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Attorney, California, United States of America
Silicon Valley lawyer James Pooley represents clients in trade secret and\r\npatent disputes, provides expert testimony to courts and arbitral\r\ntribunals, and advises companies on IP strategy and data security\r\nmanagement.
Mr. Pooley is an author or co-author of several major works in the IP\r\nfield, including his treatise Trade Secrets (Law Journal Press) and the\r\nPatent Case Management Judicial Guide (Federal Judicial Center).\r\nHis most recent business book is Secrets: Managing Information Assets\r\nin the Age of Cyberespionage (Verus Press 2015).
The Senate Judiciary Committee relied on Mr. Pooley for expert\r\ntestimony and advice during consideration of the 2016 Defend Trade\r\nSecrets Act, and one Senator later called his participation “instrumental”\r\nin achieving passage of this landmark legislation.
In 2014, Mr. Pooley completed a five-year term as Deputy Director\r\nGeneral at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva,\r\nwhere he was responsible for management of the international patent\r\nsystem. He is a past President of the American Intellectual Property Law\r\nAssociation and former Chair of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.\r\nHe serves as Chair Emeritus of the Sedona Conference Working Group\r\n12 on Trade Secrets and as Co-Chair of the Trade Secret Task Force of\r\nthe International Chamber of Commerce. He taught trade secret law at\r\nthe University of California’s Berkeley School of Law for many years.
In 2016, Mr. Pooley was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame for his\r\ncontributions to IP law, policy and practice.
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Professor of Intellectual Property Law, King’s College London,\r\nLondon, United Kingdom
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Tanya Aplin is a\r\nProfessor of Intellectual Property Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. At King’s, she teaches courses on international and comparative\r\ncopyright law and European and UK patent and trade secrets\r\nlaw.
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She\r\nhas published widely on copyright, confidentiality and trade secrets law. Some of her leading publications\r\ninclude Gurry on Breach of Confidence: The Protection of Confidential\r\nInformation (OUP, 2012), Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright,\r\nTrade Marks and Allied Rights 9th\r\ned (Sweet & Maxwell, 2019), Global\r\nMandatory Fair Use: The Nature and Scope\r\nof the Right to Quote\r\nCopyright Works (CUP\r\n2020) and the
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Partner,\r\nPinsent Masons, Paris,\r\nFrance
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Emmanuel Gougé is a renowned counsel and\r\nlitigator in IP law, with a strong\r\nfocus on patents, trade secrets and trademarks. Emmanuel has been\r\ninvolved in a range of multi-jurisdictional IP matters. His practice focuses\r\nmainly on electronics, automotive, aerospace, life sciences, and medical devices. Emmanuel has been involved in a wide range of cross- border litigations and has played an\r\ninstrumental role in advising clients on multi-jurisdictional matters.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/1585f087-8ee3-44cd-b997-d98f6dc19925.png","name":"Mr. Emmanuel Gougé","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224756,"bio":"
CEO\r\n& Founder of Mad K IP Consulting, and Director\r\nTechnology Transfer, InnovUS, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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Dr. Madelein Kleyn is a Registered Technology Transfer Professional, patent attorney and Attorney of the High\r\nCourt of South Africa. She is the Director, Technology Transfer at\r\nInnovus, Stellenbosch University and CEO-founder of Mad K IP Consulting (Pty) Ltd.
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She has been\r\npracticing IP law and commercialisation of technology for 30 years and served as Corporate in-house\r\ncounsel in the Petrochemical and\r\nAgriculture industries, before she joined the university’s technology transfer\r\noffice.
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Her main areas\r\nof expertise include deal making, IP Portfolio\r\nmanagement, IP policy and strategy development and implementation. She regularly advises on corporate\r\ngovernance, IP risk management and IP-related\r\nbusiness transactions, specifically technology transfer and licensing. She has authored many articles and presented various papers on IP matters internationally. She has a passion for education and directs the Patent and Design LLM module at Stellenbosch University and the\r\nmodule Technology Commercialisation at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, THI Business School, in Germany. She is the co- editor of Lexis Nexus “International Pharmaceutical Law” which\r\ncovers key pharmaceutical law topics in all\r\nof the major industrial countries.
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Kleyn has in two\r\nconsequetive years received the LESI President’s acknowledgement award for her contribution to the technology\r\nlicensing community. She has received the DSI/SARIMA award for\r\ndistinguished contribution in innovation management (2019) and Innovus\r\nwas awarded Organisational Excellence in Innovation\r\nManagement in 2020 under her leadership.
