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          * Davenport, Joshua

            Banner Witcoff | Principal Shareholder

              Mr. Davenport is a Principal Shareholder of Banner Witcoff, and well-known as a leader in generative AI. He has done numerous talks on generative AI issues, given interviews for multiple publications, serves on the Customer Advisory Board of Solve Intelligence, and even applies machine-learning modeling techniques outside work as co-host of a major college football podcast. As a practitioner, he represents clients in all aspects of intellectual property matters, including patent prosecution, litigation, and counseling. He is currently on faculty at Georgetown University Law Center as an Adjunct Professor.
          * Davis, Deborah

            Pranger Law PC | Partner

              Deborah Davis is a partner at Pranger Law PC and leads the firm’s Trademarks & Brand Protection practice. Her many years of experience in trademarks, advertising, and promotions matters helps clients navigate complex market and consumer realities while they safeguard and grow their critical IP assets.
          * Davis, Laura

            DeWitt Law Firm | Partner

              Laura is a partner and experienced litigator at DeWitt LLP. She has experience litigating patent (utility and design), trademark, copyright, and trade secret disputes, as well as other commercial disputes. In addition, Laura regularly handles cancellation and opposition proceedings before the TTAB and IPR proceedings before the PTAB. She has obtained successful outcomes at all stages of litigation from preliminary injunctions and summary judgment to trial and appeal. Most recently, she has successfully defeated patent infringement and other related claims on summary judgment while going on to obtain a favorable verdict pursuing trade secret violations in the same case.
          * Davis, Theodore

            Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP | Partner

              Ted Davis is a partner in the Atlanta office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where he has practiced trademark, copyright, false advertising, and unfair competition law since 1990. He is a past member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Board of Directors and currently serves as an editor of the A.I.P.L.A. Quarterly Law Journal. He also has served on the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors and the International Trademark Association’s Executive Committee. He frequently serves as an expert witness in trademark-related matters and is an adjunct professor at the Emory University School of Law. His articles on intellectual property subjects have appeared in such general-purpose journals as the Minnesota Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Wake Forest Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Florida Law Review, and the Akron Law Review, as well as in specialized publications like the Trademark Reporter, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law, and the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal.
          * Dayton, Katherine Lyon

            Fross Zelnick | Associate

              Katherine Lyon Dayton excels at developing effective strategies to secure and enforce clients’ intellectual property rights in difficult and multijurisdictional situations. She advises on international trademark clearance, registration, opposition, and cancellation actions, as well as other enforcement matters.
          * de Andrés Gómez, Paula

            Berggren | Partner

              Paula is a Partner at Berggren and leads the firm's office in Alicante, Spain. She has over 23 years of experience in the IP field with a primary focus on design rights and for the past 15 years she has offered strategic counsel to both national and international clients and has managed extensive design portfolios.
          * de Mattos Siqueira, Joana

            Montaura Pimenta Machado & Vierira de Mello | Partner

              Joana de Mattos Siqueira is partner and part of the firm’s trademarks team. With more than 20 years of experience acting an attorney in Intellectual Property, her practice involves all procedures for registration of trademarks before the INPI, including opposition and other administrative petitions, as well as strategic analysis for complex trademark issues, with the aim of avoiding litigation, where possible.
          * de Ruyter, Matthew

            SABIC | Sr. Counsel, Intellectual Property

              Matt is Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property at SABIC, handling all types of intellectual property matters for SABIC’s Specialties business.
          * DeAngelis, Justin D.

            Quarles & Brady | Associate

              Justin DeAngelis is a patent attorney in the Chicago office of Quarles & Brady LLP where his practice focuses on domestic and international patent prosecution, freedom to operate analyses, and infringement analyses for design and utility patents. He is currently the Chair of the International Policy & Practice Subcommittee of the AIPLA Industrial Designs Committee, Co-Chair of the Young Members' Committee of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC), and on the Board of Directors of the Kettle Moraine Land Trust in Southeastern Wisconsin. Justin received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
          * Dearing, Lea

            Berman Fink Van Horn PC | Shareholder

              A Shareholder at Berman Fink Van Horn, Lea counsels companies regarding disputes that arise in every day operations.
          * DeBerardine, Robert

            Johnson & Johnson | Chief Intellectual Property Counsel

              Robert DeBerardine is Worldwide Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of Johnson & Johnson where he manages a group of about 270 IP professionals, of whom about 110 are patent and trademark attorneys. Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Robert was Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Sanofi. Prior to Sanofi, Robert served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Abbott Laboratories.
          * DeFranco, Denise

            Johnson & Johnson | Global Head of IP Litigation

              Denise DeFranco is the Global Head of IP Litigation at Johnson & Johnson. In that capacity, she manages the team of lawyers who are responsible for Johnson & Johnson’s patent litigation around the globe. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Denise was a Partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP. She clerked for The Honorable Paul R. Michel at the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and served as a Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Denise received her J.D. from The George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C. and her B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA.
          * Degnan, Lauren

            Fish & Richardson P.C.

              Lauren A. Degnan is a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer who handles high-stakes IP disputes that can weave their way through a complex maze of multi-jurisdiction litigation, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Her experience across all forums makes her adept at developing coordinated, sophisticated strategies that often result in securing fast, favorable outcomes for clients. While Lauren has served as lead counsel for numerous complex patent infringement cases, her strategic writing abilities are an equally noteworthy talent.
          * Deka, Monisha

            US International Trade Commission | Investigative Attorney

              Monisha Deka (Mo) has been an Investigative Attorney at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington DC for almost 8 years. Investigative attorneys advocate on behalf of the public interest in intellectual property investigations initiated under 19 U.S.C. 1337, commonly referred to as Section 337 litigations.
          * Dell, Stephen

            NOVUM Consulting Group | Founder and President

              Stephen Dell is the Founder and President of NOVUM Consulting Group. With more than eighteen years of professional experience in financial consulting and valuation services, he focuses on assisting clients with complex intellectual property damage analysis, commercial disputes, and valuations.
          * Mary Boney Denison

            The United States Patent and Trademark Office | Commissioner of Trademarks

              Mary Boney Denison is the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Commissioner for Trademarks.
          * Derron Blakely

            Elbit Systems of America | General Counsel

          * Paul Derry

            Venner Shipley | Partner and Patent Attorney

              Paul Derry is a partner at Venner Shipley, and a European Patent Attorney and a Chartered (UK) Patent Attorney. He specialises in the fields of software, electronics, telecommunications and medical devices, representing a number of companies in these sectors.
          * Chris DeSantis
              For almost 30 years Chris has been an independent organizational behavior consultant. He is a trusted partner to some of the world’s largest companies in the professional services, tech, and pharma industries hired to solve some of their most chronic business problems by offering user-friendly solutions aligned with the company’s strategic initiatives. Before striking out on his own he was the Director of Training and Development for the American Medical Association and was part of the Human Resource Development group for Brunswick Corporation.
          * Dhavan, Gauri

            ZOLL Medical Corporation | Chief Intellectual Property Officer

              Gauri Dhavan, Ph.D., J.D., is VP, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at ZOLL Medical Corporation, a company that develops and markets medical devices and software solutions in the resuscitation and acute critical care field. At ZOLL, Gauri leads a team of intellectual property counsel in managing all aspects of intellectual property, including patent prosecution and portfolio management, intellectual property litigation, risk mitigation, M&A due diligence, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and data security. Prior to joining ZOLL, she was a patent litigator at the law firms of Fish & Richardson and Goodwin Proctor.
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