Leadership
Meet the leaders, advisors and industry experts helping advance intellectual property understanding.
Board of Directors
Meet the leaders providing guidance and strategic leadership for CIPU.
Advisors & Committee Members
Committees help the board with perspective and direction.
James Pooley **
Trade secrets trial lawyer, scholar and diplomat; ex-Deputy Director General, WIPO; Former Chairman, Inventors Hall of Fame; author
Stephen Key **
Inventor, leading product licensing expert, Forbes innovation columnist
Derek Morales *
Associate Counsel, Trademarks at the Estée Lauder Companies. Previously, he was Senior Director of the Intellectual Property Council at Ralph Lauren.
Marshall Phelps (Co-Founder)
Vice President of IP Strategy & Business, Microsoft Corp and IBM (ret); charter member IP Hall of Fame; visiting professor and lecturer Cornell, Duke and USC
Jonathan Taplin
Award-winning film producer (Mean Streets, The Last Waltz, Shine, To Die For); Director Emeritus, the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the USC School for Communication and Journalism; author of four books.
Rafael Cardona *
Marketing strategist; IP Instructor Glendale Community College, Los Angeles
Madeleine Key **
Senior Strategist for inventRight and Inventors Groups of America, Inc.; intellectual property columnist; Forbes and Inc contributor; advisor to National Academy of Inventors.
Hon. Paul R. Michel
Chief Judge and Member of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (ret). Co-Chair, United States Intellectual Property Alliance (USIPA).
Maysa Razavi
Director of Product Security Investigations and Intelligence at Johnson & Johnson; fmr Director Global Brand Protection and Supply Chain Security, Moderna Therapeutics; Anti-Counterfeiting Manager, International Trademark Association (INTA); Legal Intern, Chanel.
* Education Committee ** Communications Committee *** Development Committee
Leadership Experience Includes
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