Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University.  His academic research has been cited by the Supreme Court, by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and by federal agencies.

 

Professor Mossoff has been invited to testify several times before the Senate and the House on proposed patent legislation, and he has spoken at numerous congressional staff briefings. His writings on patent law and policy have appeared in The New York Times, Forbes and many other media outlets. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Copyright Alliance and has served as past Chair of the IP Committee of the IEEE-USA. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he chairs Hudson's Forum for Intellectual Property, is a Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and is a member of the CIPU board of directors. 

Albhy Galuten is a technology executive, inventor, record producer, composer, musician, conductor and futurist. He has produced 13 number one singles with songs and albums selling over 100 million copies worldwide. He has been nominated for seven and won two Grammy Awards and is the recipient of multiple gold and platinum records. He created the first drum loop for ‘Saturday Night Fever.’ Versions are used today in thousands of recordings. Albhy invented and developed the Enhanced CD, which is used and distributed by all major labels.

 

He served as Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology at Universal Music Group where he started and ran the music industry’s first technology division. He also was an executive at Sony Corporation of America and is currently a Senior Fellow at digital rights management pioneer Intertrust technologies, which is owned in part by Philips and Sony. As an inventor, Albhy has 11 issued patents. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Notable Fellows include Charles Dickens, Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, and Tim Berners-Lee. 

Allison Gaul is counsel and business strategist at BCG X, a division of the venerable Boston Consulting Group that works with businesses to scale their most innovative technology, including artificial intelligence. She evaluates digital products with an eye toward intellectual property strategy, value creation, and risk mitigation. Allison is a registered patent attorney with experience in developing and pursuing global patent strategies. She also provides clients with privacy compliance strategy and data sharing policy guidance. Her work includes innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, fintech, Internet of Things, drones/UAVs, telecommunications, and augmented reality.

Before joining the BCG X, Allison practiced as a patent attorney at both large and small law firms. She also worked as a Patent Examiner at the USPTO, and has substantial experience in the field of Networking and Information Security. Allison has a BS in Applied Mathematics with minors in Computer Science, Computational Physics, and Astronomy. In addition to a law degree from Temple, she holds a master's degree in Business Analytics from Harvard University. In 2022, she was named Ms. District of Columbia. 

Arlyne Simon says she is blessed to have not one but three careers: biomedical engineer, author of science books for children, and teaching K-5 educators how to bring invention education into the classroom. Her mission is to inspire young inventors everywhere and change the perception of what an inventor looks like. Dr. Simon is a successful inventor and entrepreneur, having developed a blood test that detects when cancer patients reject bone marrow transplants. She has designed everything from syringes to supercomputers and ultrasound machines. She currently works as a Solutions Architect in Intel's Health, Education, and Consumer Industries Group in Portland, OR. 

 

Dr. Simon is author of the award-winning “Abby Invents” picture book series and a 2019-2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science Ambassador, providing a national STEM role model for girls. She is transforming K-12 invention education while working full-time as a biomedical engineer. “I love helping kids see themselves as future inventors and enjoy showing educators how to bring invention education into their classrooms.”

Bruce Beman is Managing Director of Brody Berman Associates, a management consulting and communications firm that serves innovative businesses and investors. Brody Berman has supported more than 200 businesses and IP portfolios since 1988, as well as many law firms and their clients on a range of IP litigation and transactions. In 2016, he co-founded with Marshall Phelps and Judge Paul Michel the Center for IP Understanding, which he serves as chairman. Bruce is responsible for five books about the business of IP, including From Ideas to Assets. His articles have appeared in Forbes, Nature Biotechnology, National Law Review and The New York Times. 

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"Understanding IP Matters,"a  critically acclaimed podcast series he hosts, gives guests the opportunity to share their IP story, including the journey from creator ro entrepreneur. It has generated more than 11,000 downloads. His "Intangible Investor" column appears regularly on IP Watchdog. The column had appeared in every issue of IAM magazine from 2003 to 2019, about 100 in all. IP CloseUp, a weekly update on trends he publishes, is read in more than 60 countries and has received more than 435,000 visits. Bruce holds a Masters’ Degree film scholarship from Columbia University, where he taught for four years and completed course work and comprehensives for the Ph.D.

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Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law and co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State University. He also serves as Associate Dean for rResearch and Innovation and founding director of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Initiative. He is the host of the Penn Dickinson’s podcast, “Profiles in Leadership.”

