Speaker Biographies
Richard Baker
Richard Baker is the President of New England Intellectual Property, LLC. He is a Certified Licensing Professional, an inventor of Ethernet and Web technologies, and a member of the US Patent Bar. He currently serves as Trustee on the Board of the Licensing Executives Society (USA&Canada). Rich spent more than 5 years as the 3Com Director of Intellectual Property Licensing and served as Schneider Automation ‘s Director of Intellectual Property before 3Com. Rich is an accomplished public speaker, and he holds the title of Distinguished Toastmaster from Toastmasters International. He has served as a School Committee member on the Pentucket Regional School Committee and was also the Republican nominee for the US House of Representatives in 2008 for the Massachusetts 6th Congressional District.
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Bill Becker
Bill Becker is currently the Senior Director of Intellectual Property for Align Technology, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA with responsibility for intellectual property development, strategy, litigation, licensing and other IP transactional matters, primarily with respect to of patents, trade secrets and other intellectual property. Align Technology, Inc. is a medical device company engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of the Invisalign® system, the world's leading invisible orthodontic product, as well as 3D digital scanning solutions for orthodontic and restorative dentistry use. Align Technology was founded in March 1997 and its family of products includes Invisalign, Invisalign Teen, Invisalign Assist, Invisalign Express, Vivera retainers, iTero and iOC intra-oral scanning system, OrthoCADiCast, OrthoCAD iQ and OrthoCAD iRecord.
Bill formerly was Deputy General Counsel - Intellectual Property for 3Com Corporation, a network equipment company with primary responsibility for all the intellectual property related strategies, programs and transactions of 3Com and its subsidiaries worldwide.
Prior to this, he was the Associate General Counsel and Intellectual Property Counsel of VLSI Technology, Inc. in San Jose, CA, a semiconductor company. Bill also has been the Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel of Bourns, Inc. in Riverside CA and a patent attorney for General Electric.
He is currently a board-member of the San Francisco Area chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). Bill is a graduate of George Washington University Law School and Carnegie Mellon University, a member of the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, California and the District of Columbia. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has received formal training in mediation. Bill is a frequent speaker on a wide variety of IP topics.
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Catherine M. Casserly
Cathy Casserly is CEO of Creative Commons, a global nonprofit that enables sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge through the development of legal tools and infrastructure. Creative Commons has affiliates in 70 countries who work to realize the full potential of the internet. Cathy has been a long-time advocate of openness and knowledge sharing working previously as vice president at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and as a program officer at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she managed a portfolio of more than $100 million in investments.
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Morgan Chu
Mr. Chu was plaintiff's lead trial counsel in Stac Electronics v. Microsoft, in which the jury returned a $120 million verdict, and City of Hope v. Genentech, in which the jury returned a verdict of over $500 million. He was also co-counsel for the plaintiff in Texas Instruments v. Samsung, which resulted in a settlement for the plaintiff of more than $1 billion.
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Lance Criscuolo
Lance Criscuolo is the president of Zyvex Technologies. Zyvex is one of the first companies to successfully commercialize materials that take advantage of the superior properties of carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials. Prior to becoming the president for ZPM, Criscuolo was the company's vice president of global sales. Criscuolo has 18+ years of experience in technology commercialization and business development that includes company positioning, strategic alliances, joint development arrangements, and mergers & acquisitions to accelerate the growth and commercialization of new technologies. Criscuolo has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University and has 3 US patents in thermoelctric technology.
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Patrick Ennis
Patrick Ennis has more than 25 years of experience as a scientist, engineer, businessman and venture capitalist. He is currently at Intellectual Ventures where he invests in innovation world-wide, especially in Asia and North America. Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures in 2008, Patrick was a Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners where he helped build early stage startups that emanated from Universities and National Labs.
Prior to joining the venture capital industry in 1998 as a Kauffman Fellow, Patrick held positions with Lucent Technologies, AT&T, and Bell Labs in R&D, product management and marketing. Before joining Bell Labs in 1992, Patrick conducted research in Nuclear Physics from 1984 to 1992 at universities and national labs in North America and Europe. He has published many articles describing his work in scientific journals including The Physical Review, Zeitschrift für Physik, Physics Letters and Nuclear Instruments and Methods.
Patrick has served on numerous corporate, educational, and non-profit boards. His degrees include: a Ph.D., M.S. and M.Phil. in Physics from Yale University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from the College of William and Mary where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Kenneth Epstein
Kenneth Epstein, Principal, NewCap Partners, Inc. is an investment banker specializing in advanced materials/nanotechnology, Life Sciences, and Cleantech/water areas with increasing emphasis on US/China interactions. Ken has 25 years of international investment banking and venture management experience, including negotiating US/Asia global marketing and production alliances and joint ventures, as well as providing advisory services for strategic planning, acquisition and valuation. Ken first got involved in Nanotechnology in the late 1980's before nanotechnology had a name. He was the Dow Chemical corporate venture manager of structural micro and nano-materials (which was then called sub-sub-micron). He ran that program until 1996 and the Company successfully launched nano parts for abrasive water jet cutting (one of first successful “nano” products-90 nm WC (no metal), automation machining tools, and ceramic matrix specialty parts. The Dow nano program also successfully scaled-up and produced nano tungsten carbide powders (licensed to Sandvik and OMGI), and nano non-oxide ceramic powers (licensed to Japanese company). Since 2000, Ken has been advising various nano companies in the industrial and life science areas.
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Luca Escoffier
Luca Escoffier graduated in law from the University of Parma, Italy, in 2001. He earned a Master of Laws in IP in 2003 (WIPO/university of Turin), interned at WIPO, and worked as an IP counsel for a nanobiotech company in Italy until 2008. He then moved to Seattle to work at the university of Washington as a visiting scholar and then as a visiting lecturer. Luca was one of four experts selected in 2009 as Fellows at the institute of Intellectual property in Tokyo. He was one of 80 students attending Singularity University (in 2010) chosen from a pool of 1600 applicants to spend 10 weeks at the NASA Ames campus in Mountain View. He is a fellow of the Stanford-Vienna transatlantic Technology Forum, and since May 2010, the founder of Usque Ad Sidera LLC. Luca is working on his PhD in nanotechnology patenting and valuation.
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Efrat Kasznik
Efrat Kasznik has close to 20 years of IP consulting experience. She is the founder and president of Foresight Valuation Group, a Silicon-valley based consulting firm providing IP valuation, strategy and litigation support services, as well as start up advisory services. She specializes in performing IP and business valuations for mergers and acquisitions, financial and tax reporting, technology commercialization, transfer pricing and litigation damages. Efrat teaches a class on IP Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is a frequent speaker on topics of IP valuation and strategy. Throughout her career, she has also been involved as a co-founder, CFO, and adviser with several Silicon Valley start ups, in the telecommunications, media and cleantech fields. Efrat holds an MBA from UC Berkeley, and a BA in accounting and economics from the Hebrew university, Jerusalem.
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Howard Klein
Howard Klein has been practicing intellectual property law in Orange County, CA since 1977. He is a founding partner of the law firm of Klein, O'Neill, & Singh, LLP, in Irvine, CA. He earned his BS in physics from M.I.T. and JD from Duke University. Mr. Klein is licensed to practice law in California and New York, and he is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
Mr. Klein has written and prosecuted numerous patent applications in a wide variety of mechanical and electrical technologies, including optical sensors and systems, medical devices, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, electronic components and circuits, and petroleum exploration and production technology.
Mr. Klein has also represented clients in IP licensing matters, in negotiating the resolution of IP disputes, and in rendering opinions on patentability, patent infringement, and patent validity. He has actively participated in patent litigation, both as counsel and as a patent expert. He also has extensive experience in trademark law, both in the prosecution of trademark applications and in inter partes proceedings in the USPTO.
Mr. Klein is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Owners Association, the Orange County Bar Association, and the Orange County Patent Law Association (serving as President in 1988). From 2003-2006, Mr. Klein was a member the USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee.
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Keith A. Newburry
Keith A. Newburry is the Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, an S&P 500 company based in Irvine, California. Mr. Newburry leads IP efforts for the Company. He has deep experience in foreign and domestic patent litigation, foreign patent and trademark trials and appeals in London, Dusseldorf, Munich, Milan and other foreign courts. In March, 2010, his team won a willful infringement verdict and a $74,000,000 award in a patent infringement lawsuit in Delaware. He practiced law at Pretty Schroeder Brueggemann & Clark and Sheppard Mullin, is a past President of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, was named a Southern California Superlawer, was Chief IP Counsel of Avery Dennison Corporation, and holds one U.S. patent. Keith holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Law degree from the University of Southern California.
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Brian O'Shaughnessy
Brian O'Shaughnessy, is the LES (USA & Canada) Vice President for USA, responsible for LES Government interactions, and an International Delegate to LESI. He is a registered patent attorney with over twenty years' experience in intellectual property law, and is a Shareholder and Chair of the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Practice Group of the law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC, practicing in the firm's Alexandria, VA office. He holds BS and MS degrees from the Department of Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology, where he now serves on its Board of Trustees. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law in 1986.
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Loudon Owen
Prior to establishing McLean Watson Capital, Loudon Owen and John Eckert financed and advised Softimage, a world leader in high-end 3D animation, in its growth from 4 to 250 employees, its IPO on Nasdaq in 1992 and the sale to Microsoft in 1994. Loudon and John served as the Joint COO for Softimage from 1993 to its sale. Loudon currently serves on the Boards of Directors of i4i (Chairman), Vismand Exploration, Amplus Communication, Ntegrator International (listed on SGX) and Quantec.
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Sanjay Prasad
Sanjay is experienced in a range of legal, business and policy issues pertaining to IP and in particular issues pertaining to the software and information technology industries.
Sanjay is currently responsible for leading a variety of licensing initiatives for Intellectual Ventures as well as working with several of IV's existing investors and licensees. He has held several positions at IV including developing pricing and strategy for IV's acquisitions in the software and communications technologies. He has also been responsible for building and managing Intellectual Ventures' enterprise software licensing business.
