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Author:

The Honourable F. Dennis Saylor IV

Chief Judge
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

The Honourable F. Dennis Saylor IV

Chief Judge
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Author:

The Honorable Kent Jordan

Director
Richards Layton & Finger (Former United States circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit)

Kent A. Jordan is a Director in the Wilmington, Delaware law firm of Richards, Layton & Finger. Previously, since 2006, he served as a United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit. Before that, he was a United States District Judge for the District of Delaware from 2002 to 2006. Judge Jordan received a B.A. in Economics in 1981 from Brigham Young University and a J.D. in 1984 from Georgetown University. He was an Assistant United States Attorney and head of the Civil Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware. Later, he served as an officer and as a member of the boards of directors of privately held businesses and was a partner in a law firm. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University and has served as President of the Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation, as well as on the boards of other non-profit organizations.

The Honorable Kent Jordan

Director
Richards Layton & Finger (Former United States circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit)

Kent A. Jordan is a Director in the Wilmington, Delaware law firm of Richards, Layton & Finger. Previously, since 2006, he served as a United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit. Before that, he was a United States District Judge for the District of Delaware from 2002 to 2006. Judge Jordan received a B.A. in Economics in 1981 from Brigham Young University and a J.D. in 1984 from Georgetown University. He was an Assistant United States Attorney and head of the Civil Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware. Later, he served as an officer and as a member of the boards of directors of privately held businesses and was a partner in a law firm. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University and has served as President of the Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation, as well as on the boards of other non-profit organizations.

Author:

The Honourable Cathy Bissoon

United States District Judge
United States District Court For The Western District Of Pennsylvania

The Honourable Cathy Bissoon

United States District Judge
United States District Court For The Western District Of Pennsylvania

Author:

Honorable Judge William G Young

Senior District Judge
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

The Honorable Faith Hochberg is a nationally recognized Federal Judge and former United States Attorney known for her broad expertise spanning judicial, federal law enforcement, and financial institution regulatory top level positions. In 2015, Judge Hochberg retired from the bench to found Hochberg ADR, LLC, which provides mediation, arbitration, and mock court exercises in high profile, complex matters in national and international litigation.  Judge Hochberg serves as a court-appointed Monitor in international cybersecurity cases, and as a court-appointed Special Master in many cases in both federal and state courts, including complex multi-district litigation (MDL cases).  

Judge Hochberg is a distinguished neutral admitted to the rosters of the AAA, ICDR, ICC, and CPR; she is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute.  Her expertise broadly spans many areas of law:  class actions, corporate contract, insurance, banking & financial institutions, securities, antitrust, trade secrets, pharmaceutical development and licensing, patent and other intellectual property litigation and licensing, merger and acquisition transactions, and partnership disputes. 

Judge Hochberg was twice nominated by the President, and confirmed by the Senate, first as United States Attorney and then as a United States District Judge. During her tenure on the bench, she has presided over thousands of federal cases, including large class actions, securities, banking, patent and intellectual property, pharmaceutical intellectual property and licensing, antitrust, insurance, ERISA, corporate contract, construction related disputes, employment and partnership disputes, and others. The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation appointed her to preside over large national multi-district cases, filed across the country and consolidated to be managed by Judge Hochberg. She is a frequent speaker both nationally and internationally on patent law, class actions, employment law, and alternative dispute resolution. 

Judge Hochberg was invited to sit by designation on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and served as a patent pilot judge with special expertise in this complex area of law.  She was honored as the first Fellow of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School and also serves on the Center’s Advisory Board.  She previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Lasker Foundation, acclaimed for its prominence in promoting outstanding research in science and medicine.

Judge Hochberg was the top federal law enforcement official when she served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, managing strategy and operations of the large public office.  As Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department, she spearheaded multinational tactics to combat money laundering, and was responsible for oversight of the Treasury Department’s enforcement agencies, including the Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC], the Bank Secrecy Office, as well as Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service and other agencies. 

