Women in IP Committee

Charter

The committee will seek to promote the advancement of women in IP law and to increase the diversity of IPO’s membership. The committee will develop programming and initiatives on topics relevant to this goal, and will engage with other standing committees to collaborate on items of interest to the membership at large. The committee will interface with women in IP law across the community, including women working in corporations, law firms, universities, and government.

Encouraging the Retention and Advancement of Women:

The Women in IP Push Forward Subcommittee’s goal of retaining and advancing women in the legal profession generated practical resources to help members and member companies build and expand practices benefitting women in IP.

Committee Article:

Five Reasons Why Men (Yes, Men) Should Join the IPO Women in IP Committee

Committee Roster

Chair:	Shruti S. Costales, HP Inc.
Chair:	Laura Sheridan, Google Inc.
Vice Chair:	Mercedes K. Meyer, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP
Secretary:	Krista Kostiew, Cantor Colburn LLP
Board Liaison:	Henry Hadad, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Staff Liaison:	Jessica K. Landacre, Intellectual Property Owners Association

Members

Kaitlin Abrams

Haug Partners LLP

Lisa Anne Adelson

Crowell & Moring, LLP

Aisha Ahmad

Northrop Grumman Corp.

Salsa Ahmed

Bracewell LLP

Julie Kane Akhter

Microsoft Corp.

Catalina Amaya

OlarteMoure& Asociados LTDA

Erika Arner

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

James Arnold, Jr.

BASF Corporation

Juliana Arroyave

OlarteMoure& Asociados LTDA

Srikala P. Atluri

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Scott Barker

Micron Technology, Inc.

Deepika Bhayana

Dell Technologies

David Black

Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

Debra L. Blair

BASF Corporation

Laural S. Boone

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Caryn C. Borg-Breen

Green Griffith Borg-Breen LLP

Elisabeth Stewart Bradley

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Heather Champion Brady

Johnson & Johnson

Elizabeth Brann

Paul Hastings LLP

Linda Brugioni

General Electric Co.

Lora Brzezynski

Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP

Michelle Bugbee

Eastman Chemical Co.

Jennifer Burdman

Polarity TE

Sarah Burrows

HP Inc.

Carlyn Burton

Osha Liang, LLP

Anne Cappella

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP

Rebecca Carrizosa

Ropes & Gray LLP

Jennifer Robichaux Carter

Baker Botts LLP

Cindy Chang

Alston & Bird LLP

Evelyn Chen

Ericsson

Taylor Corbitt

Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP

Tamika Crawl-Bey

Corning Incorporated

Andrew Currier

Perry + Currier Inc.

Michael J. D'Aurelio

Thomas|Horstemeyer, LLP

Paula K. Davis

Pfizer Inc.

Rochelle Dede

BASF Corporation

Elizabeth K. Devins

General Electric Co.

Audra A. Dial

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Anne-Marie Dinius

Dell Technologies

Laura Donnelly

Johnson & Johnson

Tina Dorr

Cantor Colburn LLP

Cass Dottridge

Cargill, Incorporated

Elaine Drager

Nokia USA Inc.

Grantland G. Drutchas

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Rebecca Harker Duttry

McDermott Will & Emery

Dianne Elderkin

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Rachel J. Elsby

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Andrea Lynn Evensen

Siemens Corp.

Serena I. Farquharson-Torres

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Alan Feeney

Perry + Currier Inc.

Kelly T. Feimster

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

Michele Fil

Siemens Corp.

Barbara A. Fisher

Lockheed Martin

Kim S. Fowee-Perera

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Karon N. Fowler

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

Jennifer Fox

Brinks Gilson & Lione

Mareesa A. Frederick

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Alana Fuierer

Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

Lilana Galindo

OlarteMoure& Asociados LTDA

Mavis Gallenson

Ladas & Parry LLP

Samantha Garner

SAIC

Maximilienne Giannelli

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Megan Gibson

Middleton Reutlinger

Natalie Alfaro Gonzales

Baker Botts LLP

Erica Gordon

Setter Roche, LLP

Linda Govenlock

Allens

Monica Guevara

OlarteMoure& Asociados LTDA

Sarah Guichard

General Electric Co.

Sana Halwani

Lenczner Slaght

Elisabeth R. Healey

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Chip Henderson

Henderson Legal Services

Samantha Hsu

Uber

Cindy Huang

American Express Company

Maryam Imam

Klintworth & Rozenblat IP LLP

Andrea Weiss Jeffries

Jones Day

Catalina Jimenez

OlarteMoure& Asociados LTDA

Angela Johnson

Uber

Carey Jordan

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Elisabeth T. Jozwiak

Dow Chemical Co.

