Contributor Profiles
Advokatfirmaet Selmer DA
Støperigaten 2, PO Box 1324 Vika, 0112
Oslo, Norway
Tel +47
23 11 65 00 Fax +47
23 11 65 01
Web www.selmerlaw.com
Other offices Trondheim
Are Herrem
Non-equity partner, Oslo
Email a.herrem@selmerlaw.com
Are Herrem is a partner within the intellectual property group. He regularly advises on patent, trademarks and copyright law, as well as other intellectual property rights. Mr Herrem focuses on corporate transactions and is a member of the board of a publishing house. He received his law degree from the University of Oslo in 1990 and an LLM from Columbia University, New York in 1996. He has previously worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Mr Herrem is admitted to the Supreme Court.
Asbjørn Berg
Partner, Oslo
Email a.berg@selmerlaw.com
Asbjørn Berg is the partner leading the intellectual property group of Selmer. His work encompasses all areas of intellectual property, sports and entertainment law. Areas of particular experience include protection, licensing and litigation of intellectual property, as well as marketing. Mr Berg received his degree from the University of Oslo in 1982 and he plays lead guitar in the company band.
Agency Tria Robit
Vilandes Street 5, Riga, LV-1010,
Latvia
Tel +371
7320 300 / +371 7321 300 Fax +371
7325 600
Email info@triarobit.com
Vladimir Anohin
Industrial property attorney, founder and senior partner of the Agency Tria Robit, which in surveys published by Euromoney's Managing intellectual Property magazine, regularly takes a top position among firms doing patent and trademark work in the Baltic states.
Mr Anohin has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of intellectual property protection and has extensive experience in advising major Latvian and foreign clients on all aspects relating to the protection of their intellectual property rights. He graduated from the St Petersburg State University for telecommunications in 1971 and the Central Institute of intellectual Property (Moscow) in 1983.
Mr Anohin is a member of AIPPI, FICPI, LPPA, ICC/CIB, INTA, ITMA, LES, MARQUES, PTMG, UN/ECE and ECTA. He is the author and co-editor of many domestic and international publications with Euromoney's Managing intellectual Property and BNA International Inc.
Anna Misneva
An IP lawyer with Tria Robit, Ms Misneva received an LLM in European and international law from the Riga Graduate School of Law in 2001 and a Bachelor of laws from the University of Latvia in 1999. She has considerable experience in litigation, enforcement and disputes involving intellectual property issues, foreign and domestic customs seizures, licensing and domain names. She regularly takes part in international IP seminars and is the author of various IP publications.
Amat & Vidal-Quadras Advocats
Pau Casals, 14, E-08021 Barcelona,
Spain
Tel +34
93 321 10 53 Fax +34
93 419 31 47
Dr Miguel Vidal-Quadras
Partner, Barcelona
Email mvq@quidasesores.com
Miguel Vidal-Quadras is an attorney at law. His practice focuses on counselling and litigating intellectual property issues and unfair competition. He has a PhD in law from the University of Barcelona and coordinates and teaches on legal protection of technology in postgraduate courses at the University of ESADE in Barcelona and at the Centre of Patents of the Scientific Park of the University of Barcelona. Dr Vidal-Quadras is member of AIPPI and LES and participates actively in their working groups.
His areas of particular experience include pharmaceutical and competition issues related to certain specifics of patent and trademark law, as well as European Community issues with regards to licensing of intangible assets.
Arent Fox PLLC
1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC 20036-5339, United States
Tel +1
202 857 6000 Fax +1
202 857 6395
Web www.arentfox.com
Barry P Golob
Partner, Washington DC
Email bgolob@arentfox.com
Barry P Golob is a partner in Arent Fox’s intellectual Property group. Mr Golob’s practice is comprised of all aspects of complex intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition litigation. He also specialises in intellectual property licensing, security issues and portfolio analysis.
Mr Golob has also worked on several appeals before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and has conducted national and international licensing negotiations involving all aspects of intellectual property. Mr Golob advises banks and other financial institutions on the securing of intellectual property rights as collateral for financial transactions, and conducts due diligence analyses of intellectual property portfolios for acquisition inquiries and valuation analyses.
Mr Golob has lectured extensively on patent litigation and damages, and is a member of the firm’s Prescription Drugs Committee.
Amy EL Schoenhard
Associate, Washington DC
Email schoenhard.amy@arentfox.com
Amy Schoenhard is an associate at Arent Fox and a registered US patent attorney. A member of the intellectual Property Group, her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, patent prosecution, and opinion work with a specialisation in the biotechnology, chemical and pharmaceutical arts.
Ms Schoenhard's litigation experience includes cases in the technical fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, semiconductors and herbal supplements. Her patent prosecution experience includes drafting and prosecuting patent applications on behalf of US and international clients, as well as validity and infringement searches, studies and opinions.
Also an active writer, Ms Schoenhard has been published numerous times in various legal and scientific journals. Ms Schoenhard received a BS from Wake Forest University and a JD from Duke University School of Law.
Arias, Fabrega & Fabrega
16th Floor , PH Plaza 2000 Building, 50th Street,
PO Box 0816-01098, Panama, Republic of Panama
Tel +507
205 7000 Fax +507
205 7001/7002
Web www.arifa.com
Email pma@arifa.com
Other
offices London,
British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong
Ileana Del C Martinelli
Email ileanam@arifa.com
Ileana Del C Martinelli is an associate of Arias, Fabrega & Fabrega, in charge of the intellectual Property Department. She graduated from the Universidad Santa María La Antigua (Licenciate in Law and Political Sciences, cum laude, 1985) and was admitted to the Panamanian Bar in 1986. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Panamanian Industrial Property Association (President, 1998-2002 and Treasurer, 2003-2005), as well as of the Interamerican Industrial Property Association (ASIPI).
She was a member of the National Commission in charge of drafting the Panamanian Industrial Property Law (Law No 1 of May 10th 1996) and its regulation decree (Executive Decree No 7 of 17th February 2004). At present she is in the Panamanian Industrial Property Private Sector Counsellor Commission dealing with the negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Panama and the United States.
Ms Martinelli’s practice is focused on all aspects of patent and trademark law, unfair competition and litigation actions, as well as client counselling.
Arthur Cox
Earlsfort Centre, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2,
Ireland
Tel +353
1 618 0000 Fax +353
1 618 0618
Web www.arthurcox.com
Email mail@arthurcox.com
Other
offices Belfast,
London, New York
Rob Corbet
Senior Associate, Dublin
Rob Corbet received a Bachelor of Business and Legal Studies Degree from University College Dublin in 1996. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1999 and joined Arthur Cox in 2000 where he is a senior associate in the firm’s Technology Group. He is also a Community trademark attorney. He lectures and publishes extensively on intellectual property and technology issues, including for the Law Society of Ireland. Mr Corbet has honorary membership in the Association of Fellow and Legal Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies, Vienna.
Mr Corbet advises established and start-up clients on a range of intellectual property, software, hardware, e-business and data protection issues.
Practice areas intellectual property, technology, data protection, commercial
Professor Robert Clark
Consultant, Dublin
Robert Clark graduated with a BA from the University of Northumbria, with an LLM from the University of London and obtained his PhD from University College Dublin and a BL from the Honourable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin. He is a consultant with Arthur Cox, and teaches at University College Dublin. Robert is a member of the Patent Office Users Council and the Chairman of the Copyright Association of Ireland, and is the Irish representative of the Copyright Experts Group (European Commission). He is the author of many publications on intellectual property, information technology, data protection and contract law, and lectures and speaks extensively on these areas.
Professor Clark advises a wide range of clients specifically in the areas of intellectual property (particularly copyright), information technology (with a special expertise in data protection) and contract law.
Practice areas intellectual property, information technology, commercial contracts.
Asahi Koma Law Offices
Marunouchi My Plaza, 1-1, Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-8385, Japan
Tel +81
3 5219 0003 Fax +81
3 5219 0005
Web www.alo.jp
Other offices New
York, Beijing
Eiichi Fukushima
Partner, Tokyo
Email ef@alo.jp
Mr Fukushima received his LLB from the University of Tokyo in 1968 and MCL from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. He is a member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association.
He has a broad range of experience in all aspects of intellectual property and international trade. He was the chairman of the Trade Friction Committee of JETRO and a member of the Sub-committee on Unfair Trade Policies & Measures, WTO Committee and Industrial Structure Council of METI (1994-2003).
Takashi Michishita
Partner, Tokyo
Email tm@alo.jp
Mr Michishita received his LLB from the University of Tokyo in 1992 and LLM (intellectual property concentration) from New York University in 2000. He is a member of the Tokyo Bar Association.
He primarily practises intellectual property, including licensing, litigation and counselling, domestic and international M&A transactions and general corporate matters.
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Washington Square Building, 1050 Connecticut Avenue,
NW Washington DC 20036, United States
Tel +1
202 861 1500 Fax +1
202 861 1783
Web www.bakerlaw.com
Other offices New
York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Houston, Denver, Orlando
and Costa Mesa
Kenneth J Sheehan
Partner
Email ksheehan@bakerlaw.com
Kenneth J Sheehan is a partner in Baker & Hostetler's Washington DC office. A registered patent attorney and degreed electrical engineer, Mr Sheehan concentrates his practice on intellectual property acquisition and protection, including acquiring, litigating and evaluating patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, and enforcing and defending intellectual property rights before federal and state courts, the International Trade Commission and the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Baker & McKenzie
32 avenue Kléber – BP 2112, 75771 Paris Cedex 16,
France
Tel +33
1 44 17 53 00 Fax +33
1 44 17 45 75
Web www.bakernet.com
Jean-François Bretonnière
Partner, Paris
Email jf.bretonniere@bakernet.com
JF Bretonnière is a member of the Paris Bar (Avocat à la Cour) and a Partner of Baker & McKenzie since 1983.
He founded and heads the intellectual Property practice in the firm’s Paris office. Since joining Baker & McKenzie, Mr Bretonnière has concentrated his practice in national and cross-border IP issues (contentious and non-contentious issues). His practice focuses on the acquisition, protection, enforcement and exploitation of IP rights (trademarks, patents, designs and copyright, including internet-related advice and domain name disputes); drafting and negotiating IP-related agreements (research & development, technology transfer, franchising, licensing, OEM).
He also advises in relation to complex licensing projects, including transactions concerning IP assets in international mergers and acquisitions and similar transactions.
Mr Bretonnière’s practice includes projects within the EU and in the Asia-Pacific region (where he practised for over 10 years) concerning the exploitation of IP assets through joint projects such as R&D, joint ventures, co-development and sale and purchase or pledging of IP assets.
Claire Weyl
Email claire.weyl@bakernet.com
Claire Weyl graduated from the University of Strasbourg and from the CEIPI (Centre for International intellectual Property Studies) and was admitted to practise in 1997. She joined Baker & McKenzie’s intellectual Property and Information Technology department in 1999.
Ms Weyl’s areas of practice include trademark, patent, designs, domain names and copyright law matters. She handles a wide range of matters relating to various aspects of intellectual property law, including trademark prosecution before the French Trademark Office and international portfolio management, trademark licensing, the drafting and negotiation of various IP-related agreements, reviewing the intellectual property aspects of mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions, and resolving domain name and other internet-related conflicts.
Grégoire Corman
Email gregoire.corman@bakernet.com
Grégoire Corman graduated from the University of Paris Assas in 2001 and from the University of Edinburgh (LLM) in 2000. He joined Baker & McKenzie’s intellectual Property and Information Technology department in 2001.
Mr Corman’s areas of practice include trademarks, designs, copyright and internet issues, whether of a non-contentious and contentious nature, and also patent and unfair competition law. He handles a wide range of matters relating to various aspects of intellectual property law, including the drafting of IP related agreements, issues on trademark and design filing and protection.
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
51st Floor, 1735 Market Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19103, United States
Tel +1
215 665 8500 Fax +1
215 864 8999
Web www.ballardspahr.com
Other offices Baltimore,
Denver, Voorhees, Salt Lake City, Washington DC, Wilmington
Roberta Jacobs-Meadway
Partner, Philadelphia
Email jacobsmeadwayr@ballardspahr.com
Tel +1
215 864 8201
Roberta Jacobs-Meadway is a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the intellectual Property Group. Ms Jacobs-Meadway's practice focuses on trademarks, trade dress and unfair competition issues, and includes litigation in the federal courts and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She has served as mediator in numerous trademark and copyright disputes. According to Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers 2003-2004: “Roberta Jacobs-Meadway is considered by many to be ‘the best in town for trademark and copyright litigation’.”
Ms Jacobs-Meadway has written and lectured extensively on intellectual property law. For 10 years, she co-chaired ALI-ABA's annual programme on Trademark and Copyrights for the General Practitioner and now co-chairs ALI-ABA’s annual programme on Litigating Trademark and Unfair Competition Cases and its programme on Licensing of intellectual Property. She has authored numerous articles for business publications and trade periodicals, and has contributed chapters to Matthew Bender's treatise intellectual Property Counseling and Litigation.