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Madelein was included in the IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists since 2015 and featured\r\nin WTR300 World’s leading trademark\r\nprofessionals since 2016.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/d017692b-bf8b-449c-827b-9aa993d0ebcf.jpg","name":"Ms. Madelein Kleyn","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224757,"bio":"
Principal, RLT Global Consulting LLC, New York, United States of America
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Dr.\r\nRichard (“Dick”) Thurston is the former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Taiwan Semiconductor\r\nManufacturing Company, Ltd., 2002 –\r\n2014; and a consultant to Dr. Morris Chang, 2014-2017. During his tenure as TSMC’s General Counsel, he resided in\r\nHsinchu, Taiwan Province of Chine. He assisted the company in developing a best-in-class trade secret protection\r\nprogram. On behalf of TSMC, he successfully initiated major litigation in\r\nthe U.S., Taiwan Province of China\r\nand China against defendants who had misappropriated TSMC trade secrets. Furthermore, he was instrumental in achieving major legislative reform in Taiwan Province of\r\nChina for the protection of trade secrets generally.
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Dr. Thurston was\r\nOf Counsel to Duane Morris LLP, in their New York City office. He also\r\nopened a Taipei office for Duane Morris, where a major focus of the office is assisting many Taiwan and\r\nAsian-based clients in trade secret\r\nmatters.
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Before joining\r\nTSMC, Dr. Thurston was a partner with Haynes and Boone, (Dallas, TX.). Previously,\r\nhe had been the Regional Counsel, Asia\r\nPacific, and Vice President, Corporate Staff, Assistant General Counsel at Texas Instruments (1984-1996),\r\nresident in Dallas and Tokyo (1987-1990).
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Dr. Thurston\r\ngraduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in History from Alma College (Alma, MI). He\r\nearned both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in East Asian\r\nStudies from the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Scholar. Dick’s J.D. degree is from Rutgers School\r\nof Law – Camden,
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N.J. He also\r\nstudied law at Soochow University (Taiwan Province of China) while researching his Ph.D. dissertation. Dr. Thurston has written and lectured widely on international,\r\ntransactional, and intellectual property\r\nmatters, most especially trade secret protection. He has received many awards\r\nand recognitions throughout his career. In 2013,
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he was selected from 800 nominees as the ILO\r\nAsia-Pacific General Counsel of the Year. Dick is fluent in Mandarin.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/8440c1b4-995b-4658-8a1b-755c4dfb6cdc.jpg","name":"Mr. Richard Thurston","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224758,"bio":"
Head of Intellectual Property, Enel SpA, Rome, Italy; Vice Chair\r\nof ICC Intellectual Property Commission
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Caterina is Head\r\nof the Intellectual Property department of Enel with more than 10 years of experience in this Group: she worked in\r\nthe Corporate Affairs department in\r\nRome, served as a Legal and Corporate Affairs\r\nAdvisor for the Group subsidiaries in The Netherlands and was the Head of the Global Fuels legal affairs\r\ndepartment before being appointed to her present\r\nposition.
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Caterina\r\nobtained a PhD in Intellectual Property Law in 2013 at the University of Pavia, with a dissertation stemming\r\nout of a research stay at the\r\nMax-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht. She graduated magna cum laude in Law at\r\nLUMSA University in Rome in 2002\r\nwith a thesis on software legal protection written during her semester research stay as a scholarship\r\nholder at Pace University School of law. In 2004, she obtained a LLM in American Law from
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Boston University School and in 2006, she\r\ncompleted the Masters in European Community Law at the College\r\nof Europe in Bruges.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/7e4f6322-12ea-4b8e-81ad-c14cd6de06f3.jpg","name":"Ms. Caterina Strippoli","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224759,"bio":"
Founder, Mextrategy, CDMX, Mexico
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With IP\r\nexperience since 1997 and having led a patents team that filed more than 10,000 patents for companies in\r\nall fields of technology, ranging\r\nfrom Mexican inventors to multinational companies, he decided in 2021 to start Mextrategy® to focus on\r\nthe strategic and management side of\r\nIP rights. Within a year with\r\nMextrategy® he has been involved in\r\nCOVID-19 related technology transfer and innovation projects, start- ups consultancy, medical devices and\r\nIoT/Blockchain/Big Data projects where\r\nhe deploys his expertise focusing heavily on portfolio management strategies, trade secrets management systems, innovation strategies, freedom-to-operate opinions,\r\ntechnology intelligence studies, IP-assets\r\nvaluation, IP negotiations, technology evaluation and substantive issues of patent litigation.
