Meet the panel
Bowman (Bo) Heiden is Founding Faculty Director of Open Innovation Labs at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Executive Director of the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership. He co-directs the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Gothenburg and co-chairs the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at NYU Law's Classical Liberal Institute. He is currently leading a team of Berkeley researchers evaluating the quality of AI-drafted patent claims against attorney work product.
Neel Guha is Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where his work sits at the intersection of law and machine learning. He created LegalBench, the leading benchmark for measuring legal reasoning in large language models, and his research on how to evaluate AI-generated legal work has been widely adopted across the legal technology industry. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford.
Nikolaus Thumm is an economist who served as Chief Economist of the European Patent Office and later as Senior Fellow at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, where he worked on standard-essential patents, FRAND licensing and the economics of the patent system. He advises national and international organizations including the OECD, is an associate at TU Berlin, and is a fellow in UC Berkeley Law's Berkeley Fellowship Program, where his current research looks at how AI is reshaping invention and the future of the patent system.
Founder and CEO of Tradespace, the AI-native IP platform and law practice used by university technology transfer offices and corporate IP teams. Has spent his career in IP, from technology transfer to patent prosecution strategy.