Gail Su

Monica Baig-Silva

Monica Baig-Silva (Vice President, Intellectual Property at Thermo Fisher Scientific) provides strategic counseling and intellectual property support for Thermo Fisher’s biotechnology, pharmaceutical and clinical trials businesses.  With over 15 years of experience, Monica routinely handles all matters of intellectual property protection.  In addition, Monica has extensive experience advising on matters related to IP infringement, employment agreements, contract negotiations, and cyber security.  A champion of trade secret protections, Monica founded Thermo Fisher’s trade secret and risk assessment committee for internally monitoring company trade secret practices. Monica is currently a member of the Intellectual Property Organization’s trade secret committee.

Diane Gabl Kratz

Diane is a four-time IAM Strategy 300 World's Leading IP Strategist and USPTO-registered patent attorney. At Dolby, she leads an 18-person global team, developing and executing U.S. and international patent filing strategies and heading Dolby’s worldwide trademark portfolio. A four-time Super Lawyers Rising Star, she began in IP litigation at international law firms Morrison & Foerster and Sidley Austin. 

Diane frequently presents at conferences throughout the U.S. and has guest lectured at Stanford, University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and serves as regular faculty at PLI. She has been quoted or profiled in numerous legal publications including Law360, American Lawyer/Law.com, IAM, and Managing IP. She is a Founding Board Member of the California IP Alliance. Diane received her J.D. from the University of Chicago and a Physics degree from Cornell University.

Emilie Lavirotte

Brad Lawrence

Brad Lawrence focuses his practice on intellectual property counseling including the protection of clients' inventions through carefully planned patent procurement. His practice also includes analysis of the IP and product positions of others and the development of licensing strategies as well as performing product clearances in the form of non-infringement and/or invalidity opinions. He also has significant prior litigation experience that includes many aspects of patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation as well as licensing and other extrajudicial resolution of IP disputes.

Jordan Grotzinger

Steve Gong

Helen Li

Helen Liis an associate director of patents and patent portfolio manager of AI innovations at the Intel Corporation.  She also serves as the Patent Group Counsel to Office of the Intel CTO & Software and Advanced Technology Group.  Prior to joining the Intel, she was a patent attorney at Fenwick & West LLP, where she advised clients on IP strategy and prosecuted patents in computer engineering technologies such as AI.  She has a PhD in computer engineering and JD both from Santa Clara University.