Speaker Bios

Ms. Hartzell has significant experience in intellectual property litigation, including cases involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. She also has experience enforcing covenants not-to-compete and confidentiality agreements. Clients hire her to protect their intellectual property rights and to defend them against infringement allegations. She works closely with her clients to understand their business needs and aggressively defends her clients’ interests, seeking the most efficient route to resolve litigation in a way that satisfies those needs.

Daniel Shulman, Shareholder in the IP group of Vedder Price P.C. in Chicago, will lead an interactive session that begins with some of the “untold story” of AI-created inventions and spins that history forward to unpack the many layers and implications of AI-conceived inventions in a thought-provoking discussion that promises to have more questions than answers.

David S. Fleming is a shareholder in the Chicago office of the U.S. intellectual property firm of Brinks Gilson & Lione. Mr. Fleming concentrates his practice on trademark litigation and counseling. He has handled trademark disputes in federal courts throughout the United States. His cases have covered issues arising in many industries, including Internet businesses, telecommunications equipment, entertainment and financial services, and consumer products. He has handled a diverse range of trademark matters involving such areas as keyword advertising, gray market and counterfeit sales, and licensing disputes. Mr. Fleming has been a frequent speaker and author on trademark issues, and he is the co-author of Trademark Litigation Practice, published by Bloomberg BNA. He also is active in the International Trademark Association, serving as the Association’s Counsel, sitting on its Board of Directors, co-chairing an annual meeting and other educational programs, and serving on various committees. Mr. Fleming is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law (J.D.) and Northwestern University (B.A.).

Edward (Ed) Chalfie has 30 years’ experience in international protection and enforcement of intellectual property. He has extensive experience as lead counsel in infringement and anti-counterfeiting actions, intellectual property related insurance coverage disputes, and opposition and cancellation proceedings in the US Patent and Trademark Office. Ed represented the winning plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme court trademark case Qualitex Company vs. Jacobson Products Co., Inc., in which the Court unanimously accepted his argument that a product's color alone can be registered as a trademark.

Fostering successful long-term client relationships, Marsha K. Hoover advises a wide variety of entities, from public corporations to nonprofit organizations, with respect to trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and identity rights. She helps clients protect and properly use intellectual property assets and avoid and manage conflicts. Ms. Hoover has considerable experience in trademark and copyright prosecution and licensing. While she excels in negotiating the resolution of intellectual property disputes without resort to litigation, she is also an experienced litigator. Ms. Hoover is included in the 2011 inaugural edition of the Martindale-Hubbell® Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers™. Fewer than 5% of women lawyers have been recognized with an AV® Preeminent rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. In 2013, she was selected as a "Top Rated Lawyer in Intellectual Property" by American Lawyer Media (ALM) and Martindale-Hubbell. Ms. Hoover was listed by the World Trademark Review (WTR) since 2013 in the WTR 1000 rankings. Her peers recognize her as a "2015 Leading Lawyer" in the legal community. Ms. Hoover earned her J.D. from Northwestern School of Law and received a Bachelor of Science degree in communication, also from Northwestern University.

For nearly 15 years, James E. Griffith has counseled clients on a wide range of strategically important commercial and intellectual property issues. He is experienced in the litigation and resolution of disputes in the areas of trademark, unfair competition, copyright, publishing, art law, entertainment, privacy matters, and computer-related law. Additionally, he counsels clients on a wide array of intellectual property matters and in the preparation and negotiation of licensing and other agreements in the fields of trademark, copyright, and rights of publicity, among others. Mr. Griffith received his J.D., with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School and his B.A. in economics and public policy, summa cum laude, from Duke University.

Gregory J. Chinlund serves as Chair of the Firm's Trademark and Copyright practice group. For start-up to multi-national companies with trademarks to develop and protect in the U.S. and internationally, Mr. Chinlund adeptly protects their brands – the ultimate value of a company. Similarly, for clients that gain a competitive advantage from novel product design, he counsels clients to capture maximum protection from design patents in order to enhance the value derived from industrial design. He also pro-actively counsels clients on copyrights, helping negotiate effective agreements and enforcing rights when necessary. Mr. Chinlund's balance, diverse experience and pragmatic approach, together with an education and background in marketing and business, uniquely position him to serve as a critical legal resource for clients. Mr. Chinlund holds a Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating and was selected as a 2013 "Top Rated Lawyer in Intellectual Property" by American Lawyer Media (ALM) and Martindale-Hubbell. He was also recognized by the World Trademark Review (WTR) since 2013 in the WTR 1000 rankings and as an IP Star in Managing IP’s World IP Handbook and Survey (2013-2015). Mr. Chinlund was selected for inclusion in the 2014 and 2015 Illinois Super Lawyers® list. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are recognized each year. Mr. Chinlund was also recently voted a "Leading Lawyer" by his peers.

Jackmanages the global trademark portfolios for Procter & Gamble’s oral care and health care brands, including such medicine cabinet staples as Crest, Oral-B, Vicks, Pepto-Bismol, and Metamucil. Jack has also practiced advertising, licensing, and food and drug compliance law with various other Procter & Gamble businesses over the last eight years. She loves working in-house with creative and innovative teams building some of the strongest brands around the world. Prior to her career at P&G, Jack was a Kentucky girl through and through. She clerked with the Hon. Thomas B. Russell in the Western District of Kentucky and studied at the University of Kentucky for her J.D. and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

Cary Pumphrey is the Director & Managing Counsel, Intellectual Property for Walgreens, part of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.and one ofFortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies. He handles trademark, copyright, advertising and internet law matters including clearance, prosecution, enforcement and licensing. In addition, Cary manages Walgreens’ global trademark and patent portfolios. Before joining Walgreens, Cary practiced in the areas of intellectual property and commercial litigation at the law firm of Gardiner Koch & Weisberg. Cary received his J.D. from the University of Denver and an L.L.M. in Intellectual Property from DePaul University. Cary is a member of the Illinois and Colorado bars and is registered to practice before theUnited States Patent & Trademark Office

Cheryl Withycombe is the head of the in-house trademark group at AbbVie Inc., a leading global biopharmaceutical company headquartered in North Chicago, Illinois. Cheryl is a member of the International Trademark Association and is active on the Association’s Well-Known and Famous Marks Committee. Cheryl earned her J.D. in 1997 from DePaul University College of Law, and her B.A. in 1994 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is admitted to practice in California, Illinois and the District of Columbia, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Jason Beckerman is the Head of Legal Affairs and Business Development for TMZ, where he works alongside the hardest working and funniest group of people in the entertainment industry. Jason oversees production of TMZ’s television, web and mobile content, as well as its distribution to over 80 million people around the world each month. Before joining TMZ, Jason was a partner and chair of litigation at Eisner & Frank (now Eisner Jaffe) in Beverly Hills, where his practice focused on entertainment-related intellectual property. He also served as a general litigation associate at SNR Denton in Los Angeles and Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Connecticut and his J.D. at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He and his family live in Santa Monica, California