Speakers

2024 Conference Chairs

MJ Edwards

Senior Associate General Counsel
Patent Prosecution Team Lead
Gilead Sciences Inc.

Nicole Woods

Vice President | Assistant General Patent Counsel
Eli Lilly and Company

Mercedes Meyer, Ph.D.

Partner
Banner Witcoff LLP

Government Speakers

Sharon A. Israel

Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Honorable Edger Brinkman

Presiding Judge
Unified Patent Court, the Hague Local Division

Honorable Susan Mitchell

Lead Judge, Patent Trial and Appeal Board
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Honorable Jacqueline Bonilla

Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge Patent Trial & Appeal Board
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Honorable Grace Obermann

Administrative Patent Judge Patent Trial & Appeal Board
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Kery A. Fries

Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Deputy Commissioner for Patent Policy
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Josephine Chang

Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Karlheinz Skowronek

Supervisory Patent Examiner in Bioinformatics
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Julie Wu, Ph.D.

Supervisory Patent Examiner, Immunotherapy and Recombinant Antibodies
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

In-House Counsel

Joanna T. Brougher

Counsel, IP Lead
Indivior

Jennifer Burdman

VP, Chief Counsel Technology & Therapeutics
Chief IP Officer, Deputy General Counsel
Valo Health

Erin Geygan

Senior Privacy Counsel, Data Protection Legal
Johnson & Johnson

Sarah Hooson

Counsel, Patents
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

Hilary J. Libka

Vice President, Associate General Counsel & Chief IP Counsel
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Forrester Liddle, Ph.D.

Head of IP and Legal R&D (US)
Novo Nordisk

Cynthia Martin

Assistant General Counsel, Patents
GlaxoSmithKline Inc.

Toby Mak, PhD

Vice-Chair, Asian Practice Committee
Intellectual Property Owner’s Association

Donna Meuth

Associate General Counsel
Eisai

Michael M. Shih

Vice-President, Corporate Development
Kite Pharma

Ksenia Takhistova

Chief Legal Officer
LCM Biosensor Technologies LLC

Esteemed Speakers

Sandip Argawala

Managing Director
Blue Owl Capital

Dina Blikshteyn

Partner | AI Practice Co Chair
Haynes & Boone LLP

Earl “Eb” Bright

President
ExploraMed

Thomas J. Campbell, Jr.

Partner
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Jonathan S. Caplan

Partner | Co-Chair, IP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Marcus A. Colucci

Special Counsel
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Peter F. Corless

Partner
Fox Rothschild LLP

Erin M. Dunston

Partner | Co-Chair
PTAB
Panitech Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

Rachel J. Elsby

Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Andreas von Falck, Ph.D.

Partner
Hogan Lovells International LLP

Kevin Georgek

Partner
White & Case LLP

Emmanuel Gougé

Partner
Pinsent Masons France LLP

Abeba Habtemariam

Partner
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP

Bethan Hopewell

Partner
Powell Gilbert

Professor Willem Hoyng

Chairman, Advisory Committee of the UPC Member, Drafting Committee of the UPC
Hoyng Rokh Monegier

Thomas L. Irving

Senior Partner
The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

Yeon Jae Ko, Ph.D.

Counsel
Venable LLP

Thomas J. Kowalski

Partner | Chair of Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Divisions
Duane Morris LLP

Monal Mehta

Managing Director, Private Investment Team
Avidity Partners

Jason N. Mock, Ph.D

Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP

Adam Mossoff

Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Kevin Noonan, Ph.D.

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

Jennifer Raoul, Ph.D.

Senior Counsel | Patent Attorney
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (Canada)

Matthew S. Rizzo

General Partner
OrbiMed
Roberto Rodrigues

Roberto Rodrigues

Partner
Licks Attorneys

Sara Shanti

Partner
Sheppard Mullin LLP