Tina M. Chappell is Associate General Counsel and Director of Intellectual Property Policy for Intel Corporation, where she develops and drives Intel’s worldwide policy for patents, copyrights, and trade secrets.  Prior to her current role, Tina was Senior Litigation Counsel for Intel, handling patent litigations.  She has served on the Board of Directors for the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Association and on the Advisory Council of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association.  She received dual Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and in Mathematics, with a Physics minor, and a Masters degree in Mathematics.  She received her JD, magna cum laude, from Brigham Young University.  She is a former recipient of the Jan Jancin Award for excellence in the study of intellectual property law.  She clerked for the Honorable Randall R. Rader of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Before joining Intel in 2005, she worked with Fish & Richardson and with Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, where she litigated various technologies, including semiconductors, cellular communications, graphics, consumer devices, and medical devices.  She has received an Intel Achievement Award, Intel’s highest award given annually to less than 1% of Intel employees who make a substantial contribution to Intel’s business.  Prior to her legal career, she worked as a software designer and programmer with IBM Eduquest.

Alex Rogers is executive vice president and president of Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), a division of Qualcomm Incorporated.  As the head of the company’s licensing business, Rogers is responsible for the strategic direction and oversight of QTL, including managing the division’s day-to-day operations.

Rogers has led QTL since March 2016, applying his legal and business experience to manage intellectual property, regulatory and commercial matters for QTL, as well as ensuring continued growth and monetization of QTL’s existing and future licensing programs through negotiation of significant licensing agreements. Most recently, Rogers has been instrumental in driving the conclusion of new license agreements with key OEMs in China.

Since joining Qualcomm in 2001, Rogers has held various leadership roles focused on IP and commercial litigation matters. In 2007, Rogers was promoted to senior vice president and since then led Qualcomm’s litigation department as senior vice president and deputy general counsel.  

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Rogers was a partner with the law firm of Gray, Cary, Ware & Friedenrich (now DLA Piper), specializing in intellectual property litigation for various technology companies.

Rogers holds M.A. and B.A. degrees in English Literature from Georgetown University and a J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He also studied for one year at the Hebrew University in Israel and taught history and literature in Washington, DC for four years.

Professor Adelman is currently the Theodore and James Pedas Family Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Program and Co-Director of the Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Studies at the George Washington University Law School. Before joining George Washington in 1999, Professor Adelman was a professor of law at Wayne State University Law School specializing in intellectual property and antitrust law. Prior to joining Wayne State he practiced as a patent attorney in the Detroit area for several years. During that period he served as lead counsel in numerous patent infringement cases. The current focus of his teaching and scholarship is in the field of patent law. He has written many law review articles on patent law, the economics of patent law and patent-antitrust law. From 1977 to 1988 he was one of the co-authors and from 1988-2013 the sole author of the continuously updated nine volume treatise on patent law entitled Patent Law Perspectives (Matthew Bender)(available electronically through LEXIS). He is a co-author of Cases and Materials on Patent Law, Fourth Edition (West 1998, 2003, 2009, 2014), Patent Law in a Nutshell, Second Edition (Nutshell Series) (West 2008, 2013) and Global Issues in Patent Law (West 2011). He has testified either by deposition or at trial as an expert in patent law and practice in about 190 patent infringement cases and he has lectured widely on patent law subjects at conferences across the world.

Cindy Bian (Bian Lixin) is from Intellectual Property Rights Department, Huawei technologies. She joined Huawei in 2005, and grew her patent practice expertise in China, Germany and the U.S. Presently she works in California office, holding a position as a patent counsel, focusing on building up U.S. patent portfolio. She supports standard IP related projects, handles global prosecution cases, and provides advice on strategy making on patent matters.

Russ Binns is the CEO and General Counsel for Allied Security Trust. AST is a Delaware Statutory Trust founded in 2007 to mitigate the risk of lawsuits.  AST identifies and analyzes high-technology patents being sold on the market, and combines funds of interested member companies to purchase patents.  Russ has over twenty years of experience in intellectual property, most recently as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Avaya responsible for Avaya’s worldwide intellectual property operations.  He also served as a Board member for the Intellectual Property Owners Association.  Previously, Russ was a litigator and licensing attorney for Goodwin Procter, and Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Hayes.  He received his J.D. from the University of New Hampshire School of Law’s Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property, and his bachelor of science in electrical and computer engineering from Clarkson University.

Colin Birss is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was called to the English Bar in 1990 and practiced in intellectual property law. He was appointed Standing Counsel for the Comptroller 2003-2008 and took silk in 2008. In 2010 he left the Bar to become the new judge of the Patents County Court and Chairman of the UK Copyright Tribunal. His appointment to the Patents County Court (now Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC)) coincided with the introduction of major procedural reforms. In 2013 Colin Birss was appointed to the High Court. He sits in the Chancery Division and is one of the judges nominated to sit in the Patents Court. He is also General Editor of Terrell on the Law of Patents.

David Blonder is chief global regulatory counsel for BlackBerry and the company's principal legal resource on competition and other global regulatory issues. He oversees global business compliance and regulatory engagement/advocacy initiatives in the areas of antitrust /competition and privacy, as well as national security/export related matters, including advising on antitrust aspects of intellectual property and standards related matters. Prior to joining BlackBerry, he practiced antitrust law in private firms and as a Trial Attorney in the Telecommunications and Media section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. Prior to DOJ, he clerked for the Honorable Stanley S. Brotman in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. He is an honors graduate of Rutgers Law School.

