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The 2025 IP Awareness Summit®
“Innovation, AI and Ownership - Building a bridge to the future”
Draft as of 12.10.24
8:00-9:00 PDT Registration - Coffee and informal discussion
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9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
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: TBA
Topic: IP Rights and AI Benefits - Learning to Live Together
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9:45 – 10:45 Unbundling AI’s 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:
- AI systems architect - Arlyne Simon, Intel biomedical engineer; author, ‘Abby Invents’)
- Policymaker - Jerry Ma (Chief AI Officer, USPTO; pending approval)
- AI platform/LLM - OpenAI, Llhama, Gemini, or other
- AI ethics and transparency -
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10:45 – 11:15 Discussion Breakout - Facilitator-led
How can we better convey the importance of IP rights?
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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12:30-1:20 Lunch in the Cafe
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1:20-1:30 Facilitators’ summary of first breakout
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1:30 - 2:00 Featured Speaker: Akeem Shannon,
'Shark Tank’ contestant, Flipstik inventor and entrepreneur
Topic: An inventor’s journey: From psych ward to ‘Shark Tank’ and beyond
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2:00-2:45 China, the U.S. and the shifting IP landscape
China has been strengthening its innovation and IP system, as the U.S., once the Gold Standard, has weakened. What are the possible impacts on evolving technologies like Gen AI and machine learning from the two still very different IP systems.
Speakers:
- China IP expert - Mark Cohen (ex-Microsoft, USPTO and UC Berkeley)
- Leading innovation and IP analyst - Adam Mosssoff (George Mason Law; 100+ articles)
- Dolby-Beijing - Matt Roberts (Dir of Policy & Business; ex-Oracle)
- Alibaba, Tencent, et al. representative
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2:45-3:15 Discussion breakout - Facilitator-led
Ways IP rights can make AI safer and more reliable
The Cafe, Atrium and main space - 30 minutes
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3:15 – 4:00 Transparency Matters - Tracking content source and changes to prevent abuse
Discussion about transparency and validation of content origination (provenance) and changes; the emerging role of the Adobe-led, open-source Content Authenticity Initiative in journalism, photography and creative expression, and the implications for other IP rights.
Speakers:
- Santiago Lyon (Adobe, Content Authenticity Initiative, war photographer)
- Talal Shamoon (CEO, Intertrust Technologies, DRM leader; inventor)
- David Lowery (Singer-Songwriter, ‘Cracker,’ 21 albums; U. of GA School of Business)
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4:00 – 4:45 Entrepreneurs and 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:
- ’Story’ - (Andreessen-funded IP theft prevention business)
- Bloomberg News, SF - Malathi Nayak (IP and litigation reporter)
- Stanford University VP technology transfer - (ret) - Kathy Ku (Wilson Sonsini)
- James Conley- (NAI Fellow; inventor on 15 patents; Kellogg School of Management)
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4:45-4:55 Facilitators’ summary of second break out
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4:55 Closing remarks - What we can each do now
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5:00 – 6:00 Networking Reception in the Cafe: Cocktails, Hors d’oeuvres