Kamleh Nicola
Kamleh Nicola is a partner at Marks & Clerk and Co-Head of the firm’s Litigation practice in Canada. Her intellectual property litigation practice centers around patent, trademark, and copyright disputes. Though her client base is broad in scope, she specializes in Health and Life Sciences, working with domestic and multinational pharmaceutical, biopharma, and MedTech organizations. Kamleh is particularly knowledgeable on matters involving Canada’s patent linkage regimes, health regulatory and related compliance, and trade secrets.
Mike Gilbert
Mike Gilbert is a partner at Marks & Clerk in London. He is an Intellectual Property (IP) lawyer who advises clients in a wide variety of business sectors on issues including litigation and dispute resolution, IP strategy and risk limitation, due diligence projects and commercial and licensing transactions involving IP. His primary focus and expertise, however, lies in life sciences patent litigation where he is considered to be one of the UK’s leading practitioners. He has represented some of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical corporations in complex patent and technical disputes including Genentech, Roche, Chugai, Pfizer, Wyeth, AstraZeneca, MedImmune, Daiichi Sankyo, AbbVie, Amgen and Illumina to name but a few. Mike is well known for his strategic and creative vision and is consistently recommended in various legal directories including the World IP Review, Legal 500, Who's Who Legal and the IAM Patent 1000 guide, which describe him as “always at the top of the pile, especially for pharmaceutical matters”. Mike graduated from Cambridge University in 1989 with a degree in chemical engineering.
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Neha Singh
Neha Singh is the Founder and CEO of Obsess, an experiential e-commerce platform enabling brands and retailers to create immersive 3D virtual stores. She was previously the head of product at Vogue, where she was responsible for the company’s digital business. Neha began her career at Google, where she was a software engineer and tech lead. She holds an Undergraduate Degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a Graduate Degree from MIT. In working with brands and retailers in her previous roles, Neha noticed that they were having a hard time translating the visual, interactive, sticky experience of physical stores into digital environments. Obsess was created to bridge the gap between consumer engagement and digital commerce—all in a highly branded, elevated way.
