Sir Christopher David Floyd, styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Floyd, is an English barrister and judge. He has served as a Lord Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales since 2013. Sir Christopher David Floyd was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in Natural Sciences and Law. He practised in intellectual property law from chambers at 11 South Square, Gray’s Inn from 1975 until 2007. He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1975 and became a Bencher of his inn in 2001. In 1988, he was called to the bar of the Republic of Ireland and in 1992 was appointed a Queen's Counsel. He was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1994 and a Recorder in 2000, being authorised as a deputy High Court judge and assigned to the Patents Court in 1998. On 5 November 2007, he was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Chancery Division, a nominated judge of the Patents Court and a Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2007. Whilst in practice he was a Deputy Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal (1995-2007), Chairman of the Intellectual Property Bar Association (1999-2004). From 2011 to 2016 he was an external member of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office.

On 9 April 2013, Sir Christopher David Floyd was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal and consequently appointed to the Privy Council.

Peter Meier-Beck is a Judge at the Bundesgerichtshof, the German Federal Supreme Court. 

He is a German national, born in 1955, who received his law education at the Universities of Bonn and Freiburg, taking law degrees in 1980 and 1984 and a doctorate in law from the University of Freiburg. He practised as an attorney-at-law in 1984. After stages as a judge at the Düsseldorf Land¬gericht (Regional Court) and Ober¬landesgericht (Higher Regional Court) from 1985 to 1993 he assumed the position of the Presiding Judge of Düsseldorf Regional Court's 4th Civil Chamber which acted as North-Rhine Westphalia Patent Litigation State Court. In 2000 he was appointed Federal Judge and member of the Bundesgerichtshof where, again, he deals with patent and competition (anti-trust) cases. While remaining a member of the competition law division he serves as the Presiding Judge of the 10th Civil Senate (Patent Division) since November 2010.

Peter Meier-Beck has been teaching intellectual property law and especially patent law for many years. Since February 2005 he holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Düsseldorf. 

Since leaving the bench in 2014, Prof. Rader has founded the Rader Group, initially focusing on arbitration, mediation, and legal consulting and legal education services. Judge Rader has presided over a major arbitration under ICC rules in Paris; conducted mediations to settle ongoing litigation; joined law faculty at Tsinghua University; conducted full-credit courses at leading law schools in Washington, D.C., Seattle, Santa Clara, Bangkok, Seoul, Tokyo, Munich; consulted with major corporations and law firms on IP policy and litigation; and advised foreign governments on international IP standards.  He continues to advocate improvements in innovation policy through speaking engagements worldwide. Prof. Rader was appointed to the United States Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 and assumed the duties of Chief Judge on June 1, 2010. He was appointed to the United States Claims Court (now the U. S. Court of Federal Claims) by President Ronald W. Reagan in 1988. Chief Judge Rader’s most prized title may well be “Professor Rader.” As Professor, ex-Chief Judge Rader has taught courses on patent law and other advanced intellectual property courses at The George Washington University Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and other university programs in Tokyo, Taipei, New Delhi, and Beijing. Due to the size and diversity of his classes, former Chief Judge Rader may have taught patent law to more students than anyone else. Ex-Chief Judge Rader has also co-authored several texts including the most widely used textbook on U. S. patent law, “Cases and Materials on Patent Law,” (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 3d ed. 2009) and "Patent Law in a Nutshell," (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 2007) (translated into Chinese and Japanese). Former Chief Judge Rader has won acclaim for leading dozens of government and educational delegations to every continent (except Antarctica), teaching rule of law and intellectual property law principles. Former Chief Judge Rader has received many awards, including the Sedona Lifetime Achievement Award for Intellectual Property Law, 2009; Distinguished Teaching Awards from George Washington University Law School, 2003 and 2008 (by election of the students); the Jefferson Medal from the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association, 2003; the Distinguished Service Award from the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, 2003; the J. William Fulbright Award for Distinguished Public Service from George Washington University Law School, 2000; and the Younger Federal Lawyer Award from the Federal Bar Association, 1983. Before appointment to the Court of Federal Claims, ex-Chief Judge Rader served as Minority and Majority Chief Counsel to Subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. From 1975 to 1980, he served as Counsel in the House of Representatives for Representatives serving on the Interior, Appropriations, and Ways and Means Committees. He received a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University in 1974 and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School in 1978.

Sir Robin joined the Faculty of Laws in May 2011 leaving the Court of Appeal of England and Wales to do so. Having read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, Sir Robin then read for the Bar (Grays Inn). He started practice at the Intellectual Property Bar in 1967. From 1976 to 1981 he was the Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and for all Government departments in intellectual property. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1981. His practice took him abroad often (Hong Kong, Singapore, Europe, USA, and Australia). He was appointed a High Court Judge (Chancery Division) in 1993. From 1997 to 2001 he was Supervising Chancery Judge for Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2003. He was Treasurer of Grays Inn in 2007. He continues to sit from time to time in the Court of Appeal and will sometimes act as an arbitrator or mediator.

He has written extensively on all forms of intellectual property. He often lectures, mainly but not only on IP topics, both in the UK and abroad.

Dr. Joo Sup Kim is the Presiding Administrative Judge in IP Trial and Appeal Board of Korean Intellectual Property Office, after the retirement from the vice President at the Intellectual Property Center at LG Electronics and management of the team responsible for litigation, licensing, counseling, open source, and copyrights.

Dr. Kim joined LGE in 2011 after spending several decades at other LG Affiliates (Goldstar, LG Semicon., and LG Display). Dr. Kim’s professional career in the IP industry spans almost 30 years, with extensive experience in IP litigation and licensing at LGE and LG Affiliates. He has been involved in IP matters covering a vast number of technologies, including tele-communications, consumer electronics, liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diodes, and semiconductors. Dr. Kim’s expertise includes both offensive and defensive matters through strategic litigation and licensing. He has successfully managed numerous strategic IP transactions, M&A transactions, and alliances. In 2015, Intellectual Asset Management listed Dr. Kim among the top 40 Market Makers as well as being in the World’s Leading IAM IP Strategist 300. Dr. Kim received a PhD. in law from Kookmin University, Korea, a Masters in IP law from the Franklin Pierce Law Center, US., and his Bachelor’s Degree in Electronical Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea.

Mr. Brinkman finished both law and (bio)chemistry degrees at Utrecht University in The Netherlands in 1995. After joining the bar as a solicitor/barrister in Amsterdam focussing on patents and regulatory affairs, he was appointed judge at the Court of The Hague, IP department in 2002. He became a senior judge in 2007. He has been involved in many patent and other IP cases. Mr. Brinkman speaks regularly on international IP conferences.

The Honourable Robert Shenton French was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in September 2008. At the time of his appointment, he was a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, having been appointed to that office in November 1986. 

He graduated from the University of Western Australia in Science and Law. He was admitted in 1972 and practiced as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia until 1983 when he went to the Western Australian Bar. 

From 1994 - 1998 he was President of the National Native Title Tribunal. At the time of his appointment, he was an additional member of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and a member of the Supreme Court of Fiji. 

He was also a Deputy President of the Australian Competition Tribunal and a part-time member of the Australian Law Reform Commission. From 2001 - 2005 he was president of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law. 

Chief Justice French was appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2010. He is also an International Justice of the Singapore International Commercial Court and a Non-Permanent Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

Justice French was appointed to the Court of Appeal at the DIFC Courts in 2019.

Having served as a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) judge for a decade, Theodore (Ted) Essex brings a wealth of knowledge to our intellectual property practice and clients around the globe. He has been hailed as an unofficial ambassador to intellectual property lawyers and judges throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe, and has handled some of the most important Section 337 intellectual property infringement proceedings involving the world's most valuable and renowned companies.

Ted is the only individual who has served as the president for both the Pauline Newman and Giles S. Rich American Inns of Court, which focus on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the most significant intellectual property issues. Before joining the ITC, Theodore gained experience from his time as a trial lawyer for the U.S. Air Force and a trial attorney and public defender in Ohio. 

