First Friday is an early morning event that provides an opportunity for the campus and local communities to network. We encourage you to kick off your day with exciting presentations on topics relevant to intellectual property and entrepreneurship at UCLA. Light refreshments will be served. The event is FREE but you must register to attend. Space is limited. Please note: We do not validate for parking and encourage you to use public transportation.
David Bailey, KPPB - The Patentability of Software
Friday, September 6, 2019 from 9am - 10am
About the presentation:
Recent years have seen dynamic shifts in the IP landscape regarding the patentability of software. Against this backdrop, access to large training data sets have led to significant breakthroughs in machine learning and many companies are forming in an attempt to commercialize emergent AI technologies. Join us for a discussion of the factors that are weighed in determining whether software is capable of patent protection and strategies for securing valuable machine learning IP.
About the speaker:
David is a founding partner of KPPB LLP. KPPB is a boutique intellectual property law firm that specializes in developing and enforcing IP portfolios on behalf of venture backed startup companies and leading research universities including Caltech, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford, and UCLA. David’s practice primarily involves advising a clientele of high technology companies on a range of patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet related issues. David also has extensive experience in guiding KPPB's clients through diligence processes associated with fundraising, acquisition and successful IPO. Among David’s current “portfolio” of clients are companies in the portfolios of Andreessen Horowitz, Atomic Ventures, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, the Facebook Fund, Google Ventures, Greycroft Ventures, Intel Capital, IQT, Oak Investment Partners, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Rincon Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank. David holds degrees in Computer Engineering and Law from The University of Melbourne and is admitted to practice in California, New York, and before the USPTO. David is also a frequent guest lecturer at Caltech and UCLA on topics relevant to branding and patent strategies for startup companies.