The IP Strategy Summit Boston 2016
The IP Landscape Has Changed:
But Has Your Strategy?
The IP environment has been turned upside-down over the last 24 months:
- ALICE v CLS cast uncertainty on the very nature of what's patentable
- Octane & Highmark decisions loosened up fee shifting standards
- Post issuance proceedings can create risky outcomes
- USPTO's 2nd round of AIA changes proposed in August...
How Does All This Impact Your Portfolio Strategy?
Come join thought leaders for a full day of learning, benchmarking and networking on the issues facing every in-house counsel.
- The 3 Pillars of IP Strategy: Patent Prosecution, Portfolio Management & Due Diligence
- When To Trade Secret & Manage The Process
- A Balanced Enforcement Strategy For Operating Companies
- Adapting Your Defensive Litigation Strategy
- Benchmarking Post Issuance Proceedings: Plaintiff and Defensive Perspectives
- 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
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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.
Randy Morin serves as Vice President, Head of Intellectual Property at Translate Bio. He formerly served at Vertex Pharmaceuticals as Assistant Chief IP Counsel and at Shire Pharmaceuticals as Lead, Business Development Transactions and as Lead IP Attorney for Shire Research and Development. In his legal roles, Randy has supported R&D, Business Development and Commercial organizations in various capacities, including patent strategy, diligence, prosecution, litigation, deal strategy and negotiations.
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
