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LES Webinar hosted by the Greater Washington, DC Chapter: World IP Day Celebration

4/26/2021
When: Monday, April 26, 2021
1:00 - 3:00 pm ET
Where: United States
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World IP Day Celebration

Webinar hosted by the LES Greater Washington, DC Chapter

Monday, April 26, 2021

(Registrations accepted until 4/26/21)

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Central

11:00 am - 1:00 pm Mountain

10:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific

Program:

World Intellectual Property Day is April 26, and LES has been at the forefront in promoting this event in the U.S. World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity.

This year's theme focuses on small business. Every business starts with an idea. Each of the millions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that operate across the globe every day started with an idea that took shape in someone’s mind and made its way to market. Creative minds the world over – architects, artists, artisans, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists and many others – come up with new ideas every day. From the arts to artificial intelligence, fashion to farming, renewable energy to retail, television to tourism, and virtual reality to video games, to name just a few.

Join us in celebrating the ingenuity and creativity that lies behind every SME, their courage to make a difference and the contributions they make in enhancing our daily lives. Support your local SMEs and champion local innovation.

 

Schedule:

1:00 – 1:05.  Welcome Introduction by Raymond Van Dyke, Van Dyke IP Law and Chair of the DC Chapter of LES

 

1:05-:1:10 - The Importance of IP to Inventors, Dr. Raymond V. Damadian, Chairman, FONAR Corporation, the inventor of the field of  Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

1:10-1:55.  USPTO Commissioners’ Forum, Presentations and fireside chat discussion with current USPTO Commissioner Andrew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and former Commissioners Bruce Lehman, Partner, Lehman Nilon & Associates and Chairman of the Board International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), David Kappos, Partner, Cravath, and Andrei Iancu, Partner, Irell and Manella, and Michelle Lee, Vice President, Amazon Web Services

1:55 - 2:00  Introductions

2:00 – 2:25.  Federal Circuit Forum, Presentations and fireside chat discussion with Federal Circuit Judges, the Honorable Kathleen O’Malley and former Chief Judge, the Honorable Paul Redmond Michel

2:25 – 2:35  The Importance of IP for the United States, Frank Cullen, Vice President of U.S. Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center

2:35 – 2:45  The Importance of Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks for SMEs, Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and Raymond Van Dyke, Van Dyke IP Law

2:45 – 2:55   The Importance of IP in Licensing, Gillian Fenton, President and Chair, LES and Senior Counsel, GSK Vaccines, and Dana Robert Colarulli, Executive Director, LESI

2:55 – 3:00  Closing remarks

 

Speakers:

 

Gillian Fenton, President and Chair, LES - Senior Counsel, GSK Vaccines

Gillian M. Fenton, Esq., CLP has been a member of LES (USA & Canada) since 1992. She has served in a variety of roles, including as member of the LES Insights Editorial Board and later Chair of the Editorial Board; as a volunteer mentor for the LES Foundation International Business Plan Competition, and as Director for Communications and Publications. Gillian is presently a member of the LES Board Executive Committee and serves on a number of other LES Board committees.

Gillian is presently Senior Counsel at GSK Vaccines, where she is the sole North American attorney for significant vaccines pipeline business development transactions (acquisitions, in-licenses, collaborations, out-licenses, and asset divestments). Gillian’s practice also includes a wide variety of collaborations and R&D funding agreements with U.S. Government entities (NIH/NIAID, BARDA and DARPA). Prior to joining GSK, Gillian was VP, Associate General Counsel & Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Emergent BioSolutions Inc., where she founded the IP department and oversaw all IP activities in support of Emergent's IPO and subsequent growth through M&A. Prior to joining EBS, while in-house patent counsel at Biogen Inc., Gillian led all IP activities in support of market launch of a new biotherapeutic product and secured a favorable outcome in a precedential patent interference proceeding. She also has over 12 years’ experience in private practice at Boston-based law firms.

Education: J.D. cum laude, Suffolk University Law School; B.Sc. Biochemistry, Trinity College. Admissions: MA, MD, DC. Registered U.S. Patent Attorney.

