Advisory Board

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Advisory Board Member

Troy Dow
Vice President and Counsel, Government Relations and IP Legal Policy and Strategy, The Walt Disney Company

Mr. Dow advises The Walt Disney Company on intellectual property and technology policy and represents the company on these and other matters before the U.S. Congress, the Executive Branch and related agencies. In addition to his work in the legislative and regulatory areas, Mr. Dow works to ensure an effective and consistent legal policy and strategy in the area of intellectual property, including in commercial transactions and in major copyright litigation matters that involve Disney or its trade associations. He previously served as Vice President and Counsel for Technology and New Media at the Motion Picture Association of America, as Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as professional staff to Senator Orrin G. Hatch. He teaches copyright at Duke University Law School and holds degrees from Brigham Young University and the Georgetown University Law Center.

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Advisory Board Member

Dr. Claudia Tapia Garcia, LL.M.
Head of Global IPR Policy Research and Academic Relations, Ericsson

Dr. Claudia Tapia is Head of Global IPR Policy Research and Academic Relations at Ericsson. Claudia’s main responsibility is to lead the Research IP Policy’s team and its activities worldwide. She is a speaker, writer, lecturer and reviewer in IP and standardization-related topics. Prior to joining Ericsson, Claudia was Director IP Policy at BlackBerry. While at BlackBerry, she focused on various aspects of intellectual property, including intellectual property rights policies in standards, global patent policies, as well as licensing and litigation.

Claudia is also president of 4iP Council, a non-profit research council dedicated to developing high-quality academic insight and empirical evidence on topics related to IP and innovation, and vicechair of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) Patent and Technology Licensing Committee. Furthermore, she is a member of the Editorial Board of The Patent Law magazine and of the Intellectual Property Magazine.

Claudia holds a law degree from the University of Valencia, an LLM degree specialising in International Patent Law from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and a PhD degree (summa cum laude with a scholarship of the Max Planck Institute) on FRAND and Standardisation in the telecoms sector from the Faculty of Law in Augsburg. She also has an Expert in Psychology of Coaching certificate from UNED university in Spain.

Originally from Argentina, but brought up in Spain and residing in Germany, she is truly a global citizen, and speaks English, Spanish and German.

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Advisory Board Member

Mitch Glazier
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Recording Industry Association of America

Mitch Glazier is Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He serves as Chairman of the Board of RIAA, Chairman of the Board of Musicians on Call, the charity that brings the healing power of music to the bedsides of patients in hospitals and health care facilities around the country, and serves on the Boards of IFPI, Leadership Music, SoundExchange and the Lutheran Church of St. Andrew in Silver Spring, Maryland. For more than 20 years, Glazier has been at the forefront of building the new music ecosystem. He helped build the unprecedented coalition that mobilized to enact the Music Modernization Act (MMA). As the senior House Judiciary Committee intellectual property counsel, he helped draft and pass pioneering legislation that paved the way for the streaming economy, including the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act to assure that music creators are compensated for use of their music by digital partners.

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Advisory Board Member

Andrei Iancu
Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Former Director, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Andrei Iancu focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling. He previously served as the undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a position to which he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate.

As head of the USPTO, Andrei oversaw one of the largest IP offices in the world, an agency with approximately 13,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $3.5 billion. He also served as the administration’s principal advisor on domestic and international IP issues. Among Andrei’s initiatives as director was the creation of the National Council for Expanding American Innovation, a group of industry, academia and government leaders tasked with helping the USPTO develop a comprehensive national strategy to broaden participation in the innovation ecosystem demographically, geographically and economically.

Prior to his government service, Andrei spent two decades at Irell and served as the firm’s managing partner from 2012 to 2018, the maximum allowable tenure. In his time at the firm, he represented clients in a variety of high-profile matters in district courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the USPTO. In addition to litigation, Andrei was involved in all other aspects of IP practice, including prosecution, due diligence and licensing. He represented plaintiffs and defendants across the technical and scientific spectra, including those associated with medical devices, genetic testing, therapeutics, the internet, telephony, TV broadcasting, video game systems and computer peripherals.

