Thursday, May 18th
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Our special guest this week, Heather Meeker, Partner, Tech Law Partners, LLP, and Ken Korea, Principal, Colev Lawill Present on:
“Metaverse, Stable Diffusion AI and Deepfakes”
Ken Korea
Ken Korea is a technology transactions attorney, arbitrator, and mediator with 30 years of experience in intellectual property licensing, litigation, and technology transactions. He practiced at leading US law firms and served as Senior Vice President at Samsung Electronics as the head of the Silicon Valley IP Office from 2011 to 2021. Ken has handled more than two hundred IP litigation matters, negotiated numerous patent licenses including three of the largest patent cross-license agreements, and helped clients to acquire companies ranging from startups to a multibillion-dollar company. He currently serves as an arbitrator for American Arbitration Association (AAA), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and Korea Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) International and as a neutral for World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center
Heather Meeker
Heather Meeker is also a Founding Portfolio Partner at OSS Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund specializing in commercial open-source development. She was formerly a partner in O’Melveny & Myers’ Silicon Valley office in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group.
Meeker advises technology clients on intellectual property matters, including licensing and collaboration arrangements, software copyright and patent issues, technology procurement, open-source licensing strategies, and intellectual property issues in investments, mergers, and acquisitions. She is an internationally known specialist in open-source software licensing. Her latest book, Open Source for Business, is a definitive handbook for lawyers, engineers, and businesspersons on open-source licensing in business. Her Technology Licensing: A Primer, is a widely used handbook for technology licensing specialists.
In 2019, Meeker was named by Business Insider as one of the ten people transforming the way the technology industry does business, along with the CEOs of Salesforce, Stripe, and Microsoft. She was the only lawyer on this list.
Meeker is widely recognized for her leadership in intellectual property licensing law, with Chambers USA, the Legal 500, Best Lawyers in America, and SuperLawyers naming her among the industry’s top lawyers in multiple years. She received the prestigious IP Vanguard Award for private practice from the Intellectual Property Section of the California state bar for 2016. In 2012, Best Lawyers named her its “San Francisco Information Technology Law Lawyer of the Year.” In 2018, she was named one of the top Women Leaders in Tech Law by The Recorder. The Daily Journal named Meeker to its list of “Top 100 Women Lawyers in California” in 2013, and has named her twice to its list of “25 Top IP Portfolio Managers (Licensing) In California.” Managing IP named her to its “IP Stars - Top 250 Women in IP” list in 2013.
She is a member of the Advisory Council for the American Law Institute’s projects on Principles of the Law of Software Contracts (2010) and Restatement of Law, Copyright (ongoing).
Heather graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1979 with a B.A. in Economics. She received her J.D from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. There, she was Order of the Coif and Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Technology Law Review.
You can learn more about Heather’s experience and credentials, and connect with her on LinkedIn, here.