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Professor Lim is an award-winning author and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public make sense of the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance. In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to a member.

Dan Brown is an award-winning designer, serial inventor, entrepreneur and professor, in the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University. Dr. Brown has received over 100 US and International Utility patents for his novel new product solutions in industry and entrepreneurially, taking many to market himself as a founder of two startups. A recognized innovator in industry with 10 International Design Awards, Dr. Brown has also been elected to the National Academy of Inventors and appointed to the PPAC (Patent Public Advisory Committee) for a three-year term at the USPTO by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

 

Dr. Brown has seen both sides of the American Dream with his American Made Bionic Wrench invention: innovation-based market success, while at the same time having to continuously fight knockoffs in the marketplace almost destroying his business. Dr. Brown has committed himself to creating an equitable, protectable, and sustainable intellectual property system for all inventors.

Danny Marti oversees the global public affairs and policy function at Tencent, one of the largest technology and entertainment companies in the world. At Tencent, Danny serves as a member of the Tencent Americas Management Committee. He also serves on various external boards, including Tequila Works (Madrid), Funcom (Oslo), the Emory Law Alumni Board, and the International Trademark Association (INTA).

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Danny has had a career in both public and private service dedicated to IP and innovation law and policy. He served at the White House as President Obama’s U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (“IP Czar”) and was sworn into office by then-Vice President Biden. Earlier, he served as Head of Global Government Affairs at London-based RELX Group (Elsevier and LexisNexis), a FTSE 100 provider of scientific, technical and medical information and analytics, legal information and decision-making tools. He has served as Vice Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center; and as Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. He is a graduate of Emory University School of Law (JD) and Georgetown University (BA). INTA interview.

Sometimes in a suit and tie, other times in jeans and 'Chuck Taylors', Dr. Frederic Bertley is a scientist (immunologist), educator, and advocate for critical and innovative thinking. Dr. B, as he is known, is President & CEO of the Center of Science and Industry (COSI), where he leads the number one-ranked science center into the future. He serves on several boards and speaks around the world on topics such as the importance of science literacy, careers in STEAM, IP rights, leadership development, problem solving ideation and diversity. 

 

Dr. B’s postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School focused on developing DNA vaccines for HIV/AIDS. He has worked in-house as a technology expert at a leading law firm in support of patents and serves as CEO (interim) of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum. Dr. B is recipient of 13 Emmy Awards for excellence in educational television programming. 

Ph.D., is the inaugural holder of the Neil Armstrong Chair in Aerospace Policy at The Ohio State University, with appointments in the College of Engineering’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department. A 30-year veteran of the spaceflight industry, Dr. Horack also currently serves the Vice President for Research at Ohio State, and is a globally-recognized leader in space-based research, flight hardware development, program management, and space policy.

Dr. Horack had an impressive career at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) having achieved the level of Senior Executive Service. His last position at NASA was as manager of the Science and Mission Systems Office. He held several titles while at MSFC, including assistant director of the Space Transportation Programs and Projects Office and assistant mission scientist for the Astro-2 payload that flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers and  presentations. In February 2020, Dr. Horack summited Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, with a team of Clean Water advocates from The OSU Global Water Institute, Waterboys.org, players and veterans from the National Football League, and Disabled Combat Veterans as part of efforts to bring clean water solutions to Tanzania. 

Phil Hartstein is an executive and investor with more than two decades of experience in the intellectual property industry. Prior to founding Soryn IP Capital, Phil was the President and CEO of Finjan Holdings (formerly NASDAQ: FNJN, now owned by Fortress), where he oversaw the licensing and enforcement of the Company’s pioneering cybersecurity patents, and established a number of IP industry best practices for patent licensing. During his tenure as CEO, Finjan generated more than $300 million in licensing income both through negotiated deals and trial victories.

 

Prior to Finjan, Phil’s career focused on IP investments and monetization, in industries ranging from medical devices to cybersecurity technologies. Phil is active in several industry organizations, and has worked diligently to establish standards for patent licensing through the Licensing Executives Society, where is a founding Board member of the Standards Development Organization. A named inventor and patent holder, Phil has more than two dozen pending and issued patents. Phil is regularly invited to speak on patent and policy related topics, and has been twice recognized as a Top 40 Global IP Dealmaker by IAM Magazine. Phil graduated with a BS in Industrial Technology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. https://www.sorynipcap.com/

Ruth is a multi-Oscar-winning Hollywood producer and founder of Paramount Classics and President of Fine Line Features. Ruth's films have won three Oscars and received 16 Academy Award nominations, as well as 18 Golden Globe nominations. As president of production for Vestron Pictures, she broke new ground with the highest-grossing independent film of the time, Dirty Dancing. 

