SAN FRANCISCO (August 30, 2022) – Nominations are now open for ChIPs General Counsel Boot Camp 2023, an innovative 12-month course for in-house attorneys who want to advance to the position of general counsel. The deadline is September 30. Only a limited number of…
How does a ChIPs Chapter go from idea to reality? To find out, we interviewed the co-chairs of our new Australia and New Zealand Chapter — Ronelle Geldenhuys, Principal at Foundry Intellectual Property and Anna Vandervliet, Senior Associate, Intellectual Property Disputes at Herbert Smith Freehills. …
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…
ChIPs, the international organization of women in tech, law, intellectual property and policy, has a new chapter on a new continent — Australia and New Zealand. The new Chapter — which already has more than 125 members — will hold its inaugural event Friday, September…
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 started in 2005 when seven women chiefs in intellectual property came together to find ways to increase access and opportunities for women in IP. Today we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day 2022 focused on IP and youth innovating for a better future. We recognize…
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+…
