Gene Quinn is the president and founder of IPWatchdog.com, a patent attorney, law professor, and leading commentator on patent law and innovation policy. Gene’s writings typically focus on pending legislation, rule making at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and general commentary about the state of the industry. Gene practices patent law with Widerman Malek, and the majority of his patent practice is focused on software patents and Internet innovations. Since 2000 he has also been a principal lecturer in the PLI Patent Bar Review Course.

Marco is the Head of Consulting & Customer Success at PatentSight – A LexisNexis Company. Marco has a strong consulting background in patent analytics, providing insights in dozens of projects to Fortune 500 and DAX companies. As a strategic consultant he has guided the transition of many patent departments to turn from an administrative patent function into an internal consulting unit. With PatentSight’s deep understanding of customer needs and challenges, he empowers his team to transfer this knowledge into our global customer community.  “PatentSight Customer Success goes a great distance to understand our business and our pain points. Their support is outstanding and they really help us generating value” – quote from a recent customer survey that summarizes the work of PatentSight’s Consulting & Customer Success team.

Jochen joined the patent department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property in 2008 as a professional in the field of polymers and technical chemistry. Today he is leading the product development section of “ip-search”, the label under which the IPI provides commercial patent search services.
As a consequence extensive patent knowledge is combined with search experience and technical know-how, to produce specific, high quality, technology fields in all kinds of technological areas.