Kathy Tsai is Senior Corporate Counsel, IP at Sony Interactive Entertainment, where she helps shape and safeguard the PlayStation family of brands with respect to trademark, copyright, and related IP topics. Her practice spans trademark clearance, prosecution, portfolio strategy, disputes, as well as copyright strategy and emerging issues involving copyright and AI.

Before Sony, Kathy spent nine years at GoPro advising on IP, marketing, enforcement, and brand protection issues, and earlier was a trademark associate at Fish & Richardson. She brings a deeply practical, in-house perspective shaped by years of working shoulder-to-shoulder with creative, product, and business teams.

Outside of work, Kathy enjoys traveling with her husband and three kids, and hunting down great restaurants and coffee – always happy to receive any under-the-radar food and drink recommendations.  Currently playing on PS5 (depending on available sleep): Unpacking and Hogwarts Legacy.

Stephen Kong is the director of the Transactional Lawyering Institute at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles where he is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Law.  He teaches in the areas of technology start up law and intellectual property licensing and oversees the law school’s M&A negotiation competition class.   He will be joining as co-author of the upcoming fifth edition of the widely used law school casebook  “BUSINESS PLANNING Financing the Start-Up Business and Venture Capital Financing.”  Despite the title of the casebook, the fifth edition will feature an updated chapter on intellectual property and related contracting. 

Prior to joining Loyola’s faculty, he was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Winston and Strawn and practiced in the firm’s corporate group.  His practice specialty was intellectual property transactions and licensing.  He is also a former lawyer for Sony PlayStation where he worked on their early content streaming deals.  He was also formerly a partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew (now Kilpatrick Townsend) as well as Stradling Yocca and Troutman Pepper.   He is a graduate of UC San Diego and Emory Law School. 

Emily Burns is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and a Visiting Professor at the UC Law San Francisco. She has taught IP and skills-based courses for over 15 years. 

A true trademark geek at heart, Emily has practiced trademark law for over 20 years, most recently as Senior Trademark Counsel for YouTube, where her practice included clearance and prosecution of trademarks domestically and internationally, offensive and defensive trademark disputes in a wide array of tribunals, instituting anti-counterfeit protections with customs authorities worldwide, and overseeing numerous high profile global rebranding projects. Emily also has strong intermediary liability expertise, applying concepts such as parody, commentary and criticism, and First Amendment protection of artistic works in advising on content moderation and content clearance issues.

Prior to joining YouTube, Emily was a member of the Litigation and Trademark practice groups at Cooley LLP.

She received her law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she served as Lead Articles Editor of the San Diego Law Review, and interned for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She one day aspires to be a Jungle Cruise Skipper.

Shruti Bhutani Arora takes a holistic approach in advising clients on data collection, use and monetization, as she does not hold to the traditional barriers and siloed approach.

Shruti counsels clients on the applicable privacy laws and helps with the drafting and negotiating of complex technology contracts. Her advisory work for clients includes implementation of programs, policies and procedures for the purposes of complying with state and federal laws such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (the CCPA as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act), the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, the Colorado Privacy Act, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, the New York Cybersecurity Regulations, and the New York City’s Local Law 144 of 2021 that prohibits employers and employment agencies from using an automated employment decision tool (AEDT).

Jeewon Kim Serrato is a recognized authority in consumer protection, emerging technologies, and global data strategy. She brings more than two decades of experience at the intersection of business, law, and policy—advising the U.S. government and Fortune‑scale enterprises on mission‑critical programs, privacy‑by‑design, and the deployment of transformative technologies.

As a former chief privacy executive for two global corporations—including a world‑leading provider of information‑based analytics and decision tools and a major financial institution—Jeewon has led enterprise data strategy programs, managed over 600 security incidents, and guided brand and asset management for a publicly traded firm with $3.5 trillion in assets. Her work spans advising global technology platforms, driving value‑enhancing digital initiatives through mobile, web, and AR/VR apps, and leveraging AI‑powered solutions to unlock growth and innovation.