Barretto Ferreira, Kujawski, Brancher e Gonçalves
Rua Dr Eduardo de Souza
Aranha 387, 15 andar, Ed Juscelino Plaza, 04543-121 São Paulo, Brazil
Tel +55
11 3897 0300 Fax +55
11 3897 0330
Web www.bkbg.com.br
Ricardo Barretto Ferreira da Silva
Email barretto@bkbg.com.br
Mr Barretto Ferreira has been practising business law for 34 years, and has proven national and international experience. He is also well known to the international specialised media as one of Brazil’s top legal experts in information technology, telecommunications and the internet. His legal experience is based on extensive knowledge of corporate and tax law, having participated in some of the largest operations that have taken place in Brazil in those industries.
José Leça
Email leca@bkbg.com.br
Mr Leça obtained a JD equivalent degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Brazil) and an LLM degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the US. His practice includes telecommunications, the internet and antitrust law. He coordinates the media committee of ABDI (Brazilian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunication Law) and is the vice coordinator of the legal committee of the Brazilian Chamber of E-commerce.
Camila Ramos Montagna
Email ramos@bkbg.com.br
Ms Ramos concluded her legal education (Bachelor of Laws) at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, with emphasis in the areas of public law, international commercial law and economic law. She post-graduated lato sensu in contractual law at the Law School of the São Paulo Catholic University.
Seiiti Arata Jr
Email arata@bkbg.com.br
Mr Arata graduated from the Law School of São Paulo University with research experience at the Research Support Foundation of the State of São Paulo. He also has a masters in international law from the Law School of São Paulo University. Mr Arata is a member of the Special Commission on Legal Informatics of the Brazilian Bar Association, and is the author of several international prize-winning articles related to the information and communication technology industries in Brazil, Germany, Switzerland and China.
Becerril, Coca & Becerril SC
9th to 14th fls, Thiers 251, Col Anzures,
Mexico City 11590, Mexico
Tel +52
55 5263 8730 Fax +52
55 5263 8731
Web www.bcb.com.mx
Email main@bcb.com.mx
Héctor E Chagoya
Manager,
Technical Analysis and Technology Appropriation
Email hchagoya@bcb.com.mx
Héctor Chagoya is the manager in charge of consulting in technology transfer issues as well as in the business and technical aspects of patent litigation at the specialist IP firm of Becerril, Coca & Becerril SC. He has a chemical engineering background and, since 1997, has been engaged in relevant aspects of patent prosecution, drafting and litigation as well as in negotiation of contracts relating to technology transfer, both in Mexico and internationally.
Practice areas technology transfer and negotiation, technology protection and enforcement, patent searches, documentation and appropriation of trade secrets, drafting of international PCT applications, plant varieties.
Bird & Bird
6/F ICBC Tower, Citibank Plaza, 3 Garden Road,
Central, Hong Kong
Tel +852
2248 6000 Fax +852
2248 6011
Bird & Bird Law Firm Beijing Representative
Office
3614 China World Trade Centre, Tower 1, 1 Jianguomenwai
Avenue, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100004, PRC
Tel +86
10 6505 6667 Fax +86
10 6505 9469
Web www.twobirds.com
Other offices Brussels,
Düsseldorf, The Hague, London, Milan, Munich, Paris, Stockholm
Matthew Laight
Managing partner, Hong Kong office
Chief representative, Beijing
Email matthew.laight@twobirds.com
Matthew Laight specialises in intellectual property law. He advises on all aspects of intellectual property, both contentious and non-contentious. He has advised on major IP litigation including patent litigation in Hong Kong and, in an advisory capacity, in mainland China and elsewhere in Asia. He has a particular interest in life sciences and his experience includes drafting and negotiating agreements relating to the conduct of clinical trials, advising on regulatory approvals, advertising and marketing, and product liability. He has also been involved in pharmaceutical patent litigation.
Mr Laight is a panellist under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy for the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre in respect of .hk domains and the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre in respect of .com domains
Sofia Chen
Associate, Hong Kong
Email sofia.chen@twobirds.com
Sofia Chen joined Bird & Bird in 2004 and specialises in intellectual property law. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with bachelor degrees in both Laws and Engineering (Software), and was admitted as a solicitor in Victoria, Australia in 2003.
Ms Chen is currently acting for a number of technology firms in contentious intellectual property matters in Hong Kong and the PRC.
Ms Chen speaks fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Bustamante & Bustamante
Avenues Patria & Amazonas, Cofiec Building,
5th Floor,
PO Box 17-01-02455, Quito, Ecuador
Tel +59
32 2562 680 Fax +59
32 2564 628
Web www.bustamanteybustamante.com
Roberto Moreno
Email rmoreno@bustamante.com.ec
Admitted in 1995 and became a partner of Bustamante & Bustamante in 1996. His main areas of work are: intellectual property, including anti-counterfeiting and transfer of technology; foreign investment; and corporate. He is counsel to Conagra, International Home Foods and Bumble Bee Seafoods Inc in developing and managing seafood industry issues. Clients include BMW, Caterpillar and General Motors Corporation in anti-counterfeiting matters. Counsel to Joseph E Seagram in distribution agreements.
Mr Moreno is a published author on IP matters and is a member of a number of professional organisations, including the American intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), INTA and the Inter-American Bar Association.
Amani Harrison
Email aharrison@bustamante.com.ec
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgetown University Law Center, and a member of the New York Bar. While at Georgetown, Ms Harrison served as a staff member and editor for the American Criminal Law Review.
Julissa Arjona Tejada
Email jarjona@bustamante.com.ec
A bachelor of law and political sciences, she graduated from the Universidad Santa Maria la Antigua, Panama City in 1997. She received her LLM from the American University in Washington DC in 1998. She works in the IP Department of Bustamante & Bustamante.
Čermák Hořejš Myslil, Lawyers and Patent Attorneys
Národní 32, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Tel +420
296 167 111/ 444 Fax +420
224 94 67 24
Bušová Ursínyová Bušo
Tobrucká 6, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Tel +421
2 5293 1528 Fax +421
2 5293 1665
Web www.cermakhorejsmyslil.cz
Email inTelprop@apk.cz
Karel Čermák Jr
Email kcermak@apk.cz
Dr Cermák graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in 1996. He received his PhD from Charles University in 1998 and an LLM from the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels in 2000. Since 2000 he has been a partner in Cermák Horejs Myslil a spol. His main specialisations are intellectual property law, private international law, unfair competition, pharmaceuticals, trademarks, business law, mergers and acquisitions. He is the author of a range of magazine articles and publications in the area of intellectual property law and civil law. Dr CŠermák is vice-president of the Czech National Group of the AIPPI and a member of the executive board of the Czech group of the International League for Competition Law. He speaks Czech, English, German and French.
Andrea Považanová
Email apovazanova@apk.cz
From 1993 to 1998, Ms Povazanová studied at the Faculty of Law of Komensky´ University in Bratislava. She participated in expert training programmes at the Constitutional Court in Kosice (1997), the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (1999), the International Institute for Public Administration in Paris (1999) and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2002 – 2003). From 1998 to 2002, she was a legal adviser to the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic. Since 2003, Ms PovazŠanová has been with Cermák Horejs Myslil a spol as an attorney at law admitted in both the Czech and Slovak Republics. She specialises mainly in unfair competition, trademarks and businesss law. Ms Povazanová speaks Czech, Slovak, English and French.
Dallal & Associates
3rd Circle, Jabal Amman, Anani Centre, 6th Floor
PO Box 741 Amman (11118) Jordan
Fax +962
6 4642468
Email dallalaw@go.com.jo
Mubadda Issa Dallal
Managing Partner, Amman
Mubadda is the managing partner of Dallal & Associates and has been since 1997. Having obtained his LLB (with honours) from Leeds University in 1992, he pursued his studies at the University College of London, University of London and obtained his LLM with merit in International Business Law in 1993. His main practice areas are foreign investment, corporate, project financing, banking, e-banking, government contracts, privatisation, intellectual property, agency and distributorship, drafting and reviewing agreements and commercial and civil litigation.
Throughout his career Mr Dallal has advised world-leading companies such as Coca-Cola, Gillette, Duracell, KLM, France Telecom, Caterpillar, Kier Plc, Citibank NA, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Airbus Industrie, Nomura International, American Express, Foreign and Colonial Middle East Emerging Fund and Middle East Broadcasting Corporation, among others.
Dorsey & Whitney
21 Wilson Street, London EC2M 2TD, United Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7588 0800 Fax +44
20 7588 0555
Web www.dorsey.com
Ian Craig
Partner, London
Email craig.ian@dorsey.com
Mr Craig is a partner in the London office of Dorsey & Whitney. Ian is an intellectual property lawyer with a technical background, and handles both contentious and non-contentious IP matters, from the wider issues of how a company can maximise the potential of its IP assets to heavyweight patent litigation. Ian's clients are in a number of different industrial fields, from biotech and medical instruments to software. Ian teaches at both Anglia Polytechnic University and Cambridge University on IP issues.
Eitan Pearl Latzer & Cohen-Zedek, LLP
10 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 1001,
New York, New York 10020, United States
Tel +1
212 632 3494 Fax +1
212 632 3490
Mark S Cohen
Senior partner
Email markc@eplc.com
Mark S Cohen is chair of the life science practice group. He is a registered patent attorney in the United States. He is well versed in various aspects of patent prosecution, intellectual property management, strategic advice, technology assessment and licensing matters, including management of large patent portfolios, negotiating terms and drafting agreements, and counselling start-ups. He has been involved in large due diligence matters; infringement/validity/patentability opinions; licensing matters; European patent opposition proceedings; US interference and re-examination proceedings.
Mr Cohen is currently a strategic advisory board member of the University Of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute – Limbach Entrepreneurial Center; and formerly the chairperson of the Animal Patent Committee and the chairperson of the Plant Patent Committee of the intellectual Property Law Section of the American Bar Association.
2 Gav Yam Center, 7 Shenkar Street, Herzlia 46733, Israel
Tel +972
9 970 9092 Fax +972
9 970 9001
Dr Irit Gordon
Patent Attorney
Email iritg@eplc.com
Dr Irit Gordon is a registered as an Israeli patent attorney since January 2003. Her expertise is in the areas of patent drafting and worldwide prosecution, patentability opinions and non-infringement opinions. Dr Gordon gained a PhD from the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University (1993) and specialised in neuro-pharmacology. Between 1993 and 1995 Irit completed post-doctorial research in the area of Alzheimer's disease, in the Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel-Aviv University. Between 1995 and1996 She completed post-doctoral research in the area of prion diseases, in the Institute of Psychiatry in London, sponsored by the British Council.
Fish & Neave LLP
1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York,
NY 10020, United States
Tel +1
212 596 9152 Fax +1
646 728 2656
Web www.fishneave.com
Other offices Palo
Alto, CA, Washington DC
Susan Progoff
Partner, New York
Email sprogoff@fishneave.com
Ms Progoff is a partner at Fish & Neave LLP in New York City where she specialises in trademark, copyright and unfair competition law. Her practice includes all aspects of these areas, including litigation, ADR, corporate transactions, licensing, prosecution and counselling clients, both in the United States and internationally. She has been involved in a number of major lawsuits in the trademark, copyright and unfair competition fields. Sue has also lectured and written extensively on topics in these areas. She is active in the International Trademark Association and is the former chair and a current member of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Trademarks and Unfair Competition.
Vincent N Palladino
Partner, New York
Email vpalladino@fishneave.com
Mr Palladino is a partner at Fish & Neave LLP in New York City where he specialises in trademark, copyright and unfair competition law. His practice includes litigation, corporate transactions, licensing, prosecution and counselling clients, both in the United States and internationally. He has been involved in a number of major lawsuits in the trademark, copyright and unfair competition fields. He is a former editor-in-chief of The Trademark Reporter and has written more than 40 book chapters and articles on topics in these areas. He is active in the International Trademark Association, the Copyright Society of the United States and several bar associations.
Fish & Richardson PC
45 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 2800, New York,
NY 10111, United States
Tel +1
212 765 5070 Fax +1
212 765 5070
Web www.fr.com
Other offices Boston,
Washington, DC, Delaware, Minneapolis, Dallas, Silicon Valley, San Diego
William Stern
Principal, New York
Email stern@fr.com
William Stern is a Principal in the Corporate and Securities Group. He graduated with a BA in History from Brown University and a law degree and a masters degree in business from the University of Chicago. His practice emphasises a broad range of corporate transactions with a focus on public and private sales of securities, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He has particular expertise with computer hardware and software, life sciences, internet and new media companies. He is admitted to the Bar in New York, Connecticut and Colorado.
Practice areas Corporate and securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance.
Foga, Daley & Co Attorneys-at-Law, Patent and
Trademark Agents
7 Stanton Terrace, Kingston 6, Jamaica
Tel +876
927 4371 3 Fax +876
927 5081
Web www.fogadaley.com
Dianne Daley
Email daley@fogadaley.com
Dianne Daley is a founding partner of Foga, Daley & Co, and head of the firm’s intellectual Property Department.
She lectures in intellectual property law at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the WIPO Academy. She holds a Master of Laws degree from McGill University and a Bachelor of Laws from UWI.
Previous appointments include special adviser on intellectual property, head, Jamaica’s Copyright Unit, deputy chairman, Copyright Tribunal, vice president, WIPO Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances.
