50 most influential people in IP 2023: Eric Whitaker

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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Eric Whitaker

December 05, 2023

Whitaker is chief legal officer at 10x Genomics in San Francisco

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50 most influential people in IP
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Adam Hakki and Wim Dejonghe
Hakki is senior partner at Shearman & Sterling in the US and Dejonghe is senior partner at Allen & Overy in London
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Xavier Ragot
Ragot is general counsel at Christian Louboutin in France
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Stephanie Donahue
Donahue is principal counsel of patent litigation at Sanofi in New York
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Brewster Kahle
Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive in California
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: John Adair
Adair is co-founder of Cellect in the US
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Matthew McKay
McKay is general counsel at LKQ in Chicago
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Justin Welch
Welch is chief IP counsel at Jack Daniel's in California
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Paul Reinitz
Reinitz is director and advocacy and legal operations counsel at Getty Images in the US
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Daniel McCallum
McCallum is head of litigation and IP at CoStar in the US
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Elon Musk
Musk is the founder of X Corp in the US
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Laurie Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald is senior vice president at Avanci in Dublin
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Alex Liu
Liu is chief IP counsel at Bayer in China
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Linda Huang
Huang is an IP legal counsel at Assa Abloy in China
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Manan Mishra
Mishra is chairman at The Bar Council of India
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Alan Fan
Fan is vice president for IP at Huawei in China
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Darío Gil
Gil is director of research at IBM in New York
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Maggie Mettler
Mettler is legal director for global brand protection at Yum Brands in Texas
December 05, 2023
 
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Thierry Breton
Breton is commissioner for the internal market in the EU at the European Commission
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo
Jaramillo is health minister for the Colombian government
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Lina Khan
Khan is chair of the US Federal Trade Commission in Washington DC
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Piyush Goyal
Goyal is the minister of commerce and industry in India
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Adrienne Meikle
Meikle is the chief executive at the Commerce Commission in New Zealand
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Chris Coons
Coons is chair of the Senate Judiciary IP Subcommittee in Washington DC
December 05, 2023
 
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Shira Perlmutter
Perlmutter is register of copyrights at the US Copyright Office in Washington DC
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Claudio Furtado
Furtado was president of Brazil’s patent and trademark office (INPI) in Brazil
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Kathi Vidal
Vidal is the director of the USPTO and under-secretary of commerce for IP in the US government in Washington DC
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Hamano Koichi
Koichi is commissioner at the JPO in Japan
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Michael Schwager
Schwager is the director general at IP Australia
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Rowel Barba
Barba is the director general at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Olena Orliuk
Orliuk is the director of Ukraine’s IP office, UANIPIO
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: António Campinos
Campinos is president of the EPO in Munich
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: João Negrão
Negrão is the executive director of the EUIPO in Alicante
December 04, 2023
 
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: András Kupecz
Kupecz is a judge at the UPC Central Division in Germany
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Lord Justice Colin Birss
Birss is a judge at the England and Wales Court of Appeal in London
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Pauline Newman
Newman is a judge at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington DC
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Manmohan and Saurabh Banerjee
Manmohan and Banerjee are judges at the Delhi High Court in India
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Matthias Zigann
Zigann is a judge at the UPC Munich local division
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Sonia Sotomayor
Sotomayor is a justice at the US Supreme Court in Washington DC
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Marcus Smith
Smith is a judge at the England and Wales High Court
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Klaus Grabinski
Grabinski is chief judge of the UPC Court of Appeal in Germany
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Colm Connolly
Connolly is chief judge of the District Court for the District of Delaware
December 05, 2023
 
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Kurt Haertel
Haertel was a patent lawyer and president of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Sam Altman
Altman is the CEO of OpenAI in the US
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Nandita Venkatesan and Phumeza Tisile
Venkatesan and Tisile are activists based in India and South Africa, respectively
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Greta Gerwig
Gerwig is a film director in the US
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Ed Sheeran
Sheeran is a famous singer and songwriter based in the UK
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Florian Müller
Müller is an IP commentator who is now based in Monaco
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: London division of ChIPs
Annsley Merelle Ward, Amy Crouch, Laura Whiting, and Tom Mitcheson KC are ChIPS members based in London
December 05, 2023
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50 most influential people in IP 2023: Jonathan’s Voice
Jonathan’s Voice is a mental health charity in the UK
December 05, 2023

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