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A Fireside Chat with USPTO Director Kathi Vidal
hosted and sponsored by the Washington, DC Chapter
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Eastern
10:00 am - 11:00 am Central
9:00 am - 10:00 am Mountain
8:00 am - 9:00 am Pacific
FREE
Program:
Director Vidal has been the head of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for over two years. In this fireside chat, the Director will talk about her initiatives and various positions that the Office has taken during her tenure, including on AI, the terminal disclaimer rule making proposal, PTAB reforms for the over 230 PTAB judges, fraudulent trademark filings, patent eligibility and thickets, and her efforts to reshape the USPTO and make it robust, reliable and transparent. Speakers:  | Kathi Vidal, Director of the United States Patent & Trademark Office
Director Vidal began her career as an engineer for General Electric and Lockheed Martin, working in the areas of artificial intelligence, software engineering, and circuitry. From 1996 to 1997, she served as a law clerk for Judge Alvin Anthony Schall of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. From 1997 to 2017, she was a litigator at Fish & Richardson. From April 2017 to April 2022, she was most recently the Silicon Valley managing partner and patent litigator at Winston & Strawn.
President Joe Biden nominated Vidal to be the next Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and she was sworn in as Under Secretary on April 19, 2022. As the chief executive of the USPTO, she leads one of the largest intellectual property (IP) offices in the world, with more than 13,000 public servants and an annual budget of more than $4 billion. She is the principal IP advisor to the President and the Administration, through the Secretary of Commerce, and is focused on incentivizing and protecting U.S. innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity. Vidal was named to Forbes’ 50 over 50 in the innovation category in 2024 for her work bringing more underrepresented inventors and entrepreneurs into the innovation ecosystem, and as one of Managing IP’s top 50 most influential people in IP in 2022. She leads an agency whose mission is to help American workers and businesses compete and collaborate, especially in ground-breaking technologies and across all demographics. As Director of the USPTO, Vidal is working to expand American innovation for and from all, and to bring more ideas to impact, including serving as the Vice Chair of the Council for Inclusive Innovation (CI2), alongside Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo and the Council members, , a Co-Chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE), and the Co-Founder, with the Secretary, of the Women’s Entrepreneurship (WE) initiative. | 
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Raymond Van Dyke, Attorney, Van Dyke Intellectual Property Law
Raymond
Van Dyke is an IP/Patent Attorney and Educator. In his practice he
helps a variety of clients in their IP matters. He specializes in patent
and trademark matters in various technologies, litigation, licensing,
and procurement. After being a partner in big firms, he started his own
IP consultancy in Washington, DC, with diverse domestic and
international clientele and technologies, handling matters at the USPTO,
Federal Circuit and local State and Federal courts. He is an Adjunct
Professor at Geroge Washington University, and teaches IP courses for
engineers, business people and other professionals at the University of
Maryland and George Mason University, also teaching about the history
and philosophy of IP, history of technology, famous inventors and deals,
etc. He has also taught at Southern Methodist University, American
University, and across the world. Ray also teaches at NIH and other
institutions. He is the Senior Vice President of Special Events at LES
and Chair of the LES DC Chapter; an AIPLA Fellow and former Chair of a
number of Committees; Chair of the Montgomery County Bar Association IP
Section, former Board Member of the DC Chapter of the ACM, former Board
Member of ITechLaw (Computer Law Association); and continues his
involvement in IPO, the MSBA, AIPPI, ABA, BIO, IEEE and other legal and
technical organizations. Ray got his BS, MS in Computer Science and law
degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is
licensed to practice in DC, MD, NY, NJ and TX, as well as the USPTO, and
is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, Federal, Second, Third, Fourth
and Fifth Circuit Courts and a number of District Courts, Court of
International Trade and Federal Court of Claims. Ray also continues in
his efforts to fight on behalf of the small inventor community in
protecting the principles of the patent system. |
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