Jeremiah Chan is Head of Patents, Licensing and Open Source at Facebook. He and his team are responsible for the strategic development of Facebook's worldwide patent portfolio, intellectual property transactions, and risk mitigation initiatives, as well as industry-wide efforts to promote greater diversity in innovation. Facebook’s approach to patents and innovation is described in this 2019 blog post (https://about.fb.com/news/2019/08/how-patents-drive-innovation). Jeremiah is also a member of the USPTO’s Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC), where he serves on subcommittees for artificial intelligence, information technology and innovation expansion.

Prior to joining Facebook, Jeremiah led an international team at Google that was focused on portfolio strategy, operations and data science (featured in IAM Magazine, Issue 69, January/February 2015). Before Google, Jeremiah served as Head of IP for JDSU, where he managed a department that was responsible for all IP issues. Jeremiah started his career in private practice with the law firm of Fish & Neave, where he specialized in litigation, opinion work, and client counseling. Jeremiah graduated from UC Berkeley with highest honors while working as a marketing assistant at the University of California Press; and he received his JD from Cornell Law School while working as a law intern at Cornell’s Legal Aid Clinic.

Jeremiah often speaks and writes about IP strategy, technology transactions, portfolio development, data analytics, and diversity and inclusion. Jeremiah serves as an advisory board member for the Santa Clara High Tech Law Institute (law.scu.edu/hightech) and as chairman of the board for the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition (www.baatc.org), a nonprofit organization that combats human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.