Peter lam

Peter Lam is the Senior Director and Head of Intellectual Property at Extreme Networks, where he is responsible for overseeing IP litigation, managing patent and trademark portfolios, and driving global IP strategy. Peter has practiced in a wide range of areas including portfolio development, patent monetization, 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.