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  • Silicon Valley Chapter: U.S. IP Year in Review: Looking Back at 2025

    • 28 Jan 2026
    • 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
    • NEDO

    In-person Silicon Valley event:
    "U.S. IP Year in Review: Looking Back at 2025"

    Wednesday, January 28, 2026

    11:00am-12:00pm: Registration, Lunch & Networking
    12:00pm-1:30pm:   Program
    1:30pm-2:00pm:     Networking

    Location:
    NEDO
    3965 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara
    Santa Clara Towers, Seminar Room, 1st floor of Tower 2

    Thank you to our meeting sponsors:

       

    REGISTER FOR FREE NOW!


    PROGRAM:
    This marks the 12th annual U.S. IP Year-in-Review, presented by the Licensing Executives Society Silicon Valley Chapter. Our content-packed program will review the most significant IP legal developments of 2025, highlight critical takeaways, and provide actionable tips for everyday application. Whether you are involved in obtaining IP rights, negotiating deals, drafting agreements, enforcing rights, or defending against IP challenges, this program is designed for you!

    Key takeaways:

    • Insights for deal makers on strategizing, structuring, and drafting IP agreements (licenses, JVs, etc.).
    • Lessons learned from recent landmark U.S. IP court cases regarding enforcement and defense.
    • Best practices for effective IP protection.

    • USPTO developments.

    PANEL:

    Mary Fuller, Regional Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Silicon Valley Regional Office   LinkedIn

    Michael Zachary, Partner, Bunsow De Mory LLP   LinkedIn

    Joseph Yang, Partner, PatentEsque Law Group LLP   LinkedIn

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Past events

2 Dec 2025 LES-SVC Webinar: IP Valuation in Special Situations - Part 4 of 4-Part Webinar Series: "Unlocking Value in the Digital & AI Economy"
12 Nov 2025 LES-SVC Nov. Chapter Event “Royalty Compliance in the Age of AI: Audits, Disputes, and the Contracts That Matter”
5 Nov 2025 LES-SVC Webinar: IP Valuation in Special Situations - Part 3 of 4-Part Webinar Series: "Family court"
10 Sep 2025 LES-SVC Sept. Chapter Event “Copyright, Fair Use and AI: The Current State of the Law”
26 Aug 2025 LES-SVC August Chapter Meeting: IP Valuation in Special Situations - Part 2 of 4-Part Webinar Series: "Role of IP in Shaping Smarter Startup Investment Decisions "
20 Aug 2025 LES-SVC August Chapter Social: Explore Nature & Network-LES-SVC August 20-Portola Valley
9 Aug 2025 Successful Inventing Series: Successful Inventing: Marketing and advertising (USPTO & LES-SVC)
23 Jul 2025 LES-SVC July 2025 Chapter Meeting: "Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Life Sciences Licensing: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities"
12 Jul 2025 Successful Inventing Series: Early-Stage Funding (USPTO & LES-SVC)
24 Jun 2025 LES-SVC June Chapter Meeting: IP Valuation in Special Situations - Part 1 of 4-Part Webinar Series: "Closing the Intangible Valuation Gap in M&A Deal Pricing"
22 May 2025 LES-SVC May Chapter Meeting: "What Silicon Valley needs to know about the UPC in 2025"
10 May 2025 Successful Inventing Series: Licensing your product or concept (USPTO & LES-SVC)
17 Apr 2025 LES Silicon Valley Chapter (LES-SVC) 21st Annual Chapter Conference (AC2025)
20 Mar 2025 WEBINAR: THE FUTURE OF STANDARD ESSENTIAL PATENTS (SEPS)
14 Mar 2025 Managing IP Value in Startups & Early-Stage Ventures (Event Filled--Waiting list available)
21 Jan 2025 Silicon Valley Chapter: U.S. IP Year in Review: Looking Back at 2024
19 Nov 2024 Silicon Valley Chapter: Valuable Insights: "From Problem to Profit: AI-Driven Innovation and Licensing”
25 Sep 2024 IAM Live: Trade Secret Strategy USA - San Francisco
17 Sep 2024 SVC Event: AI and the Law: What You Need to Know Today
7 Aug 2024 Explore Nature & Network-LES-SVC August 7-Portola Valley
17 Jul 2024 Free Webinar - Data Monetization and Valuation in the Age of AI
20 May 2024 AI Unleashed: Unicorn or Trojan Horse?-20th Annual Silicon Valley Chapter Conference -5-20-24
1 May 2024 Invention-Con Kicks off at USPTO Silicon Valley
25 Apr 2024 April 25 MEETING POSTPONED: “From Problem to Profit: AI-Driven Innovation and Licensing”
27 Mar 2024 The Ubiquitous World of Internet of Things (IoT) Connected Devices – and the Coming Tsunami of Patent Licensing
15 Feb 2024 2023 U.S. IP Year in Review: 12 Months in Just 90 Minutes!
30 Jan 2024 FREE WEBINAR-Can You “Just Do the Deal?” Ethics in Negotiations and Transactions
13 Dec 2023 POSTPONED TO JANUARY 2024-Can You “Just Do the Deal?” Ethics in Negotiations and Transactions
14 Nov 2023 Silicon Valley In-Person Event 11-14-23 - Jim Pooley: How to Manage Trade Secrets Without Breaking a Sweat
9 Nov 2023 IAM Live: IP and Emerging Technology USA 2023
25 Oct 2023 FREE Webinar 10-25-24: Comparative International Commercial Arbitration
15 Oct 2023 LES 2023 Annual Meeting - It's Not Too Late!
19 Sep 2023 LES-SVC Free Event 9-19-23: Thinking Outside the Lab: Opportunities at the intersection of healthcare data, licensing, and AI
29 Aug 2023 LES-SVC & APABA 8-29-23 Free Event: Is Unauthorized Copying an Infringement or Fair Use?
21 Jun 2023 Perspectives on IP Licensing in the Semiconductor Ecosystem
24 May 2023 Sharing the Benefits of Federally Funded and Academic R&D Investments with the Private Sector
30 Apr 2023 LESI International Annual Conference: Leveraging Intellectual Property to Enable Innovation and Créativité for an Inspired Future
26 Apr 2023 2023 World IP Day 4-26-23 - Free Webinar - Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity
22 Apr 2023 USPTO Silicon Valley "Successful Inventing" Series: Product development
19 Apr 2023 U.S. Global Security and Intellectual Property: An Insider's Perspective - April 19 In-person event
1 Mar 2023 Europe's New Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court – Impact on Patent Strategy, Litigation and Licensing
18 Jan 2023 2022 U.S. IP Year in Review
16 Nov 2022 Battling Over Content Protection: Prince, Andy Warhol, Hermes, Tarantino, Nike, Satan Shoes, Kim Kardashian, blood droplets, AI-generated art, NFTs and more!
