IP Strategy Summit: Boston

Ron Cahill is well-respected for his work with clients of virtually all sizes to solve their most challenging intellectual property problems. A first chair IP trial attorney and Chair of the Barnes & Thornburg national Life Sciences Practice Group, he specializes in breaking down complex life sciences intellectual property issues for juries, judges, and the PTAB. With decades of courtroom experience, Ron has led trial teams in patent infringement cases around the country. He also conducts inter partes reviews (IPRs) and other proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to determine patent validity. While much of Ron’s work involves presenting his clients’ cases to judges and juries around the country, many clients ask him to apply his experience to strategic planning within their business, especially with respect to their competitors or potential deal partners. Ron’s life science work covers a wide range of products, technologies, and legal issues, with recent engagements including CAR-T cancer treatments, small molecule enzyme inhibitors, personalized medicine, and genetic engineering of metabolic systems to produce desired outputs. Recent legal issues have included the scope of written description and enablement in the drug discovery context, the obviousness of engineered biologics, infringement based on biochemical function and property limitations, induced infringement of method of treatment claims, and the strategic use of IPRs to avoid litigation.

Matt Rizzolo is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s intellectual property litigation group, where he represents technology companies to enforce IP rights and defend clients from infringement claims. Matt leads the firm’s practice in Section 337 actions before the United States International Trade Commission and has significant experience litigating patent cases in a variety of jurisdictions, including the U.S. federal district courts, the Court of Federal Claims, the Federal Circuit, and the ITC, as well as in IP-related proceedings before U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Matt frequently writes and speaks on a wide variety of intellectual property issues and is the founder of “Talkin’ Trade,” an ITC-focused podcast.

Matt Murphy’s practice focuses on high-stakes intellectual property disputes. He has represented clients across a spectrum of technologies, including pharmaceutical, life sciences, medical devices, consumer-driven health care, payment transactions, and wireless lighting. In connection with this work, Matt has assisted clients in developing in-house trade secret policies, conducting due diligence, and defending claims of misappropriation or infringement, including multiple matters involving nine-figure damages claims.
 
Prior to practicing law, Matt spent seven years conducting bench-level research and development for leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Charles Sanders is a partner in the Boston office of Latham & Watkins. His practice focuses on intellectual property matters with an emphasis on patent litigation. Mr. Sanders represents clients as lead counsel in federal district court, the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and the Federal Circuit. He has obtained multimillion-dollar settlements, ITC exclusion orders, summary judgments, and trial and appellate victories. Mr. Sanders has handled a diverse range of technologies, including those involving aircraft, acoustic equipment, automotive components, bio-therapeutics, computer hardware and software, electromechanical devices, environmental remediation, fluid separation, LEDs, MRI, MOCVD, medical devices, OLEDs, network security, pharmaceuticals, rare earth magnets, semiconductors, smart phones, spectroscopy and communication systems.

Mr. Sanders received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and holds an A.B. in chemistry and physics from Harvard University. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association, Boston Patent Law Association, and the ITC Trial Lawyers Association.

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Julia Mathis is Sr. Director IP Counsel at Hologic, a women’s health company, where she is responsible for IP support for the Breast and Skeletal Health Division. As part of this role, Julia provides general IP counseling, advises her clients on IP strategy, builds and manages her business unit’s domestic and international patent portfolio, and handles IP aspects of technology licensing agreements and other contracts.   Prior to joining Hologic, Julia was Senior IP counsel at Philips Lighting, now Signify. Julia began her legal career as an associate attorney at Lando & Anastasi. She graduated from the UNH School of Law and has a BS in Electrical Engineering from SUNY Binghamton.

Nancy Del Pizzo is a member of Rivkin Radler’s Commercial Litigation; Intellectual Property; and Privacy, Data & Cyber Law Practice Groups. She resolves commercial disputes, including intellectual property matters such as trademark, trade dress, copyright and patent infringement, restrictive covenants and domain name disputes, misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition, false advertising, defamation and trade libel.

