James Gale
Co-Chair (IP Litigation)
Cozen O'Connor
Barry Golob
Co-Chair
Cozen O’Connor
Intellectual Property (IP) litigation, especially in patent and trade secret cases, can be a critical battleground for businesses trying to protect their innovations. Whether defending their rights or asserting them, companies
need to understand the strategic dynamics of offensive vs. defensive litigation.
- Understand the core differences between offensive and defensive litigation in patent and trade secret disputes.
- Learn the strategic advantages and risks of initiating litigation versus responding to a lawsuit.
- Explore the best practices for managing complex IP cases, including litigation timing, settlement negotiations, and strategic use of court motions.
- Gain insights into navigating the evolving landscape of patent and trade secret law, including challenges posed by technology and international jurisdiction
- Navigating Non practicing entity (NPE) Litigation scenarios
Lana Gladstein
General Counsel
Seaport Therapeutics
Lana Gladstein currently works as a General Counsel for Seaport Therapeutics. She previously worked at APRINOIA Therapeutics as a Group General Counsel. Lana Gladstein attended Northeastern University School of Law.
Brad Bidwell
Assistant General Counsel - IP and HR
Knowles Corporation
Brian D. Walters
Executive Vice-President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Matthews International
Brian serves as Executive Vice-President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary for Matthews International Corporation having joined the Company as corporate counsel in January 2005 and having been promoted to the role of General Counsel in February 2009. Brian directs all legal operations for the Company globally, in addition to serving as a member of Matthews’ executive leadership team.
Established in 1850, Matthews now operates 3 very diverse business segments in over 35 countries. In 20 years of leading the legal function for Matthews, Brian has directed over 80 mergers and acquisitions, varying in size, complexities, industries and geographies. During that same period, the annual revenue of the Company has more than tripled to approximately USD 1.8 Billion.
Brian is also responsible for developing and directing various global compliance programs addressing trade secret protection, anti-trust, anti-corruption, data protection, export controls and insider trading.
Patents and trade secrets are two key forms of intellectual property protection, but they operate differently and come with distinct advantages and challenges. This panel session will provide the intricate details on when either form of IP
protection is favoured over the other:
- Examine how Patent and trade secret protection can dovetail:
- Strategies for where both protections can work together to lock down IP protection for innovation
Bart Newland
Head of Legal & IP
Atalanta Therapeutics
Joseph D'Angelo
Head of IP Litigation
Analog Devices
Joseph D’Angelo is a results driven legal partner with more than 15 years of corporate legal department experience at Fortune 500 companies. Extensive experience assisting businesses with intellectual property, litigation, technology licensing, complex negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, commercial law, and supplier matters.
Matt Hulse
Associate General Counsel
Intel
Julie Lappin
Senior IP Counsel
Nestle
Julie is a Senior IP Counsel at Nestlé S.A. She has worked for multiple business units in her 14+ year career with Nestlé, including Coffee, Nestlé Health Science, and PetCare. Julie significantly contributed to developing and deploying Nestlé's trade secret protection program. Before joining Nestle, she was a Corporate Patent Counsel at Pfizer Inc.
David McGee
Intellectual Property & Technology Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig
Monetizing intellectual property (IP) through patents and trade secrets can be a highly lucrative strategy for businesses, but it comes with its own set of legal challenges and issues. This panel session will seek to determine legal issues surrounding IP monetization and brings clarity immediate issues:
Legal Issues:
- Licensing trade secrets to third parties
- Commercializing trade secrets through joint ventures or partnerships
- Internal processes for maintaining confidentiality while commercializing trade secrets
Methods for Monetizing Trade Secrets:
- Explore the nature of the innovation
- What are competitive advantage considerations—long-term trade secret protection vs. temporary monopoly of a patent
- What are the market conditions and potential buyers/licensees—are they more likely to value the exclusivity of a patent or the secrecy of a trade secret?
Michael Renaud
Member/Chair IP Division
Mintz
Jamie Simpson
Chief Policy Officer and Counsel, C4IP
Former Chief Counsel on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, IP, and the Internet and Associate Solicitor at the USPTO
Mike Binns
Director and Associate General Counsel, Head of Patents & Trade Secrets
Meta
Micheal Binns is Head of Patent Portfolio Strategy for Meta’s Family of Apps and an Associate General Counsel on the Patent, Licensing, and Open Source team at Meta, formerly Facebook. Michael also leads Meta’s IP Trade Secret and Design Patent protection strategies. 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 social networking, AR/VR, and the metaverse. Micheal has and continues to protect the knowledge, systems, and inventions that are business-critical drivers of revenue.
Before joining Facebook, Micheal was the Atlanta Office Development Partner at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, where his experience included the litigation, counseling, and prosecution of all forms of intellectual property related to a variety of industries and technologies.