Vicki E. Allums

Ms. Allums has more than fifteen years of legal and policy experience as a government and corporate attorney in the areas of domestic and international intellectual property (IP), IP licensing, IP enforcement, technology, e-commerce and international trade matters. She has been a frequent speaker at intellectual property and international trade conferences around the world and has extensive experience representing the United States in bilateral and multilateral negotiations with foreign governments. 

Vicki’s other government experience includes working as a senior attorney in the Office of Legislative and International Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where she advised Executive Branch agencies on IP enforcement and other trade policy issues. Ms. Allums was also a senior attorney in the Intellectual Property Branch at U.S. Customs. In that capacity, she drafted administrative rulings on imported shipments of counterfeit and pirated goods and provided technical assistance to the United States Trade Representative’s Office on IP border enforcement issues in bilateral negotiations. 

She is currently an adjunct professor of law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago where she co-teaches a Master’s Class on “Globalization, Intellectual Property and the Internet.” Ms. Allums is the co-author of a book published by Thomson West titled “Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Across Borders” and the author of “Enforcing IP in the Age of Globalization: Issues, Challenges, and Trends for the International IP Community and the Practicing Attorney,” a chapter in “Inside the Minds, International IP Issues and Strategies.”