Speakers

Agathe Michel-De-Cazotte

Ana Lopez Lozano

Andreas Robinson

Boris Andrejas

Cecile Teles

Cecile is Head Patent Attorney at Zentiva. She has over a decade of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Cecile is uniquely experienced and knowledgeable in the pharma space as she has experience in-house at an elite innovator company (Sanofi), biologics (Merck Serono), and extensive generic experience she gained as Zentiva.

Cecile is an enthusiastic manager of her team and was a key member of the IP team in leading the transformation of Zentiva into an independent and competitive generic company after divestment from Sanofi.

Cecile is a qualified European Patent Attorney. She also holds a certificate from CEIPI in patent litigation and most recently completed her diploma as a Master of Laws in France.

Christina Thomson

Christoph Rehfuess

Corinna Sundermann

Dolores Cassidy

Dolores Cassidy, B.Sc. Ph.D., graduated from University College Dublin with a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry.  In 1998 she joined the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland as a Patent Examiner, with particular responsibility for the examination of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs).  In 2021 she was promoted to the position of Head of Patent/SPC Examination at the Irish Office.

Elodie Ferraty

Filipe Pedro

Ha Kung Wong

Ha Kung Wong has over 20 years of experience practicing general intellectual property law with an emphasis on complex patent and trade secret litigation as well as IP transactions and contract negotiations for mergers, acquisitions, and collaborations in pharmaceuticals, biologics, and chemistry. Cases Mr. Wong has litigated include those related to proton pump inhibitors, allergy eye drops, anti-epileptic drugs, anti-tussive, injectable microspheres, RNAi products, and other pharmaceuticals. Mr. Wong also has extensive experience with Inter Partes Review, Post Grant Review, intellectual property counseling, pharmaceutical regulatory counseling, pre-suit investigations, licensing, and due diligence.

Mr. Wong has his BS with high distinction in Chemistry and his BS in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his JD, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Wong is currently an elected member of the Venable Board, is an Advisory Board Member for the Center for Biosimilars, is Treasurer, Executive Committee member, and Board Trustee for the Foundation for Advancement of Diversity in IP Law (FADIPL) and serves as faculty for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) and Lawline.

Isabelle Gundell

Jiri Slavik

Julia Pike

Since March 2020, Julia has been the Global Head of IP for Sandoz. In her previous roles with Sandoz, she has had a leading role in the first wave of US biosimilars litigation, including the first litigations on critical aspects of the governing legislation (the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act or BPCIA), culminating in the landmark US Supreme Court decision, Sandoz v Amgen.

Since leaving private practice at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Julia has been in-house counsel for many years including at Mayne Pharma and Hospira Inc before joining Sandoz in 2008. While there, she has taken on roles in European public affairs and led Sandoz’s global IP litigation function as Global Head of IP Litigation. Through those roles, she has maintained a keen interest in IP strategy and litigation worldwide, including cases arising under the Hatch-Waxman and BPCIA legislation in the US, PM(NOC) regulations in Canada and litigation arising from patent linkage systems around the world. 

Katie Rooth

Kit Carter

Laila Beynon

Laila Beynon is Director, Dispute Resolution at Regeneron, responsible for the strategic co-ordination of ex-US patent litigation. She has a PhD in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, 10 years’ private practice experience in life sciences patent litigation at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, and prior to her role at Regeneron headed up the Patent Litigation team at BAT. 

Marco Stief

Marius-Benjamin Schneider

Michal Porubsky

Paul Calvo

Petra Bohanec Grabar

Petra Bohanec Grabar is a Slovenian and European Patent Attorney and holds a diploma of Patent Litigation in Europe from the University of Strasbourg.

Petra has extensive experience working in house. In her current role as Group Head in Sandoz, Petra leads a team of patent practitioners supporting development, in licensing and launch of generic products on global markets.

Petra holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana and is an author of twelve peer reviewed articles in the field of pharmacogenetics.

Robin Ellis

Sabine Klepsch

Sherry Yao

Stefanie Kies

Stephen Reese

Tamaris Bucher

Tamaris is a Principal Patent Attorney at Novartis. She has gained extensive experience in pharmaceuticals in her almost ten years at Novartis, as well as from a previous role at a patent law firm in Basel.

She specialises in patent matters relating to antibody technology and cell & gene therapies. She has expertise in patent prosecution and SPC issues, as well as a keen interest in following legal developments in these areas.

Tamaris is both a registered European Patent Attorney and Swiss Patent Attorney. Additionally, she has a background in Australian patent law, having completed a Master of Industrial Property at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Eduardo Hallak

Eduardo Hallak is one of the founding partners at Licks Attorneys and one of our leaders at the Sao Paulo office. For more than a decade, he has been working as a litigator before state and federal courts in Brazil in several complex disputes and leading cases involving Patent law, competition, and regulatory compliance, most of them pursuing the interests of clients in the area of life sciences. He also has extensive practice in trademark litigation as well as technology transfer contracts, working together with multinational clients to establish strong brand protection and licensing programs in the country. Mr. Hallak also currently teaches IP litigation in the Post-Graduation course at the prestigious Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUCRJ), has taught Civil Procedure at the at the Brazilian Association of IP Agents (ABAPI), and is often invited to lecture on procedural and strategic aspects of IP litigation, in addition to being a member of the Special Commission on Mediation of the Rio de Janeiro Chapter of the Brazilian Bar Association (OABRJ) and the Enforcement Committee of INTA.

Betsy Flanagan

Geoff Biegler

Manja Epping