Christopher is a patent attorney and lead trial counsel with a demonstrated record of success litigating intellectual property cases for his clients.  Christopher has counseled clients in intellectual property law for over twenty years and has litigated patent, trade secret, and trademark cases in federal district court, the PTAB, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 

A former patent examiner with an electrical engineering degree, Christopher frequently works on matters involving complex technologies and life sciences, including software, computer networking, wireless telecommunications, and medical devices.

Christopher is a frequent guest speaker on patent litigation and is often quoted in leading industry periodicals on recent developments in patent law. He also lectures on patent litigation at the Practicing Law Institute in New York City.

John Strand is a shareholder in Wolf Greenfield’s Trademark & Copyright Practice and focuses on the enforcement and defense of intellectual property rights in trademarks, trade dress, domain names, and patents. He successfully represents clients in tribunals throughout the country and abroad.

JD – Suffolk University Law School

David Kuznick is Senior Legal Counsel, IP Litigation at Dell Technologies where he manages a wide variety of intellectual property litigation and plays a key role in Dell’s Open Source initiative.  Prior to his litigation role at Dell, David managed a large patent prosecution docket preparing and prosecuting Dell’s patent applications as well as managing outside counsel.  Before joining Dell, he was a litigation associate at Fish & Richardson for five years.  Prior to law school, he had a twenty year software development career, most recently as a Principal Software Engineer and Director of Product Development at Gensym Corporation.

Suffolk University Law School, JD

Denise is Chief of Staff to GC at Boston Scientific. Previously she held IP Counsel responsibilities at Velcro and Partner at Preti Flaherty.

She’s a charismatic, dedicated, and occasionally witty intellectual property counsel and former first-chair patent and trademark litigator. Denise is experienced with a wide range of patented technologies, including medical devices, software, chemical, plastics, and biochemical materials.

Specialties: Intellectual property portfolio strategy and prosecution management; complex patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation; IP transactions and licensing; and, mergers and acquisitions.

Boston University School of Law, JD

Dr. Kelly Morgan leads Arbor’s legal team to safeguard the company’s research activities and drive the IP strategy for short and long term growth.  Prior to joining Arbor, Dr. Morgan worked with multiple start-up companies at a premier venture firm to guide development of initial IP, as well as educate and train early team members.  Originally trained as a cancer immunologist, Dr. Morgan brings over a decade of post-graduate experiences, both from her research bench and law firm training, aiding in opportunistic research design with proven impact on corporate development.  

Suffolk University Law School, JD.

Paul is the Senior Patent Counsel for Aspen Aerogels.  Prior to joining Aspen, Paul was in private practice for 12 years working primarily in the areas of patent preparation, patent prosecution, and Inter Partes Reviews. Paul has worked in fields as varied as carbon nanotechnology, semiconductor devices, medical devices, and software for Fortune 50 clients and for startups.

Prior to law practice, Paul was an engineer and program manager for IBM and Energizer Battery.  

Brad Lawrence focuses his practice on intellectual property counseling including the protection of clients’ inventions through carefully planned patent procurement. His practice also includes analysis of the IP and product positions of others and the development of licensing strategies as well as performing product clearances in the form of non-infringement and/or invalidity opinions. He also has significant prior litigation experience that includes many aspects of patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation as well as licensing and other extrajudicial resolution of IP disputes

David Lu is a partner at the K&L Gates Boston office. He is a member of the Intellectual Property practice group. David focuses his practice on patent prosecution, strategic intellectual property counseling, and due diligence for life science industries. He has designed global patent strategies in the field of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and managed large patent portfolios for a variety of clients. David’s clients range from international corporations, mid-sized biotech companies, to venture capital funded startups. David has handled matters in a numerous technology areas, including cancer therapies, genome technologies, gene therapies, antibody drugs, personalized medicine, RNA therapeutics, diagnostic methods, and medical devices. By identifying each client’s technology strengths and business goals, David provides customized and creative legal solutions.

Based in Boston, Mark is a member of the firm at Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC.  He is a seasoned patent attorney with almost 25 years of experience, both in-house and in private practice, in supporting innovation in the healthcare, information technology, lighting, consumer goods and electronics sectors. Mark is a strategic adviser to his clients, skilled at managing global IP portfolios in alignment with business objectives and guiding business leaders, inventors and entrepreneurs on the strategies, tools and techniques for protecting the fruits of their innovation.

