Chris Mammen to Speak on “Patent and Frontier Technologies” at Intellectual Property and Law Conference

Womble Bond Dickinson San Francisco Office Managing Partner and AI Practice Team Co-Founder Chris Mammen will be a speaker at the 33rd Annual Intellectual Property and Law Conference—often called “The Davos of IP.”

His panel discussion will address “Patent and Frontier Technologies.” The panel will discuss:

• Patent Law and AI Governance—Whether patent offices and courts are becoming central actors in defining the legal boundaries of AI development, technological ownership, and innovation incentives.
• Recalibrating Patentability for the AI Era—Whether novelty, enablement, and nonobviousness remain fit for purpose when inventions are increasingly generated or optimized by machine learning systems.
• Inventorship and Human Control—How patent law should allocate credit and define inventive contribution as generative systems assume more autonomous roles in research and development.
• Patent Linkage and Regulatory Coordination—How national linkage systems and regulatory exclusivities reflect broader challenges in aligning patent enforcement with drug approval and portfolio strategy across fragmented jurisdictions.
• Remedies in Ecosystem-Based Innovation Markets—Whether injunctions and territorial patent remedies remain effective when technologies operate across interconnected platforms, supply chains, and global markets.

Mammen will be joined in the conversation by Arti Rai of the Duke University School of Law, Google’s Laura Sheridan Google, David Por of Clifford Chance, Patlytics’ Eric Lin, and Sharon Goswami of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Colin Birss of the UK High Court, Chancery Division, will moderate.

The event is presented by the Emily C. & John E. Hansen IP Institute at Fordham Law School. It takes place April 24-25 in New York City.