Group. Prior to working in-house, Mr.
Luftman was an attorney at Fenwick & West LLP in Palo Alto, CA.
Mr. Luftman received his Juris Doctorate degree with honors from the George Washington University Law School,
Washington DC, where he was Technical Editor of the Law Review and externed for The Honorable Randall R Rader of
the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Luftman received his Bachelors of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
He has spoken at a variety of forums including professional trade organizations as well as a guest lecturer at the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law – Boalt Hall
on topics relating to IP strategy for high technology companies.
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Taraneh Maghame
Attorney-at-law
Taraneh Maghamé recently established her firm to provide IP strategy, legal and government relations services to
technology clients. She has testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Federal Trade Commission
regarding patent law matters and speaks frequently on various intellectual property topics. Until July 2009, she was Vice
President, Patent Policy and Government Relations Counsel, at Tessera, Inc. in San Jose, California. Her
responsibilities at Tessera included advising company management regarding various IP and patent-related issues,
including issues relating to patent licensing and litigation, IP due diligence and strategic IP counseling relating to
development and acquisition of IP assets, and government relations activities relating to intellectual property law and
policy.
Prior to joining Tessera, Ms. Maghamé was Senior IP Counsel at Hewlett-Packard Company, where her practice focused
on IP licensing and transactions as well as patent dispute and litigation management. Before the merger between HP
and Compaq Computer Corporation, Ms. Maghamé was responsible for managing all IP litigation for Compaq. Before
going in-house at Compaq, Ms. Maghamé was associated with the law firms of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in Palo Alto
and Perkins Coie in Seattle, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation, licensing, and counseling.
Ms. Maghamé is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and is admitted to practice in California and
Washington State, as well as before the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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William Mandir
Partner
Sughrue Mion
William Mandir focuses on intellectual property litigation, including patent and trade secret litigation, counseling and
appellate practice. Mr. Mandir has developed an outstanding reputation as both a patent practitioner and a litigator with
significant experience before the patent office, federal district court and the U.S. International Trade Commission. His
litigation experience includes acting as lead counsel in patent infringement jury trials. Recently named as an expert in the
Patent Experts Guide, Mr. Mandir also maintains a significant prosecution practice. His practice also includes prosecuting
patent matters in the electrical, software and mechanical arts, including reexamination and reissue applications before
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Mr. Mandir is a graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland,
College of Engineering.
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Andre L. Marais
Patent Attorney & Managing Shareholder
Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner
Andre L. Marais is a registered patent attorney and shareholder of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner. His practice
includes strategic IP counseling, patent prosecution (US and foreign), patent validity, infringement and clearance analysis
and opinions, and IP due diligence work, particularly in the networking (including Internet), software, communications and
electrical/ electronic technologies. He has secured patents for, and currently represents, a number of prominent
technology companies, based in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, including Germany and China.
Areas of Practice include Business Methods; Communication Networks; Computer Hardware & Design; Computer
Networking; and E-Commerce. He is admitted to practice in California, South Africa, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office. Mr. Marais is a graduate of University of South Africa Faculty of Law, Pretoria, South Africa, 1993 (J.D. equivalent)
and has a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial-Electronics) degree from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1990.
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Christopher Marchese
Principal
Fish & Richardson PC
Christopher Marchese is a Principal in the Southern California office of Fish & Richardson. Mr. Marchese's practice
primarily involves patent litigation and patent portfolio analysis in a wide range of technologies, including video
compression (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, and VC-1 standards and related technology); audio compression (including MP3
standard and related technology); speech compression (including G.723.1 standard and related technology); computer
networking (including ATM, Ethernet, DOCSIS, and WiMAX technologies); semiconductors and integrated circuitry;
software (various operating systems and a wide range of application software); and satellite technology. Mr. Marchese has
also litigated cases involving trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, and trade secrets. He has prepared and
prosecuted patent applications in the fields of telecommunications, electronics, semiconductors, data compression,
mechanical and medical devices, and has also prepared and prosecuted numerous federal and state trademark
applications. Mr. Marchese is co-author of a treatise on patent damages and the author of numerous law review articles
relating to patents and other subject matter.
He received his J.D. at George Washington University; B.S. Electrical Engineering at University of Kentucky; and B.A.
Mathematics at Centre College of Kentucky.
He is admitted to the bar in California and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and
the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Nola Mae McBain
Associate General Patent Counsel
Xerox Corporation
Nola Mae McBain is Associate General Patent Counsel for Xerox Corporation supporting the Palo Alto Research Center
Incorporated (PARC) a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox. Located in Palo Alto , Ms. McBain provides legal counsel and
manages PARC’s patent portfolio and other intellectual property issues. Ms. McBain is responsible for all issues
regarding PARC’s patent portfolio management including management of outside counsel relationships and cost and
quality of patents. Additionally, Ms. McBain provides counsel on other IP issues such as trademarks and copyrights, and
supports efforts to commercialize and protect PARC’s IP portfolio.
Ms. McBain received her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1985 and her Juris Doctor from
Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1995. Ms. McBain started her professional career as an Electrical Engineer with
Xerox in El Segundo , California working on design layouts and silicon compilers. She worked as a Patent Engineer, and
Patent Agent before completing law school and becoming a Patent Attorney and moving to the Bay Area.
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Lisa McFall
Founder & Managing Director
Ovidian Group
Lisa McFall is a founder and managing director at Ovidian. Prior to joining Ovidian, Ms. McFall served as Vice President
and Associate General Counsel, at Yahoo!, where she was head of IP Litigation and Conflict Management and was
responsible for IP risk reduction across the enterprise. Ms. McFall managed Yahoo!'s extensive docket of IP litigation
matters, and also managed a variety of operational functions and complex transactional matters. She has extensive
experience advising companies on IP issues associated with academic collaborations and has drafted and negotiated
numerous collaborative research agreements with domestic and international universities, industrial research institutions
and governmental agencies. Ms. McFall also has participated in various judicial and legislative reform efforts, including
patent-reform coalitions and amicus efforts.
Prior to 2004, Ms. McFall spent 10 years litigating patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases at Brown & Bain and
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She has litigated cases in a wide variety of tribunals, including numerous U.S. District
Courts, the Federal Circuit and the International Trade Commission, and has also arbitrated matters with the American
Arbitration Association and the International Chamber of Commerce.
Ms. McFall received her Juris Doctorate degree with honors from the University of Wisconsin School of Law, where she
was Managing Editor of the Law Review and President of the Moot Court Board. Ms. McFall received her Bachelor of Arts
degree in International Relations from Stanford University where she focused on US-Soviet civil/military relations.
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Phil McGarrigle
General Counsel & Chief IP Counsel
Nodality, Inc.
Phil McGarrigle joined Nodality in February 2008 as General Counsel and Chief IP Officer. Prior to Nodality, he was
employed at Affymetrix from 1998 to 2008 and held the position of VP and Chief IP Counsel. Prior to Affymetrix, he was
employed at Cetus and then Chiron after the two corporations were merged. He also worked at Chevron Corporation and
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical. Mr. McGarrigle has been an adjunct professor at Santa Clara School of Law from 2000 to
the present. He obtained a B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire and a J.D. from the University of Santa Clara
Law School.
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Loren McRoss
Senior IP Counsel
Sony Corporation of America
Loren McRoss is the Intellectual Property Counsel/Sr. Patent Counsel for Sony Corporation of America. Prior to joining
Sony, Mr. McRoss spent 5.5 years as the Intellectual Property Counsel for Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Prior to joining
Phoenix, Mr. McRoss worked for several law firms both in the Bay Area and Chicago. Mr. McRoss is responsible for the
acquisition, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property rights for several business and technical units within Sony.
Mr. McRoss has over 15 years of experience practicing Intellectual Property Law, with an emphasis on the preparation and
prosecution, licensing and litigation of patents across several technical disciplines. Mr. McRoss also spends a significant
amount of time working with outside counsel and preparing infringement, validity and right to use opinions with respect to
several product and technical offerings. Mr. McRoss received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (with a
concentration in Computer Architecture) from Cornell University and his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Illinois
College of Law.
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Suzanne T. Michel
Deputy Director for Office of Policy Planning
Federal Trade Commission
Suzanne Michel is Deputy Director for Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. She is also the agency's
senior patent counsel. In that capacity, she is involved in many of the patent and patent/antitrust issues that arise in the
FTC=s enforcement and policy work. She speaks frequently on those topics. Suzanne is currently heading the FTC’s
project on the “Evolving IP Marketplace.” The FTC awarded her the Paul Rand Dixon award in 2002 and the Excellence in
Supervision award in 2008. Before joining the FTC ten years ago, Suzanne worked in the Civil Division of the Department
of Justice where she represented the United States in patent infringement litigation.
Suzanne received her B.S. with honors from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University. She
graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California at Berkeley), where she was a member of the Order of
the Coif and was awarded the prize for best paper published by a graduating student. Following law school, she served
as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul R. Michel (no relation) at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is a
registered patent attorney.
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Carol Webster Millie
Attorney & ADR provider
Corporate Advisory Law Group
Carol Webster Millie has been an attorney and ADR provider since 1977 and has successfully helped resolve conflicts in
business, industry, and government, prior to, during and after litigation was filed in cases including construction conflicts;
employment law; contracts; facilitation of decision making in business units, dissolution of partnerships; and technology
ownership contests.
Carol’s natural mediation style supports the parties, guiding them to an acceptable resolution of their own conflict.
Believing that the style leads to acceptable outcomes for everyone involved, Carol creates and facilitates an environment
where parties can explore ways to satisfy their needs. She has also successfully followed a more directive mediation
model when requested to do so by the parties. Carol Millie has served as a neutral in cases involving: construction and
other contracts; including matters involving formation, performance and breach; theft of trade secrets; unfair competition;
professional malpractice; public and private employment matters including age, sex, and racial harassment,
discrimination, and wrongful termination.
Since 1977, Carol has actively served as arbitrator, early neutral evaluator, facilitator, and mediator. She has extensive
training in mediation and arbitration, and has lectured for various groups including the State Bar of California and
Employment Law Institute for Corporate Counsel. In 1997, Carol co-founded Corporate Advisory Law Group, offering
strategic counseling for emerging technology companies. Through the provision of real-time advice on managing
business crises, Carol has developed a command of the practical realities of business.
She earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. at the University of San Francisco and is a member of the
Bar of the United States Supreme Court and state bars of California and Texas. Carol has been an AAA Arbitrator since
1977 assigned to the Construction division and also hears cases in the Employment and Commercial divisions. She is
also a member of the mediation panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Steven Moore
Senior Counsel
Foley & Lardner
Steven Moore is senior counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is a member of the Electronics and Intellectual
Property Litigation Practices. Dr. Moore has significant experience in intellectual property law and patent prosecution.
Before joining Foley, he was an associate with Heller Ehrman LLP, where he focused on patent prosecution and
intellectual property litigation. His previous experience also includes serving as director of intellectual property and
regulatory affairs for a San Diego technology company where he drafted, filed and prosecuted U.S. patent applications
and conducted in-house patent and regulatory work. He has represented clients in various proceedings before the
Federal Communications Commission and served as a technical advisor and member of the U.S. Delegation to the
International Telecommunications Union. He was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy and served on active duty
for nine years.
Dr. Moore counsels early stage electronics and software companies on IP issues and has conducted IP diligence
investigations for financing, merger and acquisition transactions.
He routinely drafts and prosecutes patent applications in the areas of telecommunications, advanced software and
hardware architectures, compilers, optics, other electronic applications and devices.
Prior to his legal career Dr. Moore worked for a number of companies as a software engineer in controls, signal, and
image processing. He also worked as an engineer in three start-up companies.
