Where in the World is Your IP: Managing a Global IP Portfolio (On-Demand)
Recorded On: 10/07/2024
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Embark on a unique journey to unfold an IP case study featuring a multinational company with a diverse IP portfolio including hardware, software, and AI technology. Advise the company from the audience as issues are presented. Each decision made will influence complex international IP challenges, including AI issues like ownership of work product, AI washing, and IP protection for AI output. Experts will discuss the implications after each decision, offering effective strategies for in-house counsel managing global IP portfolios.
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Kenya Williams
Director, Trademark Counsel
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
I am an experienced intellectual property attorney who has substantial transactional, litigation, and enforcement expertise in the areas of trademarks, copyrights, licensing, trade secrets and right of publicity. I am skilled at devising global branding strategies, providing trademark clearance advice, and enforcing trademark and other intellectual property rights worldwide for small, mid-size and large multi-national companies. I also have a considerable amount of transactional experience drafting and negotiating agreements related to intellectual property transactions and other areas of law.
Paul Liu
General Counsel
PacketFabric
Paul is an award-winning builder of legal teams and functions with over 15 years of experience in managing legal functions, including commercial contracts, litigation, employment law, compliance, and intellectual property.
He has been described by his colleagues as “‘an excellent thinker, and most importantly, he gets things done.’” (Modern Counsel). He has been recognized in leading industry publications such Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) as one of “The World’s Leading IP Strategists.”
Paul is General Counsel at PacketFabric, a global telecommunications software company. At PacketFabric, he leads a team of five professionals and oversee the company’s legal department, including commercial contracts, litigation, employment law, legal compliance, and intellectual property.
Paul was previously Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Intellectual Property at TuSimple. At TuSimple, he built teams in the US and abroad and harmonized the company’s processes and strategies with global best practices. This has resulted in, among other accomplishments, more than doubling the average patent strength/quality (measured by LexisNexis’s Competitive Impact metric), resulting in over 70% of the US-originated patent assets to be rated within the Global Top 10% of patent families according to LexisNexis while growing the patent portfolio size by over 400% to achieve the largest and most impactful home-grown patent portfolio held by any trucking-focused autonomous vehicle company.
He also built various compliance programs, policies, and training in areas such as export control and open source, abating risks such as fines and negative treatment from external parties and regulators. Additionally, he oversees company agreements throughout the contract life cycle, such as by implementing software, playbooks, and processes that preserve millions of dollars of enterprise value.
The functions that he has built created value to better leveraged the company to achieve positive outcomes in strategic alliances, investor presentations, and earnings calls.
Randall Cook
Chief Legal Officer, CCO and CRO (former)
BlackBerry
Randall Cook has served as a public and private company General Counsel, a U.S. Government official, federal prosecutor and in private practice, and is also a former intelligence officer.
Most recently, Randall was the Chief Legal Officer of BlackBerry, a cybersecurity software and services company serving 80%+ of the U.S. Government, 18 of the G20, 24 of the 25 top electric vehicle makers, 9 of the 10 top global banks, and 9 of the 10 largest automotive OEMS, as well as medical device, healthcare, manufacturing, law firms and other companies. He also served as Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer, and led the Global Security, Lawful Access, Employee Health & Safety, Forensic Investigations and Government Affairs teams. Prior to BlackBerry, he was the General Counsel of Calypso Technology, a PE-backed financial services software company, and SVP and General Counsel at Advent Software, a public software and data company. Prior to joining Advent, Randall was the Assistant General Counsel for iXL, Inc., a public e-commerce technology and development company, during and after its IPO.
Randall also served in the U.S. Government and on interagency committees with a wide range of agencies and federal labs, advising on international and technology issues. His roles included serving as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. where he was the lead prosecutor for intellectual property piracy and other cases; Special Counsel at the U.S. Department of Commerce; and Attorney-Advisor in the Executive Office of the President at the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. In private practice, he represented technology, satellite, aerospace, telecom, mobile, manufacturing and regulated companies, including before Congress, the Executive Branch, the Courts and independent agencies.
