Seminar Series: featuring “Innovators, Firms, and Markets” by Jonathan Barnett

Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the University of Southern California School of Law.  He is the author of Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property  (Oxford University Press 2021) and has published widely in scholarly journals on antitrust and intellectual property law and policy.  He also comments and speaks regularly on legal, policy, and business developments in these areas.  Prior to academia, he practiced corporate law at Cleary Gottlieb in New York.

Andrei Iancu was under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a position to which he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. In this role, Mr. Iancu led an agency with approximately 13,000 employees and an annual budget of over $3.5 billion. He was also the principal adviser in the administration on domestic and international intellectual property (IP) policy matters.  Currently, Mr. Iancu is a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. He also co-founded earlier this year the Renewing American Innovation Project at the bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Iancu has also taught patent law at the UCLA School of Law. Earlier in his career, he was an engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company.

David J. Teece is an innovation scholar who has studied how markets for know-how and intellectual property function and is well known for a series of papers on capturing value from technology. He coined the term “appropriability regime” and has explored how the appropriability regime impacts business model choices, particularly in relation to technology licensing.

Prof. Teece is the director of the Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He has authored over 30 books and 200 scholarly papers, and has been cited almost 170,000 times, per Google Scholar.
Dr. Teece has been ranked as the world’s most-cited scholar in the combined field of business and management in an analysis of science-wide author citations published in PLOS Biology, a peer-reviewed journal. He is co-editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management.  Dr. Teece has received nine honorary doctorates and has been recognized by Royal Honors.

Greg joined NEA in 2017 where he focuses on investments in the technology sector. Greg has founded three successful companies, is the inventor of technology at the heart of today’s wireless phone and service industries, and has over 25 years of executive experience in several technology sectors including networking, cloud software, consumer services, wireless and military systems.

After a successful early career as an engineering executive, Greg returned to Stanford University where he discovered modern MIMO radio communication theory and invented MIMO OFDM to bridge his theory to practice. Greg then founded Clarity Wireless to commercialize this technology, which is now used in all 4G and 5G wireless devices and networks, serving billions of consumers and business users. Clarity was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999. Following Cisco, Greg founded his second company Airgo Networks, acquired by Qualcomm in 2007. Airgo’s chipset products improved the speed and reliability of Wi-Fi by ten-fold, leading to adoption of its technology as the core of all Wi-Fi radio standards since 2006. Greg is also the founder and Managing Board Director of Headwater Research, an incubator that develops mobile operating system and cloud technology that underpins today’s mobile phone and app industries. Greg holds over 400 issued US and international patents in several fields.