Former Executive Director of the Israel Patent Office, Commissioner of Patents, Trademarks and Designs. Previously, Adv. Alon served in a wide variety of positions in the private sector in the field of intellectual property, both as an attorney and as an intellectual property manager.

Daniella Atzmony, serving as the Chief Innovation Strategy Officer and General Counsel at Biostaq.IO, is a seasoned lawyer and patent attorney. With a wealth of experience in both business and law, Daniella specializes in crafting and overseeing intellectual property strategies across diverse technical domains, with a primary focus on the medical devices industry.

Tal Band is a senior partner, a member of the Board and the Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group at S. Horowitz & Co. Tal represents high-profile clients in litigation before Israel’s civil courts and the Patents and Trademarks Office (Israel Patent Authority) on all matters relating to patents, trademarks and copyright. He represents local and foreign clients in complex litigation to protect their intellectual property rights, including know-how and trade secrets.

James (Jim) Bell is both a European and U.S. patent attorney. He focuses on patent prosecution, portfolio development and management, application drafting, client counseling, and oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office (EPO). Jim predominantly handles subject matter in the fields of electronics and mechanical engineering and has extensive experience in dealing with the nuances of prosecuting computer implemented inventions in both Europe and the United States.

Intellectual Asset Managment and The Legal 500 U.S. have recognized Jeff for his patent litigation practice. He has received several American Jurisprudence Awards: Legal Research and Writing (2); Civil Procedure; Jurisprudence; and Judicial Clerkship. Managing Intellectual Property named him as an “IP Star” in Virginia, and he was recognized as a leading lawyer by Who’s Who Legal: Telecommunications Media & Technology.

Director of Intellectual Property

Dr. Eyal Brook specializes in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Copyright Law and Intellectual Property, and the Media & Entertainment industry. Head of the Artificial Intelligence practice group. Which focuses on AI, which is at the forefront of the regulatory and legislative trends globally.

Strauss Group Intellectual Property Manager, Legal Department. Experienced intellectual property and commercial attorney. Specializes in complex commercial legal advise, portfolio management worldwide, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and leads the strategy and policy in the field of intellectual property inter alia with new inventions, patents, designs, developments, technologies, trademarks and copyrights etc.

Dutch native, living in Israel, employed since 2010 by the Swiss company Ferring Pharmaceuticals at their wholly-owned subsidiary Bio-Technology General (Israel) Ltd. She has been active in the IP field for more than 30 years, most of which as in-house counsel in the pharmaceutical industry (and 3 years in private practice). Tessa has a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in biology and microbiology, respectively, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an MBA from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Dr. Eli David is a leading AI expert specializing in deep learning and evolutionary computation. He has published over fifty papers in leading artificial intelligence journals and conferences, mostly focusing on applications of deep learning and genetic algorithms in various real-world domains. For the past fifteen years, he has been teaching courses on deep learning and evolutionary computation, in addition to supervising the research of graduate students in these fields.

Shirley works in the International Litigation Team and provides strategic global litigation guidance, support and advice on non-US matters, including cross-jurisdictional disputes.

Works with engineers identifying innovations in fields of wired networking, automotive networking, data storage, and wireless connectivity; Develops and implements strategies to secure legal protection for those innovations.

Sally Gillis is a partner in Naschitz Brandes Amir’s Intellectual Property practice, where she represents clients in high-profile patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and internet law matters in Israel and abroad. Sally has extensive experience advising companies with complex IP portfolios and she is known for her incisive legal analyses enabling clients to navigate the Israeli legal system and overcome regulatory barriers.

Ehud Hausman manages the Hi-Tech practice of Reinhold Cohn & Partners, a department which handles a wide range of technologies including physics, software, hardware, electronics, medical devices etc. Ehud has extensive experience in various aspects of intellectual property, including strategic consultation on the management of intellectual property assets for multinational companies, leading industrial companies and start-up companies.

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO In his role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Andrei Iancu provides leadership and oversight to one of the largest intellectual property offices in the world, with more than 12,000 employees and an annual budget of over $3 billion.

