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.

Linda Biel has more than 20 years of experience in high technology, specializing in business development, marketing and sales. She is responsible for new member recruitment and managing the relationships between Allied Security Trust and sellers of patent portfolios, including patent brokers and direct sellers. Previously, she was a founder and Director of Customer Relations for PatentFreedom, and before that served in a variety of customer and partner interfacing roles at IBM, including assignments in both Asia and Europe. Linda received a M.S. magna cum laude in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Jorge L. Contreras is an Associate Professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law. Professor Contreras teaches in the areas of intellectual property, law and science, and property law. 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 and dissemination of data generated by large-scale scientific research projects. He is an internationally-recognized authority in the area of standards-essential patents. He has written and spoken extensively on the institutional and intellectual property structures of technical standardization, and his published work has appeared in scientific, legal and policy journals including Science, Jurimetrics, American University Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Antitrust Law Journal, Santa Clara Law Review and Utah Law Review (forthcoming). 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 and various televised broadcasts, and has been cited with approval by both the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission.

Professor Contreras currently serves Co-Chair of the Technical Standardization Committee of the ABA’s Section of Science & Technology Law, and a member of the Advisory Council of the National Center for the Advancement of Translational Sciences (NCATS), the Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) Board of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). He has recently completed a six-year term as Co-Chair of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, and has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes and the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research at NIH. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD) and Rice University (BSEE, BA)

Dr Deichfuß has been a Judge at the Bundesgerichtshof, in Germany, since 2012, working within the 10th Civil Division (X. Zivilsenat) which has inter alia jurisdiction in patent dispute matters and the Competition Law Division (Kartellsenat) which has jurisdiction in competition law matters. Prior to that he was a judge at the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg) between 2002 - 2012, a Cleark at the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) from 1998-2001, and a judge at the Regional Court of Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg) on 1 February 1993. Appointment for life in 1996.

Dave Djavaherian is the owner of PacTech Law. Mr. Djavaherian has worked as in-house and outside counsel to many of the world’s leading technology companies. He manages IP, litigation, licensing and standards matters worldwide, partnering with and facilitating the needs and priorities of his business clients. He has served as President of the Federal Bar Association’s Orange County Chapter, and as a Delegate for the United States at the United Nation’s Telecommunication Standards Advisory Group’s 2014 meetings in Geneva, Switzerland. He taught Intellectual Property Law and Strategy for Business Managers at the University of California, Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, and sat on the Board of the Boalt Hall Alumni Association. Prior to forming PacTech Law, Mr. Djavaherian was Associate General Counsel for Broadcom Corporation, managing matters relating to technology standards, litigation, licensing, policy and strategic risk reduction. ​While at Broadcom, Mr. Djavaherian received Broadcom’s President’s Award for superior service. He previously served as Vice President, Head of Litigation and Associate General Counsel for Tessera, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor technology company, and was the only employee in multiple years to receive Tessera’s Superior Results Award. Before going in-house, Mr. Djavaherian worked at Irell & Manella, LLP, leading litigation and intellectual property matters, and was recognized as a “Rising Star” by Law & Politics magazine

Antoine Dore is a Canadian lawyer and Senior Legal Officer at the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations’ specialized agency responsible for coordinating telecommunication operations and services worldwide. Antoine’s passion for law and technology led him to join ITU’s legal team over fifteen years ago where he now leads ITU’s work in the area of intellectual property. Frequently called on to provide legal advice on technology-related issues, notably in the context of ITU's standardization activities, Antoine’s areas of expertise also focus on public international law and arbitration/dispute settlement.

Antoine Dore is a frequent speaker at international conferences and industry association events in Europe and overseas. He is the co-author of ITU’s recent publication “Understanding patents, competition and standardization in an interconnected world”. Prior to working as in-house counsel for ITU, Mr. Dore worked for several years in a major Canadian law firm serving domestic and international enterprises, financial institutions and governments. .

Sir Christopher Floyd is a Lord Justice at the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Sir Christopher Floyd was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1975 and became a Bencher of his inn in 2001. In 1988, he was called to the bar of the Republic of Ireland and in 1992 was appointed a Queen’s Counsel. He was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1994 and a Recorder in 2000, being authorised as a deputy High Court judge and assigned to the Patents Court in 1998. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal from 1995 to 2007. He was appointed a High Court judge in 2007, and assigned to the Chancery Division. He was the judge in charge of the Patents Court between 2011 - 13.  On 9 April 2013, he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal.