Dr. Moore is a graduate of California Western School of Law. He earned his Ph.D., his M.S. and his B.S. all in electricial
engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is admitted to practice in California and before the
United States Patent & Trademark Office. He was a member of the International Telecommunications Advisory
Committee, National Committee; and is a member of the San Diego Bar Association and the San Diego Intellectual
Property Law Association.
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John B. Moriarty, Jr.
Senior Vice President - Law
Elan Pharmaceuticals
John Moriarty is currently Senior Vice-President – Law for Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company based
in South San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland, where he is responsible for wide ranging legal aspects of Elan’s U.S.
biotechnology business.
From 2002 – 2008 he was in-house counsel to Amgen, Inc. in a variety of capacities ranging from litigation and
government investigations to commercial and regulatory counseling, and ultimately acting as Executive Director and
Associate General Counsel for Amgen’s commercial oncology business.
Prior to joining Amgen, Mr. Moriarty was in private practice in Washington, D.C. and New York with the healthcare practice
of a national law firm, and formerly served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern and Western
Districts of Virginia where he focused exclusively on civil and criminal healthcare fraud matters.
He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, with distinction, and his law degree from the
University of Georgia, cum laude.
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Jeff Myers
Director & Associate General Counsel, and head of Patent Practice Group
Adobe
Jeff Myers is Director & Associate General Counsel, and head of the Patent Practice Group at Adobe. Jeff started at Adobe
as the company’s first patent attorney and has expanded its multi-faceted patent strategy, including asset development,
strategic investment, risk reduction, value extraction, conflict resolution, and patent policies.
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Brian Napper
Senior Managing Director - Forensic and Litigation Consulting
FTI Consulting
Brian Napper is a Senior Managing Director in FTI’s Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice in San Francisco and is
the leader of FTI’s intellectual property practice. Mr. Napper has over 20 years experience in the evaluation and
quantification of economic damages arising from patent, copyright and trademark infringement, and trade secret
misappropriation disputes. He also has extensive experience in advising client companies as to the valuation,
commercialization, licensing and management of their intellectual property assets. His clients include numerous Fortune
500 companies in a wide variety of industries including semiconductor, telecommunication, consumer products, life
sciences and computers (hardware, software and the internet). Mr. Napper’s background is in accounting, finance and
economics, and he has a specific, focused understanding of those issues integral to the valuation and management of
intellectual property.
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Beatrice Nguyen
Partner
Crowell & Moring
Beatrice Nguyen is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s San Francisco office, and is a member of the firm’s antitrust practice
group. She focuses her practice on complex litigation involving antitrust, intellectual property, and unfair competition law.
She has experience in representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation, and handles arbitration matters
and cases in federal and state courts across the country. Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, she was a partner in the San
Francisco firm, Folger Levin & Kahn LLP.
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Kimberley Chen Nobles
Partner
Crowell & Moring
Kimberley Chen Nobles is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Orange County office, and is a member of the firm's Intellectual
Property, International Business and Dispute Resolution practice groups. Ms. Nobles focuses her practice on
representing technology companies worldwide in legal, technical, strategic planning and intellectual property matters. Her
practice covers a variety of business transactions and the protection and management of intellectual property, including
patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, dispute resolution and litigation. Ms. Nobles handles and supports
complex litigation and arbitration matters internationally and across the country.
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Laura Lee Norris
Principal & Founder
General Counsel Services
Laura Lee Norris is principal and founder of General Counsel Services, a law firm in Los Gatos, California The firm
provides intellectual property, business-transaction, entity formation, and general counsel-type services to entrepreneurs,
startups, and established companies. Laura’s engineering and patent law background supplements her business law
experience, giving her a unique understanding of the issues facing entrepreneurs and company executives. As the former
Vice President of the Legal Department and Corporate Secretary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY),
Laura actively managed all legal affairs of the company through a combination of in-house and external counsel,
minimizing the company’s legal risk while maintaining a tight legal-fees budget. Prior to joining Cypress in 1999, she
was a patent litigation associate at Arnold White & Durkee in Menlo Park, California, representing a variety of high-tech
clients. Laura received her law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1997, while working full-time as a
patent agent at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California. She received her Bachelors of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1992, and worked as a design engineer at Intel before going to law school.
Laura is a member of the California Bar and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Naomi Obinata
Deputy Director, IP Division
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Naomi Obinata is a Deputy Director in the Legal Department at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. TSMC,
which is headquartered in Taiwan, is the largest semiconductor foundry in the world. Naomi's current assignment is to
provide legal services to all of TSMC North America, a wholly owned subsidiary of TSMC. Prior to TSMC, Naomi worked for
various companies in the capacity of IP Counsel including Applied Materials, Intel, Credence Systems, where Naomi
served as IP director, and at SAP. Prior to law school, Naomi worked as a process engineer. A member of both the
California Bar and the United States Patent Bar, Naomi has been practicing law since 1992. Naomi has a B.S. degree in
Chemical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D. from University of Santa Clara School of Law.
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Samir Raiyani
CEO
Dolcera
Samir Raiyani is the CEO and co-founder of Dolcera, a premier intellectual property and market research services
company serving over 50 Fortune 500 companies in the telecommunications, software, semiconductor, alternative energy,
biotechnology, medical devices, and pharmaceutical industries. He has spoken at several conferences and venues
including PIUG, SCIP, SAPPHIRE, and the World Internet Center. He has co-authored books and articles on intellectual
property, visualization, mobile technology and user interaction.
Prior to Dolcera, Samir was a Director at SAP Research where he helped launch several new initiatives in the areas of
metro wireless networks (WiFi-mesh/WiMax), RFID, sensor networking and mobile multimodality. He has a Masters
degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication
from Gujarat University.
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Sam O'Rourke
Associate General Counsel, IP & Litigation
Facebook, Inc.
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Lawrence F. Rozsnyai
Director of IP & Licensing
NovaBay Pharmaceuticals
Lawrence F. Rozsnyai is Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing at NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he is in
charge of all aspects of patent and trademark protection, and provides legal support for licensing and other business
development activities. NovaBay is based in Emeryville, CA, and is developing a new class of antimicrobial compounds,
with several programs in various stages of clinical and pre-clinical development.
Before joining NovaBay, Dr. Rozsnyai worked at Fish & Richardson, P.C., where his responsibilities included prosecuting
and managing patent dockets in the chemical and biochemical arts. Prior to attending law school, Dr. Rozsnyai worked in
business development for several biotechnology companies, where he negotiated and drafted licensing agreements and
assisted with patent protection.
Dr. Rozsnyai received his B.S. in Chemistry from U.C. Berkeley, his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and his J.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Rozsnyai is a member of the State Bar of
California, and is admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Court, Northern
District of California, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Eve Saltman
Vice President, Legal Affairs
OnLive
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Paul M. Saraceni
Chief IP Officer
RPX Corp.
Paul Saraceni is Chief IP Officer at RPX. He joined RPX in September 2008, bringing 15+ years of intellectual property law
experience, from both the private practice and in-house counsel perspectives. Immediately prior to joining RPX, Mr.
Saraceni was Vice President and Associate General Counsel, IP Strategy & Transactions, at Yahoo! Inc., where he
developed and managed Yahoo!'s patent acquisition program, led and negotiated strategic IP deals, patent licensing
transactions, and IP aspects of M&A deals and business and technology transactions. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr.
Saraceni was Senior IP Counsel for the Technology & Manufacturing Group of Intel Corporation, responsible for leading
that business unit's IP strategy and negotiations, including patent cross licenses and defense of patent assertions.
Before moving in-house, he was a partner in the Silicon Valley IP boutique law firm of Derwin & Siegel, where his practice
focused on patent transactions, due diligence, prosecution, and IP strategy for technology start-ups. Previously, Mr.
Saraceni was a patent litigation attorney in the Silicon Valley office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he represented high
tech companies in patent infringement cases before U.S. Federal Courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Mr. Saraceni holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Bucknell University, an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he was a Notes Editor of the North Carolina
Law Review. He is a registered Patent Attorney before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, a member of the state bars of
California and Texas, and a frequent speaker on the topics of IP strategy, negotiations, licensing and acquisitions.
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John Scherling
Partner
Sughrue Mion
John Scherling is a Partner in the San Diego office of Sughrue Mion, PLLC, focusing on litigation and resolution of
intellectual property disputes. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal and Civil
Divisions of the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California, where he handled all aspects of
litigation including jury trials, bench trials and appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr.
Scherling received numerous awards from the United States Department of Justice and the Department of State for his
successful litigation on behalf of the United States. Mr. Scherling has a technical emphasis in chemistry, as well as
biochemistry and microbiology, acquired during his undergraduate studies at Iowa State University (B.S. with Honors and
Distinction). Mr. Scherling received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University, where he was Order of the Coif and Associate
Articles Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. Following receipt of his J.D., Mr. Scherling served as a law clerk to the
Honorable Judith N. Keep in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
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Jay Sha
Partner
Liu Shen & Associates
Jay Sha is a Chinese patent and trademark attorney, and U.S. patent attorney admitted in Illinois, USA, and registered
before the USPTO. He obtained his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from John Marshall Law School, USA, and BSEE degree from
Zhejiang University, China.
Mr. Sha joined Liu Shen & Associates as a partner together with his team in 2008. He started his career in China in 1982
together with most of partners at Liu Shen & Associates, and worked at major Chinese and U.S. patent firms before
establishing Jeekai in 1998 (after ten years in the U.S.A.).
Mr. Sha has extensive experiences in various matters related to intellectual property laws, including patent and trademark
prosecutions, litigation, and administrative enforcement of intellectual property rights, as well as licensing, and
transactions. He is a frequent speaker of patent, trademark, and other IP laws. He is a member of ABA, AIPLA, FICPI,
AIPPI, LES, INTA, China Intellectual Property Society, All China Patent Agent Association, and China Trademark
Association.
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Michael Shpizner
Vice President & General Counsel
Fujitsu America
Michael Shpizner is Vice President and General Counsel of Fujitsu America, Inc. (FAI). FAI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Fujitsu Limited, a global technology leader with annual revenues of $45 billion. Mr. Shpizner currently serves as an
advisor to the Board of Directors of the San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC),
the global professional association for in-house counsel, and he is co-Chair of the Chapter’s Career Development
Committee.
Mr. Shpizner has presented CLE programs on various topics, including privacy law and e-Commerce issues, including
the Sedona Conference on Digital Privacy and Security and the Practicing Law Institute Corporate Compliance Institute.
Mr. Shpizner developed and delivered a presentation entitled “Maxims of Corporate Success” for the ACC, and published a
series of articles on that subject in the ACC’s monthly journal, the Docket. Most recently, Mr. Shpizner has presented at
CLE seminars on the topics “Managing Client Costs: Making the Unpredictable -- Predictable” and “Cost-Effective
Strategies for Defending Patent Troll Litigation.”
Prior to joining Fujitsu, Mr. Shpizner was Corporate Counsel at Adaptec, Inc., and had practiced for approximately ten years
at national law firms Proskauer Rose LLP; Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe; and Fenwick & West. Mr. Shpizner received
his J.D. from U.C.L.A.; he also holds an M. Ed. from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. from Brown University.
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Joseph Siino
CEO
Ovidian Group
Joseph Siino is the principal founder and chief executive officer of Ovidian Group. Prior to founding Ovidian, Mr. Siino
served as Senior Vice President, Global Intellectual Property & Business Strategy for Yahoo! Inc., one of the world’s
leading Internet/media companies. At Yahoo!, Mr. Siino built and managed a global team of IP professionals responsible
for Yahoo!’s large portfolio of patent, trademark and other IP assets, and personally led Yahoo!’s IP business strategy and
a wide range of international deals.
Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Siino spent approximately 20 years as an IP advisor, investor, entrepreneur and attorney. He has
managed IP deals collectively worth billions of dollars and served as IP strategist for many of Silicon Valley’s largest
technology companies, as well as a large number of startup enterprises.
Mr. Siino previously founded and ran the IP Strategy and Technology Transactions practice at Brobeck, Phleger &
Harrison, where he was listed as one of The World’s Leading Lawyers by Chamber’s Global, and also founded Siino Law
& Technology Group, an innovative IP strategy boutique that represented companies such as SAP, Intel, Sun, and
Quantum.
Mr. Siino has served many years as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he designed and
taught several courses focused on IP strategy and deals. Mr. Siino is an alumnus of both the London Business School,
where he studied finance, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a bachelors degree in physics and
a doctorate in law.
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Justin Simpson
Patent Attorney
inovia
Justin Simpson is an Australian patent attorney and the founder of inovia, a foreign filing platform focused on PCT national
stage entry and European validation. With over 750 clients, inovia is now the world’s 3rd largest coordinator of PCT
national stage entry.
Prior to starting inovia, Justin worked as a software-specialist patent attorney for a number of leading Australian attorney
firms and companies. He holds degrees in law and computer science from Sydney University and brings a global
perspective to issues related to foreign patent filing.
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Matthew A. Smith
Attorney
Foley & Lardner
Matthew A. Smith is an attorney with the Washington, DC office of Foley & Lardner LLP, and a member of the firm's
Reexamination Practice Group. He is the author of Inter Partes Reexamination, Ed. 2, published by West, a Thomson
Reuters business. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law.
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Stuart Smolen
IP Director & Associate General Counsel
Juniper Networks
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Saria Tseng
Vice President & General Counsel
Monolithic Power Systems
Saria Tseng is VP and General Counsel from Monolithic Power Systems (Nasdaq: MPWR). Over the past 16 years, Ms.
Tseng has accumulated a broad spectrum of legal expertise, from corporate transactions and licensing, to managing
complex, multi-party and multi-jurisdiction patent and trade secret litigation, as well as developing the company’s IP
portfolio. Prior to joining Monolithic, Ms. Tseng served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of
MaXXan Systems. Prior to her corporate experience, Ms.Tseng was an attorney at Gray Cary (now DLA Piper) and Jones
Day advising clients in venture financing, merger and acquisitions, initial public offerings and licensing. Ms. Tseng is a
member of the state bar in both California and New York and is a member of the bar association of the Republic of China
(Taiwan).
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Andrew Valentine
Managing Partner & Co-Chair of Patent Litigation Practice
DLA Piper
Andrew P. Valentine is Managing Partner of DLA Piper's East Palo Alto Office, and Co-Chair of the Patent Litigation
Practice. He concentrates his practice in patent, intellectual property, high technology and complex commercial litigation.
In May 2009, the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal profiled Mr. Valentine in its "Who's Who in Silicon Valley"
edition, joining other leading Silicon Valley executives nominated for their leadership. The respected research publisher
Chambers & Partners recognizes Mr. Valentine in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In May 2006,
California Lawyer magazine featured him in the article "Letter from East Palo Alto." He has been named a Northern
California Super Lawyer as the result of a joint research project conducted by Law & Politics and San Francisco
magazines. Mr. Valentine is one of the Pro Bono Coordinators for DLA Piper's Silicon Valley office.
Recent matters include:
- Tried cases for Hewlett-Packard before the International Trade Commission (Washington, DC) in spring 2005 and
spring 2008.
- Lans v. Hewlett-Packard; Uniboard v. Hewlett-Packard: Obtained summary judgment for Hewlett-Packard in patent
infringement cases; argued and prevailed in Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Cambrian v. Maxtor: Obtained summary judgment of patent unenforceability in favor of Maxtor.
- The Produce Exchange v. SBI: Obtained favorable judgment for TPE after two week binding arbitration in dispute relating
to database software.
- Hsu v. SSI: Obtained multimillion-dollar jury verdict in a trial relating to the improper re-purchase of former employee's
vested shares.
- Obtained million-dollar judgment for a high tech company in binding arbitration over a complex royalty dispute.
- Obtained multimillion-dollar judgment in a trial for a company fraudulently induced into purchasing a shopping center.
- Obtained defense judgment in trial concerning the rights and obligations of a real estate developer and a cable
television franchise under a municipal ordinance.
Obtained summary judgment for a defendant in a case alleging misappropriation of trade secrets.
- Defeated a motion for preliminary injunction in a trademark infringement case involving the use of the term "universal
server" in the computer industry.
He received his JD at Santa Clara University, and his A.B at Bowdoin College, magna cum laude, where he studied
Political Science and English.
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Dana Wagner
Senior Competition Counsel
Google Inc.
Dana R. Wagner is Senior Competition Counsel for Google Inc. Among other projects, Mr. Wagner has worked on
regulatory matters related to the proposed Google-Yahoo advertising agreement and the Google-DoubleClick merger.
Prior to joining Google, Mr. Wagner served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California.
Before that, he served as a trial attorney for the United States Justice Department's Antitrust Division, where he was
responsible for civil and criminal enforcement of federal antitrust laws. While working at the Antitrust Division, Mr. Wagner
was also an adjunct professor at U.C. Hastings College of the Law. Mr. Wagner received a J.D. degree from Yale Law
School and his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.
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BJ Watrous
Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property Licensing
Hewlett-Packard Company
BJ Watrous manages HP’s IP Licensing (IPL) group. He is responsible for helping to create and implement HP’s
intellectual property strategy and for optimizing the value realized by HP’s IP portfolio – including over 32,000 worldwide
patents. His IPL team focuses on patent & brand licensing, standards licensing, and technology transfer, as well as
patent sales and patent acquisitions. He also serves as one of HP’s advocates for patent reform in the US Congress.
Previously, Watrous served as Chief of Staff for HP’s Intellectual Property group, the team responsible for a broad
spectrum of IP-related activities at HP: patent development, IP transactions, trademarks & copyrights, and licensing. Prior
to that role, he served as IP Litigation Counsel overseeing patent infringement matters.
Before joining HP in January 2007, Watrous was a litigation attorney at DLA Piper US LLP (previously Gray Cary Ware &
Freidenrich LLP) where he specialized in intellectual property litigation. Watrous obtained his JD from the University of
California, Los Angeles in 2000 and his BA from Pomona College in 1993.
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Brian H. Way
Director of Intellectual Property Law
Altera Corporation
Brian Way is the Director of Intellectual Property Law at Altera Corporation, a Silicon Valley chip company, where he is
responsible for overseeing all aspects of acquiring and protecting the company's intellectual property. Most recently, he
spent five years as Senior Patent Counsel for Apple, Inc, where he managed outside counsel in patent litigation matters
and worked on licensing, intellectual property valuation and patent prosecution. Mr. Way joined Apple in 2002 from the law
firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco , where he was a litigator. Previously, he was with the law firm of Hughes
Hubbard & Reed in New York and clerked for a federal district court judge in the Southern District of New York.
He recently served as Chair of the Intellectual Property Owners Association Damages Committee, through which he
chaired a conference in Washington , D.C. on Intellectual Property Damages.
Mr. Way received his BS from the University of Michigan and his law degree from Columbia Law School.
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Bobbie J. Wilson
Chair of IP Litigation Practice Group
Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
Bobbie J. Wilson is Chair of the IP Litigation Practice Group at Howard Rice. She has extensive experience in intellectual
property matters, specifically patent infringement involving medical devices and software, and trade secret litigation. While
IP is her bread and butter, Bobbie's passion is trial work, no matter the subject area. Her representative clients have
included QuinStreet, NexTag, JVC and RIM. She is a frequent speaker on patent reform issues, using reexamination as a
sword and protecting trade secrets. She is currently serving as a Lawyer Representative for the Northern District. Bobbie
holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
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Angela Ziegenhorn
Director, Strategic Licensing
Symantec
Angela Ziegenhorn is Director, Legal Department for Symantec Corporation. In her role, Ms. Ziegenhorn is responsible for
providing legal support to Symantec’s enterprise business teams, with an emphasis on third party intellectual property
issues. Ms. Ziegenhorn founded, and co-chairs, Symantec’s world-wide Open Source Review Board and is actively
involved in open source issues concerning the Company’s M&A activities. Ms. Ziegenhorn also oversees the Company’s
contractual forms and policies related to the Company’s licensing of proprietary software from third parties for use in
Symantec’s enterprise products.
Prior to joining Symantec, Ms. Ziegenhorn was a managing counsel at Oracle Corporation where she managed a group of
attorneys responsible for global strategic licensing, open source, and procurement. Before joining Oracle, Ms.
Ziegenhorn practiced intellectual property litigation at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, a Silicon Valley law firm
representing many high technology clients, as well as at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe. Ms. Ziegenhorn was also a clerk
for the Hon. Judge Melvin Brunetti with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and graduated Order of the
Coif from the University of California at Davis School of Law.
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Director of Patent Development
Apple, Inc.
Brett G. Alten, Ph.D. is the Director of Patent Development at Apple, Inc. Prior to joining Apple, Brett was with Morrison &
Foerster in Tokyo, focusing primarily on patent litigation, adversarial licensing, portfolio review, and IP counseling
generally. Before that, he was with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, & Dunner in Washington DC, YAFO Networks,
Inc. (an optical networking company) in Maryland, and at Fish & Neave in New York City.
Brett received a B.A. (physics) from Clark University in 1985, an M.A. and Ph.D. (both, physics) in 1989 and 1994,
respectively, from The Johns Hopkins University, and a J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law in 1998. He is
registered to practice in New York, D.C., and California, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Brett is currently
the Chair of the IPO’s Software and Business Methods Committee.
Brett is also a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, where he taught physics and started a vocational school.
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Katherine M. Basile
Partner
Novak Druce & Quigg
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Paul Bawel
Senior Attorney
Microsoft
Paul Bawel is a senior attorney at Microsoft Corporation providing IP counseling, litigation and conflict management, rights
procurement and IP transactional services. His current business clients provide Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Operating
System. Mr. Bawel manages patent pool licensing for Microsoft, and has been involved in various patent pool activities for
over 10 years. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, he was the IP Law Director for the Broadband Communications Sector of
Motorola in the Philadelphia area, now the Broadband Home Solutions business. He worked in that business for almost
6 years. Mr. Bawel spent the previous 3 years honing his patent preparation and prosecutions skills as a patent attorney
for GE/RCA Licensing, a business that focused on intellectual property patent procurement and licensing in the consumer
electronics industry. Mr. Bawel attended law school at Nova Southeastern University, graduating in 1995, and passed the
patent bar during his second year there. While still in law school, he worked as a patent agent for World Medical
Manufacturing Corporation, a startup company that developed and manufactured catheters and graft stents. From 1985
until 1993, Mr. Bawel was an electrical engineer for Applied Measurement Systems, a small engineering firm that
specialized in research and development in the field of underwater acoustics for the US Navy. He spent almost 4 years at
the acoustical testing range in Bayview, Idaho working on the development of the Seawolf Class submarine. Mr. Bawel
graduated from Memphis State University (now University of Memphis) in 1984 with a BSEE.
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Bill Becker
Senior Director of IP
Align Technology
Bill Becker is currently the Senior Director of Intellectual Property for Align Technology, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA with
responsibility for intellectual property development, strategy, litigation, licensing and other IP transactional matters,
primarily with respect to patents, trade secrets and other intellectual property. Align is a medical device company engaged
in the design, manufacture and marketing of Invisalign® aligners, the world's leading invisible orthodontic product, and
one of the world’s largest manufacturers of mass customized products.