Randall graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Claremont McKenna College, and he received his law degree from U.C. Berkeley. He is admitted to practice in California and before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Sindy Ding-Voorhees
Counsel
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Sindy Ding-Voorhees is a counsel in the Greater China Brands team. She works primarily in our Seattle office and plays a very active role in the expansion and support of the Beijing office. She focuses her practice on trademark, copyright law, and fashion law-related matters, and she has extensive experience in creating brand protection strategies, managing trademark/copyright portfolios, and leading online and offline enforcement programs for the world’s renowned brands in Greater China. Her substantial experience with the full range of trademark and copyright issues in China, as well as her bilingual language skills (English and Mandarin Chinese), are dedicated to creating thoughtful brand expansion and protection strategies that adapt to the Chinese market and culture. She is uniquely positioned to bring a Western-style of law practice to solving problems and creating solutions working within a different civil code-based legal regime.
Sindy has substantial experience in addressing trademark infringement issues, pursuing contentious actions with the Chinese administrative bodies, and litigating civil infringement cases with Chinese courts. She not only helps her clients assess risks in every action, but focuses on prioritizing issues and developing big-picture strategies from both legal and business perspectives. She has obtained numerous favorable trademark decisions from the Chinese Review and Adjudication Board, and on appeal from the Beijing Intellectual Property Court. She has represented clients in high-profile, high-stakes trademark and domain name infringement litigation, and has obtained favorable rulings from the Supreme People’s Court of the PRC, Beijing Higher Court, and local Intermediate Courts.
Her experience with IP enforcement dates back to when she was in-house at one of the world’s leading apparel companies in New York. She has a deep understanding of both online and offline enforcement approaches in China and helped world-leading retail and consumer goods brands systematically combat counterfeiting issues through litigation and non-litigation resolutions.
Sindy was born and raised in China and received her education in China, France, and the U.S. Her native language is Mandarin Chinese and she is fluent in English and French. In her spare time, she is also a graphic designer and loves fashion design and art. She founded and is the co-director of the Fashion and Art Law Institute in China, which is the first academic center providing thought leadership and practical assistance on issues facing the fashion industry in China. She has also been invited to comment and publish articles on hot legal issues in trademark and fashion law issues in both the U.S. and China by leading fashion media, The Trademark Reporter and Chinese IP think tanks.
Sindy was recognized in 2025 and the four years immediately preceding as one of the "Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch" for Intellectual Property Law by The Best Lawyers in America®. She was recognized as a New York “Rising Star” in 2022, 2023 and 2024 for Intellectual Property by Super Lawyers magazine.
Charles Gray
Partner
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Charles Gray serves as Managing Partner for the firm's Shanghai office. Mr. Gray focuses his practice on patent counseling and prosecution of both U.S. and international patent applications. In addition, he has significant experience in providing patent invalidity and infringement analysis and drafting written opinions. He advises his clients on a wide range of intellectual property matters, including licensing negotiations.
Mr. Gray counsels his clients in a variety of technology fields, with a particular emphasis on computer networking, satellite, cellular, and other wireless communications, computer architecture, software systems and financial transactions.
Mr. Gray has an extensive Asian-area practice with a focus on Chinese patent counseling and prosecution. He has lived and worked in Asia and has extensive knowledge of Chinese patent practice and is also fluent in Mandarin Chinese. He is a guest lecturer at Fudan University in Shanghai, Hong Kong University and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Prior to practicing law, Mr. Gray was a software engineer and project manager, where he developed adaptive language, music, and mathematics learning software. Mr. Gray also developed collaborative legal English learning software and program environments designed for Chinese judges and attorneys.
Mr. Gray was recognized as a top patent practitioner in 2024 and the four years immediately preceding by IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners and in the 2021 and 2022 editions of IAM Strategy 300: The World's Leading IP Strategists. He was named a "Patent Leader" in 2023 and 2024 by World IP Review. Mr. Gray was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® in 2023, 2024 and 2025 for Patent Law. He was named one of the "Top Patent Attorneys of 2023" by Patexia. Mr. Gray was also recognized as a Colorado "Rising Star" in the area of Intellectual Property by Super Lawyers magazine in 2013.
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