Avery Gardiner is Assistant General Counsel at Verizon Communications, where she focuses on antitrust counseling, merger analysis and approval, and antitrust litigation. Previously, Avery also worked as a Trial Attorney and Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the Department of Justice and at two law firms. She graduated with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Until recently, Sharaz was head of HTC’s patent litigation and licensing functions for the EMEA region.   Prior to joining HTC, Sharaz was employed as European Patent Counsel at Qualcomm.  His main areas of work in both of these roles was in European patent litigation, where he supervised multi-jurisdictional patent cases.  Sharaz has been involved in most of the major battles of the so-called ‘mobile phone wars’, including Qualcomm v Nokia,  IPCom v HTC, Apple v HTC, Nokia v HTC and HTC v Gemalto which involved patent litigation spanning the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands.  Sharaz was also responsible in negotiating HTC’s patent licences with industry key-players, for both essential and non-essential patents.

Sharaz graduated from the University of Essex in 1988 with a first-class honours degree in Electronic Engineering, winning the Hewlett-Packard Research Labs Scholarship.   He started his professional career as a research-engineer at Hewlett-Packard’s European Research Labs in the UK.  After two years of further post-graduate engineering studies in France (ESIEE) and Germany (University of Karlsruhe), Sharaz joined the European Patent Office in The Hague, as tri-lingual patent-examiner in the field of computer communications.   After rising to the position of senior-examiner and tutor in the EPO Academies, Sharaz resigned from the European Patent Office and qualified as UK and European patent attorney.  He then completed a law degree, obtaining first-class honours; and was subsequently called to the Bar of England and Wales.  His vast experience of patent prosecution, litigation and licensing in Europe mean that Sharaz is able to offer a valuable insight into the global patent environment. 

Geert Goeteyn, is a partner Shearman & Sterling's Brussels office. He advises on all areas of EU competition, merger and regulatory law. He is qualified to practice law in Belgium as well as in England and Wales, and holds an LLM in European Law.

Mr. Goeteyn has represented a large number of clients in a wide variety of industries including agricultural seeds, automotive, aviation, biotechnology, consumer goods, oil, paper, telecommunications and high-tech. He advises clients on complex antitrust issues including merger remedy cases, cartel related issues (both in the context of European Commission investigations and private damages actions) and abuse of dominance cases.

As General Counsel for ATIS, Thomas Goode provides legal support for the organization and its committees, forums and “Incubators,” and is also responsible for developing public policy positions in support of organization’s goals.

Tom previously worked for technology companies developing systems to provide broadband communications over powerline, including ONELINE AG. At ONELINE, Tom served as General Counsel and was in charge of developing North American operations. In this role, he managed legal, regulatory and business development activities and worked to develop partnerships with utilities in the US and abroad. Tom has also served as Associate General Counsel with the United Telecom Council. In this role, he represented critical infrastructure industries before Congress and federal regulatory bodies. Tom helped to develop the association’s business development and global divisions, where he worked with international utilities seeking to develop new telecommunications businesses.

Tom has written numerous articles on telecommunications matters and on the entrance of nontraditional players, including utilities and pipelines, into the telecommunications and information technologies markets. He has been a frequent presenter at US and international conferences on telecommunications business opportunities.

Tom has a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dan Hermele is Senior Director and Legal Counsel at Qualcomm. He is frequently involved in policy discussions about licensing of IPR in the ICT sector and the relationship between IPR and standardisation. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2008, Daniel worked in private practice and in-house for Nortel where he was IP Regional Lead, EMEA. He is a barrister of England and Wales and a European and British patent attorney. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and a Masters degree in Law both from the University of Bristol in England.

Renata B. Hesse is Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. From November 16, 2012, until the confirmation of Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer, Ms. Hesse served as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. She rejoined the Antitrust Division in March of 2012, having previously served in several different capacities at the Division between 1997 and 2006.