Mr. Becker was formerly Deputy General Counsel - Intellectual Property for 3Com Corporation in Santa Clara, CA with
primary responsibility for all the intellectual property strategy programs, as well as transactions of 3Com and its
subsidiaries worldwide.
Prior to this, he was the Associate General Counsel and Intellectual Property Counsel of VLSI Technology, Inc. in San
Jose, CA with primary worldwide responsibility for all of its intellectual property, employment, environmental, and
commercial legal matters.
Bill has also been the Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel of Bourns, Inc. in Riverside, CA and a patent attorney for
General Electric.
He is currently a member of the Board of Directors, San Francisco Area chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel
(ACC) and is co-program chair of the IP/IT committee of ACC National. A graduate of George Washington University Law
School and Carnegie Mellon University, he is a member of the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, California, and the District
of Columbia. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and has received
formal training in mediation.
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Archana Bhuta
Director of IP, SLT Group
Juniper Networks
Archana Bhuta is the Director of IP for the Service Layer Technologies Business Group (SLTBG) at Juniper Networks.
Juniper Networks delivers innovative software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of
networking. Juniper serves more than 30,000 customers and partners worldwide, and generated more than $3 billion in
revenue over the last year. Ms. Bhuta is responsible for counseling the SLT Business Group on a number of legal issues
including technical transactions, licensing and the development of SLT’s patent portfolio.
Before joining Juniper Networks, Ms. Bhuta was Senior IP Counsel at Sun Microsystems where she was responsible for
patent litigation, portfolio development and IP licensing. Prior to joining Sun, Ms. Bhuta was in private practice at Weil
Gotshal & Manges focusing on IP litigation and at Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman focusing on patent prosecution, due
diligence and opinion work.
Ms. Bhuta obtained her J.D. degree from the John Marshall Law School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
Purdue University.
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Julie Q. Brush
Founding Partner
Solutus Legal Search
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Christopher Byrne
Vice President for IP Strategy
Tessera Technologies
Chris Byrne is Vice President for Intellectual Property Strategy for Tessera Technologies, Inc., in San Jose, CA. Chris has
degrees in electrical engineering, psychology and law and is a USPTO registered patent attorney. Chris began his
intellectual property career with Hewlett-Packard and subsequently has held the top IP position at 5 public high-tech
companies. He has complete leadership experience in all aspects of intellectual property development and management,
including licensing, litigation and IP policy issues. Chris has consistently been at the forefront of strategic IP thinking and
practice. Chris is also a board member emeritus and past-president of the Churchill Club, Silicon Valley’s premier
business and technology speakers’ forum. www.churchillclub.org He is also been a charter member and was a
founding co-chair of the clean-tech section of TiE-Silicon Valley, the organizational hub of world’s foremost global network
of entrepreneurs. http://sv.tie.org/homepage Alongside his IP career, Chris has been an active and successful angel
investor, particularly in new media and clean-tech.
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Jeremiah Chan
Senior IP Counsel
JDS Uniphase
Jeremiah Chan is Senior Intellectual Property Counsel for JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU | www.jdsu.com), a global supplier of
broadband and optical solutions. Mr. Chan is responsible for the growth, protection and exploitation of the company’s
intellectual property portfolio with nearly 2000 issued patents. Mr. Chan also manages intellectual property related
litigation and transactions for JDSU, including M&A and the strategic development of JDSU’s intellectual property portfolio,
policies and programs. Prior to joining JDSU, Mr. Chan was in private practice with Fish & Neave focusing on intellectual
property litigation, opinion work, and client counseling. Mr. Chan graduated from U.C. Berkeley and Cornell Law School.
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Neel Chatterjee
Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Neel Chatterjee, a litigation and intellectual property partner in the Silicon Valley office, concentrates his practice on
complex litigation for technology companies. Mr. Chatterjee is nationally recognized for his experience in patent litigation,
Internet liability litigation, trade secrets litigation and technology transactions litigation. He has significant experience
litigating and trying extremely complex disputes where simplifying difficult technical concepts and effective case
management are keys to success. He has particular experience with Internet and computer software, computer
networking and data storage technologies. Neel is a graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School He also has a B.A. with
honors, Economics/Government, Dartmouth College.
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T. Rao Coca
Sr. Director of Patent Portfolio Development and Licensing
Nvidia
T. Rao Coca is the Senior Director of Patent Portfolio Development and Licensing in Nvidia Corporation. He is based in
Santa Clara, California. Rao has a rare combination of hybrid education, experience and cultural background. His first love
of Physics drove him to the pinnacle of leaning of Physics, as evidenced by the degrees he earned. These include a B.S.
degree in Physics and Mathematics, M.A. in Nuclear physics, M. S. in Optical Physics and a Ph. D, in Solid State Physics.
While working as an aerospace engineer at General Dynamics, Rao pursued law, by attending evening law school, to
complement his technical background with knowledge of the United States laws and became an intellectual property
attorney. Rao is admitted to practice in New York, Ohio, Vermont and the United States Patent Bar. He is admitted to
practice before federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court.
Before joining Nvidia about four years ago, Rao worked as a senior corporate counsel at IBM where, for a period of over 23
years, he held many executive and senior management positions in many IBM’s worldwide locations including a 5 year
assignment as the Assistant General Counsel in charge of IP in IBM’s Asia Pacific Headquarters based in Tokyo, Japan.
Of Indian heritage, Rao has synergistically combined his rich and disciplined Indian cultural upbringing with the
consensus building of the Japanese tradition that he was exposed to while living in Japan and the aggressive and
innovative work ethic prevalent in the United States.
Rao has presented and published over 30 papers and talks in Physics and on many aspects of intellectual property law,
including contributing a chapter on the Semiconductor Chip Protection Laws to the legal treatise “Intellectual Property
Litigation & Licensing”. He is now serving on the prestigious Editorial Board of the AIPLA Quarterly Journal.
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Jeffrey S. Draeger
Director of Patents Analysis and Deputy Director of Patents & Licensing
Intel Corp.
Jeffrey S. Draeger is currently the Director of Patents Analysis at Intel Corporation and Deputy Director of Patents &
Licensing. As Director of Patent Analysis, Mr. Draeger focuses on analysis and use of Intel’s portfolio and analysis
including defense against and/or acquisition of third party patents. Mr. Draeger has been heavily involved in key litigation
and licensing efforts related to processor technology, including both offensive licensing and litigation
efforts and defending the corporation against other companies.
Previously, Mr. Draeger focused on portfolio development and prosecution management, including managing a group of
over 30 patent attorneys and agents responsible for the development of the patent portfolios for Intel’s core technologies (i.
e., processors, chipsets, interconnect, etc.).
Prior to managing portfolio development and prosecution, Mr. Draeger focused on preparation and prosecution of patent
applications, patent analysis, patent portfolio development. Mr. Draeger was also a microprocessor designer at Intel
before going through law school at night at Santa Clara University.
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Guy Ellis
Director of Patent Operations
Intellectual Ventures
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Jonathan D. Feuchtwang
VP, Intellectual Property
Evalve
Jonathan D. Feuchtwang is VP, Intellectual Property at Evalve. Jonathan has over 13 years of intellectual property
experience spanning a diverse array of technology. His intellectual property experience includes all aspects of patent and
trademark prosecution, licensing, patent re-examination and patent interference. His practice has focused exclusively on
medical devices for the past 6 years. Jonathan recently joined Evalve after serving as Vice President of Intellectual
Property at a sister company, Cierra, Inc, which developed minimally invasive solutions for treating patent foramen ovale
(PFO). Prior to his work for Cierra, Jonathan was Asst. Counsel, Patents & Trademarks for Zimmer Technology, a
technology holding company of Zimmer Orthopedics. Jonathan managed Zimmer Orthopedics' global patent and
trademark portfolios. Jonathan was previously an associate attorney at Piper Rudnick's (now DLA Piper) Chicago office,
and an associate attorney at Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd. Jonathan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial
Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Illinois-
Chicago, and a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the Chicago Kent College of Law.
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David Foster
Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property
Actel Corp.
David Foster is Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property at Actel Corporation, a Silicon Valley semiconductor
company that designs, develops, and markets programmable logic devices. Actel's products include field programmable
gate arrays (FPGAs) and programmable system chips (PSCs) as well as supporting products and services. Actel is the
leader in low-power FPGAs and mixed-signal FPGAs, and a leading supplier of high-reliability FPGAs. For the
past seven years, Mr. Foster has managed all aspects of Actel's patent program, including prosecution, strategy, portfolio
development and management, litigation, and licensing, as well as other intellectual property matters including licensing,
trademark, and software issues. Prior to Actel, Mr. Foster held positions at Novalux, Inc., a semiconductor laser startup
and Kenyon & Kenyon, a New York-based intellectual property law firm. Mr. Foster holds a BSE in Systems Engineering
from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School.
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Joshua Galper
Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Joshua P. Galper is a partner in Orrick's Washington, D.C., office, the co-leader of the firm's Law, Policy and Crisis Group
and a member of the Litigation Group.
Mr. Galper assists clients with problems and issues at the intersection of the law, the media and policy. He focuses on
managing and mitigating legal, media and political risks for strategic and high-profile issues through legal, policy,
communications and crisis management advice. Mr. Galper regularly counsels clients in civil, securities, commercial
and criminal litigation, congressional and regulatory investigations, and business, transactional, employment and
environmental matters.
Mr. Galper's clients include public and private U.S. and multinational companies across a broad range of industries,
including telecommunications, hospitality, travel, entertainment, life sciences, accounting, investment management,
financial services, private equity, real estate development, higher education and emerging technology. He also advises
nonprofits, municipalities, individuals and a Native American tribe.
Mr. Galper has extensive experience in political communications, speechwriting and strategy honed in presidential,
statewide, congressional and municipal campaigns, as well as on Capitol Hill and in a governor's office. In 2004 and
2008, he was a member of the onsite speechwriting teams at the Democratic National Convention, where he worked with
podium speakers to draft their speeches and help them with their presentations.
Outside Orrick, Mr. Galper is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a class
on crisis management and strategic communications. He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations,
serves on the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association, and is a member of the Board of Directors of
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's D.C. Metropolitan Area Chapter.
Mr. Galper is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
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William L. Geary, Jr.
Vice President
MPEG LA
Bill Geary is Vice President of Business Development at MPEG LA, where he is responsible for identifying, organizing, and
facilitating new patent pools for licensing by the company. For more than ten years he has been involved in the formation
and operation of patent pools in a wide variety of technologies.
Before joining MPEG LA, Mr. Geary was General Patent Counsel in the Samsung Electronics Washington, DC office where
he handled worldwide patent licensing and litigation for eleven years and negotiated hundreds of patent license
agreements and directed dozens of litigations in the U.S. and overseas.
Prior to becoming a patent attorney, Mr. Geary worked as an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute and
Harris Corporation. He has degrees in law, electrical engineering, and an MBA.
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Stephen Gillespie
Partner
Fenwick & West, LLP
Stephen D. Gillespie is a partner in the Intellectual Property Transactions Group of Fenwick & West LLP, a premier Silicon
Valley law firm specializing in technology and life sciences matters. Mr. Gillespie provides strategic and legal advice to
software, new media and technology companies. He helps his clients build their value while maximizing options for
liquidity through careful management of the legal and intellectual property aspects of their technology development and
distribution. He helps structure, draft and negotiate key deals, including national and international development and
distribution deals, licenses, and strategic alliances. He also manages the intellectual property aspects of mergers and
acquisitions, including as lead outside IP counsel on acquisitions for Cisco, Symantec, Electronic Arts and other
acquirers. In addition, he has significant experience in open source business models and export control regulations.
