THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7
- IN PERSON MEETING CONTINUES -

8:30 AM
Check In & Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 AM
Strategies for Improving Patent Quality - IN PERSON & LIVE STREAMING
- How did patent filings fare during Covid19?
- What can companies do to help improve patent quality?
- How are companies working with patent examiners to train them on new technologies?
- How do you submit an application that meets the USPTO's criteria?
- How are companies approaching USPTO modernization?

Speakers:

**STEPHEN KOZIOL**
Acting Regional Director, Silicon Valley
USPTO

**DEV NARASIMHAN**
Patent Portfolio Manager
**CoMotion at University of Washington**

**TRAVIS THOMAS**
Partner
**Baker Botts**

**WADE YAMAZAKI**
Staff IP Counsel
Cruise

10:00 - 11:00 AM
Expanding Innovation and Productivity through Diversity Initiatives - IN PERSON & LIVE STREAMING
Diverse teams offer different perspectives that enable companies to innovate and build products that meet the needs of diverse consumers. But how do we successfully build diverse teams? How do we empower all members of our teams to contribute? Why is it important to hire diverse outside counsel? This panel will address:
- How did diversity initiatives play out during Covid?
- Does working from home help or hinder diversity in innovation?
- Are companies doing anything differently to engage diverse inventors?
- How are law firms and companies faring in their efforts to hire diverse attorneys?
- Even after you hire diverse candidates, how do you keep them?
- What initiatives are companies and law firms introducing to hire and retain diverse attorneys?

Speakers:

**RAPHAEL GUTIERREZ**
Senior Director, IP
**Uber**

KARINEH KHACHATOURIANOffice Managing Partner Rimon Law — **KARINEH KHACHATOURIAN**
Office Managing Partner
**Rimon Law**

CHARU KURANI Associate General Counsel, Patent Development & Operations Team Lead Facebook — **CHARU KURANI**
Associate General Counsel, Patent Development & Operations Team Lead
**Facebook**

11:00 - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Open Source and the Business Process Behind It - IN PERSON & LIVE STREAMING
- How do you quantify risk when there is little open source litigation?
- Is there an industry standard tool for open source compliance?
- How do you formalize the process of contributing to open source projects? How do you open source your own projects? How do you make sure you have the right stakeholders involved? How do you track the approval process?
- What organizational structures can you put in place to run open source and make policy decisions on a high level and a case by case basis?
- Who approves open source projects? how do you track an action item?
- How do you decide if it has been security approved? Who needs to approve it?
- What is your process for deciding if it is a good business decision to open source a piece of code? who decides? what are the factors you need to think about?
- How do you articulate a a policy that makes sense for your engineering teams?

Speakers:

**RENEE BROWN**
Director of IP
**LinkedIn**

**JAMES DECARLO**
Partner
**Greenberg Traurig**

**MICHAEL MARTIN**
Associate General Counsel & Head of Patents
**Verizon Media**

**DALPREET SALUJA**
Lead Counsel, Products & Technology Transactions
**Cruise**

SUE XIA Senior Counsel - Patents and Open Source Walmart — **SUE XIA**
Senior Counsel - Patents and Open Source
Walmart

12:15 - 1:15 PM
NPE Litigation & Risk Mitigation Tools - IN PERSON & LIVE STREAMING
What are recent trends in NPE litigation? How are companies responding? What are the pros and cons of the various risk mitigation tools?

Speakers:

SARAH MACDONALD Senior Corporate Counsel, Litigation Oracle — **SARAH MACDONALD**
Senior Corporate Counsel, Litigation
**Oracle**

ERIN MEHTA Senior Counsel, Litigation & Patents Hulu/Disney — **ERIN MEHTA**
Senior Counsel, Litigation & Patents
**Hulu/Disney**

**BRYAN SINCLAIR**
Senior Director, IP Litigation
**Cisco**

**CARRIE WILLIAMSON**
Partner
**DLA Piper**

1:15 - 2:15 PM
Networking Lunch

2:15 - 3:15 PM
Auto & Transportation Industry Meeting - IN PERSON
Join IP Counsel from the auto and transportation industry for an open discussion on the issues facing the industry and how companies can work together to further industry goals. Cruise and Uber will discuss the Allied Transportation Association, a non-profit automotive/transportation industry working group for operating companies.

Speakers:

**KURT BRASCH**
Director of Patent Transactions
**Uber**

VINCENT SPINELLA-MAMO Senior IP Counsel Zoox (to be confirmed) — **VINCENT SPINELLA-MAMO**
Senior IP Counsel
Zoox (to be confirmed)

PEGGY SU Head of IP Nuro — **PEGGY SU**
Head of IP
**Nuro**

4:00 - 5:15 PM
Palo Alto Walk
Join us for a 3-mile Palo Alto walk to see the Barron Park Donkeys! Meet the donkey behind the donkey in “Shrek.” This walk will take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes round-trip from the Crowne Plaza Palo Alto. Walking shoes are recommended.

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