Fortifying the IP War Chest with Patent Automation Tools

Steve Gong is the Head of Global Patent Operations, Technology, and Tactics at Google. His team is responsible for process management, outside counsel engagement and management, technical infrastructure and tooling including building new toolings, systems, and data solutions to enable Google Global Patents to manage one of the world’s largest patent portfolios.

Steve received his Juris Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis., Bachelors in Science in Bioengineering from University of Illinois and Masters in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Zach Warren leads technology and innovation content and research for the Thomson Reuters Institute. Zach has been writing and speaking on tech and innovation for more than a decade, and charts the future of professional services industries, including legal, tax, and risk & fraud, through writing, podcasts, speaking engagements, and more. With the Institute, Zach has helmed multiple research projects on technology in professional services, including a series of Generative AI reports for the legal and tax industries, the Digital Strategy Report for law firms, and others. Before TRI, Zach was the editor-in-chief of ALM’s Legaltech News and regularly featured on Law.com, The American Lawyer and ALM events such as Legalweek.

Karen O. Hourigan is a partner in Morgan Lewis’s eData practice. She focuses on electronic discovery, information governance, compliance, and data privacy across practice groups within the firm, including counseling clients on preservation, collection, data processing, document review, privilege claims, and production-related strategies. Karen has more than 20 years of experience as a litigator and has been an integral team member for special master and expert witness engagements focused on ediscovery and information governance.