Stefania Bergia
Enrico Bonadio
Enrico Bonadio is Reader in Law at City, University of London. He teaches, researches, and advises in the field of intellectual property (IP) law. His research agenda is wide-ranging, having recently focused on international trade aspects of IP, the intersection between IP and technology and IP protection of non-conventional forms of creativity, amongst other areas. Enrico has attracted funding from a variety of bodies, including the European Commission, UK Research and Innovation, UK Economic and Social Research Council, and the UK Higher Education Innovation Funding. He is also Deputy Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Risk Regulation.Enrico has been delivering classes and talks in more than 130 universities and research institutions in six continents and his research has been covered by several media outfits including CNN, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters, South China Morning Post, BBC, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent and Associated Press.
Sven Bostyn
Christopher Cruz
Atty. Christopher E Cruz, Ph.D., is the University Legal Counsel, Director of the DLSU Intellectual Property Office, and Manager of the Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO) of De La Salle University (DLSU). He is a Full Professor of the Department of Commercial Law, RVR- College of Business, and Department of Philosophy, where he has been teaching and mentoring research projects for the last 32 years. He has been invited as a resource speaker in numerous seminars and conferences on Intellectual Property and technology transfer in the Philippines and abroad. He has attended intellectual property and technology transfer training organized by IPOPHIL, WIPO, and other international organizations.
Atty. Cruz obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from DLSU and his Bachelor of Laws degree from San Beda University, Manila. He also earned his Master in Philosophical Research degree and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from DLSU. He is Co-Editor in Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Intellectual Property Management and Innovation – a first of its kind in the Philippines. He has been a registered patent agent of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines since 2011 and a member of the Advisory Council for Intellectual Property (ACIP), which is a council that advises the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines. He is also part of the Department of Science and Technology technical panel, which evaluates government grant projects on intellectual property and technology transfer. He is currently the President of ATOP (Alliance of Techtransfer Professionals of the Philippines, a non-stock, non-profit professional organization promoting technology transfer as a career in the Philippines. He is one of the first trainers in 2023 of the PatentX program organized by WIPO and Harvard University.
Koray Güven
Koray Güven currently serves as a Researcher at the Faculty of Law at Ankara University, where he also coordinates the WIPO Joint LLM in Intellectual Property, which is jointly run by Ankara University, WIPO, and the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office. Güven holds degrees from Bilkent University (BA in Law), Ankara University (LLM and PhD in Private Law) and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (LLM in IP and Competition Law). He was a recipient of the Jean Monnet Scholarship, which is implemented by the European Commission, and has been acting as an assessor for this scholarship program. Güven’s academic research and teaching activities center on comparative law and various aspects of intellectual property law. He is the author of articles published in leading national and international journals.
May M. Hassan
Pablo Alejandro Iannello
Pablo received his degree in Law from Universidad de Buenos Aires and he got a Master Degree in Law and Economics from UTDT. He is an IP professor at the IP and Innovation Joint Master Program offered by UdeSA – WIPO, in Argentina. He also practices as an of counsel attorney on IP matters for Moeller IP Law. He was a UNIDROIT Research Fellow in 2013. Since 2014, he has been adjunct at the University of Dayton School of Law where he teaches for the JD as well as the LLM program. Since 2023 is the director of program in Law and technology at UDSL. His teaching areas include Patent law, IP and Antitrust, International IP, IP contracts cyber law, IP Law and Economics and IP commercialization. He has published different articles on the IP field. E-mails: piannello1@udayton.edu; iannellopablo@gmail.com
Dariusz Kasprzycki
A research scholar at the Department of Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Specializing in industrial property law, combating unfair competition law, and the management of intellectual property in the university environment. His recent academic interests revolve around the relationship between intellectual property rights and combating unfair competition, as well as the protection of biotechnological inventions. Over the past 15 years, he has been a frequent participant and coordinator of national and international projects in the field of intellectual property management in higher education, including the China Intellectual Property Management Network (CIPnet) 2017-2020. Currently serving as the director of the English-language master’s program in Intellectual Property and New Technologies, conducted in collaboration with WIPO and the Polish Patent Office
Bryan Khan
Milton Lucídio Leão Barcellos
Milton Lucídio is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Antonio Meneghetti Law School. Invited University Professor in Post-Graduation Law Programs in several Brazilian Universities and Institutions in the field of Intellectual Property, Competition Law and innovation. Lawyer, Patent Attorney and Partner at Leão Intellectual Property Firm. Doctor of Law (PhD) from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) with a CAPES scholarship and a period as Visiting Professor at the Boston University Law School (2009) with a thesis in the field of Patents and Competition Law with unanimous approval Summa Cum Laude (2010). Master’s Degree in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) with a CAPES scholarship and dissertation in the field of industrial property and constitutional hermeneutics (2006). Specialist in International and Integration Law from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) with a monography about the international patent system (2002). Milton Lucídio is also an IP researcher and IP forensic expert of the State Court of Rio Grande do Sul. Author of several books, chapters in books and papers in the Intellectual Property field. Ex-President of the Special Commission of Intellectual Property of the Brazilian Bar Association – State of Rio Grande do Sul (1999-2006) and Ex-President of the Brazilian Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys – South Region – ABAPISUL – (2005-2007). Married with Camila and father of two amazing children (Isis and Antônio).
Henny Marlyna
Pierrette Essama Mekongo
Bryan Mercurio
Selin Özden Merhaci
Eltony Mugomeri
Christopher Munguma
Christopher Munguma is a senior law lecturer at Africa University, Zimbabwe where he has been teaching since 2011. Christopher was admitted to practise law in Zimbabwe in the year 2000. Christopher holds an LLB degree from the University of Zimbabwe, a post graduate diploma in higher education and a Master in Intellectual Property degree (MIP) from Africa University. Currently, Christopher is a Doctor of Philosophy candidate in Intellectual Property at Africa University. Christopher has practised and taught Intellectual Property since 2014. His research interests are in the fields of geographical indications, enforcement of intellectual property, trademarks, constitutional law and Human rights.
Lonias Ndlovu
Samiksha Ramesh
Samiksha Ramesh received her undergraduate and master’s degrees (B.S. and M.S.E., both in Biomedical Engineering) from Johns Hopkins University and is currently a third-year J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. Samiksha currently supports intellectual property litigation and strategic transactions in private practice; in this capacity, she works with patents that span a large range of technical areas, including digital health, medical devices, semiconductor, software, and telecommunications. Prior to law school, she worked closely with patents at Johns Hopkins University’s technology transfer office.
Elizabeth Rothman
Maria de Lourdes Vazquez
Maria de Lourdes Vazquez holds a law degree from Universidad Católica Argentina and an LLM from Harvard Law School. She completed her doctoral studies at the European University Institute in Italy. After serving as in-house counsel to Virgin Records (London) and EMI Records (New York), Maria was a partner at the law firm Marval O’Farrell & Mairal in Buenos Aires. She was the recipient of the “Fortabat Visiting Scholarship” in David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, where her research focus was on Latin American IP and Internet Policy. Maria currently serves as Dean of the Law School at Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires, where she teaches Intellectual Property and directs the WIPO Joint Master Program in Intellectual Property and Innovation. She has lectured at the WIPO – WTO Colloquium for Intellectual Property Teachers in Geneva, and is on the editorial board of the WIPO – WTO Colloquium Papers.