IP LEADERSHIP - Key Persons
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- Director, Competition Advocacy Program, Global Antitrust Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
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- General Superintendent, Brazil 's Administrative Council for Economic Defense ( CADE )
Andrei Iancu was under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a position to which he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. In this role, Mr. Iancu led an agency with approximately 13,000 employees and an annual budget of over $3.5 billion. He was also the principal adviser in the administration on domestic and international intellectual property (IP) policy matters. Mr. Iancu is now a partner at Irell & Manella, where he represents clients on IP matters. He also co-founded earlier this year the Renewing American Innovation Project at the bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Iancu has also taught patent law at the UCLA School of Law. Earlier in his career, he was an engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company.
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- Vice President, Charles River Associates
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- Executive Director, Innovation Alliance
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- CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting
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- Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, PENN Law School
David J. Kappos is a partner at Cravath. He is a leader in the field of intellectual property, including IP management and strategy, the development of global IP norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets. From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Kappos served as Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In that role, he advised the President, the Secretary of Commerce and the Administration on IP policy matters. Mr. Kappos led the Agency in dramatically reengineering its entire management and operational systems and its engagement with the global innovation community. He was instrumental in achieving the greatest legislative reform of the U.S. patent system in generations through passage and implementation of the Leahy‑Smith America Invents Act, signed into law by President Obama in September 2011.
Prior to leading the USPTO, Mr. Kappos held several executive posts in the legal department of IBM, the world's largest patent holder. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the company's chief intellectual property lawyer. In that capacity, he managed global intellectual property activities for IBM, including all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection and exploitation. During his more than 25 years at IBM, he also served in a variety of other roles including litigation counsel and Asia Pacific IP counsel, where he led all aspects of IP protection, including licensing, transactions support and M&A activity for the Asia/Pacific region.
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- Director of the Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital
- Tusher Professor of Global Business, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
David J. Teece is an innovation scholar who has studied how markets for know-how and intellectual property function and is well known for a series of papers on capturing value from technology. He coined the term "appropriability regime" and has explored how the appropriability regime impacts business model choices, particularly in relation to technology licensing.
Prof. Teece is the director of the Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He has authored over 30 books and 200 scholarly papers, and has been cited almost 170,000 times, per Google Scholar.
Dr. Teece has been ranked as the world's most-cited scholar in the combined field of business and management in an analysis of science-wide author citations published in PLOS Biology, a peer-reviewed journal. He is co-editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Dr. Teece has received nine honorary doctorates and has been recognized by Royal Honors.
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- ITC Commissioner
- Managing Partner at AMS TRADE LLP
- Managing Partner, Adduci Mastriani & Schaumberg LLP Former Chair and Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission
Deanna Tanner Okun is the managing partner at AMS TRADE LLP. She is an international trade attorney providing legal and strategic international trade policy advice to steer companies through the intersection where innovation confronts barriers, such as intellectual property theft, unfair trade practices, and regulatory hurdles. Her practice involves all aspects of unfair trade litigation and trade remedy advocacy. Her Section 337 work includes all stages of litigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) from pre-institution consultation to post-remedy enforcement with Customs and Border Protection. She also represents companies in Title VII antidumping and countervailing duty investigations before the ITC and the Department of Commerce. In 2017, her client secured the first negative preliminary AD/CVD determination in over seven years and her work in trade remedy proceedings on behalf of U.S. companies extends to previously rarely used trade statutes, including Section 201, 232, and 301 investigations. She works closely with contacts in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the government to create innovative solutions to her clients' legal and business challenges.
During her tenure as an ITC Commissioner, Deanna was nominated to be Deputy United States Trade Representative. In 2012, she was named Outstanding Woman of the Year by the Association of Women in International Trade (WIIT). She has served on the Federal Circuit Advisory Council since 2013. In 2019, for the seventh consecutive year, Managing Intellectual Property named Deanna one of the Top 250 Women in IP. She is also on the 2021-2022 USMCA Binational Panel Roster.
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- Executive Director
- Economist and Expert
Kirti Gupta is a noted economist and expert specializing in global matters related to technology, antitrust, and intellectual property (IP). Dr. Gupta's diverse expertise spans engineering, product, litigation, and policy issues in the technology sector. She has more than twenty years of experience working at the forefront of technologies, including mobile/wireless telecommunications, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors.