 

Judge Kathleen M. O'Malley, U.S. Court of Appeals 


KATHLEEN M. O’MALLEY was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Obama in 2010. Prior to her elevation to the Federal Circuit, Judge O’Malley was appointed to the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by President 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. Judge O’Malley was also in private practice with Jones Day and Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur. Judge O’Malley began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Nathaniel R. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She received her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1982, summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, she received her A.B. from Kenyon College in 1979, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and she also received an honorary LL.D. from Kenyon in 1995. Judge O’Malley is a Judicial Advisor for The Sedona Conference Working Group 9 on Patent Damages and Remedies (WG9) and The Sedona Conference Working Group 10 on Patent Litigation Best Practices (WG10) Steering Committee. For her contributions to intellectual property law during her 25 years on the bench, Judge O’Malley has been awarded 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 named to Globe Business Media Group’s IP Hall of Fame.

 

Paul Redmond Michel  Former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 

Honorable Paul Redmond Michel was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in March of 1988 by President Ronald Reagan. On December 25, 2004, he assumed the duties of Chief Judge. After his elevation to Chief Judge, he served as one of 27 judges on the Judicial Conference of the United States, the governing body of the Judicial Branch. In 2005 he was appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to also serve on the Judicial Conference’s seven-judge Executive Committee. On May 31, 2010, Chief Judge Michel stepped down from the bench after serving more than 22 years on the court.

 

In his years on the bench Judge Michel judged thousands of appeals and wrote over 800 opinions, approximately one-third of which were in patent cases.

 

Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Michel was assistant district attorney in the Office of the Deputy District Attorney for Investigations in Philadelphia from 1966-74, as well as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve from 1966-72. From 1974-75, he was the Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and from 1975-76 was assistant counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He then became the deputy chief and Koreagate prosecutor for the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice from 1976-88. He was the associate deputy U.S. attorney general in 1978 and in 1981 became counsel and administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter until his judicial appointment. He has served as adjunct faculty at several institutions of higher education including the George Washington University Law School and John Marshall Law School. In 2012 he joined the Intellectual Property Advisory Council at the University of Akron School of Law.

 

Judge Michel has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Jefferson Medal, the Frederico Award, the Katz-Kiley Prize, the Eli Whitney Prize, the Sedona Conference® Lifetime Achievement Award, and awards by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property, AIPLA, IPO, the Linn Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, and other leading organizations. He was named one of the 50 most influential leaders in intellectual property in the world by Managing Intellectual Property magazine and inducted into Intellectual Asset Management magazine’s International Hall of Fame.

 

A frequent speaker on IP subjects, he has also testified before Congress on patent reform legislation and has served as Special Advisor to the Patent Reform Task Force.

 

Judge Michel earned his B.A. from Williams College in 1963 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1966.

 

Michelle K. Lee, Vice President, Amazon Web Services

 

Michelle K. Lee is a technology executive, corporate board director, former chief executive of a large governmental agency, digital transformation strategist and leading intellectual property expert.  Ms. Lee has distinguished herself at the top levels in technology, law, business and government and has spent most of her professional career advising and building some of the country’s most innovative companies.  

Ms. Lee is the current Vice President of the Machine Learning Solutions Lab at Amazon Web Services.  In this role, she leads a global business whose mission is to work with companies across all industries to solve their most pressing business challenges using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data. 
Prior to Amazon, Ms. Lee served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), where she led one of the largest intellectual property offices in the world with ~13,000 employees and $3+ billion budget.  In this role, Ms. Lee served as the principal advisor to the President through the Secretary of Commerce on intellectual property policy.  Among the initiatives during her tenure, she led the Agency’s efforts to pass the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, defined the vision for the first regional offices of the USPTO and stood up 3 of the 4 offices in Denver, Dallas and the Silicon Valley, and led the USPTO’s focus on enhancing patent quality.  Ms. Lee is the first woman to hold the position in our country’s 220+ year history.
Ms. Lee was also the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Deputy General Counsel at Google, and a partner at the law firm of Fenwick & West, where she focused on intellectual property and litigation matters.  Ms. Lee clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.  She also worked as a computer scientist at the Hewlett-Packard Research and the MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratories.  Ms. Lee holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, where she graduated at the top of her class, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  

