Virtual Summit Schedule
(at-a-glance)

MORNING

9:50am EST
Welcoming Remarks & Housekeeping

10:00am EST
Patent Infringement and Trade Secret Misappropriation from an Insider’s Perspective

10:45am EST
Working with Contingency Lawyers and Litigation Finance Companies in Patent Infringement Actions

11:30am EST
Injunctive Relief in Standards-Essential Patents Cases

12:15pm EST
Developments Impacting Reasonable Royalty Damages

AFTERNOON

1:00pm EST
LUNCH

1:30pm EST
Developments Impacting Lost Profits

2:15pm EST
Breaking Developments in Damages Calculations

3:00pm EST
Developments in Design Patent Damages

3:45pm EST
Developments in Trade Secret Misappropriation Cases

4:30pm EST
Section 337 Investigations: Leverage & Strategy at the ITC

5:00pm EST
Mediating Patent and Trade Secret Disputes

Esteemed Faculty

Barry Bell

Founder/Managing Director – Echelon Analytics

For more than 27 years, Barry Bell has focused primarily on the analysis and quantification of damages in commercial litigation matters. He is experienced in analyzing complex matters; identifying relevant issues, information and approaches; and cogently communicating, via expert reports and testimony, the resulting opinions to interested parties.

David Shofi

General Counsel – Univercells Technologies

David Shofi is the General Counsel for Univercells Technologies, a biomanufacturing equipment company. David served as Chief IP Counsel for CPA Global. Before joining CPA Global, David held the role of Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for ATMI, an international semiconductor and life sciences corporation and served as IP Counsel for IBM.

Geoffrey White
General Counsel, Chief IP Counsel, – Director for SilcoTek Corporation

Geoffrey White is General Counsel, Chief IP Counsel, and a Director for SilcoTek Corporation, a high-tech materials science company solving challenges for countless of the world’s largest and most innovative organizations (especially in the semiconductor, analytical instrumentation, life science, and energy industries). Geoffrey previously practiced as a patent attorney for a 130+ attorney firm.

Michael O’Shea
Founder – The O’Shea Firm

Michael O’Shea is the founder of The O’Shea Firm, which specializes in patent monetization. The Firm advises clients on a full contingency basis in litigating, licensing and selling their patent portfolios. Before founding the Firm, Mr. O’Shea was as a patent litigation partner in three major law firms.

Russell E. Levine
Partner – Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Russell is a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he has spent his entire 36+ year career. He focuses his trial, appellate and alternative dispute resolution practice on patent infringement matters and disputes involving and related to technology transfer and patent license agreements.

Steve Holzen
Managing Director – Stout

Steve Holzen is an expert damages consultant in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and breach of contract litigations. He has testified as an expert witness in federal and state courts, at the U.S. ITC and before the PTAB. He has provided opinions on issues including lost profits, reasonable royalties, unjust enrichment, permanent injunction, and commercial success.

William Woodford
Founder – Avantech Law

William Woodford is an IP lawyer with twenty years of experience handling high-stakes litigation. He has also led numerous appeals, including the landmark Halo Electronics case. Over the past two decades, William has analyzed and valued thousands of patents for potential enforcement, commercialization, and sale. He has also worked with numerous clients on the development of worldwide patent portfolios to protect mission-critical technology.

Michael Dilworth
Founder – Dilworth IP

As an intellectual property attorney, intangible asset advisor, and founder of Dilworth IP – Michael Dilworth speaks the language of innovation and the law, helping his clients protect their treasures with a well-crafted IP strategy to best leverage their most important assets – their intangible assets – so they can succeed in the marketplace.

David S. Abrams
Professor of Law, The University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School

David Abrams is one of the leading young economists working in empirical law and economics. He has investigated the expected impact of the America Invents Act, examined the effect of patent duration on innovation, and used natural language processing to establish more reliable measures of patent value.

David J. Reibstein
William Stewart Woodside Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Professor Reibstein has been honored with more than 30 teaching and publishing awards, including the John S. Day Distinguished Alumni Academic Service Award from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.

