Non Obvious with Hugh Hansen: Renata Hesse

Enjoyed Hugh Hansen's interview with Renata Hesse. The interview traces Renata's life and professional journey. It also provides interesting insights, some rarely heard, on the institutions and issues that lie at the heart of competition and innovation policy. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6g8TeIbR60

Digital Platforms Conference – March 13, 2020

We're excited to announce our inaugural digital platforms conference. We expect a good group of representatives from tech companies, practice, academia, and government. The conference will cover 4 broad areas: intellectual property, digital transformation in the supply chain/IoT, antitrust, and privacy issues. The event is scheduled for Friday, March 13. More details to come. Hope to see you then!

FALP 2020

The Faculty-Administrator Leadership (FALP) program at the University of Illinois at Chicago offers tenured faculty on-campus mentorship, off-campus exposure, and shadowing opportunities to understand administrative and leadership issues at a university-wide level.

Photo highlights from 63rd Annual IP Conference

Thank you again to the speakers and attendees who traveled from near and far to join us for our 63rd Annual IP Conference! I'm delighted to share photo highlights from the day. http://bit.ly/358t3aY

NAPP writes on Takeaways from AI Roundtable

Delighted to share the first in a series of posts by Jessie Suen, who represented the National Association of Patent Practitioners at our recent roundtable on AI. In these posts, she discusses her takeaways (subject to the Chatham House rules in place during the roundtable). http://bit.ly/2sKcFzh

Happy Thanksgiving!; Remembering Don Dunner

Happy Thanksgiving! Some in the IP community shared with IPWatchdog what or who they were thankful for. Some extolled IP education, others identified strong leadership at the USTPO and IP associations, the patent bar, inventors, as well as developments in Europe and China. These were all well-chosen. For me, 2019 will always be connected with Don Dunner's life and legacy.

IPWatchdog covers 63rd Annual IP Conference, Participants share their key takeaways

We were honored to have IPWatchdog cover our 63rd Annual IP Conference. A special thanks to participants who shared their takeaways from the event. It is encouraging to hear that the Conference continues to serve its core mission in bringing together leaders from government, the judiciary, academia, practice, nonprofits, interest groups, and students, to build bridges and make meaningful progress together toward overcoming the challenges we face. http://bit.ly/2OLYscc

The Doctrine of Equivalents @ McAndrew, Held & Malloy

Delighted to join attorneys at McAndrews, Held & Malloy for a lively lunchtime discussion of my recent empirical study on the patent law doctrine of equivalents.

USPTO Tweet

Another pleasant surprise. A colleague shared with me this tweet by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) featuring Director Andrei Iancu and Chief Policy Officer (CPO) and Director for International Affairs Shira Perlmutter at our 63rd Annual IP Conference

Legal Realism & IP

JMLS, in conjunction with Fordham Law School and Texas A&M School of Law, is considering hosting an event centered on legal realism and IP.