Thank you to our Palo Alto 2020 Speaking Faculty
Hear from 80+ IP Counsel
(updated September 7, 2020)

BRETT ALTEN, SVP & Deputy General Counsel, Chief IP Counsel, HPE

NICK ARIES, Partner, Bird & Bird

JOHN AMSTER, Founder & CEO, Rowan TELS

ARCHANA BHUTA, Head of IP Legal, Associate General Counsel, SRI International

RUSS BINNS, CEO, Allied Security Trust

JARED BOBROW, Partner & Co-Chair of Global IP Practice Group, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe

MARC BREVERMAN, Senior Litigation Counsel, Apple

KEVIN BROWN, Vice President of IP, Recursion Pharma

RENEE DUBORD BROWN, Director of IP, LinkedIn

JOHN BYRNES, Associate Technical Director, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International

XIAO CHANG, Senior Corporate Counsel, Cisco

ALEX CHEN, Patent Counsel, TikTok

WILL CHENG, Patent Counsel, Lyft (to be confirmed)

MICHAEL CHERNOFF, Director, IP Strategy & Portfolio Management, Murgitroyd

MARK COHEN, Director, Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

JAMES DECARLO, Partner, Greenberg Traurig

ELENA DIMUZIO, Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation & Regulatory, Dropbox

JEFF DRAEGER, Vice President, Director of Patent Group, Intel

DAVID DUTCHER, Chief Patent Counsel, Western Digital Corporation

WILLIAM (SKIP) FISHER, Partner, DLA Piper

DAVID FOSTER, Principal Counsel, ESPN, The Walt Disney Company

TROY GRABOW, Associate General Counsel, IP & Product, PAX Labs

MANEESH GUPTA, Patent Counsel, Roche

SARAH GUSKE, Partner, Baker Botts

RAFA GUTIERREZ, Director of IP, Uber

ELAINE HARWELL, Senior Counsel, Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch

BRADLEY HULBERT, Partner, McDonnell Bohnen Hulbert & Berghoff

PAUL HUNTER, Partner & Co-Chair of Electronics Practice, Foley & Lardner

JENNIFER JOHNSON, Associate General Counsel, DuPont

RABIYA KADER, Senior Patent Counsel, Sanofi

STEFANOS KARMIS, Director, Office of Patent Quality Assurance, USPTO

PIERRE KEELEY, Director of IP, Snowflake

SARA KERRANE, Lead IP Counsel, Glaukos Corporation

CAREN KHOO, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Verizon

PETER KIRK, Chief IP Counsel, IQVIA

KEN KOREA, Senior Vice President & Head of Silicon Valley IP Office, US IP Center, Samsung Electronics

DIANE GABL KRATZ, Senior IP Counsel (former), Seagate Technology

ADAM KUBELKA, Chief IP Counsel, Lumentum

JOSEPH KUCERA, Director, IP Strategy, Pure Storage

CHARU KURANI, Associate General Counsel, Patents, Facebook

DEANNA KWONG, Senior IP Litigation Counsel, HPE

CHIA-HAO LA, Managing Counsel, Waymo

CHRISTINE LAM, Director of IP, NetApp, Inc.

PETER LAM, Director of IP, Extreme Networks

SCOTT LANE, Patent Attorney, Intel

JENNIFER LANGENBERGER, COO, Penn Center for Innovation

STEPHEN LEE, Chief IP Counsel, Target Corp.

MARK LEMLEY, William H. Neukom Professor of Law & Director of Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stanford Law School

LILY LIM, Director of IP, Service Now

JONATHAN LIU, Associate General Counsel, Patents, Facebook

MARIE MACNICHOL, Senior Director, Patent Licensing, Dolby Laboratories

CEYDA MAISAMI, IP Director, Global Legal Affairs, HP

THOMAS MALONE, Corporate IP Counsel, DuPont Industrial Biosciences

MICHAEL MANGELSON, Senior Counsel for China IP, USPTO

ERIC MASCHOFF, Partner, Maschoff Brennan

PHIL MCGARRIGLE, Senior IP Counsel, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

JOAN MCGILLYCUDDY, Director, New Avon

ERIN MEHTA, Counsel, Litigation & Patents, Hulu

MIKU MEHTA, Partner, Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch

SANJEEV MEHTA, Associate General Counsel, Verizon

MICHAEL MOORE, Associate General Counsel, Pure Storage

PETER O’ROURKE, Managing Counsel, Oracle

MICHELLE PARK, Senior Director, Product & lP, Snowflake

SCOTT POJUNAS, Team Lead, Patent Engagement Readiness, Google

ERIK PUKNYS, Partner, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner

KENT RICHARDSON, CEO, Richardson Oliver Insights

MEHUL SHAH, Senior IP and Patent Counsel, Juniper Networks

GEORGE SIMION, Associate General Counsel, Senior Director of IP, Palo Alto Networks

MICHELE SIMKIN, Partner& Chair of IP Group, Foley & Lardner

BRYAN SINCLAIR, Senior Director, IP Litigation, Cisco

KAREN SINCLAIR, Director of IP, Harvard University

PETER SU, Chief IP Officer, Moley Robotics

Ryan Strom, IP Counsel, Target Corp.

FREDDY THIEL, VP of San Francisco Liaison Office, Kilburn & Strode

JOANNA THURSTON, Partner, Withers & Rogers

ANUP TIKKU, Associate General Counsel, PayPal

OLIVIA TSAI, Head of IP, Cruise

VAISHALI UDUPA, Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Litigation, HPE

NIKKI VO, Associate General Counsel, IP Litigation, Facebook

THANH VUONG, Head of IP, Synaptive Medical

NAOMI WALTMAN, Executive Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Litigation, CBS Interactive

CYNDI WHEELER, Director of IP, Slack

GILBERT WONG, Associate General Counsel, Patents, Facebook

BRENT YAMASHITA, Partner, DLA Piper

JENNIFER YOKOYAMA, Deputy General Counsel, IP Group, Microsoft

ERIC ZAISER, Patent Counsel, Google

DAVID ZAMORA, Patent Counsel, Roche

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