Jeewon partners with businesses at every stage—helping startups launch, scaling established companies, and enabling large enterprises to expand through data‑driven strategies. She is recognized by Legal 500 (Recommended Lawyer, Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law), Cybersecurity Docket’s “Incident Response 30,” and the National Law Journal as a Cybersecurity Trailblazer. Her leadership includes service on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, founding and chairing the California Lawyers Association Privacy Law Section, authoring leading privacy publications, and lecturing at Maastricht University’s European Centre on Privacy & Cybersecurity. In 2022, she was appointed by the California Board of Legal Specialization to chair the consulting group to establish the state’s first legal specialization in privacy, cybersecurity, and AI.  Jeewon runs the UC Berkeley School of Law Chief Privacy Officer program as the Senior Fellow with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

Professor Tyler Ochoa is a recognized expert in copyright law and rights of publicity. He joined the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty in 2003, and he served as Academic Director of the High Technology Law Institute for the 2005-2006 academic year. Prior to joining Santa Clara Law, Professor Ochoa served as a professor and co-director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at Whittier Law School. He has also served as a clerk for the Honorable Cecil F. Poole of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and as an associate with the law firm of Brown & Bain in Palo Alto, California, where he specialized in copyright and trade secret litigation involving computer software. He is also a two-time “Jeopardy!” champion and a champion on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”.

Jonathan Segal is an attorney with a passion for digital and traditional media, who has worked on award-winning productions in film, television, and the interactive space. His practice naturally focuses on intellectual property, communications, First Amendment, and other issues that affect the companies and technologies that make what we watch, amuse and delight us, and inform all of our worldviews. Jonathan fights for content creators if things go awry, defending against the full array of claims that arise from content production and distribution.

Accordingly, clients retain him to focus on high-risk content including docudramas (“Spotlight,” “The Looming Tower”); docuseries (“Surviving R. Kelly,” “Who Killed Tupac?”); documentaries (“13th,” “Quincy”), and comedy/variety programs with heavy emphases on fair use (“@Midnight;” “The Joel McHale Show”).

Jonathan believes in your work. He helps content creators get their creative vision onto the screen, while minimizing legal risk. He’s provided counseling for feature films and for programming produced or distributed by HBO, Legendary Television, Netflix, Seeso, Funny or Die, CNBC, E!, USA Networks, AETN, ABC, Comedy Central, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Participant Media, MTV, VH1, Adult Swim, IFC, TruTV, Showtime Networks, PBS, Discovery Communications, SuperDeluxe, Crackle, and YouTube, with an emphasis on programming with intensive social-media engagement, documentaries, and content that is based on true events. He also advises print publications, including US Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter.

Erik Puknys, managing partner of Finnegan’s Palo Alto office, has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in district courts around the United States, in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Sixth Circuit, the Seventh Circuit, and in the U.S. Supreme Court. He has worked with startups and Fortune 100 companies in a wide variety of technical fields, including in software, telecommunications, computer hardware, semiconductors, medical diagnostics, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. As an IP litigator, Erik has extensive experience working on cases involving standard essential patents (SEPs) and understands the complexities that can involve multiple jurisdictions and special licensing rules, among other distinct aspects of issues that arise in these cases, whether enforcing against infringers or defending against assertions.

Taraneh Maghamé is an IP business leader and legal advisor with government relations and policy expertise.  In her 30+ years of practice, she has been senior counsel at major technology companies including Apple and HP, managed multi-party licensing programs at Via Licensing, and handled litigation and licensing matters at global firms including Brobeck and Perkins Coie.  In 2018, Ms. Maghamé was appointed to the European Commission’s Expert Group on Licensing and Valuation of Standard Essential Patents and continues to work on IP policy matters. She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the FTC and has been included in the IAM 300 World’s Leading IP Strategists for multiple years. 

Ms. Maghamé established her firm in 2022 to provide clients with strategic IP legal and advisory services.  She is admitted to practice in California and Washington State and before various Federal courts in the US and is a registered patent practitioner with the USPTO.

Jacqueline Charlesworth, a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, is a litigator and transactional attorney whose practice is focused on copyright and music.  Her roster of clients includes media entities, music companies, individual songwriters and artists, software companies and trade associations. 

Previously, Jacqueline served as General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights of the U.S. Copyright Office, where she was responsible for interpreting the U.S. Copyright Act and oversaw a wide range of litigation and policy matters, including the Office’s participation in Supreme Court cases.  After returning to private practice, Jacqueline helped craft and secure passage of the Music Modernization Act, landmark legislation to update U.S. music licensing rules. She has lectured extensively on copyright and music law, including at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and other law schools, and serves as a trustee and officer of the Los Angeles Copyright Society.

Jacqueline received a B.A. with honors in American Civilization from Brown University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.  At Yale, she oversaw The Yale Law Journal as an Executive Committee Editor and was a founding member of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism.  Following law school, she clerked for Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the Southern District of New York and Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit.