Among his recent clients are:
- Enterprise Software/Infrastructure: Cisco; Symantec; Interwoven; The TriZetto Group; Splunk
- Entertainment Software: Electronic Arts; Cryptic Studios; Robot Entertainment; Stormfront Studios; XPD Media
- Mobile Content/New Media: Glu Mobile; Verisign/Jamster (joint venture with 20th Century Fox); MobiTV; Rhythm
NewMedia; SendMe Mobile; Cordiant
- Open Source: MySQL; Splunk; Pioneers of the Inevitable (Songbird); Medsphere Systems
Mr. Gillespie’s work on open source includes:
- Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference and LinuxWorld regarding open source licensing;
- Counseling MySQL on dual licensing and GPL issues for many years, including in its acquisition by Sun Microsystems;
- Counseling Cisco, Symantec, Electronic Arts and other acquirers regarding open source issues in their mergers and
acquisitions;
- Monitoring and reporting to clients regarding the Free Software Foundation's GPL revision process leading to GPLv3;
- Counseling dozens of technology companies regarding open source business models and compliance issues.
Mr. Gillespie has been a frequent speaker and writer on intellectual property issues in mergers and acquisitions,
technology licensing, and open source business models. He is the author of “Intellectual Property Issues in Merger and
Acquisition Agreements” in Intellectual Property in Business Transactions (CEB 2008) and “Losing Control: Indirect Sales
Strategies and Unauthorized Distribution of Software” in 4 World Licensing Law Report No. 6, (June 2002).
Mr. Gillespie received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in rhetoric from the University of California at
Berkeley. He attended law school at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, receiving his J.D. in
1994 and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy in 1995.
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Marilyn Glaubensklee
Patent Portfolio Development Director
SanDisk
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Adam Goldberg
Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Adam Goldberg is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, and a member of the firm's Litigation Group. Mr. Goldberg
focuses his litigation practice on providing clients strategic and crisis communications counsel to support and further their
legal objectives. His counsel includes advising clients on regulatory, Congressional and criminal investigations, on
transactions, and on crisis prevention, mitigation and response for potential and current high-profile matters.
He has worked for public and private companies and individuals across many industries, including the financial,
pharmaceutical, automotive, telecommunications, hospitality, technology and hedge fund sectors. This work has included
advising clients that have sought to build support or opposition to transactions, that have had to defend themselves
publicly against litigants, regulators, and short attacks, and that have had to work with the media in connection with other
legal matters.
Mr. Goldberg served in the White House as Special Associate Counsel to the President from 1996 to 1999, providing
advice on crisis communications and political strategy for the campaign finance, Monica Lewinsky, technology-transfer,
and other investigations. Serving as a White House spokesman on such issues, Mr. Goldberg worked on the
Congressional, Department of Justice, and Independent Counsel inquiries.
He is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School, where he teaches a class on crisis management and
communications. He is also the published co-author of articles on Congressional investigations and crisis
communications.
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Leonard Heyman
IP Counsel
VMWare, Inc.
Leonard Heyman is IP Counsel at VMWare, Inc. He collaborates with engineers on a regular basis to obtain patent
protection both by preparing patents in-house and working with outside attorneys doing the same. Previously, he was a
Patent Examiner and Primary Patent Examiner from 1991-1996. He has prepared and prosecuted patent applications,
and supported litigation, at boutique patent law firms until 2007. Leonard received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Mechanical Engineering from Old Dominion University in 1990 and J.D. from University at Buffalo Law School in 1999. He
is admitted to the New York and Connecticut Bars, and Registered as an in-house practitioner in California.
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Diane Honda
Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Extreme Networks
Diane Honda is currently the Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary for Extreme Networks, Inc. and has more than
20 years of technical and legal experience in high technology companies. At Extreme Networks, Diane oversees
worldwide legal matters including securities compliance, intellectual property, litigation, subsidiary management,
employment, regulatory compliance, strategic alliances, and transactions. Diane previously held senior business and
legal leadership positions at both public and private technology companies including Speedera Networks, Riverstone
Networks, and Hewlett Packard Company. She started her career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard, and in
addition to her legal roles, has held management positions in product development, customer support, and information
technology.
Diane holds a J.D. from Santa Clara Law School (cum laude) and a B.S in Applied Math Computer Science and Industrial
Management from Carnegie Mellon. She also completed executive leadership courses at the University of Michigan and
Harvard.
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Richard Hsu
Partner
Townsend & Townsend & Crew
Richard Hsu is Chair of Townsend's Technology Licensing Practice Group, which advises companies on licensing
transactions and associated intellectual property issues. He has extensive experience in licensing, development,
acquisitions, service, purchase and other partnering agreements for a variety of industries, including semiconductors, life
sciences, medical devices, hardware, software, nanotechnology, entertainment, multimedia and telecommunications.
In addition to structuring and negotiating technology transactions, Mr. Hsu is also Co-Chair of Townsend's Open Source
Practice Group, which provides strategic advice and advises clients on innovative open source business strategies. Mr.
Hsu has expertise in intellectual property asset management and Sarbanes Oxley compliance, having assisted
numerous clients to develop and implement strategies to acquire, protect, enforce and commercialize various forms of
intellectual property.
Prior to joining Townsend, Mr. Hsu was a Senior Attorney at Venture Law Group, where he represented over 100 venture
backed startup technology companies. Mr. Hsu was also former general counsel at Cyrano Sciences, Inc. (acquired by
Smiths Detection), a venture-backed company founded by Caltech Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, where his pivotal
management role was featured on television station KWHY and in the Los Angeles Daily Journal (March 1998).
A frequent lecturer on licensing and intellectual property issues, Mr. Hsu has published a book on patents (Fairmont
Press 1997) and written articles for the San Francisco Daily Journal, New York Times, Communications of the ACM and
the Los Angeles Business Journal. He has also been quoted in numerous publications, including the Caltech News,
Corporate Counsel and the Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Hsu is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law, J.D., and California Institute of Technology, B.S., Engineering
and Applied Science, with honors.
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Michael Johnson
Patent Counsel
Qualcomm
Michael has worked for Qualcomm’s MEMS technology (QMT) group for the past five years. QMT has developed the
industry’s first MEMS display for mobile devices, the display offering low power consumption and superb viewing quality in
a wide range of environments, including bright sunlight. Michael has been responsible for a broad range of legal matters
for the division including domestic and foreign patent portfolio management and development, acquisitions,
misappropriation, licensing, copyright, and more.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, Michael worked at several Bay Area patent boutiques, including Flehr Hohbach Test Albritton &
Herbert, and Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman. Michael received his BSEE from the University of Houston, cum laude, and
his law degree from Santa Clara School of Law.
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George Jonas
Head IP counsel
SunPower Corporation
George Jonas is Head IP Counsel at SunPower Corporation, a manufacturer and installer of photovoltaic solar panels. In
this role, he is responsible for coordinating all patent filings and patent litigation, trademark filings and enforcement, IP-
related transactional matters and counseling.
Prior to joining SunPower, he was the division counsel for 3M Innovative Properties Company Optical Services Division as
well as the Office Supply and Stationery Products Division prior to that. In this capacity, he was responsible for patent
application filings, intellectual property transactions and litigation, and advising on strategic decisions regarding
intellectual property strategy.
Prior to joining 3M, George was an associate at Kinney & Lange in Minneapolis, where he focused primarily on patent
prosecution.
George received is J.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1998 and obtained an undergraduate degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Marquette University in 1993.
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Jeremy Kashian
Associate General Counsel
NEC Corporation of America
Jeremy Kashian is Associate General Counsel for NEC Corporation of America in Santa Clara, California . She joined
NEC in 2000 and has had a wide variety of responsibilities in the areas of commercial contracts, licensing, corporate,
litigation management, labor and employment and compliance. Her current responsibilities include handling all aspects
of employee and benefit related matters and litigation management in North America. Prior to joining NEC, Ms. Kashian
served in the Public Defender’s Office and practiced employment and general litigation with Sacramento based law firms.
She is past president of ACC's San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. She currently serves as a member of the board of
directors of a couple non-profit organizations dedicated to serving the legal and other needs of foster and underprivileged
children.
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Karineh Khachatourian
Partner
K&L Gates
Karineh Khachatourian is an intellectual property litigator in the Palo Alto office of K&L Gates. She focuses her practice on
the representation of high-technology clients in such areas as silicon wafer inspection, integrated circuit stimulation tools,
computer software and hardware, including application delivery and server load balancing, related consumer electronics
and computer peripherals, and LCD technology.
Ms. Khachatourian's work includes: High-technology and design patent infringement and licensing disputes; Inventorship
and ownership issues; Trade secret misappropriation, particularly with competitors and departing employees; and
Trademark infringement issues. Additionally, Ms. Khachatourian has handled civil litigation matters involving technology,
including claims of patent indemnification, breach of contract and patent royalty issues. She has also represented
technology companies in breach of contract claims and enforcement of non-solicitation clauses involving competitors and
departing employees. She has represented clients in multiple federal U.S. district courts throughout the U.S., including
the Northern District of California, Central District of California, Southern District of California, Western District of
Washington, District of Delaware, Southern District of Texas (Houston), and District of Arizona. She has also represented
clients in the San Mateo, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and Alameda Superior Courts in California and Harris
County (Houston) in Texas.
Before joining K&L Gates, Ms. Khachatourian led an intellectual property practice at a prominent California law firm. In
2005, as part of the three-month volunteer program, she was seconded to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office,
where she served as a Deputy District Attorney prosecuting misdeameanors. In that capacity, of the cases that went to
trial, she tried six cases to verdict with a 5 to 1 record.
Ms. Khachatourian received her J.D. at George Washington University and her B.A. at New York University (magna cum
laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She is admitted to the Bars of California and Massachusetts.
She is President, Women's Intellectual Property Lawyers Association; Member, Forum of Women Executives, Silicon
Valley; and Advisory Board Member, IP Counsel Café.
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Dan Lang
Director - Intellectual Property
Cisco Systems, Inc.
As Director of Intellectual Property at Cisco Systems, Inc., Dan Lang leads a team focused on strategy, standards, and
policy in the intellectual property area. Prior to assuming his current position, Dan managed Cisco’s industry-leading
patent portfolio development effort and also worked on disputes and litigation. Prior to joining Cisco in 2004, Dan was a
partner at the patent boutique firm of Ritter, Lang and Kaplan and also previously practiced at Ritter, Van Pelt, and Yi and
Townsend and Townsend and Crew.
Dan has a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law, an MS from Stanford University, and a BS from Case Western Reserve
University. Dan is a member of the California Bar and is also registered by the USPTO.
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Ron Laurie
Managing Director
Inflexion Point Strategy
Ron Laurie is Managing Director of Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC, the first intellectual property investment bank, which he
co-founded in 2004. Inflexion Point represents technology companies and institutional investors in the acquisition and
sale of high-quality patent portfolios having strategic value and in the sourcing and execution of IP-intensive M&A
transactions. Ron has worked in Silicon Valley for over 40 years, initially as a software engineer and then as an IP lawyer
advising computer, communications, semiconductor, media and financial services companies on IP strategy, a subject
he has taught at Stanford and Boalt (UC-Berkeley) law schools. Ron was a founding partner of the Silicon Valley offices of
Skadden Arps (in 1998) Weil Gotshal (in 1991) and Irell & Manella (in 1988). The focus of Ron's prior legal practice was
on the strategic use of IP assets in complex business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, technology spin-
outs, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, and he led IP teams in some of the largest technology deals ever done, worth
over $50 billion in the aggregate. Ron is a registered patent attorney and has authored a number of landmark patents
including the Priceline “reverse-auction” patent which was the first Internet business method patent to attract national
attention.