Nicole Foga
Email foga@fogadaley.com
Nicole Foga is the managing partner of Foga, Daley & Co. Her main practice areas are telecommunications, information technology, intellectual property management and commercial transactions.
She holds a Master of Laws in commercial law from Aberdeen University, Scotland and Bachelor of Laws and Arts degrees from the University of the West Indies. She is Deputy Chairman of Jamaica’s Copyright Tribunal. Previous appointments include General Counsel, Office of Utilities Regulation, special adviser on telecommunications and Crown Counsel.
Foley & Lardner LLP
2029 Century Park East, Suite 3500, Los Angeles,
CA 90067, United States
Tel +1
310 277 2223 Fax +1
310 557 8475
Web www.foley.com
Email info@foley.com
Other offices Chicago,
Detroit, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Madison, Milwaukee, New York, Orlando,
Sacramento, San Diego, San Diego/Del Mar, San Francisco, Silicon Valley,
Tallahassee, Tampa, Washington DC, West Palm Beach, Brussels, Tokyo
Miriam Claire Beezy
Partner, Los Angeles
Email mbeezy@foley.com
Tel +1
310 975 7966
Miriam Beezy is a partner in Foley & Lardner LLP, chair of the Trademark & Copyright Practice and co-chair of the Entertainment & Media Industry Team. She is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Before joining the firm, Ms Beezy was chair of the intellectual Property and Technology Department at Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles. Prior to that position, she was chief trademark counsel at Disney, where she managed Disney's worldwide trademark portfolio, including obtaining, licensing and enforcing Disney's trademark rights around the world.
Formosa Transnational Attorneys at Law
15F, No 136 Jen-Ai Road Sec 3, Taipei,
Taiwan
Tel +886
2 2755 7366 Fax +886
2 2755 7085
Web www.taiwanlaw.com
Yu-Lan Kuo
Managing Partner
Email yulan.kuo@taiwanlaw.com
Yu-Lan Kuo is the head of IP department of Formosa Transnational, one of the largest law firms in Taiwan, as well as the Chairman of the Trademark and Patent Committee of the Taipei Bar Association. He has led Formosa’s IP practice for more than a decade and has worked on a number of significant IP disputes in Taiwan.
Hsiaoling Fan
Junior Partner
Email hsiaoling.fan@taiwanlaw.com
Hsiaoling Fan received her LLM degree from Harvard Law School and has been admitted in both Taiwan and New York State. She is experienced in intellectual property and general commercial litigation.
Frost Brown Todd LLC
2200 PNC Center, 201 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati,
OH 45202, United States
Tel +1
513 651 6800 Fax +1
513 651 6981
Web www.frostbrowntodd.com
Other offices Columbus,
Lexington, Louisville, Middletown, Nashville, New Albany
Stephen Albainy-Jenei
Member, Cincinnati
Email salbainyjenei@fbtlaw.com
Stephen Albainy-Jenei, a patent attorney and member of the firm’s intellectual Property Department, handles a diverse intellectual property practice in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and chemical fields for leading universities, research hospitals and research institutes, as well as biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies ranging from start-up to Fortune 500 companies. He was designated as one of America’s leading business lawyers in intellectual property by Chambers & Partners.
Prior to joining Frost Brown Todd LLC, Mr Albainy-Jenei was Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Director of intellectual Property for the University of Cincinnati, ultimately serving as the Acting Director of intellectual Property and University Patent Officer. He is admitted to practise in Ohio, the US Patent and Trademark Office and the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. He has an MS degree in physiology and was a PhD candidate (ABD) in pharmacology and cellular biology. He received a JD from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
Goodmans LLP
250 Yonge Street, Suite 2400, Toronto,
Ontario, M5B 2M6 Canada
Tel +1
416 979 2211 Fax +1
416 979 1234
Web www.goodmans.ca
Other offices Vancouver,
Hong Kong
H B Radomski
Partner, Toronto
Email hradomski@goodmans.ca
Harry Radomski is the head of the Goodmans intellectual property group. He completed both his BComm (1972) and LLB (1975) at the University of Toronto and his LLM (1976) at the University of California at Berkeley. He was awarded the Treasurer’s Medal for standing first in the Ontario Bar Admission course on his call to the Bar in 1978. He has been a partner with Goodmans since 1987 and is presently a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
Mr Radomski’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and advice regarding all intellectual property issues. He frequently appears before Canadian appellate courts and the Supreme Court of Canada on matters concerning a broad range of intellectual property issues, and particularly patent-related matters. He is also involved in providing advice and acting as counsel to coaches, management personnel and hockey officials in the National Hockey League.
In 1999, Mr Radomski was named by the international publication, Managing intellectual Property as Canada’s intellectual Property Patent Litigator of the Year. He has written and spoken extensively on patent litigation and other intellectual property topics, and taught a course on IP remedies at the University of Toronto. He is presently teaching an IP LLM course in health law at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Richard Naiberg
Partner, Toronto
Email rnaiberg@goodmans.ca
Richard Naiberg is a partner in the litigation section of the Toronto office of Goodmans LLP. He received his Bachelor of Engineering Science in 1987 from the University of Western Ontario and his Bachelor of Laws in 1991 from the University of Toronto. He joined Goodmans after his call to the Bar in 1993 and practises intellectual property and general commercial litigation.
Mr Naiberg is the treasurer of the Canadian Bar Association, intellectual Property Section, and is on the litigation, lectures and seminar committees of the intellectual Property Institute of Canada and a member of the Advocates' Society and the American intellectual Property Law Institute.
Hami Legal Services
Suite 402 Sayeh Tower, Mellat Park, Vali asr Avenue,
Tehran 19677, Iran
Tel +98
21 204 3684 Fax +98
21 204 3686
Web www.iranip.com
Mohammad Badamchi
Partner
Email info@iranip.com
Mohammad Badamchi is a partner of the firm. He is an LLB graduate from Azad University, Tehran. He deals with intellectual property, corporate law and foreign investment, and his practice includes both litigation and advice in these areas. He is also experienced in unfair competition and anti-counterfeiting cases. Areas of particular experience include intellectual property protection and advice on trademark, patent and ccTLD registration and protection, licensing, corporate law and foreign investment.
Practice areas intellectual property, anti-counterfeiting and unfair competition, corporate law, foreign investment, litigation.
Hoet Peláez Castillo & Duque
Centro San Ignacio, Torre Kepler, Avenida
Blandin, La Castellana, Caracas, Venezuela
Tel +58
212 263 6644 Fax +58
212 263 7744
Web www.hpcd.com
Carlos Dominguez-Hernandez
Email cdominguez@hpcd.com
Carlos Dominguez-Hernandez works as a junior partner in the dispute resolution group. His practice focuses on commercial litigation and dispute resolution. He has obtained numerous IP injunctions and has conducted legal proceedings for the protection of well-known trademarks and other IP assets. His work includes contract drafting, counselling, negotiation, anti-counterfeiting and IP litigation for both domestic and international clients. (Lawyer (1988); Master in Commercial Law (1998) and Civil Procedural Law (2002), Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.)
Yulena Sanchez-Hoet
Email ysanchez@hpcd.com
Yulena Sanchez- Hoet is a junior partner in the dispute resolution group. She specialises in commercial litigation and dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on IP protection and enforcement. Prior to this she worked with the litigation practices of Denton Wilde Sapte; Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw; and Hunton & Williams in London. (Lawyer, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (1996); Diploma, Universidad Metropolitana (1998); International Business Law LLM (2000), University of London.)
Homburger
Weinbergstrasse 56-58, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel +41
43 222 1000 Fax +41
43 222 1500
Web www.homburger.ch
Gregor Bühler
Partner, Zurich
Email gregor.buehler@homburger.ch
Gregor Bühler is a partner in the IP/IT practice group of Homburger. He graduated from the University of St Gallen in 1990, receiving his doctorate in 1995. He also studied at Georgetown University in Washington DC, where he graduated with an LLM in 1997. His practice focuses on intellectual property law, information technology and sports/entertainment law, as well as on commercial litigation.
Areas of particular experience include internet and e-commerce advice; trademark and branding strategies; advice on advertising issues; trademark, copyright and unfair competition litigation; licensing agreements and transactional advice in all intellectual property-related matters.
Kenyon & Kenyon
One Broadway, New York, NY 10004-1050, United States
Tel +1
212 425 7200 Fax +1
212 425 5288
Web www.kenyon.com
Other offices Washington
DC and Silicon Valley
Jeffrey M Butler
Partner, New York
Email jbutler@kenyon.com
Jeffrey M Butler is a partner with Kenyon & Kenyon, at the firm's New York office. He has extensive experience in litigation and adversarial matters concerning all aspects of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyright, antitrust, unfair competition and trade secrets. He also has significant experience in domestic and international intellectual property licensing, acquisition and exploitation.
Mr Butler spent six years working for Kenyon & Kenyon in Europe and is a member of several US, international and German law associations. He is admitted to the Bar of the States of New York and Connecticut and the District of Columbia and is a USPTO registered patent attorney.
Kim & Chang
Hannuri Building, 219 Naeja-dong, Jongno-gu,
Seoul 110-053, Korea
Tel +822
764 8855 / 2122 3900 Fax +822
741 0328
Web www.ip.kimchang.com
Jay (Young-June) Yang
Partner
Email yjyang@kimchang.com
Jay (Young-June) Yang is a senior partner at Kim & Chang. He received his BJur degree at Seoul National University in 1977 and his LLM degree at the University of Michigan Law School in 1985. He was trained at the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea and served as a judge advocate in the Republic of Korea Army for three years prior to joining Kim & Chang. He also participated in the foreign lawyers programme at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison for two years and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1986.
Mr Yang has extensive experience in litigation, enforcement and dispute resolution involving intellectual property issues, foreign and domestic customs seizures, and international and domestic licensing and distribution disputes. In recent years he has also been in the forefront of internet-related legal developments in Korea, including cybersquatting and domain name dispute cases.
Cheol-Gyoon Ahn
Patent attorney
Email cgahn@ip.kimchang.com
Cheol-Gyoon Ahn is a Korean patent attorney in the chemical practice group of Kim & Chang. He received his BS degree at Seoul National University in 1990. Mr Ahn worked as a researcher at Daeduk R&D Centre of Daelim Industrial Co from 1990 to 1995 prior to joining Kim & Chang. He also participated in the foreign lawyers programme at the Max Planck Institute in Munich. He has expertise in chemical-related areas including chemical engineering, polymer chemistry, analytic chemistry and environmental chemistry.
In H Kim
US attorney
Email ihkim@ip.kimchang.com
In H Kim is a foreign legal counsel in the IP group. He received a BS degree in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine and received his JD degree from the Chapman University School of Law, where he served as the notes and comments editor of Chapman Law Review. Before joining Kim & Chang, Mr Kim was an associate at Stetina, Brunda, Garred & Brucker, Aliso Viejo, California.
Mr Kim's practice covers a full range of IP matters, with a focus on patent prosecution and litigation, and strategic IP counselling. He has considerable experience with hi-tech, complex litigation and in counselling companies on global IP strategies.
King & Spalding LLP
1185 Avenue of the Americas, New York,
NY 10036, United States
Tel +1
212 556 2100 Fax +1
212 556 2222
Web www.kslaw.com
Other offices Atlanta,
Houston, London and Washington DC
W Edward Bailey
Partner, New York
Email ebailey@kslaw.com
Tel +1
212 556 2327
W Edward Bailey is a partner at King & Spalding LLP. He has 30 years of experience in all aspects of patent infringement litigation. He has also done copyright, trademark, trade dress and trade secret litigation. He has served as lead trial counsel in numerous cases involving diverse technologies and has spoken on intellectual property issues at continuing legal education programmes conducted by the American intellectual Property Law Association and The Practicing Law Institute. He also has appeared on nationwide live television on CNNfn.
Mr Bailey is listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2003-2004 (11th Edition) and profiled in the 2003/4 edition of The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Patents). He is a member of the American Bar Association, New York intellectual Property Law Association, American intellectual Property Law Association and Federal Circuit Bar Association.
Prior to beginning his law practice, Mr Bailey received his BS from Auburn University and was enrolled in the PhD Programme in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University. Mr Bailey served as an officer in the US Marine Corps and was an artillery forward observer in the Republic of Vietnam.
A Joy Arnold
Partner, New York
Email jarnold@kslaw.com
Tel +1
212 556 2312
A Joy Arnold is a partner at King & Spalding LLP where she specialises in complex chemical, pharmaceutical and medical device intellectual property cases. She has represented numerous clients in the pharmaceutical, consumer healthcare and food industries, and has substantial trial experience in a number of high-profile litigations.
Ms Arnold is a member of the American Bar Association, National Bar Association, American intellectual Property Law Association and the Federal Circuit Bar Association. Her extensive list of publications includes several articles relating to the Hatch-Waxman Act.
Prior to beginning her practice, Ms Arnold worked as a research scientist for the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and for GlaxoSmithKline. Ms Arnold is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania Law School where she was a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her graduate degree from Wesleyan University.
Thomas D Lyford
Associate, New York
Email tlyford@kslaw.com
Tel +1
212 556 2139
Thomas Lyford is an associate in the New York office of King & Spalding LLP where he specialises in patent litigation across a broad range of technologies, including the chemical and pharmaceutical fields. Prior to beginning his practice, Mr Lyford worked in the chemistry and biomedical research fields. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and received his undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry from Rocky Mountain College.
