Speakers

Conference Co-Chairs

Tom Irving

Partner
The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

Forrester Liddle

Head of IP and Legal, US R&D
Novo Nordisk

Government Speaker

Charles Kim

Deputy Commissioner for Patents
United States Patent and Trademark Office

Hon. András Kupecz

Legally Qualified Judge
Central Division (Section Munich)
UPC Court of First Instance

Association

John Nappi

Assistant General Counsel
PhRMA

In-House Counsel

Rick Aldridge

Managing Director, Healthcare Investment Banking
Lazard

Tashica Williams Amirgholizadeh, Ph.D.

Senior Associate General Counsel, IP,
IP Alliance and Due Diligence (IPADD), Team Lead
Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Anna L. Cocuzzo

Managing Counsel, Patents, Boston
Merck

Jason Derry

Life Sciences Intellectual Property Counsel
Former Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Synthego

Debbie Drazen, Ph.D., J.D.

Assistant General Counsel – Patents
Johnson & Johnson

Marsha Rose Gillentine, PhD

Director
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

Julie Anne Gillespie

Executive IP Strategist
Former Vice President, Head of Intellectual Property, BioNTech

Henry Gu

SVP, Head of Intellectual Property
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals

Konstantina Katcheves

Senior Vice President, Business Development, Alliance Management and Acquisitions
Teva Pharmaceuticals

Hilary Libka

Chief IP Counsel, Associate General Counsel
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

William Vickery

Director of Due Diligence
Servier

Lulu Wang

Head of Intellectual Property
Orna Therapeutics

Outside Counsel

Thorsten Bausch

Partner
Hoffman Eitle

Margaret Bolce Brivanlou, Ph.D.

Partner
Ballard Spahr LLP

Jennifer J. Cheda Ph.D.

Partner
Jones Day

Richard B. Emmons

Partner
Withersworldwide

Michael L. Fuller

Partner
Knobbe Martens

Kathleen Gersh

Partner
Loeb & Loeb LLP

James Matthew Gould

Of Counsel | Intellectual Property | Life Sciences
Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney P.C.

Keisha Hylton-Rodic

Managing Principal
Hylton-Rodic Law (Washington, DC)

Michael P. Kahn

Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Kurt R. Karst

Director
Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C

Chris Katopis

Principal
Association Counsel
IP Consultant
American Bar Association

Sherry M. Knowles, Esq.

Owner/Principal
Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Anne Elise Herold Li

Partner
Crowell & Moring LLP

Mercedes Meyer

Attorney
Banner Witcoff

Jeffrey Morton, Ph.D.

Partner
Haynes and Boone, LLP

Kevin Noonan, Ph.D.

Partner | Co-Chair Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Practice Group
McDonell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Kevin A. O’Connor, Ph.D.

Partner
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Caitlin E. Olwell

Counsel
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Alicia A. Russo

Partner
Venable LLP

Mary C. Till

Of Counsel
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Andrew Wasson

Partner
Haug Partners