Julie Lappin
Julie is a Senior IP Counsel at Nestlé S.A. She has worked for multiple business units in her 14+ year career with Nestlé, including Coffee, Nestlé Health Science, and PetCare. Julie significantly contributed to developing and deploying Nestlé's trade secret protection program. Before joining Nestle, she was a Corporate Patent Counsel at Pfizer Inc.
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Joseph D'Angelo
Joseph D’Angelo is a results driven legal partner with more than 15 years of corporate legal department experience at Fortune 500 companies. Extensive experience assisting businesses with intellectual property, litigation, technology licensing, complex negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, commercial law, and supplier matters.
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Hannah Joseph
Hannah T. Joseph serves as Director of Trade Secrets at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. At Regeneron, she drives strategy for the protection of trade secrets and proprietary information. Before joining Regeneron, Hannah worked at Beck Reed Riden LLP, a boutique law firm in Boston, where she specialized in the areas of trade secrets law, restrictive covenants, and employee mobility for nearly a decade. Hannah holds a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University.
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Geoff White
Geoffrey White is General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel for SilcoTek Corporation, a high-tech materials science company solving challenges for the world’s most innovative organizations. Geoffrey was previously in private practice, handling IP matters for startups through huge organizations. He has an MBA from Cambridge, an IP LLM from George Washington, a JD from Widener, and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been named multiple times to IAM 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists, spoken in countless venues on value-focused IP strategy, and collaborates with Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing on Innovation and IP Management research.
Clint Morrison
Clint Morrison is a Partner at Patterson Belknap, a New York-based firm that represents clients all over the country. A commercial litigator and trial lawyer, Mr. Morrison has extensive trial experience in federal and state courts throughout the country. He represents established Fortune 100 companies, high-tech startups, and clients in between those growth stages on their material commercial disputes and intellectual property matters. Mr. Morrison principally litigates cases involving trade secrets and intellectual property, contractual and business disputes, and advertising matters.
Mr. Morrison is ranked by Chambers USA in Litigation: General Commercial – New York and serves as Co-Chair of the Subcommittee on Liabilities and Remedies Related to the Use of Artificial Intelligence at the New York City Bar Association’s Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies.
Mr. Morrison received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Georgetown University.