Clark Lackert
Partner & Head of IP, New York
Email clackert@kslaw.com
Tel +1
212 556 2329
Clark Lackert is a partner in the intellectual Property Practice Group at King & Spalding LLP. His practice is primarily in trademark, domain name, licensing and anti-counterfeiting matters, with a particular expertise in the international area. In addition, he is a domain name arbitrator for the World intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Chair of the ABA’s International Trademarks Committee and Secretary of the United States Group of the International Association for the Protection of intellectual Property (AIPPI).
Mr Lackert received his AB, cum laude, from Cornell University and his JD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also holds an LLM in Trade Regulation from New York University.
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Tower 42, 25 Old Broad
Street, London EC2N 1HQ, United Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7816 8700 Fax +44
20 7816 8800
Web www.kirkland.com
Associated
offices Chicago,
New York, Washington DC,
San Francisco, Los Angeles
Pierre-André Dubois
Partner, London
Email pdubois@kirkland.com
Pierre-André Dubois is a partner with the firm and is in charge of its UK intellectual Property Group. He obtained his LLB (Common and Civil Law) (First Class Honours) from the University of Montreal in 1984. He is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales as well as a barrister and a solicitor in Canada. His practice covers all aspects of intellectual property and information technology law including licensing and outsourcing agreements and related competition law issues. He also handles litigation on IP disputes before the High Court of England and Wales. He acts for large Fortune 250 companies as well as smaller UK and US based enterprises and start-ups, operating in the IT, biotechnology, life sciences, financial services and consumer goods industries. He was named in 2003 as a leading IP lawyer by the Legal 500 (UK Edition) and as a leading lawyer by Global Corporate Counsel in 2002.
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP
599 Lexington Avenue, New
York, NY 10022, United States
Tel +1
212 536 3900 Fax +1
212 536 3901
Henry W Oliver Building, 535 Smithfield Street,
Pittsburgh, PA 15222, United
States
Tel +1 412 355 6500 Fax +1
412 355 6501
Web www.kl.com
Other offices Boston,
Dallas, Harrisburg, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, San Francisco, Washington
DC
On 1st January 2005, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP will combine with the English firm Nicholson Graham & Jones. Once the combination is finalised, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, as the firm will then be named, will have approximately 950 lawyers located in London as well as the 10 US cities noted above.
James R Kyper
Partner, Pittsburgh
Email jkyper@kl.com
James Kyper's practice includes a wide range of intellectual property and commercial litigation involving patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, copyrights, false advertising, unfair competition and licensing disputes. He is experienced in patent and trademark litigation and prosecution, in a broad variety of licensing and technology transactions, and in insurance coverage issues for intellectual property claims. Mr Kyper has represented clients in litigations involving cold-formed steel framing, safety harnesses, automobiles, ceramic cutting tools, software, railroad repair equipment, internet-based business systems, control valves, cellular phones and entertainment properties. He has experience counselling clients with respect to intellectual property and other business aspects relating to the internet. He is also involved in many projects concerned with the intellectual property aspects of entertainment and multimedia properties.
Mr Kyper is a member of the Licensing Executives Society and the ABA's intellectual Property Law Section. He is also active with the International Trademark Association and the intellectual Property Owners Association.
Mark I Peroff
Partner, New York
Email mperoff@kl.com
Mark Peroff concentrates his practice on counselling and litigation in the areas of domestic and global trademark, trade dress, copyright, false advertising, unfair competition, privacy and publicity rights, parody, media and internet related matters. He represents clients before the US Patent & Trademark Office and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and is regularly ranked among the most prolific filers of US trademark applications in the United States. In addition, Mr Peroff advises on the negotiation and drafting of assignments, trademark clearances and searches, brand adoption and protection strategies, and due diligence regarding intellectual property rights in corporate transactions.
Mr Peroff's clients include large multinational companies, mid-size service and manufacturing concerns, not-for-profit organisations, inventors and entrepreneurs engaged in practically every field of commerce. He is a former examiner with the US Patent & Trademark Office, and speaks fluent French.
Kelly D Talcott
Partner, New York
Email ktalcott@kl.com
Kelly Talcott's practice includes resolution of contentious intellectual property matters including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, anti-counterfeiting and unfair competition issues, and of disputes arising out of the interface of law and technology, such as software licensing and technology transfers. He has been significantly involved in patent matters relating to such diverse technologies as complex voltage regulation circuit designs, chip architecture, semiconductor fabrication processes, microencapsulated fluids, human bone replacement compounds and power attenuation chips, as well as business methods such as a single-action ordering system and financial trading systems.
Mr Talcott has also directed due diligence work on behalf of technology companies in connection with acquisition or financing transactions. He is admitted to practise before the Supreme Court of the United States, numerous Federal Appellate and District Courts, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
KLM, Inc
PO Box 948, Boulder, CO 80306-0948, United States
Tel +1
303 444 7212 Fax +
1 303 444 7235
Web www.klminc.com
Dr Lindsay Moore
CEO and President
Email lmoore@klminc.com
Dr Moore is the founder and CEO of KLM Inc, a management consultation firm that specialises in strategy, planning, branding, marketing, knowledge management and the management of intellectual capital assets such as brands, intellectual property and organisational capital.
Dr Moore has worked in the fields of strategy, branding and intellectual assets for over 30 years. She was one of the original founders, and later the General Manger of Strategy and Innovation, at Celestial Seasonings Inc, an international speciality tea company, where she managed a vast portfolio of intellectual property and developed a brand worth variously from US$400 million to US$800 million.
Dr Moore is presently preparing two books for publication, the first on the nature of thinking and the limits of knowledge, and the second, with co-author Lesley Craig, an attorney with Townsend, Townsend & Crew in Denver, Colorado on the problems in contemporary intellectual asset management.
Konnov & Sozanovsky
23 Shota Rustaveli Street, Suite 5, Kiev, 01023,
Ukraine
Tel +380
044 490 5400 Fax +380
044 490 5490
Web www.konnov.com
Julia Semeniy
Associate, Kiev
Email jsemeniy@konnov.com
Julia Semeniy concentrates her practice on intellectual property and trademark matters. Her experience includes licensing, assignment, trademark prosecution, intellectual property infringements and unfair competition. Ms Semeniy counsels clients on these matters and prepares licence and assignment agreements with regard to IP. She is also involved in litigation concerning trademark infringements.
Ms Semeniy obtained her master’s degree in law at the International University of Science and Technology in Kiev.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
919 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022,
United States
Tel +1
212 715 9100 Fax +1
212 715 8000
Web www.kramerlevin.com
Other offices Paris,
Alliance: Berwin Leighton Paisner (London * Brussels), Affiliation: Studio
Legal Santa Maria (Milan * Rome)
Nicholas L Coch
Partner, New York
Email ncoch@kramerlevin.com
Nicholas L Coch is the chairman of the firm’s intellectual Property and Technology Law Department. Mr Coch has served as lead counsel in numerous complex intellectual property trials and appeals involving patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and antitrust issues. This broad litigation experience includes the recent groundbreaking injunction against enforcement of Purdue Pharma’s controlled-release OxyContin patents on grounds of inequitable conduct; the successful procurement of preliminary injunctions enjoining patent infringement; the reversal of a summary judgment of patent invalidity; the securing of favourable judgments clarifying the trademark law of aesthetic functionality; and the successful defence of The Associated Press in a database copyright infringement action.
Mr Coch has authored many articles, lectures widely and is a member of the American intellectual Property Law Association, American Bar Association, intellectual Property Owners Association and New York intellectual Property Law Association, for which he has chaired committees and subcommittees on trade secret, antitrust, and inequitable conduct and patent misuse issues.
Paul Dennis Connuck
Partner, New York
Email pconnuck@kramerlevin.com
Paul Connuck is a partner in the firm’s intellectual Property and Technology Law Department whose practice focuses on intellectual property transactions. Mr Connuck, a member of the firm’s Outsourcing and Technology Transactions Group, brings more than 20 years’ experience in intellectual property, contract, antitrust and advertising law matters to his representation of clients in the negotiation of various agreements, including software, pharmaceutical, biotech and technology development, collaboration, licence and supply contracts; internet and book publishing contracts; and trademark, designer label, photographer and model licences and releases.
Mr Connuck has published and lectured extensively on intellectual property issues and is a member of the Board of Editors of intellectual Property Strategist, the intellectual Property Owners Association’s Copyright Anti-Circumvention Committee, American intellectual Property Law Association, International Trademark Association (INTA), New York intellectual Property Law Association, and the Copyright and Literary Property Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Lellos P Demetriades Law Office
The Chanteclair House, 2 Sophoulis Street,
9th Floor,
1096 Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel +357
22 676060 Fax +357
22 676061
Web www.ldlaw.com.cy
Achilleas Demetriades
Partner, Nicosia
Email achilleas@ldlaw.com.cy
Mr Demetriades is the partner in charge of intellectual property matters at the office. He was called to the English Bar and holds an LLM in international trade from Georgetown Law Center in Washington DC. His department deals with contentious and non-contentious matters relating to trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights and data protection. His IPR specialisation is anti-piracy, which entails an approach not usually confined to the particular cause of action but combines creatively available legislation so as to achieve speedy and effective results in the marketplace.
LPL Licensing, LLC
PO Box 15610, Scottsdale, AZ 85267, United States
Richard M Libman
President
Email rlibman@lpllicensing.com
Tel +1
480 473 9797
Mr Libman is the president and founder of LPL Licensing, LLC, an intellectual property licensing company located in Scottsdale, AZ. He is a recognised leader, innovator and important influence in the area of financial product marketing. Mr Libman has been granted numerous US patents for his innovations in direct marketing and financial product distribution.
Majmudar & Co
96 Free Press House, Free Press Journal Marg, Nariman
Point, Mumbai 400 021, India
Tel +91
22 5630 7272 Fax +91
22 5630 7252
Web www.majmudarindia.com
Other
offices New
Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai
Anoop Narayanan
Advocate, Mumbai
Email anoop@majmudarindia.com
Anoop Narayanan is a member of the firm’s TMT practice group. He obtained his LLB degree from the Government Law College, University of Calicut, Kerala in 1994 and his LLM degree from the School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala.
Anoop deals with a broad range of intellectual property, information technology, telecommunications and entertainment law matters, and his practice includes both litigation and commercial/transactional advice in these areas.
Areas of particular experience include trademark, e-commerce and internet advice, including passing-off actions, domain name disputes, brand protection and advice on advertising issues, patent litigation, technology transfer agreements, IT contracts and technology disputes, copyright exploitation and plagiarism actions, and arbitration and ADR in the context of IP disputes.
Shakeel Kudrolli
Of Counsel, Mumbai
Email shakeel@majmudarindia.com
Shakeel Kudrolli is head of the Technology Group at Majmudar & Co and also deals with the corporate practice of the firm. He has a science and law degree from University of Mumbai (Bombay). He was called to the Bar in 1985.
He has diverse experience in litigation, transaction and advisory practice and additionally deals in law office management.
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Level 28, North Tower, 525 Collins Street, Melbourne,
Victoria, 3000, Australia
Tel +61
3 9643 4000 Fax +61
3 9643 5999
Level 30, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane,
QLD, 4000, Australia
Tel +61
7 3244 8000 Fax +61
7 3244 8999
Web www.mallesons.com
Other offices Sydney,
Perth, Canberra, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, London
Robert Cooper
Partner, Melbourne
Email robert.cooper@mallesons.com
Robert Cooper is a partner in the Melbourne office of Mallesons Stephen Jaques where he advises clients on all aspects of IP disputes.
Robert has a masters in computing and has acted for clients in patent disputes in areas such as business methods, methods of treatment, refrigerants and consumer goods. He has run medical device and software copyright infringement disputes, trademark disputes for food, clothing and footwear clients and anti-counterfeiting campaigns in Europe and Australia.
He has written and presented papers for a range of industry publications and at national and international conferences. Robert is qualified to practise in England and Wales, having worked in London for five years, as well as in Australia. He is a trustee of LESANZ and edits its quarterly newsletter.
John Swinson
Partner, Brisbane
Email john.swinson@mallesons.com
John Swinson specialises in intellectual property and technology law. John has an undergraduate degree in computer science, and a masters degree from Harvard Law School.
One focus of John’s practice is patent litigation primarily in computer, electrical and mechanical arts, with particular emphasis on networking, security, internet applications and financial and trading systems. In John’s 15 years of legal experience, he has also litigated copyright, trade secret, software piracy and trademark cases. John is a member of WIPO’s panel of experts for domain name disputes.
John brings to his practice international experience. He is admitted to practise in both Australia and New York, and worked as an attorney for six years in New York.
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
190 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois
60603, United States
Tel +1
312 782 0600 Fax +1
312 701 7711
Web www.mayerbrownrowe.com
Other offices New
York, Washington DC, Charlotte, Houston, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Mexico
City, London, Manchester, Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Frankfurt
Michael A Molano
Partner, Palo Alto
Email mmolano@mayerbrownrowe.com
Mr Molano is a partner in the intellectual Property Group of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP and concentrates his practice in patent litigation, patent prosecution and transactional intellectual property matters. His technical expertise is in the electrical arts, with substantial experience in the semiconductor (silicon and compound), software, medical device, mechanical and electro-mechanical arts. He counsels clients on patent strategies, primarily advising them on patent prosecution strategies and licensing matters.
