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

Jeffrey A. Wolfson

Partner
Haynes Boone LLP