Panel Session

Allan Z. Litovsky is a shareholder in Stradling’s litigation practice. Mr. Litovsky is experienced in both jury and bench trials and handles high-stakes cases in federal and state courts around the country, as well as before the U.S. International Trade Commission. He is also experienced in handling disputes under various arbitration regimes, including the AAA, JAMS and ICC, both in domestic and international venues.

Mr. Litovsky has handled a large number of disputes for businesses ranging from startups to international corporations, including patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, trademark infringement, license disputes, unfair competition and breach of contract matters. In addition to his litigation practice, as a registered patent lawyer, Mr. Litovsky counsels clients in the areas of patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights, as well as computer and Internet law. In addition to his litigation and counseling practices, Mr. Litovsky assists clients with technology-related transactions, including joint venture agreements, research agreements, as well as licensing and outsourcing arrangements.

While Mr. Litovsky's core technical experience is in the field of electrical engineering, he has handled matters in a wide range of technologies and industries, including telecommunications, semiconductors, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, oil and gas, edical device, automotive and avionics, consumer electronics, and financial services.

Mr. Litovsky received his J.D. from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he was an editor of Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology and a fellow at the Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology.

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley. She is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. Since 1996, she has held a joint appointment at Berkeley Law School and UC Berkeley's School of Information. Samuelson is a director of the internationally-renowned Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, as well as on the advisory boards for the Center for Democracy & Technology, Public Knowledge, and the Berkeley Center for New Media.

Samuelson began her legal career as an associate with Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York. She began her career as a legal academic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools. While on the Berkeley faculty, she has been a distinguished visiting professor at University of Toronto Law School as well as a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law Schools. She was named an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam in 2002.

Samuelson has written and published extensively in the areas of copyright, software protection and cyberlaw. Since 1990, Samuelson has been a contributing editor of Communications of the ACM, a computing professionals journal respected for its coverage of existing and emerging technologies, for which she has written more than sixty "Legally Speaking" columns. From 1997 through 2002, Samuelson was a fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is also a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery. The Anita Borg Institute honored Samuelson with its Women of Vision Award for Social Impact in 2005, and the public interest organization Public Knowledge awarded her its IP3 Award for her contributions to Internet law and policy in October 2010.