Mr Molano received a BS in electrical engineering from Northwestern University (1990) and a JD from St Louis University School of Law (1993).
Deborah Schavey Ruff
Partner, Chicago
Email druff@mayerbrownrowe.com
Deborah Schavey Ruff is a partner with the intellectual Property Group at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. She concentrates her practice on the strategic management and enforcement of patent and trademark portfolios, including the development of global trademark protection and enforcement programmes, trademark prosecution, patent prosecution and technology licensing. She regularly counsels corporate clients on intellectual property strategic planning, including intellectual property issues involved in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, reorganisations and restructuring, as well as financial institutions on the securitisation of intellectual property assets. She has considerable experience with intellectual property issues in corporate transactions, leading the intellectual property transaction teams in several recent multi-million dollar transactions involving the chemical and food industries.
She received her undergraduate degree in microbiology (BS 1981) from Purdue University and her law degree (JD 1986) from Valparaiso University School of Law.
Michael O Warnecke
Partner, Chicago
Email mwarnecke@mayerbrownrowe.com
Mr Warnecke has considerable experience in all areas of intellectual property matters and is the partner in charge of the intellectual Property Group at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. His primary area of practice has been intellectual property litigation, including patent and trademark infringement and trade dress, trade secret and unfair competition matters in the US and foreign countries. He was a US patent examiner for four years and has a wide range of experience in patent and trademark prosecution and negotiation of licence and joint venture agreements in the US, Europe and the Far East.
Mr Warnecke received his undergraduate degree (BSME, 1963) from Purdue University and his law degree (JD, 1967) from George Washington University.
Merchant & Gould PC
3200 IDS Center, 80 South Eighth Street, Minneapolis,
MN 55402, United States
Tel +1
612 332 5300 Fax +1
612 332 9081
Web www.merchant-gould.com
Other offices Atlanta,
Denver, Seattle, Washington DC
Jeffer Ali
Attorney, Minneapolis
Tel +1
612 332 5300
Email jali@merchant-gould.com
Mr Ali specialises in patent litigation, counselling clients regarding patent enforcement and licensing. He is licensed to practise before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A graduate of the University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy, he worked as a retail pharmacist before attending law school at the University of Minnesota. He is also an Adjunct Professor for the University of Minnesota Law School's intellectual Property Moot Court.
Rebecca A Bortolotti
Attorney, Minneapolis
Tel +1
612 332 5300
Email rbortolotti@merchant-gould.com
Ms Bortolotti practises intellectual property law focusing on litigation and strategic client counselling. She is skilled in handling a variety of litigation matters, covering a broad spectrum of technology areas. Her experience includes using creative methods of offence and defence, drawing on her knowledge of acquiring intellectual property rights before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Julie R Daulton
Attorney, Minneapolis
Tel +1
612 332 5300
Email jdaulton@merchant-gould.com
Ms Daulton practises intellectual property law with an emphasis on developing portfolio strategy in mechanical technologies. Her practice encompasses all phases of intellectual property portfolio management, including US and foreign patent application preparation and prosecution; patent clearance and infringement opinions; trademark application preparation and prosecution; copyright application preparation and prosecution; and licensing of intellectual property rights. She is a former Patent Examiner with the US Patent and Trademark Office in Washington DC.
Denise M Kettelberger
Attorney, Minneapolis
Tel +1
612 332 5300
Email dkettelberger@merchant-gould.com
Denise is a partner with Merchant & Gould PC and co-chairs the firm's ChemBio practice group. She is a registered patent attorney with a practice in counselling biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients in strategic management of intellectual property assets, including worldwide patent portfolio management, product review, infringement/validity analysis, technology audits and prosecution matters. She is currently a member of the AIPLA Board of Directors, and is a frequent speaker on biotechnology patent law issues.
Mark D Schuman
Attorney, Minneapolis
Tel +1
612 332 5300
Email mschuman@merchant-gould.com
Mr Schuman's practice encompasses contested matters in the United States district courts, state courts and administrative agencies. He has participated in numerous district court trials to both the bench and jury on matters related to patents, trademarks and other intellectual property rights, and has participated in six Markman hearings. He has headed litigation involving electronic circuitry, mechanical devices, optics, surface roughness, chemical compositions, adhesives, software and pharmaceuticals.
Metida Patent and Trademark Agency
Gedimino Ave 45-6, LT-01109 Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel +370
5 2490 830 +370 5 2490 831 +370 5 2490 832
Fax +370 5 2490 833
Web www.metida.lt
Email patent@metida.lt
Asta Lukosiute
Email asta@metida.lt
Asta Lukosiute is a lawyer with Metida Patent and Trademark Agency where she has worked since 1999. In 2002/2003 she trained with OHIM in Alicante. Ms Lukosiute holds an LLM degree in European and international law. She also works as an assistant lecturer for IP law and competition law courses at the Riga Graduate School of Law.
Moody’s Investors Service
99 Church Street, New York, NY 10007, United States
Tel +1
212 553 4377 Fax +1
212 553 7820
Web www.moodys.com
Jay H Eisbruck
Managing Director
Jay Eisbruck is a Managing Director in Moody’s Investors Service Asset-Backed Finance Group, where he has worked since 1991. During this time Mr Eisbruck has evaluated transactions backed by a variety of assets including credit cards, auto loans, manufactured housing, intellectual property, and water and sewer systems. He currently focuses much of his efforts on aiding the development of new assets.
Mr Eisbruck has also contributed to a number of articles on structural innovations and general trends in the asset-backed market. His article on the rating approach to intellectual property assets was included in the Wiley and Co publication, From Ideas to Assets. Mr Eisbruck earned both an MBA in finance and a BS in economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he was a Racoosin Scholar.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
101 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10178, United
States
Tel +1
212 309 6000 Fax +1
212 309 6001
Web www.morganlewis.com
Other offices Boston,
Dallas, Chicago, Harrisburg, Irvine,
Los Angeles, Miami, Palo Alto, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Princeton, San Francisco,
Washington DC, Brussels, Frankfurt, London,
Paris and Tokyo
Stephen B Judlowe
Partner, New York
Tel +1
212 309 2101
Email sjudlowe@morganlewis.com
Stephen B Judlowe leads the firm's intellectual Property Litigation Practice. He has been lead trial attorney litigating intellectual property rights for domestic and international interests for more than 30 years in federal district courts across the United States, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States International Trade Commission. He has been responsible for patent matters involving all substantial areas of technology including electronics (computer and large-scale memory systems, CATV and broadcast signal distribution and reception, NMR medical imaging, semiconductors, FM stereo and industrial controls); microwave oven and slotted-choke door seal technology; pharmaceuticals and medical devices (ulcer-healing H2 antagonists, antidepressants, antibiotics, antiemetics, AIDS medicines, intraocular lenses, stents and circulatory aids); chemistry (polymers and adhesives); software and financial services (CMA® central assets account and banking and finance); and consumer goods (detergents, cosmetics, dental care and personal wipes). Mr Judlowe has also litigated a number of Lanham Act and other unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation and trademark infringement matters.
Brian P Murphy
Partner, New York
Tel +1
212 309 2108
Email bmurphy@morganlewis.com
Brian P Murphy is a partner in the Litigation Practice. Mr Murphy’s practice focuses on patent litigation, and he has many years of experience trying (jury and non-jury) and litigating patent lawsuits for corporate clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer products, biomedical device and electronics industries. He has significant experience representing brand-name pharmaceutical companies in Hatch-Waxman patent litigation. Representative patent matters he has litigated and tried include: Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd v Bausch & Lomb Incorporated; Smithkline Beecham Corp v Excel Pharmaceuticals, Inc; Glaxo Wellcome, Inc v Pharmadyne Corp; Glaxo Wellcome, Inc v Ben Venue Labs and Intel Corp v US Int’l Trade Comm’n.
Mr Murphy is a member of the intellectual Property Owners Association (Vice Chair – Hatch Waxman Committee), the American Bar Association and the American intellectual Property Law Association. Mr Murphy is admitted to practise in the State of New York and also registered to practise before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Morgan Stanley
25 Cabot Square, Canary Wharf,
London E14 4QA, United Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7425 5000 Fax +44
20 7425 5300
Web www.morganstanley.com
Scott Bruckner
Co-head, European Technology Group, European Investment Banking Division
Email scott.bruckner@morganstanley.com
Scott Bruckner is the co-head of the European Technology Group, in Morgan Stanley's European Investment Banking Division. He also oversees coverage of wireless service providers in the European Communications Group.
He graduated with a PhD in political science and comparative political economy from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1992.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
425 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-2482,
United States
Tel +1
415 268 7000 Fax +1
415 268 7522
Web www.mofo.com
Other offices Century
City, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Northern Virginia, Orange County,
Palo Alto, Sacramento,
San Diego, Walnut Creek, Washington DC, Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, London,
Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo
Matthew Kreeger
Partner, San Francisco
Email mkreeger@mofo.com
Matthew Kreeger is a litigation partner who specialises in intellectual property disputes, including patent infringement litigation and interferences. He received an AB degree in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 and a JD from Harvard University in 1990. He has represented many clients in the life sciences and information technology fields, including a recent successful argument before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in an interference regarding HIV immunoassays.
Rachel Krevans
Managing partner, San Francisco
Email rkrevans@mofo.com
Ms Krevans is a partner in Morrison & Foerster's Litigation Department, resident in the firm's San Francisco office, of which she is the managing partner. Her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation. She has litigated patents involving a variety of life sciences and electrical engineering inventions, and also has extensive experience advising clients on strategic issues in patent prosecution and related proceedings such as interferences, re-examination, and reissue.
PATPOL
Polish and European Patent and Trademark Attorneys
162J, Nowoursynowska Str,
02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Postal address PO
Box 168, 00-950 Warsaw, Poland
Tel +48
22 644 96 57; 644 96 59; 644 96 68; 546 91 10
Fax +48 22 644 44 02; 644 96
00
Email patpol@patpol.com.pl
Katarzyna Jasiukiewicz
Katarzyna Jasiukiewicz has a PhD in law and is the head of the Legal Department at Patpol. Mrs Jasiukiewicz is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lublin and a member of the District Chamber of Legal Counsels in Lublin. She specialises in administrative proceedings, intellectual property and unfair competition law, as well as pharmaceutical law.
Katarzyna Karcz
Katarzyna Karcz, MSc, is a European patent attorney and a partner of Patpol. She studied civil engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology and undertook postgraduate intellectual property studies at the Jagellonian University in Kraków. Mrs Karcz is a member of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys and of AIPPI.
Perani Mezzanotte & Partners
Piazza San Babila, 5, Milan 20122, Italy
Tel +39
02 76 31 61 61 Fax +39
02 76 31 76 19
Web www.perani.com
Paolo Perani
Partner, Milan
Email pperani@perani.com
Paolo Perani is admitted to the Italian Bar and is head of the litigation group of the firm. He graduated from the University of Milan (Dr Jur) and is member of the most important IP associations, such as AIPPI, INTA, ECTA and LIDC.
Areas of particular experience include e-commerce and internet advice, including domain name disputes, brand protection and advice on advertising issues (he contributed to the volume International Comparative Advertising, INTA, 1997), patent and trademark litigation, licence and technology transfer agreements, IT contracts and technology disputes, copyright actions and arbitration and ADR in context of IP disputes.
Practice areas Trademarks, patents, copyright and related litigation, internet law and information technology, advertising, antitrust, unfair competition.
Piper Rudnick LLP
203 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1900, Chicago,
IL 60601, United States
Tel +1
312 368 4000 Fax +1
312 236 7516
Web www.piperrudnick.com
Other
offices Baltimore,
MD, Boston, MA, Dallas, TX, Easton, MD, Edison, NJ, Las Vegas, NV, Los
Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Reston, VA, San Francisco,
CA, Tampa, FL, Washington DC, Paris
Keith W Medansky
Partner, Chicago
Email keith.medansky@piperrudnick.com
Keith W Medansky focuses on intellectual property, including the full range of transactional and litigation matters pertaining to trademarks, copyrights, software, anti-counterfeiting and technology. He is rated AV, the highest rating attainable, by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and he was selected as a leading lawyer by Leading Lawyers Network in 2004.
Mr Medansky has extensive international experience managing large global intellectual property portfolios and transactions for start-ups and large multinationals. His practice includes addressing complex issues relating to IP holding companies and arising out of licensing, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and bankruptcy. He also litigates infringement, brand protection and counterfeiting disputes worldwide.
Mr Medansky holds a BA from Northwestern University and a JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois. He is a frequent speaker and author, president of the Trademark Committee of the intellectual Property Association of Chicago and Vice Chair of the Communications Committee of the Brand Names Educational Foundation.