Relying on extensive experience in both patent procurement and patent litigation, Darren Jiron focuses on building strategically developed patent portfolios. With a special interest in helping high-tech and fast-growing companies craft patent plans to block competitors and build corporate value, Darren works closely with clients to ensure their patents align with and support their business goals.

David J. Kappos is Co-Chair of Cravath’s Intellectual Property Practice. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost leaders in the field of intellectual property, including intellectual property management and strategy, the development of global intellectual property norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets.

Greg Kirsch is a partner at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, where he leads the IP Dept. Greg is a patent attorney representing both companies and universities, and is also an adjunct professor of patent/IP law (Emory University School of Law [Atlanta] and Washington University School of Law [St. Louis]).

Dr. Daniel Kligler is the founder and senior partner of Kligler & Associates. With his strong technological and legal background, Daniel sets the tone for Kligler & Associates as the leading Deep-Tech patent firm.

Asa Kling chairs the NBA's intellectual property practice handling litigation and registration prosecution in courts and before the Israel Patent Office. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kling was the Director of the Israel Patent Office and Commissioner of Patents, Trademarks and Designs (2011–2017).

Rony Krysler has over 15 years of experience in strategic IP portfolio development and management and serves as the IP Counsel at Hobart since 2010. Before that, Rony served as IP Manager at N-trig Ltd. Rony is a registered Israel Patent attorney and holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University and a B.Sc. (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Tsvi Lev is the Managing Direcor of NEC Corporation's Israeli Research Center, the first Open Innovation center of NEC globally. The center is engaged in applications of AI to Cyber, Physical Safety and Medical.

Dr. Lea Marash is a licensed Israeli patent attorney and partner at Meitar Patents Ltd. Lea specializes in the field of pharma, biotech, medical, various aspects of AgTech & FoodTtech. Lea has over fifteen years of hands-on experience in strategic management of intellectual property portfolios, patent drafting and prosecution, infringement analysis, patentability analysis, validity and freedom to operate opinions.

Adv. and Patent Attorney Roy Melzer manages the hi-tech activity of Ehrlich Group. Mr Melzer is an expert at prosecution of patents in Israel and the US, to grant. He has substantial expertise in developing IP portfolios for start-ups and providing due diligence analysis and freedom-to-operate opinions. His practice includes the use of up-to-date LegalTech tools and statistical analytic tools including examiner decision data.

Micaela Modiano is a senior partner at Modiano & Partners. She is a qualified European patent and trademark attorney. Micaela holds a BSc in chemistry from Harvard University (USA), an MSc in IP law from Queen Mary University of London (UK) and a post-graduate degree in European patent litigation from the University of Strasbourg (France). Micaela is a member of the EPI Council (Council of the Bar Association of European Patent Attorneys) and of the European Patent Practice Committee.

Tamar has vast experience handling patent portfolios of Israeli and foreign clients, ranging from private entrepreneurs and small start-up companies to large multinational corporations. The services she provides her clients include patent strategy guidance and assistance in screening processes, drafting and prosecution of patent applications internationally, opinions regarding patentability and Freedom-to-Operate (FTO), and general management of IP matters.

Ms. Natland is Co-chair of the firm’s Trademark and Brand Protection group and Chair of the firm’s Data Privacy and Security group, handling all aspects of domestic and international trademark procurement and enforcement, including litigation, as well as data privacy compliance. Ms. Natland is also the immediate past Chair of the USPTO’s Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC), where she directly advised the Director of the USPTO on trademark policy, regulations, and budget matters.

Senior Patent Attorney. Pharmaceuticals, Agriculture, Foodtech.

Dr. Yoav Oestreicher is a partner in Meitar's Litigation Group, and is responsible for the firm’s intellectual property and technology litigation practice. Yoav has substantial experience in commercial, business and intellectual property litigation and arbitration and was recommended as a litigator by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, WTR 1000 and IAM Patent 1000.

Tilman Pfrang, LL.M. is a German and European patent attorney and partner at Meissner Bolte, holding master’s degrees both in physics and law. He has extensive experience in national and cross-border IP litigation with a focus on nullity proceedings and oppositions at the patent offices. His clients are mainly active in the fields of material sciences and mechanics.

