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Matthew Rizzolo, Ropes & Gray, LLP, Washington, DC

Speakers 

Arti K. Rai, Professor of Law, Duke School of Law, Durham, NC
Christopher Walker, Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law, Columbus, OH

Speakers

• Walker, Christopher

  The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law | Professor of Law

  Christopher Walker is the John W. Bricker Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Walker clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and worked on the Civil Appellate Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented federal agencies in a variety of regulatory contexts. His publications have appeared in the California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among others. Outside the law school, he serves as one of forty Public Members of the Administrative Conference of the United States and as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He blogs regularly at the Yale Journal on Regulation.
• Rai, Arti K.

  Duke Law | Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law

  Arti Rai is Elvin R. Latty Professor and Faculty Director of the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law School. She is an internationally recognized authority on patent law, administrative law, and biopharmaceutical innovation. Rai's extensive research on these subjects has been funded by Arnold Ventures, the National Institutes of Health, the Greenwall Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. She has published widely in both peer-reviewed journals and law reviews.
• Rizzolo, Matthew

  Ropes & Gray | Partner

  Matt Rizzolo is a litigator who works extensively with technology companies to both enforce clients’ intellectual property rights and defend clients from infringement claims. Matt has significant experience litigating patent cases in a variety of jurisdictions, including federal district courts throughout the United States, the Court of Federal Claims, and in Section 337 actions before the United States International Trade Commission.