Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Austin E. Owen Research Scholar & Professor of Law, The University of Richmond School of Law
Dean Kristen Jakobsen Osenga teaches and writes in the areas of patent law, antitrust, and legislation and regulation. Some of her recent scholarship focuses on standard development organizations, patent eligible subject matter, patent licensing firms, litigation and remedies for patent infringement, and patent law reform. She has written numerous law review articles on these and other topics, as well as book chapters and op eds on various aspects of patent law. Additionally, she has spoken on these issues at many academic conferences and bar events. Dean Osenga is Chief Policy Counselor for the Inventors Defense Alliance, as well as an active member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Dean Osenga received a B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, and a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, where she graduated magna cum laude. After law school, she practiced at the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, & Dunner LLP, (now Finnegan) where she did patent prosecution and litigation. She then clerked for the Judge Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. After clerking, she entered academia, teaching first at Chicago-Kent College of Law and then at the University of Richmond, where she has been since 2006. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Emory University School of Law and at William & Mary School of Law.
Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Garrard Beeney is co-head of the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group and a member of the Firm’s Managing Partners Committee. Mr. Beeney has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is counsel in the two major patent cases to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016.
Mr. Beeney has litigated intellectual property and licensing cases throughout the country in both federal and state courts. Mr. Beeney also represents clients before U.S. and European competition law authorities, particularly in the area of the intersection between intellectual property and competition laws. In addition to trying patent and antitrust cases, Mr. Beeney has argued appellate cases in various courts, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit and the Second Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Arkansas. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in infringement actions, and advises plaintiffs on patent selection in pre-suit due diligence. Mr. Beeney also frequently advises on licensing issues and IP monetization, and has represented patent holders in the formation of licensing pools, including those related to the AVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD, LTE, ATSC, VC-9, IEEE 1394 and other technologies.
In addition to the “Litigator of the Week” award noted below, Mr. Beeney has been recognized as one of the “Top 10 Oral Advocates of the Year” in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, as an “Innovative U.S. Lawyer” by the Financial Times and in IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners (2014, 2015), which commented that Mr. Beeney is “one of the best in the business.” IAM added that peers comment, “When there is something you can’t do, you send it to him.” The 2014 edition of IAM added that Mr. Beeney is “one of the best trial lawyers on the planet”, and he “sounds the part, looks the part, is always prepared and persuasive, with especially brilliant opening and closing presentations.” He is a recipient of the Burton Award for legal scholarship, and has received the Adele Warnock and other awards for his community service.
Mr. Beeney also is regularly recognized as a leading lawyer in the intellectual property and antitrust fields, among others, by leading industry publications, including The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 United States and New York Super Lawyers.
Mr. Beeney has been a speaker at various professional associations, including the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Bar Association, the Licensing Executives Society and Law Seminars International. He has written and contributed chapters to several books, including Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts and On the Merits: Current Issues in Competition Law and Policy. Mr. Beeney has taught various trial advocacy courses, including serving as a member of the faculty at the National Trial Skills Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He is also a member of Law360’s 2013 Intellectual Property Editorial Advisory Board.
Mr. Beeney’s public service activities include having served for more than a decade as the deputy mayor of Irvington, New York. He is chairman of the board of Mercado Global, a not-for-profit working to improve the lives of impoverished artisans in Central America, and he regularly represents clients in pro bono litigation, including in a recent successful First Amendment trial and in a matter involving child adoption in Arkansas, the latter of which he successfully argued before the Supreme Court of Arkansas in March 2011.
Partner, Jenner & Block
Matthew S. Hellman is a litigator. He has been lead counsel in dozens of appellate matters, and has presented arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and in state appellate courts. In addition, he routinely presents arguments in the trial courts. Mr. Hellman’s cases involve a variety of issues such as commercial law, intellectual property and administrative law. He has argued important cases for corporations like Marriott, GE and General Dynamics.
In 2010, Law360 recognized Mr. Hellman as a “Rising Legal Star” in the practice of Appellate Law. In 2007, Jenner & Block recognized Mr. Hellman with the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Pro Bono Award, which annually recognizes attorneys in the Firm with a strong commitment to pro bono or public service work. He has argued or supervised more than a dozen pro bono cases in the courts of appeals, including two capital cases.
