International
Conference on Strategies for Building
Software Industries in Developing Countries
Conference Agenda
East-West Center - University
of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Honolulu, Hawai‘i
May 19-21, 2004
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With Support
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University
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United States Patent and Trademark
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Day I: Wednesday, May 19, 2004
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8:00 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 |
Welcome/Opening Remarks/Introduction
Jon W. Dudas, Acting Director, United
States Patent and Trademark Office (electronic presentation)
Dr. Peter Englert,
Chancellor, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Hon. Bruce A. Lehman,
President, International Intellectual Property Institute |
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9:30 |
Examining the Importance of
Intellectual Property to the Software Industry
Moderator:
Michael Shapiro, Attorney Advisor, United States Patent and
Trademark Office |
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The
Basics in Intellectual Property Protections for Software Products
and Services
Richard Straussman, Partner, Morgan & Finnegan
Paper (PDF, 34k)
Presentation (PDF, 402k) |
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Primer on Software Licensing from a Developing Country Perspective
Dr. Russ O’Haver, Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting
Presentation (PDF, 74k) |
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Intellectual Property and Innovation – A Changing Perspective in
India
Dr. Rakesh Basant, Professor, Indian Institute of Management
Paper (PDF, 93k)
Presentation (PDF, 253k) |
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Expanding Global Economies: The Benefits of Reducing Software Piracy
Amie White, Director of Business Development, IDC
Presentation (PDF, 537k) |
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12:00 |
Speakers Panel Discussion |
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12:45 |
Lunch |
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2:15 |
Exploring the Myths and Realities of
Open Source Software
Moderator: Stephen Itoga, Professor, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
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What is Open Source?: A Survey of Open
Source Licenses
Larry Rosen, Counsel, Open Source Initiative
Presentation (PDF, 88k) |
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The Role of Intellectual Property in
Open Source Software
Dr. Lee Hollaar, Professor, University of Utah
Paper (PDF, 101k)
Presentation (PDF, 314k) |
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3:45 |
Coffee Break |
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4:15 |
Examining Security and Cost Issues of
Open Source Software
Jonathan Zuck, President,
Association of Competitive Technology
Presentation (PDF, 693k) |
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Case Study – Bridging the Open Source
and Proprietary Divide – Successfully Working With Both Platforms
Stephen Hill, Shareholder, LinuxNetworx,
Parr Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless
Presentation (PDF, 1.3MB) |
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5:30 |
Speakers Panel Discussion |
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Day II: Thursday, May 20, 2004
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8:30 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 |
Procurement
Issues and Support Programs for Open Source – Considerations for
Policy Makers
Moderator: Anthony Clapes,
Attorney, Intellectual Capital Edge |
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Comparative Rules Governing Open Source Preferences in Government
Contracts
Danielle Conway-Jones,
Professor of Law
University of Hawai ‘i at Mānoa |
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The
Law and Politics of Software Procurement Preferences
Melanie Wyne, Public Policy Manager,
CompTia
Presentation (PDF, 155k) |
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Open
Source Software and China’s Software Development
LI Wuqiang, Deputy General Director of
High-tech Development, Ministry of Science and Technology
Paper (PDF, 71k)
Presentation (PDF, 109k) |
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11:30 |
Speakers Panel Discussion |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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2:30 |
Government’s
Role in Building National Software Industries
Moderator: Patrick Reilly, President, IP Society
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World Bank Programs and Experience in Support Software and ICT
Dr. Nagy Hanna, Senior Advisor, World
Bank
Presentation (PDF, 165k) |
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Building a Software Industry in Argentina
Pablo Rodriguez Gauna, Director