Throughout his career, Andrei has been widely recognized for his work, earning accolades from publications including Chambers USA, Intellectual Asset Management, Managing IP, Daily Journal, California Lawyer, Los Angeles Business Journal, Legal 500, and many others. Most recently, he was inducted into the IAM Hall of Fame by Intellectual Asset Management and received the “Excellence Award” from American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). In 2019, Andrei received the “IP Champion Award” from the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation for “his extraordinary leadership in advocating for the value of intellectual property to stimulate the progress of innovation.” Andrei also received the 2020 IEEE-USA “Award for Distinguished Public Service” for “his achievement of restoring balance and confidence in the U.S. patent system.”

In 2021, Andrei co-founded the Renewing American Innovation Project at the bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He previously taught patent law at UCLA School of Law, and he is a sought-after speaker and writer on issues related to IP and innovation.

Prior to law school, Andrei was an engineer at Hughes Aircraft Co. where he received several honors including the “Malcolm R. Currie Innovation Award.” He is still licensed as a Professional Engineer in California.

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Advisory Board Member

David J. Kappos
Partner, Corporate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York;
Former Director, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

David Kappos is Co-Chair of Cravath’s Intellectual Property Practice. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost leaders in the field of IP, including IP management and strategy, the development of global IP norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets.

From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Kappos served as Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In that role, he advised the President, the Secretary of Commerce and the Administration on IP policy matters. As Director of the USPTO, he led the Agency in dramatically reengineering its entire management and operational systems as well as its engagement with the global innovation community. He was instrumental in achieving the greatest legislative reform of the U.S. patent system in generations through passage and implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, signed into law by President Obama in September 2011. Prior to leading the USPTO, Mr. Kappos held several executive posts in the legal department of IBM, including litigation counsel, Asia Pacific IP counsel and, from 2003 to 2009, Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Lawyer responsible for all intellectual property matters worldwide.

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Advisory Board Member

John Kolakowski
Director, Patent Licensing, & Head of IP Regulatory Affairs, North America,
Nokia Technologies

John Kolakowski is an intellectual property counsel and business advisor with over 10 years of in-house worldwide telecommunications patent licensing, litigation and policy experience at Nokia and 10 years of prior private practice district court and ITC patent litigation experience at Morrison & Foerster LLP.  He has successfully negotiated inbound/outbound patent and technology licenses at Nokia, the monetization of a patent portfolio with tens of thousands of individual assets, and patent divestments netting significant returns.  John also represents Nokia interests before government regulatory authorities, standard development organizations, trade associations and other groups addressing IPR and patent policies.  He is USPTO-barred and a former federal judicial clerk, with a J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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Advisory Board Member

David Korn
Vice President, Intellectual Property (IP) and Law,
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)

David Korn is Vice President, Intellectual Property (IP) and Law, for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). He focuses on IP issues in Congress, the Patent and Trademark Office and other agencies, as well as in amicus briefs in cases of interest to PhRMA. He has degrees in biomedical engineering from Duke and Northwestern and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining PhRMA, he worked in private practice and clerked in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

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Advisory Board Member

Keith Kupferschmid
President and Chief Executive Officer, Copyright Alliance

Keith Kupferschmid is President and CEO of the Copyright Alliance, a position he has held since 2015. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Copyright Alliance’s operations—including strategy, government affairs, communications, membership, and liaising with boards and committees.

Kupferschmid’s extensive work on the Hill has contributed to modernizing copyright law, culminating in the enactment of the Music Modernization Act (MMA), the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act), and the Protecting Lawful Streaming Act (PLSA), among others. He has also raised the profile of the Copyright Alliance within the creator community and strived to garner additional rights and protections for creators across the country through education, advocacy initiatives, and speaking opportunities. Kupferschmid has testified before Congress and various federal and state government agencies on key copyright issues, has held leadership positions in the American Bar Association (ABA) and American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), serves on the boards of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA) and the U.S. Intellectual Property Alliance (USIPA), and was selected to be a member of the Library of Congress’ Copyright Public Modernization Committee (CPMC).

