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W. TODD BAKER
W. TODD BAKER is a patent attorney in the firm's Interference and Electrical/Mechanical Practice Groups. His practice includes advising clients on patent interference prosecution matters and preparing and prosecuting patent applications. He is a former patent examiner with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, where he specialized in multiplex communications.
Mr. Baker is currently vice-chair of the Interference Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He previously served as vice-chair of the Diversity in Intellectual Property Committee of the AIPLA.
Mr. Baker received his Law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1996 and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1993.
Mr. Baker is admitted to the Maryland State Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
STEPHEN G. KUNIN
STEPHEN G. KUNIN is the former Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has more than 38 years of expertise in intellectual property rights protection and 24 years of organizational management and leadership experience. He was appointed to his former position in March 2000 and has served in a similar capacity since November 1994, under the position's prior title, "Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Patent Policy and Projects." Previously, beginning in July 1989, Mr. Kunin served as Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Patents. He participated in the establishment of patent policy for the various Patent Organizations under the Commissioner for Patents, including changes in patent practice, revision of rules of practice and procedures, establishment of examining priorities and classification of technological arts, and oversaw the operations of the Office of Patent Legal Administration, Patent Cooperation Treaty Legal Administration, and the Office of Petitions. Additionally, in January 1993, Mr. Kunin was designated by the Secretary of Commerce to perform the functions of the Assistant Commissioner for Patents on an acting basis until a new Assistant Commissioner for Patents was appointed in 1994.
John Whealan
John Whealan is the Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law and Solicitor for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. John has held this position since January 2001. As the Solicitor, John manages an office of twenty-five people who (i) represent the PTO in all federal court IP litigation, and (ii) provide legal and policy advice to the rest of the PTO on IP matters. John has worked in the Solicitor's Office for over five years, previously holding the positions of Acting Deputy Solicitor and Associate Solicitor.
John has personally argued and briefed numerous cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His staff is typically involved in over fifty such appeals each year. In addition, John and his staff have recently increased their dealings with the Justice Department in filing amicus briefs at the Supreme Court as well as other regional Circuit Courts. For example, in 2001, John's office worked with the Justice Department in filing five Supreme Court amicus briefs (three at the certiorari stage, and two at the merits stage).
Gary Griswold
Mr. Griswold is a Consultant to 3M and was the President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of 3M Innovative Properties Company. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University, a MS in Industrial Administration from Purdue University, and a J.D. with honor from the University of Maryland. He has practiced intellectual property law at 3M and E. I. dupont de Nemours and Co. for over 34 years. For a 6-year period Mr. Griswold managed the Dental Products Division of 3M. He is a past President of the Intellectual Property Owners, Inc. and the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and is presently President of the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel, a Fellow of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and a member of the Council of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the American Bar Association. He was Chair of the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations, a member of the Board of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, a member of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce’s Industry Functional Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights for Trade Policy Matters, and an alternate member of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce's Advisory Commission on Patent Law Reform, 1991-1992.
Alexander Harguth
Alexander Harguth is a Principal in the Munich office of Fish & Richardson, where he manages a diverse patent litigation practice that includes advising clients on complex infringement proceedings in district and appellate courts and related parallel nullity and opposition proceedings. In addition to heading patent litigation cases, Mr. Harguth handles litigation and adversarial matters relating to design protection, unfair competition, trade secrets, and licensing. Mr. Harguth also provides counsel on all aspects of enforcing intellectual property rights through the strategic use of European border measures. In 1999-2000, he served as legal counsel for the European Commission/DG XIII, Luxembourg, in connection with pan-European research and development projects subsidized by the EU. He is admitted to practice before all District Courts in Germany, all Upper Regional Courts in Germany, and the District Court in Paris."
Nick Setty
Mr. Setty has handled numerous patent, trade secret, and unfair competition cases involving parties in the software, telecommunications, and electronics industries. He has successfully represented clients in the areas of Picture Archiving and Computing Systems (PACS), speech analytics systems, database and menu driven template systems, wireless network systems, network security systems, messaging security systems, debit card database and management systems, analog and digital video technologies, anti-spam and virus scanning technologies, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, memory management systems, notification and messaging systems, satellite communications, screen capture and monitoring systems, short message system (SMS) communications, simulation technologies, time division multiplex (TDM) switches and systems, voice and data switching technologies, voice mail systems, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems.
Mr. Setty has extensive experience with chemical, pharmaceutical, and mechanical technologies, including anti-HIV therapeutics, antibiotics, cardiac therapeutics, fine and industrial chemicals, large-scale manufacturing equipment, ophthalmic pharmaceutical formulations, pesticides, and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) remediation.
Brian Kacedon
D. Brian Kacedon is a member of Finnegan, Henderson’s Mechanical Practice Group, where his practice includes patent litigation, patent licensing, patent prosecution, and patent opinion work. A substantial portion of his practice includes patent licensing and related litigation for various technologies used in consumer electronics products. Mr. Kacedon’s role in these matters has included assisting clients in conducting market assessments for their patents, conducting licensing negotiations, drafting licensing agreements, and participating fully in related litigations. He received his B.S.M.E. at Duke University (1997, cum laude, with distinction) and his J.D. from New York University School of Law (2000). Mr. Kacedon is a member of the Maryland Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Licensing Executives Society. In addition to teaching courses on drafting patent licenses for Patent Resources Group, Mr. Kacedon has lectured at The George Washington University Law School on IP Licensing.