of New Technologies in Commerce, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Argentina |
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Human and Technology Support Programs in China
Dr. LIU, Xielin, Research Fellow,
National Center for Science and Technology Development
Paper (PDF, 76k)
Presentation (PDF, 162k) |
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4:00 |
Coffee
Break |
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4:30 |
Case
Study – Thailand’s Software Park Project
Dr. ROM Hiranpruk, Director,
Software Park Thailand
Paper (PDF, 104k)
Presentation (PDF, 1.1MB) |
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Software Industry Development in Vietnam
NGUYEN Trong Duong, Officer,
Ministry of Post & Telematics
Paper (PDF, 70k)
Presentation (PDF, 730k) |
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Day III: Friday, May 21, 2004
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8:30 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 |
Business
Strategies for Growing Software Companies
Moderator: Antonio Millé, ESTUDIO
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Developing a Strategic Plan – Some Considerations
Avron Barr, Principal, Aldo Ventures
Paper (PDF, 54k)
Presentation (PDF, 471k) |
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Small Business Perspective on Intellectual Property
E. Andre Carter, CEO, Irimicorp
Presentation (PDF, 44k) |
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Software Patents – Making the Right Business Choice
Hazim Ansari, CEO, PatentMetrix
Services
Paper (PDF, 59k)
Presentation (PDF, 48k) |
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11:00 |
Break |
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11:30 |
Developing Your Global IP Strategy
Arvin Patel, CEO, Maxelera Software
Solutions
Paper (PDF, 33k)
Presentation (PDF, 71K) |
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Building Markets for Software Products
Paul Tjia, GPI Consultancy
Presentation (PDF, 137k) |
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1:00 |
Lunch |
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2:30 |
Software
Companies Making It – Case Studies
Moderator: James Wills, Interim
Dean, College of Business Administration
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa |
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Alexander Mora Delgado,
President, Costa Rican Software Association
Paper (PDF, 136k)
Presentation (PDF, 1.3 MB) |
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Nithayanandan "Nithya" Radhakrishnan,
Corporate Counsel, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Paper (PDF, 126k)
Presentation (PDF, 209k) |
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WANG Yuelin, Vice Director of Enterprise
Technology, Founder Group Corporation
Paper (PDF, 156k)
Presentation (PDF, 189k) |
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José Pablo Gonzalez,
Vice-President for Global Sales, DynaWare México, S.A. de C.V.
Presentation (PDF, 5.1MB) |
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4:30 |
Identifying Success Factors: Panel Comment on Case Studies |
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5:15 |
Closing Remarks |
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6:30 |
End
of Conference Reception - Ala Moana Hotel |
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Speaker Biographies |
Hazim
Ansari
Chief Executive Officer, PatentMetrix Services
Mr. Ansari is an intellectual property attorney experienced in the
negotiation of intellectual property licensing and acquisition
deals, filing and prosecution of patent portfolios, structuring of
co-development and co-exploitation vehicles, and general management
of intellectual property assets. Mr. Ansari graduated magna cum
laude from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles and received his B.S.
from Stanford University.
Avron Barr
Principal, Aldo Ventures, Inc.
Avron Barr is a consultant and speaker on advanced software
technology and the global software industry. His consulting firm,
Aldo Ventures, Inc., was organized in 1980 to help innovative
software vendors understand their market, define their offerings,
and explain their ideas. Aldo Ventures specializes in competitive
analysis, product positioning, and market communications projects
for software companies, large and small. Avron's background includes
experience in artificial intelligence, distance learning, knowledge
management, customer relation management, and the semantic web. He
edited The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, co-founded a Silicon
Valley software startup, served as the Marketing Director of a CRM
software firm, and has published and spoken widely about software
technology and the business of software.
Since directing a study of the global software industry at Stanford
University (1994-2000), Avron has consulted with policymakers, donor
organizations, and NGOs about the software industry's role in
national economic development strategy. He is currently consulting
on a DARPA-funded project in advanced distance learning technology.
