IP, Law, Medicine

Dr. Ryan Abbott

Dr. Ryan Abbott

MD, JD, MTOM, PhD, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Practicing Attorney and Solicitor Advocate and Mediator and Arbitrator with JAMS, Inc. Author of “The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law” published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. Published widely on issues associated with life sciences and intellectual property in leading legal, medical, and scientific books and journals, and his research has been featured prominently in the media including in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. Outside general counsel to biotechnology companies, specialized in transactional matters and intellectual property litigation for biopharmaceutical and information technology companies. Expert work for the UK Parliament, the European Commission, the World Health Organization, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, among others. Named one of the fifty most influential people in intellectual property in 2019 and 2021 by Managing Intellectual Property magazine, and a World Intellectual Property Review Patent Leader in the US and UK in 2022.