Speakers
Distinguished Chairs
Jamie Leeds
Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel – Hatch Waxman Litigation Eli Lilly and Company
Cynthia Sun
Director, Legal Counsel Meitheal Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Kathi Vidal
Partner Winston & Strawn LLP (Immediate past Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)Members of the Judiciary
Honorable Tonianne J. Bongiovanni
Magistrate Judge United States District Court, District of New Jersey
Honorable Stanley R. Chesler
District Judge United States District Court, District of New Jersey
Hon. Randall R. Rader (ret.)
Former Chief Judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Honorable Joshua Wolson
District Judge United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Visiting Judge, District of Delaware)Government Representative
Hannah Lamb
Attorney U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)Think Tanks, Associations and Academia
Alfred Engelberg
Founder Engelberg Center on Innovation, Law and Policy (Former Patent Counsel to the Generic Pharmaceutical Association
Joshua Kresh
Research Professor and Executive Director The IP Policy Institute: The University of Akron School of Law
Marta E. Wosińska, PhD
Senior Fellow, Center on Health Policy The Brookings InstitutionPatent Trial and Appeal Board, USPTO
Honorable Grace Obermann
Administrative Patent Judge, Patent Trial & Appeal Board U.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeIn-House Counsel
Ryan M. Daniel
VP, Associate General Counsel, Corporate and Business Transactions Biopharmaceuticals Fresenius Kabi, LLC
Stephanie Donahue
Head of Global Patent LitigationGlobal Intellectual Property Department
Legal, Ethics & Business Integrity Sanofi
Gloria Fuentes
Vice President & Assistant General Counsel Bristol Myers Squibb
Henry Hadad
Vice President Bristol Myers Squibb
Colin Heitzmann
Vice President, Intellectual Property and BusinessDevelopment, Legal and Corporate Affairs Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
Lisa Jakob
Corporate IP and Litigation Counsel Merck
Karen Moreira
Director, IP Litigation Merck
Mira Mulvaney
Assistant General Patent Counsel, IP Litigation Eli Lilly and Company
Aaron Pereira
Senior Director of Patents Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Thomas Stoll
Senior Director, Federal Government Affairs Genentech
Brian Stone
Associate General CounselGlobal Legal-Regulatory Viatris
Lars P. Taavola
Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel & General Counsel, Brands Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
Maryll W. Toufanian
Senior Vice President, Regulatory Strategy and Government Affairs Amneal Pharmaceuticals
Angie Verrecchio
Senior Counsel, Patent Litigation Johnson & Johnson
Marina Volin
VP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Nordic Pharma
Kevin Zive
Vice President, General Counsel, and Head of Global Intellectual Property Apotex Inc.Outside Counsel
David B. Abramowitz
Shareholder Buchanan
Peter J. Armenio
Partner Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Isaac S. Ashkenazi
Partner Paul Hastings LLP
Stephen Auten
Partner Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Jonathan Bachand
Partner Knobbe Martens
Aziz Burgy
Partner Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP
Lachlan S. Campbell-Verduyn
Partner Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Doug Carsten
Partner McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Andrea Cheek
Partner Knobbe Martens
Arlene Lee Chow
Partner Latham & Watkins LLP
Alan Clement
Partner Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
Andrew J. Cochran
Partner Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Andrew Cohen
Partner Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Bryce Cooper
Partner Winston & Strawn LLP
Jim Czaban
Co-Chair, Life Sciences Loeb & Loeb LLP
Sam Deka
Partner DLA Piper
Emily J. Greb
Partner Perkins Coie LLP
Lora Green
Partner Gemini Law LLP
Vishal Gupta
Partner Steptoe LLP
Ryan Hagglund
Partner Loeb & Loeb LLP
Stephen Holland
Senior Counsel Crowell & Moring LLP
Tom Irving
Senior Parner The Marbury Law Group PLLC
Colleen Tracy James
Partner Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Jenny Papatolis Johnson
VP, Assistant General Counsel, IP Endo Pharmaceuticals
Michael P. Kahn
Partner Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Kurt R. Karst
Director Hyman, Phelps & McNamara PC
Pilar G. Kraman
Partner Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Chad Landmon
Partner Polsinelli
Honorable Jose L. Linares
Partner McCarter & English LLP Ret. Chief Judge, United States District Court, District of New Jersey
Michael E. McCabe Jr.
Managing Partner McCabe Ali LLP
Nicholas Mitrokostas
Partner A&O Shearman
John Molenda
Partner Steptoe LLP
Deepro R. Mukerjee
Partner Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Gregory A. Morris
Partner O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Matthew Murphy
Partner Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP
Kevin E. Noonan, Ph.D
Partner McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
Young J. Park
Partner Paul Hastings LLP
Matthew A. Pearson
Partner Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Honorable Teresa Rea
Consultant Rea Consulting LLC Former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and former Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Rob Rodrigues
Partner RNA Law
John Christopher “J.C.” Rozendaal
Director and Chair – Trial & Appellate Practice Group Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Emer Simic
Partner Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Mike Sitzman
Partner McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Eric Alan Stone
Partner Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone
Dan Troy
Managing Director Berkeley Research Group
James R. Tyminski
Partner Venable LLP
Shashank Upadhye
Partner Upadhye Tang LLP
Jeanna M. Wacker
Partner Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Daryl L. Wiesen
Partner Goodwin Procter LLP