Dr. Rakesh Basant
Professor, Indian Institute of Management
Current teaching and research interests include technology strategy
& management, intellectual property rights, industrial organization,
public policy and regulation. Recent work and publications have
focused on competition policy, regulation in the telecom sector,
role of inter-firm linkages & public policy in building
technological capabilities, strategic & policy aspects of
intellectual property rights (especially in agriculture,
pharmaceutical & information technology areas), industrial clusters,
economics of strategy and the small scale sector in India. His
earlier research focused on a variety of issues relating to
agricultural technology, indigenous knowledge in agriculture, labour
markets and rural non-farm sector and he has published extensively
in these areas. Dr Basant is a recipient of the of the Ford
Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Economics and has spent two
years at the Economic Growth Center, Yale University, as a Visiting
Research Fellow. He has also worked as a consultant to CIDA, the
World Bank, Intermediate Technology Development Group, U.K. and the
United Nations Institute of New Technologies, The Netherlands. Dr
Basant received his Ph.D. in Economics from Guarat University in
Ahmedabad, India.
E. Andre Carter
Chief Executive Officer, Irimicorp
Mr. Carter has worked in the high tech industry for 18 years,
beginning with IBM and including six tech startups. He is the
founder and CEO of Irimi, Inc., a business consulting firm that
helps technology-focused companies chart, develop, and implement
strategic and business planning and distribution channel
architectures for their products and services. Mr. Carter received
his BS in Finance from Georgetown University in 1984 and an MBA in
International Business from the American University , Washington ,
DC , in 1990.
Anthony Clapes
Attorney, Intellectual Capital Edge
Tony specializes in servicing high-tech companies and is an author
and intellectual property strategist. Tony has the book on economic
diversification in Hawaii . He is a member of the Computer Law
Association, AAAS and the University of Hawaii Angels He received
his BE from Rensselaer Polytechnic and JD from Yale Law School .
Danielle Conway-Jones
Associate Professor of Law & Director, Hawai‘i Procurement
Institute, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson
School of Law
Professor Conway-Jones teaches Intellectual Property, Government
Contract Law, International Intellectual Property, and Internet Law
and Policy at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. She also served as
the Interim Director of the Law and Methods Program for 2002-03.
Formerly, Professor Conway-Jones was on the faculties of The
University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, teaching
Torts, Toxic Tort Litigation, and Government Contract Law, and
Georgetown University Law Center , teaching Legal Research and
Writing and Legal Writing for Foreign Lawyers. Professor
Conway-Jones graduated from New York University, Stern School of
Business with degrees in Finance and International Business and a
United States Army Commission. She attended the Howard University
School of Law, where she served on both the Howard Law Journal and
the National Moot Court Board. Professor Conway-Jones primarily
practiced in the procurement law section, representing the United
States Government in complex bid protest litigation. While on active
duty, she earned a dual Master of Laws degree in Environmental Law
and Government Procurement Law.
Currently Professor Conway-Jones is a Major in the United States
Army Reserve assigned as a Professor at The Judge Advocate General’s
School in Charlottesville, VA. Her LL.M. thesis and other writings
appear in the Howard Law Journal, the University of Richmond Law
Review, the Santa Clara Law Review, the Asian-Pacific Law and Policy
Journal, the Washington University Global Studies Law Review, and
the Michigan Journal of Race and Law. She has spoken and presented
at various conferences in the United States, China, Micronesia, and
Mongolia on topics including Globalization, Distance Education,
Intellectual Property, E-Commerce, and Indigenous Peoples Rights in
Traditional Knowledge.
Jon W. Dudas
Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Acting
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
On March 22, 2004, President George W. Bush nominated Jon W. Dudas
to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Mr. Dudas has been the Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for
Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO since January
12, 2004. Dudas comes to the job with over a decade of experience in
intellectual property law and management.
As a private practitioner in the early 1990s, Dudas had a
significant intellectual property practice that included extensive
trademark and copyright work. During his six years as Counsel to the
Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, and Staff Director
and Deputy General Counsel for the House Committee on the Judiciary,
he guided enactment of major patent, trademark and copyright policy,
including the most sweeping revisions to American patent law since
1952, the 1999 American Inventors Protection Act, and the passage of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the 1998 law implementing two
landmark international treaties protecting creative works in the
digital age.
Mr. Dudas holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, summa cum
laude, from the University of Illinois and a law degree from the
University of Chicago, with honors. He is a member of the Illinois
State Bar and the Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife
and their four children.