She currently serves as Vice President and Chief Economist of Global Technology at Cornerstone Research, leading their technology, digital economy, and artificial intelligence practice. Before joining Cornerstone Research, Dr. Gupta was a vice president and chief economist at Qualcomm Inc. In this role, she provided economic analysis and strategic guidance on global technology, IP, antitrust, and macroeconomic policy issues in collaboration with business stakeholders and a global network of experts, economists, attorneys, and policymakers. She worked directly on Qualcomm's strategic IP initiatives, antitrust investigations in various regions around the world, global litigation matters, mergers and acquisitions, and global trade issues.
She is a co-founder and executive director of the IPLeadershIP platform, which convenes timely dialogues on IP and antitrust policy issues on a regular basis. She is also the executive director at the Institute for Business Innovation at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley, is a co-inventor of over 40 patents in the field of wireless communications, and has published in various policy, law, and economics journals. Dr. Gupta holds an M.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
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- Cofounder of the Renewing American Innovation
Dr. Walter Copan is cofounder of the Renewing American Innovation Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Currently, he serves as vice president for research and technology transfer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He previously served as under secretary of commerce for standards and technology and 16th director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a position to which he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. He served as the U.S. principal presidential adviser on standards policy and technology matters and provided high-level oversight and strategic leadership for NIST, a world-leading science and technology institute. Under his widely acclaimed leadership, he spearheaded streamlining and modernization of foundational policies and practices for innovation and technology transfer arising from federally funded research to benefit the economy and society. Dr. Copan is a distinguished leader with wide-ranging experience spanning large company, entrepreneurial tech start-up, U.S. government, nonprofit, and other public sector settings. For the U.S. government, he also served with two of the Department of Energy national laboratories: the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is a sought-after speaker and thought leader on matters of science and technology, strategy, entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, intellectual property, and innovation. Dr. Copan began his career in research and development and business leadership at the Lubrizol Corporation. He earned undergraduate degrees and his PhD in physical chemistry from Case Western Reserve University and holds a certificate in advanced business administration studies at Harvard Business School. He was named 2020 laboratory director of the year by the U.S. Federal Laboratory Consortium. The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) recognized Dr. Copan with its 2021 Bayh-Dole Award for contributions to innovation and technology transfer.
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- SVP & GM, 4G / 5G, Qualcomm
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- Managing Director, Lauder Partners LLC
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- Author, Commentator and Columnist, the Daily Beast
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- Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Former U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce for IP, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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- United States Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Kathleen M. O'Malley was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in 2010. Prior to her elevation to the Federal Circuit, Judge O'Malley was appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by President William Clinton in 1994.
Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge O'Malley served as First Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Staff, and Chief Counsel to the Attorney General for the State of Ohio. Before joining the Attorney General's Office, Judge O'Malley was in private practice with Jones Day and Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, where she focused on complex corporate and intellectual property litigation.
Judge O'Malley began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She received her J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1982, summa cum laude and Order of the Coif. While there, she served on the Law Review and as President of the National Mock Trial Team. Judge O'Malley received her A.B. from Kenyon College in 1979 where she graduated magna cum laude, is a Phi Beta Kappa, and she also received an honorary LL.D. from Kenyon in 1995.
For her contributions to the development of IP law, she has received the following honors: the Sedona Conference Lifetime Achievement Award, the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association Jefferson Medal, the New York Intellectual Property Law Association Outstanding Public Service Award, and the Intellectual Property Owners Association's 2020 Distinguished IP Professional Award and was named to the Globe Business Media Group's IP Hall of Fame.
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- Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for District of Columbia
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- Counsel Detailee from the USPTO to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Christopher a. Coons
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- Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Department of Homeland Security 's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
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- Head of Patent Business, Nokia Technologies
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- Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Professor of Law at George Mason University 's Antonin Scalia Law School
Judge Paul R Michel served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from March, 1988 through May, 2010 and as its chief judge from December, 2004 to May 31, 2010 when he retired from the judiciary in order to speak freely on the nation's need for a stronger patent system. In pursuit of that goal, he has written dozens of articles and numerous amicus briefs for the Federal Circuit, the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court. The articles have been published in both general media and IP media, including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek magazine, STAT, Boston Sunday Globe, Fortune, Thompson-Reuters, International Business Times, The Hill, Roll Call, Bloomberg Law, the National Review and IPWatchdog, among many others. He has co-authored scholarly articles, including for the Berkeley Law School and Business School journals and the Drake University Law Review. At IP conferences, he is a ubiquitous panelist and a frequent keynote speaker. He has been called repeatedly to testify before the IP committees in Congress, including on the urgent need to reform the law of eligibility.