In addition, Ted is a professional lecturer of law at the George Washington University Law School and co-authored a chapter on ITC Mediation in the ABA's book about alternative dispute resolution. He is also a registered solicitor in England and Wales.

Judge Essex has served as a lecturer in law at George Washington Law School, and legal advisor to the Sedona Conference.  He has served on panels for the ABA, ACI, and appeared at more than half a dozen law schools as a lecturer.

Jonathan Hudis is an Administrative Trademark Judge with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”).  Prior to joining the USPTO, Judge Hudis was in private practice as a partner with the national law firms Quarles & Brady LLP and Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt LLP, respectively. He also served on the Trademark Public Advisory Council (“TPAC”) of the USPTO, on the Board of directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (“AIPLA”), and was member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law Section (“ABA-IPL”). Judge Hudis received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, and a B.S. in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Albany.

Kwangnam Kim is Judge of Patent Court of Korea. He first took bench in 2010 and served as a judge at Daegu District Court and Suwon District Court. He also worked as one of the expert members of the IP Hub Court Preparation Committee, a task force team to renew the intellectual property (IP) court system in South Korea. He participated in numerous international IP meetings, including WIPO SCP, SCCR meetings, as a legal advisor. He gave lectures on trademark and patent laws to foreign PTO examiners and IP judges through training programs organized by WIPO. Judge Kim earned a Bachelor of law degree in 2005 from Yonsei University, and received an LL.M. Certificate in Law & Technology from Berkeley Law School in 2017. He also did fellowships as a visiting judge in a California Superior Court and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2017.

Education at University of Manitoba Law School, 1982. Admitted to the Bar of Manitoba in 1983 and the Bar of Ontario in 1996.  Practised as an associate with the law firm of Marcoux, Bétournay, LaBossière in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba from 1984 to 1987.  Counsel with the Winnipeg Regional Office of the Federal Department of Justice. From 1990 to 1995, counsel for Treasury Board Legal Services Unit, Ottawa. Appointed Regional Director of the Winnipeg Regional Office of the Federal Department of Justice in May 1997.  Appointed Prothonotary of the Federal Court of Canada at the Toronto Local Office, April 1, 1999. On July 2, 2003, the date of the coming into force of the Courts Administration Service Act, Prothonotary of the Federal Court.  Appointed Justice of the Federal Court, and ex officio member of the Federal Court of Appeal, on June 8, 2017.

Vishal Amin is an experienced executive leader and a globally-recognized expert on IP, trade, and tech law & policy. In 2017, he was nominated by the President and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate to serve as the White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), or “IP Czar.” In this key role advocating for American innovation, he has represented the United States as an Under Secretary level official, directing U.S. IP Diplomacy and leading trade and law enforcement delegations to advocate for American IP interests abroad. He also directed a legal and policy team, part of the National Economic Council, that advised the President and coordinated key policies among Cabinet departments. He is the first Asian American to head a component agency of the Executive Office of the President (EOP/IPEC).

For over fifteen years, Vishal has been at the center of federal intellectual property law & policy. While serving as Senior Counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, he was the lead counsel for several bills, including the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (P.L. 114-153) and the America Invents Act (P.L. 112-29). During the course of serving in two Presidential Administrations and in Congress, he wrote and helped enact major legislation in nearly all areas of intellectual property law, shaping the United States’ modern IP system to protect and grow entrepreneurship. 

Vishal holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

Aaron Belcher is a celebrated corporate and M&A attorney, having advised clients in the technology and life sciences sectors in some of the industry’s most significant transactions.

Aaron’s practice has included both domestic and cross-border acquisitions, investments, asset purchases, securities and corporate governance advice. Aaron has particular expertise advising on complex multi-jurisdictional cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures.

Prior to Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo, Aaron practiced for several years at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP’s New York and Palo Alto offices, providing corporate and M&A legal services to technology and life science clients.

Alec Schibanoff joined General Patent Corporation in 2008 and serves as the company’s Vice President of Marketing responsible for all marketing activities for the GPC Group of companies. Mr. Schibanoff is a prolific writer, having contributed dozens of IP-related articles to trade and business magazines over the last decade. In 2016, Mr. Schibanoff’s responsibilities were expanded at IPOfferings from marketing to general management of the business.

Mr. Amarjit Singh is one of the Senior Intellectual Property Law Practitioners in India. 

He started his career as an Intellectual Property Lawyer in the year 1995 and had the opportunity to represent various domestic and international clients in most contentious litigations. He was the founder partner of the Firm, Anand & Anand, Advocates and having contributed to its growth for 24 years, set up his own Law Firm, Amarjit & Associates at New Delhi and Branch Offices at Zurich (Switzerland), New York and San Jose (USA). 

Mr. Singh achieved the distinction of conducting civil and criminal cases against counterfeiters in all major districts in India during the first 10 years of his professional career. He also achieved the distinction of representing various Indian clients in litigation in more than 80 countries in the world. 

With 43 years of professional career, he has gained tremendous experience in formulating corporate strategies for the protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights of his clients, domestically as well as internationally. On account of his corporate advice and structuring of IP portfolios, many of the Indian brands are recognized as one of the international brands today.

He has been a visiting faculty to the Bureau of Parliamentary Studies, Institute of Intellectual Property Studies and Patent Gurukul. He has been a regular speaker on various aspects of Intellectual Property Laws in all national and international forums, seminars, conferences, and has authored various articles on diverse subjects researching the role of Intellectual Property in the growth of the economy. 

He is the first Indian IP Attorney who has achieved distinction of being nominated as the Senior Vice President of Asian Patent Attorneys’ Association (APAA). He is the President of the Indian Group of AIPPI as well as the Vice Chairman of Global Anti-counterfeiting Group (U.K.). 

He is a Panelist of WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre under ICANN Policy as well as with the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI). He has passed various landmark Awards concerning well-known Domain Names against Cyber Squattters.

Parallel North IP was founded by Anders Arvidsson, CEO, who has well over two decades of experience of developing, valuing and monetizing patent assets in the corporate world. As a market maker, Mr. Arvidsson has been one of the pioneers in creating the marketplace for IP transactions, which has helped to protect companies’ strategic product positions and maximize the value of their intellectual property. He constantly seeks new ways to use intellectual property as a strategic tool, and delivered  revenue captures in the range of $100-150m from various transactions to his clients. Mr. Arvidsson has negotiated 100s of transactions comprising multiple patent portfolios. Previously, Mr. Arvidsson spent 13 years at Nokia, where he headed the patent acquisition team. He has a long experience from negotiated transactions involving multiple patent portfolios. He has also been working as Vice President IPR for GN Store Nord A/S, which is developing and manufacturing medical devices for hearing impairment and audio solutions.

Ever since 2012, Mr. Arvidsson has been recognized by IAM Magazine’s list of global thought and practice leaders in IP strategy, ‘IAM 300′, representing 300 of the world’s most well-recognized IP Strategists.

Anthony (Tony) Trippe is Managing Director of Patinformatics, LLC. Patinformatics is an advisory firm specializing in patent analytics and landscaping to support decision making for technology based businesses. In addition to operating Patinformatics, Mr. Trippe is also an Adjunct Professor of IP Management and Markets at Illinois Institute of Technology teaching a course on patent analysis, and landscapes for strategic decision making. Tony is an influential thought leader in the patent analysis space, recently wrote the Guidelines for the Preparation of Patent Landscape Reports for the World Intellectual Property Organization, has been named one of the Top 300 IP Strategists by IAM Magazine, and is the author of the popular Patinformatics blog.

Tony has worked for a variety of organizations, in a number of different capacities, including: P&G where he was responsible for evangelizing the use of patent analytics for business decision, Aurigin Systems where he traveled the world working with companies of all sizes use patent analytics for competitive advantage, Chemical Abstracts Service where he was the principle architect behind the development of Analyze Plus, STN AnaVist and SubScape for SciFinder, and at 3LP Advisors where he developed methods for analyzing, and valuing patent documents, and portfolios by measuring indicators associated with their examination.

Mr. Trippe has written or contributed to IP related articles that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Washington Post and more than a dozen additional sources.

