Meet the IP Leaders Driving Innovation and Global Strategy at IIPLA 2026 USA
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The 30th edition of IIPLA 2026 USA is set to bring together an impressive group of intellectual property professionals, technology experts, corporate counsel, patent strategists, and legal leaders in Palo Alto, California, on September 21–22, 2026. Hosted at the Hilton Garden Inn, Palo Alto, the conference will focus on the evolving relationship between intellectual property, artificial intelligence, innovation, and global business.
The IIPLA 2026 USA speaker lineup reflects the increasingly diverse nature of modern IP practice. The event features professionals with extensive experience in patent prosecution, licensing, litigation, portfolio management, trademarks, technology transactions, standards-related IP, and emerging technologies. Their combined expertise will provide attendees with practical perspectives on some of the most important challenges facing today’s IP community.
Among the featured speakers is Malgorzata (Gosia) A. Kulczycka, Partner at Patterson + Sheridan LLP. With more than 17 years of legal experience, she focuses on patent preparation and prosecution, trademark protection, artificial intelligence, machine learning, software, communications technologies, and other complex technology areas. Her technical and legal background makes her particularly relevant to discussions surrounding IP protection for emerging technologies.
Another prominent speaker is Earl Nied, Founder of Veracity IP Consulting and a former senior IP and standards leader at Intel. His work spans intellectual property policy, standards development organizations, technology consortia, and global IP strategy. His experience provides valuable insight into how standards, technology development, and intellectual property rights interact in highly collaborative industries.
Jaime A. Siegel, Founder and CEO of Cerebral Assets, LLC, brings more than three decades of experience in patent licensing, litigation, portfolio management, valuation, and commercialization. His career includes senior leadership at Acacia Research Corporation and Sony Corporation of America, giving him extensive experience at the intersection of IP law, business, licensing, and technology.
The speaker lineup also includes Michael Dryja, Principal at the Law Offices of Michael Dryja, whose practice covers patent prosecution across technologies such as AI, IoT, software, computing, electronics, semiconductors, and materials science. Nazeer Ali, Partner at Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, contributes significant experience in U.S. patent prosecution and counseling involving mechanical, electro-mechanical, manufacturing, and computer technologies.
Other notable contributors include Shriya Varma, whose work covers IP, technology transactions, privacy, AI governance, and emerging technology regulation; Subroto Bose, Head of IP at Astera Labs, with expertise in global patent and trademark portfolio strategy; and Babak Akhlaghi, Founder and Managing Director of NovoTech Patent Firm, who focuses on strategic patent portfolios for advanced technologies including AI, quantum computing, robotics, and blockchain.
The conference agenda complements this diverse expertise with sessions addressing the future of intellectual property in the AI economy, generative AI and deepfakes, brand protection, global patent portfolio management, open-so
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