For her contributions to her field and profession, Ms. Lee has received numerous honors including the “Champion of Intellectual Property Award” from the District of Columbia Bar Association’s IP Section, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Bar Association’s inaugural award in 2017, the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology’s IP Award for public service improving the nation’s patent system, the National Law Journal’s “Intellectual Property Trailblazer and Pioneer” award, recognition by Politico as one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Visionaries in American Public Policy,” induction into the ChIPs Hall of Fame, Legal Momentum’s Women of Achievement Award, the ICAS Liberty Award for professional distinction and important contributions to the ideal of great American values, recognition by Intellectual Asset Management in their Top 50 who helped shape the intellectual property landscape as well as others.

Ms. Lee currently serves on the MIT Corporation, the board of trustees and governing body of MIT, and was a corporate board director for alarm.com (NASDAQ: ALRM) and Nauto, Inc.  She also is emeritus board member of ChIPs, a non-profit organization Ms. Lee co-founded, whose mission is to support the advancement of women and girls in technology, law and policy.  Ms. Lee speaks frequently on digital transformation, artificial intelligence, innovation, intellectual property and diversity.

 

Drew Hirshfeld, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Drew Hirshfeld is performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Mr. Hirshfeld's permanent role is Commissioner for Patents, where he manages and leads the Patents organization as its chief operating officer. He is responsible for managing and directing all aspects of the organization that affect administration of patent operations, examination policy, patent quality management, international patent cooperation, resources and planning, and budget administration. During his time as Commissioner, Mr. Hirshfeld has led the Patents business unit by emphasizing both transparency and collaboration. He has managed efforts to ensure the consistency and reliability of patent grants. Mr. Hirshfeld has further played a lead role to ensure that the examining corps is provided with updated examination guidance and training.

Prior to serving as Commissioner for Patents, Mr. Hirshfeld held the positions of Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy and Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. Mr. Hirshfeld began his career in 1994 as a Patent Examiner and became a Supervisory Patent Examiner in 2001. He was promoted to the Senior Executive Service in 2008 as a Group Director in Technology Center 2100.

Mr. Hirshfeld received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Vermont and a J.D. from Western New England College School of Law.

 

 

David J. Kappos, Partner, Cravath

David J. Kappos is a partner at Cravath. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost leaders in the field of intellectual property, including intellectual property management and strategy, the development of global intellectual property norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets. Mr. Kappos supports the Firm’s clients with a wide range of their most complex intellectual property issues, including those pertaining to blockchain and financial technology (FinTech).
From August 2009 to January 2013, Mr. Kappos served as Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In that role, he advised the President, the Secretary of Commerce and the Administration on intellectual property policy matters. As Director of the USPTO, he led the Agency in dramatically re-engineering its entire management and operational systems as well as 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. Mr. Kappos joined IBM as a development engineer. During his more than 25 years at IBM, he served in a variety of roles including litigation counsel and Asia Pacific IP counsel, based in Tokyo, Japan, where he led all aspects of intellectual property protection, including licensing, transactions support and mergers and acquisitions activity for the Asia/Pacific region.

