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Q. Todd Dickinson, Partner, Intellectual Property Practice, Howrey Simon Arnold & White
Q. Todd Dickinson is a partner in the Howrey Simon Arnold & White's Intellectual Property Practice. He has more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of intellectual property law and public policy, including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Mr. Dickinson leads the firm's Intellectual Property Group's counseling, licensing, prosecution, strategic portfolio management and government relations practice. Prior to joining Howrey, Mr. Dickinson was Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). At the USPTO, Mr. Dickinson was principal policy advisor to the President of the United States on all intellectual property matters. Moreover, he was responsible for all international intellectual property policy issues on behalf of the US government. Mr. Dickinson wrote extensively on subjects from e-commerce and IP enforcement in a knowledge-based economy to genomic patents. Additionally, he taught individual courses at George Washington University, Georgetown University, George Mason University, University of Pittsburgh and Tokyo University.

Scott C. Donnelly, Senior Vice President, Corporate Research and Development, General Electric
Scott C. Donnelly is senior vice president and director of GE Global Research, one of the world's largest and most diversified industrial research organizations, and a member of the company's Corporate Executive Council. At Global Research, some 2,200 people - including approximately 1,700 scientists, engineers and technicians from virtually every major scientific and engineering discipline - concentrate their efforts on the company's long-range technology needs. The organization has research facilities in the United States, India and China, working in collaboration with GE businesses around the world. Prior to assuming his current position, Donnelly served as Vice President, Global Technology Operations for GE Medical Systems. In that role, he drove Six Sigma product development throughout the organization, enabling GE Medical Systems to introduce more reliable technology faster than ever before, including: the world's first multi-slice CT scanner (LightSpeed), full-field digital mammography (Senographe 2000D), high-field open MRI (Signa OpenSpeed) and digital X-Ray (Innova 2000). Donnelly joined GE in 1989, as Manager of Electronics Design Engineering for GE's Ocean Systems Division in Syracuse, NY. He went on to serve in a variety of leadership roles for the Company, including engineering management positions with then-GE division of Martin Marietta in both Australia and the U.S. In 1995, he moved to GE's Industrial Control Systems business, where he held leadership positions as Manager of Technology and System Development, and later General Manager of Industrial Systems Technology. Donnelly was named a Vice President of General Electric in 1997, when he assumed his previous role at GE Medical Systems. Donnelly serves on the Industrial Advisory Committee of several engineering colleges, the Research Foundation of the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Center for Innovation in Minimally Invasive Therapy at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also serves as a director of GE Capital Corporation and GE Capital Services Inc.