Samoneh Kadivar

Baker Botts LLP

Neil Kardos

Harrity & Harrity, LLP

Molly Keelan

Ocean Tomo

Youngae Kim

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Jennifer Rice Knight

Clements Bernard Walker

Dana Kolesar

Johnson Matthey Inc.

Jennifer Lacroix

SmithAmundsen LLC

Bethany Lahmann

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

Artemis Lai

Smart & Biggar

Teresa Lavoie

Fish & Richardson, PC

Christina Lee

Perry + Currier Inc.

Lesley Leonessa

Dell Technologies

Tiffany Lewis

StoneTurn

Lorraine Linford

Cozen O'Connor, PC

Daniela Lopera

OlarteMoure& Asociados LTDA

Erica Lowthers

Aird & McBurney LP

Carly Lynch

Siemens Corp.

Eloise J. Maki

3M Innovative Properties Co.

Marie-Claire Maple

General Electric Co.

Sarah Matheson

Allens

Elizabeth A. McGraw

Eli Lilly and Co.

Kimberly McManus

Aird & McBurney LP

Stephanie A. Melnychuk

Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP

Linda Mettes

Brooks Kushman P.C.

Nicole Meyer

Dickinson Wright PLLC

Pamela Mingo

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC

Jaya Mohanan

BASF Corporation

Elizabeth Ann Morgan

The Morgan Law Firm P.C.

Charlene Morrow

Fenwick & West LLP

Alison Moy

Setter Roche, LLP

Casey Nakata

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Tara A. Nealey

Polsinelli

Tina Nguyen

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Elizabeth A. Niemeyer

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Margaret O'Boyle

O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Sarah O'Grady

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Danielle Rose Olivotto

Qualcomm Incorporated

Anna Onley

Foley & Lardner LLP

Michael Pedley

BP America, Inc.

Tam Thanh T. Pham

Polsinelli

Caroline S. Pinkston

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Louisa Pontrelli

Norton Rose Fulbright

Leanne Rakers

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.

Nila Ray

Fletcher Yoder

Sharon Reiche

Pfizer Inc.

Whitney Reichel

Fish & Richardson, PC

Lonnie Rosenwald

Intellectual Ventures Management, LLC

Amy E. Rupert

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Viviana Salamanca

OlarteMoure& Asociados LTDA

Hassen Sayeed

O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Krista S. Schwartz

Jones Day

Ahsan A. Shaikh

McDermott Will & Emery

Emer Simic

Green Griffith Borg-Breen LLP

Robert M. Siminski

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.

Andrew Skodyn

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Stephany Small

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Ellen R. Smith

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Rachel Smith

Brooks Kushman P.C.

Blake Sorensen

HP Inc.

Jamie B. Specter

Capital One

Elaine Spector

Harrity & Harrity, LLP

Miriam Stiel

Allens

Tracy A. Stitt

Jones Day

Irina Sullivan

Brooks Kushman P.C.

Kristina Swanson

Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.

Erika Takeuchi

Dow Chemical Co.

Amy Ashok Thekdi

Dow Chemical Co.

Eley O. Thompson

Foley & Lardner LLP

Elizabeth Threlkeld

Middleton Reutlinger

Paula Tostado

Kateeva

Noelene Treloar

Adrian M Trioli Patent and Trade Mark Attorney

Camille Turner

Haug Partners LLP

Lisa J. Ulrich

IBM Corp.

Baldassare Vinti

Proskauer Rose, LLP

Naomi Voegtli

Honeywell International Inc.

Karen Vogel Weil

Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

Kathryn Wade

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Linda A. Wadler

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Herbert C. Wamsley

Margaret Welsh

Baker Botts LLP

Sherri Wilson

Dykema Gossett PLLC

Ariana Woods

Capital One

Wen Xie

Global IP Counselors, LLP

Rong Christine Yang

Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, PC

Sansun Yeh

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

Bailey Ziegler

TraskBritt, P.C.

Non-Voting Member:	Suzanne Eagle, Deere & Co.
Non-Voting Member:	Kevin R. Greenleaf, Dentons US LLP
Non-Voting Member:	Yalin JIAO, Advance China IP Law Office
Non-Voting Member:	William Krovatin, Merck & Co Inc.
Non-Voting Member:	Michael W. Mihm, Deere & Co.
Non-Voting Member:	Scott Pojunas, Google Inc.
Non-Voting Member:	Arvind Reddy, Thomas\|Horstemeyer, LLP
Non-Voting Member:	Jennifer Rogers, Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
Non-Voting Member:	Ya Zhang, Advance China IP Law Office

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Intellectual Property Owners Association

Women in IP Committee

Charter

Encouraging the Retention and Advancement of Women:

Committee Article:

Committee Roster

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