CIPO Peer Discussion: Managing Tight Budgets and Surviving Tough Times | Kisaco Research

Budgets play a pivotal role in shaping IP strategy and IP leaders have to understand effect strategies to manage them. This session will delve into the profound effects of budget constraints on patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark strategies. Gain insights into how to optimize IP strategies within budget limitations to achieve your organization's goals.

Speaker(s): 

Author:

Sanjesh Sharma

Assistant General Counsel- Patents
Johnson and Johnson

Sanjesh Sharma

Assistant General Counsel- Patents
Johnson and Johnson

Author:

Subroto Bose

Head of IP
Astera Labs

Subroto Bose is Head of IP at Astera Labs, where he manages Astera’s patent and trademark portfolio, domain names, customs enforcement, invention harvesting, and patent strategy.  Prior to joining Astera Labs, he was Assistant General Counsel, IP Strategy and Development at Marvell Semiconductor, and Senior Director, Global Patent Strategy and IP Operations at Dolby Laboratories.

 

Subroto’s in-house experience includes global patent and trademark portfolio strategy, European patent prosecution, patent acquisitions, and global IP operations.  He also advises on patent issues in licensing transactions, open source issues, and issues related to standard setting organizations and standard essential patents.  His prior experience also includes working at several law firms, where he represented both plaintiffs and defendants before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and federal district courts. 

Subroto Bose

Head of IP
Astera Labs

Subroto Bose is Head of IP at Astera Labs, where he manages Astera’s patent and trademark portfolio, domain names, customs enforcement, invention harvesting, and patent strategy.  Prior to joining Astera Labs, he was Assistant General Counsel, IP Strategy and Development at Marvell Semiconductor, and Senior Director, Global Patent Strategy and IP Operations at Dolby Laboratories.

 

Subroto’s in-house experience includes global patent and trademark portfolio strategy, European patent prosecution, patent acquisitions, and global IP operations.  He also advises on patent issues in licensing transactions, open source issues, and issues related to standard setting organizations and standard essential patents.  His prior experience also includes working at several law firms, where he represented both plaintiffs and defendants before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and federal district courts. 

Author:

Harry Harden

Senior Vice President
Kilburn & Strode

Harry Harden

Senior Vice President
Kilburn & Strode

Author:

Catherine Tornabene

Deputy General Counsel
Aurora Innovation, Inc.

Catherine Tornabene is the Deputy General Counsel, Intellectual Property at Aurora, a leading autonomous vehicle company. Catherine has been with Aurora since June 2017 and in her role works on all aspects of intellectual property. She has been an intellectual property attorney since 2007 and prior to Aurora, worked at Google Inc. and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a software engineer at a startup that was ultimately acquired by Netscape and then AOL. Catherine earned BAs in Computer Science and History at UC Santa Cruz, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford, and her JD at UC Hastings. She is also an inventor on two patents.

Catherine Tornabene

Deputy General Counsel
Aurora Innovation, Inc.

Catherine Tornabene is the Deputy General Counsel, Intellectual Property at Aurora, a leading autonomous vehicle company. Catherine has been with Aurora since June 2017 and in her role works on all aspects of intellectual property. She has been an intellectual property attorney since 2007 and prior to Aurora, worked at Google Inc. and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a software engineer at a startup that was ultimately acquired by Netscape and then AOL. Catherine earned BAs in Computer Science and History at UC Santa Cruz, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford, and her JD at UC Hastings. She is also an inventor on two patents.