Christa Laser, J.D.
Christa Laser is a former scientist and attorney with a decade of experience litigating high-stakes patent, intellectual property and advertising cases for Fortune 500 technology and pharmaceutical companies, including Apple, Samsung, AbbVie, Abbott and Intel. She is now a law professor at Cleveland State University specializing in intellectual property and innovation policy.
Her research focuses on building an intellectual property system that promotes innovation, investment and public benefit. Laser is also an award-winning Toastmaster, a world champion of the Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, a published researcher in Science and a medalist in national and North American fencing competitions.
The topic of her talk is Why Innovation Fails Us: The Laws that Shape Progress and How to Change Them.