Our 2025 IP Leadership Speakers

Aaron Capron

Partner

Finnegan

Aaron Capron, leader of Finnegan’s patent office practice, has a comprehensive patent practice including patent portfolio management, client counseling, and post-grant proceedings related to artificial intelligence (AI), hardware accelerators, semiconductor manufacturing, video coding, medical devices, quantum computing, and digital health technologies.

Aaron has been co-lead counsel for several post-grant proceedings, including one of the first cases instituted under the America Invents Act (AIA). Using his experience before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in all aspects of pre-trial litigation, Aaron assists clients with making strategic decisions under these proceedings. He has drafted and overseen the drafting of hundreds of patent applications for electrical, electronics, telecommunications, and software-based technologies.

Alonzo Barber

Head of IP Strategy, Licencing and Acquisition

Microsoft

Andrew Meyer

CEO

AeroFlexx

Ben Chapman

Senior Associate

Carpmaels & Ransford

Brendan Server

Assistant Managing Director

Global Prior Art

Bryan Hanks

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Changhae Park

SVP and Chief IP Officer

NXP Semiconductors

Dan Housley

Associate Director- Copyright & Transactions

Kyndryl

Diane Gabl Kratz

Director, IP Strategy & Operations

Dolby

Diane is a 2024 ACC Global Top Ten 30-Somethings Award winner, five-time IAM Strategy 300 World's Leading IP Strategist, and USPTO-registered patent attorney. At Dolby, she leads an 18-person global team, developing and executing U.S. and international patent filing strategies and heading trademarks worldwide. A four-time Super Lawyers Rising Star, she began in IP litigation at international law firms Morrison & Foerster and Sidley Austin. 

Diane frequently presents at conferences throughout the U.S. and has guest lectured at Stanford, UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and serves as regular faculty at PLI. She has been quoted in numerous legal publications including Law360, American Lawyer/Law.com, IAM, and Managing IP. She is a Founding Board Member of the California IP Alliance. Diane received her J.D. from the University of Chicago and Physics degree from Cornell University.

Helen Li

Associate Director of Patents

Intel Corporation

Helen Liis an associate director of patents and patent portfolio manager of AI innovations at the Intel Corporation.  She also serves as the Patent Group Counsel to Office of the Intel CTO & Software and Advanced Technology Group.  Prior to joining the Intel, she was a patent attorney at Fenwick & West LLP, where she advised clients on IP strategy and prosecuted patents in computer engineering technologies such as AI.  She has a PhD in computer engineering and JD both from Santa Clara University. 

Jeffrey Smith

Partner

Finnegan

Jeremiah Chan

Director and Associate General Counsel, Head of Patents, Licensing and Open Source

Meta Platforms

Jordan Grotzinger

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Joshua Kresh

Interim Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property

x Innovation Policy

Katie Nolan Stevaux

Assistant General Counsel

Genentech

Marc Lauzeral

Counsel

Schertenleib Avocats

Milan Patel

IP Director- Patent Portfolio Management & Strategy - Patent Litigation

Volvo

Noel Egantios

CEO

DivX

Peter Jovanovic

Legal Director- IP

Dell

Rose James

Global Senior Director- IP

Expedia Group

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. 

Thomas Choi

Director-Licencing

Ericsson

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.

Tim Gorry

Partner

Michelman & Robinson

Tim Gorry is a partner at Michelman & Robinson, LLP, a full service, national law firm headquartered in Los Angeles. Not only is he the firm’s E-commerce, Banking and Media Litigation Chair, Tim is also the Head of the firm’s IP Practice Group and has handled a slew of related matters, including trademark and copyright infringement cases and misappropriation and trade dress actions. 

 

Recognized by his peers as a premier AV-rated lawyer and recently recognized as a top 2024 Irish Legal 100 lawyer, Tim has successfully tried or arbitrated dozens of disputes to verdict for clients across industries including E-commerce, entertainment, technology, telecommunications, sports, banking and financial services, construction, retail, logistics, and manufacturing, among them. 

Heather Woodward

Director of Patents & Open Source

eBay

Barnaby Simkin

Director- Trustworthy AI (Risk Management), Nvidia

Nvidia