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.
2026 Sponsors
VENUE SPONSOR

Contributor Sponsor
Fish & Richardson
The market leader for creating, protecting, and enhancing the value of intellectual property
The world’s leading innovators trust Fish to create, protect, enforce, and monetize their IP portfolios. Since our founding in 1878, we have represented some of the world’s greatest visionaries, from Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright brothers to the most innovative companies of today, and we put this pedigree to work every day for thinkers, makers, and doers of every size and in every industry. Simply put, few firms in the world can match the excellence of Fish’s combined legal, technical, and business talent.
The market leader for creating, protecting, and enhancing the value of intellectual property
The world’s leading innovators trust Fish to create, protect, enforce, and monetize their IP portfolios. Since our founding in 1878, we have represented some of the world’s greatest visionaries, from Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright brothers to the most innovative companies of today, and we put this pedigree to work every day for thinkers, makers, and doers of every size and in every industry. Simply put, few firms in the world can match the excellence of Fish’s combined legal, technical, and business talent.
Contributor Sponsor
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, established in 1860, brings expertise in intellectual property, litigation, and corporate transactions throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. The international law firm—with more than 600 attorneys in 23 locations worldwide—has a long and rich history of helping innovative companies navigate complex disputes involving their most important innovations. From the California Gold Rush of the 1860s to today’s global technology era, Kilpatrick attorneys have been at the forefront of the legal profession, committed to the success of our clients and the wellbeing of our communities. Learn more at www.ktslaw.com.
Contributor Sponsor
With a global platform of over 4,000 lawyers in 22 cities across the United States, Europe, the Middle East 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 private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations.
Contributor Sponsor
Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm dedicated to helping clients solve the legal and business challenges of tomorrow.
Presenting Sponsor
Desmarais LLP is a leading intellectual property litigation firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Representing some of the largest companies in the world, the firm has tried and won many of the industry’s most important patent cases in recent years. With a team of around 75 trial-focused attorneys, Desmarais LLP handles complex, often technology-focused disputes throughout all stages of the litigation process, trying cases before juries and judges in the district courts, overseeing the appeals process, and representing clients before arbitration panels and administrative bodies (including the International Trade Commission and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board). The firm has obtained successful trial results – for both plaintiffs and defendants – in dozens of patent infringement cases and other intellectual property disputes across wide array of technologies, including semiconductors, telecommunications, software, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, chemicals, and transportation.
Presenting Sponsor
Weil is a global, full-service law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys in offices in three continents.
Participant Sponsor
Alston & Bird is a leading international law firm whose core practice areas are intellectual property, complex litigation, corporate, and tax, with focuses that include financial services and health care. The firm has appeared in the nation's premier ranking of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 26 consecutive years.
Our intellectual property group is one of the largest in any general practice firm in the country, allowing us to provide our clients with the full spectrum of services: IP litigation, patent and trademark strategy and prosecution, strategic portfolio management and enforcement, complex IP and technology licensing and transactions, and data privacy and counseling.
Our intellectual property group is one of the largest in any general practice firm in the country, allowing us to provide our clients with the full spectrum of services: IP litigation, patent and trademark strategy and prosecution, strategic portfolio management and enforcement, complex IP and technology licensing and transactions, and data privacy and counseling.
Participant Sponsor
Baker Botts is a globally respected law firm with 650 lawyers and 12 international offices. We are driven by the highest ethical and professional standards. This professionalism, combined with industry knowledge and insights and our understanding of the law, helps us to deliver effective, innovative solutions for our clients.
Participant Sponsor
Participant Sponsor
Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP is a patent litigation firm. Our practice focuses on the intersection of science, technology and the law. Founded over two years ago, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP is already widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading patent litigation firms. From small molecules to biologics, from manufacturing to purification to commercial scale-up, and in GPS, medical devices, semiconductors, and satellites, we have deep substantive expertise in both the law and in the science. The firm’s current docket reads like a tour of the most urgent scientific and commercial frontiers, including cases related to the Covid-19 vaccine, Wegovy®, cancer therapies, and cancer research and detection. Our lawyers are known for their rapport with juries and judges, for the care and devotion with which they approach their clients, for their scientific expertise, and for their thought leadership in patent law and policy. Since January 2024, Groombridge Wu has grown to 11 partners, including six women, added five former clerks from the Federal Circuit and one from the PTAB, and added a counsel in Tokyo. While many firms use size to project strength, Groombridge Wu has achieved national stature by focusing on results, client trust, and elite lawyering at every level.
Participant Sponsor
Latham & Watkins is a leading global law firm that brings together exceptional legal talent in financial centers around the world to advise on complex transactions, litigation, and regulatory matters. The firm’s deep market and product knowledge, industry experience, vast scale, and commitment to innovation and excellence help clients navigate their most critical challenges and achieve their goals.
Venue Sponsor
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.