 

In her role as CEO of CreativeFuture, a non-profit, Ruth represents 500 copyright-intensive organizations and 300,000 individuals. She founded and served as Co-President of Paramount Classics from 1998-2005, an autonomous division of Paramount Pictures that specialized in bringing daring, offbeat, and unconventional films to contemporary audiences. Ruth was integral to the startup Daytime, the Hearst/ABC first women’s cable network co-venture that eventually became Lifetime. She is a  member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Advisory Board of Carnegie Mellon University/Master of Entertainment Industry Management Program, and Special Projects Mentor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Sara Leikin is a leader in science, technology, engineering, art, and math education, who is known for her ability to build and manage global partnerships that bridge cultural divides and promote educational innovation. She directs COSI's national and international partnership strategies, with a focus on intellectual property education, including the Extracurricular Intellectual Property Innovation Center (EiPIC), ensuring that students, especially those furthest from opportunity, gain essential skills in protecting and commercializing their innovations.

Sara has is  an award-winning teacher, school leader, and a director of U.S. Agency for International Development education projects, notably leading hundreds of educators through professional development for the Egypt STEM Schools Project. Sara is particularly passionate about the intersection of formal and informal education systems, advocating for asset-based approaches to make educational services more accessible globally. Sara is also a committed volunteer, supporting invention education and serving as the Education Co-Chair for the 2025 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Columbus. 

Terry Hart is GC of the Association of American Publishers, a trade association of the American book publishing industry, representing book, journal and education publishers. Terry’s interests include a wide range of copyright topics, including AI and streaming issues. He is a Lecturer at the George Washing University Law School and publishes a well-known blog, Copyhype, devoted to balanced, in-depth analysis of topics and issues concerning copyright law and its role in a digital era.

 

Previously, he was Assistant General Counsel for U.S. Copyright Office, providing legal guidance to the Office’s divisions, promulgating regulations governing the administration of the copyright system, and advising congressional offices. Prior to the Copyright Office, he was Vice President of Legal Policy and Copyright Counsel for the Copyright Alliance, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing over two million individual creators and 15,000 organizations across the spectrum of copyright disciplines. He joined the CIPU board of directors in 2023, succeeding Jennifer Pariser, former Associate General Counsel of the Motion Picture Association.

At 27 Tiffany Norwood raised over $670 million dollars to fund a startup to build the first global digital radio platform and launch three satellites into space. The capital helped to establish XM Radio. As one the first successful black female tech entrepreneur, Tiffany's career has spanned 52 countries, 30+ years and seven startups. Tiffany established her first start-up as a teenager and had been granted a patent by the age of 23. Her ventures have ranged from the first one-strap backpack to the automation technology behind self-install kits for broadband internet, and a virtual reality gaming platform. In 2022, she was named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year.

 

Tiffany has led some of the first digital content licensing deals, including those with Bloomberg News and CNN International. She was also an early collaborator with the Fraunhofer Institute on their MPEG technologies. Tiffany is the Founder and CEO of Tribetan, a company that teaches entrepreneurship and innovation literacy as a life skill and the human science of success. Venues with which she has consulted include the European Parliament, Yale, the USPTO, KMPG and the South African Embassy. Her dream is that the science of turning imagination into reality is as well-known to the core curriculum as reading, writing, and math. Tiffany received an MBA from Harvard and a Bachelor’s in Economics with a concentration in statistics and electrical engineering from Cornell.

Wayne Stacy has been a leading expert on patent law and IP litigation for over two decades. Most recently, Wayne was the Director for the USPTO’s Silicon Valley Office where he was responsible for leading the USPTO’s West Coast office and ensuring that its initiatives were tailored to the region’s unique ecosystem.

 

Prior to his appointment at the USPTO, Wayne spent more than 20 years in several of the world’s top law firms. Most recently, he was a senior partner and Intellectual Property Chair for Baker Botts’ San Francisco office. Prior to that, Wayne was an equity partner in the IP Litigation section of Cooley LLP.