Thomas Chia is director of patents and corporate development at Via Licensing Corp, an independent subsidiary of US audio pioneer Dolby Laboratories. An IP strategist and attorney with broad experience in complex technology and business matters, Dr Chia has a track record of structuring IP-centric deals and collaborations to drive innovation around today’s most valuable technologies.

A highly regarded expert in standards-based technologies, multi-party IP programmes and fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing – a subject on which he has published in law reviews – Dr Chia has built a reputation for crafting industry-friendly deals that promote innovation and create value for all parties.

Dr Chia received his PhD in engineering from Yale University, where he also published in several peer-reviewed engineering publications and served in the university’s technology transfer office. He earned his JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and is a registered US patent attorney.

John Colgan joined Google in 2011. As Senior Corporate Counsel, he manages a docket of domestic and international patent litigation matters. Mr. Colgan's work focuses on multinational patent litigation related to mobile computing. He also advises on patent licensing and corporate acquisition matters. Prior to joining Google, Mr. Colgan worked at international law firms in Chicago and New York.

Jorge L. Contreras is a Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He has previously served on the law faculties of American University Washington College of Law and Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, Professor Contreras was a partner at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he practiced transactional and intellectual property law in Boston, London and Washington DC.

Professor Contreras’s current research focuses, among other things, on the development of technical standards and the use, dissemination and ownership of data generated by scientific research. His published work has appeared in scientific, legal and policy journals including Science, Georgetown Law Journal, North Carolina Law Review, American University Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Antitrust Law Journal, and Telecommunications Policy. He is the editor of four books relating to technology law and technical standards, including the Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law (2 vols.), which is forthcoming in late 2017. He has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Korea Times and other national and international media outlets, has appeared on National Public Radio, BBC and various televised broadcasts, and his work has been cited with approval by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the European Commission and several courts in the U.S. and Europe.

Professor Contreras currently serves Co-Chair of the Interdisciplinary Division of the ABA’s Section of Science & Technology Law, and a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council of Councils and the Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For the past two decades he has been legal counsel to the sInternet Engineering Task Force. He has recently served as Co-Chair of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes, the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and the Advisory Council of the National Center for the Advancement of Translational Science (NCATS). He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD) and Rice University (BSEE, BA).

Patricio Delgado is Vice President of FRAND Compliance & New Initiatives for IPR & Licensing at Ericsson. He is responsible for ensuring that Ericsson’s patent licensing approach and cross licenses are FRAND, as well as for leading new initiatives connected to 5G. Before taking on this role, Mr. Delgado headed Ericsson’s 5G program within IPR & Licensing, where he guided all aspects of Ericsson’s IPR approach to 5G. Prior to that, he headed Ericsson’s emerging market licensing program, and worked as senior counsel on various activities around the world related to Ericsson’s 2G, 3G, and 4G patent portfolios. Those activities included portfolio development, pricing, licensing, sales and acquisitions, and litigation. Before joining Ericsson, Mr. Delgado practiced patent law at Baker Botts, representing telecom companies in patent litigations in the United States. He received his legal education at Harvard Law School and his undergraduate education at Stanford University.

Robert Earle is Vice President, Patent Assertion and Enforcement at Ericsson. Robert’s group within Ericsson’s IPR organization is responsible for driving Ericsson’s global patent assertion and enforcement activities. Specifically, he is involved in identifying potential licensees, providing detailed technical analysis of Ericsson’s industry-leading portfolio of over 42,000 patents, as well as the mapping of those patents against the products and services being provided by such potential licensees. In addition to this, Robert Earle is supporting licensing negotiations and taking the lead in relevant technical discussions, and supporting any litigation that may become necessary to enforce Ericsson’s IP rights.

Robert Earle joined Ericsson in 2014 as Vice President for Assertion and Enforcement. Prior to joining Ericsson, Robert was a partner with Fish & Richardson in its Dallas office. He has first chair experience in multiple jury trials representing clients before federal and state trial courts. His experience includes representing top international companies in patent litigation cases. Robert also served as a United States naval officer for nine years prior to attending law school.

Steve Faraji is a Senior Patent and Licensing Manager specializing in Electrics and Electronics IPR at AUDI in Ingolstadt, Germany. He is a qualified German and European Patent Attorney specializing in computer implemented inventions and software. Steve represents AUDI in IPR and standardization discussions in SSOs, such as ETSI, and advises on licensing issues, in particular regarding the use of ICT standard-essential patents in the automotive industry.

Prior to joining AUDI, he worked on prosecution and litigation of ICT patents for a major patent law firm in Munich. He has a degree in electrical engineering and information technology from UniBw in Munich, Germany.

Laurie Fitzgerald is a trial lawyer based in McKool Smith’s Austin office. She represents clients in all aspects of intellectual property litigation, including patent infringement actions, ITC/Section 337 investigations, and international arbitrations. In recent years, Laurie’s practice has primarily focused on issues related to FRAND licensing and standard essential patents, both inside and outside the United States. Her recent matters involving standard essential patents have included her representations of Ericsson in district court litigation with TCL, in an arbitration with Huawei, and in an ITC investigation and multiple district court actions with Apple. Laurie has been recognized as one of the top 25 “Legal Leaders on the Rise” in Texas by Texas Lawyer and was profiled in a Chambers USA special feature on leading “Women in Law.”

