Sally M. Abel is a partner at Fenwick & West, where she specializes in international trademark and trade name counseling, including the development and management of international trademark portfolios and trademark rights in cyberspace. She represents several major technology companies, including Cisco and Sun Microsystems. She co-teaches the trademark law course at Berkeley Law and is co-authoring the Trademark Case Management Judicial Guide. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from UCLA.
Hon. Jeremy Fogel is Director of the Federal Judicial Center and on the District Court for the Northern District of California. He earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his law degree from Harvard Law School. He served on the state court bench for nearly two decades before being confirmed on the federal bench in 1998. Judge Fogel is particularly noted for mediation skills and training. As a jurist in the Northern District of California, he gained significant experience
resolving patent cases.
business and intellectual property litigation, with particular emphasis trademark, trade dress, advertising, right of publicity, trade secret, and unfair competition matters. She co-teaches the trademark law course at Berkeley Law and is co-authoring the Trademark Case Management Judicial Guide. She received her undergraduate education at UC Santa Barbara and her JD from Georgetown University Law Center.
Michael A. Jacobs is a partner at Morrison Foerster, where is co-founded the firm’s Intellectual
Property Practice Group and concentrates his practice on litigation of high-technology and intellectual property matters. Mr. Jacobs has earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his law degree from Yale Law School. He is recognized as one of the top intellectual property trial lawyers.
Hon. J. Rodney Gilstrap has served on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas since 2011, where he handles a large volume and wide variety of patent cases. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Baylor University.
Peter Harvey is a founding partner of a Harvey Siskind LLP in San Francisco and counsel for the International Trademark Association. His practice emphasizes trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secrets, and unfair competition litigation in U.S. federal courts. He also advises on IP rights clearance, registration and management. He also teaches Entertainment and Media Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is co-authoring the Trademark Case Management Judicial Guide. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his JD from Yale Law School.
Annette Hurst, a partner in Orrick’s San Francisco office, is a member of the Intellectual Property Group where she focuses on intellectual property litigation, particularly copyright, trademark
and trade secrets litigation, as well as patent litigation and disputes involving complex commercial transactions in the software and Internet industries. She is co-authoring the
Trademark Case Management Judicial Guide. She her undergraduate education at Miami University and her JD from New York University School of Law.
Magistrate Judge (Ret.) Edward Infante (JAMS) is known for his ability to mediate complex cases involving a wide range of issues. A former Chief Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Judge Infante has more than 30 years of dispute resolution experience. He has particular expertise in complex business litigation, securities class actions, securities, employment, intellectual property, and antitrust cases.
Professor Mark A. Lemley is William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, and Director of Stanford’s LLM Program in Law, Science and Technology. He is also a partner at Durie Tangri. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and his JD from University of California at Berkeley, after which he clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Lemley has written widely in the field of intellectual property law and antitrust law.
Kathi Lutton is a principal in Fish & Richardson’s Silicon Valley office, where she has led the firm’s litigation group. Ms. Lutton received her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering before attending the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She clerked for Judge Alvin A. Schall of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She worked for five years as a systems and software design engineer with General Electric, where she graduated from the Edison Engineering Program and designed one of the first leading edge expert systems (neural networks,fuzzy logic) for aircraft. She has extensive high-tech patent litigation in a myriad of technologies.
Professor Peter S. Menell is Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Since June 2012, he has served as one of the US PTO’s inaugural Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Professionals Program. Professor Menell founded and serves as a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. He received his S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his M.A. and Ph.D. (economics) from Stanford University, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Professor Menell has organized more than 40
intellectual property education programs for the Federal Judicial Center and written extensively in the fields of intellectual property law, computer and Internet law, environmental law and policy, and property law.
David Nimmer is of counsel to Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles. He also teaches as a Visiting Professor at UCLA Law School and is a Distinguished Scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. In 2000, he was elected to the American Law Institute. Since 1985, Professor Nimmer has updated and revised Nimmer on Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the field, first published in 1963 by his late father, Professor Melville B. Nimmer. That treatise is routinely cited by U.S. and foreign courts at all levels in copyright litigation. Mr. Nimmer has written numerous articles and books on copyright and related topics. He has also participated in the litigation of a wide range of copyright cases. He earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his law degree from Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge Warren Ferguson on 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Hon. Kathleen M. O’Malley was elevated to the Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit in 2010 after serving sixteen years on the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Prior to her appointment to the federal bench, Judge O’Malley was Chief of Staff and First Assistant in the Ohio State Attorney General’s Office. She received her undergraduate degree from Kenyon College and her law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Lou Petrich is a member of Leopold, Petrich & Smith, a Los Angeles firm that specializes in the defense of claims for copyright and trademark infringement, defamation, invasion of the rights of privacy and publicity, and idea submission cases. Mr. Petrich is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. He regularly renders legal opinions on special clearance problems in the motion picture and television fields, including termination rights, fair use and the
like. He argued the Stewart v. Abend (“Rear Window”) case to the United States Supreme Court, and has defended motion picture studios in copyright cases in trial and appellate courts around the country.
George Pappas is a partner at Covington & Burling, where he specializes in patent litigation. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and Chairman of its Complex Litigation Committee. He is also Chairman of the Editorial Committee and one of the co-authors of the Anatomy of a Patent Case (2009), published in conjunction with the Federal Judicial Center. Mr. Pappas received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Maryland.
Lynn H. Pasahow is a partner at Fenwick & West LLP, where he focuses on patent and other intellectual property litigation, counseling, licensing, and mediation, principally relating to bioscience, software, and Internet technologies. Mr. Pasahow led the team that obtained a jury verdict upholding Cetus’ patents on its Nobel Prize-winning polymerase chain reaction invention, and the team enforcing Amazon.com’s 1-Click® patent against Barnesandnoble.com. Among his licensing projects is the University of California’s portfolio resulting from Dr. Stanley Prusiner’s prion-related research. He earned his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.
Matthew Powers is the lead partner at Tensegrity Law Group, LLP. He is one of the nation’s most experienced patent trial lawyers. He has litigated and tried cases in jurisdictions nationwide involving a wide range of technologies, including semiconductor, biomedical, computer, computer peripherals, cellular, holographic, digital media and specialty chemical products. He has published articles on various aspects of intellectual property law and litigation. Mr. Powers received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from Northwestern University.
Sarita P. Venkat is Senior Counsel at Apple Inc., where she manages complex, high-risk patentand commercial litigations worldwide. She has secured multiple trial wins and judgments in the U.S. and China on behalf of Apple. She has managed numerous cases to favorable resolutions through mediations and settlement negotiations. Prior to joining Apple, she managed a docket of pharmaceutical and medical device litigation worldwide at Abbott Laboratories Inc. – including Hatch Waxman cases in the U.S., and defending the company’s IP in Europe, Asia, South America and Russia. She is a registered patent attorney, has a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Psychology.
Hon. Ronald M. Whyte has served on the Northern District of California District Court since 1992. He received in undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Wesleyan University and law degree from the USC Gould School of Law. After serving as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy from 1968 to 1971 as part of the Judge Advocate General Corps, he work in private practice for nearly two decades in San Jose, California before being appointed to the Santa Clara Superior Court in 1989. While on the federal bench, Judge Whyte played a central role in the development of the Northern District of California’s Patent Local Rules and model patent jury instructions. Although he took senior status in 2009, Judge Whyte continues to maintain an active docket and is among the designated judges in the Northern District of California’s Patent Pilot Program.