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Caren Yusem is the founder of Olympic IP, and specializes in business and investment strategies for intellectual property-related assets and opportunities. She is a graduate of Cornell University, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, and Illinois Institute of Technology, where she graduated with honors in the masters of Intellectual Property Management and Markets. She has extensive experience in international telecommunications (MCI Telecommunications) and art, design and non-profits (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago), where she successfully developed collaborations between SAIC and the business community that resulted in highly innovative new products, technologies and designs. One successful royalty-bearing program with CB2 was recently featured in The New York Times. She lives in Chicago and is fluent in Italian and is proficient in French.

Caren is the co-creator of The New IP Business Models: Innovation or Commodization? webinar and conference series that addresses the new patent landscape worldwide. This trailblazing series from Thomson Reuters explores with the leading experts in IP, the impact of the many changes in the patent environment on innovation and investment as well as the emerging new IP business models.

Robert Greene Sterne is a Founding Director of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Patent Office Litigation, the first and leading treatise on the new contested proceedings in the AIA. He has recognized expertise in AIA post issuance proceedings and concurrent patent litigation, reexamination, patent monetization, licensing and enforcement, USITC 337 proceedings, corporate intellectual property best practices including the chief intellectual property officer (CIPO), and Board of Director responsibility for IP. He has spoken and written extensively on these topics throughout the past 35 years. He specializes in electronics, computers, software, communications, semiconductors, wireless, medical devices, nanotechnology and business methods technologies. He is counsel in more than 65 contested proceedings and 150 reexaminations at the PTO. He has played a role in precedent-setting case law: In re Beauregard, (Fed. Cir. 1995), KSR (SCT. 2007), i4i (SCT. 2011), In re Jung (Fed. Cir. 2011), ETG (Fed Cir. 2012), Hear Wear (Fed. Cir. 2014). He is highly rated in peer-review lists and is the recipient of the Sedona Conference Award for Excellence in Advanced Legal Education (2004), Sedona Lifetime Achievement Award (2012) and Attorney of the Year “Good Scout” Award (2012).