Biography
Peter Lam is VP Deputy General Counsel at Extreme Networks, where he leads a team responsible for driving global IP strategy, advising on legal issues throughout the product lifecycle, managing patent & trademark portfolios, and supporting vendor agreements. Peter has practiced in a wide range of areas including portfolio development, patent monetization, IP litigation, and IP licensing at several Silicon Valley tech companies. Most recently, he served as Senior IP Counsel at General Electric for the digital industrial business of GE Power, often speaking about Big Data and data rights. Prior to GE, Peter served as Senior IP Counsel for numerous business units at Cisco Systems, as Senior IP Counsel for medical robotics startup Hansen Medical, and as lead IP Counsel for Siemens Medical Solutions, Ultrasound. Peter also spent many years at Intel, working initially as an integrated circuit designer and as a software developer, and later as a patent attorney. Peter received his J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.