Webinar with USPTO Director Vidal — June 10, 2024

Webinar

A Discussion on USPTO Director Vidal’s
Recent Trip to China

Monday, June 10, 2024
2:00 – 3:30 PM Eastern
(Convert time zones here)

Co-Hosted by
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School’s
Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2)
and the
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Invitation-only, non-transferable

About This Webinar

We will hear from USPTO Director Kathy Vidal and her USPTO China team, who just returned from meetings with some of China’s most senior leaders including Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang; James Pooley, former WIPO Deputy Director General, who has just returned from a tour in China for his book Secrets; and former Chief Judge Randall Ray Rader (Ret.), who is one of the few American professors still teaching at Tsinghua Law School and participates in the US-China Track II High Level Dialogue with several other former senior U.S. government officials.

We hope to have a candid discussion around the continuing role of dialogue and engagement with China on IP issues and the hot issues on the bilateral intellectual property agenda.

Note that this meeting is not open to the public and we are limiting attendance.

Speakers
    • James (Jim) Pooley, James Pooley, PLC; Former Deputy Director General, WIPO) (bio)
    • The Hon. Randall R. Rader, Principal, The Rader Group PLLC; Former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (bio)
    • Director Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (bio)
    • Elaine Wu, Principal Counsel and Director for China IP Policy, Office of Policy & International Affairs (OPIA), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (bio)
    • Moderator: Mark Cohen, Edison Fellow, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2); Senior Tech Fellow, Asia Society of Northern California, Non-Resident Scholar, University of California, San Diego and the National Bureau of Asian Research (bio)