Alan S Dalinka
Partner, Chicago
Email alan.dalinka@piperrudnick.com
Alan Dalinka focuses on intellectual property and has significant experience in software anti-piracy matters, including extensive federal litigation experience in copyright, trademark and patent infringement, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, and the enforcement of post-employment restrictive covenant agreements. He is rated AV, the highest rating attainable, by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
Mr Dalinka graduated with a BS from Northwestern University School of Speech and a JD from Northwestern University School of Law. He is admitted to practise before the Illinois Supreme Court, numerous US District Courts and Courts of Appeals and pro hac vice in a number of other state and federal courts.
Mr Dalinka is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, serving from 1999-2000 as co-chair of the Young Lawyers Section intellectual Property Committee. He is a member of the board of directors of Lawyers For The Creative Arts, a non-profit corporation that provides pro bono legal services to the arts community in Illinois, and is presently a member of its executive committee, serving as treasurer.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Darling Park Tower 2, 201 Sussex Street, Sydney,
New South Wales 1171, Australia
Tel +61
2 8266 0000 Fax +61
2 8266 9999
Woluwe Garden, Woluwedal 18,
B-1932 Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Belgium
Tel +32
2 710 4211 Fax +32
2 710 4299
1 Embankment Place, London WC2N 6RH, United Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7583 5000 Fax +44
20 7822 4652
10 Tenth Street, Suite 1400, Atlanta, GA 30309,
United States
Tel +1
678 419-1000 Fax +1
678 419-1239
1100 New York Avenue, Suite 300E,
Washington DC 20005, United States
Tel +1
202 822 5877 Fax +1
202 822 5871
300 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6204, United
States
Tel +1
646 471 3000 Fax +1
813 286 6000
Web www.pwc.com
Patrick Boone
Director, Brussels
Email patrick.boone@pwc.be
Patrick Boone joined PwC in 1994 and has obtained relevant experience in corporate structuring and restructuring from a domestic and international perspective. Besides tax planning, he has also assisted clients in defence work. He holds a law degree and has additional qualifications in taxation.
As an active member of the transfer pricing group within the Belgian and previously the UK practice, he has experience with the approach of Belgian and foreign tax authorities towards transfer pricing and safe harbours such as coordination centres, distribution centres and service centres. He also negotiates advance rulings with the Belgian APA commission. He represents the Belgian transfer pricing practice within PwC’s Global Core Documentation Group.
He teaches transfer pricing in the academic world, is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences and runs transfer pricing sessions during international training courses within PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Adrian Davis
Assistant director, London
Email adrian.c.davis@uk.pwc.com
Adrian Davis, who joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1999 after completing an MBA at Durham University, has developed strong expertise in advising companies on how to exploit their brand equity to generate greater shareholder value. As an assistant director in valuation & strategy and a marketing professional with 10 years’ experience of designing, validating and implementing new marketing and brand investment strategies across a range of industries, Mr Davis has extensive knowledge of how to treat brands as an economic and corporate asset.
Assignments have involved both consumer and B2B brands, including advising global consumer goods companies on how to prioritise brand investment. Mr Davis has worked with a number of hi-tech and e-commerce companies, including Intel, as well as with Allied Domecq, De Beers and the BBC. Prior to joining PwC, He worked for Mars in a number of commercial roles within business development and marketing management. In addition, he has published a number of articles on brand investment.
John Davis
Director, London
Email john.davis@uk.pwc.com
John Davis is a director in the Forensic Services department in London specialising in intellectual property disputes. He has advised on the quantum of damages payable following patent and design rights infringement and also directed a team providing evidence to the UK Copyright Tribunal on a reasonable royalty and royalty rate structure for blanket licences with the higher education sector. He is a regular conference speaker on intellectual property valuation issues. His general commercial disputes experience includes the quantification of damages claims arising from contractual disputes in a variety of industries including telecoms, agricultural machinery and shipping.
Dimitri B Drone
Director, New York
Email dimitri.b.drone@us.pwc.com
Rhea Duttagupta
Senior manager, London
Email rhea.duttagupta@uk.pwc.com
Rhea Duttagupta is a member of the firm’s Financial Services and HR Strategy group. She specialises in helping clients facilitate organisational transition during times of change, for example: organisation structure/(re)design, business process re-engineering, change management, HR function design, centres of excellence, HR measurement and benchmarking, competency development, culture integration, leadership development and talent management.
Mr Duttagupta has led and managed a large number of complex assignments globally for large multinational organisations in cross-cultural contexts and is a frequent speaker/commentator on leadership, talent and people aspects of organisation measurement in articles and global conferences. Rhea has close working alliances with INSEAD and Cranfield business schools.
Tony Hadjiloucas
Assistant director, London
Email tony.hadjiloucas@uk.pwc.com
Tony Hadjiloucas is a valuation specialist and has around 10 years' experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers, primarily in M&A and corporate finance-related areas. He is currently a key member of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Valuation & Strategy practice in London, where he leads the delivery of valuations of brands, patents, know-how and other intangible assets, and regularly advises on transactions involving such assets in the UK and throughout the world.
Mr Hadjiloucas recently provided a valuation opinion and testified as an expert witness in a case involving a leading global consumer goods brand. He has also assisted many blue-chip clients in developing strategies in connection with exploiting their IP, as well as directed numerous valuations of intangible assets for financial reporting purposes, under both US GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards. A chartered accountant by profession, he frequently presents on the topic of intangible asset valuation at conferences in the UK and other countries, and has published a number of articles.
John L Harrison
Director, London
Email john.l.harrison@uk.pwc.com
John Harrison leads the Tax Valuation team in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Valuation & Strategy practice in London. He has over 24 years’ valuations experience. Increasingly, the valuation of intangible assets including trademarks, titles, patents and know-how has become a central focus of his work both in the UK and overseas.
Mr Harrison has experience of intellectual property valuations across a wide range of sectors. Key sectors in which he has recently carried out valuations of intellectual property include the technology, food manufacturing, pharmaceutical and healthcare, chemicals, media and telecommunications sectors.
Debbie McAlpine
Partner, London
Email debbie.mcalpine@uk.pwc.com
Debbie McAlpine co-leads the R&D tax credit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers with Andrew Packman. She is a qualified US certified public accountant and an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. She has over 13 years’ experience working in corporate taxation in both the US and UK.
Mark Palim
Director, Washington DC
Email mark.r.palim@us.pwc.com
Mark R A Palim, PhD, CFA, is a director in the Economic Consulting practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Washington DC. Dr Palim has 11 years’ experience in applying economic and financial theory to a variety of business problems and policy questions. His clients have included Fortune 500 corporations, partnerships, non-profits and the US Department of Justice. He has been both a testifying and consulting expert on a variety of economic issues in antitrust, intellectual property and other disputes. Dr Palim has published articles in academic and professional journals on the development of competition policy around the world and on the issues that arise at the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust.
Nick Rea
Director, London
Email nick.rea@uk.pwc.com
Nick Rea is a director in the Valuation & Strategy financial services team in PricewaterhouseCoopers. He joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1992, working with the Banking & Capital Markets team in London, and then spent three years in the Sydney office from 1996 to 1999. Since his return to London, he has specialised in the provision of corporate finance and valuation advice in the financial service sector within the UK, Asia, US and Europe.
The team provides specialist valuation advice to provide support during transactions and investment decisions, and has also provided valuation advice for regulatory and accounting purposes. Mr Rea has led a number of purchase price allocation exercises under US GAAP including the valuation of intangible assets and also performed goodwill impairment reviews under UK and US GAAP. He is currently leading the initiative to provide valuation and purchase price allocation support to European-based clients in the financial services sector under International Financial Reporting Standards.
Mr Rea is a chartered accountant and has an MA from Oxford University.
John Rugman
Director, London
Email john.rugman@uk.pwc.com
John Rugman leads the PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Financial Economics team. He has a background in investment management and equity research, and has been with PwC for over eight years. Mr Rugman is one of the UK’s leading practitioners on cost of capital analysis, and specialises in international project appraisal, corporate valuation, the rates of return required by investors in global capital markets and the application of the cost of capital in regulation and competition inquiries. He manages PwC’s country risk service, and has developed PwC’s internal research into models used to assess optimal capital structure. He has recently co-authored a book, The Real Cost of Capital.
Brett Savill
Partner, London
Email brett.savill@uk.pwc.com
Brett Savill is a partner in the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecoms) Valuation and Strategy Team. His London-based team, of around 40 professionals, helps companies optimise their value by providing rigorous, independent, quantitative advice on strategic issues. This includes market-entry strategies, business plan reviews and investor communications, acquisitions, IPOs and managing-for-value programmes.
Mr Savill has over 10 years’ experience advising companies in this sector. He has an MBA (Ford Scholarship) from Warwick Business School and is heavily involved in PwC's thought leadership in the sector – recent publications include “Outperformance” (Sloan Management Review, 2004) and The Broadband Future (2004).
Charles Sword
Assistant director, London
Email charles.a.sword@uk.pwc.com
Charles Sword has specialised in providing valuation advice since qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1996 and has experience in performing valuations in different industries and countries for a variety of purposes including: lead advisory support for acquisitions and disposals; litigation support work; corporate recovery work; valuations for tax purposes; and intellectual property valuations for both fiscal and financial reporting purposes.
Since 2002 Mr Sword has specialised in valuations for tax and financial reporting purposes, in particular in the valuation of businesses and intangible assets in connection with internal group restructurings, transfer pricing advice and mergers, acquisitions and disposals for clients across a range of industries.
Tony Samuel
Partner, Sydney
Email tony.samuel@au.pwc.com
Tony Samuel is a partner in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Dispute Analysis & Investigations practice. He has conducted IP valuations for 12 years and has been involved in IP disputes for over 10 years. Mr Samuel led the IP & Licensing Disputes practice in London before recently relocating to Sydney. He is the only accountant to have given expert evidence in the UK Copyright Tribunal this century. He also gave evidence in an inquiry as to damages arising from design right infringement and was one of the expert accountants instructed in the patent infringement inquiry as to damages, Coflexip v Stolt. He launched PwC's European Licensing Management practice in the late 1990s and led the global licence enforcement programme for a major electronics company.
Chelton Tanger
Partner, Atlanta
Email chelton.d.tanger@us.pwc.com
Chelton Tanger is a partner in the Dispute Analysis and Investigations practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Atlanta. Mr Tanger devotes the majority of his professional time to providing business and financial advice to attorneys and their clients throughout the litigation process.
Mr Tanger has testified as an expert on economic remedies such as lost profits, reasonable royalty, price erosion and unjust enrichment. He has also consulted on various licensing and royalty issues.
Mr Tanger has provided expert testimony in matters involving many types of intellectual property infringements. In addition, he has provided consulting to clients on matters involving the determination of the appropriate reasonable royalty in patented software and trade name use. Mr Tanger has also provided royalty audit and analyses services in a variety of situations.
Isabel Verlinden
Partner, Brussels
Email isabel.verlinden@pwc.be
Isabel Verlinden is an international tax partner heading the Belgian Transfer Pricing practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. She has first-hand knowledge of the transfer pricing challenges faced by companies operating across the globe derived from over 15 years of experience, working both in Brussels and Washington DC for PwC (and its legacy firms).
Her book intellectual Property Rights from a Transfer Pricing Perspective looks at intellectual property throughout its lifecycle from a tax, legal and managerial angle. She also co-authored Building and Enforcing intellectual Property Value - An international Guide for the Boardroom 2003.
Since their first survey in 1999, she has appeared in each issue of International Tax Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisors and, since 2002, also in the Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisors.
She is a prolific writer for international tax and business periodicals. She is a member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and a recognised tax consultant under Belgian law (member of IAB/IEC).
Richard Winter
Partner, London
Email richard.t.winter@uk.pwc.com
Richard Winter is a partner in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Valuation & Strategy practice and has worked primarily within the pharmaceutical and retail sectors for over 15 years. His expertise covers due diligence and capital market-related transactions. He has had audit responsibilities for two of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies, listed international pharma, biotech companies and major UK retailers. Mr Winter leads the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) initiative for the UK Valuation & Strategy practice and is a member of the Confederation of Business & Industry IFRS Steering Committee.
Prieto, Carrizosa & Patiño
Carrera 9 No. 74-08 Of 305, Bogota DC, Colombia
Tel +57
1 326 8600 Fax +57
1 326 8610
Web www.prietocarrizosa.com.co
Jorge Di Terlizzi
Partner
Email jditerlizzi@prietocarrizosa.com.co
Jorge Di Terlizzi graduated from Law School in Universidad de Los Andes in 1989 and obtained his LLM from Universidad de Los Andes in 1991. He deals with a broad range of intellectual property, information technology and entertainment work, and his practice includes both litigation and commercial/transactional advice in these areas. He has been a very active member of INTA (International Trademark Association), as he has been an elected member of INTA’s Issues and Policy Committee from 2000 to 2002 and the Emerging Issues Committee from 2003 to 2004, and was invited as a speaker to the Trademark Administrators Conference 2002 held in Washington DC. In addition, he is member of ASIPI (Inter-American Association of Industrial Property), ACPI (Colombian Association of intellectual Property) and PTMG (Pharmaceutical Trademark Group). His other practice areas include corporate, telecoms and mergers and acquisitions.
