The Intellectual Property Symposium brings together a unique combination of thought leaders in electronic systems, software, and semiconductors across the engineering, business and legal professions.

This event is co-chaired by Rick Merritt, Editor-at-Large of EE Times and Mike McLean, Vice-President of Professional Services, Semiconductor Insights. Working with our Advisory Board that includes senior executives from ARM, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and TSMC, they have created an in-depth program that will resonate with those in the engineering, business and legal communities.

The Intellectual Property Symposium is co-located with the Embedded Systems Conference and the EE Times ACE Awards.

The program has sessions geared towards:

• Sr Engineers and Engineering Managers
• Line of Business Managers
• Legal Professionals

The conference is open to anyone who wants to understand what is going on in the rapidly changing marketplace for patents and intellectual property at the level of chips, systems and/or software in the electronics industry.

Presented by EE Times, Semiconductor Insights and Portelligent, this two day symposium includes:

Keynote addresses on the state of intellectual property in electronics from:

Peter Detkin, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former head of IP at Intel




Mike Meurer, a noted author on the problems of the patent system and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

Jon Dudas, Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office