Managing IP Top 50
50 most influential people in IP
Managing IP reveals its pick of the top people driving intellectual property law, policy and business
Managing IP Top 50
50 most influential people in IP
Managing IP reveals its pick of the top people driving intellectual property law, policy and business
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Blattman is the CEO of IPH
Elizabeth Prelogar is the US Solicitor General
Poe is executive vice president and chief legal officer at ConnectWise
Dixon is president of CIPA, Saliger is president of CITMA, and Tunney is president of APTMA
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Prokhorova is chair of the copyright committee at INTA
Smith is the vice president and general counsel of the LEGO Group
Hurtado Rivas is general counsel for brands and marketing properties, anti-counterfeiting and licensing at Nestlé in Switzerland
Stelling is a co-founder of Brand Action
Cardozo is a partner at Daniel Law in Brazil
Stothers is a London-based partner at Freshfields
Sarah Andersen is an artist
Gill is a judge at High Court of Singapore
Minford is the CEO of Rouse
King is CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta
Nealy is a music producer
Moreira is head of Brazil’s IP office (INPI)
Newsom is the governor of California
Gill is the managing partner at Venner Shipley
Tian is an IP director at Geely Auto Group
Rasenberger is the CEO of the Authors Guild
Bansal is a judge at Delhi High Court
Moore is head of IP at Mattel in California
Bonde is the CEO of Abion
Arnold is a judge at the England and Wales Court of Appeal
Roberts is the chief justice at the US Supreme Court in Washington DC
Georgaras is CEO of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office in Québec
Catallozzi, Zhilova and Samoud are UPC judges
Vidal is the director of the USPTO and under-secretary of commerce for IP in the US government
Haji-Ioannou is founder of easyJet
Negrão is executive director at the EUIPO
Thwe is the deputy director and head of the Intellectual Property Department of Myanmar
Carr is the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales
Ramsay is UPC registrar while Campinos is president of the EPO
Hammarén is acting president at Nokia Technologies
Singh is a judge at Delhi High Court
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Lockhart is the CFO of Qantm IP
McKay is general counsel at LKQ in Chicago
Brown is a judge at the District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Frydenlund is vice president for IoT licensing at Avanci
Lee is governor of Tennessee
Tang is director general of WIPO
Polfjärd is a Member of the European Parliament
Shen is IP director in the legal department at Xiaomi
Shilling is lead counsel at Vodafone in the UK
Tochtermann is a judge at the UPC in Mannheim
Fish is CEO HGF in the UK
Wiebel is chief IP counsel at Siemens
Mulgrew is global head of IP at Lenovo in the US
Hakoranta is chief licensing officer at InterDigital
Wojcik is chief IP counsel at Ocado Group
Breton is commissioner for the internal market in the EU at the European Commission
Kupecz is a judge at the UPC Central Division in Germany
Hakki is senior partner at Shearman & Sterling in the US and Dejonghe is senior partner at Allen & Overy in London
Jaramillo is health minister for the Colombian government
Birss is a judge at the England and Wales Court of Appeal in London
Ragot is general counsel at Christian Louboutin in France
Campinos is president of the EPO in Munich
Meikle is the chief executive at the Commerce Commission in New Zealand
McCallum is head of litigation and IP at CoStar in the US
Coons is chair of the Senate Judiciary IP Subcommittee in Washington DC
Mishra is chairman at The Bar Council of India
Musk is the founder of X Corp in the US
Newman is a judge at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington DC
Sotomayor is a justice at the US Supreme Court in Washington DC
Fitzgerald is senior vice president at Avanci in Dublin
Zigann is a judge at the UPC Munich local division
Annsley Merelle Ward, Amy Crouch, Laura Whiting, and Tom Mitcheson KC are ChIPS members based in London
Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive in California
Vidal is the director of the USPTO and under-secretary of commerce for IP in the US government in Washington DC
Khan is chair of the US Federal Trade Commission in Washington DC
Donahue is principal counsel of patent litigation at Sanofi in New York
Goyal is the minister of commerce and industry in India
Reinitz is director and advocacy and legal operations counsel at Getty Images in the US
Koichi is commissioner at the JPO in Japan
Haertel was a patent lawyer and president of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office
Barba is the director general at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines
Schwager is the director general at IP Australia
Manmohan and Banerjee are judges at the Delhi High Court in India
Altman is the CEO of OpenAI in the US
Huang is an IP legal counsel at Assa Abloy in China
Liu is chief IP counsel at Bayer in China
Adair is co-founder of Cellect in the US
McKay is general counsel at LKQ in Chicago
Welch is chief IP counsel at Jack Daniel's in California
