Amy Weaver, president and chief financial officer of Salesforce, will open the ChIPs Global Summit 2022, Thursday, October 27 in San Francisco. Weaver will be interviewed by Jennifer Yokoyama, ChIPs Board Member and Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft, at 9 a.m. PT.…

ChIPs NextGen Summit is back in person October 26 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco with a full-day program designed to advance ChIPs members early in their careers to “blaze their own trail.”     Retired U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Kathleen O’Malley will kick off…

ChIPs, the global organization of women in law, tech and policy, has named five firms to its Honor Roll for 2022. Morgan Lewis and Nixon Peabody have been recognized for Excellence in Inclusion for All. The firms of Orrick, Perkins Coie, and WilmerHale have been…

SAN FRANCISCO (July 11, 2022) – ChIPs, the international organization of women in tech, law, intellectual property and policy, will induct Mary B. Cranston into its Hall of Fame. The Chair Emeritus of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP will be honored at the ChIPs Hall…

June 3, 2022, San Francisco  ChIPs is pleased to announce the 2022 ChIPs Scholarship recipients. Congratulations to Rachael Geiger of Santa Clara University School of Law and Niki Camateros-Mann of University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law,  who were each awarded $10,000.   Geiger…

May 18, 2022 – San Francisco Kathi Vidal, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, will address the ChIPs Global Summit 2022, Friday, October 28 in San Francisco. The Global Summit will be held…

ChIPs Celebrates Three Historic Nominations   Congratulations to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her confirmation as the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the first Black woman to serve on the bench. We are thrilled to witness this historic confirmation and…

Former ChIPs Advisory Board member and Winston & Strawn partner Kathi Vidal has been confirmed by the United States Senate as Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and as Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Kathi will lead the USPTO’s 13,000+…

ChIPs is delighted to announce that Noreen Krall, one of the seven founders of ChIPs, has donated $25,000 to its scholarship fund. The fund, which started in 2018, was created in memory of Rachel Krevans by Morrison and Forrester to support law school students. “I…

SAN FRANCISCO (November 02, 2021) – ChIPs—a nonprofit organization focused on advancing and connecting women in technology, law, and policy—has announced its 2021 Honor Roll Awards, recognizing law firms that are proactively tracking and supporting inclusion initiatives firmwide and in the Intellectual Property practice area.…

Julie was named CEO of Accenture in September 2019, and was appointed chair of the board of directors, effective September 2021. Prior to becoming Chair and CEO, she served as CEO of Accenture’s business in North America, the company’s largest geographic market, and was general…