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The 2025 IP Awareness Summit®
“Innovation, AI and Ownership - Building a bridge to the future”
As of 4.10.25
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 Dir 2018-2021; Chrm, Council for Innovation Promotion
Topic: American Competitiveness, Innovation and AI
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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 - Jonathan Barnett (Dir Media, Entertainment, Technology Law at USC)
- AI user - Karan Yadav (CEO N.A., Trifork; fmr Worldwide Leader for Enterprise Solutions, Apple)
- Tech/AI ethics & governance - Karen Silverman (CEO, Cantellus Group; fmr Latham Partner)​
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10:30 – 11:00 Discussion Breakout - Facilitator-led
Does AI help IP rights or hinder them?
The Atrium, Library or Cafe - 30 minutes
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11:00-11:15 Networking - Coffee
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11:15 – 12:15 Current Patent and trade secret strategies for generating
IP 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)
- Trade Secret and IP/AI Litigation - Nathan Shaffer (Partner, Orrick, San Francisco)
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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:
- Tencent – Daniel Marti (Head of Public Affairs & Global Policy; fmr White House 'IP Czar'
- China IP expert - Mark Cohen (ex-Microsoft, USPTO Beijing and UC Berkeley)
- Innovation Policy - Jamie Simpson (Chief Policy Officer, C4IP; fmr Counsel, House Judiciary Comm)
- Joff Wild - Sisvel (Dir of Strategic Communications; fmr Editor-in-Chief, IAM)
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2:45-3:15 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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3:15-3:30 Networking - Coffee
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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:
- Innovation and IP authority - Adam Mossoff (George Mason Law, Chair IP Forum, Hudson Inst)
- Dolby Labs - John Dubiansky (Sr. Director IP Standards & Policy; Attorney Advisor, FTC)
- Kellogg School of Management - James Conley (NAI Fellow, inventor, entrepreneur)
- Soryn IP Capital - Phil Hartstein (inventor; engineer; investor; ex-CEO, Finjan Holdings, NASDAQ)
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4:15 – 5:00 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:
- SVP, Innovation Policy - Brad Watts (Global Innovation Policy Center, Washington)
- CEO, Intertrust Technologies - Talal Shamoon (Digital Rights Mgmt leader; inventor)
- Lead Singer-Songwriter, ‘Cracker,’ - David Lowery (25 albums; Prof. U. of GA School of Business)
- Film producer (Scorsese); author - Jonathan Taplin (Dir Emeritus, USC Innovation Lab)
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5:00-5:15 Facilitators’ summary of second break out
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5:15-5:20 Closing remarks: A call to action - What each of us can do
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5:20 – 6:20 Networking Reception: Drinks and hors d’oeuvres
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