The IP Leadership Executive 2025
The IP Leadership Executive returns to California for its 2025 edition. This event is quickly becoming the IP industry’s most popular cross-industry event. This year we are moving to Santa Clara and will host a 2-day jam packed gathering, allowing an audience of 50% corporate leaders, law firms and IP service providers to connect to together and discuss the IP industry with a series of structured networking sessions and keynote addresses.
Key Statistics
What Can You Expect?
- Seven high-impact panel sessions and a keynote address, delivering cutting-edge insights from corporate IP leaders to help you stay ahead of trends and maximize the value of your intellectual property.
AI & IP Innovation Showcase featuring a distinguished selection panel of three leading U.S. corporate IP experts. This unique forum allows delegates to assess the capabilities of top IP service providers.
Exclusive 1-to-1 Meetings scheduled into the event agenda, enabling delegates to forge critical commercial partnerships and deepen professional networks.
- Tailored tracked sessions in Tech, Manufacturing, and Life Sciences sectors, empowering attendees to develop IP strategies that align with their specific industry needs.
- Interactive workshops during networking breaks, ensuring continuous opportunities for knowledge sharing and meaningful networking throughout the event.
What's New for 2025?
150+ Corporate IP Leaders
Connect with 150+ leading corporate IP executives at the IP Leadership Executive Summit—a unique opportunity to gain exclusive insights, forge impactful partnerships, and stay at the forefront of innovation shaping the future of intellectual property.
AI & IP Innovation Showcase
For the first time, the IP Leadership Executive Summit will feature an AI & IP Innovation Showcase, where five AI service providers will pitch their innovations to a panel of three corporate IP leaders from the USA. This interactive session includes a live Q&A and audience participation, with attendees casting votes to select the inaugural 'Audience Choice Winner' for IP Leadership Executive 2025.
Facilitated Networking
Discover the enhanced networking opportunities at this year’s IP Leadership Executive Summit, featuring new interactive workshops that foster meaningful connections and inspire actionable insights among industry leaders.
Previous Attendees Include
Audience Breakdown
Hear What Your Colleagues Said
" The IP Leadership Executive Summit is a gathering of IP leaders throughout the Tech Industry that is unmatched in the quality of attendees, highly informative as to the current trends in the IP Industry and allows peers in the Industry to exchange ideas on how to address the mounting challenges that IP GCs face in an ever evolving legal landscape. Excellent Panels, topics and informal discussions, a "can't miss" event for leaders in the IP Industry."
" This event was absolutely perfect for the law firm attorney and for attorney's that are in house. As an attorney in a major law firm, I was provided the opportunity to truly understand and experience the business side of IP law, as it pertains to my clients. This conference was insightful, just the right size for networking, and impactful."
"A great event for IP counsels to get better understanding of how IP impact business, challenges and opportunities to business and IP counsels."
"Excellent event with timely content for both in-house practitioners and outside counsel. Great mix of people engaged in making the conference interesting and worthwhile."
"Well organized conference with practical, relevant and meaningful panel discussions."
" Outstanding event - combination of good substantive content and ample networking opportunities. "
" The all-day trade secret program provided an invaluable, in-depth discussion of all aspects of trade secrets that is not available with any other CLE provider."
"The IP Leadership Executives Summit was well planned out to maximize thought provoking panels followed by brief breaks which allowed for further discussion. The agenda was packed with great IP Leaders and you had the ability to network with a vast majority of the people. Conversation flow was plentiful and allowed for easy discussion on several topics. "
How To Get Involved
PARTNER WITH US
1. Showcase your thought leadership to 300+ IP experts
2. Boost your brand recognition and competitive market presence within a network of over 25,000 active members
3. Build your network of existing and potential clients in IP Startegy
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST FOR 2025
Register your interest in the 2025 summit to keep up to date with all the updates! Gain the opportunity to come together with legal and IP experts to discuss the latest challenges in the industry, and look ahead to see what is on the horizon, in this unique industry-led event.
AUDIENCE BREAKDOWN
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Industry In-House50%
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Law Firms30%
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Non-Practicing Entities (NPE'S)10%
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IP Service Providers20%
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2024 Speakers
Paul Liu
Paul is the Global Head of Intellectual Property at TuSimple, a self-driving truck company based out of San Diego, California. At TuSimple, Paul oversees the intellectual property function with a team of attorneys, patent agents, and paralegals to align the company’s intellectual property with the business to obtain proactive, high impact, and creative protections via patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights. He is a subject matter expert for intellectual property assets associated with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science technologies. He has been recognized by leading industry publications such as Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) as one of “The World’s Leading IP Strategists.
Kim Jessum
Sanjesh Sharma
Jay Choi
Gail Su
Subroto Bose
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.
Steve Gong
Monica Baig-Silva
Monica Baig-Silva (Vice President, Intellectual Property at Thermo Fisher Scientific) provides strategic counseling and intellectual property support for Thermo Fisher’s biotechnology, pharmaceutical and clinical trials businesses. With over 15 years of experience, Monica routinely handles all matters of intellectual property protection. In addition, Monica has extensive experience advising on matters related to IP infringement, employment agreements, contract negotiations, and cyber security. A champion of trade secret protections, Monica founded Thermo Fisher’s trade secret and risk assessment committee for internally monitoring company trade secret practices. Monica is currently a member of the Intellectual Property Organization’s trade secret committee.
John Mulgrew
Mathew Hulse
Matt is currently Associate General Counsel at Intel Corporation and leads the legal team advising Intel's Cloud & Enterprise and Programmable Solutions businesses, 2,000+ person datacenter engineering team, and Intel Automotive. In this role, he serves as the primary legal advisor for Intel's multibillion-dollar Cloud & Enterprise business that offers a broad portfolio of silicon and software datacenter products. His experience includes advising on issues related to technology licensing, strategic collaborations, intellectual property, competition, product security, sales and marketing, and commercial law matters. Previously, he held other senior IP, litigation, and business legal roles at Intel.
