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Michael Brunner
Senior Partner of Gill Jennings & Every LLP
Secretary General of AIPPI
Mike obtained his Bachelor Degree in Engineering Science from Exeter University in 1971, specialising in electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering and joined GJE shortly afterwards. He became a Chartered Patent Attorney in 1976 and a European Patent Attorney in 1978, joining the partnership in 1980. He is now the firm’s senior partner, chairing the partnership committee, and has been with the firm for 35 plus years!
He was elected to the post of Secretary General of AIPPI (the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property) in October 2006.
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Brian M. Burn
C. R. Bard, Inc.
Division IP Counsel
Brian began his career as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent Office. He then practiced law at a large firm in Washington, D.C. for about five years. He has been the Division IP Counsel for two of C. R. Bard’s divisions since 2005. Brian received a B.S. in Chemistry from King College, and a J.D. from George Mason University.
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Dr. John Collins
Partner, European Patent & Trade Mark Attorney, Marks & Clerk
John has considerable experience of proceedings before the European Patent Office, including oppositions and appeals and also has experience in litigation both in the UK and the USA. His expertise lies in the field of software, Internet and business method patents both in Europe and the US. In the US, he has acted as an expert witness in litigation on a software patent case.
John graduated with an honours degree in Medical Physics from London University and went on to obtain his doctorate in Physics from London University. After a couple of years post doctoral research on far infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy, much of which was spent designing and programming a computer controlled spectrometer, he entered the patent profession in 1990.
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Nadine Glynternick
Head of IP Support Processes & Law Engine
Novartis International AG
Nadine Glynternick has extensive experience of managing, analysing and advising on data integrity and process within the IP sector. Nadine currently works for Novartis International AG where she was instrumental in the conversion to Memotech 2004 and the subsequent outsourcing of patent renewals. In 2006 she lead the data integration project following the acquisition of the Chiron Corporation by Novartis.
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Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar
European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney
Boehmert & Boehmert
Prof. Heinz Goddar, teaches Patent and Licensing Law as an Honorary Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, as a Lecturer at the Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriete Industrielle (CEIPI), Strasbourg, France, as well as at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich, Germany, and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A., the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A., the National ChengChi University, Taipei, and the Tokai University, Tokyo. Prof. Dr. Goddar is an Associate Judge at the Senate for Patent Attorneys Matters at the German Federal Court of Justice.
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Douglas L. Hendricks
Partner
Morrison & Foerster, LLP
Douglas L. Hendricks is a commercial litigator in the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he is the head of the Trademark Practice Group. Mr. Hendricks also practices in the area of professional responsibility. He has advised both law firms and clients in disputes arising out of legal engagements, and has served as an arbitrator in fee dispute cases. He is the Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Risk Management Committee and the firm’s associate general counsel.
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Simon Hughes
Head of Corporate Intellectual Property Services
Novartis International AG
Simon Hughes is part of the Corporate IP organization in Novartis International AG. In his role as Head of IP Services Simon focusses on optimizing processes and using technology to meet the business needs of the IP function. In 2005-2006 Simon led the Novartis initiative to consolidate several diverse systems onto the CPA Memotech 2004 platform.
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Bobby Lotter
IT Manager, Spoor & Fisher
Managing Director, Spoor & Fisher Consulting
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Ian Loveless
Partner
Reddie & Grose
Ian is one of the managing partners of Reddie & Grose and project managed the implementation of CPA Inprotech at the firm resulting in a succesful launch of the core product in April 2005, addition of the Time & Billing module in April 2006 and, more recently, delivery of the Client Workbench module. Ian has a degree in Physics from Oxford University and is a qualified UK and European Patent Attorney and is chairman of the CPA Inprotech European User Group. Ian’s approach to CPA Inprotech is best described as people focussed, based on a firm belief that information technology exists to help people not to tell them what to do.
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Steven W. Lundberg
Founding Shareholder
Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
Steve is a registered patent attorney and a founding partner of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner. His practice is focused on patent protection for software, medical and telecommunications technology, and related opinion and licensing matters. Steve received his B.S.E.E. in 1978 from the University of Minnesota, and his law degree from William Mitchell College of Law (J.D., 1982). He has published and spoken widely on software and electronic patent protection, and is active in the Software Publishers Association and the Computer and Electronics Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He is also co-editor of the treatise "Electronic and Software Patents: Law and Practice", published by BNA Books.
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Elisabeth Nilsson
Manager, Global Patent Database Activities
Thomson Licensing LLC
Elisabeth has been working in Intellectual Property with patent management system and CPA Memotech for the past 12 years. As Patent Database manager, she migrated from the V16 client version to the V32 client version and at the same time merged with a US dedicated database. This year her team became global and she was relocated to Princeton, NJ to strengthen presence and support to the Patent Operations group. Elisabeth began her professional career as a translator.
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Donal O’Connell
Director of IPR
Nokia
Donal graduated from the National Institute of Higher Education, Limerick, Ireland in 1985, with a Degree in Electronic Engineering. He has been at Nokia for 18 years and has a long and varied experience in the global wireless telecommunications industry, having worked for periods in The Netherlands, UK, USA, Finland, and Hong Kong. Today he is involved in a number of special IPR projects. He is a core team member of the Eco-Patent Commons initiative, which was launched in January 2008. He has written a book on Patent Creation called “Inside the Patent Factory”, which is due for publication in April 2008 and has also just begun writing a new book on the subject of innovation.
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Roy E. Scott
Paralegal Manager
Keltie
Roy manages Keltie's Paralegal team and has day to day responsibility for: cost estimates; due diligence work; watching services; patent searches; translations; reciprocity; library upkeep and patent and trade mark assignments, licences, changes of name and caveats. He also oversees payment of official fees to WIPO and OHIM and reconciliation of the corresponding deposit accounts. Roy also leads the team responsible for maintenance of the firm's CPA Inprotech database management system.
Roy sits on the ITMA Committee for the ITMA Formalities Course. He also lectures on the CIPA Patent Administration Certificate course.
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Roger Troth
Partner
Dannemann, Siemsen, Bigler & Ipanema Moreira
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Dipl.-Ing. Olaf Ungerer, M.B.A.
Patent Attorney, European Patent Trademark and Design Attorney
Olaf Ungerer is a professional patent attorney in the firm of Eisenführ, Speiser & Partners, which he joined as a partner in 2002. He heads a team of specialists in the firm that has been intensively focused for some years on the issues of patent valuation and portfolio management, and which has developed a customised range of services for the firm’s clientèle. He is also a member of the DIN Working Committee on ‘Patent Valuation’, which is examining the establishment of a national and international standard for patent valuation.
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