John Lee

J. John Lee is the Senior Director & Head of Intellectual Property Policy at CCIA. He leads the Association’s intellectual property policy efforts, including with respect to patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets.

Prior to joining CCIA, John served as the Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property for the House Judiciary Committee, where he was the principal advisor on IP and AI issues and helmed the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet. Before Congress, John heard and decided hundreds of cases as a Lead Administrative Patent Judge on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Before his judicial appointment, John was a partner at Kirkland and Ellis LLP, where he represented both Fortune 100 companies and start-ups, including in litigation before federal courts nationwide and the U.S. International Trade Commission. He also served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Paul R. Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 

John is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and also holds degrees in bioengineering and neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania.