Delighted to be back in the Beltway to discuss AI and the impact on patent system inclusion at the Annual IP & Social Justice CLE Seminar, organized by Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) and hosted by USPTO. Penn State Dickinson Law’s IP Law and Innovation Initiative and IIPSJ are institutional partners.

Great to have the opportunity to hear from Tiffany Johnson (Boston Scientific) Ulysses Williams III (Walmart) Idris McKelvey (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.) Lateef Mtima (Howard University School of Law) Tashia Bunch (USPTO) Esther Lim (Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP) Frank A. DeCosta, III (Finnegan) Doug (Chip) Rettew (Finnegan) Ian Ballon (Greenberg Traurig, LLP) Gerald Ivey (Finnegan) Hon. Leonard Stark (Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) Honorable Kara F. Stoll (Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) Hon. Susan Braden (Court of Federal Claims) Dalindyebo Shabalala (Suffolk University Law School) Kara Swanson Northeastern University School of Law John Whitman Creative Prisons Project Jonathan Goins Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP Ron Katz

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Congratulations to Esther, Idris, Tashia, Victoria Fisher, and their team for organizing another outstanding event.

Delighted also to join the IP community at Crowell & Moring at The Pauline Newman IP American Inn of Court gathering to celebrate Judge Pauline Newman’s service to the Court for over 40 years. I spoke about the jurisprudential importance of dissents presented in my 2017 law review article “I Dissent: The Federal Circuit’s ‘Great Dissenter,” Her Influence on the Patent Dialogue, and Why It Matters,” published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law.

I met Dickinson Law alum James Pontius (USPTO) at the event and look forward to reconnecting him with our community. Great to hear from Patrick J. Coyne (Coyne Consulting PLLC) Rachel Elsby (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP), Bethany Mihalik (U.S. International Trade Commission), Patrick Holvey, Andreas Baltatzis, Terry Rea. Thank you to Judge Hung H. Bui for inviting me.