Agenda

Thursday & Friday, December 4 & 5, 2025
at Stanford Law School

Thursday, December 4
8:15 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: Paul Brest Hall
 Presiding Officer: TBA
8:15 – 8:50 AM Registration and Breakfast  
8:50 – 9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction  
9:00 – 9:45 AM Mark Lemley’s Annual Patent Law Update Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
10:00 – 10:45 AM Trends in Patent Enforcement

Steve Carlson, Robins Kaplan
Ryan Dykal, Boise Schiller
Courtney Quish, Fortress
Leslie Spencer, Desmarais
11:00 – 11:45 AM Hot Topics in Trade Secrets

Yar Chaikovsky, White & Case
Camilla Hrdy, Rutgers Law School
Joshua Lerner, WilmerHale
Rajiv Patel, Fenwick
12:00 – 12:45 PM Trends in Patent-Infringement Defense

Sarah Guske, Morgan Lewis
Matthias Kamber, Paul Hastings
Mike Powell, Quinn Emauel
Bijal Vakil, Skadden
12:45 – 1:45 PM Lunch  
1:45 – 2:30 PM SEPs and FRAND

Jane Bu, Via Licensing
Rajvinder Jagdev, Powell Gilbert
Kai Rüting, Vossius 
Yang Ye, VeriSilicon
2:45 – 3:30 PM Post-Grant Strategies in a Changing World

Jessica Kaiser, Perkins Coie
Thomas Broughan, Sidley
Debbie McComas, Haynes Boone
Tim Saulsbury, Morrison Foerster
3:45 – 4:30 PM Injunctive Relief—A global perspective for those enforcing patents and building patent portfolios

Nicola Dagg, Kirkland & Ellis
Rob Rodrigues, RNA Law
Saina Shamilov, Fenwick
Philipp Widera, Vossius
4:45 – 5:30 PM Fireside Chat with Andrei Iancu Andrei Iancu, former Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Wayne Stacy, BCLT
5:30 – 7:00 PM Reception  

 

Friday, December 5
8:15 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Paul Brest Hall

Litigation Track

Presiding Officer: TBA
8:15 – 8:45 AM Registration & Breakfast  
8:50 – 9:00 AM Introduction  
9:00 – 9:45 AM Using Equitable Defenses to Limit Patent Damages and Support Trial Themes David Bloch, Greenberg Traurig
Clem Roberts, Orrick
Bhanu Sadasivan, McDermott
Greg Sobolski, Cleary
10:00 – 10:45 AM Trends in Prior Art Usage and Validity Considerations
from admitted prior art to secondary considerations

Bethany Bengfort, Turner Boyd
Amy Candido, Simpson Thacher
Neel Chatterjee, King & Spalding
Chris Kao, Pillsbury
11:00 – 11:45 AM Damages Awards — Surviving Daubert and the Federal Circuit

Karen Boyd, Turner Boyd
Mike Hendershot, Jones Day
Brian Napper, Ocean Tomo
Matthew Powers, Tensegrity Law Group
Patricia Young, Latham & Watkins
12:00 – 12:45 PM Update on the UPC and its impact on IP-litigation Strategies

Chris de Mauny, Bird & Bird
Julia Schönbohm, Linklaters
Tess Waldron, Powell Gilbert
Eric Whitaker, 10x Genomics
12:45 – 1:45 PM Lunch  
1:45 – 2:45 PM AI Tools and Litigation: Where are we and what’s next? (Special CA Technology credit eligible)

Sharif Jacob, Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Eric Lin, Patlytics
David Lisson, Davis Polk
Chris Mammen, Womble Bond Dickinson
Sasha Rao, Nixon Peabody
3:00 – 4:00 PM Ethical Issues in Patent Litigation: Litigation funding, confidential information, and AI usage (Special Ethics credit eligible) Azra Hadzimehnedovic, Tensegrity
Ragesh Tangri, Morrison Foerster

Prosecution Track

Presiding Officer: TBA
8:15 – 8:45 AM Registration & Breakfast  
8:50 – 9:00 AM Introduction  
9:00 – 9:45 AM Update on 112–Understanding and navigating the PTO’s application of the law

Matthew Avery, Baker Botts
Anna Hyatt, Dren Bio
Kanda Ishihara, Lyft
Miku Mehta, Procopio
10:00 – 10:45 AM Navigating 101 — Understanding and navigating the PTO’s current positions

Nikola Datzov, University of North Dakota
Jane Qu, Van Pelt, Yi & James
Emily Roberts, Morrison Foerster
Harnik Shukla, Knobbe Martens
11:00 – 11:45 AM Building Valuable Patent Portfolios

Joy Nemirow, Sheppard Mullin
David Sanker, Sanker IP
Jeff Schox, Schox Patent Group
Mike Schwartz, Adeia
12:00 – 12:45 PM Inventorship and the Standards of Conception

Alex Nie, Sheppard Mullin
Sara Patak, Wilson Sonsini
Manita Rawat, Morgan Lewis
12:45 – 1:45 PM Lunch  
1:45 – 2:45 PM Making sense of the USPTO: What’s happening and what’s next? Molly Kocialski, Holland Hart (former USPTO Regional Director)
Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
3:00 – 4:00 PM AI Tools and Patent Prosecution: Where are we and what’s next? (CA Technology credit eligible) Steve Gong, Google
Michelle Lee, Patlytics
Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, Fish & Richardson
Ian Schick, Paximal