On February 11, 2019, the USPTO released “Progress and Potential: A profile of women inventors on U.S. patents,” a report on the trends and characteristics of U.S. women inventors named on U.S. patents granted from 1976 through 2016. The report showed that women still comprise…
European online patent publication JUVE Patent recently published “Beyond Window Dressing”, an article featuring Annsley Merelle Ward, ChIPs London Co-chair and Senior Associate at Bristows, LLP. Annsley discussed gender diversity in UK patent litigation and the work that ChIPs London is doing to change the…
Noreen Krall, ChIPs Co-founder and Board Chair, was recently featured on Law.com’s “Legal Speak” podcast. In this insightful podcast, Noreen shared stories about the people who have helped shape her career and some of the events leading up to the founding of ChIPs. Listen to…
Mallun Yen, ChIPs Co-founder and CEO, explores this question and discusses her findings from a year of interviews. “Doing deals with your buddies is a time-honored way to build your book of business. But women tend to struggle when it comes to mixing money and…
Rachel Krevans, a leading intellectual property attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP for over 30 years who died last year of cancer, has been honored with a scholarship in her name… Read full article…
The 2018 ALI Program for high school girls took place in San Francisco on June 12 and 13. The program introduces girls interested in the law to a diverse range of women who practice at firms, in-house and in government.
The Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute Blog published an article about the 2017 ChIPs Global Summit panel on robotics and artificial intelligence. Celine Jimenez Crowson, a partner and chair of the IP practice in the Americas at Hogan Lovells, moderated the discussion with panelists Carol…
ChIPs co-founder and board member Noreen Krall appeared on a cybersecurity panel at the 2017 Summit along with FireEye General Counsel Alexa King, United States Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand and Jennifer Morrish of the United Kingdom’s UCHQ. The panel was moderated by Caroline Krass, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the former GC of the CIA. (Photo by Tracey Salazar)
In a wide-ranging discussion on the final day of the 2017 ChIPs Global Summit, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates talked about her path to becoming a lawyer, those fateful 10 days at the Acting Attorney General and her lack of desire — for now…
Anirma Gupta, former vice president and deputy general counsel at Intuit Inc., has joined Tanium Inc. as the company’s general counsel. She was with Intuit for more than 11 years, working on intellectual property, anti-piracy work and product counseling… Read The Full Article »
When RPX Corp. brought together more than 40 technology companies last year to license 4,000 Rockstar patents for $900 million, Cisco Systems Inc. general counsel Mark Chandler hailed the defensive patent aggregator for organizing “a consortium of unprecedented scale.” How complex and innovative was the…
“[I] am truly honored to be a member of PPAC and to be able to serve our country through this role,” says Mar-Spinola. “Patent issues are at the forefront of business and American life, and I am eager to assist the USTPO in ensuring that…
