Honorable Faith Hochberg

Companion Animal Innovation Showcase

Hannah Joseph

Hannah T. Joseph serves as Director of Trade Secrets at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. At Regeneron, she drives strategy for the protection of trade secrets and proprietary information. Before joining Regeneron, Hannah worked at Beck Reed Riden LLP, a boutique law firm in Boston,  where she specialized in the areas of trade secrets law, restrictive covenants, and employee mobility for nearly a decade. Hannah holds a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University.

Production Animal Innovation Showcase

Geoff White

Geoffrey White is General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel for SilcoTek Corporation, a high-tech materials science company solving challenges for the world’s most innovative organizations. Geoffrey was previously in private practice, handling IP matters for startups through huge organizations. He has an MBA from Cambridge, an IP LLM from George Washington, a JD from Widener, and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been named multiple times to IAM 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists, spoken in countless venues on value-focused IP strategy, and collaborates with Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing on Innovation and IP Management research.

Clint Morrison

Beth Krewson

Anand Patel

Anand B. Patel is Senior Counsel in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the Department of Justice.  He investigates and prosecutes trade secrets theft, ransomware attacks, and computer intrusions.  Mr. Patel teaches Trade Secrets Law at the George Washington University Law School.  Before joining the Department, Mr. Patel spent a decade as an attorney at Paul Hastings LLP, where he handled all facets of disputes involving trade secrets.  He previously served as law clerk to the Honorable William Bryson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Mr. Patel graduated from UVA School of Law and MIT.

Ainslee Schreiber

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.