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Nicholas N. Leach
Managing Counsel, Chief Patent Counsel
Chevron
Nicholas N. Leach is Chief Patent Counsel for Chevron Corporation, responsible for procuring, managing, and protecting
Chevron's intellectual property rights and intangible assets globally. Nick is actively involved in a broad range of IP-related
transactions, legal enforcement proceedings and development of the company's intellectual asset strategy.
Prior to joining Chevron in 2007, Nick was Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. In that
role he was responsible for management of Kimberly-Clark's global portfolio of patents, industrial designs, trade secrets
and proprietary information, oversaw global patent enforcement proceedings and other significant intellectual property
matters across all product/technology categories. In addition to his in-house experience, Nick practiced intellectual
property law in private law firms in Delaware , New York , and Georgia .
Nick received his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Nick’s personal interests include enjoying life and traveling with his wife and two sons, scuba diving, running and
supporting youth soccer.
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Domenic A. Leo
Sr. Vice Present and General Manager
DataCert
Domenic A. Leo, DataCert's senior vice president and general manager, IP Business, is a respected legal technology
thought-leader with more than 30 years of experience practicing law and implementing global technology solutions. Prior
to DataCert, he served in multiple senior management roles at Master Data Center, a unit of Thomson Scientific &
Healthcare. As vice president of professional services and best practices, he defined and guided the strategic
objectives and operations of the company's professional services and worked with Fortune Global 1000 corporations
such as Honeywell, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer and ExxonMobil. Before beginning a career in legal and IP technology, he
was assistant general counsel for a Michigan-based savings and loan company. His scope of responsibilities included
protecting the company's legal interests and managing legal department operations. He is a workgroup chair for the
Uniform Task Based Management System (UTBMS) and is co-chair of the American Intellectual Property Law
Association's (AIPLA) IP Assets Subcommittee for Cost Management. He is a member of the International Trademark
Association (INTA), the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) and the Licensing Executives Society (LES). Leo earned a
bachelor's degree in political science and public administration from Oakland University and a juris doctorate from the
Michigan State University School of Law.
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Douglas B. Luftman
Associate General Counsel, IP
Palm
Douglas Luftman is Associate General Counsel of Intellectual Property at Palm, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California. Palm, Inc. is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, and is renowned for its rich history of innovation, dating
back to the original category-defining Palm Pilot personal digital assistant and more recently the Treo™ smartphone and
the Foleo™ mobile companion.
Mr. Luftman’s current areas of focus include strategic intellectual property counseling, patent portfolio development,
intellectual property assertion and licensing strategy, IP asset acquisitions, standards development strategy, IP and
technology licensing and open source management strategy. Prior to joining Palm, Mr. Luftman’s roles have included
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Caspian Networks, Inc., West Coast Counsel of CIENA Corporation and
Senior Intellectual Property Counsel for Intel Corporation’s Communications Group. Prior to working in-house, Mr.
Luftman was an attorney at Fenwick & West LLP in Palo Alto, CA.
Mr. Luftman received his Juris Doctorate degree with honors from the George Washington University Law School,
Washington DC, where he was Technical Editor of the Law Review and externed for The Honorable Randall R Rader of
the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Luftman received his Bachelors of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
He has spoken at a variety of forums including professional trade organizations as well as a guest lecturer at the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law – Boalt Hall
on topics relating to IP strategy for high technology companies.
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Taraneh Maghame
Attorney-at-law
Taraneh Maghamé recently established her firm to provide IP strategy, legal and government relations services to
technology clients. She has testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Federal Trade Commission
regarding patent law matters and speaks frequently on various intellectual property topics. Until July 2009, she was Vice
President, Patent Policy and Government Relations Counsel, at Tessera, Inc. in San Jose, California. Her
responsibilities at Tessera included advising company management regarding various IP and patent-related issues,
including issues relating to patent licensing and litigation, IP due diligence and strategic IP counseling relating to
development and acquisition of IP assets, and government relations activities relating to intellectual property law and
policy.
Prior to joining Tessera, Ms. Maghamé was Senior IP Counsel at Hewlett-Packard Company, where her practice focused
on IP licensing and transactions as well as patent dispute and litigation management. Before the merger between HP
and Compaq Computer Corporation, Ms. Maghamé was responsible for managing all IP litigation for Compaq. Before
going in-house at Compaq, Ms. Maghamé was associated with the law firms of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in Palo Alto
and Perkins Coie in Seattle, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation, licensing, and counseling.
Ms. Maghamé is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and is admitted to practice in California and
Washington State, as well as before the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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William Mandir
Partner
Sughrue Mion
William Mandir focuses on intellectual property litigation, including patent and trade secret litigation, counseling and
appellate practice. Mr. Mandir has developed an outstanding reputation as both a patent practitioner and a litigator with
significant experience before the patent office, federal district court and the U.S. International Trade Commission. His
litigation experience includes acting as lead counsel in patent infringement jury trials. Recently named as an expert in the
Patent Experts Guide, Mr. Mandir also maintains a significant prosecution practice. His practice also includes prosecuting
patent matters in the electrical, software and mechanical arts, including reexamination and reissue applications before
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Mr. Mandir is a graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland,
College of Engineering.
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Andre L. Marais
Patent Attorney & Managing Shareholder
Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner
Andre L. Marais is a registered patent attorney and shareholder of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner. His practice
includes strategic IP counseling, patent prosecution (US and foreign), patent validity, infringement and clearance analysis
and opinions, and IP due diligence work, particularly in the networking (including Internet), software, communications and
electrical/ electronic technologies. He has secured patents for, and currently represents, a number of prominent
technology companies, based in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, including Germany and China.
Areas of Practice include Business Methods; Communication Networks; Computer Hardware & Design; Computer
Networking; and E-Commerce. He is admitted to practice in California, South Africa, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office. Mr. Marais is a graduate of University of South Africa Faculty of Law, Pretoria, South Africa, 1993 (J.D. equivalent)
and has a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial-Electronics) degree from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1990.
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Christopher Marchese
Principal
Fish & Richardson PC
Christopher Marchese is a Principal in the Southern California office of Fish & Richardson. Mr. Marchese's practice
primarily involves patent litigation and patent portfolio analysis in a wide range of technologies, including video
compression (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, and VC-1 standards and related technology); audio compression (including MP3
standard and related technology); speech compression (including G.723.1 standard and related technology); computer
networking (including ATM, Ethernet, DOCSIS, and WiMAX technologies); semiconductors and integrated circuitry;
software (various operating systems and a wide range of application software); and satellite technology. Mr. Marchese has
also litigated cases involving trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, and trade secrets. He has prepared and
prosecuted patent applications in the fields of telecommunications, electronics, semiconductors, data compression,
mechanical and medical devices, and has also prepared and prosecuted numerous federal and state trademark
applications. Mr. Marchese is co-author of a treatise on patent damages and the author of numerous law review articles
relating to patents and other subject matter.
He received his J.D. at George Washington University; B.S. Electrical Engineering at University of Kentucky; and B.A.
Mathematics at Centre College of Kentucky.
He is admitted to the bar in California and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and
the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Nola Mae McBain
Associate General Patent Counsel
Xerox Corporation
Nola Mae McBain is Associate General Patent Counsel for Xerox Corporation supporting the Palo Alto Research Center
Incorporated (PARC) a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox. Located in Palo Alto , Ms. McBain provides legal counsel and
manages PARC’s patent portfolio and other intellectual property issues. Ms. McBain is responsible for all issues
regarding PARC’s patent portfolio management including management of outside counsel relationships and cost and
quality of patents. Additionally, Ms. McBain provides counsel on other IP issues such as trademarks and copyrights, and
supports efforts to commercialize and protect PARC’s IP portfolio.
Ms. McBain received her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1985 and her Juris Doctor from
Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1995. Ms. McBain started her professional career as an Electrical Engineer with
Xerox in El Segundo , California working on design layouts and silicon compilers. She worked as a Patent Engineer, and
Patent Agent before completing law school and becoming a Patent Attorney and moving to the Bay Area.
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Lisa McFall
Founder & Managing Director
Ovidian Group
Lisa McFall is a founder and managing director at Ovidian. Prior to joining Ovidian, Ms. McFall served as Vice President
and Associate General Counsel, at Yahoo!, where she was head of IP Litigation and Conflict Management and was
responsible for IP risk reduction across the enterprise. Ms. McFall managed Yahoo!'s extensive docket of IP litigation
matters, and also managed a variety of operational functions and complex transactional matters. She has extensive
experience advising companies on IP issues associated with academic collaborations and has drafted and negotiated
numerous collaborative research agreements with domestic and international universities, industrial research institutions
and governmental agencies. Ms. McFall also has participated in various judicial and legislative reform efforts, including
patent-reform coalitions and amicus efforts.
Prior to 2004, Ms. McFall spent 10 years litigating patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases at Brown & Bain and
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She has litigated cases in a wide variety of tribunals, including numerous U.S. District
Courts, the Federal Circuit and the International Trade Commission, and has also arbitrated matters with the American
Arbitration Association and the International Chamber of Commerce.
Ms. McFall received her Juris Doctorate degree with honors from the University of Wisconsin School of Law, where she
was Managing Editor of the Law Review and President of the Moot Court Board. Ms. McFall received her Bachelor of Arts
degree in International Relations from Stanford University where she focused on US-Soviet civil/military relations.
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Phil McGarrigle
General Counsel & Chief IP Counsel
Nodality, Inc.
Phil McGarrigle joined Nodality in February 2008 as General Counsel and Chief IP Officer. Prior to Nodality, he was
employed at Affymetrix from 1998 to 2008 and held the position of VP and Chief IP Counsel. Prior to Affymetrix, he was
employed at Cetus and then Chiron after the two corporations were merged. He also worked at Chevron Corporation and
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical. Mr. McGarrigle has been an adjunct professor at Santa Clara School of Law from 2000 to
the present. He obtained a B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire and a J.D. from the University of Santa Clara
Law School.
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Loren McRoss
Senior IP Counsel
Sony Corporation of America
Loren McRoss is the Intellectual Property Counsel/Sr. Patent Counsel for Sony Corporation of America. Prior to joining
Sony, Mr. McRoss spent 5.5 years as the Intellectual Property Counsel for Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Prior to joining
Phoenix, Mr. McRoss worked for several law firms both in the Bay Area and Chicago. Mr. McRoss is responsible for the
acquisition, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property rights for several business and technical units within Sony.
Mr. McRoss has over 15 years of experience practicing Intellectual Property Law, with an emphasis on the preparation and
prosecution, licensing and litigation of patents across several technical disciplines. Mr. McRoss also spends a significant
amount of time working with outside counsel and preparing infringement, validity and right to use opinions with respect to
several product and technical offerings. Mr. McRoss received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (with a
concentration in Computer Architecture) from Cornell University and his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Illinois
College of Law.
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Suzanne T. Michel
Deputy Director for Office of Policy Planning
Federal Trade Commission
Suzanne Michel is Deputy Director for Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. She is also the agency's
senior patent counsel. In that capacity, she is involved in many of the patent and patent/antitrust issues that arise in the
FTC=s enforcement and policy work. She speaks frequently on those topics. Suzanne is currently heading the FTC’s
project on the “Evolving IP Marketplace.” The FTC awarded her the Paul Rand Dixon award in 2002 and the Excellence in
Supervision award in 2008. Before joining the FTC ten years ago, Suzanne worked in the Civil Division of the Department
of Justice where she represented the United States in patent infringement litigation.
Suzanne received her B.S. with honors from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University. She
graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California at Berkeley), where she was a member of the Order of
the Coif and was awarded the prize for best paper published by a graduating student. Following law school, she served
as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul R. Michel (no relation) at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is a
registered patent attorney.