Jeffrey T. Prince

Harold A. Poling Chair in Strategic Management, Professor of Business Economics, and Chairperson of Business Economics, Kelley School of Business at Indiana University

Jeffrey has published research on dynamic demand for computers, internet adoption and usage, the inception of online/offline product competition, telecom bundling, and the economics and regulation of digital platforms.

Aaric Eisenstein
Vice President of Licensing Strategy

Personalized Media Communications, LLCze

Aaric Eisenstein is Vice President of Licensing Strategy. He is responsible for analyzing markets, identifying opportunities, and negotiating transactions. He has contributed to leading publications about PTAB fairness and other subjects and serves each year as a panelist and/or moderator at various industry conferences. He is the Chair of the LES Patent Licensing Standards Committee.

Evan Langdon
Partner / Chair – Fabricant LLP

Evan is an experienced first chair trial attorney who focuses his practice on Section 337 investigations before the ITC, intellectual property litigation in U.S. District Courts, and appeals before the Federal Circuit. Evan counsels both U.S. and foreign companies on intellectual property matters before the ITC. He leverages his mechanical engineering background and experience as a primary examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to litigate disputes across a wide variety of industries.

Ehsun Forghany
Associate – Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Ehsun Forghany is a trial lawyer specializing in patent, copyright, trade secret, and related intellectual property (IP) disputes. A former prosecutor, Ehsun has tried more than twenty cases to verdict and argued well over fifty case-dispositive motions in both state and federal court. Ehsun has leveraged his trial experience to secure multimillion-dollar verdicts for his clients and defend those verdicts on appeal, including a $268 million jury verdict in a patent infringement action brought on behalf of a nonprofit research foundation.

Frank Jeng
vice President – Purplevine IP Group

Frank Jeng is a vice president of Purplevine IP Group, a global IP service provider based in China. Frank represents and advises clients in over 50 patent litigations and licensing matters worldwide, including China, the United States (district court litigations and ITC investigations), Germany, Japan, Brazil, Italy, and Korea. Frank is particularly well-regarded in electronics, telecommunications, and panel display sectors. Frank is admitted to practice law in New York (USA),Hong Kong SAR (PRC) and Greater Bay Area (PRC).

Jennifer Ying
Partner Intellectual Property Litigation – Morris Nichols

Jen Ying is a partner at Morris Nichols in Wilmington, Delaware. She is an experienced intellectual property litigator who focuses her practice on patent and trade secret disputes in federal and state court. Her experience encompasses all aspects of litigation from outset to mediation, from mediation to trial, and through appeal in both lead counsel and co-counsel roles.

Kate Schofield
Manager – Analysis Group, Inc.

Ms. Schofield specializes in the application of economic and financial theory to questions arising in a range of complex business litigation disputes. Her experience spans several practice areas, including intellectual property (IP), class certification, and antitrust. Her case work has included assessing damages related to patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation; developing, administering, and analyzing surveys in various litigation matters; and evaluating the economic impact of advertising claims.

Lindsey Fisher
Director in the Disputes, Compliance, & Investigations group. – Stout

Lindsey Fisher is a damages expert with a focus on patent and trademark infringement matters. Her work is focused on assisting clients and counsel with complex financial, accounting, and damages matters. She has provided an array of dispute resolution services, including providing expert testimony, preparing and issuing expert reports, analyzing financial issues, developing damages strategies, and building complex financial models.

Candice Cornelius
Director in the intellectual property practice of the Disputes, Compliance, & Investigations group. – Stout

Candice Cornelius is a testifying expert for patent infringement matters. She has extensive expertise in intellectual property disputes and commercial litigation, including providing discovery assistance, constructing complex financial and economic models, writing reports, and providing deposition support. She has provided consulting services on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants, including surrounding issues such as damages, commercial success, preliminary and permanent injunctions, and post-verdict ongoing royalties.

Multiple Patents May Be Litigated In Parallel In Different Countries

To estimate your damages awards, you also need to throw into the mix that multiple patents may be litigated in parallel in different countries, trade secrets misappropriation cases are often tried concurrently, double counting must be avoided, precedents (not always consistent) must be adhered to and caution must be applied to the precedents litigants set, and intense statistical analysis must be presented to a lay jury.

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