David V. Carlson, Program Co-Chair, of the Seed IP Law Group PLLC, specializes in electrical and electronic patent matters, including licensing and litigation. Previously he was a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has also previously worked as a patent attorney with Texas Instruments, where he specialized in obtaining U.S. and Japanese patent protection on semiconductor devices, computer design, and electronic systems.
Richard Raysman, Program Co-Chair, a partner at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP, concentrates on computer law, outsourcing and intellectual property issues. He has significant experience in structuring technology transactions, and his information technology background and understanding of the law have made him uniquely qualified to represent clients for technology issues. He has litigated reported cases for the New York State and Federal Courts, and he has had over one dozen trials.
Ramsey M. Al-Salam is a partner in the Seattle office of Perkins Coie,
where he focuses his practice on intellectual property analysis and dispute
resolution, with a particular emphasis in patent, trademark and trade secret
litigation, arbitration and trial. He has worked with small and large clients
in a variety of technologies and industries.
Robert J. Carlson, a member of Christensen O’Connor Johnson &
Kindness PLLC focuses his practice on counseling in all aspects of
intellectual property, obtaining and managing patent and trademark rights
in the United States and foreign countries, intellectual property issues
related to securities offerings, due diligence matters, licensing and
agreements. He devotes a significant portion of his practice to litigation and
arbitration of intellectual property disputes, and has appeared on behalf of
the firm’s clients in courts throughout the United States on matters as
diverse as patents on telecommunications and computer technology,
building materials and furniture design, banking industry trademarks and
software counterfeiting.
Ron Epstein is founder and CEO of IPotential, LLC, a consulting firm
concentrating on assisting its clients in developing and executing their
Intellectual Property strategies, including the purchase and sale of Patents.
He has 15 years of experience in developing and optimizing IP asset
portfolios. Most recently, he was Vice President, General Counsel at
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., where, among other things, he
created and executed on the company’s IP strategy, filing for more than 80
patents, and defending the company in three patent litigations.
Heidi L. Keefe is a partner in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP’s
Intellectual Property Group focusing on patent litigation. She has participated
extensively in a variety of high-stakes patent trials before juries and
judges. She is currently the co-chair of Training and Development for
Orrick’s bicoastal IP practice.
Jeffrey H. Kinrich, a Managing Principal with the Analysis Group, Inc.,
consults on cases involving financial and economic analysis, accounting, statistics, and mathematical modeling. He has directed numerous largescale
analyses involving a broad range of litigation areas. He specializes in
damage quantification and valuation in the areas of commercial litigation
and intellectual property. He also has significant experience in many other
areas of the law, including breach of contract, construction, fraud, antitrust,
business interruption, marital dissolution, dealership disputes and tax
litigation.
Gregory K. Leonard is a Vice President in NERA Economic Consulting’s
Antitrust and Intellectual Property Practices. His areas of expertise are
applied microeconomics and econometrics. He has extensive experience
analyzing competition and estimating damages in antitrust cases and patent
infringement damages cases. He was one of the developers of the merger
simulation technique that is now widely used to analyze the competitive
effects of mergers. Dr. Leonard has provided written and oral testimony on
issues involving antitrust, damages estimation, statistics and econometrics,
and labor market discrimination.
Samuel K. Lu is a partner in Irell & Manella LLP’s intellectual property
and litigation workgroups. Mr. Lu counsels and represents clients in
intellectual property matters, focusing on patent litigation. His cases have
involved a variety of technologies including semiconductors and semiconductor
processing, personal computers and computer peripherals, ecommerce,
computer software, consumer electronics, and medical devices.
Anne M. Rogaski, a partner with Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
has specialized in intellectual property and complex business litigation
since 1996. Her practice includes the representation of companies in trade
secret misappropriation, patent infringement, trademark infringement and
copyright infringement matters, in both state and federal district courts.
Suzanne Shema the Senior Vice President of Intellectual Property and
Legal Affairs at ZymoGenetics, Inc. began her legal career in private
practice with the law firm of Seed and Berry. She jumped the track into inhouse
practice and has worked with several high technology companies,
including NeoRx, Inc. and aQuantive, Inc. in Seattle and Research
Corporation Technologies in Tucson, Arizona.
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