Gene Quinn is a US Patent Attorney, blogger and a principle lecturer of the most popular patent bar review course in the US.   Gene’s particular specialty is in the area of strategic patent consulting, patent application drafting, patent prosecution, technology licensing and litigation. In addition to representing inventors Gene also represents business with respect to copyright matters. Gene is also a member of the Board of Directors of the United Inventors Association, and is an inventor himself. Gene is also known by many as “The IPWatchdog,” having started the widely popular intellectual property website IPWatchdog.com in 1999.

Renee Quinn is the Chief Operating Officer of IPWatchdog, Inc., and has been working with IPWatchdog, Inc. since April of 2006. Her primary responsibilities include interfacing with inventors, entrepreneurs and small businesses. She is also in charge of accounts receivable, work on developing marketing campaigns and is responsible for coordinating outside vendors in a project managing capacity. Renee acquired a Masters of Business Administration with her course work focusing on e-Commerce and e-Business, with an emphasis on marketing via the World Wide Web. Her particular career focus to date has been on business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing.

Eric Guttag is a US Patent Attorney with over 30 years of corporate and private intellectual property law experience relating to patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition matters, computer and Internet law. His specialties including patent application drafting, prosecution, and patentability studies; infringement and validity studies; international patent prosecution; patent and know-how licensing; consulting, confidentiality, clinical study and research agreements; trademark searches and opinions; trademark registration and prosecution; trademark freedom-to-use studies and trademark litigation and dispute resolution. His particular area of technical focus is in the chemical arts, although he also has experience with mechanical and optical inventions as well.

John White is a US patent attorney and a patent lecturer. He is an Adjunct Law Professor at John Marshall Law School, and he is also the principal lecturer/author of the PLI Patent Bar Review Course, a course that he originally created. In fact, since John began teaching patent bar review courses in 1995, he has personally taught approximately 40% of all practicing patent attorneys and agents how to successfully become admitted to the Patent Bar. John has also taught over 400 US Patent Examiners at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) in the “Law and Evidence Course” necessary for them to advance to Partial Negotiation authority as Examiners.

Mark Malek focuses his practice on representing clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and counseling inventors and businesses on various intellectual property strategies. Mark is a registered patent attorney and admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In addition to representing inventors Mark also represents business with respect to filing and obtaining trademarks and other trademark matters. Mark also focuses his practice on licensing his client’s intellectual property, and has worked a great deal with international clients. Mark is admitted to practice in Florida, D.C. and at the USPTO.

Christian E. Mammen is focused on patent and other intellectual property litigation, disputes and strategy. He has over a decade of experience in San Francisco and Silicon Valley law firms, and also holds a doctorate in law from Oxford University-one of only a handful of practitioners in the United States to have earned that distinction. His primary focus is federal litigation for technology-based companies in such fields as telecommunications, software, electronics, and biotechnology.

Dr. Michael Factor is a licensed Israel Patent Attorney with numerous professional affiliations including the IPA, the AEA and the AIPPI. Factor has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an M.Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College, London, and an LL.B. from the Ono Academic College, Israel. Factor has very wide experience in drafting patent applications and representing clients before the local and international patent offices. Additionally, He has a blog, the IP Factor http://blog.ipfactor.co.il/ with several thousand hits a month, making it the most popular Israel IP resource.

Lisa Fantino is an entertainment and general practice attorney and an award-winning journalist with an office in Mamaroneck, New York. As a litigator, she has represented clients in local, state and federal courts and is admitted to the bar in New York and Connecticut and the U.S. Supreme Court. As a journalist, she has won multiple awards for her work at stations including WCBS-AM, WINS-AM and the NBC Radio Networks, where she was a news anchor, reporter and producer. She was also host of the celebrity interview show, “Face to Face with Lisa Fantino” on Cablevision.  Her blog is Lady Litigator.

David Koepsell is an author, philosopher, and attorney whose recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics and public policy. He is an Assistant Professor at the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Philosophy Section, and the author of Who Owns You?, which treats the patenting of genes and the implications for patent law and society.  He also blogs on his occasional musings on Gene Patents and IP law.

Chuck Connell is a software engineer and software consultant who writes on topics related to software engineering and computer science.  Chuck also teaches software engineering courses at Boston University, and has worked with programming, system configuration, and software engineering for 30 over years, and his clients have included Alcoa, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Mead Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Standard & Poor’s.  A selection of Chuck’s writings can be found online at BeautifulSoftware.com.

Robert Plotkin started programming computers when he was in fifth grade when his school received two brand new Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80s. His first lesson was learning how to write a two-line program that would display my name repeatedly on the screen. He was hooked. Now, about a quarter of a century later, he is a full-time patent lawyer and part-time law professor, and he still spends most of my time working with and thinking about computers.  He is the author of The Genie in the Machine: How Computer-Automated Invention Is Revolutionizing Law & Business, and he blogs at Automating Invention, writing about the impact of computer-automated inventing on the future of invention and patent law.