Full Name
Michelle Lee
Job Title
Vice President, Machine Learning Solutions Lab
Organization
Amazon
Speaker Bio
Michelle K. Lee is the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, one of the largest intellectual property offices in the world. In this position, she was the CEO of a 13,000 person agency with a $3.4 billion annual budget, responsible for all functions of the organization and for advising the President, through the Secretary of Commerce, on domestic and international intellectual property policy. Ms. Lee was the first woman to serve in this role in our country's history. After public service, she held the appointment as the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor at Law at Stanford Law School, where she taught a course on disruptive technologies (artificial intelligence and driverless cars) and their impact on laws and regulations. She currently serves on the boards of Alarm.com (NASDAQ: ALRM) and Nauto, Inc. and frequently speaks on technology, intellectual property, policy, innovation, and inclusion as a business strategy.
Ms. Lee previously served as Google’s Deputy General Counsel and its first Head of Patents and Patent Strategy. Prior to Google, Ms. Lee was a partner at the Silicon Valley law firm at Fenwick & West, where she counseled a wide range of clients on intellectual property, corporate and litigation matters. Before Fenwick, Ms. Lee litigated cases at Keker & Van Nest and clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Ms. Lee has been recognized by numerous organizations for her work and contributions including by Politico Magazine as one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Visionaries in American Public Policy” in 2015, by the Washingtonian Magazine as a “Tech Titan” in 2015 and by the San Francisco Business Times and San Jose Business Journal as one of the top 100 most influential women in the Silicon Valley in 2013 and the Best Bay Area IP Lawyer in 2012. Ms. Lee the proud recipient of the 2017 ChIPs Hall of Fame Award.
Before building her legal career, Ms. Lee worked as a computer scientist at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, as well as at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T., as well as a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
She is a co-founder of ChIPs.
Ms. Lee previously served as Google’s Deputy General Counsel and its first Head of Patents and Patent Strategy. Prior to Google, Ms. Lee was a partner at the Silicon Valley law firm at Fenwick & West, where she counseled a wide range of clients on intellectual property, corporate and litigation matters. Before Fenwick, Ms. Lee litigated cases at Keker & Van Nest and clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Ms. Lee has been recognized by numerous organizations for her work and contributions including by Politico Magazine as one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Visionaries in American Public Policy” in 2015, by the Washingtonian Magazine as a “Tech Titan” in 2015 and by the San Francisco Business Times and San Jose Business Journal as one of the top 100 most influential women in the Silicon Valley in 2013 and the Best Bay Area IP Lawyer in 2012. Ms. Lee the proud recipient of the 2017 ChIPs Hall of Fame Award.
Before building her legal career, Ms. Lee worked as a computer scientist at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, as well as at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T., as well as a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
She is a co-founder of ChIPs.
