Henry B. Gutman, Program Co-Chair, is a partner at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, where he heads the Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. Since 1985, he has been principal litigation counsel for Lotus Development Corporation.
Warren J. Rheaume, Program Co-Chair, is Chair of Foster Pepper & Shefelman, PLLC’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. He litigates and tries copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent cases, representing well-known clients such as Costco Wholesale, Paul Allen, Vulcan Northwest and Barnesandnoble.com.
The Hon. Thomas B. Leary, Special Address, was sworn in as a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission on November 17, 1999. Prior to this he was a partner at Hogan & Hartson, in Washington, DC, where his practice was principally in the area of antitrust and trade regulation, and he was Assistant General Counsel of General Motors.
Professor Pamela Samuelson, Luncheon Address, is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems and the School of Law where she is Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. Named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, she has also been a Public Policy Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery.
The Hon. Thomas S. Zilly, Special Address, is United States District Judge, Western District of Washington. Prior to his appointment, Judge Zilly was a partner at Lane Powell Moss & Miller where he chaired the Commercial Litigation Section.
Nancy Anderson is a senior corporate attorney for Microsoft Corporation. She manages Microsoft’s anti-piracy enforcement activity in North America.
David A. Balto, Assistant Director in the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission, is involved in identifying important enforcement initiatives and helps direct litigation of cases.
Brian D. Bellardo is Senior Vice President and General Counsel at StockPower, Inc., a privately held Internet company that helps retailers build customer loyalty by putting stock into customer’s hands entirely over the Internet. Before joining StockPower, he was Vice President and Associate General Counsel with Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Kirk A. Dublin recently completed a five-year term as Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP’s managing partner where he is a trial attorney long involved in the issues surrounding the use of technology in business and litigation.
Joan E. Feldman is a pioneer in the science of forensic computing. As president of Computer Forensics, Inc., she obtains and analyzes electronic data used as evidence in civil litigations.
William O. Ferron, Jr. is a Principal at Seed Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC, where he counsels leading Northwest companies in patent, trademark and copyright matters, including licensing and litigation.
Bruce E. H. Johnson is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, where his practice includes constitutional and commercial litigation, defamation defense and professional liability. He serves as the chair of the firm’s ethics committee.
Karen Silverman Johnson is a litigation partner in Latham & Watkins’ San Francisco office, and a member of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice Group. Previously Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, she handles antitrust matters of all sorts including governmental and private enforcement matters and litigation, domestic and international counseling on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other competition issues.
Ronald L. Johnston is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Arnold & Porter. He has been counsel in leading trials and appeals of IT and IP cases, is Editor-in-Chief (and founder) of The Computer & Internet Lawyer (1984--), founded and Chairs the USC Computer & Internet Law Institute (1979--), serves on the Board of the Computer Law Assoc., and is a frequent author and speaker at national institutes.
Ellen L. S. Koplow is Deputy General Counsel for Ameritrade Holding Corporation and was selected as one of Maryland’s Top 100 women by The Daily Record. Formerly she was managing principal of the Columbia, MD office of Miles & Stockbridge, PC where she concentrated her practice in technology law and commercial transactions with a focus in representing technology-oriented companies.
Patricia McArdle is General Counsel of Eastman Software, Inc. where she oversees the legal functions of the company. Having worked for law firms in Boston and Milton, Mass. as well as in the banking industry and as in house Counsel at Aspen Technology, she has a wide range of experience and has been involved in all areas of corporate and technology law, such as product licensing, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, international distribution and export compliance.
David Mishel is a partner at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, and has extensive experience in Internet securities trading and capital raising issues. He represents several broker-dealers (or securities brokerage firms) conducting Online trading, public offerings and private placements.
Robert B. Mitchell, a partner at Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP, focuses his practice on complex commercial and constitutional litigation, including intellectual property, tax and First Amendment matters. Mr. Mitchell participated as an observer during the process of drafting UCITA.
Robert L. Moline is a partner in the Financial Advisory Services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. His practice is principally focused on providing consulting and expert witness services in litigation and dispute matters, frequently involving intellectual property issues of technology companies.
Stephen Mutkoski focuses his practice at Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP on intellectual property, litigation and counseling, and has handled a number of computer and internet-related IP matters, including disputes involving computer source code, domain names, web site framing, metatags, spamming and database mining. Before joining Preston Gates, Mr. Mutkoski was in the New York office of Latham & Watkins.
George T. Peters has served as Senior Counsel at The Walt Disney Company since 1997. Previously he served as Senior Counsel at Comshare, Incorporated, on the Computer Law Counsel of the Michigan Bar Association and taught business law at the Detroit College of Business.
Karl J. Quackenbush is a partner with Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP in Seattle. His practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling and he has been involved in several cases involving emerging intellectual property issues, including Apple Computer v. Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems v. Microsoft Corporation, and Ticketmaster v. Microsoft Corporation.
Jerry A. Riedinger is a partner at Perkins Coie, LLP where he leads the patent litigation group. He focuses his practice in the conduct of patent infringement, trade secret and related complex intellectual property litigation. He is currently co-chair of the Trade Secret Subcommittee of the ABA IP Litigation Committee.
Ira Rubinstein is Associate General Counsel and heads the electronic commerce group in the Law and Corporate Affairs Department at Microsoft Corporation with responsibility for world wide electronic commerce policy including encryption, digital signatures, privacy and critical infrastructure issues.
Katherine C. Spelman is a partner in the Intellectual Property Transactional and Litigation Group at Steinhart & Falconer and is Adjunct Professor teaching copyright and trademark classes at Golden Gate University School of Law.
Claude M. Stern is a litigation and intellectual property partner in the firm of Fenwick & West where his litigation experience includes trials (both jury and non-jury) in state and federal courts as well as proceedings before various arbitration and mediation bodies. His clients include businesses engaged in software publication, software development, system integration, computer/equipment leasing, real estate and transportation.