IP3 Awards

The IP3 Awards is a special occasion to honor those who have made significant contributions in our field over the past year, or over the course of their career. Each year, we honor people in 3 areas of IP: Intellectual Property, Information Policy, and Internet Protocol.

Honorees

2017 

Senator Ed Markey
Michelle Lee, Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office 
Gigi Sohn, Fellow at Georgetown Law, Open Society Foundation, and Mozilla; Former Counselor to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler 

2016

Senator Al Franken
Representative Blake Farenthold
Jessica Gonzalez, National Hispanic Media Coalition

2015

Shari Steele, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown Law
Chip Pickering, COMPTEL

2014

Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Consortium
Malkia Cyril, Center for Media Justice
Julie Samuels, Engine

2013

The Honorable Anna Eshoo, US House of Representatives
Jerry Brito, WCITLeaks Leader and Faculty at the Mercatus Center
Eli Dourado, WCITLeaks Leader and Faculty at the Mercatus Center
Sina Khanifar, entrepreneur and author of the successful White House Cell Phone Unlocking petition.

2012

Rebecca MacKinnon, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Michael Masnick, CEO, Techdirt
Andy Schwartzman, Public Interest Communications Attorney
Representative Darrell Issa, R-CA (President's Award)

2011

Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator, Oregon
Beth Noveck, professor, New York Law School
Peter Jaszi, professor, American University's Washington College of Law

2010

Pamela Samuelson, professor, Berkeley Law School & School of Information
Susan Crawford, professor of Law, Cardozo Law School
Michael Geist, professor, University of Ottawa

2009

Karen Jackson, Deputy Secretary of Technology, Commonwealth of Virginia
Sascha Meinrath, Founder, Open Technology Initiative
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
Sarah Deutsch, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Verizon
(President's Award)

2008

Carl Malamud
Ben Scott
Fred von Lohmann
Representative Zoe Lofgren, D-CA (President's Award)

2007

Jamie Love
OK Go
Tim Wu
Robert Young (President's Award)

2006

Yochai Benkler
Blake and Jason Krikorian
Jessica Litman
James Burger (President's Award)

2005

Victoria Hale
Gregory Macguire
Dr. David P. Reed
Gary Shapiro (President's Award)

2004

Rick Boucher, D-Va
DJ Danger Mouse
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive