Co-Chairs

Jacqueline Wright Bonilla, Ph.D.

Director Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. Former Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)

Kathryn Jones

VP, Chief Counsel IP Novo Nordisk

Nicole Williams

Senior Director of Litigation 10x Genomics

Consultants

Jocelyn Cinquino

Senior Communications Consultant Salmons Consulting

Eleanor Hamilton

Vice President, Experts DOAR

Members of the Judiciary

Hon. Tonianne Bongiovanni

Magistrate Judge United States District of New Jersey

Hon. Maryellen Noreika

District Judge United States District Court District of Delaware

In-House Counsel

Jesse Fecker

Vice President, Intellectual Property Zymeworks

Eric Greenwald

Legal Director Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

Chloe Jiang

Associate General Counsel, US Intellectual Property Ascendis

Sunny Malhotra, Ph.D, J.D.

Sr Counsel, IP Novo Nordisk

Michelle Nyein

Senior Counsel, IP Eisai

Aaron Pereira

Senior Director or Patents, Global IP Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Victoria Reines

Principal Counsel – Global Patent Litigation Sanofi

Laurah Samuels

Assistant General Counsel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Victoria Spataro

Head of US IP Litigation CSL Behring

Mark J. Stewart, Ph.D.

VP, Head of Global Intellectual Property Litigation Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

Jonathan Stroud

General Counsel Unified Patents Inc.

Cynthia Sun

Director Legal Counsel Vetter Pharma International USA, Inc.

Thomas Walls

Senior Vice President - Head of Global Intellectual Property and Litigation Bausch Health Companies Inc.

Outside Counsel

Michael Abernathy

Partner Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Melanie Baird

Partner Tyr LLP

Yael Bienenstock

Partner Torys LLP

F. Dominic Cerrito

Partner Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Jeffrey Coleman

Partner Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

Robert Counihan

Partner Fenwick & West LLP

Michael A. Davitz, M.D. J.D.

Partner Leason Ellis LLP

Sona De

Partner Sidley Austin LLC

Eric Dittmann

Partner, Litigation Department Paul Hastings, LLP

Hon. Mark Falk

Partner Walsh Pizzi O’Reilly Falanga LLP Former United States Chief Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey

Stanley E. Fisher

Partner Williams & Connolly LLP

Ching-Lee Fukuda

Partner Morrison & Foerster LLP

Claire Fundakowski

Partner Winston Taylor LLP

Robert Kappers

Partner Steptoe LLP

Daniel J. Klein

Partner Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP

Thomas J. Kowalski

Partner Duane Morris LLP

Anne Elise Herold Li

Partner Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

James S.S. Holtom

Partner McCarthy Tétrault

Hans-Rainer Jaenichen

Partner Vossius & Partner

Ryan Johnson

Partner Fenwick & West LLP

Judith Krens

Partner | Advocaat | UPC Representative| Global Co-Lead IP Pinsent Masons Netherlands LLP

Jason Leonard

Partner McDermott Will & Schulte

Nathaniel Lipkus

Partner, Intellectual Property Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Judge Jose L. Linares

Partner McCarter & English, LLP Former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

John Livingstone

Partner Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Jeremy Lowe

Partner Spencer Fane

Catherine T. Mattes

Partner Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Sanjaya Mendis

Partner McCarthy Tétrault

Nick Mitrokostas

Partner White & Case LLP

Annaka Nava

Partner Goodwin Procter LLP

Juliana Neves

Partner Licks Attorneys

Priya Patel

Partner Dechert LLP

Tony V. Pezzano​​​​

Partner Lippes Mathias LLP

Wouter Pors

Partner Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh

Dr. Markus Prägert

Partner df-mp

Edward R. Reines

Partner Jones Day

Marc Richard

Partner Gowling WLG

Paul Richter

Partner, Co-Chair Pharmaceutical Practice Group Devlin Law Firm LLC

Rhonda K. Schmidtlein

Partner Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Christina Schwarz

Partner Venable LLP

Emer Simic

Partner Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Sanya Sukduang

Partner Norton Rose Fulbright

Martina Tyreus Hufnal

Principal Fish & Richardson P.C.

Shashank Upadhye

Partner Upadhye Tang LLP

Andrew Wasson

Partner Haug Partners LLP

Lillian Wallace

Attorney Steptoe LLP

Samantha G. Wilson

Partner Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP

Daniel Wise

Partner Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Marian Wolanski

Partner Belmore Neidrauer LLP

Dr. Felipe Zilly

Partner/Patent Attorney Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

Policy

David Korn

Vice President IP and Law Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America

Joshua Kresh

Research Professor and Executive Director IPPI: The IP Policy Institute | The University of Akron School of Law

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