The Mobile Patent Wars

Giovanna Barreiro
Giovanna is a technical and business savvy executive with over 15 years of experience in systems development, business analysis and evaluation of technology for commercialization. Her extensive Intellectual Property portfolio management experience includes asset mining and identification, portfolio analysis, valuation, strategy and licensing. Giovanna has experience dealing with portfolios in a variety of technology areas covering different types of IP such as patents, software and business processes. Giovanna holds two Engineering degrees in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering and an MBA from Bryant University in Rhode Island.

Professor Thomas F. Cotter

Thomas F. Cotter is the Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. His principal teaching and research interests are in the fields of intellectual property law, antitrust, and law and economics. He has authored or coauthored over forty scholarly papers and three books, including Intellectual Property: Economic and Legal Dimensions of Rights and Remedies (Cambridge University Press 2005) (coauthored with Roger D. Blair), and Comparative Patent Remedies: A Legal and Economic Analysis (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He is currently focusing on issues related to remedies in mobile patent device cases.

Darren Donnelly
Mr. Donnelly is a partner at Fenwick and West LLP. His practice focuses on patent and other intellectual property litigation and counseling with emphasis in data management, technical computing, telecommunications, and Internet technologies. In addition to preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and abroad, Mr. Donnelly has counseled companies on patent portfolio development and management, patent licensing strategies and patent enforcement strategies. Mr. Donnelly served as trial counsel for Informatica in Informatica Corp. v. Business Objects, winning a $25 million jury award in its patent suit against Business Objects. Mr. Donnelly also represented Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) in Cryptography Research v. VISA, a watershed case where CRI asserted eight fundamental patents covering differential power analysis countermeasure against Visa International. Mr. Donnelly represented Netflix in Lycos v. Netflix et al. where, after transferring the case from a rocket docket to a more favorable venue, he convinced the court to stage the case to allow accelerated and ultimately successful summary judgment of non-infringement with minimal discovery. Mr. Donnelly has subsequently represented Netflix in other several other matters all to favorable resolution.

Tim Sparapani
Tim is an expert in privacy, technology and constitutional law and was most recently the first Director of Public Policy at Facebook. Tim was responsible for developing and implementing the companys interaction with the federal, state, local and international governments and with policy makers. He managed these roles as the company grew from 150 million to more than 800 million users and from 400 employees to more than 3,000. Prior to joining Facebook, Tim was senior legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he helped advance the constitutional principle of the right to privacy, representing the ACLU before Congress, the Executive Branch and before the media. Tim also served as an associate at the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro where he helped clients navigate interconnecting constitutional, statutory, political and policy challenges. Tim holds a B.A. with honors from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the law school at the University of Michigan.