Course Materials
Panel 1: Significant Emerging Issues in Patent Law
Panel 2: Beyond Taking “Reasonable Measures of Protection,” Essential Collaboration Required to Maintain and Enforce Trade Secrets
Panel 3: Hot Topics in Pending and Proposed Legislation
Panel 4: Hot Topics and Pitfalls When Negotiating Commercial Agreements
Lunch Panel: Interactive Ethics CLE
Panel 5: Recent Federal Circuit Decisions Impacting Patent Law
Panel 6: An In-House Perspective on Managing Outside Counsel
Panel 7: From the Arbitrator's Perspective: A Discussion of Best Practices in IP/Patent Arbitration

Keynote Speaker
CHIEF JUDGE SCOTT R. BOALICK
Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 8:40 AM Welcome Remarks Heather Schneider, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher

8:40 AM - 9:30 AM Significant Emerging Issues in Patent Law
Moderator: Jeffrey Coleman, Associate, Kramer Levin

• Dorothy Auth, Partner, Cadwalader
• Jonathan Barbee, Counsel, MoloLamken
• Chad Peterman, Partner, Paul Hastings
• Serena Farquharson Torres, Executive Director, Assistant General Counsel, Bristol Myers Squibb 

9:30 AM - 10:20 AM Beyond Taking “Reasonable Measures of Protection,” Essential Collaboration Required to Maintain and Enforce Trade Secrets
Moderator: Laura Chubb, Partner, Haug Partners

• Nick Chambers, Director, Alix Partners
• Brian Levine, Managing Director, Ernst & Young Parthenon
• Kendra Ervin, Deputy Chief of IP, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division
• Ebonee Lewis, Associate General Counsel - Employment, Becton, Dickinson and Company 

10:20 AM - 10:35 AM Refreshment Break

10:35 AM - 11:25 AM Hot Topics in Pending and Proposed Legislation
Moderator: Anthony Lo Cicero, Managing Partner, Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

• Hon. Esther Salas, District Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey 
• Hon. Douglas Arpert, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey 
• Chris Israel, Senior Partner, ACG
• Irena Royzman, Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
• Abigail Struthers, Partner, Arnold &Porter

11:25 AM - 12:15 PM Hot Topics and Pitfalls When Negotiating Commercial Agreements
Moderator: Ketan Pastakia, Counsel, White & Case LLP

• Genevieve Dorment, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
• Daniel Forester, Partner, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
• Laureen Forkas, Senior Assistant General Counsel, Marsh & McLennan Companies 

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM Keynote Speaker Chief Judge Scott R. Boalick, Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)

12:45 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch Break

1:15 PM - 2:05 PM Interactive Ethics CLE

• Lynn Russo, Associate, Hughes Hubbard & Reed
• T. David Bomzer, Partner, Cantor Colburn

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM Recent Federal Circuit Decisions Impacting Patent Law

• Joy Goudie, Patent Attorney, Goudie PLLC
• Clint Mehall, Partner, Davidson Davidson & Kappel
• Kenneth Adamo, Principal, Law Offices of Kenneth R. Adamo

2:55 PM - 3:10 PM Refreshment Break

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM An In-House Perspective on Managing Outside Counsel 
Moderator: Heather Schneider, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher 

• Michael Cottler, Global Head of Litigation, Alvotech 
• Janice Jabido, Director, IP Litigation & Enforcement, Peloton Interactive 
• Fahd Majiduddin, Senior IP Litigation Counsel, Sandoz Inc.
• Elizabeth Weyl, Associate Litigation Counsel, Google

4:00 PM - 4:50 PM From the Arbitrator's Perspective: A Discussion of Best Practices in IP/Patent Arbitration
Moderator: Patrick J. Murphy, JAMS Neutral

• Hon. Garrett E. Brown, Jr. (Ret.), JAMS Neutral, former Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
• Hon. Faith Hochberg (Ret.), Independent Arbitrator, Principal, Hochberg ADR
• Thomas Creel, JAMS Neutral
• Steve Bauer, JAMS Neutral
• Conna Weiner, JAMS Neutral

4:50 PM - 5:00 PM Closing Remarks