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Professor Mark SCHULTZ is the Goodyear Endowed Chair in Intellectual Property Law and Director of the\r\nIP & Technology Law Program at the University of Akron School of Law.

Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law, Akron, United States of America Mark Schultz is a professor at the University of Akron School of Law, where he is the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Endowed Chair in Intellectual Property Law and Director of the IP & Technology Law Center. His research concerns the law and economics of the global intellectual property system, focusing particularly on trade secret law. He worked with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to co-author a groundbreaking global trade secret protection index (the TSPI). The TSPI is being used to frame policy discussions on this cutting\u0002edge topic in capitals around the world. He recently has written about the role of trade secrecy in the fight against Covid-19. Professor Schultz is frequently called on to help governments and international organizations with IP policy and capacity building. He currently serves as a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.- India IP Cooperation Dialogue. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and spoken at programs hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Trade Representative, and the U.S. Copyright Office, as well as numerous universities, think tanks, and industry groups.

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Deputy Director General, Patents and\r\nTechnology Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization\r\n(WIPO)

\r\nLisa Jorgenson is the Deputy Director General, Patents and\r\nTechnology Sector at the World Intellectual Property\r\nOrganization in Geneva, Switzerland which administers the\r\nPatent Cooperation Treaty. She also manages patent and\r\ntechnology legislative and policy advice and programs relating\r\nto the law of patents. She was previously the Executive Director\r\nat the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the\r\nGroup Vice President, Intellectual Property and Licensing at\r\nSTMicroelectronics. Lisa earned her BS degree in biology from St. Mary’s University in Notre\r\nDame, Indiana, her Master’s degree in Management from Purdue University and her JD from\r\nthe John Marshall Law School.

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Chief Economist, Department for Economics and Data Analytics, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector, WIPO, Geneva.

Carsten Fink is the Chief Economist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) based in Geneva. Before joining WIPO, he was Professor of International Economics at the University of St.Gallen. He also held the positions of Visiting Professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and Visiting Senior Fellow at the Groupe d’Economie Mondiale, a research institute at Sciences Po.

Prior to his academic appointments, Mr. Fink worked for more than 10 years at the World Bank. Among other positions, he was a Senior Economist in the International Trade Team of the World Bank Institute, working out of the World Bank’s office in Geneva and an Economist in the Trade Division of the World Bank’s research department, based in Washington, DC.

Mr. Fink’s research work – focused on intellectual property, innovation, and international trade – has been published in academic journals and books. He holds a doctorate degree in economics from the University of Heidelberg in Germany and a Master of Science degree in economics from the University of Oregon in the United States.

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Attorney, California, United States of America

Silicon Valley lawyer James Pooley represents clients in trade secret and\r\npatent disputes, provides expert testimony to courts and arbitral\r\ntribunals, and advises companies on IP strategy and data security\r\nmanagement.

Mr. Pooley is an author or co-author of several major works in the IP\r\nfield, including his treatise Trade Secrets (Law Journal Press) and the\r\nPatent Case Management Judicial Guide (Federal Judicial Center).\r\nHis most recent business book is Secrets: Managing Information Assets\r\nin the Age of Cyberespionage (Verus Press 2015).

The Senate Judiciary Committee relied on Mr. Pooley for expert\r\ntestimony and advice during consideration of the 2016 Defend Trade\r\nSecrets Act, and one Senator later called his participation “instrumental”\r\nin achieving passage of this landmark legislation.

In 2014, Mr. Pooley completed a five-year term as Deputy Director\r\nGeneral at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva,\r\nwhere he was responsible for management of the international patent\r\nsystem. He is a past President of the American Intellectual Property Law\r\nAssociation and former Chair of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.\r\nHe serves as Chair Emeritus of the Sedona Conference Working Group\r\n12 on Trade Secrets and as Co-Chair of the Trade Secret Task Force of\r\nthe International Chamber of Commerce. He taught trade secret law at\r\nthe University of California’s Berkeley School of Law for many years.

In 2016, Mr. Pooley was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame for his\r\ncontributions to IP law, policy and practice.

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