Mr. Galai returned to Telit in May 2014 after serving as the company’s general counsel and company secretary from 2006 to 2011. From 2012 until his return to the company, Mr. Galai served as a director and consultant for several companies on matters related mainly to M&A and capital markets. From 2004 to 2006 he was General Counsel at Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd. (Nasdaq, TASE: LPMA) where he took an active part in a secondary offering to the public and the company's sale to VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PAY). Before joining Lipman, Mr. Galai was a senior associate with Goldfarb, Seligman, an Israeli full-service law practice that serves a wide range of Israeli and foreign clients, with special emphasis on international transactions, financing, securities, mergers and acquisitions and related activities. Mr. Galai also spent six years in the Israel Securities Authority, holding a variety of positions, including spokesperson. He has an MBA (Major in Finance), and an L.L.B from the Tel Aviv University School of Law and is a member of the Israel Bar. Mr. Galai serves on the board of directors of Analyst I.M.S. Investment Managements Services Ltd. (TASE: ANLT), of Analyst Provident Funds Ltd., an Israeli institutional investor and of Calanit Karmon Software Services Ltd. (TASE: KLNT).

Heinz Goddar, Prof., Dr., a German Patent Attorney and European Patent and Trademark Attorney, is a partner of Boehmert & Boehmert, with his office at Munich, Germany. Technical background (as well as PhD degree) in physics, with a focus on polymer physics. He teaches Patent and Licensing Law as an Honorary Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, as a Lecturer at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich, Germany, as a Visiting Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A., and the National ChengChi University, Taipei, and as a Consultant Professor at the University of Huazhong, Wuhan, China. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Tongji Global Intellectual Property Institute (TGIPI), Shanghai, China. Prof. Dr. Goddar is an Adjunct Professor and an Honorable Consultant in International Legal Services at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan. He is also a Director at the Global Institute of Intellectual Property (GIIP), Delhi. He is a Past President of LES International and of LES Germany and has received the Gold Medal of LES International. In 2014 he has been inducted into the IP Hall of Fame

Dr Klaus Grabinski was appointed as judge in the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) in 2009. At the Federal Court of Justice he is allocated to the 10th Civil Division (X. Zivilsenat), which has inter alia jurisdiction in patent dispute matters. Before, he was Presiding Judge at the District Court in Düsseldorf in one of the two Patent Litigation Divisions (2001-2009), Judge at the Court of Appeal in Düsseldorf (2000-2001), Legal Researcher at the Federal Court of Justice (1997-2000) and Judge at the District Court in Düsseldorf (1992-1997).

Dr Grabinski studied law at the Universities of Trier, Geneva and Cologne. He is co-author of a commentary on the European Patent Convention (Benkard, Europäisches Patentübereinkommen, 2nd edition) and a commentary on the German Patent Act (Benkard, Patentgesetz, 11th edition) and author of several articles concerning Patent Law, Civil Procedure and International Private Law.

Dr Grabinski is member of an Expert Panel that is advising the Preparatory Committee of the future Unified Patent Court on different work streams. He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on patent law.

Stephen Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.  In addition, he is Professor of Political Science, of History, and (by courtesy) of Economics at Stanford, as well as the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow of Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.  Haber is among Stanford’s most distinguished teachers, having won all five major teaching awards Stanford offers. Haber has spent his academic life investigating the conditions under which societies create economic and political systems that foster innovation, social mobility, and high standards of living. He is the author or coauthor of five books, most recently Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit.  He has also published numerous scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines, including economics, finance, history, political science, and law. His current research is focused in two areas: innovation economics and intellectual property; and the ecological origins of political and economic systems. Haber directs Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Working Group on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Prosperity (Hoover IP2).

Sir Robin Jacob is the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in Intellectual Property Law at UCL, and Director of the UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law. Sir Robin joined the UCL Faculty of Laws in May 2011 leaving the Court of Appeal of England and Wales to do so. Having read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, Sir Robin then read for the Bar (Grays Inn). He started practice at the Intellectual Property Bar in 1967. From 1976 to 1981 he was the Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and for all Government departments in intellectual property. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1981. His practice took him abroad often (Hong Kong, Singapore, Europe, USA, and Australia). He was appointed a High Court Judge (Chancery Division) in 1993. From 1997 to 2001 he was Supervising Chancery Judge for Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2003. He was Treasurer of Grays Inn in 2007. He continues to sit from time to time in the Court of Appeal and will sometimes act as an arbitrator or mediator.

Dietrich is a member of Taylor Wessing’s patent group in Munich.

Dietrich’s expertise includes the representation of clients in national and international patent infringement litigation as well as advice on contractual matters involving patents and technical know-how, such as R&D cooperation agreements. He also works on antitrust related issues in IP cases. His clients come from all areas of technology with a special focus on IT and telecoms, automotive and medical devices. He has represented clients in litigation on the merits as well as preliminary injunction proceedings and proceedings for product seizures on trade fairs based on patents relating to standards such as UMTS, LTE, mp3 and others.

Dietrich studied law at the University of Passau and King’s College London. After taking the German bar exam in he worked as lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg where he completed his PhD with a thesis on antitrust law.

He contributed as co-author to a patent law handbook and publishes regularly in the field of patent law.

