WIPO

var speakers_clientHandler = [{"id":224738,"bio":"Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law, \r\nAkron, United States of America\r\nMark Schultz is a professor at the University of Akron School of Law, \r\nwhere he is the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Endowed Chair in \r\nIntellectual Property Law and Director of the IP & Technology Law Center.\r\nHis research concerns the law and economics of the global intellectual \r\nproperty system, focusing particularly on trade secret law. He worked with \r\nthe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to \r\nco-author a groundbreaking global trade secret protection index (the \r\nTSPI). The TSPI is being used to frame policy discussions on this cutting\u0002edge topic in capitals around the world. He recently has written about the \r\nrole of trade secrecy in the fight against Covid-19.\r\nProfessor Schultz is frequently called on to help governments and \r\ninternational organizations with IP policy and capacity building. He \r\ncurrently serves as a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-\r\nIndia IP Cooperation Dialogue. He has testified before the U.S. Congress \r\nand spoken at programs hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. \r\nTrade Representative, and the U.S. Copyright Office, as well as numerous \r\nuniversities, think tanks, and industry groups. ","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/03e8b905-cf25-41ec-83ba-f33e6244faac.png","name":"Mr. Mark Schultz","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224741,"bio":"

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.

","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/060756df-df00-432f-9acd-0767938ecfbd.jpg","name":"Mr. James Pooley","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224744,"bio":"Professor, Director of the IP Institute, Mitchell \r\nHamline School of Law, St. Paul, United States of America \r\nSharon K. Sandeen is the Robins Kaplan LLP Distinguished Professor in \r\nIntellectual Property Law and Director of the IP Institute at Mitchell \r\nHamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is a recognized \r\nexpert on trade secret law, having written (with Elizabeth Rowe) the first \r\ncasebook on the subject in the United States (Cases and Materials in \r\nTrade Secret Law) and a new casebook titled “Information Law, \r\nGovernance, and Cybersecurity” (with David S. Levine). In addition to her \r\nbooks, Professor Sandeen has written more than 35 articles and book \r\nchapters on intellectual property, internet, and information law topics. \r\nShe is the proud recipient of two degrees from the University of California \r\nBerkeley (a Bachelor of Arts degree and an LL.M. from U.C. Berkeley \r\nSchool of Law) and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of the \r\nPacific, McGeorge School of Law. Professor Sandeen is a Life Fellow of \r\nthe American Bar Foundation, a member of the American Law Institute \r\n(ALI), a member of the Association for the Advancement of Teaching and \r\nResearch in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), and was the Fulbright-Hanken \r\nDistinguished Chair in Business and Economics for 2019-2020.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/66cbc7cd-c6d4-4888-a470-56e046cdae66.jpg","name":"Ms. Sharon K. Sandeen","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224745,"bio":"Andras Jokuti is an intellectual property lawyer with domestic and international experience in public IP policy and university technology transfer. He is the former Director-General for Legal Affairs of the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office. As a Fulbright scholar, he obtained an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law (2015) at The George Washington University (Washington, DC). Between 2019 and 2021, he assisted the Budapest University of Technology and Economics to strengthen its IP and technology transfer operations. Since January 2022, he is the Director of the Patent and Technology Law Division at WIPO.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/ae60d126-658b-45c8-9dbf-30b40b1f9f95.PNG","name":"Mr. Andras Jokuti","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224750,"bio":"

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 9^th\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

\r\n\r\nResearch Handbook on\r\nIP and Digital Technologies (Edward Elgar, 2020).","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/4d87780f-ec47-4d8d-82c1-1822afae2cbe.jpg","name":"Ms. Tanya Aplin","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224755,"bio":"

Partner,\r\nPinsent Masons, Paris,\r\nFrance

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\r\n\r\nEmmanuel 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.

\r\n\r\nMembership includes INTA, SAIIPL, ASTP,\r\nAUTM, CCASA, ACS,SARIMA and LESI. She is the immediate past president of LES\r\nSA; Chairs the LESI Patent and\r\nTechnology licensing Committee and is Vice-\r\nPresident of LESI.

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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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\r\n\r\nMadelein 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,

\r\n\r\nhe 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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Prior to Enel,\r\nCaterina was an associate in the Banking and Finance department of Chiomenti Studio Legale. She is Vice-Chair and Rapporteur\r\nfor Patents and Trade Secrets at the ICC Commission on Intellectual Property since December 2021. She is candidate to the 2022 LEAP Program promoted by the World\r\nBusiness Council for Sustainable Development.

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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

\r\n\r\nBoston 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

\r\n\r\nof articles in specialized international magazines and chapters\r\nin various books\r\nrelated to licensing, trade secrets and pharmaceutical law and practice.\r\nHector has taught and spoken in uncountable events, courses, seminars and congresses at universities,\r\nprofessional societies and organizations,\r\nincluding WIPO, on topics\r\nof his area of expertise.

\r\n\r\nHe has occupied several leadership positions in\r\nprofessional associations, including\r\nInternational Vice-president of the Licensing\r\nExecutives Society (LES), and currently he is a Board member of Red OTT (the Mexican TTO network) and\r\nrepresents the Mexican group in the\r\nTrade Secrets Committee of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property\r\n(AIPPI).","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/4f01a642-35f5-425d-aa9e-a908d8bbd99a.jpg","name":"Mr. Héctor E. Chagoya-Cortes","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":224760,"bio":"

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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\r\n\r\nMark 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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\r\n\r\nCharlotta, 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":""}];