Paul Nguyen-Ba
Paul Nguyen-Ba is a Staff Attorney for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) at the USPTO. His duties include investigating allegations of practitioner misconduct, developing the registration examination for practice before the USPTO, providing under-resourced inventors access to pro bono assistance, and facilitating outreach to USPTO stakeholders. Prior to joining OED, Paul worked as a patent examiner at the USPTO and as a patent attorney in the private sector. Paul received his J.D. and B.S. in computer science from George Mason University.
Sanjesh Prabha Sharma, Moderator
Sanjesh Sharma is Senior Intellectual Property Counsel at Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, where she supports all aspects of intellectual property matters for the business’s laser refractive and cataract surgery product lines. She manages global patent portfolios, due diligence for acquisitions and transactions, freedom to operate clearances for product development, as well as any litigation and related inter partes proceedings in the U.S. and opposition/nullity actions in Europe. Sanjesh is the current Chair of the IP Law Section and the Patent Interest Group.