Dr. Peter Englert
Chancellor, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Peter Englert, an internationally respected researcher with deep
experience nurturing diversity and cross cultural understanding in
an academic institution, became Chancellor of the University of
Hawai ‘i at Mānoa campus in August 2002. He came to UH from Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he served as Pro Vice
Chancellor and Dean of Science, Architecture and Design.
Englert's professional career as an educator and administrator spans
the globe. His three academic degrees are in nuclear chemistry from
the University of Cologne in Germany . He was for twelve years a
faculty member and administrator at San Jose State University in
California , and he served at Victoria University since 1995.
Englert characterizes himself as a consensus-builder and his
leadership style as collaborative and consultative. He points to his
experience in nurturing diversity and access, noting his
establishment of Victoria University 's Whanau support group for
Maori and Pacific Nation students. Maori and Pacific Nation student
enrollment increased at Victoria continuously since 1999, and the
institution this year graduated the first woman Maori student with a
PhD in physics.
José Pablo Gonzalez
Vice-President for Global Sales, DynaWare México, S.A. de C.V.
Mr. Gonzalez is Vice-President for Global Sales of DynaWare, México.
DynaWare has created DynaWare Online, a Common Sense approach to ERP
that has been very successful in delivering solutions to Small and
Medium-sized businesses via the Internet in partnership with IBM.
DynaWare has been successful at combining software engineering with
client understanding in creating solutions. Additionally, DynaWare
software products received the “Great Order of National Honor to the
Author’s Merit,” an honor given to the best software created in
Mexico. Mr. Gonzalez is an experienced as writer and speaker on
software industry matters.
Dr. Nagy Hanna
Senior Advisor, World Bank
Nagy Hanna is Senior Advisor to the Vice-President of the World
Bank. Currently he focuses on ICT-enabled development strategies and
integrated e-development projects. Dr. Nagy Hanna's previous
positions at the World Bank include: lead evaluator of development
effectiveness, lead corporate strategist, lead private sector
development officer, lead economist and chief staff officer on
information management. He is an experienced development strategist
with extensive knowledge of national and corporate competitive
strategies and the use of information and communication technologies
to support such strategies. Since joining the Bank in 1975, he has
had over 28 years of diverse economic development experience,
covering East and South Asia, the Middle East, and Russia and
Eastern Europe. In 1990, he led a Bank-wide task force to articulate
the role of knowledge in development assistance and promote
mainstreaming ICT into Bank lending. He led projects and designed
national strategies to promote software exports, private sector
development, science and technology, national innovation systems,
technical education, knowledge economy, and state modernization.
Dr. Hanna was also responsible for developing strategic management
processes, evaluation and learning systems, innovation funds, and
new lending and advisory services for the World Bank and client
countries. He led World Bank assistance on software industry
development for several countries, starting with India 's software
export development in the early 1990s. Dr. Hanna is widely published
on the topic of ICT and economic development.
Stephen Hill
Shareholder, Parr, Waddoups, Brown, Gee & Loveless, Director (and
former President), Linux Networx, Inc.
Stephen Hill practices commercial litigation with an emphasis on
antitrust and intellectual property litigation as well as venture
financing. Most notably, he was co-lead counsel for the litigation
team that successfully negotiated a substantial settlement for
client Caldera against Microsoft. In a classic David-and-Goliath
case, Mr. Hill and his team spent four years on the case, which had
a significant impact on the computer industry.
In addition to his law practice, Mr. Hill is a member of the Board
of Directors of Linux Networx, Inc. and Western Odyssey, Inc. Mr.
Hill formerly served as President and CEO of Linux Networx. During
his tenure, the company more than quadrupled its revenues and built
two of the world's top ten supercomputers. Mr. Hill has been sought
out as a conferences speaker for his knowledge of open source
software issues.