Prior to joining Intel in 2011, Matt was an intellectual property trial lawyer at Am Law 200 firms in Silicon Valley. He is also a registered patent attorney and received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and law degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Chuck Sholtz
Craig Opperman
Kristin Lamb
Kristin Lamb is Associate General Counsel, Senior Director of Intellectual Property and Regulatory Compliance for ŌURA, a late-stage health and wellness wearable startup based in Finland and San Francisco that makes the Oura Ring. Kristin leads all aspects of IP development, protection, and enforcement for the company.
Prior to working at ŌURA, Kristin was in private practice with Hogan Lovells in Houston, Texas. She is a former biochemist and patented inventor, studied biochemistry at the University of Colorado, and received her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She is admitted to the California, Colorado, District of Columbia, and Texas bars, and is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO.
Changhae Park
Katie Nolan-Stevaux
Thomas Choi
Thomas Choi is a Licensing Director at Ericsson, responsible for managing global IP transactions for Ericsson including SEP licensing. Prior to joining Ericsson, he had extensive IP licensing and technical experience from his time at Nortel, Wi-LAN and Intellectual Ventures. Thomas earned his J.D. from Santa Clara University and holds an MA in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University and BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is a member of the California Bar and U.S. Patent Bar.
Andre Carlos Freiden
Tim Gorry
Danielle Coleman
Keith Wilson
Keith Wilson is executive vice president, partnerships and acquisitions, at IPValue Management Inc. IPValue’s mission is to generate value for leading innovative enterprises by licensing their patented inventions. IPValue has returned well over $1bn to high-tech enterprises from its licensing activities and, over the past four years, has acquired rights to over 10,000 patents. Mr Wilson has over 25 years of experience in intellectual property law, licensing, and management. Before joining IPValue, Mr Wilson was vice president, general and IP Counsel at Solus Microtechnologies, a venture capital-funded technology company. Mr Wilson worked for over a decade for Litton Industries, a $5bn technology company, in a number of technical, legal, and executive positions, including chief IP counsel. Mr Wilson has a BS in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley and a law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law.
Patricia Rothenberg
Catherine Tornabene
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.
Mimi Diemmy Dao
Rose James
Harry Harden
Harry heads Kilburn & Strode’s, San Francisco liaison office. With a background in physics, he primarily works on software, automotive and autonomous driving technologies.
His practice involves advising on filing strategies across the globe, particularly for Silicon Valley companies, with a focus on balancing efficiency with strength of IP protection.
Harry has particular expertise in risk assessment (freedom to operate) and patent portfolio strength analysis as companies approach IPO. Recent work has involved detailed
patent due diligence investigations to advise on commercial implications of patent portfolios.
Victoria Friedman
Victoria Friedman is an IP attorney specializing in client counseling, procurement and management of intellectual property. Her day-to-day practice involves patent and trademark preparation and prosecution, opinions of counsel, portfolio strategy and management, licensing, business transactions and much more. Her technical background is in Computer Information Systems and her patent practice primarily focuses on software, telecommunications, computer, search, email and social network arts.
In her trademark practice, she manages international portfolios for top global brands in various industries. Friedman is one of a handful of attorneys who have been successful in registering a color mark. She enjoys developing and implementing efficient, practical solutions to her clients' IP challenges.
Victoria Friedman speaks English and Russian and has been active in the field of IP since 2003.
Chen Li
Daniel Block
2024 PARTNERS
2025 Platinum Partners
Robins Kaplan
Website: https://www.robinskaplan.com/
Robins Kaplan LLP is among the nation’s premier trial law firms, with more than 225 attorneys in seven major cities. Our attorneys litigate, mediate, and arbitrate client disputes, always at-the-ready for an ultimate courtroom battle. When huge forces are at play, major money is at stake, or rights are being trampled, we help clients cut through complexity, get to the heart of the problem, and win what matters most.
2025 Gold Partners
Michelman and Robinson
Website: https://www.mrllp.com/
Michelman & Robinson is a full-service law firm that specializes in Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets matters helping clients obtain patents, trademarks and copyrights here in the U.S. and through affiliates overseas. Our IP attorneys also develop IP plans to protect, maintain, maximize and monetize clients’ IP interests, including IP portfolio evaluations, opinion work and cross-licensing efforts.
As a testament to our breadth of experience in the field, our lawyers are pioneers in the treatment of data as an emerging asset class and species of IP. We’re also relied upon to handle brand identity and rights protection matters, litigate IP infringement cases in federal courts and in front of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), and prosecute trade secrets and trademarks before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Visit us at mrllp.com
Sterne Kessler
Website: https://www.sternekessler.com/
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is a full-service intellectual property law firm that provides innovative solutions tailored to your business and industry. Since our founding in 1978, we have grown to become one of the largest IP specialty law firms in the United States. We collaborate across the full spectrum of IP to deliver real results for our clients—from patent and trademark prosecution, to patent litigation in federal district and appellate courts, strategic IP counseling, due diligence, and post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Our team includes attorneys, patent agents, and technical specialists with 100+ advanced degrees, including 60+ Ph.D.s,, in science and engineering disciplines. We work with the world’s leading innovators and brands, ranging from individual inventors and startups to renowned universities and Fortune 500 companies.
We are proud to be one of the most highly regarded IP specialty law firms, and we have cultivated an environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating. And we’re honored that our attorneys and staff have voted Sterne Kessler as a Washington Post “Top Workplace” for 10 years running.
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