Mr. Kappos has received numerous accolades for his contributions to the field of intellectual property, including, among others, the 2014 Global Agenda Council Vision Award for the Intellectual Property Council’s pro bono initiative from the World Economic Forum, the 2014 Jefferson Medal from the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association (NJIPLA), the 2013 Board of Director’s Excellence Award from the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the 2013 Champion of Intellectual Property Award from the District of Columbia Bar Association and the 2013 North America Government Leadership Award from Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). He was named one of the “Top 25 Icons of IP” by Law360, one of the “50 Most Influential People in Intellectual Property” and the “Outstanding Practitioner of the Year in IP Transactions” by Managing IP, one of the “Top 50 Intellectual Property Trailblazers & Pioneers” and one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” by The National Law Journal, “Intellectual Property Professional of the Year” by the Intellectual Property Owners Association and inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame by Intellectual Asset Management Magazine in 2012. Mr. Kappos was also recognized as a leading lawyer by IAM Strategy 300, IAM Patent 1000, World IP Review, The Legal 500 US, Who’s Who Legal: Patents, Lawdragon, Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America. He is a frequent speaker and has authored many published articles on various intellectual property, innovation and leadership topics.

Mr. Kappos serves on the Boards of Directors of the Partnership for Public Service, the Center for Global Enterprise and the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation. He is the Chair of the Advisory Council of the Naples Roundtable, and the U.S. Chair of the U.S.-China IP Cooperation Dialogue. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School, where he teaches copyright litigation, and Cornell Law School, where he teaches legal advising for the start-up general counsel.
Mr. Kappos was born in Palos Verdes, California. He received a B.S. summa cum laude in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 1983 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.

 

Andrei Iancu

 

Andrei Iancu focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling. He previously served as the 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.

As head of the USPTO, Andrei oversaw one of the largest IP offices in the world, an agency with approximately 13,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $3.5 billion. He also served as the administration’s principal advisor on domestic and international IP issues. Among Andrei’s initiatives as director was the creation of the National Council for Expanding American Innovation, a group of industry, academia and government leaders tasked with helping the USPTO develop a comprehensive national strategy to broaden participation in the innovation ecosystem demographically, geographically and economically.

Prior to his government service, Andrei spent two decades at Irell and served as the firm’s managing partner from 2012 to 2018, the maximum allowable tenure. In his time at the firm, he represented clients in a variety of high-profile matters in district courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the USPTO. In addition to litigation, Andrei was involved in all other aspects of IP practice, including prosecution, due diligence and licensing. He represented plaintiffs and defendants across the technical and scientific spectra, including those associated with medical devices, genetic testing, therapeutics, the internet, telephony, TV broadcasting, video game systems and computer peripherals.

Throughout his career, Andrei has been widely recognized for his work, earning accolades from publications including Chambers USA, International Asset Management, Managing IP, Daily Journal, California Lawyer, Los Angeles Business Journal, Legal 500, and many others. Most recently, he received the “Excellence Award” from American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). In 2019, Andrei received the “IP Champion Award” from the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation for “his extraordinary leadership in advocating for the value of intellectual property to stimulate the progress of innovation.” Andrei also received the 2020 IEEE-USA “Award for Distinguished Public Service” for “his achievement of restoring balance and confidence in the U.S. patent system.”

In 2021, Andrei co-founded the Renewing American Innovation Project at the bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He previously taught patent law at UCLA School of Law, and he is a sought-after speaker and writer on issues related to IP and innovation.

Prior to law school, Andrei was an engineer at Hughes Aircraft Co. where he received several honors including the “Malcolm R. Currie Innovation Award.” He is still licensed as a Professional Engineer in California.

 

Frank Cullen, Vice President of U.S. Intellectual Property Policy

 

Frank W. Cullen Jr. is vice president of U.S. intellectual property (IP) policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center. Cullen directs the center’s domestic programs in promoting and protecting IP rights in both the online and physical markets. He guides the efforts to advance IP enforcement and deter trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy.
Cullen began his career in Los Angeles, working as a consultant and later vice president for FCA Company, a full-service public affairs and government relations firm. In 1989, he was appointed public relations director for the city of Palm Springs, California, and conceived and implemented a promotional campaign featuring then-Mayor Sonny Bono. Subsequently, he served as director of Bono for U.S. Senate ’92, as well as provided consulting services to a wide array of clients in the Palm Springs region. 

When Bono was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994, he asked Cullen to join him to direct his communications shop, a position he held until Bono’s untimely death in 1998. Then, he joined Rep. Mary Bono as her communications director. After one year, he was promoted to chief of staff, a position he held for 15 years. 


