Advisory Board

Beth Simone Noveck – Professor, Advisory Board Chair, and Principal Investigator

Beth Simone Noveck chairs the Center’s Advisory Board and serves as the principal investigator on Center projects. Utilizing her expertise in social networks, Professor Noveck developed the conceptual framework for the Peer-to-Patent and Post-Issue Peer-to-Patent projects. She also serves as the principal investigator on the Open Patent project.

Advisory Board Members

Tilo Bachmann
Administrator, European Patent Office

Robert Barr Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Berkeley Law School Former Vice President for Intellectual Property and Worldwide Patent Counsel, Cisco

John Bracken
Program Officer, MacArthur Foundation

Dennis Crouch
Patently-O
Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston University Law School
Associate, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Sean Dennehey
Patents Director, UK Patent Office

John Duffy
Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

Will Fitzpatrick
Corporate Counsel, Omidyar Network

Alan Kasper
Vice President of the Board of Directors, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Partner, Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Stephen G. Kunin
Special Counsel, Oblon Spivak
Former Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, USPTO

Mark Lemley
Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology
William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Stephen Merrill
Executive Director, Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
National Academies

Michael V. Messinger
Director, Sterne, Kessler Goldstein, & Fox P.L.L.C.

Marcus Mueller
European Patent Office, EPO Scenarios for the Future Project

Gideon Parchomovsky
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Arti K. Rai
Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University Law School

Steven S. Weiner
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell

Terry Winograd
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University