The IP Strategy Summit: Seattle

George Simion is Associate General Counsel and Senior Director of Intellectual Property at Palo Alto Networks. He is head of the IP group — managing the company’s global IP strategies and policies, IP litigation, opensource legal compliance, and IP matters related to new product introductions in cyber and network security areas. 

Alexey Titov is an Intellectual Property Director at Stryker, a leading medical device company. His primary interests include defining IP strategy and patent development processes that maximize the business value of patent portfolios. Prior to joining Stryker, Alexey worked at a variety of intellectual property organizations including an IP consulting firm, a university technology transfer office, and a premier technology development company. Alexey is an inventor on 31 U.S. issued patents, has contributed a chapter to a book “Intellectual Property in Academia: A Practical Guide for Scientists and Engineers,” and is an author of several papers in the field of high energy and nuclear physics. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Rockefeller University, NY, and an M.S. in physics from Kharkov University, Ukraine.

I am a patent attorney focusing on biotechnology, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical device patent procurement and prosecution. I am Executive Director, IP at Seagen. I have a Bachelors in Biochemistry from Gonzaga University and a Masters in Chemistry from the University of Oregon. I received my J.D. Law degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 2004.

Rose serves as the global head of the Legal Intellectual Property (IP) group at Expedia with responsibility for a team handling all IP matters across Expedia and its various brands.

Prior to coming to Expedia, Rose served as Global Trademark Counsel managing the Cummins global trademark portfolio, which including responsibilities for advising on marketing and advertising matters and management of the anticounterfeit program.

Rose also provided IP support for multiple different Cummins business units, including support for the global patent portfolio development for those business units.

Rose is experienced in advising on intellectual property strategies for and implementation of complex transactions.

Prior to her time at Cummins, Rose was a federal employee for fifteen (15) years at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where she established an Intellectual Property Law Practice Group within the Office of the General Counsel. Most recently, Rose was the Chief IP Counsel for DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where she serves as the intellectual property subject matter expert for and on behalf of CISA.

Rose studied at George Washington University, New York University School of Law and Manhattanville College.  She has a Master of Law (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property, a Juris Doctor (J.D.), and Bachelor of Arts Degree (B.A.).  She is a registered patent attorney with a discipline in Physics.

Bryan McWhorter focuses on patent procurement and dispute resolution, particularly for companies in the software, telecommunications, and food and beverage areas.

Bryan’s practice includes all aspects of patent development and acquisition for both utility and design patents, including identifying patentable concepts, drafting patent applications, and negotiating with patent offices to gain allowance of applications. His practice also focuses on helping clients to analyze, manage, and mitigate risks stemming from intellectual property, by conducting patent searches to identify potential risks, infringement analyses to quantify risks, and dispute resolutions and license negotiations to mitigate risks. A significant portion of Bryan’s practice involves appeals and other special proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Bryan represents companies within a number of fields, including cloud computing, mobile applications, computer storage manufacturing, travel services, and the food and beverage industry. He has investigated and prosecuted both utility and design patents in a diverse area of technologies, including computing networking, user interfaces, e-commerce, machine learning, culinary science, food and beverage products, automated image processing and analysis, audio/visual processing, and social networking. Bryan frequently works directly with business leaders, general counsel, and other non-IP professionals to assist in integration of intellectual property strategies into clients’ business goals.

Bryan received his JD from the University of Texas, Austin in 2010 where he was a member of the Texas Intellectual Property Law Review. He received an LLM from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in Innovation, Technology & the Law in 2010.

Bryan was a summer associate with the firm in 2009, joined the firm as an associate in 2010 and became a partner in 2017.

Dr. Paul A. Maltseff is a highly experienced professional in all aspects of intellectual property creation and management. He graduated as an electronic engineer from Mozhaysky Military Aerospace Engineering Academy (MMAEA), Saint Petersburg, Russia, and received Ph.D. and D.Sc. in applied cybernetics from MMAEA in 1981 and 1989 respectively, and was conferred Juris Doctor from a School of Law, Seattle University in 2005. Until 1992 he had been a professor in MMAEA and a head of laboratory in the National Academy of Sciences of USSR. During 1992-2014, Dr. Maltseff had been involved in R&D projects with Versatron Corp. and Intermec Technologies Corp. on senior engineering positions and as a chief intellectual property counsel. In January of 2014, he joined Datalogic as a chief intellectual property counsel. Dr. Maltseff holds 30 U.S. patents and authored more than 50 publications.