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Carol Webster Millie
Attorney & ADR provider
Corporate Advisory Law Group
Carol Webster Millie has been an attorney and ADR provider since 1977 and has successfully helped resolve conflicts in
business, industry, and government, prior to, during and after litigation was filed in cases including construction conflicts;
employment law; contracts; facilitation of decision making in business units, dissolution of partnerships; and technology
ownership contests.
Carol’s natural mediation style supports the parties, guiding them to an acceptable resolution of their own conflict.
Believing that the style leads to acceptable outcomes for everyone involved, Carol creates and facilitates an environment
where parties can explore ways to satisfy their needs. She has also successfully followed a more directive mediation
model when requested to do so by the parties. Carol Millie has served as a neutral in cases involving: construction and
other contracts; including matters involving formation, performance and breach; theft of trade secrets; unfair competition;
professional malpractice; public and private employment matters including age, sex, and racial harassment,
discrimination, and wrongful termination.
Since 1977, Carol has actively served as arbitrator, early neutral evaluator, facilitator, and mediator. She has extensive
training in mediation and arbitration, and has lectured for various groups including the State Bar of California and
Employment Law Institute for Corporate Counsel. In 1997, Carol co-founded Corporate Advisory Law Group, offering
strategic counseling for emerging technology companies. Through the provision of real-time advice on managing
business crises, Carol has developed a command of the practical realities of business.
She earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. at the University of San Francisco and is a member of the
Bar of the United States Supreme Court and state bars of California and Texas. Carol has been an AAA Arbitrator since
1977 assigned to the Construction division and also hears cases in the Employment and Commercial divisions. She is
also a member of the mediation panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Steven Moore
Senior Counsel
Foley & Lardner
Steven Moore is senior counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is a member of the Electronics and Intellectual
Property Litigation Practices. Dr. Moore has significant experience in intellectual property law and patent prosecution.
Before joining Foley, he was an associate with Heller Ehrman LLP, where he focused on patent prosecution and
intellectual property litigation. His previous experience also includes serving as director of intellectual property and
regulatory affairs for a San Diego technology company where he drafted, filed and prosecuted U.S. patent applications
and conducted in-house patent and regulatory work. He has represented clients in various proceedings before the
Federal Communications Commission and served as a technical advisor and member of the U.S. Delegation to the
International Telecommunications Union. He was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy and served on active duty
for nine years.
Dr. Moore counsels early stage electronics and software companies on IP issues and has conducted IP diligence
investigations for financing, merger and acquisition transactions.
He routinely drafts and prosecutes patent applications in the areas of telecommunications, advanced software and
hardware architectures, compilers, optics, other electronic applications and devices.
Prior to his legal career Dr. Moore worked for a number of companies as a software engineer in controls, signal, and
image processing. He also worked as an engineer in three start-up companies.
Dr. Moore is a graduate of California Western School of Law. He earned his Ph.D., his M.S. and his B.S. all in electricial
engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is admitted to practice in California and before the
United States Patent & Trademark Office. He was a member of the International Telecommunications Advisory
Committee, National Committee; and is a member of the San Diego Bar Association and the San Diego Intellectual
Property Law Association.
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John B. Moriarty, Jr.
Senior Vice President - Law
Elan Pharmaceuticals
John Moriarty is currently Senior Vice-President – Law for Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company based
in South San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland, where he is responsible for wide ranging legal aspects of Elan’s U.S.
biotechnology business.
From 2002 – 2008 he was in-house counsel to Amgen, Inc. in a variety of capacities ranging from litigation and
government investigations to commercial and regulatory counseling, and ultimately acting as Executive Director and
Associate General Counsel for Amgen’s commercial oncology business.
Prior to joining Amgen, Mr. Moriarty was in private practice in Washington, D.C. and New York with the healthcare practice
of a national law firm, and formerly served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern and Western
Districts of Virginia where he focused exclusively on civil and criminal healthcare fraud matters.
He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, with distinction, and his law degree from the
University of Georgia, cum laude.
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Jeff Myers
Director & Associate General Counsel, and head of Patent Practice Group
Adobe
Jeff Myers is Director & Associate General Counsel, and head of the Patent Practice Group at Adobe. Jeff started at Adobe
as the company’s first patent attorney and has expanded its multi-faceted patent strategy, including asset development,
strategic investment, risk reduction, value extraction, conflict resolution, and patent policies.
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Brian Napper
Senior Managing Director - Forensic and Litigation Consulting
FTI Consulting
Brian Napper is a Senior Managing Director in FTI’s Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice in San Francisco and is
the leader of FTI’s intellectual property practice. Mr. Napper has over 20 years experience in the evaluation and
quantification of economic damages arising from patent, copyright and trademark infringement, and trade secret
misappropriation disputes. He also has extensive experience in advising client companies as to the valuation,
commercialization, licensing and management of their intellectual property assets. His clients include numerous Fortune
500 companies in a wide variety of industries including semiconductor, telecommunication, consumer products, life
sciences and computers (hardware, software and the internet). Mr. Napper’s background is in accounting, finance and
economics, and he has a specific, focused understanding of those issues integral to the valuation and management of
intellectual property.
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Beatrice Nguyen
Partner
Crowell & Moring
Beatrice Nguyen is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s San Francisco office, and is a member of the firm’s antitrust practice
group. She focuses her practice on complex litigation involving antitrust, intellectual property, and unfair competition law.
She has experience in representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation, and handles arbitration matters
and cases in federal and state courts across the country. Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, she was a partner in the San
Francisco firm, Folger Levin & Kahn LLP.
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Kimberley Chen Nobles
Partner
Crowell & Moring
Kimberley Chen Nobles is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Orange County office, and is a member of the firm's Intellectual
Property, International Business and Dispute Resolution practice groups. Ms. Nobles focuses her practice on
representing technology companies worldwide in legal, technical, strategic planning and intellectual property matters. Her
practice covers a variety of business transactions and the protection and management of intellectual property, including
patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, dispute resolution and litigation. Ms. Nobles handles and supports
complex litigation and arbitration matters internationally and across the country.
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Laura Lee Norris
Principal & Founder
General Counsel Services
Laura Lee Norris is principal and founder of General Counsel Services, a law firm in Los Gatos, California The firm
provides intellectual property, business-transaction, entity formation, and general counsel-type services to entrepreneurs,
startups, and established companies. Laura’s engineering and patent law background supplements her business law
experience, giving her a unique understanding of the issues facing entrepreneurs and company executives. As the former
Vice President of the Legal Department and Corporate Secretary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY),
Laura actively managed all legal affairs of the company through a combination of in-house and external counsel,
minimizing the company’s legal risk while maintaining a tight legal-fees budget. Prior to joining Cypress in 1999, she
was a patent litigation associate at Arnold White & Durkee in Menlo Park, California, representing a variety of high-tech
clients. Laura received her law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1997, while working full-time as a
patent agent at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California. She received her Bachelors of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1992, and worked as a design engineer at Intel before going to law school.
Laura is a member of the California Bar and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Naomi Obinata
Deputy Director, IP Division
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Naomi Obinata is a Deputy Director in the Legal Department at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. TSMC,
which is headquartered in Taiwan, is the largest semiconductor foundry in the world. Naomi's current assignment is to
provide legal services to all of TSMC North America, a wholly owned subsidiary of TSMC. Prior to TSMC, Naomi worked for
various companies in the capacity of IP Counsel including Applied Materials, Intel, Credence Systems, where Naomi
served as IP director, and at SAP. Prior to law school, Naomi worked as a process engineer. A member of both the
California Bar and the United States Patent Bar, Naomi has been practicing law since 1992. Naomi has a B.S. degree in
Chemical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D. from University of Santa Clara School of Law.
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Samir Raiyani
CEO
Dolcera
Samir Raiyani is the CEO and co-founder of Dolcera, a premier intellectual property and market research services
company serving over 50 Fortune 500 companies in the telecommunications, software, semiconductor, alternative energy,
biotechnology, medical devices, and pharmaceutical industries. He has spoken at several conferences and venues
including PIUG, SCIP, SAPPHIRE, and the World Internet Center. He has co-authored books and articles on intellectual
property, visualization, mobile technology and user interaction.
Prior to Dolcera, Samir was a Director at SAP Research where he helped launch several new initiatives in the areas of
metro wireless networks (WiFi-mesh/WiMax), RFID, sensor networking and mobile multimodality. He has a Masters
degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication
from Gujarat University.
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Sam O'Rourke
Associate General Counsel, IP & Litigation
Facebook, Inc.
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Lawrence F. Rozsnyai
Director of IP & Licensing
NovaBay Pharmaceuticals
Lawrence F. Rozsnyai is Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing at NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he is in
charge of all aspects of patent and trademark protection, and provides legal support for licensing and other business
development activities. NovaBay is based in Emeryville, CA, and is developing a new class of antimicrobial compounds,
with several programs in various stages of clinical and pre-clinical development.
Before joining NovaBay, Dr. Rozsnyai worked at Fish & Richardson, P.C., where his responsibilities included prosecuting
and managing patent dockets in the chemical and biochemical arts. Prior to attending law school, Dr. Rozsnyai worked in
business development for several biotechnology companies, where he negotiated and drafted licensing agreements and
assisted with patent protection.
Dr. Rozsnyai received his B.S. in Chemistry from U.C. Berkeley, his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and his J.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Rozsnyai is a member of the State Bar of
California, and is admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Court, Northern
District of California, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Eve Saltman
Vice President, Legal Affairs
OnLive
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Paul M. Saraceni
Chief IP Officer
RPX Corp.
Paul Saraceni is Chief IP Officer at RPX. He joined RPX in September 2008, bringing 15+ years of intellectual property law
experience, from both the private practice and in-house counsel perspectives. Immediately prior to joining RPX, Mr.
Saraceni was Vice President and Associate General Counsel, IP Strategy & Transactions, at Yahoo! Inc., where he
developed and managed Yahoo!'s patent acquisition program, led and negotiated strategic IP deals, patent licensing
transactions, and IP aspects of M&A deals and business and technology transactions. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr.
Saraceni was Senior IP Counsel for the Technology & Manufacturing Group of Intel Corporation, responsible for leading
that business unit's IP strategy and negotiations, including patent cross licenses and defense of patent assertions.
Before moving in-house, he was a partner in the Silicon Valley IP boutique law firm of Derwin & Siegel, where his practice
focused on patent transactions, due diligence, prosecution, and IP strategy for technology start-ups. Previously, Mr.
Saraceni was a patent litigation attorney in the Silicon Valley office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he represented high
tech companies in patent infringement cases before U.S. Federal Courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Mr. Saraceni holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Bucknell University, an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he was a Notes Editor of the North Carolina
Law Review. He is a registered Patent Attorney before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, a member of the state bars of
California and Texas, and a frequent speaker on the topics of IP strategy, negotiations, licensing and acquisitions.
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John Scherling
Partner
Sughrue Mion
John Scherling is a Partner in the San Diego office of Sughrue Mion, PLLC, focusing on litigation and resolution of
intellectual property disputes. He previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal and Civil
Divisions of the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California, where he handled all aspects of
litigation including jury trials, bench trials and appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr.
Scherling received numerous awards from the United States Department of Justice and the Department of State for his
successful litigation on behalf of the United States. Mr. Scherling has a technical emphasis in chemistry, as well as
biochemistry and microbiology, acquired during his undergraduate studies at Iowa State University (B.S. with Honors and
Distinction). Mr. Scherling received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University, where he was Order of the Coif and Associate
Articles Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. Following receipt of his J.D., Mr. Scherling served as a law clerk to the
Honorable Judith N. Keep in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
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Jay Sha
Partner
Liu Shen & Associates
Jay Sha is a Chinese patent and trademark attorney, and U.S. patent attorney admitted in Illinois, USA, and registered
before the USPTO. He obtained his J.D. and LL.M. degrees from John Marshall Law School, USA, and BSEE degree from
Zhejiang University, China.