Before joining the Copyright Alliance, Kupferschmid served as the General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Intellectual Property for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) for 16 years. Prior to that, he worked at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; and the U.S. Copyright Office.

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Advisory Board Member

Karen Marangi
Director, Federal Government Affairs, RELX Group

Karen Marangi serves as Director of Federal Government Affairs for RELX and is based in Washington, DC. She oversees RELX’s US copyright policy work and advocates for strong IP protections in US trade agreements.

Prior to joining RELX, Ms. Marangi worked on and off Capitol Hill for over 20 years. Most recently, she was a consultant to a mid-size public affairs firm and represented a range of clients before Congress and the White House. Previously, she worked for Patton Boggs, a leading law firm in Washington, DC, on their public policy team. She previously advised two US Senators on a range of matters, including technology, immigration and civil and criminal justices issues. Ms. Marangi is a graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Law School and began her legal career in San Francisco as an associate at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe.

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Advisory Board Member

The Honorable Paul R. Michel
Former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

The Honorable Paul Redmond Michel was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in March of 1988 by President Ronald Reagan. On December 25, 2004, he assumed the duties of Chief Judge. After his elevation to Chief Judge, he served as one of 27 judges on the Judicial Conference of the United States, the governing body of the Judicial Branch. In 2005 he was appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to also serve on the Judicial Conference’s seven-judge Executive Committee. On May 31, 2010, Chief Judge Michel stepped down from the bench after serving more than 22 years on the court.

In his years on the bench Judge Michel judged thousands of appeals and wrote over 800 opinions, approximately one-third of which were in patent cases.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Michel was assistant district attorney in the Office of the Deputy District Attorney for Investigations in Philadelphia from 1966-74, as well as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve from 1966-72. From 1974-75, he was the Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and from 1975-76 was assistant counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He then became the deputy chief and Koreagate prosecutor for the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice from 1976-88. He was the associate deputy U.S. attorney general in 1978 and in 1981 became counsel and administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter until his judicial appointment. He has served as adjunct faculty at several institutions of higher education including the George Washington University Law School and John Marshall Law School. In 2012 he joined the Intellectual Property Advisory Council at the University of Akron School of Law.

Judge Michel has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Jefferson Medal, the Frederico Award, the Katz-Kiley Prize, the Eli Whitney Prize, the Sedona Conference® Lifetime Achievement Award, and awards by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property, AIPLA, IPO, the Linn Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, and other leading organizations. He was named one of the 50 most influential leaders in intellectual property in the world by Managing Intellectual Property magazine and inducted into Intellectual Asset Management magazine’s International Hall of Fame.

A frequent speaker on IP subjects, he has also testified before Congress on patent reform legislation and has served as Special Advisor to the Patent Reform Task Force.

Judge Michel earned his B.A. from Williams College in 1963 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1966.

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Advisory Board Member

Maria A. Pallante

President and Chief Executive Officer, Association of American Publishers;
Former Register of Copyrights and Director, U.S. Copyright Office.

Maria A. Pallante is the President and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, where she leads the public policy priorities of book, education, and research journal publishers in the United States, advancing solutions that drive human empowerment, scientific progress, and a vibrant creative economy.

From 2011 to 2016, Maria served as Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office during an extremely active period of policy analysis. She advised and helped commence the first comprehensive review of the Copyright Act by Congress in decades, testifying on complex issues of law and technology; highlighting the centrality of authors to the public interest; and conducting numerous agency rulemakings and hearings about existing and emerging challenges. Under her leadership, the Office published several impactful studies, including The Making Available Right in the United States; Copyright and the Music Marketplace; and Copyright Small Claims. At the same time, Maria led public proceedings to modernize the records, technology, and authorities of the Copyright Office itself, to better serve the fast-moving transactions of the digital marketplace. She produced a complete overhaul of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, making it widely available for the first time as a living digital publication for courts, practitioners, and staff. Among other initiatives, she established the Barbara A. Ringer Honors Fellowship program and Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence.