Arno is the co-founder and CEO of the University Industry Innovation Network. In his role, he oversees UIIN's events, publications and research and consulting activities. His research focusses on university-industry interaction and university engagement. Arno was a project manager and researcher on several European and national large-scale research projects on innovation, entrepreneurship and university-industry interaction. Since January 2016, Arno is the project manager of the European Commission project on the State of University-Business Cooperation in Europe, the largest study yet undertaken in this field. Arno is also the Director for Business Development at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, a research centre at the Münster University of Applied Sciences.

Mr. Nutter is the inventor, founder, and chairman of PatentBooks, Inc. He is a strategic perseverant visionary that likes to create and lead. Mr. Nutter is listed by The IP Media Group as one of Intellectual Asset Management’s “World’s Leading IP Strategists” since the publication began in 2009.

Mr. Nutter founded TAEUS in 1992 as the world’s first engineering company dedicated exclusively to managing and monetizing intellectual property. TAEUS was bootstrapped from its humble beginnings in Colorado Springs, Colorado to a global enterprise now incorporated in the US, UK, Japan, and Malaysia. TAEUS determines which of the patents in its client’s portfolios are the most valuable and proves their value via proprietary forensic engineering and accounting processes. Some of these processes have been released to the public to further enable more efficient patent licensing around the world. TAEUSworks™, the process long considered the “Gold Standard of patent evaluation,” and referred to as “the Moody’s of intellectual property” by the Wall Street Journal, was created by Mr. Nutter. The Global Patent Syndicate™ and PatentBooks both significantly improve global patent licensing efficiencies.

Mr. Nutter has been a member of the Licensing Executives Society USA & Canada since 1994, was head of the LES High Tech Industry Sector for 7 years, was Trustee of the LES USA & Canada for 7 years, was a Delegate from the US to the Licensing Executives Society International for 15 years, and was head of the LESI Communications committee for 3 years. Mr. Nutter challenges the patent licensing industry from the podium regularly at global events and is widely published. Mr. Nutter holds a BSME from the University of Akron (Ohio), an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP). He is Catholic, an instrument-rated pilot, rides a Harley Davidson motorcycle, is a certified SCUBA diver, directs music, sings in choirs and bands, and is married to Katheleen, with whom is blessed with eight children and seven grandchildren (to date).

Arundeep S. Pradhan, MS Pharm Ad., RTTP has been engaged in technology transfer for over 30 years; was at the forefront of creating the biotech burst in Salt Lake City; helped develop the first biotech roadmap for Colorado; and, helped create the first biotech incubator and the first translational research development center in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Pradhan served on the AUTM Board, was the AUTM President in 2009, and AUTM Foundation President and Board Chair in 2011. He was the interim CEO of a research tools startup and currently serves as the president of Apio Innovation Transfer (APIOiX) and as the CEO and the vice-president for business development of Practical Biotechnology, an oncology therapeutics startup. Mr. Pradhan managed technology transfer offices at the University of Utah, Colorado State University Research Foundation, and Oregon Health and Science University. He continues to work with clients across the globe.

Bart van Wezenbeek started his career in the patent field after he had worked in pharmaceutical research for more than 12 years. H had spent almost three years as a patent information specialist before he switched in 1990 to the patent attorney profession.From his biology education and pharmaceutical experience, Bart is well suited to deal with inventions in all biological and life science areas, from food and feed applications to deep sequencing and from microbiological diagnostics to gene therapy. Bart has further specific experience in plant related inventions and molecular biological diagnostics.

Brian Darville, senior counsel in the firm's Trademark & Designs practice group, has several decades of litigation experience in federal courts throughout the U.S. and decades of experience handling intellectual property protection for trademarks and copyrights both in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Darville provides comprehensive trademark, unfair competition, copyright, business, and e-commerce legal services to his clients throughout the United States and abroad. His extensive intellectual property, e-commerce and litigation experience enables him to protect and enforce his clients’ rights efficiently achieving their desired results on a cost-effective basis.

Mr. Darville has extensive experience in the areas of trademark, unfair competition and copyright, appearing before administrative tribunals and federal courts throughout the country. His trademark and copyright litigation experience includes the consumer products, automotive products, fashion, publishing, financial, and construction materials industries. He has litigated several domain name disputes under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and has handled numerous opposition, cancellation and concurrent use proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”). Mr. Darville has prosecuted and defended numerous copyright infringement disputes in courts throughout the U.S. He counsels companies regarding the use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove infringing content from web sites or to disable web sites posting or streaming infringing content online.

Mr. Darville also manages the global trademark portfolio for several clients. He is experienced in all aspects of trademark protection, including clearance opinions, prosecution and maintenance of trademarks in the U.S. and abroad. He counsels clients in all aspects of trademark and copyright law, ecommerce, licensing and litigation.

Brian Cummings is currently a Partner in Alta Global Ventures and Founder of Technium – a deep technology company builder that uses proprietary analytics to rank and curate the best inventions to solve big problems. Technium now has a large portfolio of Medtech, Biotech and High Tech companies and is expanding it’s offering to key Universities as a free service. Brian is passionate about changing the way in which breakthrough technologies get to the marketplace. And as part of that is working on a new $100 Million University IP fund. Brian was previously Vice President of Technology Commercialization at Ohio State University and President of the Ohio State Innovation Foundation.  Prior to that he was Associate Vice President of the Technology Commercialization Office at the University of Utah and Director of Commercialization at the University of Texas. Brian started KickStart Seed Fund with his partner, Paul Ahlstrom, now the most active fund in the Mountain West.

Since 1982, Mr. Tsai has indulged in experiencing all phases of intellectual property laws from preparation to prosecution and then to litigation of patent, trademark, copyright, circuit layout, trade secret, unfair competition, license and litigation before courts in this country and other countries.

Brain waves, perseverance and stamina are considered to be most important factors of a successful character.  Rich in brain waves, stiff in perseverance and exhaustless in stamina, Mr. Tsai strives for himself to keep pace with all relevant knowledge and practices relating to intellectual property laws.  Although he is self-confident enough, he always advises people that there oftentimes are kinds of traps and chances any mankind including himself might make a mistake in performing any kind of task.

Mr. Tsai is the first patent practitioner in this country who both has technological and law backgrounds and is qualified as a local attorney-at-law, and appears to be the sole one who both passed bars in technology and law.  Mr. Tsai had his marine engineering background majored in National Chiao Tung University.  He has extensively got involved in works related to mechanical, electric, electronic, civil engineering, chemical, semiconductor and medical fields.  In the course of his practice, he finished his law degree from National Taiwan University and then his master degree in comparative laws from Soo Chow University.  He leads Deep & Far to win services from more than one fifth of the top 100 national incorporations in addition to a quarter of Hi-Tech companies in the science-based industrial park located at Hsin Chu.

Mr. Tsai is admitted to practice before various courts including the ROC Supreme Court and IP Court, and before the ROC Intellectual Property Office.  He is a member of INTA, AIPLA, AIPPI and APAA.

Mr. Levitt’s 30 years of legal experience centers in the corporate sector where he has been at the forefront of intellectual property changes. As Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Dow Corning Corporation, Mr. Levitt led a global team of more than 25 employees to advance and protect Dow Corning’s diverse technologies and markets.  Previously, Mr. Levitt served as corporate counsel at DuPont and General Counsel of Solae, LLC, a joint venture by DuPont and Bunge.

Senior legal Advisor and Coordinator at the Swedish Intellectual Property Office, PRV, with focus on copyright awareness and knowledge as well as sustainable contributions in accordance with the UN Agenda 2030.

Cecilia Trevisi. Lawyer. Born in 1976. Gradueted in law from Milan University.

Member of Milan Bar Association, specialized in copyright and related rights, trademarks, Artificial Intelligence, commercial and corporate matters. She supports clients both in and out of court in all cases of infringement of industrial property rights, know-how, unfair competition as well as in the advertising sector. Over the years she has acquired specific expertise in relation to the regulation of electronic payment instruments.

She is a speaker at conferences and author of articles on copyright and industrial property law.

Member of AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property).