Immediately prior to returning to the Division, Ms. Hesse served as Senior Counsel to the Chairman for Transactions at the Federal Communications Commission, where she oversaw the Commission’s investigation of AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile. Before that, Ms. Hesse was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Ms. Hesse has been recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers (2007- 2011), The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists (2009-2011), and received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award in 2005.

Daniel Hosken is the Deputy Assistant Director for the Office of Applied Research and Outreach in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics.  Dan’s primary responsibilities include developing and supporting policy relevant research, and communicating the findings of economic research to non-economists within and outside of the FTC.  Earlier in his career, Dan was a staff economist in the Bureau of Economics’ antitrust division.

During his twenty years at the FTC, Dan has worked on projects examining competition in retail, gasoline, and pharmaceutical markets, demand estimation, and estimating the price effects of consummated mergers. His research has been published in economics journals including the RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, Economic Inquiry, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Currently, Dan is the lead economist on the FTC's study of patent assertion entities.  He received a Ph.D. (1995) from Cornell University and a B.A. (1990) from Oberlin College. 

Mr Toshiaki Iimura is an attorney at law in Yuasa and Hara, Tokyo. Prior to his retirement from the judiciary in 2014, he was the Chief Judge of the Intellectual Property High Court in Japan and between 2006-2012 had been the Presiding Judge of that court. He has had a distinguished Judicial career from 1994-1996 in the Tokyo High Court, from 1996-1998 as Presiding Judge in the Tokyo District Court, from 1998-2004 as Presiding Judge of the Intellectual Property Division at the Tokyo District Court, and from 2004-2006 as Chief Judge of the Kofu District Court. Prior to that he worked within the Ministry of Justice and as a Judge at various courts including Sapporo District Court and Tokyo District Court. He has also worked in the Administrative Affairs Bureau of the Supreme Court of Japan. He graduated from the Law Faculty at Tokyo University, and completed the 2-year judicial training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute before commencing his career in 1974.

Shelly Irvine is a senior managing director in the FTI Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice and is based in San Francisco. Ms. Irvine has over 15 years of experience consulting with clients and counsel regarding valuation and strategic business decisions concerning intellectual property matters. Her experience spans many industries including telecom, semiconductor, computer software and hardware, life sciences, retail and manufacturing.

Shelly has experience in the area of valuation and strategic business decision making. She has performed market studies, identified relevant market niches, devised pricing strategies and created discounted cash flow analyses designed to value businesses, patents and technology. Working with financial and marketing personnel and technology experts at client companies, she has assessed and valued technology portfolios in order to determine optimal strategies for deriving value.

In the context of technology transfer, Shelly has experience in assessing reasonable royalty rates and structuring licensing terms for transactions. She has prepared business plans designed to maximize the value of intellectual property and has helped clients prepare for negotiations between potential equity partners in technology transactions. Most recently she assisted an entrepreneur who had filed numerous patents around wireless surface battery charging devices. She assisted the client in locating partners in the mobile devices arena, developed models to project market penetration of the devices and corresponding financial scenarios for potential investors and assisted directly in the negotiations with interested licensees.

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 Kamlah is a Partner at Taylor Wessing in Munich and specialises in patent litigation with a focus on IT and telecoms patents. He has advised and represented clients in a number of cases involving patents representing declared or de facto standards. His work includes proceedings before ordinary courts as well as border seizures and seizures on trade fairs. Another area of Dietrich Kamlah’s work is licensing and R&D agreements, including publicly funded projects.

Before joining Taylor Wessing in 2005, Dietrich Kamlah studied law at the University of Passau and at King’s College London and completed a PhD in the field of antitrust law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is in private practice since 2002.

David J. Kappos is a partner at Cravath. He is a leader in the field of intellectual property, including IP management and strategy, the development of global IP norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets. 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 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

Prior to leading the USPTO, Mr. Kappos served as IBM’s chief intellectual property lawyer from 2003 to 2009. In that capacity, he managed all global IP activities for IBM. During his more than 25 years at IBM, he also served in various 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.

