Judge William G Young

Senior District Judge

District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Afia Naaz

Assistant General Counsel, IP

WuXi Apptech

Marina Volin

General Counsel

Nordic Pharma

Stephanie Monaco

General Counsel and Head of Regulatory Affairs

Kindeva Drug Delivery

Tom Brown

Senior Managing Legal Director, Head of Intellectual Property Litigation

Dell

Ken Corsello

US Trade Secrets Counsel / Patent Licensing Counsel

IBM Corporation

Ken Corsello is an IP Law Counsel at IBM.  He currently focuses on drafting and negotiating patent licenses and assignment agreements.  At IBM, he has worked on patent procurement, litigation, client counseling, product clearance, and IP transactional matters. 

Before joining IBM, Ken was a law clerk to Chief Judge Glenn Archer at the Federal Circuit; an Associate Solicitor in the USPTO; and in private practice at law firms in Washington, D.C.  He did his undergraduate work in Computer Science at SUNY Stony Brook, received his JD from the Catholic University, and obtained an LL.M. from George Washington University. 

Ken has been the chair of IPO’s Trade Secrets Committee since 2016.  His recent presentations on trade secret law include participating in a panel at the USPTO’s “Trending Issues in Trade Secrets: 2019” symposium and as a witness on behalf of IPO at the 2018 hearing on “Safeguarding Trade Secrets in the United States” held by the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. 

James William Bryan

Group Counsel Corporate & Government Investigations

Ericsson

Andrew Wise

Member & Chair, Litigation Department

Miller & Chevalier