Maria has delivered numerous distinguished lectures, including the Horace S. Manges Lecture at Columbia; the David Nelson Lectures at Berkeley; the Christopher Meyer Memorial Lecture at George Washington University; the Roger L. Shidler Lecture at Washington University; and the Robert W. Kastenmeier Lecture at the University of Wisconsin. She is a former Trustee of the Copyright Society and a recipient of the DC Bar’s Champion of Intellectual Property Award.

Earlier in her career, Maria served for eight years as in-house counsel for with the Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York, where she advised on governance and exhibitions and directed the global licensing program for the institution’s famous name, buildings, and collections. She began her career in private practice and as a staff attorney with the Authors Guild. She is a graduate of the George Washington University Law School.

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Advisory Board Member

Corey Salsberg
Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs, Novartis

Corey Salsberg is Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs for Novartis, one of the world’s leading innovative biopharmaceutical companies. He is also the incoming President of the Federal Circuit Bar Association (2025-2026) and serves as a Board Member of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and of California Lawyers for the Arts.

A seasoned attorney with over two decades of experience, Mr. Salsberg is recognized globally as a thought leader in the fields of IP and innovation law and policy. He has testified before both chambers of Congress, has appeared before WIPO, the WHO, and the United Nations, and is regularly featured in media.

Mr. Salsberg has thrice been recognized by IAM 300 as one of the world’s leading IP strategists, and has been named a Managing IP Corporate Star for each of the last four years. He earned his JD from Stanford Law School in 2001, and his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1997. Outside of the IP world, he is known as the author of Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth, one of the seminal works on the science, law and ethics of the emerging field of “de-extinction.”

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Advisory Board Member

Laurie Self
Senior Vice President and Counsel of Government Affairs, Qualcomm

Laurie Self is Senior Vice President and Counsel of Government Affairs at Qualcomm, where she specializes in global innovation and technology policy issues, including at the intersection of intellectual property, antitrust, standards, trade, and national security.  Based in Washington, D.C., Ms. Self leads a team that is focused on ensuring that US laws and policies support the Company’s R&D-driven business model and technology leadership.  Prior to joining Qualcomm in July 2012, Ms. Self was a partner at the law firm Covington & Burling, where she chaired the firm’s intellectual property practice group. Ms. Self holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Duke University and a Juris Doctor from University of Virginia School of Law.

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Advisory Board Member

Ian Slotin
Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property, NBCUniversal

Ian leads the Innovation, Technology and Policy team in NBCUniversal’s Intellectual Property Legal Group.  His team supports the company’s film, television and animation groups on R&D and emerging technology initiatives, oversees all elements of the company’s patent strategy, and handles the IP aspects of M&A transactions.  Ian also works with the government affairs teams to formulate the company’s global strategy on copyright, right-of-publicity, patent, trademark and other IP-related policy issues and legislation.  He also advises business leaders on the business, legal and policy ramifications of disruptive technologies, including on issues at the intersection of technology and copyright.

Before joining NBCUniversal, Ian was an associate at the law firms of Irell & Manella, LLP and TroyGould LLP, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Howard Matz in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He is a graduate of the Yale Law School.

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Advisory Board Member

Karyn A. Temple
Senior Executive Vice President & Global General Counsel, Motion Picture Association

Karyn A. Temple is Senior Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel for the Motion Picture Association. One of the world’s leading authorities on copyright, Ms. Temple oversees all of the Association’s legal affairs and content protection efforts around the world.

Prior to joining the Motion Picture Association, Ms. Temple served more than eight years in the U.S. Copyright Office, most recently as the Register of Copyrights, where she led the 400-person agency and its eight divisions. Prior to leading the U.S. Copyright Office, Ms. Temple headed its Office of Policy and International Affairs, as well as served in policy and litigation roles at the U.S. Department of Justice; she most recently served in the Obama Administration as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

Ms. Temple received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan.