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
