Keynote Speakers
Mark A. Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, Senior Fellow at SIEPR, and affiliated faculty in Symbolic Systems. He teaches IP, patent, trademark, antitrust, robotics and AI, video game law, and remedies. He is the author of 11 books and more than 220 articles, including IP and Antitrust. His work has been cited more than 350 times by courts, including 19 times by the U.S. Supreme Court, and more than 50,000 times in academic literature, making him one of the most-cited legal scholars in the world. He has testified before Congress, filed more than 75 amicus briefs, and published widely in leading law reviews and journals across multiple fields.
Lemley is also a partner at Lex Lumina, where he litigates and counsels clients in IP, antitrust, and internet law. He has argued 32 federal appellate cases, including before the en banc Federal Circuit and the California Supreme Court, and has participated in more than three dozen U.S. Supreme Court cases as counsel or amici. His clients have included Genentech, generative AI companies, video game companies, artists, scientists, and major internet companies. He also cofounded Lex Machina, later acquired by Lexis in 2015.
He has received numerous honors, including California Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year twice, the California State Bar’s IP Vanguard Award, the 2024 Mark Banner Award, and the 2018 World Technology Award for Law. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Law Institute, and the IP Hall of Fame. Before Stanford, he clerked on the Ninth Circuit, practiced at several leading law firms, and taught at Berkeley and the University of Texas. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, travel, yoga, and video games.
Margaret Kyle currently holds the Chair in Intellectual Property and Markets for Technology at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. Her research concerns innovation, productivity, and competition. Her papers have been published in a number of journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Management Science. In addition to acting as associate editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, she is a member of the Conseil National de Productivité in France.
Dr. Klaus Grabinski is President of the Court of Appeal and Chairperson of the Presidium of the Unified Patent Court since November 2022.
Before he served on the German Federal Court of Justice’s 10th Civil Division that has, inter alia, jurisdiction on patent litigation matters, including as the Deputy Presiding Justice of the Division. Prior to joining the German Federal Court of Justice in 2009, he held a number of judicial roles, including as a presiding judge of a patent litigation division at the Düsseldorf Regional Court and as a judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court.
He is co-author of a commentary on the European Patent Convention (Benkard, Europäisches Patentübereinkommen, 4th edition, 2023), a commentary on the German Patent Act (Benkard, Patentgesetz, 12th edition, 2023) and gives talks and takes part in panels at national and international conferences on IP matters. He was an external legally qualified member of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office.
