Topic:  Patent Year in Review Speaker:  Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and affiliated faculty in the Symbolic Systems program. In addition to teaching, he also litigates and counsels clients in all areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and internet law in his role as of counsel at Lex Lumina. Date:  Thursday, February 20, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Andrei's Conscious Cuisine, 2607 Main St, Irvine, CA 92614 Paper to accompany talk (added February 20, 2025) Registration:Member: $55.00Non-Member: $80.00Student Member: $20.00  

Speaker: Andrei Iancu Andrei Iancu is a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell and one of the leading voices in intellectual property law and innovation policy. He is a former Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a position to which he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Andrei has decades of experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in IP matters across the technical and scientific spectra, including medical devices, genetic testing, therapeutics, the Internet, telephony, TV broadcasting, video game systems and computer peripherals. He represents clients in litigation and trials before the district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the USPTO, the Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court, and also counsels clients on obtaining, licensing, enforcing and defending against IP rights globally.  The topic will be announced as soon as possible in a future announcement. Date:  Thursday, March 20, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Andrei's Conscious Cuisine, 2607 Main St, Irvine, CA 92614 Registration:Member: $55.00Non-Member: $80.00Student Member: $20.00