Judge Hochberg has developed risk management and civil regulatory enforcement criteria for financial institutions during her service as Senior Deputy Chief Counsel of the OTS during the S & L crisis.

Judge Hochberg received her law degree  from Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude and was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Judge Hochberg graduated, summa cum laude, from Tufts University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also attended the London School of Economics.

 

Honorable Judge William G Young

Senior District Judge
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

The Honorable Faith Hochberg is a nationally recognized Federal Judge and former United States Attorney known for her broad expertise spanning judicial, federal law enforcement, and financial institution regulatory top level positions. In 2015, Judge Hochberg retired from the bench to found Hochberg ADR, LLC, which provides mediation, arbitration, and mock court exercises in high profile, complex matters in national and international litigation.  Judge Hochberg serves as a court-appointed Monitor in international cybersecurity cases, and as a court-appointed Special Master in many cases in both federal and state courts, including complex multi-district litigation (MDL cases).  

Judge Hochberg is a distinguished neutral admitted to the rosters of the AAA, ICDR, ICC, and CPR; she is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute.  Her expertise broadly spans many areas of law:  class actions, corporate contract, insurance, banking & financial institutions, securities, antitrust, trade secrets, pharmaceutical development and licensing, patent and other intellectual property litigation and licensing, merger and acquisition transactions, and partnership disputes. 

Judge Hochberg was twice nominated by the President, and confirmed by the Senate, first as United States Attorney and then as a United States District Judge. During her tenure on the bench, she has presided over thousands of federal cases, including large class actions, securities, banking, patent and intellectual property, pharmaceutical intellectual property and licensing, antitrust, insurance, ERISA, corporate contract, construction related disputes, employment and partnership disputes, and others. The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation appointed her to preside over large national multi-district cases, filed across the country and consolidated to be managed by Judge Hochberg. She is a frequent speaker both nationally and internationally on patent law, class actions, employment law, and alternative dispute resolution. 

Judge Hochberg was invited to sit by designation on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and served as a patent pilot judge with special expertise in this complex area of law.  She was honored as the first Fellow of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School and also serves on the Center’s Advisory Board.  She previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Lasker Foundation, acclaimed for its prominence in promoting outstanding research in science and medicine.

Judge Hochberg was the top federal law enforcement official when she served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, managing strategy and operations of the large public office.  As Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department, she spearheaded multinational tactics to combat money laundering, and was responsible for oversight of the Treasury Department’s enforcement agencies, including the Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC], the Bank Secrecy Office, as well as Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service and other agencies. 

Judge Hochberg has developed risk management and civil regulatory enforcement criteria for financial institutions during her service as Senior Deputy Chief Counsel of the OTS during the S & L crisis.

Judge Hochberg received her law degree  from Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude and was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Judge Hochberg graduated, summa cum laude, from Tufts University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also attended the London School of Economics.

 

Author:

Paul Popeo

Co-Chair
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

Paul Popeo

Co-Chair
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

In recent years, law enforcement agencies and prosecutors have increasingly focused on enforcing criminal liability related to trade secrets, especially in cases involving espionage, data breaches, and corporate theft.

Explore:
- When will they bring a case? When is most beneficial.
- What companies can do to prevent trade secret misappropriation
- Understand the good, bad and the ugly methods in protecting confidential information.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries across the globe, but its impact on intellectual property—particularly trade secrets—is both promising and concerning. AI can be a powerful tool for enhancing security and protecting sensitive business information, but concurrently it poses new risks by potentially enabling advanced methods for reverse engineering or misappropriating proprietary knowledge. This panel will explore the dual-edged nature of AI in the context of trade secret protection.

- Whether or not 2026 will be the year for AI and trade secrets?
- Current update relating Deepseek and ChatGPT and trade secret misappropriation issues
- Impact of the AI act on companies relying on trade secrets to protect the trade secrets in their data.
- Best practice litigation of information that was related to AI Trade Secret
- How best to utilize AI inhouse to protect/create trade secret
- Increased cloud based IOT products to protect trade secrets when data is not stored locally but centrally
- Enhance trade secret training relating to AI and Algorithms
- How to enhance protection of your trade secrets during an opensource AI world?
- Identifying creator of trade secret: natural vs Ai
- U.S, Europe and Asia – Exposing AI risks in Trade Secret?
- Balancing disclosure requirement and protection of trade secrets in AI regulation.