Camilo Gómez
Associate
Email cgomez@prietocarrizosa.com.co
Camilo Gómez graduated from Law School in Universidad Sergio Arboleda in 1996 and obtained his postgraduate degree in commercial and financial law from Universidad Sergio Arboleda in 1997. He worked in the Colombian Trademark Office as head of the Investigations Working Group for antitrust and competition matters (2002 - 2003) and, prior to that, he was a member of the appeal board for Industrial Property Matters (2000 - 2002) of the same.
Richelet & Richelet
Reconquista 672, 7th floor, Buenos Aires 1003ABN,
Argentina
Tel +54
11 4313 0184 Fax +54
11 4313 2863
Web www.richelet.com.ar
Ricardo Richelet III
Partner, Buenos Aires
Email rr3@richelet.com.ar
Ricardo Richelet III graduated from the Law School of the Catholic University of Argentina in 1999 and obtained a Master in Law (LLM) in the field of intellectual property from Franklin Pierce Law Center in the United States in 2000. He is a patent and trademark agent.
He is a member of the firm’s Litigation department and is involved in all aspects of intellectual property, including administrative and judicial proceedings before the Federal Courts throughout the country, and matters regarding domain names and the internet. He is also Head of the Injunction and Seizure department.
He speaks Spanish, English and French.
Rominvent SA
35 Ermil Pangratti Street, 1st Floor, Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania
Tel +40
21 231 2515 Fax +40
21 231 2550
Web www.rominvent.ro
Email office@rominvent.ro
Lucian Enescu
General Manager, Bucharest
Lucian Enescu is a registered patent, industrial design and trademark attorney and the general manager of Rominvent SA. He holds a diploma in electrical engineering and has been involved in the intellectual property field since 1974. He deals with a broad range of intellectual property.
Mr Enescu is vice president of the Romanian Group of AIPPI and a member of INTA and the LES. He is also a member of the Consulting Council of Research-Development for the Romanian government and a member of the International Chamber of Commerce Commission on intellectual Property.
Daniel Plosca
Attorney, Bucharest
Daniel Plosca is a registered patent and trademark attorney. He graduated from the Civil Engineering Institution in 1992. He worked as a trademark examiner at the Romanian Patent and Trademark office until 1998 when he joined Rominvent SA. He deals with different trademark matters (registration procedure, conflict between trademarks and domain names).
Roschier Holmberg, Attorneys Ltd
Keskuskatu 7 A, FIN-00100 Helsinki, Finland
Tel +358
20 506 6000 Fax +358
20 506 6100
Web www.roschier.com
Rainer Hilli
Email rainer.hilli@roschier.com
Rainer Hilli is a partner of Roschier Holmberg, heading its technology, media and communications group. He maintains a high degree of specialisation in matters, both contentious and non-contentious, relating to intellectual property rights, product liability, life sciences, media, entertainment and sports law, marketing and consumer law, pharmaceuticals and biosciences as well as liability issues.
Mr Hilli gained an LLM from the University of Helsinki in 1986 and joined Roschier Holmberg in the same year. He became a partner in 1996. He has been a member of the Finnish Bar since 1991.
Mr Hilli is a member of IBA, AIPPI (AIPPI Finland Board member since 2001, President since 2004), INTA, EPLA, ECTA, LES Scandinavia, the Helsinki Bar Association (Board member 1998-2002), the Finnish Association for Industrial Property and the Finnish Copyright Association.
Russell McVeagh
Vero Centre, 48 Shortland Street, PO Box 8,
Auckland, New Zealand
Tel +64
9 367 8000 Fax +64
9 367 8594
Web www.russellmcveagh.com
Other offices Wellington,
New Zealand
Mark Gavin
Partner, Auckland
Email mark.gavin@russellmcveagh.com
Mark Gavin is a partner in the Auckland office of Russell McVeagh and heads the firm’s intellectual property practice group. He is a member of the International Trademark Association and intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand. Mr Gavin has a wide range of experience in intellectual property, media and advertising law, as well as food law and commercial litigation. He specifically advises and litigates on all aspects of intellectual property, including copyright and trademark law and their application to publishing, television and multimedia, computer software, the internet, industrial design and infringement. He also advises on branding strategies, trademark registrations and related rights.
Laura McDonough
Solicitor, Auckland
Laura McDonough is a solicitor in the intellectual property practice group at Russell McVeagh. Her practice involves advising on a broad range of intellectual property law, including trademarks, copyright and brand protection, advertising law, food law and the Fair Trading Act, as well as presenting industry and client seminars on related issues. She also advises on branding, as well as compliance issues concerning packaging and promotional campaigns.
Salans
Gazetny pereulok, 17/9, 125009 Moscow, Russian
Federation
Tel +7
095 258 3444 Fax +7
095 258 3477
Web www.salans.com
Other
offices Almaty,
Baku, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest*, Istanbul, Kiev, London, New York,
Paris, Prague, Shanghai,
St Petersburg and Warsaw
*affiliated office
Sergei V Marinich
Partner, Moscow
Email smarinich@salans.com
Sergei V Marinich, a partner in the Moscow office, is the head of Salans' Russian litigation and arbitration practice. He represents clients before courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts. Mr Marinich’s primary areas of expertise are intellectual property rights protection, enforcement of international arbitration awards, commercial dispute resolution, debt recovery, reversal of tax authority decisions, consumer protection, enforcement of promissory notes obligations and other general commercial issues.
Mr Marinich has been the lead counsel on a number of high-profile lawsuits in Russia, including intellectual property disputes and landmark antitrust cases. He has also contributed to the development of new legislation, including the legal regulation of e-commerce.
Mr Marinich is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and other professional organisations. He earned his law degree with honours (1986) and a candidate of science in law (1989) from Moscow State University. A native Russian speaker, he is also fluent in English.
Denis Voevodin
Of counsel, Moscow
Email dvoevodin@salans.com
Mr Voevodin is of counsel with the firm’s Moscow office, having joined Salans in July 2001. He is a member of the firm’s Central and East European Practice Group and heads the Moscow IP department.
Mr Voevodin has advised clients on a wide range of legal issues related to IP matters in the Russian Federation and CIS countries. In particular, he has been involved in numerous trademark and copyright litigation matters as well as anti-counterfeit activity.
Mr Voevodin is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA), International Trademark Association (INTA), MARQUES and other professional organisations.
Mr. Voevodin earned a masters degree from the Moscow State University for Foreign Relations (MGIMO) in 1993. He passed his patent Bar exam in 1995 and is qualified as a trademark attorney. He is a native Russian speaker with fluent English and German language skills.
Silva & Cía
Hendaya 60, 4th Floor, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
Tel +562
4387000 Fax +562
372 04 44
Web www.silva.cl
Email mail@silva.cl
Francisco J Silva
Email fsilva@silva.cl
Francisco J Silva was admitted to the Chilean Bar in 1992. Prior to this he studied at the Catholic University of Chile (LLB) and the American University, Washington DC (LLM, International Business Law). In 1994 he worked in the Washington DC offices of Baker & Hostetler and was with the Chilean firm Barros & Errázuriz from 1995 to 1997. He is a published author and also spoke at the INTA meeting in Amsterdam in 2003. He advises clients on all aspects of trademark, licensing, patent and copyright law in Chile.
Marcos Morales
Email mmorales@silva.cl
Marcos Morales was admitted to the Chilean Bar in 1992. Prior to this he was educated at the Catholic University of Chile (LLB). He also studied intellectual property at Robert Schumann University in 1995 and at London University in 1996. He is currently studying for a masters in private law at the University of Chile (LLM). He was the head of the Legal Division of the Chilean Industrial Property Department from 1994 to 1996. He is an arbitrator for national ccTLD <.cl> domain name disputes. He has spoken at numerous conferences and is the author of the book Trademark Law and several other IP-related publications. He advises clients on legal issues relating to trademarks, domain names, licensing, litigation and unfair competition.
Sociedade de Advogados Carlos Olavo e Associados
Avenida António Augusto
de Aguiar 165, r/c esquerdo, 1050- 014 Lisbon, Portugal
Tel +351
21 370 0050 Fax +351
21 381 3818
Email olavolex@olavolex.pt
Carlos Olavo
Email carlos.olavo@olavolex.pt
Carlos Olavo is our senior partner. He is a lawyer and law professor, an official attorney of industrial property, a European patent attorney, a European representative before the OHIM and is currently the President of the Board of Directors of ACPI (Associação Portuguesa de Consultores em Propriedade Industrial), an affiliate of FICPI. He is also the author of various publications on industrial property and commercial law.
Areas of particular experience include brand protection, technology transfer agreements, copyright exploitation, domain name disputes, plagiarism actions and unfair competition issues, and his practice includes both commercial/transactional advice and litigation in these areas.
Practice areas Industrial property law, competition law, company law, arbitration and litigation.
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
1100 New York Avenue, NW, Washington
DC, United States
Tel +1
202 371 2600 Fax +1
202 371 2500
Web www.skgf.com
Robert Greene Sterne
Founding Director
Email rsterne@skgf.com
Tel +1
202 772 8555
Mr Sterne is a founding director of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC and a member of its Electronics Group. He is recognised as a thought leader in the area of intellectual property for cutting-edge technologies in the electronics and computer arenas, the monetisation of patents and patent licensing. Mr Sterne brings to bear for his clients excellent negotiation skills and a big-picture approach to patent procurement and protection that considers the product, distribution, network and market conditions.
Michael Q Lee
Director
Email mlee@skgf.com
Tel +1
202 772 8674
Mr Lee is a director in the Electronics Group of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC. He specialises in developing worldwide patent strategies for companies of all sizes. He has obtained patent protection in a variety of technological areas, including wireless communication, business methods, bioinformatics, application programming interfaces, graphical user interfaces, data warehousing and mining, computer security, cryptography, software compilers, computer architecture, artificial intelligence, handwriting and speech recognition, and computer processor and memory architecture.
Stibbe
Strawinskylaan 2001, PO Box 75640, 1070 AP Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Tel +31
20 546 06 06 Fax +31
20 546 01 23
Web www.stibbe.com
Other
offices Brussels,
London, New York
Jan Brinkhof
Partner, Amsterdam
Email jan.brinkhof@stibbe.com
Jan Brinkhof has specialised in intellectual property in general and patent law in particular since 1982. His work includes advising on IP rights, arbitrating national and international IP conflicts, and litigating IP conflicts.
For many years a judge focusing on cases and appeals involving patents and intellectual property law, he is the author of a wide variety of publications on the subject. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Group of AIPPI and a supervisor and teacher of training courses for patent and trademark attorneys. He is also a part-time professor of industrial property law at Utrecht University. He speaks Dutch, German and English.
Sudath Perera Associates
Attorneys-At-Law, Notaries Public, Legal
Consultants & Solicitors
51 Kassapa Road, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka
Tel +94
112 5599447 Fax +94
112 559948
SPA Corporate Services (Private) Limited
Corporate Secretaries, intellectual Property Consultants, Trademark & Patent
Agents
51 Kassapa Road, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka
Tel +94
112 5599447, +94 112 595434, +94 112 595407
Fax +94
112 559948
Sudath Perera
Attorney at law
Email spalegal@sltnet.lk
Sudath Perera founded the law firm Sudath Perera Associates in July 2002. He is also the chairman of SPA Corporate Services (Pvt) Ltd, which handles intellectual property and corporate secretarial matters. The law firm specialises in corporate and commercial litigation and has, within a short period of time, branched out into criminal litigation and matters relating to taxation, aviation, shipping and arbitration. He advises several multinational clients on handling counterfeiting issues.
He has practised for 13 years in the legal profession and is a member of INTA and APAA, He currently serves as the convener of the Overseas Relations Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka.
Himani Perera
Attorney at law
Email spalegal@sltnet.lk
Himani Perera is a senior associate of Sudath Perera Associates. She is also a director of SPA Corporate Services (Pvt) Ltd and handles all intellectual property matters of the company. She handles all trademark and patent applications for local and foreign clients and also handles the corporate, aviation and shipping matters for several multinational clients.
Sughrue Mion, PLLC
401 Castro Street, Suite 220, Mountain View,
CA 94041, United States
Tel +1
650 625 8100 Fax +1
650 625 8110
Web www.sughrue.com
Other offices Washington
DC and Tokyo
Frank L Bernstein
Email fbernstein@sughrue.com
Mr Bernstein, who manages the firm's Silicon Valley office, specialises in litigation and client counselling in high-technology patent areas, including computers, software, electronics, semiconductors and e-commerce. His client counselling includes the rendering of pre-litigation validity and infringement opinions, and advice on protection of software-related intellectual property in the areas of patent, copyright and trade secrets. Mr Bernstein also advises clients on licensing issues related to open source software.
Mark C Davis
Email mcd20@hotmail.com
Mr Davis was a summer associate at Sughrue Mion, PLLC in 2004. He is in his last year at Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he has maintained the rank of first in his class.
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
999 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta,
GA 30309-3996, United States
Tel +1
404 853 8000 Fax +1
404 853 8806
Web www.sablaw.com
Other
offices Austin,
Houston, New York,
Tallahassee, Washington DC
John L North
Partner, Atlanta
Email john.north@sablaw.com
Tel +1
404 853 8358
Mr North chairs the firm's intellectual Property group and focuses on IP litigation. He has substantial experience in controversies involving patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation and related unfair competition and antitrust controversies. He is and has been lead counsel for a number of international corporations in major patent litigations. Among those corporations are one of the world's largest generic pharmaceutical companies, a cutting-edge innovator in the minerals industry and one of the United States' major entertainment companies.
