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Geoffrey is a partner in the national firm of Borden Ladner Gervais in Canada. He is a Registered Patent Agent in both Canada and the United States. Geoff works with a range of clients in the materials and metallurgical, mechanical and electrical fields. He has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the electronic packaging, telecommunications, consumer products, heat exchange technologies, and material processing and metallurgical fields. Geoff has acted as a tutor on the Patent Drafting Course since 2004 and has been Course leader since 2011.

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Dennis has been practicing patent and trademark law for over 50 years and is the founder of Dennis IP Law Group LLC in Chicago, Illinois. He is involved in the procurement of domestic and international patents in diverse areas including food technology, pharmaceuticals, biological sciences, chemical processing, packaging, and medical products. He has litigated patent, trademark, copyright and unfair competition matters before various federal and state courts. He has also presented arguments before state appellant courts and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is a frequent lecturer on patent and licensing matters, and served as an adjunct professor, for 12 years, at the University of Illinois-Chicago school of law. Dennis has received an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating (Highest Rating) from Martindale-Hubbell since 1986. Dennis has been a tutor on the Patent Drafting Course since 2005.

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Scott is senior counsel for an oil & gas producer in the Middle East and handles development and management of IP assets globally. He also handles IP licensing, IP aspects of joint venture and international project development and various corporate and commercial agreements. Prior to his in-house role, Scott worked in patent preparation, prosecution, and litigation for a top international law firm. Scott has also operated a small patent law firm focused entirely on client counseling and intellectual property law. His technical background is in electrical and computer engineering. Scott has worked with software and artificial intelligence, process systems and controls, mechanical devices, and semiconductor device manufacturing.

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Karl Rackette is a patent and trademark attorney and the senior partner of the RACKETTE Patentanwalte PartG mbB in Freiburg, Germany. He is also a professional representative before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, WIPO as well as EUIPO (formerly the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)). Karl has travelled to five continents, where he has presented workshops on various aspects of patent and trademark law in more than 30 different countries. Since 1992 he has been a tutor at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) in Strasbourg, France. Karl has been a tutor for all of the Patent Drafting Courses.

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Simon is a European Patent Attorney and Chartered Patent Attorney (UK). Formerly Director of Patents at British Telecommunications (BT) in London, Simon is now a freelance consultant who divides his time between Thailand and the UK. Despite having a background in materials science, he has worked extensively on most telecommunications technologies and now works extensively on computer-related and software-based inventions. Simon was for over 30 years a tutor for CEIPI in Strasbourg and London, and he has been a tutor for all of the Patent Drafting Courses.

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Martin Brassell is a specialist in the commercial use of intellectual property; how it can be used to generate business value through incorporation in products and services, and through other monetisation techniques such as licensing, collaboration and fundraising. Martin draws on more than 30 years of experience, as a senior manager with responsibility for intellectual assets in small, medium and large enterprises; as an adviser to high growth businesses; and as co-founder and CEO of the UK company Inngot Limited (www.inngot.com). The Inngot team have helped thousands of businesses to make better use of their IP and intangibles, by offering consulting services, training and education and online tools. Martin first worked with IPOS on strategy and IP financing projects in 2014, and since then has led the team responsible for producing many of the business guides, videos and training materials available from IPOS International.

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Kylie Peh is a Partner in WongPartnership’s Intellectual Property, Technology & Data Practice. Her main practice areas encompass both contentious and non-contentious IP, IP portfolio management, technology, media and telecommunications work (TMT), as well as privacy and data protection. In the area of IP, Kylie has been involved in transactional, enforcement and advisory work including franchising and IP due diligence, IP asset acquisitions, divestments and other arrangements in the context of corporate mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising brand and rights holders on the creation, protection, enforcement and exploitation of their IP rights and assets. She has been recognised as a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500: Asia Pacific - The Client's Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession since 2016 for the areas of IP and TMT. Kylie was also recognised as an ‘Up and coming Lawyer’ in Technology, Media and Telecommunications by Chambers Asia Pacific 2023.

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Thitapha has over 20 years’ professional experience, along with 76 policy papers and articles in major regional newspapers and technical journals. While at the ASEAN Secretariat during 2001/13, she designed, convened and/or took part in about 330 inter-governmental and expert group meetings, plus training programs for some 8,500 government officers and business person. These comprised both executive and working level professionals with a mandated focus on SMEs and entrepreneurship development, intellectual property rights, competition and consumer protection policies, trade negotiations and dispute settlement, women’s economic empowerment, and regional economic integration. She joined the World Intellectual Property Organization in June 2022 as Director of the WIPO Singapore Office, which is dedicated to serving ASEAN Member States in fostering the use and leverage of IP for the benefit of everyone, everywhere.

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Martin Brassell is a specialist in the commercial use of intellectual property; how it can be used to generate business value through incorporation in products and services, and through other monetisation techniques such as licensing, collaboration and fundraising. Martin draws on more than 30 years of experience, as a senior manager with responsibility for intellectual assets in small, medium and large enterprises; as an adviser to high growth businesses; and as co-founder and CEO of the UK company Inngot Limited (www.inngot.com). The Inngot team have helped thousands of businesses to make better use of their IP and intangibles, by offering consulting services, training and education and online tools. Martin first worked with IPOS on strategy and IP financing projects in 2014, and since then has led the team responsible for producing many of the business guides, videos and training materials available from IPOS International.