David J. Kappos is a partner at Cravath.  He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost leaders in the field of intellectual property, including intellectual property management and strategy, the development of global intellectual property norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets.  Mr. Kappos supports the Firm’s clients with a wide range of their most complex intellectual property issues.  

From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Kappos served as Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).  In that role, he advised the President, Secretary of Commerce and the Administration on IP policy matters.  Mr. Kappos led the Agency in dramatically reengineering its entire management and operational systems and its engagement with the global innovation community.  He was instrumental in achieving the greatest legislative reform of the U.S. patent system in generations through passage and implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, signed into law by President Obama in September 2011.

Prior to leading the USPTO, Mr. Kappos held several executive posts in the legal department of IBM, the world’s largest patent holder.  From 2003 to 2009, he served as the company’s Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property.  In that capacity, he managed global intellectual property activities for IBM, including all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection.  During his more than 25 years at IBM, he also served in a variety of other roles including litigation counsel and Asia Pacific IP counsel, where he led all aspects of IP protection, including licensing, transactions support and M&A activity for the Asia/Pacific region.

The Honorable F. Scott Kieff was a Commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission from October 2013 through June 2017, when he returned to being a professor at GW Law School and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.  Since entering academia in 1999, he has worked extensively as a mediator, arbitrator, or compliance monitor; as a strategic consultant for a particular party; and as a strategic and tactical consultant to various high-level government offices during the Bush, Obama, and Trump Presidential Administrations.  He focuses on the fields of trade, intellectual property, antitrust, finance, privacy, cyber, securities regulation, and national security.  Before academia, he was a trial lawyer, patent lawyer, and Law Clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge Giles S. Rich.  He studied law at Penn and molecular biology and microeconomics at MIT. He was inducted as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in March 2012.

David Killough is an Assistant General Counsel in the Litigation, Competition and Compliance Group of Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs department.  Killough’s principal responsibility is management of Microsoft patent litigation matters in the U.S. and internationally.

Before joining Microsoft in 2008, Killough was a partner of the firm Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. in Austin, Texas, where he co-headed the Intellectual Property & Technical Litigation Section, and before that was a partner of the firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP in California. He received his B.A. degree from North Texas State University in 1977 and his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law in 1983.

While in law firm practice, Killough was listed in The Best Lawyers in America and in Texas Super Lawyers.

Stephen Korniczky is a Partner in Sheppard Mullin’s Intellectual Property Practice. He is a trial lawyer who focuses his practice on litigating patent and other intellectual property cases. Over the past 30 years, he has handled patent infringement and other IP lawsuits including those relating to standard essential patents (SEPs) and worldwide FRAND obligations in district courts throughout the US, before the International Trade Commission and on appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Steve represents multinational publicly traded and emerging companies in many areas, including in the wireless, telecommunications, semiconductor, computer and Internet/e-commerce industries. Most recently, Steve served as lead counsel for TCL Communication Technology Holdings in a three-week trial of a breach of contract and declaratory judgment action it filed against Ericsson Inc. et al. in the Central District of California seeking a FRAND license to Ericsson’s 2G, 3G and 4G SEP portfolio.

Steve is a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America and is consistently recognized in Legal 500, Best Lawyers in America, Managing Intellectual Property, Chambers USA and Southern California Super Lawyers. The Recorder named Steve a “Giant Slayer” as part of its 2016 Litigation Department of the Year awards, where he was recognized for his victory in Intellect Wireless v. HTC. After rendering the asserted patents unenforceable based on inequitable conduct, Judge Hart awarded HTC $4 million dollars in attorney fees to be paid jointly and severally by plaintiff and its litigation counsel.

Steve regularly speaks at client and industry programs on intellectual property law developments. He received his J.D. from the State University of New York, Buffalo, a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University, and served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Giles Sutherland Rich, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.

Keith Mallinson is founder of WiseHarbor, providing expert commercial consultancy since 2006 to technology and services businesses, as well as multilateral organizations including the GSM Association (GSMA) and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), in the IT and telecommunications sector. He is also a regular columnist in the mobile communications industry trade press and with IP Finance -- “where money issues meet intellectual property rights”.

He has 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry as a research analyst, commercial consultant and testifying expert witness. Complementing his industry focus, he has broad professional skills in technologies, market analysis, public policy, economics and finance. He has published numerous reports and speaks publicly at industry events on a wide variety of topics related to mobile communications and to the licensing of standard-essential patents.

His academic qualifications include an undergraduate electronic engineering degree from London University's Imperial College and an MBA from the London Business School, including an academic exchange with Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Illinois.

James Marshall is a partner in the London office of Taylor Wessing LLP. James obtained a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Bristol.  He is an MIET (Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology).  He subsequently was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1986.  After spending a year as a pupil barrister (two of his pupil masters subsequently becoming English Patents Judges), he joined a firm of London solicitors in 1987.  For his entire career he has specialised in intellectual property.

He has advised and acted in patent and other IP litigation in England for clients in a wide range of sectors including in particular pharmaceuticals and telecommunications (both standard essential and implementation patents). Many of his cases have been reported. He also has considerable experience in advising and negotiating licences and other transactional matters involving IP (including in the context of European competition law).

