Mark Allen Cohen is currently the senior technology fellow at the Asia Society of Northern California and an Edison fellow at George Mason University, Antonin Scalia School of Law. He was most recently a distinguished senior fellow and director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves as a non-resident scholar at the University of California Haas School of Business and University of California, San Diego, the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Sunwater Institute. He previously served as the first Intellectual Property Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and as Attorney-Advisor in the Office of International Relations at USPTO. In total, he has over 30 years private, public sector, in house and academic experience on IPR issues in China.