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Kylie Peh is a Partner in WongPartnership’s Intellectual Property, Technology & Data Practice. Her main practice areas encompass both contentious and non-contentious IP, IP portfolio management, technology, media and telecommunications work (TMT), as well as privacy and data protection. In the area of IP, Kylie has been involved in transactional, enforcement and advisory work including franchising and IP due diligence, IP asset acquisitions, divestments and other arrangements in the context of corporate mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising brand and rights holders on the creation, protection, enforcement and exploitation of their IP rights and assets. She has been recognised as a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500: Asia Pacific - The Client's Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession since 2016 for the areas of IP and TMT. Kylie was also recognised as an ‘Up and coming Lawyer’ in Technology, Media and Telecommunications by Chambers Asia Pacific 2023.

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Thitapha has over 20 years’ professional experience, along with 76 policy papers and articles in major regional newspapers and technical journals. While at the ASEAN Secretariat during 2001/13, she designed, convened and/or took part in about 330 inter-governmental and expert group meetings, plus training programs for some 8,500 government officers and business person. These comprised both executive and working level professionals with a mandated focus on SMEs and entrepreneurship development, intellectual property rights, competition and consumer protection policies, trade negotiations and dispute settlement, women’s economic empowerment, and regional economic integration. She joined the World Intellectual Property Organization in June 2022 as Director of the WIPO Singapore Office, which is dedicated to serving ASEAN Member States in fostering the use and leverage of IP for the benefit of everyone, everywhere.

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Jinquan is the Head of the Patent Analytics Division at IPOS International, with over a decade of experience in global and industry-wide technology landscape scanning and analysis. He specialises in applying patent analytics to identify key technology trends and R&D and business opportunities for organisations. Jinquan has advised various government agencies, including the Prime Minister's Office, National Research Foundation, and Ministry of National Development, on R&D planning with actionable technology intelligence. He also provides consultancy and expert advice in IP and business strategy to public organisations and enterprises overseas. Jinquan's professional experience is complemented by a strong technical foundation – he holds a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore and was awarded the prestigious President's Graduate Fellowship in his doctoral candidature for his exceptional accomplishments in research.

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Sun Ting is a Senior Patent Analyst at IPOS International with over seven years of experience in patent analytics. He has led a series of technology landscape projects, drawing pivotal insights on emerging technologies and identifying R&D opportunities for government agencies and local research institutes. In his advisory role, he helps local and overseas enterprises shape their IP strategy, map out competitors or collaborators, and make critical business decisions. Sun Ting has spoken at various industrial conferences and trained overseas government organisations on patent analytics, technology landscaping and IP intelligence. Prior to his current role, Sun Ting was also a Patent Examiner at IPOS for over two years. He holds a PhD in Material Science and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, and was a post-doc research fellow specialising in thin films and nanomaterials for various applications.

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Eric Khoo heads the Global Engagement at IPOS International, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. Eric oversees the expansion of IPOS International into key global markets, providing advisory and solutions to private enterprises and governments on intellectual property (IP) creation, commercialisation and management. Eric holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Nanyang Technological University and Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property from IP Academy in collaboration with the National University of Singapore. He is also a qualified Project Management professional and a certified WSQ ACLP trainer.

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Morgan is a Senior Assistant Director of Global Engagement at IPOS International. He brings his experience in transnational business expansion to his current role in helping enterprises and research institutes succeed through IP strategy, management and commercialisation. Prior to joining IPOS International, Morgan led a regional IP solution sales team at Thomson Reuters/ Clarivate Analytics, supporting clients throughout their innovation journey from discovery to commercialisation. During his professional career in China, Morgan practised law at a leading law firm and IP firm in Guangdong. Morgan holds a Master of Laws from the Sun Yat-Sen University, a Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science from the Xinjiang Medical University, and has obtained the China National Legal Profession Qualification. He was also awarded the IP Management certification by the WIPO Academy and WSQ Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (WSQ ACLP).

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Tyler is a Managing Director at EverEdge, a global intangible asset advisory, corporate finance, and investment firm. He also heads up the company’s finance and operations functions. Over the last several years, Tyler helped establish the company’s Singapore office and its alliance with IPOS International, a subsidiary of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, before recently moving to the United States to continue building EverEdge’s North American footprint. Prior to joining EverEdge, Tyler worked in New York City for Deloitte and Goldman Sachs, advising Wall Street banks and financial institutions, along with working on a number of high-profile transactions including the Facebook IPO and the Apple Bond Offering. Tyler is a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA) and Chartered Valuer and Appraiser (CVA). He also holds an MBA from the University of Utah.

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Bettina Schwalm is an Experience Designer, Strategist and Researcher working in service of society, culture and the environment. She is educating and coaching Innovation teams in Futures Thinking and Speculative Design, always with a strong focus on behavioural studies and transdisciplinarity. She is Center Director at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and affiliated with Konstfack (University of Arts, Crafts, and Design) as well as a guest lecturer in various institutions around the world. Her interdisciplinary and collaborative practice is at the intersection of science and design, developing hands-on tools and visions for organisations and the public realm. Her recent project “Signs of Change” in collaboration with Radical Norms has been developed as Future Prototype funded by Vinnova.