Eliza Stefaniw

King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand)

Eliza Stefaniw, JD, RTTP, is an Advisor for Innovation Ecosystem Development at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi’s (KMUTT) Knowledge Xchange (KX). At KMUTT, Eliza specializes in IP management, from strategy to operations and from IP protection to IP licensing. In addition, she focuses on capacity building within the innovation ecosystem of KMUTT and Thailand, from teaching patent and technology transfer skills to mentoring students and early-stage start-up companies. She has over 25 years of experience in evaluating, protecting and using intellectual property, as a patent examiner, patent agent, intellectual property attorney and advisor in the US and Thailand. Eliza strives to maximize innovation impact by listening to inventors and clients and crafting tailored strategic solutions. Eliza is also a registered mediator to assist in resolving IP disputes. Before moving to Thailand, she was a patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office and an associate in the Silicon Valley office of Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius. Eliza became a registered US patent agent in 2001 and obtained her JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 2003. She holds a masters in physics from the University of Rochester, where she was an Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellow. She received a bachelors in physics and Russian with a concentration in international economic relations from Bryn Mawr College.