Laura Fahey Fritts
Associate, Atlanta Office
Email laura.fritts@sablaw.com
Tel +1
404 853 8428
Ms Fritts's practice focuses on patent litigation and opinion work with a concentration in the areas of chemical and pharmaceutical technologies. She earned her JD from the Emory University School of Law; completed masters degrees in Business Administration and Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; and earned her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP
125 High Street, Boston, MA 02110, United
States
Tel +1
617 248 7000 Fax +1
617 248 7100
Web www.tht.com
Michael H Brodowski, PhD
Partner, Boston
Tel +1
617 248 7012
Michael Brodowski is a partner in the Patent and intellectual Property Practice Group. He counsels inventors, companies, investors and underwriters in all aspects of the law relating to the protection, enforcement and transfer of intellectual property rights. Dr Brodowski concentrates on the establishment, maintenance and exploitation of patent rights in the United States and abroad to support clients’ business objectives. He specialises in the chemical, pharmaceutical, materials science, biotechnology and healthcare industries.
Thomson Scientific
14 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5DF, United
Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7344 2800 Fax +44
20 7344 2900
Web scientific.thomson.com/derwent
Email ts.info.emea@thomson.com
Bob Stembridge
Customer Relations Manager, GMS
Email bob.stembridge@thomson.com
Bob Stembridge is Customer Relations Manager for Thomson Scientific, a market group within the Thomson Corporation and a world leader in the provision of industrial property and scientific information to global corporate, government and legal organisations.
Bob joined Thomson Scientific in 1980 and has held various roles in editorial, marketing, sales and product development over the years. Leaving in 1988 for interludes working as an information analyst specialising in patent analytics at British Petroleum and European sales liaison with Dialog, he returned to Thomson Scientific in 1996 and most recently became Customer Relations Manager with responsibility for liaison with customer user groups for the organisation.
He is a member of the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) and the Patent and Trademark Group (PATMG), and has served on the PATMG management committee for a number of years. He is currently PATMG Chair.
Torys LLP
Suite 3000, Box 270, TD Centre, 79 Wellington Street
W, Toronto, Ontario, M5K 1N2 Canada
Tel +1
416 865 0040 Fax +1
416 865 7380
237 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017.3142,
United States
Tel +1
212 880 6000 Fax +1
212 682 0200
Web www.torys.com
John Terry
Partner, Toronto
Email jterry@torys.com
John Terry practises civil litigation, with an emphasis on business, international trade and public law. He appears as counsel at all levels of court in Canada, in commercial arbitrations and before a variety of administrative tribunals.
Mr Terry provides advice to corporations and federal, provincial and municipal governments on NAFTA and WTO matters. He regularly advises and acts for multinational pharmaceutical companies on trade-related intellectual property issues.
Jennifer A Orange
Associate, Toronto
Email jorange@torys.com
Jennifer Orange practises civil litigation in a variety of areas, including corporate/commercial, class actions, administrative, trade and constitutional law. She has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada and arbitration tribunals. She has acted for multinational corporations in health regulatory and trade law.
Lou Ederer
Partner, New York
Email lederer@torys.com
Louis Ederer heads up Torys’ intellectual Property Department in New York. His practice focuses on intellectual property law, covering trademark, patent and copyright litigation, prosecution and counselling. He has a specialty in anti-counterfeiting and piracy law. Mr Ederer is an experienced trial lawyer who has been involved in precedent-setting cases that have explored trademark and trade dress protectability and enforceability, and expanded the limits set by the courts for recovery of damages and profits in counterfeiting cases.
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Two Embarcadero Center, Eighth Floor,
San Francisco, CA 94111-3834, United States
Tel +1
415 576 0200 Fax +1
415 576 0300
1200 Seventeenth Street, Suite 2700,
Denver, CO 80202-5827, United States
Tel +1
303 571 4000 Fax +1
303 571 4321
Web www.townsend.com
Other offices San
Diego, Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, Seattle
Mark T Jansen
Partner, San Francisco
Email mtj@townsend.com
Mr Jansen is a litigation partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP whose practice includes a wide range of antitrust, unfair business practice, business tort, intellectual property and other business dispute litigation. In addition, Mr Jansen provides counselling, primarily in the antitrust and unfair business practices law areas, including mergers, intellectual property licensing, vertical distribution, vertical price restraints, trade secret protection and development of antitrust compliance and amnesty programmes. He also has represented clients in connection with grand jury and other government investigations. Mr Jansen has substantial experience in trademark, copyright, breach of contract, class action litigation and in appellate work.
Lesley S Craig
Attorney at law, Denver
Email lscraig@townsend.com
Lesley Craig established the Denver office of Townsend and Townsend and Crew in 1995, bringing with her a reputation for a strategic approach to protecting her clients’ intellectual property. She began her career in the 1970s as a patent attorney and during the next 20 years engaged in litigation, while developing a wide-ranging international practice that eventually concentrated on trademarks and brand strategy. She is known for working directly with client principals, marketing personnel and their in-house counsel to formulate strategies that maintain protection and value. For the past 10 years she has focused on the strategic portfolio management of trademarks and other IP.
United Trademark & Patent Services
West End Building, 61 The Mall, Lahore-54000,
Pakistan
Tel +92
42 7249 638 39 Fax +92
42 7323 501
Hasan Irfan Khan
Partner
Email hasan.khan@unitedtm.com
Hasan is a partner of United Trademark & Patent Services and has been associated with the firm since 1986. His primary areas of practice include trademarks, copyright, patents, unfair competition/passin- off, comparative advertising, domain names and other IP-related internet issues; e-commerce and IT laws; and telecommunications and broadcasting laws. He has wide experience in anti-counterfeiting and enforcement litigation in the courts, as well as before customs, and has conducted various landmark intellectual property law cases before the High Courts in Pakistan. He has lectured in intellectual property law at the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) and is a part-time lecturer at Punjab University Law College, teaching copyright law to students of the post-graduate diploma in intellectual property law.
Mr Kahn served as a member of the government of Pakistan’s committee to recommend changes in the copyright laws in light of the TRIPs Agreement. He was also a member of the government of Pakistan's committee and working group for enforcement of the TRIPs Agreement in Pakistan. He also drafted changes for the new Patents Law and the Trademarks Law in light of the TRIPs Agreement.
Vinge
Smålandsgatan 20, Box 1703, S-111 87 Stockholm,
Sweden
Tel +46
8 614 30 00 Fax +46
8 614 31 90
Nils Ericsonsgatan 17, Box 11025, S-404 21 Göteborg,
Sweden
Tel +46
31 722 35 00 Fax +46
40 664 55 01
Östergatan 30, Box 4255, S-203 13 Malmö, Sweden
Tel +46
40 664 55 00 Fax +46
40 664 55 01
Web www.vinge.se
Other offices Helsingborg,
London, Paris, Brussels,
Hong Kong, Shanghai
Per Eric Alvsing
Olof Jisland
Anders Forkman
Stefan Widmark
Vinge is one of the largest full-service law firms in Scandinavia, with a strategic focus on M&A and corporate finance, as well as on the specialist expertise which is required by sophisticated buyers of legal services. Per Eric Alvsing and Stefan Widmark are partners at Vinge's office in Stockholm; Olof Jisland is partner, and managing partner, at Vinge's office in Gothenburg; and Anders Forkman is partner at Vinge's office in Malmö. They are all members of Vinge's specialist practice for IP & Marketing. Their work encompasses all areas of intellectual property and marketing, including transactional work and litigation.
Vossius & Partner
Siebertstrasse 4, 81675 Munich, Germany
Tel +49
89 41 30 40 Fax +49
89 4130 4111
Email info@vossiusandpartner.com
Web www.vossiusandpartner.com
Dr Gerhard Hermann
Partner
Email hermann@vossiusandpartner.com
Gerhard Hermann is a German and European patent attorney and European trademark attorney, and has been a partner of the IP firm Vossius & Partner in Munich, Germany, since 1986. Before becoming a patent attorney, he graduated in physics and took a PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Materials Science in Stuttgart, Germany. He deals with a broad range of intellectual property matters and particularly specialises in European examination and opposition proceedings, and patent litigation including complex cross-border litigation cases.
Areas of particular experience include mechanical and electrical engineering, optics and medical technology.
Practice areas Patents, trademarks, litigation, licensing
Dr Johann Pitz
Partner
Email pitz@vossiusandpartner.com
Johann Pitz is an attorney at law and partner of the IP firm Vossius & Partner in Munich, Germany. He graduated from the Munich Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International intellectual Property Law, where he was associated as a research fellow. Given his background as patent litigator in Düsseldorf, one of Germany's premier forums for patent cases, he substantially contributes to the expansion of the IP litigation department at Vossius & Partner. Johann Pitz is author and co-author of several publications and practitioner handbooks concerning patent law and procedure.
Practice areas Patent matters, national and international patent litigation, licensing.
Webber Wentzel Bowens
10 Fricker Road, Illovo Boulevard,
Johannesburg 2196, South Africa
Postal address PO
Box 61771, Marshalltown 2107, South Africa
Tel +27
11 530 5000 Fax +27
11 530 5111
Web www.wwb.co.za
Other
offices Cape
Town, London, Paris, Geneva, Luxembourg, the Isle of Man and Dublin
Ron Wheeldon
Partner
Email ron@wwb.co.za
Ron Wheeldon is the head of the intellectual Property practice of Webber Wentzel Bowens, which is based at the firm's Johannesburg offices. Mr Wheeldon specialises in all areas of intellectual property. He is a member of the standing advisory committee on intellectual property law appointed by the Minister of Trade and Industry and the Chair of the trademark law subcommittee.
Helen Burt
Helen Burt is an associate in the intellectual Property Department of Webber Wentzel Bowens. She has qualified as an attorney in South Africa and as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. She read for her LLM in intellectual Property at Duke University, United States and specialises in all areas of intellectual property, in particular, trademarks, copyright and designs.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
767 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10153, United
States
Tel +1
212 310 8000 Fax +1
212 310 8007
Web www.weil.com
Other offices Austin,
Boston, Brussels, Budapest, Dallas, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Miami,
Munich, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Warsaw, Washington
DC
Lynda M Braun
Email lynda.braun@weil.com
Lynda M Braun is a member of the firm's intellectual Property & Media practice, which is part of its Litigation/Regulatory practice. Ms Braun’s practice focuses on a wide range of intellectual property and unfair competition matters including trademark and trade dress infringement and dilution, the law of ideas, internet and domain name law, copyright infringement, right of publicity law, misappropriation and counterfeiting. In litigation matters, Ms Braun has represented well-known teltevision, motion picture, fashion and sports companies and personalities in high-profile, precedent-setting cases. She has extensive experience in all phases of litigation, including trial and appellate work in cases brought in federal and state courts throughout the United States.
Ms Braun also represents clients in domain name arbitrations pursuant to ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). In addition, she is a panellist with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre’s Panel of Neutrals for Resolution of Domain Name Disputes and the CPR Institute’s Domain Name Panel for Dispute Resolution, and has presided over numerous UDRP proceedings in this capacity.
In non-litigation matters, Ms Braun handles the trademark and domain name portfolios of a variety of clients and engages in litigation before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She also counsels clients in copyright, trademark and right of publicity matters and drafts licensing, trademark and coexistence agreements, among others, for her clients.
Woodcock Washburn LLP
One Liberty Place – 46th Floor, Philadelphia, PA
19104,
United States
Tel +1
215 568 3100 Fax +1
215 568 3439
Web www.woodcock.com
Other
office Seattle
Michael J Swope
Partner, Seattle
Email swope@woodcock.com
Michael J Swope is active in all aspects of intellectual property including acquisition, enforcement and licensing, concentrating on matters relating to computer hardware and software, electronics and e-commerce. He holds a JD cum laude from Temple University School of Law, an MS in computer science from Steven’s Institute of Technology, where he focused on digital systems design, and a BS cum laude in electronics engineering. Mr Swope has represented clients with respect to patent rights in diverse technologies, such as telecommunications, wireless communications, medical devices, electronics and various aspects of computer software, such as database technology, computer graphics, financial systems and e-commerce.
He counsels clients on the validity, scope, enforceability and acquisition of intellectual property. He is experienced in patent drafting and prosecution, including interferences, reissues and re-examination, as well as enforcement before the federal courts.
Thomas E Watson
Associate, Seattle
Email watson@woodcock.com
Thomas E Watson represents high-technology clients in all aspects of intellectual property matters, including patent procurement and counselling, enforcement, due diligence studies and standards body participations. He received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, cum laude, from Princeton University and holds a JD from Columbia University School of Law. He has represented clients with respect to a wide range of technologies, including hardware and software for electronic devices, signal processors, 3-D graphics subsystems, distributed computing systems, protocols, networking technologies, e-commerce systems, databases, semiconductors, user interfaces, storage devices and control systems.
Mr Watson counsels on all aspects of intellectual property, including issues relating to procuring, licensing and litigating patents, as well as issues relating to the analysis of third-party patents from potential conflict and acquisition perspectives.