Konstantinos Karachalios, the Managing Director, IEEE-Standards Association, is an internationally-recognized leader within the standards development and intellectual property communities, and has extensive expertise in public policy, strategic planning, and the non-for-profit sector. His leadership efforts played a crucial role in the successful international cooperation between Germany and France in the areas of coordinated research and scenario simulation pertaining to large-scale nuclear accidents. Following the success of these cooperative international endeavors, he joined the European Patent Office (EPO). It was with the EPO, his most recent tenure, that Konstantinos encountered some of his greatest successes. Among the highlights of his career within the EPO are his creation and leadership of the EPO’s International Academy, the Department of Technical Assistance to the Middle East and Africa, and the Bureau for Public Policy Issues, and his guidance and insights as the EPO’s envoy to a number of United Nations organizations. As scenarios analyst and co-editor of the EPO’s book "Scenarios for the Future: How might IP regimes evolve by 2025? What global legitimacy might such regimes have?, Konstantinos contributed to repositioning these important issues, reframing the way in which they are debated in the global arena, and initiating and coordinating strategic responses to the challenges raised by those discussions. Konstantinos earned his PhD in Energy Engineering (Nuclear Reactor Safety) and his master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering for the University of Stuttgart.

Takashi Komoro is Managing Director of Intellectual Property Department, NTT DOCOMO, INC. He is responsible for developing and implementing DOCOMO’s overall IPR strategies, making effective use of the company’s more than 9,000 patent portfolio, and supporting its R&D and business units for IPR issues.

He has long experience in new business development and international business. His past experience includes; Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Telargo, an international joint venture company of DOCOMO in the US, which provided mobile asset management services for fleet owners; Director of Credit Card Business Department, and responsible for managing DOCOMO’s NFC based electric money service named “iD.”

Mr. Komoro entered Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in 1986, and joined NTT DOCOMO in 2002. He has a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and MBA from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Georg is in charge of all IPR matters of Huawei Technologies in Europe. He leads a team responsible for IPR prosecution and litigation.

Since the mid 90’s, Georg has regularly engaged in policy discussions involving standards, intellectual property rights and competition law issues at numerous standard setting bodies, including close involvement in the still in force IPR Policy of the ITU.

Georg joined Huawei after having worked in private practice from 2001 to 2008. He started his career in the field of IPR in 1987 in the patent department of Siemens, followed by 3 years practice as General IP Manager at the Digital Communications branch of Sony International Europe.

Chaesub Lee is the Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, following his election at the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, Republic of Korea. He took office on 1st January 2015. Dr Lee has been involved in the telecommunication and ICT standardization field for 27 years, specializing in areas such as integrated services digital networks (ISDN), global information infrastructure (GII), Internet protocol, next-generation networks (NGN), Internet protocol television (IPTV) and cloud computing. He started his professional life in 1986 as a researcher at Korea Telecom. After 17 years he took up a role at the country's Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), where he stayed for the next eight years. Most recently he worked at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and as a senior advisor to the Koreans Ministry, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP). Within ITU Dr Lee served as Chairman of the ITU Next-Generation Networks (NGN) Focus Group to address the growing need for global standards for NGN, including service requirements, functional architecture and mobility, security and Quality of Service (QoS). He was also Vice-Chairman of the ITU IPTV Focus Group which works to coordinate and promote the development of IPTV standards. He acted as Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 'Future Networks and Cloud' from 2001 until 2008, becoming Chairman of that group in 2009. Study Group 13 works to develop standardization solutions for NGNs, future networks and cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile telecommunications, to ensure their smooth international deployment in the coming years. Dr Lee holds a PhD in Multimedia Engineering.

Gail Levine is Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property and Public Policy at Verizon Communications Inc. She is responsible for shaping the company’s patent policy program, leading its Federal Trade Commission initiatives, and coordinating its advocacy on the Internet of Things.

Until 2011, Gail handled antitrust and patent issues as assistant general counsel at Verizon. Before joining Verizon, Gail was an attorney advisor to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras. She advised the Chairman on antitrust and intellectual property issues. Before joining the Chairman's office, Gail was the FTC’s Deputy Assistant General Counsel. She was a significant contributor to the 2003 FTC report on intellectual property and innovation, and she co-authored many other FTC reports on antitrust and high-tech issues.

Gail chaired the intellectual property working group of the ABA Antitrust Section’s 2012 Transition Task Force, which offered recommendations to the Obama administration on antitrust and consumer protection issues. Gail serves on the Council of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association.