Mr. Hellman is member of the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice. He is also a member of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court, and an Associate Trustee for the Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. He serves as the Co-Chair of the DC Hiring and the Hiring Executive Committees and is also a member of the Associate Development and Evaluation Committee and the Finance Committee.
Co-Director, Center for Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship, University of Missouri School of Law
Professor Crouch is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. Prior to joining the MU Law Faculty, he was a patent attorney at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP in Chicago, Illinois, and taught at Boston University Law School. He has worked on cases involving various technologies including computer memory and hardware, circuit design, software, networking, mobile and internet telephony, automotive technologies, lens design, bearings, HVAC systems, and business methods. He is also the editor of the popular patent law weblog: Patently-O .
Professor Crouch received his BSE in mechanical engineering cum laude from Princeton University, where he also earned a certificate in engineering management systems. He then earned his JD cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School. While at the University of Chicago, he was a Microsoft, Merck, & Pfizer scholar and a member of the Olin program in law and economics.
Prior to attending law school, Professor Crouch worked as a technical consultant for manufacturing firms in New England, as a research fellow at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, as a software developer at the Mayo Clinic’s department of biomedical imaging, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, West Africa. Dennis Crouch grew up on a farm near Pittsburg, Kansas.
Partner, Jackson Walker
Arthur offers clients a winning combination of trial and appellate experience gained as a federal prosecutor and more than 20 years of experience in handling patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secrets litigation.
While his practice concentrates on intellectual property litigation, Arthur also has significant experience in internal investigations, False Claims Act suits, partnership and breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and employment litigation. Arthur also has represented clients testifying before Congressional committees.
Arthur writes and speaks frequently on topics ranging from the case against Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to patent litigation reform.
Prior to joining Michael Best, Arthur served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he was the lead prosecutor in criminal trials, including federal intellectual property crimes. He also argued numerous appeals.
Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Garrard Beeney is co-head of the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group and a member of the Firm’s Managing Partners Committee. Mr. Beeney has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is counsel in the two major patent cases to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016.
Mr. Beeney has litigated intellectual property and licensing cases throughout the country in both federal and state courts. Mr. Beeney also represents clients before U.S. and European competition law authorities, particularly in the area of the intersection between intellectual property and competition laws. In addition to trying patent and antitrust cases, Mr. Beeney has argued appellate cases in various courts, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit and the Second Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Arkansas. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in infringement actions, and advises plaintiffs on patent selection in pre-suit due diligence. Mr. Beeney also frequently advises on licensing issues and IP monetization, and has represented patent holders in the formation of licensing pools, including those related to the AVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD, LTE, ATSC, VC-9, IEEE 1394 and other technologies.
In addition to the “Litigator of the Week” award noted below, Mr. Beeney has been recognized as one of the “Top 10 Oral Advocates of the Year” in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, as an “Innovative U.S. Lawyer” by the Financial Times and in IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners (2014, 2015), which commented that Mr. Beeney is “one of the best in the business.” IAM added that peers comment, “When there is something you can’t do, you send it to him.” The 2014 edition of IAM added that Mr. Beeney is “one of the best trial lawyers on the planet”, and he “sounds the part, looks the part, is always prepared and persuasive, with especially brilliant opening and closing presentations.” He is a recipient of the Burton Award for legal scholarship, and has received the Adele Warnock and other awards for his community service.
Mr. Beeney also is regularly recognized as a leading lawyer in the intellectual property and antitrust fields, among others, by leading industry publications, including The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 United States and New York Super Lawyers.
Mr. Beeney has been a speaker at various professional associations, including the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Bar Association, the Licensing Executives Society and Law Seminars International. He has written and contributed chapters to several books, including Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts and On the Merits: Current Issues in Competition Law and Policy. Mr. Beeney has taught various trial advocacy courses, including serving as a member of the faculty at the National Trial Skills Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He is also a member of Law360’s 2013 Intellectual Property Editorial Advisory Board.
Mr. Beeney’s public service activities include having served for more than a decade as the deputy mayor of Irvington, New York. He is chairman of the board of Mercado Global, a not-for-profit working to improve the lives of impoverished artisans in Central America, and he regularly represents clients in pro bono litigation, including in a recent successful First Amendment trial and in a matter involving child adoption in Arkansas, the latter of which he successfully argued before the Supreme Court of Arkansas in March 2011.
