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Joseph D'Angelo
Joseph D’Angelo is a results driven legal partner with more than 15 years of corporate legal department experience at Fortune 500 companies. Extensive experience assisting businesses with intellectual property, litigation, technology licensing, complex negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, commercial law, and supplier matters.
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Hannah Joseph
Hannah T. Joseph serves as Director of Trade Secrets at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. At Regeneron, she drives strategy for the protection of trade secrets and proprietary information. Before joining Regeneron, Hannah worked at Beck Reed Riden LLP, a boutique law firm in Boston, where she specialized in the areas of trade secrets law, restrictive covenants, and employee mobility for nearly a decade. Hannah holds a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University.
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Geoff White
Geoffrey White is General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel for SilcoTek Corporation, a high-tech materials science company solving challenges for the world’s most innovative organizations. Geoffrey was previously in private practice, handling IP matters for startups through huge organizations. He has an MBA from Cambridge, an IP LLM from George Washington, a JD from Widener, and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been named multiple times to IAM 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists, spoken in countless venues on value-focused IP strategy, and collaborates with Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing on Innovation and IP Management research.
Clint Morrison
Clint Morrison is a commercial litigator, trial lawyer, and problem solver. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School who clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a former actor who previously worked at a government relations and public affairs firm, Clint brings a unique perspective to his work helping clients find creative, effective solutions to their most complex and consequential challenges.
Clint has extensive trial experience in federal and state courts throughout the country. Last year alone, Clint played a key role in two trial wins: a $2 billion jury verdict in a high-profile trade secrets case between two software companies (the largest verdict in the history of the State of Virginia), and a victory for client Howard University in a bench trial in the Southern District of New York establishing the University’s superior claim of title to a historically significantly work by the renowned artist Charles White.
Clint focuses on complex commercial litigation and litigates cases involving trade secrets and intellectual property, contractual and business disputes, false advertising and unfair competition, and whistleblower claims under the False Claims Act. Clint also maintains an active high-stakes art law practice.
Clint’s approach is to unpack the intellectual legal and factual puzzles in every case, identify the key themes and narratives underlying each dispute, and navigate each stage of a litigation with an eye towards building a compelling, winning case before a judge or jury.
Clint was named to the 2023 and 2024 editions of Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch, which recognizes outstanding professional excellence in private practice by attorneys who have typically been in practice for up to 10 years. He currently serves as the Secretary of the Federal Bar Council’s Public Service Committee.
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Anand Patel
Anand B. Patel is Senior Counsel in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the Department of Justice. He investigates and prosecutes trade secrets theft, ransomware attacks, and computer intrusions. Mr. Patel teaches Trade Secrets Law at the George Washington University Law School. Before joining the Department, Mr. Patel spent a decade as an attorney at Paul Hastings LLP, where he handled all facets of disputes involving trade secrets. He previously served as law clerk to the Honorable William Bryson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Patel graduated from UVA School of Law and MIT.