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Judge Klaus Grabinski

President | Chairperson at the Court of Appeal | the Presidium of the Unified Patent Court

Judge Klaus Grabinski

President | Chairperson at the Court of Appeal | the Presidium of the Unified Patent Court

Klaus Grabinski studied law at the Universities of Trier, Geneva, and Cologne. He passed the 1st and 2nd state examinations in 1988 and 1992. He was a university assistant and received a Doctor Juris from Trier University in 1991.He served on the German Federal Court of Justice’s 10th Civil Division, including as the Deputy Presiding Justice of the Division, which has jurisdiction over patent litigation matters.

Before joining the German Federal Court of Justice in 2009, he held a number of judicial roles, including as a presiding judge of a patent litigation division at the Düsseldorf Regional Court and as a judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court.

He was an external legally qualified member of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office.

Since November 2022, Klaus Grabinski has served as President of the Court of Appeal and chairperson of the Presidium of the Unified Patent Court.

Michael Lee

Director, Head of Patents at Google

Michael Lee

Director, Head of Patents at Google

Michael Lee leads the global team responsible for Google’s patent matters, including portfolio strategy and development; patent quality, analytics, and data science; patent licensing and transactions; and patent policy. Recognized by IAM’s Strategy 300 as one of the world’s leading IP strategists, Michael serves as an advisory board member with IP Counsel Cafe. Michael earned his JD from the George Washington University Law School and his BS in Materials Science Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dan Choi

Chief Patent Counsel at Microsoft

Dan Choi

Chief Patent Counsel at Microsoft

Dan Choi is the Associate General Counsel and Chief Patent Counsel at Microsoft. He leads the team of patent professionals responsible for Microsoft’s patent strategy, portfolio development, and patent policy. Prior to his current role and over the course of a decade, he led teams covering business units across a range of Microsoft products and has worked on complex patent transactions as well as innovative uses for IP. Before joining Microsoft in 2013, Dan was in private practice helping companies from multinationals to startups with all aspects of patent preparation, prosecution, and portfolio management.

Dan holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Merri Moken

Partner at Brown Rudnick

Merri Moken

Partner at Brown Rudnick

Merri C. Moken is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. She has nearly 20 years of intellectual property and commercial experience. Her broad-based litigation practice includes patent, trademark, and commercial litigation in the biotech, regenerative medicine, chemical, and pharmaceutical fields, as well as the mechanical and electrical arts. She has appeared before state, federal district and appellate courts, and the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC). Merri also represents numerous high-profile clients in internal or third-party investigations, related contract negotiations and media-related efforts.

Russell Levine

Partner at Kirkland & Ellis

Russell Levine

Partner at Kirkland & Ellis

Russell Levine is a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he has spent his entire 38+ year career. He currently is a member of the Board of LES International and is a Past-President of LES (USA and Canada). He is co-editor of International Licensing and Technology Transfer: Practice and the Law, on WIPO’s List of Mediators and Arbitrators, registered to practice before the USPTO, and is a Certified Licensing Professional. He also has earned the Six Star Medal for having run all six World Marathon Majors (Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Berlin, and Tokyo), and has completed 22 career marathons.

Ben DeGreen

Associate Director at Georgia Tech Office of Technology Licensing

Ben DeGreen

Associate Director at Georgia Tech Office of Technology Licensing

Ben DeGreen is an Associate Director with Georgia Tech’s Office of Technology Licensing located in Atlanta. He is responsible for supervising the IP Management and Financial teams of OTL as well as managing a vast portfolio of invention disclosures from the Engineering Schools including Electrical and Computer, Chemical and Biomolecular, Mechanical, Materials Science and Engineering, as well as the School of Biology. Prior to Georgia Tech, Ben worked for Kimberly-Clark and Eastman Chemical in technology licensing, project management, auditing, and sales.

Kent Richardson

Partner at Richardson Oliver Law Group

Kent Richardson

Partner at Richardson Oliver Law Group

Kent Richardson counsels clients on a variety of patent and business matters, including patent buying, selling, licensing, valuation, prosecution, and operations. He provides data-driven advice using his firm’s proprietary database of patent market information covering 300,000 patent assets. He has licensing and marketing patent portfolio experience, resulting in more than $600 million worth of patent license bookings. Kent has served as an expert witness on patent monetization and licensing practices in UK and US cases and is a lecturer on IP at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Before founding ROL Group, Kent was general manager of ThinkFire’s Silicon Valley office. He has worked in various senior management roles with growth businesses such as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs at Sezmi, Managing Director at Constellation Capital, Vice President of Intellectual Property at Rambus and General Counsel at Numerical Technologies. He was also a private practice attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Kent is a member of the California Bar, and a US Patent and Trademark Office registered patent attorney. He holds five US patents. He has a JD and a BSc in computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada.

Ken Kumayama

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Ken Kumayama

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

The Daily Journal has recognized Mr. Kumayama several times as one of the leading technology lawyers in California, including as a 2024 and 2023 Top Intellectual Property Lawyer, a 2022 Top Cybersecurity Lawyer and previously as one of the state’s Top Artificial Intelligence Lawyers. He also was honored as a 2023 Technology MVP by Law360 and has been selected as one of Lawdragon’s 100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisors, in addition to being named to Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America. He was a key member of the deal teams that received California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) Awards in recognition of innovative work on behalf of: Livongo Health in its $18.5 billion acquisition by Teladoc Health (2021), Intel Corporation in its $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye, N.V. (2018) and Broadcom Corporation in its $37 billion acquisition by Avago Technologies (2016).

