On Monday, July 29th, LeadershIP hosted a panel discussion exploring the connection between these developments in global regulation and litigation of SEPs, and what’s coming next.

The discussion was moderated by Dr. Kirti Gupta, CSIS Senior Adviser and Executive Director of LeadershIP. Dr. Gupta was joined by Mark Cohen, Research Fellow with the UC-Berkeley Haas Business School and former Senior Intellectual Property Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, David Long, Founder and Managing Director at Essential Patent LLC, Eric Stasik, Founder and Managing Director at Avvika, and Matthew Noble, Partner and Head of Patent Intelligence at Bird and Bird. CSIS Senior Adviser and former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Andrei Iancu gave opening remarks.

On Monday, June 24th, LeadershIP hosted a fireside chat with Gillian M. Fenton, former President of the Licensing Executives Society and Special Counsel for Innovation and Government Collaboration at GSK.

Gillian was joined by Dr. Walter G. Copan, Senior Adviser (Non-Resident) with the Renewing American Innovation Project at CSIS and former Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to discuss how the Bayh-Dole Act promotes innovation in the biotech industry and fits into the United States’ broader economic security agenda.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted LeadershIP 2024 in Washington D.C. on April 09, 2024.

Scholars, policy makers, and industry experts analyzed and debated topics such as geopolitics and technology leadership, innovation in emerging technologies, and the intersection of intellectual property and and innovation policy with economic and national security.