She is a partner of Studio Comma10 in Milan and is also present in Bologna as of Counsel at Studio Tebano Corvucci

Chanakya Jayadeva is an experienced Attorney at Law of the Supreme Courts of Sri Lanka practicing in Sri Lanka. He was called to the bar in 1997 after following a four year course in Sri Lanka Law College. In 1997 he was taken into the Chambers as Corporate Lawyer by Harvard Professor Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam in Colombo Sri Lanka. Here he was responsible for all corporate law drafting and advising Corporate Clients in both local and international contracts.

State Service

Whilst he was practicing there he was chosen to join as State Counsel to the Attorney Generals Department of Sri Lanka. From 1998 to 2005 he served in this state post and practiced in many areas of law. As State Counsel he was responsible for appearing on behalf of the government on all civil litigation in the District Court and Appellate Courts on cases filed against the state and by the state and in advising the government on legal issues on draft legislation, opinions on legal issues, and in drafting and finalizing major agreements and contracts and successfully concluding international government to government Commercial Arbitration..In 2003 he was posted as District Attorney in charge of an entire district. Here in addition to the above work, was in-charge of the entire district of Kurunegala as District Attorney to pursue litigation and advising the Districts Central government and Provincial governments organs in all its legal matters.

Private Bar and Practice

1. In the year 2005 Mr. Jayadeva joined the private bar as a private practitioner. As a private practitioner he worked as a senior Legal counsel in the field of Media Law, Broadcasting and Entertainment Law and other Commercial and Civil laws as well as working as an adviser to many institutions and individuals. His specialized areas are therefore Entertainment Law, Media and Broadcasting Law. However Mr. Jayadeva also practiced as adviser and Practitioner in District Courts, High Courts, Court of Appeal and Supreme Courts in other areas such as ;Contracts Law, Company & Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Telecommunication & Intellectual property Law, Investment Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, Labor Law, Customs & Shipping Law, Land & Property Law, Family Law & General Civil Law. In addition to appearing in courts for matters dealing in the above areas he served in the capacity of consultant adviser to many private establishments.

2. He worked on the capacity of legal managerial level at some private companies and advised such institution on all legal matters and supervised and advised on in addition their Human Resource matters.( 2005 to 2008).

3. Currently he owns and runs his own firm. ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA AND SPORTS LAW FIRM in SriLanka.

4. In 2015 he was appointed as Legal Consultant for Western Region Megapolis Project to draft new legislation to create the Megapolis Development Authority, an institute to accelerate and in mega scale develop the infrastructure of Western Region of Sri Lanka.

Accolades

Mr. Jayadeva received several accolades in his career . In 1997 soon after he passed out he was awarded the Justice Fernando Memorial Prize for legal research done and submitted on Suggestions to amend the Companies Act of Sri Lanka. He also received a World Bank Scholarship under Legal & Judicial Reforms Project (LJRP) training on Commercial Law at the City University Hong Kong. April 2002. In this course specialized on International Trade Law. In 2004 he was appointed by her Excellency to National Council of Economic Development IT section for drawing up plan to restructure IT law in Sri Lanka, to look into the legal framework under this. In 2011 he was appointed as a voluntary Independent Inquirer on all Leisure and Tourism related matters at Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, to look into all mal practices of tourism industry on reported case by case basis. In 2012 Mr. Jayadeva was chosen by US STATE DEPARTMENT to participate in special fellowship on Television Broadcast Journalism in the United States under International Leadership Visitors Program (ILVP). In 2013 he was appointed to the Ethics Committee of the Medical Research Institute Sri Lanka (MRI) to look into legal aspects of medical ethics. In 2015 he was appointed as Legal Consultant for Western Region Megapolis Project to draft new legislation to create the Megapolis Development Authority, an institute to accelerate and in mega scale develop the infrastructure of Western Region of Sri Lanka.

Publications

In his career Mr. Jayadeva despite a extraneously busy schedule authored few but important articles. The article under company law called ‘Majority rule Minority Oppression’ was published on the Attorney General’s Law review in 1998. Another article called ‘Digital Signatures, Perspectives and Problems’ was also published on Attorney Generals Law review 2001. In 2013 Mr. Jayadeva published his first book on law titled “Entertainment & Broadcasting Law for Sri Lanka” The first such book in Sri Lanka and one its kind in Asia.

Charles Boulakia is a partner of Ridout & Maybee LLP in the firm’s Toronto office. His practice is principally directed towards the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the biotechnology, chemistry, biofuel, oil and gas and pharmaceutical areas. Charles provides his clients with IP due diligence, validity, and freedom to operate opinions. Charles also drafts and negotiates license agreements and occasionally advises on food and drug regulatory law, including product labelling and advertising. 

Charles is Vice-Chair of the AIPPI Standing Committee on Pharma and Biotechnology and the Secretary of the Royal Canadian Institute for Science. He provides pro bono advice on IP law for the Law and Business Clinic at Ryerson University, volunteers on the selection committee for the Norman Esch Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award and is a mentor at the University of Toronto Entrepreneurship Hatchery.  He is on the advisory board of NeonMind Biosciences Inc., a Canadian public company.

Mr. Neuenschwander has spent the past 30+ years managing and supporting client assertive patent license negotiations and litigations for International Patent Licensing Company, Patent Solutions (both of which he co-founded), Mahr Leonard Management Company and STMicroelectronics. He personally, or through organizations he has led, has completed more than 71 adversarial IP transactions yielding hundreds of millions of US dollars in direct financial benefit to clients through royalties, judgments or other business agreements. Mr. Neuenschwander continues to direct and participate in developing licensing strategies, completing portfolio evaluations, documenting patent infringement incidents, calculating infringement damages and license royalties, and successfully concluding license agreements for clients. He has or had clients and conducted negotiations in Asia, Europe and the United States. Projects range from a single inventor with one patent to a major US defense contractor that allowed him access to more than 5,000 patents and produced three separate programs. Mr. Neuenschwander has testified as an expert or fact witness before the International Trade Commission and in Federal Courts. His licensing focus is in the areas of telecommunications, information technologies, semiconductors, consumer electronics, the internet and software. An active member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), Mr. Neuenschwander accepts speaking engagements world-wide and participates in panel discussions both for LES and at continuing legal education seminars. From 2012 through 2020 he has been named one of the world’s leading IP strategists by British-based Intellectual Asset Management (iam) Magazine. Mr. Neuenschwander is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and has served on committees that manage CLP exams and recertification. He has served on Boards of Directors for a company in the high-tech industry and for a hospice care company. He currently participates on the Board of Advisors for a high-tech company. Mr. Neuenschwander is a past US delegate to the international body of LES and has participated in Stanford Universities’ Hoover Institution’s study on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Prosperity. He gives back to the licensing community by writing and co-teaching a negotiating skills course in the US, Canada and Mexico. PUBLICATIONS: • “The Role of Assertive Patent Licensing” published by IP Law360, August 9, 2017 • “Do Patents Still Matter? Yes, Depending on Who You Are” published on IPWatchdog, February 14, 2017; and in LES Insights, Week of April 3, 2017 • “Did High-tech Titans Win the US Patent War?” published in IAM Magazine, April 2012; and on the Licensing Executives Society web site some months later • “Patent Reform is About Wealth, Who Should Have It” published by IP Law360, November 1, 2007 • “Licensing Patents in Unfriendly Waters” published in Licensing Journal, January 2004 • “Strategic Licensing in the New Economy” (co-authored with Dennis Fernandez) published in Asia Pacific Biotech News, September 29, 2003; Intellectual Property Counselor, May 2007; and Corporate Counsel’s Licensing Letter, June 2007 • “Is That Your Final Offer” published in Les Nouvelles, September 2002 • “A Negotiator’s View of Patent Portfolio Values in Negotiated Licenses” submitted at the Advanced Patent Law Institute, University of Texas, November 2000

Chiara Accornero is currently the Representative of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center at Maxwell Chambers Suites in Singapore. In her role, Chiara is responsible for the management of cross-border intellectual property and technology related disputes and promotion of WIPO Alternative Dispute Resolution services across the Asia-Pacific Region. Before joining the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva in 2016, she worked in a Turin-based law firm in the areas of intellectual property and contract law. Chiara holds a Master of Laws from the University of Turin and a Certificate in Transnational Law from the University of Geneva.

