Michael L. Bishop, Program Co-Chair, Vice President and General
Counsel to the BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation,
practices in the areas of intellectual property, licensing, commercial
transactions, and related matters.
James Steinberg, Program Co-Chair, of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, is
a partner and co-chair of the firm’s Technology Group. His practice
focuses on complex commercial transactions and general corporate
matters for a wide range of companies. He frequently advises clients
on IT procurement matters, outsourcing transactions, electronic
commerce and the commercialization/utilization of technology.
Gordon T. Arnold, of Arnold & Ferrera, L.L.P., has been the Attorney in Charge of multiple cases involving patents and other forms of intellectual property and antitrust. He has represented clients in extensive licensing, application, and litigation work — domestically and abroad. He is a Member by examination of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a certified mediator, and serves as an arbitrator and advocate in commercial arbitrations and domain name matters as well. He is the President-Elect of the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association, a member of the governing Council of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law, where he is a past chair of that Section's Patent Policy Committee, and he is the current Vice-Chair of the Patent Law Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Joseph B. Darby, III, is a shareholder in the Boston office of
Greenberg Traurig LLP. He is a business lawyer, with a special
expertise in tax law, who represents a wide variety of corporations
and high net-worth individuals in business transactions and before
federal and state taxing authorities. He is also a frequent writer and
lecturer on tax-related issues.
Joan L. Dillon, of Joan Dillon Law, LLC, has specialized in the
practice of trademark and copyright law and related areas of
practice for over 35 years. She is, and has been listed in The Best
Lawyers in America, Atlanta Magazine’s “Best Lawyers,” and
International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers/Trademarks. She
served for 18 years, as in-house trademark counsel to three Fortune
500 companies, and was principal U.S. Trademark counsel to the
Los Angeles Olympic Committee and the Atlanta Committee for the
Olympic Games.
David A. Kennedy is the Founder, President and CEO of Intellectual
Property Asset Corporation. He has substantial experience in a
broad range of commercial, financial and intellectual property
engagements. He also has a significant amount of experience
providing strategic intellectual property services including business
plan development, strategic and enforcement licensing program
implementation, license/contract negotiations and technology
transfer transactions.
Joseph W. Looney has been engaged in civil law and litigation
practice since 1976. He joined Adams and Reese LLP as a partner in
1991 and works in the areas of intellectual property and commercial
litigation. Mr. Looney provides service in the areas of patent law,
trademarks, trade secrets, technology, computer law and other
intellectual property matters.
Elizabeth A. “Betty” Morgan, a partner at Hunton & Williams LLP,
concentrates her trial practice on the prosecution, enforcement and
defense of trademark rights, trade secrets, copyrights, covenantsnot-
to-compete and patents in litigation. She also advises clients
about their respective IP rights in situations involving traditional, as
well as e-commerce. She assists clients with branding issues,
including trademark selection, protection and licensing.
James Reed has lead BellSouth’s “Brand Leveraging” efforts as the
Managing Director of Trademark Licensing for BellSouth Intellectual
Property Marketing Corporation since 2001. Prior to joining
BIPMARK, he served as General Counsel to Truckbay.com and
practiced corporate and technology law at Troutman Sanders, LLP.
Gary K. Saidman, a partner with Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, is a
member of the firm’s Corporate Section and Technology Group,
where he specializes in corporate, international, and technology
commercialization matters, including licensing, outsourcing,
technology development arrangements, strategic partnerships and
other similar commercial transactions. He is also chair of the firm’s
Privacy Group, which focuses on issues related to the collection and
use of personal information and other data.
David S. Teske is a member of Alston & Bird LLP’s Intellectual
Property-Transactional Group, Atlanta. His practice is concentrated
in complex transactions involving the exploitation, leveraging and
transfer of intellectual property rights. He works with all types of
clients, from Fortune 50 corporations to start-ups.
Raymond Van Dyke, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of
Nixon Peabody LLP, focuses his practice in technology and intellectual
property counseling, procurement, licensing, and litigation in
federal courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission. He
represents companies and universities in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical,
medical, chemical, software, financial services, telecommunications,
Internet, and digital industries, both domestic and
international, and in emerging and converging areas, such as
bioinformatics, nanotechnology, proteomics, and computational
analysis.
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