Protecting Innovation Across Borders - How to Build Smarter IP Strategies in the Age of AI
Global growth starts with protected ideas.
As innovation accelerates – particularly in AI – patent strategies must evolve to keep pace across borders. Join us for an engaging, expert-led discussion on how tech companies, investors, and legal professionals navigate the evolving transatlantic IP landscape, followed by a relaxed Happy Hour to continue the conversation and connect with peers.
This event brings together insights from both sides of the Atlantic to explore the strategic differences between the US and Europe, emerging regulatory challenges in AI, and the practical realities of managing global patent portfolios.
Topics include:
The role of IP in long-term business success
What investors look for in your IP strategy
Can patents survive in an open-source world?
US vs. Europe: How patenting strategies differ - and how smart startups use that to their advantage
The European AI Act: What founders need to know - even if you're not in Europe (yet)
If you ever need to enforce your IP in Europe - what are your options?
Who is this for?
This event is ideal for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of navigating complex, cross-border IP challenges - particularly where innovation, investment, and evolving legal frameworks intersect. Whether you're managing patent strategies across regions, evaluating IP as part of business growth, or simply staying ahead of shifts in AI-related regulation, this event is for you.
Speakers
We'll learn from a panel of experts in US and European patent law, venture capital, and AI regulations. Together, they’ll share their advice on navigating the realities of protecting innovation across borders and the strategic decisions that shape competitive advantage in today’s AI-driven landscape.
Alberto “Al” Araiza is a Silicon Valley IP attorney at Perkins Coie who crafts IP strategies to achieve clients' corporate objectives. Al helps founders and investors develop patent portfolios for successful exits, including initial public offerings and acquisitions. He performs valuations for sales and acquisitions, develops monetization and cost optimization strategies, handles patent cross-licensing, and conducts comprehensive technical investigations related to patent assertions, including developing infringement and invalidity theories. Al protects innovations with domestic and foreign patents for technologies from wireless communications, climate, and artificial intelligence to gaming, blockchain and digital currency, virtual and mixed reality, and consumer products.
Hayden Miller is a European Patent Attorney and Partner at AWA, a leading intellectual property firm with 20+ offices in Belgium, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. Hayden specializes in advising companies across the US and Europe on IP strategy, with deep expertise in AI-related inventions, computer-implemented technologies, and cross-border filings. He will share insights on how European IP frameworks are evolving in the age of AI - and what that means for innovators operating globally.
Anish Srivastava Anish is a Venture Partner at Swisscom Ventures, focusing on enterprise technologies in North America, and advises Fortune 500 CVCs as CEO of Vinaj Ventures, a boutique consulting firm. Previously, Anish led Citi Ventures' Global Accelerators & Innovation Fund and played a key role in JP Morgan Chase's innovation organization. His career includes senior and executive positions at startups like Egreetings, Geodesic, and Lexy, where he pioneered consumer-facing mobile services. He also spearheaded mobile innovation and partnerships at Orange in Silicon Valley and London. Anish holds a BS in Computer Science and French from Carnegie Mellon University.
Sanna Wong-Toropainen is a Finnish lawyer, entrepreneur, and researcher focusing on AI and law. In her PhD research at the University of Helsinki, and in her current role as a visiting scholar at Stanford University, she is studying regulations concerning access and use of data and the impact of the rules for AI development. Her research particularly focuses on how companies can safeguard trade secrets and other sensitive information. Also, she has recently published a manual for lawyers and business owners covering the EU AI Act, the Data Act, the Data Governance Act (DGA), the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), where she gives a comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to how all these acts regulate the access and use of data, and how the acts provide new business opportunities within the data economy.
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