Christian is a recognised IAM 300 Global IP Strategist (2020) and has been advising both as In-House Counsel for corporates and as an IP Advisor for 20+ years. Until recently, Christian was Head of IP Solutions, EMEA at Aon and formerly held the role of Executive Director and Head of Legal, Technology, Intellectual Property and Corporate Functions, Asia Pacific at J.P. Morgan, where he responsible for legal coverage of IP, fintech, cybersecurity and other technology outsourcing and related legal matters. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Christian held various legal and non-legal roles at Standard Chartered Bank, in London and Asia, from 1999 – 2011. Based in Singapore from 2001- 2019, he has worked predominantly with and for IP-led entities and financial services and investment organizations since 1995 (in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore). Christian’s areas of IP specialism include brand and franchising, patent and IP commercialisation and licensing, FinTech/AI, e-commerce and related areas of Intellectual Property asset management and IP licensing. Christian has a Bachelor of Sciences in Pharmacology (King’s), a Dip.Intel. Prop (Bristol), is qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and holds an MBA from Fox School of Business (Temple, Philadelphia).

Christopher B. Lay represents multinational corporations in trademark opposition, cancellation, and infringement, copyright infringement, medical device patent infringement, and related litigation matters. He has represented clients in trade secret, class action, and civil rights cases, including a recent appeal in which he obtained reversal and remand for a client whom he represented before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In addition, Chris regularly counsels clients on trademark, copyright, and other transactional matters. He has taught the Intellectual Property section of legal writing at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Education:

B.M., DePaul University;

J.D., cum laude, Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Certificate in Trial Advocacy).

Admissions:

State of Illinois Bar;

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (including trial bar);

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit;

United States Supreme Court.

Chris is a founding partner of Green, Griffith & Borg-Breen LLP.  As a seasoned IP trial lawyer with over 30 years of experience in the life sciences, he concentrates his practice on pharmaceuticals, biologics, chemistry and medical devices.  As a Hatch-Waxman expert, Chris leverages his advocacy and technical skills to help clients shape successful litigation outcomes.  With a focus on litigation, he partners closely with his clients to provide strategic formulation, portfolio and pre-litigation counseling concerning IP and relevant FDA issues affecting 505(b)(1), 505(b)(2) and ANDA applications, as well as biologics (BPCIA).  With expertise gained by representing both brand and generic companies, he provides strategies and opinions directed toward attaining each client’s goals, whether this involves API and excipient selection, trade dress, formulation attributes, labeling or portfolio development, and then works with each client to execute the desired strategy – whether this involves litigation in the federal courts or other contested forums.  

Chris and his team are also skilled in inter partes reviews (IPRs), reexaminations, reissues and post-grant proceedings before the PTAB.  He also has significant experience in navigating the 505(b)(2) pathway, including advising clients on PIV certification and Orange Book issues, related FDA issues, and patent portfolio development.  Due diligence is also a strength.  Chris is also a former adjunct law professor and taught a Master's level patent law course for many years. 

Chris Thornham is a partner in the Patents Group at Taylor Wessing in London.Chris helps clients across the full range of technologies, including the Life Sciences, Chemical, Mechanical and  IT/telecommunications industries, advising on freedom to operate, product launch, patent litigation and licensing strategies.Chris seeks to find commercial solutions for his clients outside of court, but has also acted in over 20 English patent trials and appeals.  He helps clients win their infringement/validity disputes and navigate through the remedies and relief available, including interim and final injunctions, financial compensation claims, destruction of infringing products, modification of products; court declarations, publicity orders and costs awards.Chris works with colleagues, clients, patent attorneys and other lawyers to support and co-ordinate multi-jurisdictional patent advice and litigation.Chris also advises companies on patent issues in transactions and UK "Patent Box" tax issues.Chris graduated from Cambridge University in 1992 with a degree in Natural Sciences (studying physics, mathematics, chemistry and physiology and specialising in experimental physics) and qualified as a lawyer in 1996.  In 2002 he gained US patent experience working in Washington DC and California. Chris speaks and writes regularly on patent issues and is recommended for his patent expertise in various legal directories, including Legal 500, Chambers, Who’s Who Legal and Iam’s Worlds’ Leading Patent Litigators.  Chris sits on the Advisory Board of Informa’s Intellectual Property Magazine.  He is an active member of AIPPI and an associate member of the UK Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.  Chris is also a contributing author of the UK and UPC chapters of the Book "Global Patent Litigation – How and Where to Win" (2nd ed. published 2016, BBNA Bloomberg).

Prior to joining NormannPartners, for 35 years Ciarán had focused on Intellectual Property and worked under and directly with every President of the European Patent Office (EPO) where he held a wide range of senior Board positions as well as being in charge of major operational units. 

Ciarán is regarded as having a unique and comprehensive understanding of the global patent process operationally and economically. During his time at the EPO, he created the Chief Economist function, initiated the OECD working relationship and set-up the acclaimed Scenarios for the Future of Global Patenting.  

Professional Experience: Ciarán has worked with scenarios, business design and strategic renewal. Operationally, as EPO Controller (€1,5B turnover, 7,000 staff), Chef de Cabinet and Head of Department (more than 1,000 people), he has focused on management by values and operational excellence. He was a key member of the teams that successfully implemented significant efficiency and quality improvements; delivered career, well-being and social security (pensions, medical care) reform; and invested in management skills and knowledge. In terms of patenting policy, his focus has been on strategic renewal; patenting as a risk management system (from the RiskWorld scenarios jointly carried out with Shell, EDF and the UK Health and Safety Board); and networked co-operation between patent offices. His prime focus throughout has been to establish creative and open processes that co-design scenarios, strategies and offerings. Innovation, the strategic use of intellectual property and operational management are Ciarán’s main competence fields. Examples of recent activities are 1) the impact of intellectual property on digitalized value creation systems 2) visualization and prioritization of innovation initiatives with multi-dimensional benefits.

International Experience: Ciarán has lived and worked in five European countries. He has worked extensively on a wide range of policy issues with the EPO’s 38 member states at both operational and political levels. He has also worked on various assignments with the European Commission, the OECD and the EU Presidency. He was responsible for the EPO’s contribution to the first summit of the Heads of the world’s five major IP offices (US, China, Japan, South Korea, Europe) in 2007.  

Languages: English mother tongue, and very good French, Dutch and German.

Education: Since 1997 Ciarán holds a (bi-lingual) Master of Business Administration from HEC-Paris. In 1981 he received a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Bristol.

Conan currently serves as the Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Affairs for Amazon leading external advocacy efforts, outreach programs, partnerships, and initiatives in support of IP protection, unfair competition and product safety. Before Amazon, he was in charge of IP protection for a few multinational companies like L Brands, Estee Lauder, General Motors, and Robert Bosch across various industries and IP consulting firms to develop an overall IP protection strategy and deploy a cost-effective enforcement program in China and APAC. 

Conan serves as the Chair of Best Practice and Enforcement Committee of Quality Brands Protection Committee (QBPC) under China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment. He has been actively engaged in QBPC for 15+ years, thus he has an astute understanding of public policy and regulatory environment, and has developed strong working relationships with central & local governments and law enforcement authorities. The IP cases directed by him has been elected as QBPC Annual Top 10 Case for 10+ times. He is also an active member of ASIS International, Asia Crisis and Security Group (ACSG) and Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC). Conan has earned two master degrees respectively in Jurisprudence from East China University of Politics and Law, and Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Law Degree at University of Sevilla, Spain; Member of the Bar Association in Madrid, Spain; Masters (LLM) in US Legal Studies and International Law at Whittier Law School, Los Angeles, California, USA; Expert in EU Law and International Trade Law at University of West of England, Bristol, UK. 

Legal and authorized representative before World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and Spanish Patents and Trademarks Office (SPTO). 

Professor in several Masters Degrees in Universities, as for Management of Sports, Management for Paralegals, in International Commerce or Transfer of Technology.

