IP leaders should be conveying a baseline understanding of IP across the organisation, building a culture where everyone understands that there is an IP process and how they can and should actively engage with it.
This session will explore how IP leaders successfully decentralise IP knowledge across their businesses, the successes they’ve had with building IP cultures and the struggles they’ve faced with both receptive and non-receptive internal audiences.
Paul Liu
Paul is the Global Head of Intellectual Property at TuSimple, a self-driving truck company based out of San Diego, California. At TuSimple, Paul oversees the intellectual property function with a team of attorneys, patent agents, and paralegals to align the company’s intellectual property with the business to obtain proactive, high impact, and creative protections via patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights. He is a subject matter expert for intellectual property assets associated with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science technologies. He has been recognized by leading industry publications such as Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) as one of “The World’s Leading IP Strategists.
Olivia Tsai
Tara Stuart
Tara Stuart is Assistant General Counsel, IP at Gilead Sciences, Inc., where she is the IP lead for the Inflammation and Fibrosis Therapeutic Areas. She and her team focus on patent strategy, prosecution, and portfolio management in all stages of pharmaceutical development. As a registered patent attorney, Tara was previously in private practice where she specialized in patent prosecution, litigation, and counseling with an emphasis in pharmaceuticals. Tara received her JD from University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall, an MS in Chemistry from Indiana University, and formerly worked an oncology research scientist at Loyola University Medical School.
Michael Messinger
Mike is a partner in the Vorys Washington, D.C. office and member of the intellectual property group. He began his career serving for six years as a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) handling an active optoelectronic devices and systems docket. Now, Mike brings unique patent solutions from defensive and offensive perspectives. He helps clients harvest innovation, protect products and services, and monetize or defend patent portfolios.
Throughout his career, Mike has helped companies of all sizes, universities and individuals create IP strategies for protection and to enhance their freedom-to-operate in computer, electronics and sustainable technologies. He routinely works with company officers and engineers to identify patentable inventions and build strategic patent portfolios. Mike also has significant experience as lead counsel in complex inter partes review proceedings, reissue and ex parte patent reexamination before the USPTO.
Mike has deep experience prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications. This includes developing worldwide patent portfolios that track company business goals and writing and prosecuting numerous patent applications covering inventions in cloud computing, machine learning, computer networking (Internet and World-Wide Web technologies), browsers, geographical information systems, graphics processing, high-speed optical communications, solar, wind and tidal energy, and data mining. Mike has also helped clients sell, license or enforce hundreds of patents.
Mike serves as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches patent licensing.
Mike received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and his B.S. magna cum laude, in physics, from Duke University.
Prior to joining Vorys, Mike was the co-founder of the boutique IP law firm Shami Messinger PLLC and earlier in his career he served as a partner at other IP boutique and general practice law firms.
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.