SPEAKERS

David Bailey, Founding Partner, KPPB LLP

David’s practice specializes in developing and enforcing IP portfolios on behalf of cutting edge technology companies and leading research universities including Caltech, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford, and UCLA.

David has extensive experience in guiding KPPB’s clients through diligence processes associated with fundraising, acquisition and successful IPO. Among David’s current “portfolio” of clients are companies in the portfolios of Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, the Facebook Fund, Globespan Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Granite Venture Partners, InnoCal Venture Capital, Intel Capital, InterWest Partners, In-Q-Tel, Oak Investment Partners, Momentum Venture Management, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Red Rock Ventures, Rincon Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank.

David’s practice also involves deep engagement with the copyright system, and he has a specific expertise in the enforcement and registration of software, machine learning data sets and databases, and in negotiating industry standards-based licenses. David also represents the Los Angeles Philharmonic on a pro bono basis with respect to intellectual property matters.

He has taught a wide range of courses at Mizzou Law, including patent law and advanced patent law (experiential), copyright, internet law (writing intensive), licensing, law of the internet (popular undergraduate course), civil procedure I and II, property I and II, and professional responsibility.  His patent classes are known for including substantial experiential components, including an internal moot court competition and substantial patent drafting practice.  He has received several teaching awards.

Prior to joining the Mizzou Law Faculty, Crouch was a patent attorney in Chicago, Illinois, and taught at Boston University Law School.  He received a 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 on a number of interesting engineering projects that included time 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.

Jessica Hudak, Vice President and Corporate Counsel, Edwards Lifesciences

Jessica Hudak is currently Vice President, Corporate Counsel at Edwards Lifesciences where she serves as Team General Counsel for its Advanced Technology Business Unit and Technology Centers of Excellence. Jessica sits on the Advanced Technology Leadership Team, the enterprise-wide R&D Leadership Team, and the Global Law Department Leadership Team.

Jessica previously worked for Gibson Dunn as a member of the Appellate and Constitutional Law group where she represented clients in the Supreme Court, Circuit Courts of Appeals, and district courts. Jessica was part of the team representing Smith & Nephew in U.S. v. Arthrex before the Supreme Court.

Prior to Gibson Dunn, Jessica was a law clerk to then-Chief Judge Sharon Prost of the Federal Circuit and has been a lecturer at Stanford for over 17 years. Jessica earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School, M.S. in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan.

Patrick Maloney, Partner, Cork Maloney LLP, Moderator

Patrick Maloney represents clients in a range of intellectual property disputes and has significant experience representing patent owners in patent post-grant proceedings, including inter partes reviews (IPRs), covered business method reviews, and ex parte reexaminations.

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