Gail has co-chaired the Communications & Digital Technology Industries Committee of the ABA's Antitrust Section, served on the ABA’s Federal Pleading Task Force, and edited the ABA's 2007 handbook on antitrust and intellectual property. Before joining the FTC, Ms. Levine was a trial lawyer in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Levine clerked for Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Otto Licks, founder and managing partner at Licks Attorneys, has over 20 years’ experience. Acting both as an attorney and law professor, he has established a solid reputation as a trial and litigation specialist, advising clients in areas such as intellectual property and life sciences in cases involving industries related to telecommunications, medical devices and information technology – among many others. Regularly working with clients to resolve matters involving data package exclusivity, regulatory compliance, international patent issues, unfair competition, misleading advertising and qui tam actions, Otto Licks has an international client roster and considerable experience when it comes to the correct interpretation and enforcement of the law, dealing with regulatory agencies and protecting clients’ rights at all levels. He is an accomplished speaker in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and has published extensively in his areas of expertise.

Michael Loch is the Head of Intellectual Property at the GSMA. Michael is an English qualified solicitor with a BA Hon. from the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University of London. Prior to University, Michael trained as a radio journalist in the German Army.

Following articles as a trainee solicitor in Charles Russell, Michael was a telecoms regulatory lawyer with Field Fisher Waterhouse. In 2000, he became the European in-house counsel for Genesis Telecommunications, a subsidiary for Alcatel. Following Alcatel, he was Senior Legal Counsel at Hitachi Data Systems. Before joining the GSMA, Michael was the Regional Counsel at Nokia for Vodafone, UK and Ireland.

Guillaume Loriot has been the Director for "Information, Communication and Media" at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission since 1 November 2014. In this position, he is in charge of competition enforcement through Antitrust, Merger and State aid control in digital, media and telecom markets, and of the Task force conducting the e-commerce sector inquiry. Prior to that, Guillaume was the Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice President Joaquin Almunia, EU Commissioner for Competition Policy, between 2010 and 2014. Before joining DG Competition in 2002, Guillaume Loriot worked in a Brussel's law firm on competition matters and subsequently as a referendaire with the EU General Court.

Christian Loyau is Legal Affairs Director at ETSI. Christian Loyau graduated from the University of Paris in commercial and IP law.
After 5 years practicing in law firms in Denmark and France, Christian was an in-house lawyer for Digital Equipment Corporation, and Cap Gemini in France.

He served for 12 years as Legal Director for International Affairs for the French telecommunications company Matra Communication and was involved in the IPR group of ETSI from 1993 to 1996.

He then served as General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of the French IT company Bull for 14 years.

Mrs Fidelma Macken is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland and a former judge of the European Court of Justice.

She was called to the Irish Bar in 1973 (and to the Bar of England and Wales in 1987). From 1973 to 1979 acted as legal counsel to a firm of patent and trademark attorneys. She commenced practising at the Bar of Ireland in 1979 and took silk in 1995. During her time at the Bar she specialised in European Law, Irish Constitutional Law, Public and Administrative Law, Company Law and Intellectual Property. She was appointed a judge of the High Court of Ireland in 1998 and in 1999 was the first woman judge to be appointed to the European Court of Justice. In 2004 she returned to the High Court of Ireland, and in 2005 was appointed to the Irish Supreme Court, from which she retired in 2012.

During her time in judicial office she presided over or was a member of the formation in many seminal cases involving a wide range of legal issue, at European and national level, including in the areas of the environment (waste, water, special areas of conservation), free movement, intellectual property, regulatory control, telecommunications, privacy and data protection, the European Arrest Warrant, and in a broad range of constitutional and EU Treaty matters.

Amy is the General Manager for Standards Strategy and Policy at Microsoft, and she leads a team that addresses strategic policy and engagement issues on a corporate-wide, global basis.

Amy regularly engages in policy discussions involving standards, intellectual property rights and competition law issues at numerous standards bodies and in many other forums. Among other things, she is one of three rapporteurs at the TSB Director’s IPR Ad Hoc Group at the ITU-T, Co-Chairman of the Standards Policy Committee at the Intellectual Property Owners Association, Chairman of Standards and IPR Policy Committee and a member of the Board of Directors at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), and Vice Chairman of the IPR Policy Committee and a member of the Board of Directors at the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). She has testified or given presentations on standards-related policy issues upon request by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice (Antitrust Division), the European Commission, METI (the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), and CESI, CCSA and CNIS (in the People’s Republic of China).

