ChIPs NextGen Summit is so much more than just a prestigious women’s professional development event. By bringing together colleagues from different office locations, it’s a great opportunity for team building. By including clients and prospects, it’s also a unique business development opportunity for law firms. Please contact Bridget Johnson to create a sponsorship program that optimizes your organization’s presence at the NextGen Summit. bjohnson@chipsnetwork.org.
2025 sponsors
Amazon
At Amazon, we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Our passion for delighting customers drives us to continuously innovate and develop new solutions across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Through services like Amazon.com, Amazon Prime, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), we make it easier for customers to shop, watch, read, and create.
Desmarais LLP
Desmarais LLP focuses on the litigation of complex, often technology-driven disputes. Our lawyers have successfully tried some of the most important intellectual property disputes in recent times, for some of the largest companies in the world. We have also argued the appeal of numerous cases that have shaped the substantive direction and development of intellectual property law.
Fish & Richardson
Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, is sought after and trusted by the world’s most innovative brands and influential technology leaders. Fish offers patent prosecution, litigation, trademark, and copyright counseling and advocacy for a broad range of client needs. Our deep bench of attorneys with first-chair trial experience in every technology makes us the go-to firm for the most technically complex cases. We have an established reputation as a top-tier firm for patent portfolio planning, strategy and prosecution, as well as post-grant proceedings at the PTAB. Fish was established in 1878, and now has more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China. Our success is rooted in our creative and inclusive culture, which values the diversity of people, experiences, and perspectives.
Intel
Intel creates world-changing technology that improves the life of every person on the planet.
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is a leading international law firm with a legacy that traces back to its founding in 1860. The firm boasts over 600 attorneys operating across 23 offices in the United States and globally, including locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Stockholm, and Tokyo. Renowned for its expertise in intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law, Kilpatrick serves a broad spectrum of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to dynamic startups, offering tailored legal solutions across diverse industries. For more than 160 years, Kilpatrick has been instrumental in helping clients protect, expand, and capitalize on their most valuable assets. Kilpatrick has a storied history of high-profile work, including patenting the rivets on Levi's original jeans and protecting Coke’s now-iconic brand for over three decades (the shape of the Coke bottle was our idea) – and most recently leading one of the most complex global rebranding efforts ever undertaken for Facebook, now Meta. Our commitment to innovation, industry knowledge, and client service has solidified its reputation as a leader in the legal field, consistently earning top rankings in legal publications. Learn more at www.ktslaw.com.
Kirkland & Ellis
With a global platform of approximately 3,500 lawyers in 19 cities across the United States, Europe and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas, including high-stakes intellectual property and commercial litigation; private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. To learn more, please visit www.kirkland.com.
Latham & Watkins LLP
Latham & Watkins delivers innovative solutions to complex legal and business challenges around the world. From a global platform, our lawyers advise clients on market-shaping transactions, high-stakes litigation and trials, and sophisticated regulatory matters. Latham is one of the world’s largest providers of pro bono services, steadfastly supports initiatives designed to advance diversity within the firm and the legal profession, and is committed to exploring and promoting environmental sustainability.
Microsoft
Microsoft creates platforms and tools powered by AI to deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. The technology company is committed to making AI available broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Morgan Lewis
At Morgan Lewis, our team of more than 2,200 lawyers and legal professionals work in collaboration across the globe—providing comprehensive corporate, intellectual property, transactional, litigation, and regulatory services. We have one of the largest IP practices of any full-service law firm in the world with more than 200 IP lawyers and professionals bringing diverse technical and scientific backgrounds. Our team offers depth of experience in litigating the full range of IP disputes, prosecuting patents, providing counseling and opinions, registering trademarks and copyrights, drafting and negotiating license agreements and commercial contracts relating to all aspects of IP, and handling transactions and due diligence. The size and breadth of our practice combined with our industry and subject matter experience means we have the talent to address our clients more complex IP needs.
Morrison Foerster
Morrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage. With our collective intelligence, we shape powerful legal strategies that move your business forward while living our shared values.
We solve your most critical multidimensional challenges in a way that provides clarity around the risk you are facing and gives you confidence in your chosen path. We pair diversity of perspective with a strategic consultative approach to craft the tailored strategies you need. We foster trusted partnerships that are defined by winning for you when it matters most.
Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and leading technology and life sciences companies. Whether established for decades or just an entrepreneur’s idea, we represent organizations as they grow, innovate, disrupt, and develop into leading industry players and household names.
We solve your most critical multidimensional challenges in a way that provides clarity around the risk you are facing and gives you confidence in your chosen path. We pair diversity of perspective with a strategic consultative approach to craft the tailored strategies you need. We foster trusted partnerships that are defined by winning for you when it matters most.
Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and leading technology and life sciences companies. Whether established for decades or just an entrepreneur’s idea, we represent organizations as they grow, innovate, disrupt, and develop into leading industry players and household names.
Oracle
Perkins Coie LLP
Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm dedicated to helping clients solve the legal and business challenges of tomorrow. For more than a century, we have represented clients at the forefront of technological change, from aviation to artificial intelligence. Our practice of law is enriched by our deep understanding of our clients’ businesses and the industries in which they compete.
Secretariat
Secretariat experts are trusted in the highest-stakes legal, risk, and regulatory matters around the world. With nearly 600 professionals in key financial and arbitration centers, renowned law firms, leading corporations, and governmental entities turn to our disputes, litigation, economic, engineering, and data advisory expertise when the stakes are high— supporting them with meticulous preparation, insightful analysis, and persuasive communications.
Our bright minds and passionate problem-solvers put their financial, analytical, and strategic insights to work in the fast-paced sectors we serve — from construction and energy to healthcare, technology, and natural resources.
Quality, integrity, and independence are woven into every aspect of our work. But, most importantly, when success is on the line, our globally integrated teams thrive on working through the most daunting problems in ways that remove uncertainty and instill confidence.
Learn more about our people and capabilities at www.secretariat-intl.com.
Our bright minds and passionate problem-solvers put their financial, analytical, and strategic insights to work in the fast-paced sectors we serve — from construction and energy to healthcare, technology, and natural resources.
Quality, integrity, and independence are woven into every aspect of our work. But, most importantly, when success is on the line, our globally integrated teams thrive on working through the most daunting problems in ways that remove uncertainty and instill confidence.
Learn more about our people and capabilities at www.secretariat-intl.com.