Author:

Dean Alderucci

Senior Advisor for Artificial Intelligence
US Congress

Dean Alderucci

Senior Advisor for Artificial Intelligence
US Congress

Author:

Kerri Braun

Senior Corporate Counsel, Trade Secret and Copyright
Cisco

Kerri Braun

Senior Corporate Counsel, Trade Secret and Copyright
Cisco

Author:

Matthew Kohel

Partner
Saul Ewing

Matthew Kohel

Partner
Saul Ewing

Author:

Matt Hulse

Associate General Counsel
Intel

Matt Hulse

Associate General Counsel
Intel
 

Nalini Garg

California State Ambassador
Women In AI

Nalini is a recognized leader at Deloitte in AI & Data Practice, standing at the forefront of AI innovation and Strategy. With a distinct path of achievements, she delivered over 30 talks on generative AI, emphasizing its safe usage and business efficiencies for life sciences and tech companies. Nominated as top 100 women in AI for 2023, 2024, she currently serves as the California state ambassador for Women in AI. Beyond her professional prowess, Nalini is a wellness instructor, artist, and a podcast host.

 

Nalini Garg

California State Ambassador
Women In AI

Nalini Garg

California State Ambassador
Women In AI

Nalini is a recognized leader at Deloitte in AI & Data Practice, standing at the forefront of AI innovation and Strategy. With a distinct path of achievements, she delivered over 30 talks on generative AI, emphasizing its safe usage and business efficiencies for life sciences and tech companies. Nominated as top 100 women in AI for 2023, 2024, she currently serves as the California state ambassador for Women in AI. Beyond her professional prowess, Nalini is a wellness instructor, artist, and a podcast host.

 

As of August 20, 2024, a federal court in Texas has blocked the FTC’s non-compete ban nationwide, effectively preventing the rule from taking effect due to concerns about the FTC’s authority to enact such a rule; this means employers are currently not required to stop using non-compete agreements with most employees, although legal challenges are ongoing and the FTC may appeal the decision.

During this breakfast briefing our panel of industry practitioners will shed light on:
- Exploring the use of non-compete agreements under state laws
- What Should Employers Do Next?
- Navigate legal grounds for federal vs state laws on non-compete issues

 

Mark Lohmeyer

VP & GM, Compute and AI Infrastructure
Google

Mark Lohmeyer leads the Compute and AI Infrastructure business for Google Cloud. In this role, he is responsible for the Google Cloud Compute Engine, AI/ML infrastructure (Cloud TPU and GPU), Core ML services, block storage (Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk), and enterprise solutions (SAP on GCP, Google Cloud VMware Engine, etc.)
Mark’s background includes leadership roles in general management, product management, marketing, business development, and engineering management, across a wide range of core infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, and networking.

Mark Lohmeyer

VP & GM, Compute and AI Infrastructure
Google

Mark Lohmeyer

VP & GM, Compute and AI Infrastructure
Google

Mark Lohmeyer leads the Compute and AI Infrastructure business for Google Cloud. In this role, he is responsible for the Google Cloud Compute Engine, AI/ML infrastructure (Cloud TPU and GPU), Core ML services, block storage (Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk), and enterprise solutions (SAP on GCP, Google Cloud VMware Engine, etc.)
Mark’s background includes leadership roles in general management, product management, marketing, business development, and engineering management, across a wide range of core infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, and networking.


Prior to joining Google, Mark was the SVP/GM of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Group. In this role, he led a large-scale, global organization, spanning engineering, operations,
product management, and product marketing for the VMware infrastructure portfolio across Private Clouds, Public Clouds, and Cloud Provider Partners / Sovereign Clouds.