David Sanker is a Mathematician, a Software Engineer, and a Patent Attorney. David earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Berkeley, and returned to Berkeley 15 years later for his law degree after careers in academia and production software development. As a Patent Attorney at Morgan Lewis, David was a patent litigator for four years and a patent practitioner for more than 13 years. As a patent practitioner, David works with clients, inventors, the U.S. Patent Office, and associates throughout the world to build strong IP protection. This has included a lot of work with AI, and David continues to speak and write about AI. David also has an entrepreneurial spirit, launching his own small patent firm SankerIP in February 2024. In this way, David is able to provide high-quality work without the very high billing rates and conflicts of large law firms.

Ms. Gloria Steinberg is a Senior Corporate Counsel of IP from NuScale Power, the industry leader in advanced nuclear reactor technology that is the only reactor to receive design approval from the US NRC. She specializes in handling complex IP-centric technology transactions and is a key negotiator for all technology licenses for advanced nuclear projects across the global market. She is an expert in working with various government agencies to manage federal contracts and government sponsored projects, and she also advises on corporate governance and compliance, financings, and M&A due diligence. Gloria is a Seattle native and served in the US Army for over a decade before her current tenure at NuScale.

Jennifer is an experienced litigator. As a partner at Delaware law firm Morris Nichols, she focuses on patent, trademark, trade secrets, and other complex intellectual property disputes in federal and state court. Her experience encompasses all aspects of litigation from outset to trial and through appeal in both lead counsel and co-counsel roles.

An MIT graduate with degrees in electrical engineering & computer science and management, she frequently draws on her technical background in her patent litigation work.

Nicholas Kim is a Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft Corporation and focuses on IP litigation. Mr. Kim joined Microsoft from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division, where he was a trial attorney in the Intellectual Property Section. Before that, Mr. Kim was a patent attorney in private practice in Washington, DC.

Jessica is an intellectual property litigator with a focus on patent and trade secret litigation. She has represented clients in a variety of technological fields, including AI, data analytics, gaming, cloud-computing, and internet-related technologies, as well as consumer goods and life sciences companies. She has experience in all aspects of litigation, from pre-litigation dispute resolution, through pleadings, discovery, claim construction summary judgment, trial, and appeal. Jessica is actively involved in the Washington legal community, including serving on the executive board of the Seattle Intellectual Property Inn of Court. She is a former board member of Mother Attorney Mentoring Association of Seattle, an organization designed to empower female attorneys and encourage professional success.

Jessica is an intellectual property litigator with a focus on patent and trade secret litigation. She has represented clients in a variety of technological fields, including AI, data analytics, gaming, cloud-computing, and internet-related technologies, as well as consumer goods and life sciences companies. She has experience in all aspects of litigation, from pre-litigation dispute resolution, through pleadings, discovery, claim construction summary judgment, trial, and appeal. Jessica is actively involved in the Washington legal community, including serving on the executive board of the Seattle Intellectual Property Inn of Court. She is a former board member of Mother Attorney Mentoring Association of Seattle, an organization designed to empower female attorneys and encourage professional success.

David Sanker is a Mathematician, a Software Engineer, and a Patent Attorney. David earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Berkeley, and returned to Berkeley 15 years later for his law degree after careers in academia and production software development. As a Patent Attorney at Morgan Lewis, David was a patent litigator for four years and a patent practitioner for more than 13 years. As a patent practitioner, David works with clients, inventors, the U.S. Patent Office, and associates throughout the world to build strong IP protection. This has included a lot of work with AI, and David continues to speak and write about AI. David also has an entrepreneurial spirit, launching his own small patent firm SankerIP in February 2024. In this way, David is able to provide high-quality work without the very high billing rates and conflicts of large law firms.