Speakers
Co-Chairs
Gail H. Zarick
IP Counsel
IBM Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Flora W. Feng
Senior Legal Director, Global Intellectual Property
PepsiCo (Purchase, NY)
Advisory Board
Maribeth Case
Marketing and Intellectual Property Counsel
Nationwide (Columbus, OH)
Noel Egnatios
General Counsel
DivX, LLC (San Diego, CA)
Lisa Jakob
Managing Counsel, Trademarks & Copyrights
Merck & Co., Inc.
Co-founder, WIN: The Women in IP Law Network (Kenilworth, NJ)
Heather J. Kliebenstein
Partner
Merchant & Gould
(Minneapolis, MN)
Lisa Pensabene
Partner
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Co-founder, WIN: the Women in IP Law Network (Los Angeles, CA)
Ruth Ma Swilling
Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property & Licensing
Raytheon (Waltham, MA)
Vaishali Udupa
VP, AGC IP Litigation and Policy for VP AGC Litigation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Reston, VA)
Ariana Woods
Senior Director & Associate General Counsel, Head of Intellectual Property
Capital One (McLean, VA)
Gail H. Zarick
IP Counsel
IBM Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Speaker Faculty
Brittany Amadi
Partner
WilmerHale (Washington, DC)
Anne Davis Barry
Partner
Cantor Colburn LLP
Honorable Cathy Ann Bencivengo
United States District Judge
United States District Court, Southern District of California (San Diego, CA)
Eldora L. Ellison
Director
Sterne Kessler
Suzanne Flaton-Origenes
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel Intellectual Property Legal Department, NA Global Services, Intellectual Property
BASF Corporation (Florham Park, NJ)
Ching-Lee Fukuda
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP (New York, NY)
Jill Goldman
Vice President & Senior Counsel II, Intellectual Property and Contracts
American Bankers Association (Washington, DC)
Honorable Melissa Haapala
Lead Administrative, Patent Judge
USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Denver, CO)
Katherine A. Helm, Ph.D.
Partner
Dechert LLP (New York, NY)
Michelle K. Holoubek
Director
Sterne Kessler
Sarah L. Hooson
Counsel, Patents
Merck & Co., Inc. (Rahway, NJ)
Linda D. Kennedy
IP Business & Technology Law Partner
Panagos Kennedy PLLC (Troy, MI)
Amy Gallup Klann, Ph.D.
Counsel
Fenwick
Janna Lewis
Senior Counsel
BAE Systems
Fang (Florence) Lu
Senior Solutions Architect
IBM Services (Cambridge, MA)
Mercedes K. Meyer
Partner
Faegre Drinker
Ryann Muir
IP Alliance & Due Diligence
Gilead
Honorable Teresa Rea
Partner
Crowell & Moring LLP (Washington, DC)
(Former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Former Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office)
Kecia J Reynolds
Partner, Intellectual Property
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Washington, DC)
Pallavi Seth
principal
The Brattle Group
Bridget Smith
Partner
Lowenstein & Weatherwax LLP (Los Angeles, CA)
Vaishali Udupa
VP, AGC IP Litigation and Policy for VP AGC Litigation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Reston, VA)
Ariana Woods
Senior Director & Associate General Counsel, Head of Intellectual Property
Capital One (McLean, VA)
Honorable Jacqueline Wright Bonilla
Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge
USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Alexandria, VA)