James Marshall is profiled in the English legal publications "Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession" and the "Legal 500".  Chambers 2013 recognises James, who "is praised for his superb understanding of the technology at issue in the cases he takes on", whilst Legal 500 2012 recognises James for "his patent litigation expertise".  He is also ranked as a leading individual in Life Sciences by Chambers UK 2014.  James is an associate member of the British Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.

Noel Maurer is Associate Professor of International Affairs and International Business at George Washington University. Maurer’s primary research interest is why governments protect (or fail to protect) property rights and how private actors defend their property rights against predatory or unstable governments. He has written or co-written five books, most recently The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893–2013. He has also published numerous scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines, including economics, history, law and political science. His current research interest covers three areas: the impact of intellectual property rights on economic growth and development; the efficacy of foreign intervention in promoting good governance; and the long-term impact of property rights and labor systems in Texas and Peru.

Luke is an intellectual property attorney with 13 years of experience negotiating collaborative solutions for patent holders and technology developers. Luke brings to Avanci a commitment to ensuring that all participants in the company’s marketplace receive efficient and transparent access to the technology they need to fuel their devices for the Internet of Things. He is excited about the opportunity to simplify and improve the patent licensing process in a way that works for today’s fast-evolving world of connected products.

Luke joins Avanci from Ericsson where he led the company’s North American patent licensing business. In this role, he helped develop and license Ericsson’s patent portfolio, analyzing and valuing patent portfolios in multiple technology areas such as wireless connectivity, codecs, data networks, and security, and advocating policy positions to legislative bodies, competition agencies, standard-setting organizations, and other forums.

Luke is a frequent speaker on patent licensing, and the importance of licensing patents on terms that are fair and reasonable for all parties, at industry conferences including those hosted by the American Bar Association, the Berkley Center for Law and Technology, IAM, the International Telecommunications Union, Stanford Law School and University College London.

Prior to joining Ericsson, Luke was an associate and then a principal at the law firm McKool Smith in Dallas, helping to resolve major patent disputes between some of the world’s largest technology companies. Luke received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.

Kerry Philip Miller is Head of IP Regulatory Affairs at Nokia Networks where he is responsible for IPR regulatory affairs. He is also responsible for various patent licensing and divestment projects. Prior to Nokia, Mr. Miller was General Counsel at ContentGuard, a leading developer of digital rights management technology, and prior to that he was Vice President of Intellectual Property at EchoStar/Dish Network.

Naoko Munakata took office as JPO Commissioner in July 2017, and oversees Japan's policy on patents, trademarks, and design rights as well as JPO operation. She is currently leading a JPO initiative to develop voluntary guidelines for license negotiations involving SEPs to help right holders and implementers to come closer, sooner to an agreement. Immediately prior to joining the JPO, she spent two years in the Prime Minister’s Office as Executive Secretary to Prime Minister Abe.

Since entering Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 1984, Ms. Munakata has worked extensively on trade policy, including the launch of negotiations for Japan's first free trade agreement and Japan's participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, contributing to a higher level of trade liberalization and the establishment of new international rules conducive to innovation. She has also been deeply involved in economic cooperation, information technology, revitalization of the textile industry, and small and medium enterprises.

Ms. Munakata has published books and articles on regional economic integration based on her research as CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Visiting Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University, and Senior Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Ms. Munakata received an LLB from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Suzanne Munck is Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property for the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Deputy Director of its Office of Policy Planning. Ms. Munck manages all intellectual property issues related to the agency’s policy and advocacy efforts. Recently, she led the FTC’s 2017 modernization of the FTC/DOJ guidelines for licensing intellectual property together with the Antitrust Division and the FTC’s 2016 report on PAE activity. She frequently speaks before expert audiences on cutting-edge intellectual property policy issues.

Ms. Munck also has significant litigation experience managing intellectual property issues that arise during the FTC's enforcement efforts in the ICT and healthcare sectors. She was the lead patent attorney in the FTC’s pay-for-delay action against Cephalon, which resulted in a $1.2B settlement for consumers, and the lead patent attorney in the FTC’s action against Google, Inc. and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility.

In recognition of her work at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property, Ms. Munck has received the Commission’s Paul Rand Dixon and Janet D. Steiger Awards. Before joining the FTC, Ms. Munck was an antitrust and IP litigator in Los Angeles. She received her BA in mathematics from Bryn Mawr College and her JD from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was a managing editor of the Minnesota Law Review.

Brian Napper is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in San Francisco. He is the U.S. Head of the Dispute Advisory Services group and the Global Head of the Intellectual Property practice. He was formerly the Global Principal in Charge of Deloitte & Touche’s Intellectual Property Services. Mr. Napper’s background is in accounting, finance and economics, and he has a specific, focused understanding of those issues integral to the valuation and management of intellectual property.

A nationally recognized consultant and expert witness for over 30 years, Mr. Napper’s experience encompasses a wide variety of industries including telecommunications, semiconductor, software, consumer products, life sciences and cloud computing, and numerous high-profile matters and multi-defendant litigations in venues throughout the country, including Lucent v. Gateway, Uniloc v. Microsoft, Finisar v. DirecTV, 3Com v. Realtek, Apple v. Motorola and Ericsson v. Huawei. Working with cross discipline teams of engineers, business unit leaders and counsel, Mr. Napper has directed numerous licensing negotiations, setting royalty rates and terms. Mr. Napper also regularly works with private equity clients to identify and evaluate IP assets they may hold within an investment portfolio and assists private equity clients in valuing IP assets they may wish to invest in (or divest of).