Dr. Lee Hollaar
Professor, University of Utah
Lee A. Hollaar is a Professor in the School of Computing (formerly
the Department of Computer Science) at the University of Utah in
Salt Lake City. He has taught a variety of software and hardware
courses, and currently teaches computer networking and intellectual
property and computer law. He is the author of a treatise on the
legal protection of digital information, available to the public at
no cost on the Internet later this year, as well as published by BNA
Books. Professor Hollaar has conducted research on hardware and
software tradeoffs in system design, particularly as they apply to
systems handling large text databases. He is the co-inventor of a
new method of rapidly searching text stored on a disk, and was the
primary architect for perhaps the first distributed,
workstation-based information retrieval system.
Professor Hollaar was on sabbatical leave in Washington, DC, during
the 1996-97 academic year, as a Committee Fellow in the intellectual
property unit of the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate,
where he worked on patent reform legislation, database protection,
and what eventually became the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He
was also a visiting scholar with Circuit Judge Randall R. Rader at
the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Professor Hollaar has been a technical expert or consultant in a
number of patent and antitrust cases.
Professor Hollaar is a senior member of the IEEE, and served as
chair its Intellectual Property Committee. He is also a member of
the Association for Computing Machinery, and was the vice-chair of
the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. He was on the
Panel of Academic Advisors of the American Committee for
Interoperable Systems, and was a founding member of the National
Association of Patent Practitioners. Professor Hollaar is a
Registered Patent Agent with the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, primarily practicing in the areas electronics and
computer-related (hardware and software) inventions. He received his
B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1969 from the Illinois
Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1975
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Hollaar was
on the faculty of the University of Illinois prior to joining the
faculty of the University of Utah in 1980.
Stephen Itoga
Professor, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Professor Itoga is Chairman of the Department of Information and
Computer Sciences, and a professor in the department since 1975.
Professor Itoga is currently the director of the IT Alliance, an
organization that involves six colleges at UH Manoa. He is on the
graduate faculty for the Communication and Information Sciences PhD
program. His current research interests include computer graphics
and animation and graphical database systems. Professor Itoga has
published papers in the areas of graphical databases, expert
systems, intelligent tutoring systems, theory of algorithms,
operations research, and formal language theory.
Professor Itoga is currently involved with information technology
applications related to Environmental Research, the establishment of
the Academy for Creative Media, and campus wide distance learning
activities. He received his Ph.D. in System Science from the
University of California, Los Angeles.
Hon. Bruce A. Lehman
President and Chief Executive Officer, International Intellectual
Property Institute
Bruce Lehman is President and Chief Executive Officer of the
International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), a
non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, based in Washington, DC.
The Institute promotes the creation of modern intellectual property
systems and the use of intellectual property rights as a mechanism
for investment, technology transfer and the creation of wealth in
all countries of the world.
From August 1993 through December 1998, Lehman served as Assistant
Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Commissioner of Patents and
Trademarks. As the Clinton Administration's primary representative
for intellectual property rights protection, he was a key player on
these issues, both domestically and internationally. Serving as the
leader of the U.S. delegation to WIPO's December 1996 Diplomatic
Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights Questions, he
successfully concluded negotiations which resulted in the adoption
of two treaties: the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances
and Phonograms Treaty. These treaties, by updating international
copyright law for the digital age, have greatly facilitated the
growth of on-line digital commerce over the Internet. Likewise,
Lehman's guidance on the development of the intellectual property
provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreement, now known as TRIPS (Trade
Related Aspects of Intellectual Property), has enabled American
creators and inventors to more easily protect their creations from
piracy throughout the world.
For ten years prior to joining the Clinton administration, Lehman
was a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Swidler & Berlin.
There he represented individuals, companies, and trade associations
in the areas of intellectual property rights. Prior to entering
private practice, Lehman worked for nine years in the U.S. House of
Representatives as counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary and
chief counsel to the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and
the Administration of Justice. Lehman was the Committee's principal
legal adviser in the drafting of the 1976 Copyright Act, the 1980
Computer Software Amendments, and 1982 Amendments to the Patent
Laws.