An accomplished communicator and writer, Cullen appeared as a guest on numerous TV and radio shows, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning,Larry King Live, ABC Radio, CBS Radio. Cullen provided political analysis and election coverage for KESQ TV, KMIR TV, and The Desert Sun newspaper and guest editorials that appeared in newspapers in California and Washington, D.C.

Cullen also worked for legendary director Francis Ford Coppola at his Zoetrope Studios in Hollywood, California, and continues to have an avid appreciation for cinema and the performing arts.
He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, with a B.F.A. degree from the School of Cinema and Television. He resides in Vienna, Virginia, with his wife, Sonia, and their children, Taylor Anne and Wil.

 

Bruce A Lehman, Founding Partner. Lehman Nilon & Associates

 

Founding Partner, Bruce A. Lehman, is an American attorney with over 40 years of experience in all aspects of intellectual property law and policy.

His public service includes serving as International Intellectual Property Institute, Chairman of the Board, Acting Chair for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents & Trademarks, Counsel for the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, and Member, WIPO Policy Advisory Commission.

The International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, based in Washington, D.C. which he founded in December 1998. The Institute is a think tank and development organization that promotes the creation of modern intellectual property systems and the use of intellectual property rights as a mechanism for investment, technology transfer and economic development. IIPI has engaged in capacity building programs in more than 30 countries in all parts of the world.

 

  

Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University 

Adam Mossoff is a Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where he teaches a wide range of subjects in property and intellectual property law. He is Founder, Executive Director, and a Senior Scholar at CPIP. He has published extensively on the theory and history of how patents, copyrights and other intellectual property rights are fundamental property rights, which should be legally secured to their owners in their use and commercialization in the free market. His recent scholarship has focused on patent licensing, patent litigation (patent wars), and private-ordering institutions for commercializing innovation, such as patent pools and standard setting organizations. His writings on patent law and policy have also appeared in the New York Times, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, The Hill, Politico, and other media outlets. He has been invited to testify before the Senate and House of Representatives on patent legislation, and he has been invited to present his research at the PTO, FTC, DOJ, National Academy of Sciences, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Professor Mossoff’s articles can be downloaded here.

 

In addition to his academic and CPIP work, Professor Mossoff is currently a member of the Public Policy Committee of the Licensing Executives Society, the Academic Advisory Board of the Copyright Alliance, and has served as past Chair and Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IEEE-USA. On behalf of these and other organizations, he has spoken at numerous congressional briefings on topics relating to patent and copyright law.

 

 

Dana Colarulli, Executive Director, Licensing Executives Society International

 

Dana Robert Colarulli is an attorney and senior government affairs professional with more than two decades of experience working on legal-related technology policy and intellectual property issues in and with the private sector, the Executive Branch and the U.S. Congress.  

He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Licensing Executive Society International (LESI), the umbrella organization of 33 national and regional associations in 90 countries around the world supporting professionals who license intellectual property. In February 2020, he also joined the DC-based firm America Continental Group (ACG) as a partner supporting policy analysis and governmental engagement around intellectual property issues. 

From 2009- 2019, Mr. Colarulli served as the Director of the Office of Governmental Affairs as a member of the Executive Management team at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) facilitating substantive patent, copyright and trademark and related policy discussions and advocating for USPTO operational priorities.   Prior to that role, Mr. Colarulli was the Director of Government Relations and Legislative Counsel for the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).  He has also worked in the U.S. Senate, in a DC-based Law Firm, at the U.S. Small Business Administration and at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 

He was born in Rhode Island and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.

 

 

Raymond Van Dyke, Attorney, Van Dyke Intellectual Property Law

Raymond Van Dyke is an 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, in 2010 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 teaches an IP course for engineers, business people and other professionals at Southern Methodist University, and also teaches at NIH and other institutions. He is the Chair of the DC Chapter of LES; an AIPLA Fellow and former Chair of a number of Committees; recent 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, 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.

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