7/29/2019 Patent Panel

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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 portfoliomanagement experience includes asset mining and identification, portfolio analysis, valuation, strategy andlicensing. Giovanna has experience dealing with portfolios in a variety of technology areas covering different typesof IP such as patents, software and business processes.

Giovanna holds two Engineering degrees in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering and an MBA fromBryant 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. Hisprincipal teaching and research interests are in the fields of intellectual property law, antitrust, and law andeconomics.

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 (OxfordUniversity Press, forthcoming). He is currently focusing on issues related to remedies in mobile patent devicecases.

Darren Donnelly

Mr. Donnelly is a partner at Fenwick and West LLP. His practice focuses on patent and other intellectual propertylitigation and counseling with emphasis in data management, technical computing, telecommunications, andInternet technologies.

In addition to preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and abroad, Mr. Donnelly has counseledcompanies on patent portfolio development and management, patent licensing strategies and patent enforcementstrategies. 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 CryptographyResearch, Inc. (“CRI”) in Cryptography Research v. VISA, a watershed case where CRI asserted eightfundamental 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 ultimatelysuccessful — summary judgment of non-infringement with minimal discovery. Mr. Donnelly has subsequentlyrepresented Netflix in other several other matters all to favorable resolution.

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Tim Sparapani

Tim is an expert in privacy, technology and constitutional law and was most recently the first Director of PublicPolicy at Facebook. Tim was responsible for developing and implementing the company’s interaction with thefederal, state, local and international governments and with policy makers. He managed these roles as thecompany 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 hehelped advance the constitutional principle of the right to privacy, representing the ACLU before Congress, theExecutive Branch and before the media. Tim also served as an associate at the law firm of Dickstein Shapirowhere he helped clients navigate interconnecting constitutional, statutory, political and policy challenges. Timholds a B.A. with honors from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the law school at the University of Michigan.