Executives charged with developing and protecting critical IP assets today need to accomplish a herculean task: While the business and legal landscape continues to shift, the time to react and produce workable solutions is exponentially shrinking.
Amp up your agility, flexibility, strengths, and balance for your IP strategy and management. Join your peers at the 12th annual Foley IP conference, Get Ready Now! Boosting Your IP Fitness for the Next Business Cycle, for interactive discussion on practical, first-hand insights to help increase your IP fitness score. The conference is a thought leadership forum for IP, legal, and business leaders on IP development, protection, litigation, and transactions.
Power Up Your IP Assets —
With insights from in-house counsel and consultants from global companies that include:
- New Lunch Keynote Speaker — Vikrum Aiyer, Chief of Staff, United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Abbott Laboratories — Ann Chen, Senior Counsel for Social Media & Digital Assets
- Anthem Inc. — Heather Steinmeyer, Managing Senior Associate General Counsel
- Capital One Financial Corp. — Robin Nunn, Vice President and Senior Associate General Counsel
- Cummins Inc. — Megan Dortenzo, Chief Patent Counsel and Assistant General Counsel
- Entertainment Software Association — Stanley Pierre-Louis, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
- FTI Consulting — Carrie Distler, Senior Managing Director
- GOJO Industries, Inc. — Jason Fokens, Global IP Legal Director
- Google Inc. — Richard Sonnentag, Litigation Counsel
- Heddoko — Alex Fainberg, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
- HP Inc. — Jennifer Prioleau, Division Counsel
- International Paper Company — Thomas Barnes, IP Counsel
- Medtronic PLC — Richard Watkins, Patent Counsel II, Therapies Group
- Mondelēz International, Inc. — Matthew Golden, Chief Counsel, Global Patents
- Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. — Jay Kolman, Executive Director, IP Counsel
- Renewable Energy Group Inc. — Chad Johnson, Senior Corporate Counsel
- Reynolds Group Holdings — Daniel Shulman, Chief IP Counsel
- Rockwell Automation, Inc. — John Miller, Vice President and Chief IP Counsel
- Samsung Electronics America, Inc. — Stuart Kauffman, Director and Senior Counsel, Marketing & Advertising
- Scientific Games Corporation — Jason Berta, Counsel, Licensing and Intellectual Property
- The Kraft Heinz Company — Sylvia Stein, Associate General Counsel, Marketing and Regulatory
- Under Armour, Inc. — Amol Purohit, Director, Senior Counsel, Patents
- Verizon Communications Inc. — Neer Gupta, Associate General Counsel
- Xerox Corporation — Margaret Walker, Associate General IP Counsel – Office of General Counsel
Featured topics:
- Judge’s Panel, including Honorable Judge James Peterson from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, Honorable Judge Faith Hochberg (retired) from the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and Honorable F. Scott Kieff, Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission
- PTAB Post Growing Pains
- Evolving Faces of Digital Media and Elusive Legal Solutions
- Winning Strategies for Plaintiffs
- Winning Strategies for Defendants
- Legal Issues Relating to Wearables and Connected Devices
- When IP Makes or Breaks a Deal — Strategic Considerations for M&A Transactions
If you are interested in attending the 2016 IP Conference, please use the Respond Today buttons above or below, or click here. For more information, please contact Delia Dai at [email protected].