Micheal Binns

Head of Patents & Trade Secrets at Meta

Micheal Binns

Head of Patents & Trade Secrets at Meta

Micheal Binns is Head of Patents & Trade Secrets and a Director and Associate General Counsel on the Patent, Licensing and Open Source team at Meta, formerly Facebook. As a registered patent attorney, Mike’s helped protect global copyrights and trademarks in addition to patent rights for a wide range of industries. At present, he advises on global IP portfolio strategy and risk mitigation related the future of AI, social networking, AR/VR/MR, and the metaverse.

Louis Carbonneau

CEO, Tangible IP

Louis Carbonneau

CEO, Tangible IP

Mr. Carbonneau is the founder & CEO of TANGIBLE IP, LLC, the leading patent brokerage and strategic intellectual property advisory firm, focusing on IP sales & licensing along with strategic IP advisory services. Since he founded the firm in 2011, Mr. Carbonneau has brokered the sale or license of over 5000 patents, returning tens of millions of dollars to patent owners and inventors and has helped several technology companies with various advisory engagements. Mr. Carbonneau is one of a handful of individuals in the world who has been recognized by the prestigious British magazine Intellectual Assets Management (IAM) as one of the World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists for the 13thconsecutive year. He was also named in the first edition of the IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders Guide 2021. Mr. Carbonneau publishes a regular newsletter, IP Market Updates, that is read by over 20,000 IP and business professionals around the world.

David L. Schwartz, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, October 5, 2021

David Schwartz

Professor of Law at Northwestern University

David Schwartz

Professor of Law at Northwestern University

David Schwartz has focused his teaching and research on intellectual property and patent law, with a particular emphasis on empirical studies of patent litigation. He served as the Associate Dean of Research & Intellectual Life at the law school from 2019 until 2022. He also co-authored a casebook on the law of design, including design patents. Prior to entering academics in 2006, Professor Schwartz practiced intellectual property law, focusing on patents and patent litigation, for over a decade. From 2000 to 2006, he was a partner at two intellectual property boutique firms in Chicago, where his practice included patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrets litigation; patent and trademark prosecution; and intellectual property-related transactions. He began his career in 1995 as an associate at Jenner & Block.

Gideon Myles

Associate General Counsel, Patents and Trademarks at OpenAI

Gideon Myles

Associate General Counsel, Patents and Trademarks at OpenAI

Gideon Myles is Associate General Counsel, Patents and Trademarks at OpenAI. He specializes in all aspects of Intellectual Property, including the development of and day-to-day execution of patent, trademark, and open source strategies, policies, and procedures. Was previously a software engineer at Apple and IBM Research, as well as an associate in private practice.

Steve Gong

Co-Founder at ADAPT | Patent Counsel at Google

Steve Gong

Co-Founder at ADAPT | Patent Counsel at Google

Steve is currently Patent Counsel and the Head of Data Science, Technology, and Operations at Google Global Patents. His team is pioneering the application of AI/ML to the legal domain and the bleeding edge of applied AI and data analytics to drive transformation to both the practice and business of law. Prior to joining Google, Steve was a product leader and launched multiple products that are used by many Fortune 500 companies and numerous innovative technology companies today.

Steve is also a co-founder of ADAPT.legal, an industry-wide non-profit collective whose founding members include Microsoft, Amazon, Uber, Google, Cruise and Disney. ADAPT.legal aims to improve inclusive innovation and improve the pipeline of patent practitioners. Steve heads ADAPT.legal’s data and technology work and leads teams across multiple organizations to create ADAPT’s technical platform and analytics offering to tell the story of legal professionals and innovators while developing actionable insights.

PAST AGENDA: 2024 BRIDGE Chicago
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9:00 AM	Check-in / Breakfast
9:30 AM	CEO Remarks: LOT Network Update (Ken Seddon, CEO, LOT Network)
9:50 AM	LOT Organizational Intros (Melissa Schneider – Community Portal, Steve McDevitt – Supplier Relationships, Tyler Aroner – Startups and Venture Capital, Ed Meintzer – Invoicing)
10:15 AM	Networking Break
10:30 AM	Generative AI: What In-House Counsels Need to Know (Sponsored by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom)
11:30 AM	Member Lunch and Networking (Remarks from Ben DeGreen, Associate Director, Office of Technology Licensing,Georgia Institute of Technology)
12:15 PM	Navigating the Interplay between Patents and Trade Secrets (Sponsored by Brown Rudnick)
1:10 PM	Networking Break
1:30 PM	Top 10 Cases Affecting Licensing (Sponsored by Kirkland & Ellis)
2:30 PM	What Operating Companies Need to Know to Monetize Their Patents (Sponsored by ROL Insights)
3:15 PM	Networking Break
3:30 PM	Keynote Address: Update on the UPC and Unitary Patent Protection – 15 Months Post-Launch (Judge Klaus Grabinski, President of the Court of Appeal and Chairperson of the Presidium of the Unified Patent Court)
4:00 PM	ADAPT Update
4:20 PM	Cocktail Hour (Sponsored by Morae with Dolcera)