Co-Director, Center for Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship, University of Missouri School of Law
Professor Crouch is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. Prior to joining the MU Law Faculty, he was a patent attorney at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP in Chicago, Illinois, and taught at Boston University Law School. He has worked on cases involving various technologies including computer memory and hardware, circuit design, software, networking, mobile and internet telephony, automotive technologies, lens design, bearings, HVAC systems, and business methods. He is also the editor of the popular patent law weblog: Patently-O .
Professor Crouch received his BSE in mechanical engineering cum laude from Princeton University, where he also earned a certificate in engineering management systems. He then earned his JD cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School. While at the University of Chicago, he was a Microsoft, Merck, & Pfizer scholar and a member of the Olin program in law and economics.
Prior to attending law school, Professor Crouch worked as a technical consultant for manufacturing firms in New England, as a research fellow at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, as a software developer at the Mayo Clinic’s department of biomedical imaging, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, West Africa. Dennis Crouch grew up on a farm near Pittsburg, Kansas.
Partner, Jenner & Block
Matthew S. Hellman is a litigator. He has been lead counsel in dozens of appellate matters, and has presented arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and in state appellate courts. In addition, he routinely presents arguments in the trial courts. Mr. Hellman’s cases involve a variety of issues such as commercial law, intellectual property and administrative law. He has argued important cases for corporations like Marriott, GE and General Dynamics.
In 2010, Law360 recognized Mr. Hellman as a “Rising Legal Star” in the practice of Appellate Law. In 2007, Jenner & Block recognized Mr. Hellman with the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Pro Bono Award, which annually recognizes attorneys in the Firm with a strong commitment to pro bono or public service work. He has argued or supervised more than a dozen pro bono cases in the courts of appeals, including two capital cases.
Mr. Hellman is member of the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice. He is also a member of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court, and an Associate Trustee for the Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. He serves as the Co-Chair of the DC Hiring and the Hiring Executive Committees and is also a member of the Associate Development and Evaluation Committee and the Finance Committee.
Co-Director, Center for Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship, University of Missouri School of Law
Professor Crouch is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. Prior to joining the MU Law Faculty, he was a patent attorney at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP in Chicago, Illinois, and taught at Boston University Law School. He has worked on cases involving various technologies including computer memory and hardware, circuit design, software, networking, mobile and internet telephony, automotive technologies, lens design, bearings, HVAC systems, and business methods. He is also the editor of the popular patent law weblog: Patently-O .
Professor Crouch received his BSE in mechanical engineering cum laude from Princeton University, where he also earned a certificate in engineering management systems. He then earned his JD cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School. While at the University of Chicago, he was a Microsoft, Merck, & Pfizer scholar and a member of the Olin program in law and economics.
Prior to attending law school, Professor Crouch worked as a technical consultant for manufacturing firms in New England, as a research fellow at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, as a software developer at the Mayo Clinic’s department of biomedical imaging, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, West Africa. Dennis Crouch grew up on a farm near Pittsburg, Kansas.
U.S. Court of Federal Claims and Jurist-In-Residence Professor of Law, The University of Akron School of Law
Judge Ryan T. Holte was sworn in as a judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims in July 2019. Prior to confirmation he served as the David L. Brennan Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Technology at The University of Akron School of Law (2017-2019) and an assistant professor of law at Southern Illinois University School of Law (2013-2017). Judge Holte has written and presented widely on patent law subjects and empirical legal studies of Federal Circuit and district court patent law cases. His most recent articles were published in the Iowa Law Review (2019), George Mason Law Review (2018), and Washington Law Review (2017).
In practice, Judge Holte served for six years as general counsel and partner of an electrical engineering technology company and is co-inventor of multiple patents related to Systems and Methods for Countering Satellite-Navigated Munitions. Prior to entering academia, Judge Holte practiced as a litigation attorney at the Federal Trade Commission and an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Jones Day. Prior to practice, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stanley F. Birch, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and as a law clerk to Judge Loren A. Smith on the United States Court of Federal Claims.
Judge Holte received his JD from the University of California Davis School of Law and his BS, magna cum laude, in engineering from the California Maritime Academy where he was a First Class graduate of the Corps of Cadets Third Engineering Division and sailed as a U.S. Merchant Marine oiler.
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