Mr. Napper has provided testimony for US Federal and State Courts, governmental agencies and Arbitration panels (including the International Chamber of Commerce) on issues of infringement damages, licensing disputes and setting Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (“FRAND”) rates. He has recently been appointed by the European Commission as a subject matter monitor, assessing certain licensing activities of an intellectual property rights holder, including negotiation timing behavior and whether agreed upon rates are consistent within a FRAND framework.

Damien Neven is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and Senior Consultant at CL.   He holds a doctorate in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford and has taught at INSEAD, the College of Europe and the University of Lausanne.   He has acted as Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission from September 2006 to May 2011. He was closely involved in a number of key developments, both in terms of policy and case assessment. These included the adoption of the Non Horizontal Mergers merger guidelines, the Guidance Paper on the Priorities for the Enforcement of Article 102, the Guidelines on horizontal agreements and the Guidelines on the Submission and Evaluation of Economic Evidence.   He has written numerous books and articles on competition economic and the economics of industry.  His current research interests focus on merger control, exclusionary abuses and the coordination of enforcement across jurisdictions.  

Earl Nied is the Program Director of Standards and Intellectual Property Rights for Intel Corporation’s Global Public Policy Group. Earl is responsible for Intel's worldwide policies on Intellectual Property Rights issues relating to Standards. He chaired the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee (IPRPC) 2012-2015 and serves on the ANSI Board of Directors. He is an active participant in the: International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication (ITU-T) Standardization Sector IPR Ad Hoc Committee; and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) IPR Committee. In addition, Earl has been a consultant to several international standards development organizations including the Audio Video Coding Standard Workgroup of China (AVS) and the China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI).

Judge Kathleen O'Malley was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H. Obama in 2010. Prior to joining the Federal Circuit, Judge O’Malley was a District Judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, a position to which she was appointed by President William J. Clinton in 1994.

Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge O’Malley served as First Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff in the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Ohio from 1992 to 1994, and Chief Counsel in that office from 1991 to 1992. From 1983 to 1991, Judge O’Malley was in private practice, where she focused on complex corporate and intellectual property litigation; she was with Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur from 1985 to 1991 and with Jones Day from 1983 to 1985. As an educator, Judge O’Malley has taught patent litigation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and is a regular lecturer on issues arising in complex litigation, including intellectual property matters.

Judge O’Malley has been active in and an avid supporter of the American Inns of Court movement throughout her career. She is currently a member of The Edward Coke Inn of Court, where she recently served as its President; the Giles Rich Inn of Court, where she serves as a Counselor; and the John M. Manos Inn of Court, where she has been a member for almost thirty years, serving as its president for three years and as a member of its executive committee for 16.

Judge O’Malley began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, from 1982 to 1983. She received her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Order of the Coif, in 1982, and her A.B. from Kenyon College, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1979.

Chryssoula Pentheroudakis is a senior international lawyer and advisor in intellectual property (IP), internet policy and data privacy. As an expert consultant with the European Commission and the World Intellectual Property Organization, she conducts policy-driven research related to innovation, standardization and competition. Based on stakeholder analysis and comparative data sets, she studies the legal and political implications at the intersection of intellectual property and digital innovation. She prepares policy recommendations that shape the IP agenda of government agencies and technology corporations.

A former fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, she has worked as a senior lawyer with the European Patent Office (EPO) for 10 years, supporting the Boards of Appeal in their judicial tasks through case analysis and comparative legal research. In addition, she dealt extensively with EPO policies around standardization, patent quality and the Unitary Patent. Her publication track record varies from EPO compendiums on patent case law and feature articles over to EU- and U.S.-sponsored studies and reports.

Chryssoula has a Ph.D. in intellectual property law from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the London School of Economics/New York University Stern School Business/HEC Paris (TRIUM). She also holds an LL.M. in data protection law with current research focus on privacy, cross-border data flows and cloud strategy.

Steve Pentlicki is an Assistant Vice President in the intellectual property group of AT&T’s legal department. Steve provides IP counsel on a wide array of matters at AT&T, including patent prosecution, licensing and sales, standard setting, open source, and transactions with AT&T’s suppliers and customers. Prior to joining AT&T in 2000, he worked for MCI Communication Corporation, Howrey & Simon, Digital Equipment Corporation and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Steve is a registered patent attorney and received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1991 and his Juris Doctor and Master of Intellectual Property from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1995.

Will is a Silicon Valley veteran, serial entrepreneur/Founder/CEO, and currently runs PPI, an international technology and patent transfer firm.

Will has been involved in innovation, StartUps, and invention commercialization since 1997. He has founded two Start-ups, and is a proud to call himself a Founder. He is the inventor on 40+ patents, and has successfully built, monetized, or commercialized every one of his inventions. In 2011, he sold power conservation software to Samsung; this technology is now included with every Samsung smartphone, cumulatively saving megawatts globally each day. He sold his laser-based pico-projector technology, founded Startups around his own inventions in Infectious Disease defense and social commerce, built and tested prototypes in ballistic protection, and his advances in robotics helped open a new industry path.

Will is a member of the US Patent Bar and practiced patent law for eight years at a Silicon Valley prosecution firm, where he helped independent inventors, VCs, Startups, and Silicon Valley tech giants with patent matters. He now helps solo inventors, small companies, and fallen Startups in need of a soft landing.

