WIPO

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Nathan-Ross Adams helps African businesses and governments\r\ndesign, develop and deploy trustworthy AI. He combines legal, commercial, and\r\ntechnical insights to partner with his clients to move toward holistic\r\nsolutions. He believes the best way to formulate these solutions is through\r\nclear communication and simple legal documents in immersive legal design.

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Nathan-Ross is part of a dynamic team of 4IR lawyers at\r\nthe global law firm, Michalsons. His clients represent a range of data,\r\ntechnology, and advertising companies as well as governments, software,\r\nhardware, robotics, biotech, pharmaceuticals, telecoms, and energy clients.

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Nathan-Ross’s writing features prominently in the African\r\nemerging technologies law scene.

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• \r\nCurrently, he is reading for a Doctor of Laws\r\ndegree at the University of Johannesburg. His thesis topic is “A contextualized\r\ntheory and methodology for regulating artificial intelligence in South Africa”.\r\nFor his LLM, the dissertation topic was “South African company law in the\r\nfourth industrial revolution: Is there a need for the regulation of artificial\r\nintelligence?”

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• \r\nHis articles have been posted and referenced by\r\nmajor African news publications, where authors have described his writing and\r\nresearch skills as “clear, accessible, excellent, and relevant”.

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• \r\nHe has also written on data law for\r\ninternational books, like “90 Legal Responses to COVID-19 Around the World”.

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Beyond his writing, he has also been a panelist with\r\nSouth Africa’s Information Regulator and has spoken at multiple African and\r\nGlobal conferences on AI and the law.

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With IP experience\r\nsince 1997 and having led a patents team that filed more than 10,000 patents\r\nfor companies in all fields of technology, ranging from Mexican inventors to\r\nmultinational companies, he decided in 2021 to start Mextrategy® to focus on\r\nthe strategic and management side of IP rights. Within a year with Mextrategy®\r\nhe has been involved in COVID-19 related technology transfer and innovation\r\nprojects, start-ups consultancy, medical devices and IoT/Blockchain/Big Data\r\nprojects where he deploys his expertise focusing heavily in portfolio\r\nmanagement strategies, trade secrets appropriation, innovation strategies,\r\nfreedom-to-operate opinions, technology intelligence studies, IP-assets\r\nvaluation, IP negotiations, technology evaluation and substantive issues of\r\npatent litigation.

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Hector was the first in Mexico to obtain the CLP\r\ncredential in 2010 and has been recognized consistently as a leading patent\r\npractitioner in several international surveys. He is also recognized as expert\r\nin Engineering Economy (CONIQQ, Mexico) and has published a variety of articles\r\nin specialized international magazines and chapters in various books related to\r\nlicensing, trade secrets and pharmaceutical law and practice. Hector has taught\r\nand spoken in many events, courses, seminars and congresses at universities,\r\nprofessional societies and organizations such as WIPO on topics of his area of\r\nexpertise, and he taught for 15 years as part of the Chemical Engineering\r\nfaculty at La Salle University in Mexico City, where he was also part of the\r\nAcademic Council for 3 years.

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He was International Vicepresident of the Licensing\r\nExecutives Society (LES) International and is Past-President of LES Mexico and\r\nof the Mexican Institute of Chemical Engineers (Mexico City Chapter). Currently\r\nhe is a Board member of Red OTT (the Mexican TTO network), Co-chair of the\r\nMembership Committee at LESI and part of the International Association for the\r\nProtection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) through the Mexican group (AMPPI)\r\nwhere he is part of several committees.

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Daeho started his career with the focus on Electrical\r\nEngineering and Telecommunication by representing the world’s technology\r\npioneers including Korean and global conglomerates, a global No.1 semiconductor\r\nmanufacturer and many others. He also outstands in IP Analysis and has handled\r\npatent analysis projects for Korea’s No.1 mobile device manufacturer as the\r\nproject head.

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Since founding PI IP LAW in 2013, Daeho’s initiative and\r\ndrive like none other have led the firm to be the most rapidly growing and\r\nrenowned IP law firm in Korea. As an innovative leader, Daeho seeks change and\r\ngrowth to be the first and the best.

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Under his leadership, PI IP LAW was the first Korean IP\r\nlaw firm to organize an AI team which boasts unrivaled expertise and\r\ncompetitiveness. Moreover, Daeho has represented a Korean Deep Learning based\r\nAI startup and led the due diligence of its IP portfolio when it was acquired\r\nby an American manufacturer of machine vision at the highest price in the\r\nM&A history of Korean startups. Daeho’s clients include industry leaders in\r\nComputer Vision, Smart Factory, AI based medical data analysis, AI-driven Drug\r\nDesign with the most advanced technology. Thanks to Daeho and his team’s\r\nsignificant expertise, PI IP LAW achieved exponential growth and established\r\nits presence on the Korean IP scene throughout the past 10 years. AI and\r\nsoftware cases take up more than 70% of PI IP LAW’s patent cases, and the\r\naccumulated enterprise value of its clients amounts to USD 5 billion.

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Daeho has also led groundbreaking projects in Trademark.\r\nIn 2017, he proposed registering sound marks for celebrity catchphrases and by\r\nleading the project to success, became the first to register a sound mark as a\r\ntrademark. In 2019, he submitted evidential data processed by AI to register\r\nthe exterior and interior designs of a building for trademark applications.

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Daeho’s pioneering enthusiasm to go beyond traditional IP\r\nservices has led him to be recognized by peers and clients. Starting with WTR\r\n1000 2022 which selected Daeho as a leading trademark individual, he was also\r\nawarded by Managing IP’s IP Stars 2022 awards as a trade mark star. The IAM\r\nPatent 1000 2022 rankings also acknowledged Daeho as a leading individual in\r\npatent prosecution, which bears testimony for his and his firm’s exponential\r\ngrowth and presence in the region.

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Daeho's goal hereupon is to lead PI IP LAW to become an\r\nirreplaceable leader and innovator in the global IP law industry. By\r\nintroducing and applying Data Visualization and Automation to the traditional\r\nIP domain, he wishes to provide IP service tailored to the clients’ business\r\nneeds and let the clients experience firsthand the elevation of their value\r\nthrough PI IP LAW’s service.

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Ryan N. Phelan is a registered U.S. patent attorney who\r\ncounsels and works with clients in all areas of intellectual property (IP),\r\nwith a focus on patents. As a former technology consultant with Accenture and\r\nwith a background in computer science and engineering, Ryan has extensive\r\nexperience in computer system, hardware, and software design, engineering,\r\ndevelopment and related technologies. He represents numerous startup and\r\nFortune 500 clients with patent matters in technical areas and industries including\r\nartificial intelligence and machine learning, medical devices, biometrics data\r\nand services, virtual reality, imaging, internet and e-commerce, computer\r\nnetworking, data storage and management, encryption and security, mobile\r\ntelecommunications, consumer electronics, insurance and finance applications,\r\nmechanical devices, among others.

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Ryan is also an adjunct professor at the Northwestern\r\nPritzker School of Law teaching course work on patenting software inventions.\r\nHe is also a frequent author and contributor to IPO white papers and articles,\r\nand frequently writes on the subject of AI at his blog PatentNext at\r\npatentnext.com.

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