Nathan Lunch Series on Intellectual Property: "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Intellectual Property Law"

Lunch will be available shortly after 12:00 p.m. and the discussion will start at 12:10 p.m.

Please register using this link by Monday, October 23, 2023.

Ryan Abbott '11, MD, MTOM, PhD is Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has published widely on issues associated with law and technology, life sciences, and intellectual property in leading legal, medical, and scientific books and journals, including as the author of The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press, and as the editor of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence published in 2022 by Edward Elgar. Professor Abbott’s research has been featured prominently in the popular press, including in The Times, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and other media outlets based on time. He routinely gives keynote lectures and presents internationally in academic (e.g., MIT, Stanford, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge), government (e.g., World Intellectual Property Organization, World Trade Organization, UK Intellectual Property Office), and industry (e.g., Google, IBM, Swiss Re) settings. Professor Abbott has served as an expert, or presented evidence, to the U.S. Senate, U.K. House of Lords, and the European Commission. Among other awards, Managing Intellectual Property magazine named him as one of the fifty most influential people in intellectual property in 2019 and again in 2021. 

Professor Abbott is a mediator and arbitrator with JAMS and a panelist with a variety of national and international dispute resolution service providers. He is a CEDR-accredited mediator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). He has worked as a partner in legal practice, where he primarily focused on transactional matters and intellectual property litigation in the life sciences, and he has been general counsel of a biotechnology company. Professor Abbott is a licensed physician, patent attorney, and acupuncturist in the United States, and a solicitor advocate in England and Wales. He is board-certified by the American Board of Legal Medicine (ABLM). Professor Abbott is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (MD), the Yale Law School (JD), University of Surrey School of Law (PhD), as well as a Summa Cum Laude graduate from Emperor’s College (MTOM) and a Summa Cum Laude graduate from University of California, Los Angeles (BS).