Abstract:

The Office of Intellectual Property (“OIP”) is responsible for managing the intellectual property developed by faculty and graduate students at UCLA. In practice this means that we work with inventions disclosed to us by faculty and graduate students and help introduce them to the commercial world. This seminar will cover the role of OIP, the basics of patent law, the invention disclosure process, as well as licensing and entrepreneurship.

Bio:

Ed Hsieh works in UCLA’s Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Princeton in chemical engineering and his master’s degree in material science from UCLA before going to USC for law school. Afterwards he worked as a patent litigator in Los Angeles for five years before joining one of his clients, Tessera. At Tessera Ed was VP of Legal and handled licensing of semiconductor packaging technology. Subsequently he went to Kellogg School of Management where he received an MBA and Masters in Engineering Management before joining UCLA.