21 Sep 2022 What's Ahead with Fintech, Blockchain & Its Progeny? Ambitions for, and impacts of DeFi, Web 3.0 & the Metaverse
15 Jun 2022 Cannabis, Intellectual Property, and Commercialization
24 May 2022 Legal Fallout from the Ukraine War and Other Global Tensions: The Latest in Sanctions & Export Controls
15 Mar 2022 You Won't Believe What They Sold! Lessons From 10 years of Patent Market Analysis
3 Feb 2022 IP Year 2021 in Review
17 Nov 2021 Advancing Diversity in the Innovation Cycle
26 Oct 2021 Combining Trade Secret and Patent Protection in an Integrated IP Strategy
21 Jul 2021 Emerging from the Pandemic - Silicon Valley Perspectives & Celebrating Larry Udell’s 90th Birthday!
10 Jun 2021 IP Valuation in Deal Making: Emerging Assets and Opportunity
19 May 2021 Trends in Securing and Enforcing Trade Secrets
21 Apr 2021 Collateralizing IP and Other (Even More Intangible) Intellectual Capital Assets
18 Mar 2021 Good Data Asset Management – Realizing Data’s Full Potential
24 Feb 2021 Funding IP Enforcement to Support Licensing and Monetization
20 Jan 2021 IP Year in Review
16 Dec 2020 Build or Partner – Deciding Whether To Commercialize Enterprise Patent Portfolios With In-House Teams Or Specialized Partners
18 Nov 2020 Intellectual Capital: Unlock The Unexploited Value of Your Company’s IC Assets
24 Sep 2020 INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL: Connecting the Financial and IP Communities
3 Jun 2020 FRAND Licensing – Developments and Predictions Hosted by The LES Silicon Valley Chapter
26 Feb 2020 Using Your IP to Raise Capital
11 Dec 2019 IP Year in Review
16 Oct 2019 Protecting Your Secret Sauce! Techniques & Technologies for Securing Your Systems, Data, & Intellectual Assets Against Hacking, Theft, & Industrial Espionage
25 Sep 2019 Blockchain in the Enterprise: Applications, Business Models and IP Protection
20 Jun 2019 IP Licensing in China
17 Apr 2019 LES-SVC 19th Annual Conference: 5G & IP - Are You Ready?
21 Feb 2019 What Happens When Your License Agreement Goes to Litigation? The Perils of Imprecise Drafting and/or Drafting For Experts
31 Jan 2019 What U.S. Patent Attorneys Need to Know about Obtaining Japanese Software Patents – AI & Blockchain + more
12 Dec 2018 IP Year in Review
31 Oct 2018 Generating IP Value Through Corporate Spin-Outs and Other Creative Deal Structures
19 Sep 2018 Trade Secrets: Important Lessons for Management
20 Jun 2018 $17M for a Patent “Franchise”? – IPRs and “Oil States” Impact on Patent Owners
17 May 2018 Multi-Layered, International Patent and Design Protection for Cloud-Enabled Consumer Products
25 Apr 2018 LES-SVC 18th Annual Conference: The Evolving Role of IP in the Innovation Economy Globally & Across Industries
28 Mar 2018 Hot Topics in Patent Licensing & Litigation
14 Feb 2018 Leveling the Playing Field?: Defensive Aggregation, IPRs and Patent Enforcement Entities
10 Jan 2018 Open Source Licensing – Risks & Benefits
13 Dec 2017 IP Year in Review
15 Nov 2017 Opportunities & Challenges of Licensing Programs in Operating Companies
18 Oct 2017 How to Run a Patent Prosecution Practice to Maximize Global Revenue from Licensing: A Perspective from Three Industries
28 Sep 2017 The Impact of Patent Exhaustion after Impression Products v. Lexmark International
21 Jun 2017 With Millions of Dollars at Stake: A Trial Lawyer’s Perspective on Litigating and Trying IP License Disputes to Juries and Arbitrators
17 May 2017 A Penny or a Pound: Apportioning Damages in Patent Cases”
26 Apr 2017 LES-SVC 17th Annual Conference: Do Patents Still Matter?
22 Mar 2017 IP Valuation: Optimizing the Value of Your IP Assets in Uncertain Times
15 Feb 2017 Delivering Regenerative Medicine - The Next Frontier in Health Care

Industry Affiliate Partners:

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) is a nonpartisan nonprofit established in 2016 that raises awareness about the impact of IP on people, business and society. CIPU provides outreach to improve familiarity with IP rights and promote sharing. It holds events, such as the annual IP Awareness Summit®, curates IPBasics.org, an information portal, and produces ‘Understanding IP Matters,’ a critically-acclaimed podcast series that has generated more than 10,000 downloads. UIPM enables successful creators, entrepreneurs and strategists to share their IP story. For more information, visit understandingip.org.

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