Before joining Intellectual Ventures, Sanjay was a member of the executive team at IPVALUE Management Inc. where he built and ran IPValue's operations in Bangalore, leading the firm's growth in India, along with serving in various business and legal capacities in licensing programs in the semiconductor, e-commerce and consumer electronics industries.
Sanjay served as chief patent counsel at Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, CA with responsibility for Oracle's patent program and related enforcement, defense and licensing issues, along with standard setting organizations and their related agreements and other issues related to technology and intellectual property. While at Oracle, Sanjay led the development of Oracle's patent program.
Prior to Oracle, Sanjay was in private practice at Fenwick and West in Palo Alto and at Banner & Witcoff in Boston where his practice included patent litigation, prosecution and the advising of technology companies on a range of IP issues.
He has testified before a U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on hearings that led to passage of §19 of The America Invents Act (overruling Holmes Group, Inc. v. Vornado Circulation Systems Inc., 535 U.S. 826 (2002)), and is a frequent speaker on topics pertaining to IP law. He has served on the Board of Trustees for the Software Patent Institute, the Executive Committee of the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel, the Board of the Intellectual Property Owners Association and as Chair of the IP Counsel's Roundtable of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). He is admitted to practice in California, Massachusetts, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and various federal courts.
Sanjay earned his law degree from Syracuse University College of Law where he was an editor of the Syracuse Law Review. He also earned a Masters in Computer Engineering and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, both from Boston University. Prior to entering law school Sanjay worked in the minicomputer industry as a CPU/VLSI chip designer at Prime Computer in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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Randall R. Rader
Randall R. Rader was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 and assumed the duties of Chief Circuit Judge on June 1, 2010. He was appointed to the United States Claims Court (now the U. S. Court of Federal Claims) by President Ronald W. Reagan in 1988.
Chief Judge Rader's most prized title may well be "Professor Rader." As Professor, Chief Judge Rader has taught courses on patent law and other advanced intellectual property courses at George Washington University Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and other university programs in Tokyo, Taipei, New Delhi, and Beijing. Due to the size and diversity of his classes, Chief Judge Rader may have taught patent law to more students than anyone else.
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Michael Rondelli
Michael Rondelli has been the Director of SDSU's Technology Transfer Office for the past eight years. In that time, he has helped the office grow by increasing the amount of disclosures over 200% and the annual royalties by over 1000% while maintaining nearly the same expenses during his tenure. He joined SDSU while earning his Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego School of Law focusing on contract and Intellectual Property law. Additionally, he earned his MBA in finance from Texas Christian University and his BSBA with Honors from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to SDSU, he worked on Wall Street in corporate finance, both as an analyst in investment banking and as the head of business development for several venture capital funds.
He is an active member of CONNECT, AUTM, LES, and BIO as well as a frequent speaker on the subject of university technology transfer for various trade groups.
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Sarah Rouse
Sarah Rouse is a registered patent attorney focused on nanotechnology and materials engineering. She concentrates her practice on patent prosecution, portfolio management, due diligence and client counseling. Dr. Rouse is co-inventor on patent applications directed to nanomedicine. In addition, her research led to the formation of Keystone Nano, a biotech company that partners with health care companies to speed market launch of nano-enabled therapeutics and NanoSpecialties LLC, a joint venture between Keystone Nano and the Nalco Company that creates new products with nano-features for industrial markets. Dr. Rouse received dual undergraduate degrees from the South Dakota School of Mines and her Ph.D. in materials engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. Her doctoral research focused on the synthesis, dispersion and characterization of nanocomposite particles for nanomedical applications. While at Penn State, Dr. Rouse was a National Science Foundation Fellow. She received her J.D. and certificate in intellectual property law from the DePaul University College of Law. Dr. Rouse is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Bureau of National Affairs publication Life Sciences Law & Industry Report (LSLR) and is a faculty member of the Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA) program at the Business Development Academy.
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Ronald J. Schutz
Mr. Schutz is the Chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Group and a member of the firm's Executive Board. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. In 2008, the National Law Journal named Mr. Schutz to its annual list of the Top 10 Winning Litigators in the United States. Mr. Schutz is a frequent lecturer and author on topics related to litigation and trials, and he is often quoted in the business and legal press. He has also appeared on the NBC Nightly News and the CBS Morning News.
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Mitch Stoltz
Mitch Stoltz, is a Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, focusing on intellectual property. Before joining EFF, Mitch worked on copyright and antitrust litigation for high-tech clients at Constantine Cannon LLP in Washington DC. Long ago, in an Internet far far away, Mitch was Chief Security Engineer at Netscape Communications and Mozilla.org, where he put out fires and cajoled hackers on three continents. He also interned at the Computer and Communications Industry Association and the office of Massachusetts State Senator Jack Hart. Mitch has a JD from Boston University and a BA in Public Policy and Computer Science from Pomona College, where he co-founded the student TV station Studio 47.
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