James E. Malackowski
James E. Malackowski is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ocean Tomo, LLC, an integrated Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc® firm providing financial products and services related to Intellectual Property expert testimony, valuation, investments, risk management and transactions. Ocean Tomo assists clients – corporations, law firms, governments and institutional investors – in realizing Intellectual Capital Equity® value broadly defined. Subsidiaries of Ocean Tomo include: Ocean Tomo Auctions, LLC; Ocean Tomo Asset Management, LLC; and Ocean Tomo Capital, LLC -- publisher of the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index (Amex: OTPAT). Ocean Tomo is the founder and majority owner of the Intellectual Property Exchange International, LLC.
Mr. Malackowski is a member of the IP Hall of Fame Academy and was recognized in 2007 by Managing Intellectual Property magazine as one of the fifty most influential people in intellectual property. In 2008, Mr. Malackowski was again named as one of the Top 50 IP professionals under the age of 45 in IP Law & Business. Prior to forming Ocean Tomo, he served as a finance and investment advisor working with one of the Nation’s oldest investment banks as well as one of Chicago’s largest private equity firms. Mr. Malackowski began his career spending fifteen years as a management consultant and forensic accountant focused on intangible assets. In this capacity Mr. Malackowski served numerous roles as a founding principal including President and Chief Executive Officer of his firm, growing the practice to the nation’s largest before its sale.
John Paul
John Paul has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property licensing, litigation, and prosecution. He currently focuses on strategic planning, due diligence investigations, and licensing of IP portfolios. He chairs the firm’s IP management section.
Mr. Paul has set up and directed licensing and enforcement programs that generated significant royalty revenue for leading technology companies. He has analyzed numerous patent portfolios for a wide range of companies and provided strategy on building portfolios and exploiting patents to help those companies understand the legal and commercial significance of IP portfolios and develop more robust portfolios aligned with their business objectives. And he has conducted numerous due diligence investigations to identify, evaluate, and protect proprietary technology positions during startup, financing, product development, licensing, cooperative ventures, and acquisitions. The technologies and industries involved in his work include multimedia electronics, medical devices, and consumer products.
Jill Wasserman
Jill Wasserman is a senior associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at King & Spalding. Her practice focuses on trial and appellate litigation of intellectual property matters in federal district and circuit courts across the United States. Ms. Wasserman has handled a broad range of intellectual property litigation, including disputes arising under patent, trademark, false advertising, and libel and First Amendment law. In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Wasserman regularly counsels clients on the use and protection of intellectual property assets, access to information, public relations and communications, and other intellectual property-related issues.
Mark S. Walker
MARK S. WALKER is Software Group Site Counsel for IBM Corp. in Austin, Texas. Mr. Walker manages a team of patent professionals who provide advice and counsel on intellectual property matters to the executives, engineers and programmers for the IBM Tivoli brand and the Austin software development laboratories. He works with brand technical leaders to develop patent strategies and manages the patent application preparation and prosecution process. In addition, Mr. Walker conducts intellectual property due diligence investigations for corporate acquisitions and intellectual property licensing and has drafted and negotiated numerous patent and technology licenses and joint development agreements with major global enterprises. Mark and his team prepare and provide opinions to clients on open source code issues and on trademark use and enforcement. As Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Owners Association Patent Office Practice (US) Committee, Mr. Walker works with IBM and other industry counsel and the US PTO to improve practice before the US PTO. He is also a member of AIPLA and ACCA. Mr. Walker is a graduate of the George Washington University National Law Center. Before coming to IBM he was in private practice and served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Gateway, Inc. Mr. Walker has spoken frequently on the development of patent strategies, intellectual property portfolio management and intellectual property licensing.
Peter Vanderheyden
As vice president, Global Intellectual Property for LexisNexis, Peter Vanderheyden brings more than twenty-five years of leadership in the industry. In his role, Mr. Vanderheyden is responsible for the growth and development strategy of LexisNexis services and solutions for intellectual property professionals including their award winning TotalPatent solution as well as PatentOptimizer and the market leading Mathew Bender titles such as Chisum on Patents and Nimmer on Copyrights.
Prior to LexisNexis, Mr. Vanderheyden held a number of leadership positions in the industry including vice president of marketing and business development for IP.com and consulting engagements helping companies develop strategic business plans for both “start-up” and product re-launched businesses.
Mr. Vanderheyden spent more than 16 years with IBM in a variety of executive positions including serving as chief financial officer for a Trading Area and as a solutions development executive in the government sector. During this time, he founded the Delphion Company as a spin-off from IBM focusing on an innovative and efficient method for researching intellectual property information.
He is a published author of journal articles and has spoken at industry conferences on intellectual property. Mr. Vanderheyden holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business from the University of Minnesota. He has also completed several executive education courses at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