Meir Perez Pugatch is an IPKM Professor of Valorisation, Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands; as well as a Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Haifa in Israel, in which he acts as the Chair of the Health Management Division since 2019.

Rimma is the Chair of the Israeli Patent Attorneys Association (IPAA), the Director of Intellectual Property at Landa Digital Printing and IP consultant to start-up companies. Rimma is a highly experienced Patent Attorney with over 15 years of expertise in various areas of Intellectual Property and has a strong track record in managing and strategizing IP portfolios for large enterprises, SMEs, and start-up companies.

Philipp Rastemborski, LL.M. (Edinburgh) is a German-qualified Attorney-at-Law, Certified Specialist for IP law and a Partner at Meissner Bolte in Munich. Following a law degree from the Free University of Berlin, Mr. Rastemborski completed a master’s degree in EU Competition Law from the University of Edinburgh with a master thesis on compulsory licensing under Article 102 TFEU.

Dr. Tamar Raz has nearly two decades of experience in technology transfer and an impressive track record of bringing medical innovations from the lab to the marketplace. Prior to joining Hadasit, she served as VP of Marketing and Strategy at Ramot, the technology transfer company of Tel Aviv University. Tamar was the founder and CEO of Allergene Ltd, an Israeli drug development start-up company. She received her MSc and PhD in cell biology from the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine.

Dr. Reisman's practice involves patent prosecution and strategic counseling, and legal opinion work, chiefly for clients in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology industries; this practice allows him to utilize the technical training he received while earning a Ph.D. in Chemistry. He also has broad litigation and appellate experience.

Mrs. Riemer is a partner in FBC's Litigation Department. She specializes in intellectual property litigation, data and privacy protection, commercial disputes, and class actions. Mrs. Riemer provides legal counsel to individuals, private companies, and public companies with respect to intellectual property, information technology, and Internet law, including with respect to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, privacy protection, and database usage.

I am one of the founding partners of Bird & Bird Germany. As a patent litigator, my practice focuses on patent law. For years now I have been active in all technical areas and advised on all manner of patent law issues, in particular patent litigation before civil courts and arbitration on complex licensing agreements.

Mark Ruberto is an experienced Patent Agent with 20 years of industrial experience. He drafts and prosecutes patents, conducts patentability assessment, and prepares Office Action responses. Mark handles patents in microelectronics, packaging, integrated circuit design, radio-frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave design, communications, optoelectronics, wireless, networking, medical devices, bioelectronics, computer systems, petrophysics, cryptography, and security systems.

Adam’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation. He handles patent, trademark, and trade secret matters on behalf of innovators and investors in a range of industries. His core practice includes patent and trade secret litigation involving complex technologies in the pharmaceutical, medical, high-tech, and defense industries.

Barry J. Schindler is the Chair of Greenberg Traurig's Global Patent Prosecution Group -- a group of over 100 attorneys/agents, who are registered with the USPTO, and handling over 4,000 domestic and foreign applications. Barry has over 30 years of legal experience in all aspects patent prosecution and IP protection, representing numerous major companies and start-ups regarding patents/trade secrets relating to AI in such relevant areas of AgriTech, FinTech, Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Medical.

Avi Schwartz is VP, IP Counsel at Edwards Lifesciences, the world-leading heart valve and medical technology company headquartered in Irvine, California. His practice focuses on patent litigation, trademarks, trade secrets, and IP aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Avi’s patent litigation experience at Edwards includes a focus on post-grant proceedings such as IPRs and EPO oppositions, in addition to managing litigation in courtrooms across the United States and Europe.

In 20+ years’ experience in the IP industry, I have worked both for IP law firms and for service providers, from pricing initial filings to handling renewals. On the software side I have been involved in organising the development of IP cost forecasting software, IP management software and analytics tools, and taking these tools to market.

Adv. and Patent Attorney Einav Zilber has a background in mathematics, physics, and law, and brings a unique blend of expertise. Einav holds the role of VP of Intellectual Property at Magnus Metal, an emerging start-up company bringing digital casting – a new technology, process and system for volume manufacturing of metal alloys. Formerly, Einav served as division counsel for Applied Materials Israel and India and as a practitioner in a leading firm in Israel.