Amy joined Microsoft after serving as the Vice President and General Counsel of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from 1994-2004. Prior to joining ANSI, Amy was an attorney with the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in its New York office.

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.

Kevin Mooney is a partner in the London office of Simmons & Simmons. He specialises in contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters, focusing specifically on patent litigation, especially in the pharmaceuticals industry.

Kevin has been part of an international team of lawyers working towards the creation of a new European patent court for several years and is currently the Chairman of the Committee tasked with drafting the Rules and Procedure of the Unified Patent Court (UPC). Kevin is the only UK lawyer who is a member of the Expert Group advising on the implementation of the UPC project. Kevin has organised and participated at the fore every year in Venice, for European patent judges and is advising the European Patent Office on judicial training.

He is also a member of the Intellectual Property Solicitors Association and a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

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 chairs the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee (IPRPC) 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; European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) IPR Committee; and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) Standards Setting 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).

Karin J. Norton is Director and Senior Counsel at Samsung Electronics. Prior to joining Samsung, Karin was in private practice and also served as Senior Investigative Attorney at the Office of Unfair Import Investigations at the US International Trade Commission.

Gil Ohana is Senior Director, Antitrust and Competition for Cisco Systems, the leading manufacturer of networking equipment for the Internet. Gil regularly advises Cisco on antitrust issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, standard setting, distribution, intellectual property licensing, and government investigations, and government and private litigation. Gil writes and speaks regularly on antitrust issues in mergers and acquisitions, as well as IP licensing, standard-setting, antitrust issues in patent litigation, and other subjects at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law. He has participated in discussions of standards development organization IPR policies at leading SDOs such as ANSI, ETSI, IEEE-SA, and IETF.

From 1993 through 1996, Gil was a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he participated in the Division's investigation of Microsoft's software licensing practices and its successful court challenge to Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Intuit. 

Gil received his law degree from Columbia University, where he was articles editor of the Law Review, and his B.A. from Harvard College. He is admitted to the bars of California and the District of Columbia.

With almost 20 years’ international experience in the global innovation system, Elisabeth Opie has worked on a diverse range of technology-related matters involving industry, funding entities, governments, and research organisations.

Elisabeth is based in Munich and is an independent International Technology Lawyer, undertaking international policy work, transactions and dispute resolution with a strong IP focus. Prior to this, Elisabeth was the inaugural Global Research Alliance Fellow, focusing on the area of international investment in applied research. Elisabeth holds a Master of Laws (International Trade/Intellectual Property) and a Master of Commercial Law, and previously held the positions of Deputy General Counsel, Acting General Counsel and Board Executive Secretary of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Over the past 18 years, Elisabeth has also undertaken voluntary work with the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law and has held Board roles for organisations focusing on international trade and international commercial arbitration. She has lectured at Humboldt University, Monash University and Deakin University on international negotiation and mediation, intellectual property law, and international commercial law subjects. Elisabeth is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has received a number of awards, including a Strategic Excellence Award in 2008, Business Excellence Awards in 2002 and 2005, and in 2003 was the Australian Young Corporate Lawyer of the Year. She is currently Deputy Chair of the German Australian Business Council and a Board member of the Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration.

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.

David established and headed the Intellectual Property Litigation practise at Clifford-Turner/Clifford Chance in Europe and Hong Kong (1972-2003) and also at the London office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy (2003-2009). He was most recently a partner with Arnold & Porter at its London office (2020-2013). He served as a member of the UK Government's Intellectual Property Advisory Committee (IPAC) and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Union of European Intellectual Property Practitioners (UNION-IP).

He is now an independent Arbitrator and Mediator serving on the Panel's of WIPO; JAMS; LCIA; ICC; SIAC/SIMC (Singapore); HKIAC (Hong Kong); KLRCA (Kuala Lumpur); AAA/ICDR (American Arbitration Association/ International Center for Dispute Resolution); NAF (National Arbitration Forum); and SCIA (Shenzhen Centre for International Arbitration). He has also served as an arbitrator for the IFTA (Independent Film & Television Alliance) and is a Member of the CIArb (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators).