Furtado was president of Brazil’s patent and trademark office (INPI) in Brazil
Perlmutter is register of copyrights at the US Copyright Office in Washington DC
Gerwig is a film director in the US
Venkatesan and Tisile are activists based in India and South Africa, respectively
Whitaker is chief legal officer at 10x Genomics in San Francisco
Mettler is legal director for global brand protection at Yum Brands in Texas
Smith is a judge at the England and Wales High Court
Gil is director of research at IBM in New York
Jonathan’s Voice is a mental health charity in the UK
Connolly is chief judge of the District Court for the District of Delaware
Orliuk is the director of Ukraine’s IP office, UANIPIO
Fan is vice president for IP at Huawei in China
Grabinski is chief judge of the UPC Court of Appeal in Germany
Müller is an IP commentator who is now based in Monaco
Sheeran is a famous singer and songwriter based in the UK
Negrão is the executive director of the EUIPO in Alicante
Kasim Alfalahi is CEO at Avanci in the US
Joe Biden is the president of the US
Alexander Ramsay is former chair of the UPC Administrative Committee in Sweden
Insil Lee is the commissioner at KIPO in South Korea
Amber Kotrri is the founder of House of Zana in the UK
Len Stark is a judge at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the US
50 most influential people in IP 2022: MIP recognises Suzanne Barnett at the Copyright Royalty Board
Suzanne Barnett was the interim chief judge at the Copyright Royalty Board in the US
Orlando Garcia is the chief judge at the District Court for the Western District of Texas in the US
Colm Connolly is the chief judge at the District Court for the District of Delaware in the US
Patrick Leahy is a senator for Vermont at the US Congress
Lynn Goldsmith is a celebrity photographer in the US
Thom Tillis is a senator for North Carolina at the US Congress
Niall Trainor is senior director of brand protection at eOne in the UK
Craig Wright is a computer scientist in Australia
Robert Devonshire is a partner at MML Capital in the UK
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the director general of the World Trade Organization in Switzerland
Clemens Heusch is global head of dispute resolution at Nokia in Germany
Jack Randles is head of legal at Manolo Blahnik in the UK
René Claude Metomo is the president of the Association of Penja Pepper Producers in Cameroon
Joyce Ang is senior vice president for IPR protection at Lazada in Singapore
Shen Changyu is the commissioner of the CNIPA in China
Mattia Fogliacco is president of Sisvel International in Luxembourg
Wang Jiangqiao is a judge at the Hangzhou Internet Court in China
Prathiba Singh is a judge at the Delhi High Court in India
Christian Archambeau is executive director at the EUIPO in Spain
Ankit Sahni is the owner of the RAGHAV Artificial Intelligence Painting App in India
Edwin Tong is the second minister for law in the Singapore government
Kerstin Jorna is director general of DG Grow at the European Commission in Belgium
Daniel Zohny is head of IP at FIFA in Switzerland
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the former president of the United Arab Emirates
Jacob Rees-Mogg is the former secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy in the UK
António Campinos is president of the EPO in Germany
Klaus Grabinski is president of the UPC Court of Appeal in Germany
Juliette Rouilloux-Sicre is vice president of legal and intellectual property at Thales in France
Audrey Lee is general counsel at Starz Entertainment in the US
Scott Frank is CEO of IP at AT&T in the US
Kathi Vidal is the director of the USPTO and under secretary of commerce for IP in the US government
Nader Pazirandeh is president at Unicolors in the US
Shira Perlmutter is register of copyrights at the US Copyright Office
Konstantinos Georgaras is CEO of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Shannon Thyme Klinger is chief legal officer at Moderna in the US
Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen are founders at Andreessen Horowitz in the US
Stephen Wurth and John Scott are legal counsel at Qualcomm in the US
Taras Kulbaba is a partner at Bukovnik & Kulbaba IP Guardians in Belgium
Ed Sheeran is a pop star in the UK
Vladimir Putin is president of Russia
The investigation lead at the Spanish National Police asked to remain anonymous
Jim Sullivan is a director at Shazam Productions in the UK
Tim Moss is former CEO of the UKIPO
Beat Weibel is chief IP counsel at Siemens in Germany
Our list includes 21 industry leaders, the details of whom you can find below along with the full list of names that make up the top 50
Our list includes nine judges, the details of whom you can find below along with the full list of names that make up the top 50
Our list includes five notable individuals, the details of whom you can find below along with the full list of names that make up the top 50
Our list includes nine public officials, the details of whom you can find below along with the full list of names that make up the top 50
Our list includes six IP authorities, the details of whom you can find below along with the full list of names that make up the top 50
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