Iancu, Andrei

Andrei Iancu was first an aerospace engineer at Hughes Aircraft, then a premier patent trial lawyer, later serving as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. He is presently a litigation partner at Sullivan & Cromwell and a leading voice on IP policy. With David Kappos, he founded the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) and, with former NIST Director Walter Copan, founded the Renewing American Innovation project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).