William Plut has been involved in innovation and invention monetisation since 1997. He currently resides in Silicon Valley, California, where he leads Patent Profit International LLC, an international organisation specialising in the sale of top-tier patents. Mr Plut practised prosecution for nine years at a leading Silicon Valley prosecution firm and is a member of the US Patent Bar. He has founded and helped to build several Silicon Valley start-ups. Mr Plut is also the lead inventor of over 60 patents and patent applications, and has successfully monetised his own inventions. PPI’s team resides across the world, with headquarters in Silicon Valley and team members in Korea, Israel and Canada. Venture capitalists, individual inventors, research institutions and companies of all sizes all rely on PPI to monetise their intellectual property. PPI’s international reach permits it to service patent sellers and meet buyers across the globe.

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.

Until recently, Heinz was the head of 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 various 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.

Heather V. Roberts is Lead Product Development Counsel for Motorola Mobility, LLC where she provides strategic advice on semiconductor component selection and procurement and on the global development of Motorola and Lenovo mobile devices. Heather also assists in developing the global standard-essential patent strategy for Lenovo and Motorola and represents both companies at multiple IPR policy-setting organizations including ETSI, ITU, NGMN, ANSI and TIA. Previously, Heather served as Sr. Licensing & Transaction Counsel for the mobile division at Broadcom Corp., IP Counsel for financial transaction processor Total System Services and was a patent litigation Associate at Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto in New York.

Heather received a BS in Engineering and a law degree, both from Vanderbilt University.

Donald J. Rosenberg has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Qualcomm since October 2007 where he reports to the CEO and is a member of the Executive Committee. In addition to his responsibilities as chief legal officer, he also has worldwide responsibility for the Intellectual Property, Government Affairs, Compliance, and Internal Audit organizations. He previously served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Apple Inc. Prior to that Mr. Rosenberg was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at IBM Corporation. He has taught courses in Antitrust and Intellectual Property as an adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law. Mr. Rosenberg holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a J.D. degree from St. John's University School of Law.

J. Gregory Sidak is chairman of Criterion Economics. He is an expert on intellectual property and FRAND royalties, antitrust, telecommunications regulation, and damages and valuation in complex business disputes generally. He has served clients throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific as a consulting or testifying economic expert. He also serves as Judge Richard Posner’s court-appointed neutral economic expert on patent damages. He co-founded and co-edits the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, published by the Oxford University Press. Sidak studied law and economics at Stanford University and served as Judge Posner’s first law clerk. He formerly was a staff member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and was deputy general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. Sidak previously held academic positions at Yale, Georgetown, Tilburg, and the American Enterprise Institute. His books and articles have been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the European Commission. His articles on patent damages and other topics are publicly available at www.criterioneconomics.com.

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.

Cory Van Arsdale joined Intellectual Ventures in 2010 and runs Global Licensing. Mr. Van Arsdale has 30 years’ experience in designing and managing partner ecosystems, and developing and closing 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.

Richard Vary is an English solicitor advocate, and Vice President and Head of Litigation for Nokia. Richard has bachelors and masters degrees in Natural Sciences (physics, chemistry, molecular cell biology) from Downing College, Cambridge University. He trained at Linklaters, qualifying into the Intellectual Property litigation department. He joined Nokia in 2006. Richard has particular expertise in multi-jurisdictional patent litigation, and today heads the European litigation team at Nokia. He managed the European and Asian aspects of the litigations brought by Qualcomm, Interdigital, IPCom and Apple.

Luis is currently manaing the Return on Innovation Department at Telefonica, taking full responsibilities for the company Patent Office and solving different issues related to R&D Public Policies. He has over 25 years working with topics related with R&D & innovation management, mainly at Telefonica the telco operator based in Spain with business in Europe and South America. He is a member of relevant Spanish, European & International Boards related with R&D Management and Professor at the Master of Digital Science promoted by the European Institute of Technology.

