Meet our Intellectual Property Fellows
The program’s purpose is to progress the development of positions, writings, scholarship, and communications to positively advance the public debate over standard-essential patent law and policy.
Meet Our Fellows
Timothy S. Simcoe
Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Boston University Questrom School of Business
Jim Beveridge
Jim Beveridge is a Fellow of the Innovators Network Foundation. Jim has been working in the field of IP, international technology standards and policy issues for over 20 years.
Jim started his technology orientated career working for Motorola Semiconductor’s microprocessor and microcontroller division in the UK and Germany.
Following on from this he worked as Gartner/ Dataquest’s Semiconductor Divisional head In EMEA . In this role he provided strategic advice to the management of Semiconductor Corporates and Start Ups across the globe.
His passion for technology led him, career wise, up the IT stack from semiconductors to the software cloud where he was the Director for EMEA in Microsoft’s Corporate Standards and Technology Policy Group.
Jim represented Microsoft in the founding of the Brussels based Digital Interoperability Forum. As a Steering Board member of the Geneva-based, Digital Video Broadcasting Project for Pace Microelectronics and Microsoft Jim became well acquainted with the sensitive licensing issues surrounding the application of FRAND.
Jim participated in the OECD Going Digital initiative and was invited to contribute to the OECD/ITF workshop on Algorithmic Governance in Transport.
This workshop explored how a new framework of public governance in an algorithmic age might take shape. It considered the opportunities and practical challenges associated with the implementation of artificial intelligence and algorithmic governance in the transportation sector.
During his time with Microsoft and latterly with Juniper Networks Jim saw first hand how internet connectivity has the capability to spur M2M and IOT innovation in vertical markets .
A native of Scotland, Jim studied Electrical Engineering at Glasgow University and for recreation enjoys sailing the, sometimes sunny, Western Isles .
Enrico Bonadio
Reader in Intellectual Property (IP) Law at City, University of London
Enrico Bonadio is Reader in Intellectual Property (IP) law at City, University of London. His current research agenda focuses on the intersection between IP and technology, including the law of standard essential patents and the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics innovation on IP. He has attracted funds from a variety of institutions, including the European Commission, Australian Research Council, UK Research and Innovation, UK Economic and Social Research Council, and the UK Higher Education Innovation Funding. He is also Deputy Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Risk Regulation.
Enrico has been delivering classes and talks in more than 100 universities and institutions around the world, including University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, New York University, John Marshall Law School and University of Havana. He is Visiting Professor at Keio University (Tokyo), Université Catholique de Lyon, University of Ankara (Turkey) and several other institutions. He has been Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne (2013), CUNY Law School (New York, 2016), University of Tel Aviv (2018 and 2019) and Hokkaido University (2019).
Enrico frequently appears in the media as an IP expert. His research has been covered by CNN, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters, BBC, The Times, Guardian, Independent, Associated Press and The Conversation, amongst other media outlets.
Michael A. Carrier
Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers Law School
Michael A. Carrier is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School, where he specializes in antitrust and IP law. He is co-author of the leading IP/antitrust treatise, IP and Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles Applied to Intellectual Property Law, the author of Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law, and the editor of Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law: Competition. He has written more than 130 book chapters and articles in leading law reviews, has been quoted more than 2000 times in the media, and has been cited in courts including the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Carrier has testified before the FDA, FTC, National Academies, Senate Judiciary Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and House Energy & Commerce Committee; is a past chair of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust and Economic Regulation section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS); was a policy volunteer for the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign; and served on the 2016 ABA Antitrust Section’s Presidential Transition Task Force.
Christian Helmers
Associate Professor at Santa Clara University
Christian Helmers is an associate professor of economics at the Leavey School of Business. He joined the economics department in the Winter of 2014 as an assistant professor.
Professor Helmers’ scholarship has appeared in journals such as The Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and Quantitative Economics. His research focuses on innovation, law and economics in particular intellectual property, and the economics of digitization.
Professor Helmers came to Santa Clara from Universidad Carlos III, Madrid where he was an Assistant Professor. Prior to that, he worked as a research economist at the London School of Economics. He has been a visiting research scholar at UC Berkeley, Stanford, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), as well as Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He has been involved in policy related work for various organizations including WIPO, the European Patent Office (EPO), the UK Intellectual Property Office, the Chilean Intellectual Property Office (INAPI), and the International Trade Center UNCTAD/WTO.
Professor Helmers earned his B.A. in Economics from HEC University of Lausanne, and his M.Sc. in Economics for Development, as well as his DPhil. in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Jay Jurata
Antitrust Trial Attorney at Dechert, LLP
Jay Jurata leads Dechert LLP's Antitrust & Competition team. A former Surface Warfare Officer in the United States Navy, he is no stranger to keeping his cool in the face of pivotal conflicts. This has served Jay well in his career as a Chambers-ranked, first chair trial lawyer that has spanned more than two decades. He has represented some of the biggest names in business, including Microsoft, Sonos and Zillow. Jay and his team have been trusted counsel to Microsoft for more than 20 years in antitrust and competition cases throughout the U.S., Canada, the EU and before the International Trade Commission. He currently leads Zillow’s defense in a high-profile antitrust dispute brought by REX in US federal court and represents Sonos in US v. Google and related matters. Previously, Jay represented Microsoft in more than 140 putative consumer overcharge class actions in the U.S. and Canada (including three cases that settled well into trial), as well as more than a dozen competitor lawsuits and government investigations. He is a recognized authority in the field of antitrust and its overlap with intellectual property, and speaks and publishes regularly on topics such as standards-essential patents, FRAND and patent trolls.
Brian J. Love
Associate Professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law and Co-Director of the School's High Tech Law Institute
Brian J. Love is an Associate Professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he also serves as Co-Director of the school’s High Tech Law Institute. Professor Love writes and teaches about patent law, intellectual property, and remedies. His research has been published by or is forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed law and economics journals (including the Journal of Law & Economics and the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization) and student-edited law reviews (including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Washington University Law Review). Professor Love’s scholarship has been cited in opinions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and multiple U.S. District Courts, as well as in reports prepared by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, White House Council of Economic Advisers, and Congressional Research Service. He is also widely quoted and cited in the press, including in articles published by the Associated Press, Reuters, and New York Times, and he has published op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and L.A. Times, among others. Prior to joining Santa Clara University, Professor Law was a Fellow at Stanford Law School, a patent litigator with Fish & Richardson, a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and an electrical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin’s Applied Research Laboratories.
Timothy S. Simcoe
Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Boston University Questrom School of Business, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Timothy S. Simcoe is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Boston University Questrom School of Business, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2014 to 2015, he served as a Senior Economist on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Professor Simcoe’s research focuses on standards, innovation and technology policy, intellectual property and corporate strategy. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Management Science, the RAND Journal of Economics, Organization Science and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. He is an associate editor at Management Science and the Journal of Industrial Economics.
In 2012 Professor Simcoe served on a committee to evaluate Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes convened by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He has provided consulting on FRAND licensing, and testified as an expert witness in several Federal Court cases, including Apple vs. Motorola (W.D. Wisconsin, 2011), Microsoft vs. Motorola (W.D. Washington, 2012) and Fujitsu vs. Tellabs (N.D. Illinois, 2014).
Dr. Simcoe holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard, along with an M.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