Rebecca Tushnet is the inaugural Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School.  She clerked for Associate Justice David H. Souter and previously taught at NYU and Georgetown.  Her work focuses on copyright, trademark, and advertising law.  With Eric Goldman, she publishes a casebook on advertising and marketing law, and joined Jane Ginsburg, Jessica Litman, and Mary Kevlin’s trademark casebook.   She helped found the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting fanworks.  Her blog, tushnet.blogspot.com, is one of the top intellectual property blogs, and her writings may be found at tushnet.com.  She is also an expert on the law of engagement rings.

Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and is affiliated faculty in the Symbolic Systems program.  He teaches intellectual property, patent law, trademark law, antitrust, the law of robotics and AI, video game law, and remedies. He is the author of 11 books and 223 articles, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust. His works have been cited more than 350 times by courts, including 19 times by the United States Supreme Court, and more than 50,000 times in books and academic articles, making him the most-cited scholar in the world in IP law and one of the ten most cited legal scholars of all time. He has published 9 of the 100 most-cited law review articles of the last twenty years, more than any other scholar, and was the third most cited legal scholar in the world from 2016-2020. His articles have appeared in 24 of the top 25 law reviews and in top journals in other fields, including Nature Biotechnology, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Machine Learning Research, and the Harvard Business Review. They have been reprinted throughout the world and translated into Chinese, Danish, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish. He has taught IP law to judges at numerous Federal Judicial Center and ABA programs, has testified eight times before Congress, and has filed more than 75 amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts.

Mark is a partner at the law firm Lex Lumina. He litigates and counsels clients in all areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and internet law. He has argued 32 federal appellate cases, including before the en banc Federal Circuit, and numerous district court cases as well as before the California Supreme Court. He has participated in more than three dozen cases in the United States Supreme Court as counsel or amici.  His client base is diverse and has included Genentech, Dykes on Bikes, generative AI companies, video game companies, artists, computer scientists, and nearly every significant Internet company. 

Mark cofounded Lex Machina, Inc., a startup company that provides litigation data and analytics to law firms, companies, courts, and policymakers.  Lex Machina was acquired by Lexis in December 2015.

Mark has been named California Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year twice.  He received the California State Bar’s inaugural IP Vanguard Award.  He won the 2024 Mark Banner Award from the American Bar Association and the 2018 World Technology Award for Law. In 2017 he received the P.J. Federico Award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society. Back when he was young, he was named a Young Global Leader by the Davos World Economic Forum and Berkeley Law School’s Young Alumnus of the Year. He has been recognized as one of the top 50 litigators in the country under 45 and one of the 25 most influential people in IP by American Lawyer, one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the nation by the National Law Journal, and one of the 10 most admired attorneys in IP by IP360. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Law Institute, and the IP Hall of Fame.

Mark clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and has practiced law with Brown & Bain, Fish & Richardson, Keker & Van Nest, and Durie Tangri. He has previously taught at Berkeley Law School and the University of Texas School of Law.  In his spare time, Mark enjoys cooking, travel, yoga, and video games (at this writing, Outer Worlds 2).

Magistrate Judge Peter H. Kang joined the United States District Court for the Northern District of California bench in May 2023, following a career of over thirty-two years litigating in courts and tribunals nationwide.  Judge Kang serves the Court on the Patent Instructions and Rules Committee and on the Court’s Security Committee.  He also serves on the Federal Magistrate Judges Association’s International Committee and on the Civics and Educational Outreach Committee. 

While in private practice, Judge Kang was an IP Litigation Partner at AmLaw 100 firms, and he started his career at an IP boutique in San Jose.  Judge Kang served as trial counsel in numerous bench and jury trials in various federal district courts (including the N.D. Cal., E.D. Tex., and E.D. Va.), state court, and the ITC.  Among other recognitions, he received the 2024 Trailblazer Award from the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California, and while in private practice he was ranked by Chambers (Band 1 and Band 2) in Intellectual Property, Who’s Who Legal, and the Legal500.  The Daily Journal editorial for the “Top IP Lawyers” noted that “Kang has mastered the art of high tech and patent law” (2022).

Judge Kang received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering and his B.A. in Classics from Stanford University.  He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. cum laude.  Immediately after law school, he served as Law Clerk for the Hon. Ernest C. Torres of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.  He is a member of the California bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. 

