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2013 HNBA Annual ConventionDenver, Colorado

September 5, 2013

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Chad Nitta

Partner, Kutak Rock LLP

•Practice focuses on complex business litigation with an emphasis on intellectual property disputes

• Regularly serves as first-chair in patent, copyright and trademark infringement lawsuits as well as breach of license and trade secret misappropriation disputes

• Counsels clients on IP issues in diverse industries such as software, semiconductor, alternative energy, consulting, Internet security and Internet Web site filtering

• Juris Doctor degree cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law

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Manuel Calderon

Intellectual Property Attorney at General Motors

•IP litigation: Five years as in-house counsel and five years as outside counsel

• Patent prosecution: One year as outside counsel• IP transactional matters• B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas – El

Paso, M.S. in Visualization Sciences and Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law Schol

Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at Microsoft Corporation

• Heavily involved in developing and communicating Microsoft positions on IP issues globally

• Prior to joining Microsoft in 2007, served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where he was responsible for intellectual property and antitrust matters 

• Clerked for Judge Will Garwood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Sharon Prost of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 

• Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law

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David W. Jones

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David Rios

Senior Counsel and advisor to the Chief Technology Officer for GE Healthcare’s software organization. GEHC is an $18B, 46,000 employee operating unit of the General Electric Company

•Domain expertise in all intellectual property aspects of software development and commercialization

•Prior, he was counsel at Microsoft where he advised consumer and enterprise software, services and hardware businesses

•B.S. in Professional Aeronautics summa cum laude from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Juris Doctor degree cum laude from Temple University

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Christine Searls

Associate General Counsel at CenturyLink heading the legal department’s intellectual property practice group

• Manages, enforces and defends the company's intellectual property; Advises a wide variety of intellectual property matters; Manages the company's patent portfolio and patent related litigation

• Before taking over the group, responsible for supporting the company's brand and marketing functions

• Juris Doctor degree from the University of Colorado School of Law