Judge Michel also consults for private clients and has conducted scores of mediations, moot courts and arbitrations in patent cases. In court cases in the UK and Norway and in several international arbitrations, he has testified as an expert witness on U.S. patent law.
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- Permanent Judge, High Court of Delhi
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- Partner, Covington & Burling
Makan Delrahim is Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania and former Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice. Mr. Delrahim previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Counsel. Mr. Delrahim's rich antitrust background covers the full range of industries, issues, and institutions touched upon by the work of the Antitrust Division. He is a former partner in the Los Angeles office of a national law firm. He served in the Antitrust Division from 2003 to 2005 as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General, overseeing the Appellate, Foreign Commerce, and Legal Policy sections. During that time, he played an integral role in building the Antitrust Division's engagement with its international counterparts and was involved in civil and criminal matters. He has served on the Attorney General's Task Force on Intellectual Property and as Chairman of the Merger Working Group of the International Competition Network. Mr. Delrahim was also as a Commissioner on the Antitrust Modernization Commission from 2004 to 2007. Earlier in his career, Mr. Delrahim served as antitrust counsel, and later as the Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
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- Senior Fellow of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California Berkeley Law School
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- Partner, Baker Botts Former Acting Chair and Commissioner, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Maureen K. Ohlhausen chairs Baker Botts' Global Antitrust and Competition practice. Her practice focuses on antitrust, privacy and data security and consumer protection investigations and litigation both in the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Ohlhausen joined the firm after leading the Federal Trade Commission as Acting Chairman and Commissioner. She directed all aspects of the FTC's antitrust work, including merger review and conduct enforcement, and steered all FTC consumer protection enforcement, with a particular emphasis on privacy and technology issues. A thought leader, Ms. Ohlhausen has published dozens of articles on antitrust, privacy, IP, regulation, FTC litigation, telecommunications, and international law issues in prestigious publications and has testified over a dozen times before the U.S. Congress.
Ms. Ohlhausen has relationships with officials in the U.S. and abroad, with a particular emphasis on Europe and China, and has led the U.S. delegation at international antitrust and data privacy meetings on many occasions. She has received numerous awards, including the FTC's Robert Pitofsky Lifetime Achievement Award. Prior to her role as Commissioner, Ms. Ohlhausen led the FTC's Internet Access Task Force, which produced an influential report analyzing competition and consumer protection legal issues in the areas of broadband and Internet.
In private practice, she headed the FTC practice group at a leading telecommunications firm, representing and counseling telecommunications and technology clients on antitrust compliance, privacy, and consumer protection matters before the FTC and the FCC. She also clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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- Principal Analyst With Creative Strategies
- Principal Analyst, Creative Strategies
Olivier is Principal Analyst with Creative Strategies and the author of several books about technology disruption, including his most recent Human/Machine: The Future of our Partnership with Machines, as well as Futureproof, Building Dragons, and Social Media ROI.
His areas of focus include artificial intelligence, automotive innovation, mobile photography, and the internet of things, as well as the impact of policy, regulation, and geostrategic forces on the technology sector.
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- Vice President of International Intellectual Property, Global Innovation Policy Center, US Chamber of Commerce
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- Deputy Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division
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- Academic Director and Professor of International Trade and Economic Development, University of St. Gallen
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- Senior Advisor, FTI Consulting
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- Professor of Political Science and History, Stanford University
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- Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio 's 15th District
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- Professor of Law, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California
Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the University of Southern California School of Law. He is the author of Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press 2021) and has published widely in scholarly journals on antitrust and intellectual property law and policy. He also comments and speaks regularly on legal, policy, and business developments in these areas. Prior to academia, he practiced corporate law at Cleary Gottlieb in New York.
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- Assoc. Professor of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, Vanderbilt University