The Comprehensive Guide to

Patent Reform

The critical industry forum on The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Wednesday, January 23 to Thursday, January 24, 2013
Doubletree Suites Times Square, New York, NY

Allen R. Baum
Chair of the Chemical Practice Group
Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione, P.C. (Morrisville, NC)

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

Michele A. Cimbala, Ph.D.
Director
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. (Washington, DC)

Bryan C. Diner
Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P. (Washington, DC)

Mary Catherine DiNunzio
Head of Global Patent Alliances
H. Lundbeck, A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Frank W. Forman
Senior Patent Counsel
Astellas Pharma US, Inc. (Farmingdale, NY)

Thomas Giannetti
Patent Administrative Judge
United Stated Patent & Trademark Office (Alexandria, VA)

Adda Gogoris
Partner
Merchant & Gould, P.C. (Washington, DC)

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

Michelle Lewis
Vice President of Intellectual Property
Molecular Templates (Newark, NJ)

Scott McBride
Shareholder
McAndrews, Held, and Malloy, Ltd. (Chicago, IL)

Mercedes Meyer, Ph.D.
Partner
Drinker, Biddle, & Reath, L.L.P. (Washington, DC)

Kenneth F. Mitchell, Ph.D.
Patent Attorney
AstraZeneca (Wilmington, DE)

Wesley Nicolas
Intellectual Property Counsel
Novo Nordisk, Inc. (Princeton, NJ)

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

Lisa Barons Pensabene
Partner
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, L.L.P. (New York, NY)

Stephen Perkins
Associate General Counsel IP
Covidien Surgical Solutions (Boulder, CO)

Kimberly Prior
Senior Counsel
Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc. (Nutley, NJ)

Maggie Shafmaster, Ph.D.
Vice President, Chief Patent Counsel
Sanofi Pasteur (Cambridge, MA)

Eric J. Sosenko
Shareholder
Brinks, Hofer, Gilson, & Lione, P.C. (Ann Arbor, MI)

Janet Gongola
Patent Reform Coordinator
United States Patent and Trademark Office (Alexandria, VA)

Suzannah Sundby
Partner
Smith, Gambrell, & Russell, L.L.P. (Washington, DC)

John Todaro
Managing Counsel - Patents
Merck (Rahway, NJ)

MaCharri Vorndran-Jones
Patent Counsel, Diabetes/Endocrinology
Eli Lilly & Co. (Indianapolis, IN)

Harold C. (Hal) Wegner
Partner
Foley & Lardner, L.L.P. (Washington, DC)