Elizabeth is a principal and co-founder of Crown^®, LLP, a boutique intellectual property law firm in San Francisco. Crown, LLP is proud to have been ranked in the inaugural Chambers Spotlight Guide 2025 for California, highlighting standout small and mid-sized firms across the state.

Elizabeth’s clients range from individual artists to large corporations, and they come from myriad industries, from fashion to film, music to marketing, beer to Broadway. She provides experienced counsel in domestic and international trademark selection, clearance, prosecution, and enforcement, including handling trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and representation in proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy panels. She also handles transactions involving intellectual property and business matters, including copyright, entertainment, rights of publicity, and all aspects of the creation, protection, licensing, and distribution of intellectual property. She was named one of the top 100 Intellectual Property Lawyers for 2025 by the Daily Journal, California’s largest legal newspaper. The annual ranking recognizes top-performing intellectual property attorneys in California working in trademark, copyright, and patent. She has also been on the Northern California Super Lawyers list in the field of intellectual property continuously since 2013, a designation awarded to the top 5% of attorneys in California.

Des advises clients on intellectual property matters, including trademarks and brand protection strategies, with experience in managing complex filings and enforcement actions across jurisdictions.  He also advises on privacy law, e-commerce and commercial contracts in the innovation and tech sectors.  Known for practical, business-focused solutions, Des regularly collaborates on cross-border IP issues and supports clients across sectors with focus on universities, SaaS and cloud, EdTech, MedTech, fashion and apparel. 

Michelle Greer Galloway’s technology litigation practice focuses on patent litigation and strategic counseling. She also advises clients on legal, strategic and technical issues of information management, including electronically stored information and compliance.  She is a contributing editor of The Sedona Conference Primer on Social Media (1st and 2nd editions).

She also advises clients in the area of risk management, compliance, and ethics. She is the past Chair of the ABA Intellectual Property Section, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee and Chaired an ABA Task Force regarding USPTO proposed disciplinary rule changes. In 2013, Michelle was awarded the ABA IPL Recognition of Outstanding Leadership Contribution.

Michelle currently serves on the Litigation Executive Committee for the California Lawyers Association and she serves on CLA’s Racial Justice Committee.

She has a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell and has taken courses related to neuroscience and leadership.

Michelle is a lecturer teaching courses in patent litigation and leadership and management skills at Stanford Law School and a lecturer at Santa Clara Law School teaching courses in patent litigation, pre-trial litigation techniques, and law practice management. She is an active volunteer at Stanford Law School, including serving as past Chair of the Law Fund and a member of the Stanford Associates. Michelle is a 2012 recipient of the Stanford Associates Governors’ Award to honor exemplary volunteer service to the University and the 2020 recipient of the Stanford Medal for decades of volunteer service.

She speaks on a range of topics to both lawyer and non-lawyer audiences has lectured on a wide range of both legal and leadership topics such as attorney ethics, IP ethics, confidentiality and privilege, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) topics, elimination of bias (including differences related to gender, race, age, culture, and neurodiversity), health and wellness topics including mindfulness, ediscovery, patent litigation, and communication and influence strategies.  Michelle has been a speaker at conferences and meetings of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, IPO, Advanced Patent Law Institute, Silicon Valley IP Law Association, San Francisco IP Law Association, Silicon Valley General Counsel Association’s Annual Meeting, Georgetown Advanced eDiscovery Institute, Santa Clara County Bar Association, Santa Cruz County Bar Association, California Women Lawyers, Athena San Diego, SunLaw, 100 Women in Finance, and Boston WEST.  

Michelle joined Cooley in August 1993 and was a partner of the firm from January 1997 through April 2000. She now serves as of counsel at Cooley while also teaching at Stanford and Santa Clara law schools. Prior to joining Cooley, Michelle was a litigation associate in the Palo Alto office of Brown & Bain, where she focused on patent and copyright litigation. During 1995, she served as an assistant district attorney for the County of San Francisco.

Michelle received a JD in 1989 from Stanford Law School, where she was the topics development editor of the Stanford Law Review. She received a bachelor’s degree, with distinction, from Stanford University in 1986 where she majored in both economics and political science. She is a past-president and long-time board member of Cap & Gown, Stanford’s women’s honor society and is an active volunteer.

She is admitted to practice in the US District Courts, Northern, Central and Southern Districts in California and in the Courts of Appeals, Federal Circuit and the Ninth Circuit.