Prior to VMware, Mark led the product team for Enterprise WAN and Routing at Cisco and was the GM for HA/DR and Storage solutions at Veritas Software. Earlier in his career, he worked on storage I/O hardware at Adaptec, and digital imaging research and hardware design at the Sarnoff Research Labs, and holds a patent based on this work.
Mark holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also served as the head teaching assistant for Computational Structures.

Author:

Dr. Fortune Shieh

Chairman of Taiwan Association for Trade Secret Protection Associate General Counsel
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Dr. Fortune Shieh

Chairman of Taiwan Association for Trade Secret Protection Associate General Counsel
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Author:

James Pooley

Former Deputy Director General
WIPO

James Pooley

Former Deputy Director General
WIPO

Trade secret misappropriation is a critical concern for businesses seeking to protect their most valuable and sensitive intellectual property. However, the path to litigation in trade secret cases requires a strategic approach, involving everything from identifying the theft, proving the misappropriation, and navigating complex legal frameworks. As businesses face increasing risks from cyber threats, employee departures, and competitor actions, a well-thought-out litigation strategy is more important than ever.


- Determine the current requirement for trade secret owner to exercise “reasonable efforts” (UTSA) or “reasonable measures” (DTSA) to protect the information.
- Understand the critical elements required to build a strong case in trade secret misappropriation.
- Learn about the steps involved in securing evidence and effectively proving misappropriation.
- Gain insights into how to prevent trade secret theft before it occurs and how to respond effectively if theft happens.
- Explore strategies for settling or resolving trade secret cases before they go to trial.
- Understand the key legal and practical issues involved in defending against trade secret misappropriation claims.
- Explore current trends on jury instructions during trade secret litigation cases.

Author:

Victoria Cundiff

Adjunct Professor, PennCarey Law School
University of Pennsylvania

Victoria Cundiff

Adjunct Professor, PennCarey Law School
University of Pennsylvania

Author:

Ksenia Takhistova

Chief Legal Officer
LCM Biosensor Technologies

Ksenia Takhistova

Chief Legal Officer
LCM Biosensor Technologies

Trade secret misappropriation is a critical concern for businesses seeking to protect their most valuable and sensitive intellectual property. However, the path to litigation in trade secret cases requires a strategic approach, involving everything from identifying the theft, proving the misappropriation, and navigating complex legal frameworks. As businesses face increasing risks from cyber threats, employee departures, and competitor actions, a wellthought-out litigation strategy is more important than ever.


- Determine the current requirement for trade secret owner to exercise “reasonable efforts” (UTSA) or “reasonable measures” (DTSA) to protect the information.
- Understand the critical elements required to build a strong case in trade secret misappropriation.
- Learn about the steps involved in securing evidence and effectively proving misappropriation.
- Gain insights into how to prevent trade secret theft before it occurs and how to respond effectively if theft happens.
- Explore strategies for settling or resolving trade secret cases before they go to trial.
- Understand the key legal and practical issues involved in defending against trade secret misappropriation claims.
- Explore current trends on jury instructions during trade secret litigation cases.

Trade secret cases have continued to evolve in response to changing business environments, technological advancements, and legal frameworks. As we move further into 2024, several trends are emerging in trade secret litigation, influenced by factors such as globalization, digitalization, and the increasing complexity of intellectual property protection.

- Discover the latest legal updates in Motorola v. Hytera its subsequent effect on Beijing Meishe v. TikTok, 2024 on the
extraterritorial reach of DTSA
- Determine when can plaintiff can recover investment in R&D vs when on loss profits?
 Dissect case law in Pegasystems v. Appian and Echospan v. Medallia to seek out reasoning behind monetary remedies

Author:

Bridget Smith

Assistant General Counsel, IP
Relativity Space

Bridget Smith

Assistant General Counsel, IP
Relativity Space

Author:

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. 

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. 

Author:

Tom Brown

Senior Managing Legal Director, Head of Intellectual Property Litigation
Dell

Tom Brown

Senior Managing Legal Director, Head of Intellectual Property Litigation
Dell