13th Advanced Forum on

Biotech Patents

Practical Strategies for Prosecuting and Litigating Biotech Patents in a Rapidly Shifting Legal Environment

Wednesday, November 30 to Thursday, December 01, 2011
Omni Parker House, Boston, MA

Immac Thampoe, Ph.D.
Managing IP Counsel, Biologics
Merck & Co., Inc. (Kenilworth, NJ)

Brian Coggio
Senior Principal
Fish & Richardson, P.C. (New York, NY)

Graham Jones, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Professor and Chair
Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, Northeastern University (Boston, MA)

Gerald Flattmann
Partner
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, L.L.P. (New York, NY)

Jeffrey Kushan
Partner
Sidley Austin, L.L.P. (Washington, DC)

Teresa Rea
Deputy Under Secretary of Commercefor Intellectual Property and Deputy
Director, US Patent & Trademark Offi ce (Alexandria, VA)

Matthew Beaudet, Ph.D.
Patent Attorney
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc. (Cambridge, MA)

John Iwanicki
Partner
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. (Boston, MA)

Peter Ludwig
Principal
Fish & Richardson, P.C. (New York, NY)

Gonzalo Merino, Ph.D.
Associate General Counsel
Columbia University (New York, NY)

Rochelle Seide, Ph.D.
Former Vice President,
Intellectual Property Biovail Laboratories International SRL (Barbados, West Indies)

Hans Sauer, Ph.D., J.D.
Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property
Biotechnology Industry Organization (Washington, DC)

Steven Lendaris
Special Counsel
Baker Botts, L.L.P. (New York, NY)

Paul Wolfson
Partner
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, L.L.P. (Washington, DC)

Christopher Verni
Senior Patent Counsel
Genzyme Corporation (Waltham, MA)

Nicholas Boivin
Director, Intellectual Property Counsel
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Lexington, MA)

Heather Boussios
Intellectual Property Counsel
Emergent Biosolutions, Inc. (Rockville, MD)

Joshua Elliott
Shareholder
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione (Research Triangle Park, NC)

Jeffrey Kopacz
Senior Patent Counsel
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA)

Leora Ben Ami
Partner, Co-chair, Intellectual Property Practice
Kaye Scholer, L.L.P. (New York, NY)

Kevin Noonan, Ph.D.
Partner
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff, L.L.P.(Chicago, IL)

Cameron Weiffenbach
Of Counsel
Miles & Stockbridge, P.C. (McLean, VA)

Warren D. Woessner, Ph.D.
Founding Shareholder
Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. (Minneapolis, MN)

Bert Oosting
Partner
Hogan Lovells, L.L.P. (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

David Resnick
Partner; Co-Pratice Group Leader
Nixon & Peabody, L.L.P. (Boston, MA)

Margaret M. Buck
Head of Section, US Legal Affairs & Patents
Lundbeck Research USA, Inc. (Paramus, NJ)

Gillian Fenton
Vice President of Intellectual Property
Emergent Biosolutions, Inc. (Rockville, MD)

Krishna Sarma
Attorney
Corporate Law Group (New Delhi, India)

Michael Wise
Chair, China Intellectual Property Practice
Perkins Coie, L.L.P. (Los Angeles, CA)

 

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