While serving as the Deputy General Counsel, IP at Color Kinetics, the LED lighting pioneer, Mark accelerated patent filings and orchestrated the company’s patent portfolio coverage assessment, facilitating the imminent acquisition by Philips for ~$800 million. Mark then spent 14 years in leadership roles at Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, working closely with Research and various business clusters and units of the company.  Immediately prior to joining Bond, Mark was the Head of IP for a NASDAQ-listed public company, where he built the IP function from the ground up and led the IP strategy development. Prior to going in-house, Mark was an IP associate at two large general practice law firms in Boston, representing technology clients such as Boston Scientific, the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, E-Ink Corporation, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in patent matters.

Mark is a graduate of National Technical University of Ukraine and Boston University School of Law.

Gene V. Vinokur is the Chief Patent Counsel for Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) located in Boston, USA. MERL does application-motivated fundamental and applied research and advanced development in a variety of technical fields such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, dynamical systems and control, electronic and photonic devices, robotics, autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, signal processing and communications, smart grids, big data analytics, speech & audio, wireless energy transfer, and quantum computing. Gene oversees the patent protection of the entire MERL research with hundreds of patents filed and issued yearly. Gene holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Ukraine, M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University, and J.D. from Suffolk Law School. Gene is a registered U.S. Patent Attorney and a member of the Massachusetts Bar.

David is the Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Bose Corporation, headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.  David oversees IP strategy, portfolio development, and litigation, and all IP aspects of transactions and partnerships at Bose.  Before joining Bose, David was a patent attorney and litigator at the Boston offices of Fish & Richardson and Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault.  David received both his Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Connecticut.

Justin Oliver’s attention to detail extends not just to the facts of the case, but to the nature of the audience. While working on trials in both district courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Justin focuses his practice on complex proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Whether an inter partes review or an ex parte appeal, Justin understands that the PTAB critically analyzes both the technical and legal details of a case. By avoiding the tendency to address issues with broad strokes and mining the details of the case, Justin has established himself as a top choice for PTAB proceedings. Justin’s ability to spot the strengths and weaknesses of a case early and adapt accordingly has proved a huge benefit to clients in a wide range of technology areas. 

Ben Hsing is an accomplished trial lawyer with significant experience litigating patents across a broad range of technologies, including pharmaceutical compounds and formulations, telecommunication cables, treatment methods, genetically engineered seeds, medical devices, memory chips, light switches, imaging devices, and pet products. Ben has secured favorable results for major pharmaceutical and technology companies in numerous high-profile cases.

Ben regularly calls upon his experience as a patent examiner to provide comprehensive counsel to clients on matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including post-grant and contested patent office proceedings. He also conducts intellectual property (IP) due diligence investigations in connection with acquisitions and licensing deals. He is deeply involved in his clients’ matters, ensuring that he understands all aspects of their businesses and cases so that he can identify, dissect, and solve potential challenges facing his clients.

Edward J. Russavage is a shareholder in Wolf Greenfield’s Electrical & Computer Technologies Practice. He is a highly skilled patent counselor with significant experience advising clients on intellectual property matters including patent protection, licensing, freedom-to-operate and invalidity studies, licensing and transactions, litigation support, and post-grant proceedings. Ed serves as a trusted advisor to businesses ranging from start-ups to mid-sized companies to multinational corporations, handling strategic portfolio development and delivering cost-effective IP strategies that align with client’s business objectives.

Ron is the chief legal contact for Gillette Venus, a global $1 billion dollar business and has a dual role as lead patent counsel for the Gillette chemistry organization. In these roles, Ron blends technical capability with understanding of global CPG manufacturing industries to provide actionable legal guidance for senior commercial and technical management. Ron also handles talent and sponsorship deals for ~ 20 of P&G’s billion dollar brands. Before relocating to Boston, Ron supported P&G’s global Fabric and Home Care businesses as a patent attorney. Prior to pursuing a career in law, Ron worked several years in the New York area as a management consultant for Accenture. Ron has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University in MA and a J.D. from UNH School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center.)