Member of International Associations: INTA, PTMG, ASIPI, AIPPI, MARQUES, LES, AIPLA.

In 2012 Ms Casas founded CASAS ASIN, an Intellectual Property Law firm focus in Europe and Spain, for European Trademarks and Patents.

Mr. Matteo is CEO of Fulcrum Strategy, providing strategic guidance and tactical execution to realize maximum commercial advantage from innovation and intellectual property assets: from invention through monetization.

His career spans over twenty years across all facets of the strategic creation, funding, management and commercialization of high-value innovations and IP assets – all in an international context.  With an emphasis on creating commercial impact, he focuses on developing advantaged technologies that command profitable market positions.  Regularly employing vehicles such as new business creation (start-ups/spin-outs), M&A, licensing, assertion, venture/strategic funding, and novel business models, he also ensures optimal returns from these assets.  He has successfully completed transactions representing organizations in the US, Europe, and Asia, ranging from Fortune 500® companies to start-ups, universities and national laboratories.  

Additional leadership roles include: two-term Chairman of the US Patent & Trademark Office's Advisory Board; Board of the Stanford University Hoover Institution for Intellectual Property & Innovation; and the Board of the Tsinghua University IP Center. 

Professional distinctions include being named one of the "Fifty Most Influential People in Intellectual Property" by both Intellectual Asset Magazine and Managing Intellectual Property Magazine.

A recognized thought leader, Mr. Matteo is an author, subject of frequent interviews, with deep academic connections with Stanford University and Tsinghua University in Beijing.

IP, Media and Entertainment Lawyer with more than 12 years of experience in the field of Intellectual Property, Media, Advertising and Internet Law. Master of Laws (LLM) in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law at University of Southampton/UK.   Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law at PUC-Rio. Postgraduate Certificate in Entertainment Law at Rio de Janeiro State University.

Dave Deonarine handles complex intellectual property disputes, including patent, trademark and copyright disputes, in U.S. District Courts throughout the country and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).  Dave has represented diverse clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, electronics, chemical manufacturing, entertainment, apparel, food and consumer product industries.  Dave has extensive experience representing Asian clients in complex intellectual property disputes and recently obtained multimillion dollar jury verdicts for a leading Japanese chemical manufacturing client.  He also has experience in United States and foreign trademark prosecution, intellectual property due diligence and intellectual property licensing.  Dave has written and spoken extensively on intellectual property litigation strategy and patent damages, including speaking at numerous seminars in Taiwan and Japan.

David Postolski, a partner at Gearhart Law, is a registered patent attorney and Intellectual Property attorney. With over 17 years’ experience, David specializes in assisting inventors, creators, artists, start-ups, entrepreneurs, early stage companies and emerging companies with their U.S and International intellectual property strategy, protection, enforcement and monetization. David is a frequent speaker and author on intellectual property issues surrounding emerging technologies (cannabis, crypto currency, 3d printing, gig economy), raising capital, business formation, licensing, and reward and equity based crowd funding. David is also a Professor at Temple University and Parsons School of Design where he teaches master level students about IP, ethics and other regulatory considerations in starting business ventures and products around design. David is the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Officer of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property . He is the founder of their International Action Group and editor of their monthly newsletter. David splits his time between the states and Israel where he is very involved in the start up nations emerging technology initiatives.

David Smith brokers patent sale transactions representing buyers and sellers. His clients include Fortune 500 corporations in Asia, Europe and the United States.Mr Smith is also the founder and CEO of Silicon Valley Business School (SVBS) and the co-founder and director of Silicon Valley High School. At SVBS Mr Smith teaches courses on patent strategies, valuation, entrepreneurship and other topics.As Apple world marketing manager, Mr Smith was responsible for Apple’s marketing programmes in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. A pioneer of the early Internet and World Wide Web, Mr Smith was founder and CEO of SurfMonkey Inc, developer and publisher of the leading web browser and safety service for kids. As CEO of MediaLive Inc, Mr Smith designed one of the first web browsers, email and television set-top box systems. Mr Smith’s inventions have been awarded US patents and his software and multimedia products have won critical acclaim.Mr Smith authored several books: Patents, Cloaks & Daggers – Inside the Secretive Patent Trade; Dollar Value – the Valuation of Patents, Startups, Software & Other Intellectual Property Assets; and Zero-to-IPO – A Roadmap and Travel Guide for Startup Entrepreneurs, now published in Japanese as well as English. He has lectured in business schools and universities in the United States, Europe and Latin America, addressed US government congressional hearings and appeared on several radio and television shows.He holds a BSc (honours) in computer science and economics from the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), a postgraduate diploma in marketing from the University of Westminster (United Kingdom) and a JD from Santa Clara University School of Law (United States).

David W. Su is Corporate Vice President and General Counsel of MediaTek, Inc. in Taiwan.  He is in charge of MediaTek’s legal and intellectual property functions.  Prior to joining MediaTek, Mr. Su was a Senior Program Director in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.  He was the head of several legal divisions while he was with TSMC, including intellectual property and transactions.  His career as a corporate counsel was preceded by private practice at Lee & Li, Attorneys-at-Law, as a partner specializing in litigation and intellectual property laws.

Mr. Su received his LL.B. from National Taiwan University.  He also earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and an SJD from the University of Wisconsin Law School.  He was an adjunct associate professor at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University and National Tsing Hua University, where he taught contracts and trade secrets law.  He is a board member of the Taiwanese chapter of the Licensing Executives Society.

David Wanetick developed the Certified Patent Valuation Analyst designation. The CPVA program has been run in dozens of cities in North America, Europe, and Asia for nearly ten years. Hundreds of testimonials provided by many of the world’s most esteemed patent professionals are furnished at the CPVA website. 

David has valued thousands of patents, mostly in the context of transactions such as patent sales, licensing agreements, capital raises, and the sales of companies. He is the CEO of IncreMental Advantage whose clients include Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized companies, start-ups, university technology transfer offices, national laboratories, venture capital firms, and private equity investors. David is an investment banker with JD Merit.

David has published six books. The most recent titles include Solution Nation: One Nation is Disproportionately Responding to the World’s Most Intractable Problems; The Strategic Negotiator: A Manual for Negotiating at the Elite Level; and Business Model Validation: What Makes Business Models Work? David is now finishing his seventh book, entitled Plight of the Patentee.                                               

He has been a guest on CNBC, Bloomberg and CNNfn and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Barrons, Investor's Business Daily, Boards & Directors, and many other newspapers, blogs and magazines throughout the United States. His articles on Valuing Patents and Early-Stage Technologies and Negotiating Licensing Agreements have been published in Intellectual Asset Management, CEO Magazine, Licensing Journal, Willamette Insights, Valuation Strategies, IP Frontline, Technology Transfer Tactics, Inventor's Digest, The Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators, and others.

Dennis H. Cavanaugh has substantial experience assisting clients in developing and protecting their intellectual property assets, including managing international portfolios, supervising enforcement programs, anti-counterfeiting and stopping grey market goods.  His representation of multinational companies, entrepreneurs and creative individuals has included brand strategy, licensing, corporate structuring and government regulatory compliance in various countries.  He regularly counsels clients on clearing, registering, licensing and expanding their intellectual property assets in the United States and internationally.  He has advised clients on copyright, art and right of publicity ownership, use, licensing and infringement.  As a litigator, Mr. Cavanaugh has tried cases involving copyright and trademark infringement, transnational ownership of businesses and breach of contract.

Mr. Cavanaugh often acts as outside general counsel for many clients.  This encompasses coordination of local counsel and experts advising on foreign laws and regulations, corporate structuring, immigration, tax planning and compliance with U.S. government compliance, disclosure and requirements, among others.

He has appeared on entertainment and natural products industry panels and acted as a judge in Cardozo Law School’s annual intellectual property moot court competition.

Prior to practicing law, Mr. Cavanaugh was an intelligence officer, in which capacity he was responsible for managing multimillion-dollar projects with foreign government officials.

He divides his time between the United States and Europe and is an art collector and performing arts follower.

Dennis is a member of the New York Bar.

