2023 Speakers
2023 Chairs
David Diamond
Vice President and Head of IP
Capstan Therapeutics
Rajiv Shah
Assistant General Counsel, Patents
Johnson & Johnson
Anita Varma
Partner
White & Case LLP
Government
Hon. Jacqueline Wright Bonilla
Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Hon. Rian Kalden
Presiding Judge, Court of Appeal
Unified Patent Court
Daniel Kolker, Ph.D.
Supervisory Patent Examiner
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Nalini Mummalaneni
Legal Advisor
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Mary Till
Senior Advisor
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
In-House Counsel
Jennifer Burdman
VP, Chief Counsel Technology & Therapeutics
Chief IP Officer, Deputy General Counsel
Valo
Karen Day
Senior Counsel
Pfizer
Mary Ferguson, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Head of IP
Intellia Therapeutics
Emily Gardel, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Patent Attorney
Dyno Therapeutics
Henry Gu
SVP, Head of IP
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals
Hilary J. Libka
Chief IP Counsel, Associate General Counsel
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Forrester Liddle, Ph.D.
Head of IP and Legal R&D (US)
Novo Nordisk
Eric Majchrzak
Counsel, Intellectual Property Litigation
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Kiera Mathey
Assistant General Counsel, Patents
Johnson & Johnson
Donna Meuth
Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property
Eisai
Adam Mossoff
Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Huong Nguyen
General Counsel
Fosun Pharma USA Inc.
Law Firms
Tatiana Machado Alves
Partner
Licks Attorneys
Dorothy Auth, Ph.D.
Partner
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Isobel Barry
Partner
Carpmaels & Ransford LLP
Shannon K. Clark
Partner
Venable LLP
Peter Corless
Partner
Fox Rothschild LLP
Erin M. Dunston
Partner
Panitch Schwarze Intellectual Property Law
Dr. Andreas von Falck, Ph.D.
Partner
Hogan Lovells LLP
Micheline Gravelle
Partner, Leader of Life Science
Bereskin Parr LLP
Lisa Hillman, Ph.D.
Partner
Lathrop GPM LLP
Professor Willem Hoyng
Professor
Hoyng Rokh Monegier
Chairman, Advisory Committee of the UPC
Member, Drafting Committee of the Rules of Proceedings of the UPC
Thomas Hoxie
Founding Lawyer
Hoxie & Associates LLC
Sharon A. Israel
Partner
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Thomas J. Kowalski
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
Daniel Kracov
Partner
Arnold & Porter
Joseph Lucci
Partner
Baker Hostetler LLP
Mercedes Meyer, Ph.D.
Partner
Banner Witcoff
Kevin E. Noonan, Ph.D.
Partner
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
Sandra Pohlman
Partner
df-mp
Stephen S. Rabinowitz
Counsel
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
Jane E. Remillard
Partner
Nelson Mullins
Robert N. Sahr, Ph.D.
Shareholder
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
Christopher P. Singer, Ph.D
Shareholder
McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd
Len S. Smith
Principal Counsel
Transformative Legal
Michael Stern
Of Counsel
Covington
Joachim Wachenfeld, Ph.D.
Partner
Vossius & Partner
Ningling Wang
Partner, Manager of Shanghai Office
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