Luis has a PhD in Physics Sciences (with specialization in Electronics). Master in Analysis and Management of Science & Technology. Graduated in Economy of Telecommunications. Degree in Industrial Engineering and Innovation Management. Specialist in Innovation Economy. Graduated in European Communities by the Diplomatic School of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Thomas Vinje is Partner and Chairman of the Global Antitrust group at Clifford Chance LLP, as well as the Co-Chair of the Firm's Public Policy Practice and Head of its Technology Sector Group. He is specialized in European Union antitrust and intellectual property law, especially in high-technology matters. He has been particularly active on dominance matters in the IT sector, especially related to intellectual property.

Mr. Vinje started his career in San Francisco in 1985. He moved to Brussels in 1989. While in the United States, he helped represent Fujitsu in its landmark software copyright arbitration with IBM. He represented various clients against Microsoft before the European Commission and EU General Court in the landmark antitrust case finally decided by the EU General Court in 2007. In 2007 he filed a case against Microsoft on behalf of Opera, the Norwegian browser provider, regarding Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer with Windows, which led to the adoption of changes to Microsoft's practices giving consumers a choice of browsers. Mr. Vinje represented Samsung before the European Commission and negotiated a resolution of the case it pursued regarding Samsung's seeking of injunctions against Apple based on standard essential patents. Thomas is acting for various clients, including FairSearch Europe, a trade association including Expedia, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, and Allegro, on issues regarding anticompetitive conduct in the online search and mobile markets. Mr. Vinje has represented the Open Society Institute on a number of international missions in Latin America advocating appropriate balance in intellectual property legislation and the appropriate application of competition law in technology markets.

Mr. Vinje obtained a B.A. (summa cum laude) from the University of Washington in 1977 and a J.D with highest honours from the Colombia University School of Law in 1982 (James Kent Scholar). Mr. Vinje is a solicitor in England and Wales and an attorney in Hawaii and California. Chambers places

Mr. Vinje in its top rank of EC lawyers and he is listed by all the other major legal directories as a leading lawyer in EU law

Over the past two decades, Paul Zeineddin has litigated, arbitrated, and negotiated large standard-essential patent portfolios across the globe.

For five years, he was the most senior IP attorney for Samsung Electronics’ mobile division, serving as its lead counsel in negotiating the technical and business aspects of bilateral licenses as well as the formation of major patent pools. There, he also managed patent litigations involving FRAND issues across the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany. For the past ten years, he also served as Samsung’s main delegate to international standard-setting organizations working on the clarification of FRAND policies and interfacing with competition authorities from the US, Europe, and Asia.

As outside counsel working alongside lead trial lawyers from various global firms, Paul has tried FRAND-encumbered patent disputes in the ITC, district courts, and before arbitration tribunals. He continues to advise clients on bilateral and collective licensing and remains a regular contributor in IPR committees at the United Nations’ ITU, ETSI, and ANSI.
Prior to embarking on his legal career, Paul designed global telecommunications networks for the US Government, British Telecom, and MCI. He holds a JD from the George Washington University Law School, and a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University where he published his graduate Computational Electromagnetics research in international journals.

Junqi Xu is Legal Counsel of China Communications Standard Association. This October, Mr. Junqi Xu joined Intel China Legal team as senior legal policy attorney to cover ICT industry focused law and policy issues. In this role, he will work very closely with Intel GPP team (global and China) in developing Intel’s policy position, influencing strategy and execution of it, regarding China’s ICT industry policy, IPR and standardization, product regulations, security and privacy and so forth, to warrant Intel’s “license to operate” and expand business opportunities in China. Before he joined Intel, Junqi has had over fifteen years’ experience at China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (“CAICT”), formerly known as China Academy of Telecommunication Research (“CATR”). In CAICT Junqi has been taking various positions including Deputy Director of Institute of Communication Policy and Administration; Chief of IPR Group of IMT-2020(5G) Forum of China; Chief of ITU-T IPR ad hoc Group of MIIT, China; General Counsel of CCSA; Director of CATR IP Center; and Vice Chief Engineer of CAICT. He had also been taking social positions out of his full-time job, e.g., Secretary General of Beijing Association of Communication Law Research. Junqi has been a frequent speaker and published numerous articles on ICT industry focused law and policy subjects. Junqi got BA degree from Beijing Normal University majored in Economics. He got his Master’s degree and PhD

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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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