The IP Defense Summit: Boston 2016
AIA, Alice, IPR: Defending IP In A Disrupted World
For today’s intellectual property executive, all roads converge toward Defense and Litigation: NPEs, corporate trolls, and the AIA have multiplied the number of IP lawsuits. In this environment, an effective, up-to-date Defense Strategy is a must-have for operating companies.
This conference examines IP Defense from soup to nuts, including best and latest defense strategies, preparing for litigation, protecting trade secrets, defending against NPEs, and navigating post-issuance proceedings.
- The 3 Ps of a Defense Strategy: Prosecution, Portfolio Management & People
- IP Litigation in China: How to Defend and Protect Your Patents in Today’s China
- The Great Game: Defending Against Rivals & Operating Companies
- Defending Against NPEs: Beyond Cost Benefit Analysis
- Post Issuance Proceedings for 2017 and beyond: Defensive Perspectives
- To Trade Secret or to Patent: What Works for Your IP Strategy
- Chief IP Counsel
- VP & Director of IP Strategy
- Chief, Deputy and Associate General Counsel
- Intellectual Property, Trademark and Copyright Counsel
- Head of Litigation
- Director of Business and Legal Affairs
- Director/VP of Intellectual Property
- Director/VP of Licensing
- IP Counsel
- Patent Counsel
- VP & Director of Intellectual Asset Management
Shaun P. Montana is Senior Counsel for Intellectual Property at OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc., part of OSRAM Americas, a group of OSRAM companies located in North and South America. OSRAM Americas is part of OSRAM GmbH, one of the two largest lighting manufacturers in the world. Shaun’s primary focus has been to help grow and protect OSRAM SYLVANIA’s intellectual property portfolio and its product portfolio as the lighting business continues to transition from conventional to digital technologies. Shaun provides legal advice, with a dollop of humor, to enable business from idea conception through product development to sales and beyond, covering all types of intellectual property-related legal matters, and works particularly with business units in the growth areas of semiconductor-based lighting devices, software-based lighting controls, and lighting electronics. Prior to working at OSRAM SYLVANIA, Shaun practiced at three well-known IP law firms in the Boston area, ranging from very small to mid-sized to very large. Shaun holds in BS in Electrical Engineering (magna cum laude) from Union College, and a JD from Boston University, where he served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Science and Technology Law (2001-02). Shaun is a registered U.S. patent attorney and is a named inventor on three U.S. patents. When not contemplating which is the perfect Monty Python quote to apply to today’s crisis at the office, Shaun enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, learning something new in history, science, and technology, and staying on top of the latest developments in baseball statistical analysis.
Joe is Director, Patent and Technology Counsel at Acacia Communications, Inc., where he takes the lead on all intellectual property (IP) matters. His practice includes overseeing the development and management of Acacia’s patent and trademark portfolios, patent drafting and prosecution, IP licensing, Open Source, supporting IP related litigation matters and contract negotiations, and general IP counseling. Prior to joining Acacia, Joe was Senior Legal Director at Dell Technologies.
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With over a decade of experience in the IP field and five years as an in-house attorney, Derek Lam is currently in-house Senior IP Counsel at Dell Technologies. His responsibilities include counseling business leaders and employees on a wide range of matters including patents, commercial agreements, M&A issues, patent litigation and post-grant proceeding issues, open source management, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Derek was a partner in private practice at Kim IP in the greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area; in-house as Senior Patent Counsel for Pegasystems in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a senior associate in private practice at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Boston, Massachusetts. Before becoming an IP attorney, he worked for IBM as a software engineer. Derek holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School.
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
