Wayne Stacy

Executive Director

Center for Law & Technology

Wayne Stacy is the Executive Director of the Center for Law & Technology and an instructor at Berkeley Law. Prior to joining Berkeley Law, Wayne was the Director for the USPTO’s Silicon Valley Office. And before that he spent more than 20 years at the world’s top law firms, including at Baker Botts as the Intellectual Property Chair for the San Francisco office and at Cooley as an equity partner. Wayne has served as an adjunct professor at four law schools over the last 20 years—teaching patent law, patent litigation, copyright law, PTAB practice, and NIL licensing. He has served as an advisor on Federal Court local-rule committees and as faculty for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. And most recently, he served as a Fulbright Specialist focused on developing frameworks for AI regulation in developing economies.