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Hector was the\r\nfirst in Mexico to obtain the CLP credential in 2010 and has been recognized consistently as a leading patent\r\npractitioner in several international\r\nsurveys. He is also recognized as\r\nexpert in Engineering Economy\r\n(CONIQQ, Mexico) and has published\r\na variety
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Partner, FisherBroyles, LLP, Chicago, United\r\nStates of America
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Mark is a\r\npartner at FisherBroyles, LLP. He is\r\nan accomplished trial lawyer who\r\nfocuses his practice on intellectual property litigation in the United States and abroad. Mark is recognized worldwide as a leading practitioner in the development of automated\r\ntrade secret asset management\r\nblockchain systems. Mark is co-author\r\nof Trade Secret Asset Management\r\n2018: A Guide to Information Asset Management\r\nincluding RICO and Blockchain. Mark\r\nhas taught Advanced Trade Secrets Law\r\nin the LLM program UIC John Marshall Law School for the past 26 years. He is\r\nthe lead author of the Defend Trade Secrets Act Handbook 3rd Edition just published by Wolters Kluwer. Mark is a Past President of the Intellectual Property Law Association of\r\nChicago (IPLAC) and the General Editor\r\nof the Intellectual Property Law Handbook\r\n2021 published by the Illinois Continuing Legal Education Institute\r\n(IICLE).
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Chambers USA ranks Mark as\r\none of America’s Leading Lawyers for his exceptional standing in intellectual property law; Managing Intellectual Property recognizes Mark as\r\nan “IP Star”. Legal 500 has inducted Mark Halligan into the Legal 500\r\nHall of Fame for Trade Secret Litigation. Martindale Hubbard has awarded R. Mark\r\nHalligan with a Judicial AV\r\nPreeminent Rating which is the highest possible rating in both legal ability\r\nand ethical standards.
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Mark is the Best Lawyers—Lawyer of the Year—for\r\nTrade Secrets Law Chicago (2021).","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/8d1e9b2a-bef5-4e55-83ce-462ae65892c8.jpg","name":"Mr. R. Mark Halligan","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224761,"bio":"
ABB Head of IP, Group Senior Vice\r\nPresident, ABB, Zurich,\r\nSwitzerland
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Charlotta is Head\r\nof IP for ABB since November 2020, based in Zurich. She leads the company’s global IP team, which is present in\r\nEurope, Asia, and the United States. The team's mission is to manage all facets of IP legal activities, and drive\r\nbusiness-centric IP strategies. Prior\r\nto joining ABB, Charlotta was Vice\r\nPresident of IP for the Air Liquide Group based in\r\nParis and president of LES France.
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Charlotta, a Swedish native, holds Swedish and\r\nUS law degrees and is a licensed attorney with the State Bar of New York.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/424a5459-476a-4d06-88a0-1c2621f32c90.jpg","name":"Ms. Charlotta Ljungdahl","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224770,"bio":null,"birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":null,"name":"Ms. Muthu De Silva","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224773,"bio":"Mr. André Gorius,
Former Head Global IP Valuation Committee, Licensing Executives Society International (LESI)
André Gorius graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, 1985), where he obtained the titles of « Docteur de Troisième Cycle » and « Professeur Agrégé » in Physics. In 1988, he obtained his PhD (“Doctorat d’Etat ès Sciences”) in Chemical Engineering. He specializes in valuation of intangible and IP assets and start-ups, in the general frames of Technology Transfers, Merge & Acquisitions, and Transfer Pricing, Litigations. Since July 2019, he is a consultant and advisor to companies, he is a member of the “Association d’Experts en Evaluation d’Entreprises” (Enterprise Valuation Experts), AMAVI (Association for Management and Valuation of Intangibles), is a former Chair of the IP Valuation Committee, within LESI (Licensing Executives Society International) and since January 2023 is an International IP Valuation Expert for WIPO.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/4f0c57dc-329b-471a-829d-4125707440bb.jpg","name":"Mr. André Gorius","jobs":"","urls":""}];