Threats to Innovation in America

Webinar hosted by the Greater Washington DC Chapter: Threats to Innovation in America

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

(Registration is accepted until 12/14/2021)

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Central

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Mountain

11:00 am - 1:00 pm Pacific

Program:

The ongoing pandemic, high consumer price index with inflation, and various economic measures of the current administration all pose threats to entrepreneurs and innovators in the U.S. Will the chaos of late creates opportunities or crush the American spirit? Will the Biden Administration affirmatively support inventors, e.g., with a pro-innovation and pro-patent system Director? This panel of experts will talk about these and other threats in a lively format.

Speakers:

Randall Rader, Expert and Educator

RANDALL R. RADER, former Chief Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2010-2014) Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1990-2010) Federal Trial Judge, United States Claims Court (later Court of Federal Claims) (1988-1990) Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittees (1980-1988) Counsel, House of Representatives, Interior and Ways and Means Committees (1975-1980) For over 25 years, Judge Rader has been a thought leader in the field of intellectual property law and jurisprudence. His work as Chief Judge, his publications and his work teaching patent law globally to students, judges and government officials has left an indelible mark on the field of IP law and the protection of IP rights throughout the world. Judge Rader was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 and assumed the duties of Chief Judge on June 1, 2010. He was appointed to the United States Claims Court (now the U. S. Court of Federal Claims) by President Ronald W. Reagan in 1988. Before appointment to the Court of Federal Claims, former Chief Judge Rader served as Minority and Majority Chief Counsel to Subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. From 1975 to 1980, he served as Counsel in the House of Representatives for representatives serving on the Interior, Appropriations, and Ways and Means Committees. Since leaving the bench in 2014, Judge Rader has founded the Rader Group, initially focusing on arbitration, mediation, and legal consulting and legal education services. Judge Rader has presided over a major arbitration under ICC rules in Paris; conducted mediations to settle ongoing litigation; joined law faculty at Tsinghua University; conducted full-credit courses at leading law schools in Washington, D.C., Seattle, Santa Clara, Bangkok, Seoul, Tokyo, Munich; consulted with major corporations and law firms on IP policy and litigation; and advised foreign governments on international IP standards. He continues to advocate improvements in innovation policy through speaking engagements worldwide.

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

Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and a Senior Fellow and Chair of the Forum for Intellectual Property, Hudson Institute. His research has been relied on by the Supreme Court, by the Federal Circuit, and by agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He has been invited numerous times to testify before the Senate and the House of Representatives on proposed intellectual property legislation. His writings on intellectual property policy have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Slate, Newsweek, and in other media outlets. He is also a Visiting Intellectual Property Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding.

Chris Israel, Senior Partner at ACG

Chris Israel is a Senior Partner at ACG and is also the co-lead of the firm’s technology and intellectual property group. He joined ACG in 2010, after serving in the George W. Bush Administration as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Commerce and later becoming the first U.S. International Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.

At ACG, Chris works with a diverse range of clients including some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world to support their efforts to build a policy environment in the U.S. that promotes and protects their investments in intellectual property. He has also developed a unique focus leading a coalition of top venture capitalists and innovative startups to pursue a policy agenda that has led to improvements in tax policy, investments in R&D, and strengthening patent protection.

Chris maintains a leadership profile working on IP and innovation issues and has been a frequent public speaker and has testified before Congress multiple times both as an Administration official and since he left public service. He was previously named one of the 50 “Most Influential People on IP” by Managing Intellectual Property magazine. His international experience in government, particularly in working with China, has enabled him to successfully engage clients on global trade and technology matters ranging from the negotiations of trade agreements, tariff policy, and engaging international organizations. His client relationships have included automakers, global manufacturing companies, shipping companies, and Chinese e-commerce and social media platforms seeking to better understand the U.S. market.

Chris’ experience leading coalitions has also included serving as Executive Director of the musicFIRST Coalition during the lead-up to the passage of the landmark Music Modernization Act. During this time he was named to Medium’s inaugural “Power 10” list of music policy leaders. Within ACG, he provides guidance on the firm’s day-to-day interaction with all its clients and helps lead ACG’s extensive policy research team. He has also launched the firm’s podcast focused on policy trends and developments in Washington.

Earlier in his career, Chris worked on international policy issues at Time Warner where he was part of a team that supported then-CEO, Gerald Levin, to develop the Global Business Dialogue on E-Commerce a ground-breaking global organization of CEOs from the U.S., EU, and Asia that developed industry best practices on matters such as online privacy, cross border data flows, and online taxation. Prior to Time Warner, he served on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide to U.S. Representatives Jan Meyers (R-KS) and Todd Tiahrt (R-KS). Chris received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and an M.B.A. from The George Washington University.

Timothy H. Lee, Senior Vice-President of Legal and Public Affairs for the Center for Individual Freedom

Timothy H. Lee is Senior Vice-President of Legal and Public Affairs for the Center for Individual Freedom, an Alexandria, Virginia-based nonprofit organization established in 1998 to protect Constitutional rights, promote free market principles, and advance international liberty.

Prior to joining CFIF in 2006, Mr. Lee practiced labor & employment law and commercial litigation at law firms in the Los Angeles, California and Phoenix, Arizona areas, including such worldwide firms as Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and Quarles & Brady LLP. He also served as in-house labor & employment counsel at Chubb Group, Ltd. Mr. Lee received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Arizona State University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Lee subsequently received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Southern California, where he was selected from the top ten percent of his class to serve as a member of the Southern California Law Review. He has made numerous radio and television appearances, both national and international, and participates frequently in live discussion panels on a wide variety of legal and political topics across the country.

 Moderator:

Raymond 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, businesspeople 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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