Andrei Iancu, Co-Head of S&C’s Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation Group, received the 2025 Jefferson Award at the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association’s Jefferson Medal Dinner.
The NJIPLA is devoted to educating the public about intellectual property and its protection under the law and includes hundreds of practicing intellectual property attorneys, patent agents, law students, and interested individuals primarily from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Andrei is a former Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a position to which he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. He has decades of experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in IP matters across the technical and scientific spectra, including medical devices, genetic testing, therapeutics, the Internet, telephony, TV broadcasting, video game systems and computer peripherals.