Mark Cohen
Berkeley,
CA
Mark Cohen joined the university’s law school in October 2017 as a senior fellow of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and as director of the new BCLT Asia IP Project, which will expand the law school’s reach on technology-related IP issues within Asia. Prior to this position, he served as the first senior counsel on China to the USPTO, leading its 21-member China team and as both a visiting professor and adjunct professor at Fordham Law School. Mr. Cohen has more than 30 years of private, public sector, in-house, and academic experience in China and transition economies, with a focus on technology trade and monetizing intellectual property. Among his accomplishments within government, Mr. Cohen was posted to Beijing as the first U.S. IP attaché in China from 2004-2008. He also helped institute the U.S.-China IP Dialogue under the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, and launched the U.S.-China “track 2” IP Dialogue under the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Cohen also re-established bilateral relationships with China’s patent and trademark offices after China joined the WTO; invited China into a newly established IP-5, consisting of the five largest patent offices in the world; developed a “China Resource Center” at the USPTO for increased empirical research on China’s IP environment at USPTO; and provided training and guidance on a range of China trade and rule of law matters within the U.S. government. Among various honors, he was recognized as an IP Trailblazer by the “National Law Journal,” as an IP Champion by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and as a leading IP diplomat by PhRMA. He also received the President Rank Award for Distinguished Civil Service by the USPTO in 2018 for his work on technology licensing. This is the highest award offered a civil servant in the federal government.
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