Heinz Polsterer is the Head of Standardization and IPR Management in the Deutsche Telekom Technology Group. For more than a past decade he has been involved in several global key initiatives with the aim to improve the IPR environment and facilitate innovation.

Heinz is the founding member of the ETSI IPR Special Committee. In 2005, he organized the first meeting of the Committee in Vienna, resulting in a series of improvements to the ETSI IPR rules.

Heinz also headed the NGMN working group on patent pools, focused on predictable and reliable royalty rates for new technologies. The work of the group resulted in the creation of two LTE patent pools.

In 2011, with the telecommunication industry increasingly under threat from aggressive patents exploitation and poor patent quality, Heinz Polsterer was instrumental in the creation of the IPR Working Group in GSMA, he is chairing up to now. The Group has been set up in order to protect innovation and to prevent misuse of patents. Currently, the GMSA IPR Working Group is involved in activities associated with the creation of the European Patent Court System (UPC) and to improvements to the quality patents worldwide. Beside his work on IPRs he is heading the Standardization activities of Deutsche Telekom since 2001.

Dr Pierre Régibeau, Vice President at CRA, specializes in the field of Industrial Organisation, law and economics and international business with a strong experience of economic consultancy. Dr Régibeau has worked on numerous cases involving mergers, competition inquiries at the European Commission and national competition authorities. Cases include the Newscorp/Telepiù merger, the UK Premier League football case, the Microsoft case, the Ryanair case and the review of BskyB's position within the wholesale Pay TV market by the OFT. Dr Régibeau holds a BA in Economics from the University of Liège in Belgium and a PhD in Economics from Berkeley University. Since 1987 he held teaching positions at the Sloan School of Management (MIT), the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), the University of Barcelona and INSEAD. In the last few years, his work has mostly focused on network industries and high-tech industries. Dr Régibeau has written extensively on intellectual property rights with an emphasis on the interface between IPRs and competition policy. He is the author (with K. Rockett) of a report on IP and competition policy commissioned by DG Comp in 2011. Most recently he was a reader of Economics at the University of Essex. He is now a visiting Research fellow at Imperial College's IP Centre. From 2006 to 2011, he was a member of the Economic Advising Group on Competition Policy, a group of academics advising DG Comp.

Frank Reiner is Vice President of IoT Licensing for InterDigital Communications and recently was Vice President of Licensing and CFO for Spherix Inc.  Previous IP positions include senior roles at Kudelski and Flextronics International. Additionally, Mr. Reiner was a partner at Intellectual Value Creation Services, LLC.  Mr. Reiner started his career as a software engineer in the defense industry where he developed high-end aircraft and tank simulators for General Electric, Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin.  He holds a BS in Computer Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an MBA from Villanova University.

Brian Scarpelli is Senior Policy Counsel at ACT | The App Association, where he works on a diversity of legal and policy issues impacting mobile app development companies, including intellectual property (patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets), privacy, cybersecurity, accessibility, and connected health. Previous to joining ACT, Brian worked for over five years at the Telecommunications Industry Association, a trade association representing telecommunications equipment manufacturers and vendors that is also an ANSI-accredited standards developer. He has also spent time with the Federal Communications Commission, the District of Columbia Public Service Commission, and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions.

Judge Selna was appointed to the United States District Court for the Central District of California in 2003. Prior to his appointment, he served on the California Superior Court for the County of Orange for fours years. Before taking the Bench, he was in private practice for 28 years, and handled complex civil litigations.

On the federal bench, he has presided over numerous complex civil matters, including the multidistrict proceeding In re Toyota Motor Corp. Unintended Acceleration Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, which involved over 200 economic loss class actions and over 170 individual personal injury/wrongful death cases. In the patent field, he has presided over complex patent trials, including Broadcom Corporation v. Qualcomm Incorporated, Broadcom Corporation v. Emulex, and Siemens v. Seagate. Most recently, he presided over a major FRAND dispute, TCL Communications Technology Holdings, Ltd. v. Telefonaktienbolaget LM Ericsson.

He received his undergraduate and legal education at Stanford University.

Judge Selna is a member of the Central District’s Patent Pilot Program.

J. Gregory Sidak is the chairman of Criterion Economics and founding co-editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, published quarterly by the Oxford University Press. He testifies as an expert economic witness throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific on intellectual property, antitrust, regulatory, and contractual disputes in technologically dynamic industries. He has served as an expert economic witness in many disputes over FRAND or RAND licenses. Sidak has twice served as Judge Richard Posner’s court-appointed neutral economic expert on patent damages. Sidak held the Ronald Coase Professorship of Law and Economics at Tilburg University in The Netherlands and the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellowship in Law and Economics at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). While at AEI, he was also a senior lecturer at the Yale School of Management and taught courses with Dean Paul W. MacAvoy on competitive strategy in telecommunications. Sidak was later a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught antitrust law and telecommunications regulation. Sidak received A.B. and A.M. degrees in economics and a J.D. from Stanford University. He was Judge Posner’s first law clerk. He later served on the senior staff of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President and was deputy general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. Sidak has published six books and approximately 150 articles in scholarly journals and compilations. His writings have been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Canada, the European Commission, and many lower courts and regulatory bodies. In 2016, Sidak launched the Criterion Journal on Innovation to serve as a platform for experienced scholars to address a sophisticated audience of real-world jurists and policy makers.

