Speakers

Adam Gershenson

Barry focuses his practice on complex patent litigation. He is an experienced first-chair trial attorney with extensive federal jury and bench trial experience, having tried numerous intellectual property cases to verdict. Although Barry has represented clients at all levels of litigation in various fields of technology, including computer software, medical devices, office furniture, the Internet, insurance, manufacturing, LEDs and telecommunications, he focuses on consumer electronics and Hatch-Waxman litigation.

In addition to handling complex jury and bench trials nationwide, Barry has participated in all aspects of alternative dispute resolution, including arbitrations and mediations. In this regard, he has also developed innovative approaches and strategies to resolve significant disputes to avoid costly litigation.

Barry has led trial teams in more than 90 cases, many settling on favorable terms prior to trial. Barry has extensive experience litigating consumer electronic cases over cell phones, display modules containing pixel assemblies, point of sale machines, semi-conductor manufacturing, mobile security solutions for portable electronic traffic message boards, VOIP technology, and fiber optics. Barry also has litigated highly specialized Hatch-Waxman statutory patent infringement actions involving prescription pharmaceutical drugs.

Barry P. Golob

Barry focuses his practice on complex patent litigation. He is an experienced first-chair trial attorney with extensive federal jury and bench trial experience, having tried numerous intellectual property cases to verdict. Although Barry has represented clients at all levels of litigation in various fields of technology, including computer software, medical devices, office furniture, the Internet, insurance, manufacturing, LEDs and telecommunications, he focuses on consumer electronics and Hatch-Waxman litigation.

In addition to handling complex jury and bench trials nationwide, Barry has participated in all aspects of alternative dispute resolution, including arbitrations and mediations. In this regard, he has also developed innovative approaches and strategies to resolve significant disputes to avoid costly litigation.

Barry has led trial teams in more than 90 cases, many settling on favorable terms prior to trial. Barry has extensive experience litigating consumer electronic cases over cell phones, display modules containing pixel assemblies, point of sale machines, semi-conductor manufacturing, mobile security solutions for portable electronic traffic message boards, VOIP technology, and fiber optics. Barry also has litigated highly specialized Hatch-Waxman statutory patent infringement actions involving prescription pharmaceutical drugs.

A member of the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association, Barry regularly speaks around the country on various judges' panels on mediation and settlement techniques, as well as best practices for successful trials.

Barry graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and earned his law degree from Washington College of Law of the American University. 

Beth Krewson

Clint Morrison

Gregory Bombard

Gregory S. Bombard is a trial lawyer whose practice focuses on trade secret litigation. Greg also handles other IP litigation and complex commercial disputes. His trade secret clients are primarily in high tech industries, including biotech, medical devices, software, robotics, fintech, and manufacturing. Greg is an author of the ABA’s Guide to Protecting and Litigating Trade Secrets, 2nd Ed., and co-chairs of the ABA’s Trade Secret Litigation Subcommittee. Greg is a shareholder in the Boston office of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He can be reached at [email protected]. 

Honorable Judge William G Young

The Honorable Faith Hochberg is a nationally recognized Federal Judge and former United States Attorney known for her broad expertise spanning judicial, federal law enforcement, and financial institution regulatory top level positions. In 2015, Judge Hochberg retired from the bench to found Hochberg ADR, LLC, which provides mediation, arbitration, and mock court exercises in high profile, complex matters in national and international litigation.  Judge Hochberg serves as a court-appointed Monitor in international cybersecurity cases, and as a court-appointed Special Master in many cases in both federal and state courts, including complex multi-district litigation (MDL cases).  

Judge Hochberg is a distinguished neutral admitted to the rosters of the AAA, ICDR, ICC, and CPR; she is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute.  Her expertise broadly spans many areas of law:  class actions, corporate contract, insurance, banking & financial institutions, securities, antitrust, trade secrets, pharmaceutical development and licensing, patent and other intellectual property litigation and licensing, merger and acquisition transactions, and partnership disputes. 

Judge Hochberg was twice nominated by the President, and confirmed by the Senate, first as United States Attorney and then as a United States District Judge. During her tenure on the bench, she has presided over thousands of federal cases, including large class actions, securities, banking, patent and intellectual property, pharmaceutical intellectual property and licensing, antitrust, insurance, ERISA, corporate contract, construction related disputes, employment and partnership disputes, and others. The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation appointed her to preside over large national multi-district cases, filed across the country and consolidated to be managed by Judge Hochberg. She is a frequent speaker both nationally and internationally on patent law, class actions, employment law, and alternative dispute resolution. 

Judge Hochberg was invited to sit by designation on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and served as a patent pilot judge with special expertise in this complex area of law.  She was honored as the first Fellow of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School and also serves on the Center’s Advisory Board.  She previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Lasker Foundation, acclaimed for its prominence in promoting outstanding research in science and medicine.

Judge Hochberg was the top federal law enforcement official when she served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, managing strategy and operations of the large public office.  As Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department, she spearheaded multinational tactics to combat money laundering, and was responsible for oversight of the Treasury Department’s enforcement agencies, including the Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC], the Bank Secrecy Office, as well as Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service and other agencies. 

Judge Hochberg has developed risk management and civil regulatory enforcement criteria for financial institutions during her service as Senior Deputy Chief Counsel of the OTS during the S & L crisis.

Judge Hochberg received her law degree  from Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude and was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Judge Hochberg graduated, summa cum laude, from Tufts University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also attended the London School of Economics.

Ian DiBernardo

James Coe

Jennifer Burdman

Joseph D'Angelo

Julie Lappin

Ken Corsello

Ksenia Takhistova

Mark Abumeri

Mary Guzman

Mary Guzman is an insurance industry veteran and pioneer. She has over 25 years experience advising clients on a myriad of risks to their businesses, most recently with a focus on all things related to technology, media, and intellectual property. Mary is an industry trailblazer and disrupter. Mary was one of the first in the industry to develop a cyber insurance policy in 2000. She is a published author and speaker, having done over 125 speaking engagements on risks/solutions to threats arising from the convergence of all things intangible. She has been a government liaison as part of the DHS cybersecurity and insurance working group during the Obama administration. She is part of the Trade Secret committee of the American Intellectual Property Legal Association (AIPLA). She is also on the board of the USIPA and has been tasked with starting/Chairing the Trade Secret committee for them

Matthew Murphy

Mike Binns

Rama Elluru

Ronald Sia Deputy GC

Ron serves as Deputy General Counsel - Technology and Brand, and Enterprise Risk and Sustainability Compliance Officer for SimpliSafe.  Prior to joining SimpliSafe, he spent over a decade in a variety of in house legal roles at P&G / Gillette in Cincinnati and Boston, with his last role as Global Lead Commercial Counsel for the Gillette business unit.  Ron studied Chemical Engineering and Economics at Tufts University and received his JD from UNH School of Law.

Shane O`Neill

Steve Smith

Tom Pease