Lara Rogers is the Head of Intellectual Property Disputes at Amazon.com, where she has worked for over a decade. She is a director of the company with the title of Associate General Counsel. At Amazon, Lara is responsible for worldwide intellectual property litigation (patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, etc). She also oversees pre-litigation IP disputes and claims of infringement. In particular, her team administers the APEX program (Amazon Patent Evaluation Express) for pre-litigation claims of utility patent infringement against third-party selling partners’ products on Amazon.com.
Lara is a graduate of Yale Law School and has a Bachelors of Science from MIT. Before joining Amazon, she worked at Skadden Arps, and at Durie Tangri LLP. Lara is a chapter leader of the Pacific Northwest chapter of ChIPs. She enjoys running and playing video games with her husband.