Speakers

Conference Co-Chairs

Tom Irving

Partner The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

Forrester Liddle

Head of IP and Legal, US R&D Novo Nordisk

Government Speaker

Charles Kim

Deputy Commissioner for Patents United States Patent and Trademark Office

Hon. András Kupecz

Legally Qualified Judge
Central Division (Section Munich) UPC Court of First Instance

Association

John Nappi

Assistant General Counsel PhRMA

In-House Counsel

Rick Aldridge

Managing Director, Healthcare Investment Banking Lazard

Tashica Williams Amirgholizadeh, Ph.D.

Senior Associate General Counsel, IP,
IP Alliance and Due Diligence (IPADD), Team Lead Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Anna L. Cocuzzo

Managing Counsel, Patents, Boston Merck

Jason Derry

Life Sciences Intellectual Property Counsel Former Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Synthego

Debbie Drazen, Ph.D., J.D.

Assistant General Counsel – Patents Johnson & Johnson

Julie Anne Gillespie

Executive IP Strategist Former Vice President, Head of Intellectual Property, BioNTech

Henry Gu

SVP, Head of Intellectual Property Zentalis Pharmaceuticals

JM Lee

Director, Business Development Novo Nordisk

Hilary Libka

Chief IP Counsel, Associate General Counsel Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Erica Norey

Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property for Global Business Development and M&A Sanofi

Jocelyn D. Ram

Intellectual Property Counsel Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Jasbir Sagoo, Ph.D., J.D.

Associate Vice President of Intellectual Property, LSAG Agilent Technologies, Inc.

William Vickery

Director of Due Diligence Servier

Lulu Wang

Head of Intellectual Property Orna Therapeutics

Robin Weatherhead

V.P., Intellectual Property & Legal Ventus Therapeutics

Outside Counsel

Thorsten Bausch

Partner Hoffman Eitle

Margaret Bolce Brivanlou, Ph.D.

Partner Ballard Spahr LLP

Thomas J. Campbell, Jr.

Partner Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Jennifer J. Chheda Ph.D.

Partner Jones Day

Richard B. Emmons

Partner Withersworldwide

Michael L. Fuller

Partner Knobbe Martens

Kathleen Gersh

Co-Chair, Life Sciences Loeb & Loeb LLP

Marsha Rose Gillentine, PhD

Director Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

James Matthew Gould

Of Counsel | Intellectual Property | Life Sciences Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney P.C.

Keisha Hylton-Rodic

Managing Principal Hylton-Rodic Law (Washington, DC)

Michael P. Kahn

Partner Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Kurt R. Karst

Director Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C

Chris Katopis

Principal Association Counsel
IP Consultant
American Bar Association

Sherry M. Knowles, Esq.

Owner/Principal Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Anne Elise Herold Li

Partner Crowell & Moring LLP

Mercedes Meyer, Ph.D.

Attorney Banner Witcoff

Jeffrey Morton, Ph.D.

Partner Haynes and Boone, LLP

Kevin Noonan, Ph.D.

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

Caitlin E. Olwell

Counsel Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Alicia A. Russo

Partner Venable LLP

Robert N. Sahr, PhD

Shareholder | Biotechnology Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Mary C. Till

Of Counsel Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Andrew Wasson

Partner Haug Partners