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The 2025 IP Awareness Summit®
“Innovation, AI and Ownership - Building a bridge to the future”
Draft as of 2.14.25
8:00-9:00 PDT Registration - Coffee and informal discussion
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9:00 - 9:15 Welcome - Wisdom Learning Center
Bruce Berman, Chairman & Co-Founder, CIPU; Brody Berman Associates
Andy Sherman, Executive VP and GC, Dolby
Loren Newman, Director, Policy & Business Affairs, Dolby
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9:15-9:45 Keynote: Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce,
USPTO Director, 2018-2021; Chairman, C4IP
Topic: Democracy, Property and IP Rights
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9:45 – 10:30 AI’s emerging role in innovation, creative expression and IP rights
AI LLMs can turn the data and content they are trained on into valuable responses.
How does efficiency of this nature facilitate invention? How might it discourage it?
Speakers:
- Policymaker - Jerry Ma (Chief AI Officer, USPTO)
- Author - The Big Steal (Jonathan Barnett, Dir Media, Entertainment, Tech Law at USC)
- Inventor/creator or business employing AI -
- Tech/AI ethics & governance - Karen Silverman, CEO, Cantellus Group
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10:30-10:45 Networking - Coffee
10:45 – 11:15 Discussion Breakout - Facilitator-led
Ways to make patents and copyrights relevant in an AI world
The Cafe, Atrium and main space - 30 minutes
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11:15 – 12:15 Current Patent and trade secret strategies for generating
AI value and return
Over the past decade, patents, copyrights and trade secrets have been subject to pressure from legislation, the courts and media that have made sharing and monetizing inventions and content challenging. What combination of strategies are necessary for IP value and monetization to succeed today and how do we effect positive change?
Speakers:
- Licensing/monetization - Louis Carboneau (Tangible IP, ex-MSFT licensing exec)
- Valuation/M&A - Efrat Kasznik (Foresight Valuation; Stanford Business School)
- IP Hall of Fame - Brian Hinman (ex-Philips IP chief; IBM, InterDigital, Aon, Verizon)
- Xerox-PARC-SRI - Mike Waltrip (Director IP strategy and commercialization)
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12:15-1:00 Lunch adjacent to the Wisdom Learning Center
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1:15-1:30 Facilitators’ summary of first breakout
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1:30 - 2:00 Featured Speaker - Akeem Shannon
'Shark Tank’ contestant, Flipstik inventor and successful entrepreneur
Topic: An inventor’s journey: From psych ward to ‘Shark Tank’ and beyond
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2:00-2:45 The shifting IP business landscape: the U.S., Europe and Asia
Europe and China have been strengthening their innovation and IP systems,
as the U.S., once the Gold Standard for IP rights, continues to decline.
What are the possible impacts on evolving technologies like Gen AI and semiconductors?
Speakers:
- Asia IP expert - Mark Cohen (ex-Microsoft, USPTO and UC Berkeley)
- Joff Wild - Sisvel, Dir of Strategic Communications; fmr Editor-in-Chief, IAM
- Tencent – Daniel Marti (Head of Public Affairs & Global Policy; fmr White House IP Czar
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2:45-3:00 Networking - Coffee
3:00-3:30 Discussion breakout - Facilitator-led
Ways to make IP rights meaningful to key audiences
The Cafe, Atrium and main space - 30 minutes
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3:30 – 4:15 Entrepreneurs/investors: Identifying the latest IP challenges and opportunities
Where are the best opportunities for ideas and businesses today, and how is AI and IP likely to impact them? Small Language Models, healthcare AI, and possible open-source solutions.
Speakers:
- Bloomberg News, SF - Malathi Nayak (IP and litigation reporter)
- Innovation and IP authority - Adam Mosssoff (George Mason Law, Chair IP Forum, Hudson Inst)
- Dolby Labs - John Dubiansky (Sr. Director IP Standards & Policy; Attorney Advisor, FTC)
- James Conley- (NAI Fellow; inventor on 15 patents; Kellogg School of Management)
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4:15 – 5:00 Acknowledging IP source, fakes & theft - transparency matters
Discussion about transparency and validation of copyrighted content source
(provenance) and changes. The emerging role in images such as photography,
music, art and journalism, and the implications for patents.
Speakers:
- Talal Shamoon (CEO, Intertrust Technologies, DRM leader; inventor)
- David Lowery (Singer-Songwriter, ‘Cracker,’ 21 albums; U. of GA School of Business)
- Jonathan Taplin (Film producer; author; copyright advocate; former Bob Dylan tour manager)
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5:00-5:15 Facilitators’ summary of second break out
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5:15-5:20 Closing remarks - What each of us can do
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5:20 – 6:20 Networking Reception in the Cafe: Cocktails, Hors d’oeuvres