Languages: German, Italian, Spanish

Dermot Horgan assists owners protect and manage their trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets in the United States and worldwide. He is regularly called upon to help solve difficult problems and to develop solutions that work for today and for tomorrow. Dermot is frequently listed among the world’s leading Intellectual Property practitioners in publications such as IAMS and others. He is a frequent speaker on trademark and copyright issues: recent topics include The Law of Music and Video Licensing, IP Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions, The World Of Trademarks And The Madrid Protocol, And Trademark And Copyright Procurement In The United States.

Education:

B.C.L., University College Cork

Barrister-at-Law, Kings Inns, Dublin

J.D., DePaul University College of Law

Admissions:

State of Illinois Bar;

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

New York State Bar

Trial Bar in the Republic of Ireland

Desmond is FPA's Principal responsible for managing the Singapore office of FPA. He is a registered patent attorney in Singapore with a technical background in engineering. Earlier in his career, he was in-house patent counsel at a multi-national corporation dealing in consumer electronics, and was involved in setting up systems and processes for generating IP assets, optimising IP assets and managing IP costs for the corporation. Des is the current President of the Association of Singapore Patent Attorneys (ASPA) after serving multiple terms as their secretary. His current role as the President of ASPA ensures that he has regular engagement opportunities with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, and it also gives him a seat on the examination board for the qualification examinations for patent attorneys in Singapore.

Mr Dixon Soh is the Head of Legal and Deputy Director (IP Strategy Solutions) of IPOS International, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). Dixon has practised law as a private practitioner, in-house legal counsel and now as a lawyer in the public sector. Over the years, he has advised numerous entities including MNCs and SMEs across many different industries, such as information technology, e-commerce, fintech and media. Dixon is very familiar with the challenges experienced by businesses throughout South-east Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 

Prior to joining public service, Dixon was serving one of the fastest growing ‘Unicorns’ in South-east Asia as an in-house legal counsel specialising in the area of intellectual property and commercial dispute resolution.

Dixon is a graduate of the University of Tasmania and holds qualifications to practise law in Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Dixon has recently been acknowledged in “IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists” rankings.

Doris is an international growth and product executive who founded, developed and led a number of IP and legal tech B2B/B2C SaaS products. She is a co-founder of Ambercite (patent discovery and analytics) and Truced (B2B/B2C divorce app) and former GM of leading industry products Filing Analytics (BD for IP law firms), WiseTime (autonomous timekeeping for law firms). Prior to her time at CPA Global as Director for Law Firm Analytics, where Doris led the integration and development of a number of IP firm products, including the acquired Filing Analytics, she managed the growth and later divestment of the IPH Group’s (Spruson & Ferguson, AJ Park…) Practice Insight portfolio of B2B legal tech and analytics products. 

Based in Sydney, Australia, Doris spreads her time and passion outside of IP, across surfing, beach tennis and the arts. In pre-Covid time this list would have included international travel!

Douglas currently is CEO of Ideation Inc that has built a software tool that allows any organization to build their own white labelled innovation ecosystem.  Prior to this he restructured Circle Trust an $8.5 billion bank and stayed on as Chairman and CEO through three successive owners. He was a Managing Director at KPMG responsible for Financial Services, e-Commerce and CyberSecurity and led several large industry infrastructure projects including NetAid (1700 servers in five continents), Furs.com, NICC (Newspaper Industry Clearing Center) and OASIS that deregulated the wholesale electrical industry and for which he won a Gartner award.  He has written two books for Wiley – the first Building the Corporate Intranet on secure Internet architectures that was translated to three languages and Ideation: The Birth & Death of Ideas that was well reviewed by Carl Icahn and Lee Iacocca.  Inventor on five patents (one with 260 citations).  He is interested in innovation management, Big Data analytics, cybersecurity, funds management, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.

Dr. Abiola A.A.Inniss  Ph.D. LLM, ACIarb, DTM is the Founding Director of the Caribbean and Americas Intellectual property Organization.-CAAIPO dedicated to research and practical development of intellectual property rights and policies in the Caribbean. She received her education at Walden University U.S.A in Law and Public Policy and DeMontfort University School of Law U.K.

Abiola is the leading analyst and author on Caribbean Intellectual Property and the founder of the Caribbean Law Digest Online. She is the author of :

Copying, Copyright, and the Internet: The issue of internet regulation with regard to copying and copyright,2011, 

ISBN-10: 3844315969

 Essays in Caribbean Law and Policy: A comprehensive Discourse, 2011, 

ISBN-10: 3844331476

 Public Speaking Skills: Tips to becoming a competent presenter 2011.

ISBN-10: 3845414529

Available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.

She is also a law teacher, ADR practitioner and presenter who has written extensively on Caribbean IP law and other areas of Caribbean law. published articles, issue briefs, and academic papers. She has lectured and presented papers in the Caribbean, the United States of America, and internationally on Caribbean Intellectual Property Law and Policy, reviewed conference papers and conducted research. 

Abiola maintains an active international practice in mediation, and IP consultancy and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK. She is a New York State mediator, a mediator of the Guyana Supreme Court and a special consultant to WIPO UN on Caribbean Copyright issues. 

Dr. Abiola Inniss is a Distinguished Toastmaster, having attained the highest award given by Toastmasters International in recognition of speaking and leadership excellence. She was inducted into the Phi Alpha Alpha international society for excellence in public policy and administration in December 2014.

Dr. Anke Nestler is publicly appointed and sworn expert for company valuations as well as for the valuation of intangible assets (CCI Frankfurt am Main), Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), and Managing Partner of VALNES Corporate Finance GmbH in Frankfurt am Main. 

She mainly focuses on company valuations and on the valuation of intangible assets, licence valuations, advice on appropriate licensing, and has extensive experience with valuations for measures under stock corporation law, in restructurings and in succession. 

Her expertise includes advice in corporate transactions and M&A, court and expert opinions, arbitration reports and as expert witness in litigation cases.

Dr Nestler chairs the IP Valuation Committee of LES Germany, is Vice Chair of the LES International IP Valuation Committee, member of the advisory board of MARKABLES, of the CCI expert panel "Business Valuation", listed expert of WIPO, member of EACVA, and also of IPDR. 

She regularly speaks and writes on various valuation issues to both academic and practitioners’ audiences.

Cameron McCoy is the AVP for Economic Engagement at Lehigh University.  He is responsible for developing and executing an integrated strategic plan for the Lehigh’s economic engagement functions, including Industry Engagement, Non-profit Engagement, Career & Professional Development, Federal Agency – Industry – Lehigh relations, Research Park assessment, and elements of Technology Transfer and Economic Development. His Ph.D. work focused on economics and educational administration evaluating university organizational approaches to economic engagement. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors for the Kiss Institute of Practical Robotics, the Association of University Research Parks, the American Red Cross of the Lehigh Valley, the Accreditation Council for the Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities (ACEEU), and the University-Industry Innovation Network. McCoy is also active on numerous Higher Education and Economic Development Committees including IEDC, AURP, and the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. A frequent speaker on the Triple Helix of Higher Education, he is on the editorial board for University-Industry Magazine and served as an AVP for the Association of University Technology Managers, on the Board of Directors of the Network of Academic Corporate Relations Officers, and on the Board of Advisors for the Greater OKC Chamber. An OU-EDI graduate, he was recognized in 2012 as one of Norman, Oklahoma’s 15 under 40, in 2013 as one of the IEDC 40 under forty in Economic Development internationally, and in 2014 was named to Oklahoma Magazine’s 40 under 40 list.

Christian Wende is German and European Patent Attorney and Partner of DTS Patent and Trademark Attorneys.

He studied Mechanical Engineering with focus on Medical Engineering and Micro Engineering at Technical University of Munich (TUM). He also earned a doctorate in Medical Engineering from Technical University of Munich for his studies in connection with the development of a new Liver Dialysis System. Also, he is Master of Laws (LL.M., Fernuniversität Hagen, Europäischer Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz).

Christian Wende is active in prosecution and litigation as well. He represents domestic and international clients especially in the fields of Mechanical Engineering and Medical Engineering. His track record includes relevant patent litigation cases, opposition and invalidity actions, Due Diligence and FTO work for reknown investment companies in connection with investments in High Tech StartUps and prosecution work for Venture Capital funded StartUp Companies. 