Mr. Sha joined Liu Shen & Associates as a partner together with his team in 2008. He started his career in China in 1982
together with most of partners at Liu Shen & Associates, and worked at major Chinese and U.S. patent firms before
establishing Jeekai in 1998 (after ten years in the U.S.A.).
Mr. Sha has extensive experiences in various matters related to intellectual property laws, including patent and trademark
prosecutions, litigation, and administrative enforcement of intellectual property rights, as well as licensing, and
transactions. He is a frequent speaker of patent, trademark, and other IP laws. He is a member of ABA, AIPLA, FICPI,
AIPPI, LES, INTA, China Intellectual Property Society, All China Patent Agent Association, and China Trademark
Association.
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Michael Shpizner
Vice President & General Counsel
Fujitsu America
Michael Shpizner is Vice President and General Counsel of Fujitsu America, Inc. (FAI). FAI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Fujitsu Limited, a global technology leader with annual revenues of $45 billion. Mr. Shpizner currently serves as an
advisor to the Board of Directors of the San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC),
the global professional association for in-house counsel, and he is co-Chair of the Chapter’s Career Development
Committee.
Mr. Shpizner has presented CLE programs on various topics, including privacy law and e-Commerce issues, including
the Sedona Conference on Digital Privacy and Security and the Practicing Law Institute Corporate Compliance Institute.
Mr. Shpizner developed and delivered a presentation entitled “Maxims of Corporate Success” for the ACC, and published a
series of articles on that subject in the ACC’s monthly journal, the Docket. Most recently, Mr. Shpizner has presented at
CLE seminars on the topics “Managing Client Costs: Making the Unpredictable -- Predictable” and “Cost-Effective
Strategies for Defending Patent Troll Litigation.”
Prior to joining Fujitsu, Mr. Shpizner was Corporate Counsel at Adaptec, Inc., and had practiced for approximately ten years
at national law firms Proskauer Rose LLP; Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe; and Fenwick & West. Mr. Shpizner received
his J.D. from U.C.L.A.; he also holds an M. Ed. from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. from Brown University.
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Joseph Siino
CEO
Ovidian Group
Joseph Siino is the principal founder and chief executive officer of Ovidian Group. Prior to founding Ovidian, Mr. Siino
served as Senior Vice President, Global Intellectual Property & Business Strategy for Yahoo! Inc., one of the world’s
leading Internet/media companies. At Yahoo!, Mr. Siino built and managed a global team of IP professionals responsible
for Yahoo!’s large portfolio of patent, trademark and other IP assets, and personally led Yahoo!’s IP business strategy and
a wide range of international deals.
Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Siino spent approximately 20 years as an IP advisor, investor, entrepreneur and attorney. He has
managed IP deals collectively worth billions of dollars and served as IP strategist for many of Silicon Valley’s largest
technology companies, as well as a large number of startup enterprises.
Mr. Siino previously founded and ran the IP Strategy and Technology Transactions practice at Brobeck, Phleger &
Harrison, where he was listed as one of The World’s Leading Lawyers by Chamber’s Global, and also founded Siino Law
& Technology Group, an innovative IP strategy boutique that represented companies such as SAP, Intel, Sun, and
Quantum.
Mr. Siino has served many years as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he designed and
taught several courses focused on IP strategy and deals. Mr. Siino is an alumnus of both the London Business School,
where he studied finance, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a bachelors degree in physics and
a doctorate in law.
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Justin Simpson
Patent Attorney
inovia
Justin Simpson is an Australian patent attorney and the founder of inovia, a foreign filing platform focused on PCT national
stage entry and European validation. With over 750 clients, inovia is now the world’s 3rd largest coordinator of PCT
national stage entry.
Prior to starting inovia, Justin worked as a software-specialist patent attorney for a number of leading Australian attorney
firms and companies. He holds degrees in law and computer science from Sydney University and brings a global
perspective to issues related to foreign patent filing.
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Matthew A. Smith
Attorney
Foley & Lardner
Matthew A. Smith is an attorney with the Washington, DC office of Foley & Lardner LLP, and a member of the firm's
Reexamination Practice Group. He is the author of Inter Partes Reexamination, Ed. 2, published by West, a Thomson
Reuters business. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law.
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Stuart Smolen
IP Director & Associate General Counsel
Juniper Networks
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Saria Tseng
Vice President & General Counsel
Monolithic Power Systems
Saria Tseng is VP and General Counsel from Monolithic Power Systems (Nasdaq: MPWR). Over the past 16 years, Ms.
Tseng has accumulated a broad spectrum of legal expertise, from corporate transactions and licensing, to managing
complex, multi-party and multi-jurisdiction patent and trade secret litigation, as well as developing the company’s IP
portfolio. Prior to joining Monolithic, Ms. Tseng served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of
MaXXan Systems. Prior to her corporate experience, Ms.Tseng was an attorney at Gray Cary (now DLA Piper) and Jones
Day advising clients in venture financing, merger and acquisitions, initial public offerings and licensing. Ms. Tseng is a
member of the state bar in both California and New York and is a member of the bar association of the Republic of China
(Taiwan).
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Andrew Valentine
Managing Partner & Co-Chair of Patent Litigation Practice
DLA Piper
Andrew P. Valentine is Managing Partner of DLA Piper's East Palo Alto Office, and Co-Chair of the Patent Litigation
Practice. He concentrates his practice in patent, intellectual property, high technology and complex commercial litigation.
In May 2009, the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal profiled Mr. Valentine in its "Who's Who in Silicon Valley"
edition, joining other leading Silicon Valley executives nominated for their leadership. The respected research publisher
Chambers & Partners recognizes Mr. Valentine in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In May 2006,
California Lawyer magazine featured him in the article "Letter from East Palo Alto." He has been named a Northern
California Super Lawyer as the result of a joint research project conducted by Law & Politics and San Francisco
magazines. Mr. Valentine is one of the Pro Bono Coordinators for DLA Piper's Silicon Valley office.
Recent matters include:
- Tried cases for Hewlett-Packard before the International Trade Commission (Washington, DC) in spring 2005 and
spring 2008.
- Lans v. Hewlett-Packard; Uniboard v. Hewlett-Packard: Obtained summary judgment for Hewlett-Packard in patent
infringement cases; argued and prevailed in Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Cambrian v. Maxtor: Obtained summary judgment of patent unenforceability in favor of Maxtor.
- The Produce Exchange v. SBI: Obtained favorable judgment for TPE after two week binding arbitration in dispute relating
to database software.
- Hsu v. SSI: Obtained multimillion-dollar jury verdict in a trial relating to the improper re-purchase of former employee's
vested shares.
- Obtained million-dollar judgment for a high tech company in binding arbitration over a complex royalty dispute.
- Obtained multimillion-dollar judgment in a trial for a company fraudulently induced into purchasing a shopping center.
- Obtained defense judgment in trial concerning the rights and obligations of a real estate developer and a cable
television franchise under a municipal ordinance.
Obtained summary judgment for a defendant in a case alleging misappropriation of trade secrets.
- Defeated a motion for preliminary injunction in a trademark infringement case involving the use of the term "universal
server" in the computer industry.
He received his JD at Santa Clara University, and his A.B at Bowdoin College, magna cum laude, where he studied
Political Science and English.
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Dana Wagner
Senior Competition Counsel
Google Inc.
Dana R. Wagner is Senior Competition Counsel for Google Inc. Among other projects, Mr. Wagner has worked on
regulatory matters related to the proposed Google-Yahoo advertising agreement and the Google-DoubleClick merger.
Prior to joining Google, Mr. Wagner served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California.
Before that, he served as a trial attorney for the United States Justice Department's Antitrust Division, where he was
responsible for civil and criminal enforcement of federal antitrust laws. While working at the Antitrust Division, Mr. Wagner
was also an adjunct professor at U.C. Hastings College of the Law. Mr. Wagner received a J.D. degree from Yale Law
School and his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.
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BJ Watrous
Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property Licensing
Hewlett-Packard Company
BJ Watrous manages HP’s IP Licensing (IPL) group. He is responsible for helping to create and implement HP’s
intellectual property strategy and for optimizing the value realized by HP’s IP portfolio – including over 32,000 worldwide
patents. His IPL team focuses on patent & brand licensing, standards licensing, and technology transfer, as well as
patent sales and patent acquisitions. He also serves as one of HP’s advocates for patent reform in the US Congress.
Previously, Watrous served as Chief of Staff for HP’s Intellectual Property group, the team responsible for a broad
spectrum of IP-related activities at HP: patent development, IP transactions, trademarks & copyrights, and licensing. Prior
to that role, he served as IP Litigation Counsel overseeing patent infringement matters.
Before joining HP in January 2007, Watrous was a litigation attorney at DLA Piper US LLP (previously Gray Cary Ware &
Freidenrich LLP) where he specialized in intellectual property litigation. Watrous obtained his JD from the University of
California, Los Angeles in 2000 and his BA from Pomona College in 1993.
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Brian H. Way
Director of Intellectual Property Law
Altera Corporation
Brian Way is the Director of Intellectual Property Law at Altera Corporation, a Silicon Valley chip company, where he is
responsible for overseeing all aspects of acquiring and protecting the company's intellectual property. Most recently, he
spent five years as Senior Patent Counsel for Apple, Inc, where he managed outside counsel in patent litigation matters
and worked on licensing, intellectual property valuation and patent prosecution. Mr. Way joined Apple in 2002 from the law
firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco , where he was a litigator. Previously, he was with the law firm of Hughes
Hubbard & Reed in New York and clerked for a federal district court judge in the Southern District of New York.
He recently served as Chair of the Intellectual Property Owners Association Damages Committee, through which he
chaired a conference in Washington , D.C. on Intellectual Property Damages.
Mr. Way received his BS from the University of Michigan and his law degree from Columbia Law School.
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Bobbie J. Wilson
Chair of IP Litigation Practice Group
Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
Bobbie J. Wilson is Chair of the IP Litigation Practice Group at Howard Rice. She has extensive experience in intellectual
property matters, specifically patent infringement involving medical devices and software, and trade secret litigation. While
IP is her bread and butter, Bobbie's passion is trial work, no matter the subject area. Her representative clients have
included QuinStreet, NexTag, JVC and RIM. She is a frequent speaker on patent reform issues, using reexamination as a
sword and protecting trade secrets. She is currently serving as a Lawyer Representative for the Northern District. Bobbie
holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
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Angela Ziegenhorn
Director, Strategic Licensing
Symantec
Angela Ziegenhorn is Director, Legal Department for Symantec Corporation. In her role, Ms. Ziegenhorn is responsible for
providing legal support to Symantec’s enterprise business teams, with an emphasis on third party intellectual property
issues. Ms. Ziegenhorn founded, and co-chairs, Symantec’s world-wide Open Source Review Board and is actively
involved in open source issues concerning the Company’s M&A activities. Ms. Ziegenhorn also oversees the Company’s
contractual forms and policies related to the Company’s licensing of proprietary software from third parties for use in
Symantec’s enterprise products.
Prior to joining Symantec, Ms. Ziegenhorn was a managing counsel at Oracle Corporation where she managed a group of
attorneys responsible for global strategic licensing, open source, and procurement. Before joining Oracle, Ms.
Ziegenhorn practiced intellectual property litigation at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, a Silicon Valley law firm
representing many high technology clients, as well as at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe. Ms. Ziegenhorn was also a clerk
for the Hon. Judge Melvin Brunetti with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and graduated Order of the
Coif from the University of California at Davis School of Law.
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