Sidak’s articles on patent damages and other topics are publicly available at: www.criterioneconomics.com

Alesch Staehelin is IBM’s Lead Counsel Research Europe, focusing on the legal aspects of cognitive computing (digitalization, virtualization & automation): Internet of Things, big data analytics, blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine to machine, etc. He is a member of IBM’s global IP, competition law and GDPR core teams.

Before assuming his current role, Alesch Staehelin was for several years the Lead Counsel Europe for IBM’s maintenance services and IBM’s Lead Counsel DACH for outsourcing services, etc. Prior to joining IBM, he worked eight years as a TMT attorney for major law firms in Zurich.

Alesch Staehelin frequently speaks and writes on technology and IP related legal topics. He studied at the UCLA School of Law (LL.M. in Entertainment Law), the University of Zurich School of Law (Dr. iur.) and the City University of New York.

Olivier Thirard received his law degrees from the University of Pau and the University of Strasbourg (CEIPI), France.  He is also a graduate of the University of Houston law school (LL.M).  He started his career in intellectual property in Houston, USA, with Air Liquide America before moving to Paris to join the parent company IP department.  In 2006, he joined Orange as head of the Intellectual Property legal department.  His practice includes patent and software licensing in and out, patent and software litigation management in Europe and the USA, open source, standardization and lobbying.  Olivier participates as a panelist in conferences and seminars.

Nikolaus Thumm is Senior Fellow at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Spain. He is responsible to provide evidence based policy support to the European Commission on issues related to the Digital Single Market such as, innovation, technology transfer, intellectual property and
standardization. Recent activities include the analysis of patent assertion entities in Europe and the role of FRAND licensing for innovation.

Until 2013 he was Chief Economist of the European Patent Office (EPO) and Executive Secretary of the EPO Economic and Scientific Advisory Board. Before joining the EPO Nikolaus was working as Senior Economic Counselor for the Swiss Federation. He was chairman of the United Nations' Advisory Group on the Protection and Implementation of Intellectual Property Rights for Investment, a private-public partnership group. He has been member of different expert groups with the European Commission, the OECD and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Nikolaus spent time as researcher at the European University Institute in Florence and with Europa Kolleg Hamburg in Germany, where he received his doctorate in economics. He holds an MA degree in industrial engineering from Hamburg University

Cory Van Arsdale joined Intellectual Ventures in 2010 and is its Chief Revenue Officer. Mr. Van Arsdale has 30+ years’ experience in designing and managing partner ecosystems, and developing and closing innovative transactions involving intellectual property. Mr. Van Arsdale is on the executive leadership team at IV, where his team works across all of IV’s funds and focuses on patent licensing and divestiture transactions with companies around the world, ranging from the largest technology companies to the smallest startups. Prior to IV, Mr. Van Arsdale worked as a General Manager of business development and in-house counsel for Microsoft. He has also worked in-house at Apple, Sun Microsystems and the startup, Be. Mr. Van Arsdale received his BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his JD from Santa Clara University.

Dirk Weiler is Chairman of the ETSI Board and the ETSI IPR Special Committee, the ETSI representative to the European Commission's ICT Standardization Multi-Stakeholder Platform, Vice Chairman of the German BITKOM Working Group Standardization, member of the CEN-CENELEC-ETSI Joint Presidents' Group and a member of the German DIN Presidential Committee FOKUS.ICT.

He is Head of Standards Policy in Nokia Bell Labs CTO, responsible for standardization policy and membership portfolio

He regularly appears as speaker or moderator in conferences and events about technology, standardization and IPR topics.

From 2010-2014 he was Chairman of the ETSI General Assembly. Until 2006 he held various management positions in development, research, intellectual property, standardization and marketing in Siemens. Since 1988 he has been working actively in standardization on technical as well as board level in various organizations.

He graduated in 1985 as Diplomphysiker from the University of Cologne and the Institute of Nuclear research in Jülich, Germany.

Tim Wilson currently leads the patent team at SAS Institute Inc.  He began his legal career working in private practice at the law firm of Jones Day primarily focusing on patent litigation.  He then worked in the law firm of Brown, Raysman in New York, NY, before joining the Legal Division of SAS Institute Inc. in 1998.

Mr. Wilson is admitted in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.  He is a member of the Editorial Board of Intellectual Property Magazine.

Mr. Wilson graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1989 and received his J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1992. 

Koenraad Wuyts graduated in Physics in 1992 and became Bachelor in Philosophy in the same year, both at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He entered the intellectual property arena in 1994 and qualified as European Patent Attorney in 1999.

Nowadays Koenraad Wuyts is Chief Intellectual Property Officer of the KPN Group companies. The group develops ICT operations worldwide. Before working with KPN, Koenraad Wuyts was the head of the patents and licensing team at the research center IMEC (Belgium). Over the last fifteen years of his career Koenraad Wuyts developed extensive experience in patent portfolio management and the broad range of IPR law, currently lecturing frequently at international conferences.

He still lives in Belgium and is the proud father of three young adults.

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George Washington University - Jack Morton Auditorium
School of Media and Public Affairs
805 21st Street NW,
Washington, DC 20052, USA

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