Christian Wende is lecturing patent law at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and is also member of FICPI and active in the FICPI working group CET 4.

Dr. Clemens-August Heusch, LL.M. is Vice President at Nokia and heads the Global Litigation and Disputes Team. He is responsible for litigation, arbitration and mediation globally with a strong focus on multinational IP litigation and licensing (FRAND) arbitrations. Since 2008 Nokia has been involved in more than 200 patent cases worldwide against companies such as Apple, HTC, Blackberry, InterDigital, Qualcomm, Daimler, Intellectual Ventures, IPCom, KPN, Daimler, Lenovo and others. Those patent cases related to implementation patents as well as to standard-essential patents relating to GSM, UMTS, LTE, H.264, WiFi, NFC and others.

Before joining Nokia, Clemens was an attorney at law at the international law firm Bird & Bird LLP (2004 to 2008) in Düsseldorf. He studied law at the Universities of Freiburg and Bonn, holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Maastricht and a doctorate from the University of Cologne. During his traineeship, he worked (among others) in the competition law team of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Cologne and Brussels.

Clemens is a registered lawyer at the Cologne Bar and is a certified IP lawyer. Fluent in German, English and French, he regularly presents and writes on a range of legal topics. He is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and was appointed to the AIPPI Standing Committee on Standards and Patents. He is also a member of the board of the German AIPPI group, the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and the Licensing Executives Society. He also is a member of Licensing Executives Society (LES) and the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR). 

Dr. Corinna Sundermann is Senior Vice President of Intellectual Property at Fresenius Kabi. Her responsibilities include the IP aspect of generic launches, but also IP protection of Fresenius Kabi’s business in clinical nutrition, drugs, standard solutions, and medical devices. She has built up Fresenius IP department starting in 2008, including an active in-house European opposition team. Dr. Sundermann started her career in the innovator industry, holds a diploma in chemistry (Frankfurt am Main) and a Ph.D. from the University of Jena.

Dr. Kiehne is an internationally recognized and multiple awarded expert and researcher in IP valuation. After his study of Medical and Mechanical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen/Germany and the New York University he joined Dornier Medical Devices in Munich. He then joined the Fraunhofer Group – Europe’s biggest applied research organisation - from where he co-founded the Spin-off InTraCoM GmbH in the year 2000 he is also CEO of. In 2014 he jointly founded the IP-Business Information B.V. in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He did his PhD thesis in innovation management and has 20+ years of experience in patent valuation and in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) generally. Dr. Kiehne’s research focus is on intellectual property valuation, here to develop efficient and reliable methodologies. He developed a methodology to get patents rated and monetary valuated full automatically based on an indicator based mathematical similarity algorithm. This method can be enhanced by additional manual indicators. Within InTraCoM he performed more than 300 different valuation projects with each up to 2000 to be valued patents personally. He is actively publishing in the field of patent valuation as well as the application of patent values in different scenarios, he also runs with InTraCoM the patent valuation blog "Patent Insider" which is listed among the 100 most popular ones worldwide. Dr. Kiehne belongs to the IAM300 international most acknowledged IPR Experts. He aims at developing applications for efficient IP data sourcing and IP valuation where he received multiple awards.

Dr. DJ Nag is the Chief Partnership Officer at Ventech Solutions, a healthcare technology company that manages quality data for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  He also leads Innovaito LLC an intellectual property strategy and patent monetization company. He has successfully led Ohio State University, Rutgers University and University of Nebraska’s technology transfer operations that included licensing, startup and investments. As an entrepreneur he led a number of start-ups in the intellectual property strategy, artificial intelligence, and medical device space. As a consultant in patent monetization and intellectual property strategy he has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, universities, and national governments. He was a Director of Ocean Tomo and a Vice President at ICAP Ocean Tomo leading patent transaction markets. He was recognized as one of the top IP strategists by IAM300 in 2019. DJ was on the Board of AUTM from 2012-14 focused on educating the members around world the importance of technology transfer and intellectual property. He is widely recognized as a global intellectual property strategist working with government and universities in Poland, Japan, India, Turkey, Brazil, South Korea, Ukraine and many other countries. Currently he teaches intellectual property strategy and negotiations as a Professor of Practice at Rutgers University and a Visiting Professor at Shizuoka University. He volunteers as the first Executive-in-Residence at the Dublin City Schools leading a startup academy for high school students and serves on the foundation board at the Dublin Methodist Hospital.

Dr. Fritz Wetzel is a German and European Patent Attorney who graduated in 2000 in Chemistry from the University of Munich and received his doctorate in Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry in 2004. He was co-founder of LambdaChem GmbH, a chemistry company, in 2002 and was the winner of the Munich Business Plan Competition 2003. Within his company he gained professional experience as director of research and development in the field of dyes and polymers and was responsible for IP matters of the firm. He has long-standing experience in patent drafting, prosecution, litigation, opposition and nullity proceedings as well as in trademark law.He has practiced Intellectual Property law since 2002 with a focus on Chemistry related topics, in particular organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, plastics technology, pigments and dyes, liquid crystals, biochemistry, bioorganic chemistry, and pharmaceuticals. He is admitted to the European Patent Office, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court and the German Supreme Court for nullity proceedings. He is also a registered European Trademark and Design Attorney. He is a member of EPI, AIPPI, PTMG, INTA and FICPI and is honorary member and CFO of Kompetenznetzwerk IP e.V.

Dr. Gerold Schick works as Director European Patent Litigation in the Fresenius Kabi Intellectual Management Department. His responsibilities include providing IP support to the business unit Enteral Nutrition with a strong focus on opposition and appeal work before the EPO. Dr. Schick started his IP-career in 1998 working in Munich-based patent-law firms, qualifying as a German and European Patent Attorney, and has worked as in-house counsel in the pharmaceutical innovator industry before joining Fresenius Kabi in 2017. Dr. Gerold Schick holds a diploma in chemistry and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry, both from the University of Bonn. 

Dr. Hans Joachim Fuchs, engineer and economist (Ph.D.), is Managing Partner of the German IP service provider CHINABRAND IP CONSULTING GMBH. His focus is on the protection of IP and know-how in China and Asia.  

Dr. Fuchs has been working in China and Asia for 20+ years and advises well-known European trademark companies (B2B and B2C) on their business in China and Asia. Beside China, he has a focus in Vietnam and Indonesia. 

Previous professional stations: Director at Deloitte, Member of the Board at Braxton Associates, Vice Director of Swiss Prognos AG, and Manager at German Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt. Dr. Fuchs has published three books on China.  

Dr Hashimoto has a doctorate from the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University and his professional background includes: Correns Corporation; Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology; and a private German nonferrous metals company. He has conducted research on heat transfer accompanying phase changes (boiling, condensation). Furthermore, he has experience in consulting and sales of optical measuring machines, research and development of next generation nuclear reactors, making use of the supercritical carbon-dioxide (CO2) loop, and production and distribution of nonferrous metal powders. As a patent attorney, Dr Hashimoto specializes in general machinery, fluid machinery, heat exchangers, optical fibres, and control systems. Dr Hashimoto has also worked in Germany on an overseas assignment.  Dr Hashimoto regularly presents lectures on a wide range of IP topics at foreign IP organizations such as BPLA, ACCJ, and IPLAC.

Ian is a European and UK patent attorney and founder of Assimilate IP which provides IP training and consultancy services.  Before entering the patent profession Ian spent many years as an R&D scientist/team leader within the Life Sciences area, where he became increasingly involved in patents as an inventor and from a freedom to operate perspective. 

Ian has 20 years' experience as an IP professional, initially working in private practice before moving to an in house role within a global healthcare company where he provided strategic IP support for its Research Tools and Cell & Gene Therapy businesses.  During this time, Ian's focus was largely on third party matters, such as IP strategy, licensing, freedom to operate and M&A activities, as well as opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office.  Through Assimilate IP, Ian now provides independent IP training and consultancy services largely to clients within the Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical fields.