Staff

Wayne Stacy
Executive Director

Wayne Stacy has been a leading expert on patent law and IP litigation for over two decades.  Prior to his appointment as Executive Director of BCLT in May 2021, Wayne was the Director for the USPTO’s Silicon Valley Office. Before that, Wayne spent more than 20 years at several of the world’s top law firms.  Most recently, he was a senior partner and Intellectual Property Chair for Baker Botts’ San Francisco office.  Prior to that, Wayne was an equity partner in the IP Litigation section of Cooley LLP. During his career, several leading publications—including Chambers, Intellectual Asset Management (IAM), and Super Lawyers—have listed Wayne as one of the country’s top patent litigators. He was also recognized as an “IP Trailblazer” by the National Law Journal. Wayne has served as an adjunct professor at four law schools (including Berkeley) over the last 20 years—teaching patent law, patent litigation, copyright law, and PTAB practice.  He has served as an advisor on Federal Court local-rule committees and as faculty for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Allison Schmitt
Director, BCLT Life Sciences Law & Policy Center and Senior Fellow 

Allison Schmitt JD’15 returns to Berkeley Law to serve as the first Director of the new BCLT Life Sciences Project. She brings tremendous expertise, experience, and energy to this exciting initiative. Upon graduating Allison clerked for the Honorable Stanley R. Chesler at the District of New Jersey, where she worked extensively on ANDA cases. She then clerked for the Honorable Kathleen M. O’Malley at the Federal Circuit, where she further honed her knowledge of bio-pharma law and case management. She then spent several years in private practice focusing on life science patent litigation, patent counseling, and policy matters.

Richard Fisk
Director, Events & Engagement

Richard is responsible for managing the center’s extensive schedule of conferences, symposiums, forums, and workshops. Prior to joining BCLT, he was Special Events Manager for the 2015 San Francisco International Film Festival. From 2011- 2015, Richard was Director of Events at Central European University, a graduate institution in Budapest, Hungary. He has an extensive background in corporate project coordination, which is when he first began organizing large events.  Richard holds an M.A. in Broadcast and Electronic Communication from San Francisco State.

Alexis Goett
Director, Operations and Sponsorship

Alexis manages sponsorship and sponsor relations at BCLT, as well as the business activities, budgeting and financial transactions of the center.  She joined BCLT with over fifteen years experience as an in-house paralegal at a variety of technology companies.  Alexis holds a B.A. from Trinity College and an MBA from Fordham University.

Abril Delgado
Events Specialist

Abril joined BCLT in November 2022. In her role, Abril supports student programming and activities, including planning and executing student events, providing guidance to student groups, and fostering student engagement. Abril also coordinates BCLT’s numerous recruiting fairs, career mixers and networking opportunities, student event marketing, and skillfully manages relationships with BCLT’s sponsor law firm recruiters. Prior to this, she gained valuable experience as a student administrative and event services assistant at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing while pursuing her undergraduate studies. Abril holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley in Conservation & Resource Studies, accompanied by a minor in Sustainable Design.

Justin Tri Do
Events Specialist

Justin joined BCLT in September 2022. Justin is responsible for maintaining BCLT’s extensive, growing and very active portfolio of virtual events on the BCLT/Berkeley Law proprietary knowledge sharing platform, B-CLE. This includes scheduling and running live webinars and on-demand content, editing recorded sessions, and ensuring technical quality and ADA compliance of all content in the B-CLE library. Justin is also responsible for promoting virtual events via weekly emails. Alongside BCLT, he is also affiliated with UC Berkeley Law’s Berkeley Judicial Institute (BJI), conducting a similar role with judges and judiciary-focused organizations. Justin holds a holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in Philosophy with interest in Social Morality, Ethics, and Political Philosophy.

Yuan Hao
Co-Director, Berkeley Asia IP and Competition Law Center and Senior Fellow

Dr. Yuan Hao is a senior fellow / co-director of the newly established Berkeley Asia IP and Competition Law Center (BAIC) at BCLT. Yuan’s research interests are focused on two areas: (1) IP’s specific role in facilitating human creativity in an AI-powered age; and (2) IP’s specific role in the growth of private ordering and innovation eco-system in the shadow of an authoritarian government. For the former interest, Yuan is co-teaching a brand-new course titled IP and Human Creativity in an “AI Age” starting in the autumn of 2023, and her very recent article of The Rise of Centaur Inventors has been published in the Journal of Patent and Trademark Office Society (Vol. 104, Jan. 2024). In 2024-2025, Yuan is also hosting a global talk series on generative AI and human creativity. Regarding the latter interest, Yuan’s research is currently focused on the evolving landscape of standard essential patent (SEP) licensing and litigation, as well as the curious interplay of patent and antitrust in China.

Before Yuan joined Berkeley, she taught patent law and anti-monopoly law in the School of Law at Tsinghua University. As an influential academic, Yuan advised key IP and anti-monopoly legislation projects in China. She also participated in a dozen litigation, administrative investigation, and arbitration cases, including a major SEP antitrust investigation proceeding, as a panel member or expert witness. In 2018, Yuan was listed as an arbitrator in the International Arbitration Center in Tokyo (IACT), which aims to specialize in SEP-related arbitrations.  

Yuan received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School (2011), Ph.D. in Nano-electronics from Penn State University (2006), and B.S. in Physics from Peking University (1999). 

Kathryn Hashimoto
Copyright Law Fellow

Kathryn Hashimoto received her BA in English from UC Berkeley and her JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law. With a background in book publishing, Kathryn specializes in copyright law. Recent articles with Professor Pamela Samuelson include The Enigma of Digitized Property: A Tribute to John Perry Barlow, Duke Tech. L.J (forthcoming 2019), and Scholarly Concerns About a Proposed Copyright Small Claims Tribunal, 33 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 689 (2018), in addition to forthcoming book chapters on fair use in international copyright contexts and copyright in standards. Kathryn has also worked with Professor Samuelson and the Samuelson Clinic on amicus curiae briefs submitted to the US Supreme Court and the Second and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals.