PatSnap Academy brings together expert guest speakers consisting of leading academics, IP professionals and PatSnap employees to help bring our community the very best in IP education.
David L. Cohen, P.C. is an IP strategist at Kidon IP Corporation, which provides intellectual property management, licensing and litigation services. Prior to this, David was Chief Legal and IP Officer of Vringo Inc, having previously worked as Senior Litigation Counsel at Nokia. In his role at Nokia, David was responsible for managing the company’s litigation affairs in the US and co-ordinating Nokia's global litigation against major competitors.
Additional Links:https://www.kidonip.com/about/
Rosie helps her clients to develop, expand, exploit and enforce their intellectual property rights working with clients in IP rich industries such as fashion and retail, gaming, IoT, block-chain, wearables, publishing and education. Rosie's book on European Fashion Law was published in February 2019 (Edward Elgar Publishing).
Hayleigh is an internationally published legal academic and speaker. She is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University London, blogger for the specialist IP blog IPKat, Director of the Intellectual Property Awareness Network (IPAN), Deputy Editor of the European Trade Mark Reports, and founder of the World IP Women (WIPW) network.
Joe Sekhon is a Senior Lecturer in IP at the University of Portsmouth and visiting professor at Bocconi University in Milan. Joe has provided extensive pro bono mentoring in entrepreneurship through his award winning Intellectual Property Advice Support Service (iPASS).
Martin Callinan is founder of Open Source Management specialists Source Code Control. Martin has over 20 years' experience providing organizations with strategies to manage business risks associated with open source software supply chains such as IP compliance, security vulnerability management and procurement.
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Mandy Haberman is a successful inventor, best known for patent infringement battles and for her globally-acclaimed innovative feeding products. Mandy is also a non-executive Director of the UKIPO Steering Board, Founder member and Freeman of the Guild of Entrepreneurs and holds the position of Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Awareness Network.
Duncan is the Head of Academy, responsible for running and promoting PatSnap Academy's educational programs. Duncan seeks to understand the intersection of intellectual property and business strategy, how to value intangible assets such as IP and how to leverage IP to drive start up success.
Samuel is the Product Manger for PatSnap Discovery, an innovation intelligence platform that provides R&D with the essential insights into technology, markets, competitors, and start ups. Previously a Patent Analyst at PatSnap, Sam worked with clients gathering data, presenting the analysed statistics and teaching IP knowledge.
Additional Linkshttps://www.patsnap.com/discovery
Arun is a lead analyst within PatSnap's professional services team. He is responsible for developing repeatable and scalable queries to retrieve and organize data for analysis, carrying out analysis of patent and non-patent aggregate data using statistical tools and developing white papers to support internal knowledge on technology areas.
Donal O'Connell is a member of global IP strategist Group IAM300. As a former VP of R&D and Director of IP at Nokia, Donal has also been working on the Alder IP Risk Management tool and is author of Inside the Patent Factory, Harvesting External Innovation and over 150 papers on innovation and IP.
Pacyinz Lyfoung is Executive Director of Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors, better known as PIIPA. Pacyinz is an expert in global public interest Intellectual Property and a global pro bono IP and legal services expert. Pacyinz has experience in how to accelerate technological innovations and technology transfer, especially in developing countries.
Victoria is a chartered UK patent attorney and a European patent attorney. With a background in biomedical sciences, she works with a diverse portfolio of clients, including global pharmaceuticals and startup biotechnology companies.
Martin Brassell is recognised globally as an expert in IP and IP-backed finance. He is consulted by government bodies and Non-Governmental Organisations on a regular basis, speaks on the topic at international conferences and has authored numerous articles and research reports.
Peter is a specialist in commercialising early stage technology opportunities and is experienced in working with the research and academic community, with particular skill in intellectual property (IP) strategy, licensing and creating new spin out companies. Peter is currently running his own consultancy company, NuAge Vision Ltd.
Paul McAdam is well known in the UK IT industry as Director of Open Source Management specialists, Source Code Control, but also for his previous role at Microsoft. Paul was the Chief of Staff at Microsoft UK and before that led the SAM engagement team for 4 years. Prior to Microsoft, Paul was an IT infrastructure manager at Astra Zeneca.
Xiaoyuan Wang has been engaged in IP for more than 6 years. After 5 years as a Patent Examiner at SIPO, she is now a Patent Analyst & Consultant at PatSnap. She served many famous universities and companies, including Sun Yat Sen University, China Mobile, Midea and Pingan.
Juliana is lawyer qualified overseas with an LL.M inIntellectual Property and New Technologies from the Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain. Currently pursuing an MSc in Intellectual Property Management at Queen Mary University of London, Juliana has 10 years of experience working within the Intellectual Property field.
Dandan Liu has over ten years of IP consulting experience and, having worked as a patent attorney, now heads up our Chinese IP Academy. Previously, Dandan also worked for over four years at SIPO (the CNIPA) as a search analyst, providing search and consulting advice.
Craig is the Product Manager for PatSnap's Life Sciences product. With Bachelor of Science Field of Study Biochemistry from Imperial College London, Craig works on the development of PatSnap's sequence searching tool which links to patent data and can help you identify obstacles and freedom to operate much earlier on.
