SILICON VALLEY – March 2, 2022 – Ian C. Ballon, co-chair of the Global Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Practice at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will speak at Howard University Law School’s 4th Annual HBCU Tech Law Summit and 19th Annual IP and Social Justice Program on March 4. Ballon will be a speaker during the opening session of the IP and Social Justice program, delivering the copyright law update on the “Year in Review: Patent, Trademark, and Copyright” panel.
The HBCU Tech Law Summit is a program for diverse legal professionals that aims to educate on issues regarding the accountable development of artificial intelligence services and technology. The IP and Social Justice CLE program discusses updates in IP law regarding diversity and social justice and features a panel of sitting federal judges.
Ballon, an internet and IP litigation shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. offices, has been included in The Daily Journal’s annual list of Top IP Litigators in California every year that the list has been published, from 2009 to 2021, and was named Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology Law in the 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, and 2013 editions of Best Lawyers in America. In 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018 he was recognized as one of the Top 1,000 trademark attorneys in the world for his litigation practice by World Trademark Review. He is included in the Lawdragon list of the Top 500 Lawyers in America and has been listed on The Daily Journal’s list of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. In 2019, he was named one of the top 20 cybersecurity lawyers in California and, in 2018, one of the top cybersecurity/artificial intelligence lawyers in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal. Ballon received the 2017 “Trailblazer” Award, Intellectual Property from The National Law Journal and has been recognized as a “Groundbreaker” in The Recorder’s 2017 Litigation Departments of the Year Awards. He was also the recipient of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Law section's Vanguard Award for significant contributions to the development of intellectual property law. Ballon is an elected member of the American Law Institute and served as an advisor to its international IP jurisdiction project and a member of the consultative group for the American Law Institute’s Data Privacy Principles of Law project. Ballon also is the author of West’s bestselling five-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law 2d ed. (http://www.ianballon.net/).