Mr. Lehman is a member of the Policy Advisory Commission to the
Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
He is founding board member of the US Committee for WIPO and is a
member of several corporate boards, including PLX Systems, Inc. He
attended the University of Wisconsin, earning a B.A. in 1967, and a
J.D. in 1970. He is a member of the Bar in the District of Columbia
LI Wuqiang
Deputy General Director, Department of High-tech Development,
Ministry of Science and Technology, PRC
Mr. Li is the Deputy Director General for High and New Technology
Development and Industrialization, for the Ministry of Science and
Technology in the People’s Republic of China. Prior to this post,
Mr. Li was Counselor for the Chinese Embassy in Denmark. Mr. Li has
also served in many positions for the State Science and Technology
Commission (SSTCC), rising to the position of Direct of the
Telecommunications Division for the High Technology Department of
the SSTCC.
Dr. LIU Xielin
Research Fellow, National Center for Science and Technology
Development
Dr. Liu is a Research Fellow and Professor for the National Center
for Science and Technology Development for the Ministry of Science
and Technology, in Bejing, China. His research interests lie in
innovation policy, organizational research and development
capabilities, management in technology-based enterprise, and
industrial organization and reform in China. Dr. Liu has been an
Associate Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a Visiting
Fellow for the Centre for Research Policy at the University of
Wollongong in Australia and a Visiting Fellow of JSPS, Institute of
Innovation Research at Hitochibushi University in Japan.
Dr. Liu is the Associate President of Chinese Association of Science
and Technology Policy Research and is the Associate Director of the
Innovation Research Centre at the Graduate school of Chinese
Academyof Science. Dr. Liu serves as an Editor of the Journal of
Science and Technology Policy and has been widely published,
particularly on the topics of innovation systems, industrial
organization and technology policy. Dr. Liu received a Ph. D. in
Business Administration from Tsinghua University.
Antonio Millé
Founder & Senior Partner, ESTUDIO MILLÉ
Antonio Millé is founder and senior partner of the legal firm
Estudio Millé from Buenos Aires, he specializes in Intellectual
Property and Information Technology law. Mr. Millé is the
International Chairman of the Latin American Institute of High
Technology and Computer Law ILATID and Vice-President of the
Inter-American Copyright Institute IIDA. Mr. Millé is a professor of
Copyright and Computer Law at the Catholic University of Buenos
Aires and has authored a number of essays and books. Mr. Millé is
panelist of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center and member of
the General Council of the Argentinean Commerce Chamber, were he is
the Chairman of the Electronic Commerce Working Group.
Mr. Millé is a member of numerous intellectual property law and high
technology industry associations. He also speaks English, French,
Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Alexander Mora Delgado
President, Costa Rican Software Association
NGUYEN Trong Duong
Officer, Ministry of Post & Telematics
Duong Nguyen is currently the leader of an officers group who assist
the General Director in making policy and managing the Software
Industry and Digital Content Industry. At present he is responsible
for drawing up national strategy, policy, and an action plan for
Software Industry development in Vietnam . Prior working for
Ministry of Posts and Telematics (MPT), he had for 12 years worked
for a number of companies involved in software development, computer
network management and electronic manufacture. He was the manager of
the Technical and R&D Department at Nghean Electronic and Telecom
Company, and the Project manager at FPT Software Solution Company.
He graduated from Hanoi University of Transportation with a
Bachelor's in Communication. After that he completed Postgraduate in
Computer Science and then received Master of Engineering Science in
Telecommunication from Victoria University of Technology, Australia.
Dr. Russ O’Haver
Vice President, National Economic Research Associates, Inc.
Dr. O'Haver provides integrated intellectual property services
(strategy, monetization, litigation, transfer pricing and valuation)
for clients in the legal, tax and intellectual property management
fields. In the area of intellectual asset management, he has
analyzed and valued, for large U.S. and international corporations,
the patent and trademark portfolios in various industries (including
telecom, aerospace, software, defense, and consumer products) for
opportunities to leverage underutilized assets through third-party
licensing, spin-outs, joint ventures, and patent donation. He has
also worked with companies in the computer, pharmaceutical and
medical industries to identify emerging technologies and
opportunities for strategic in-licensing and other forms of
partnering. He has also consulted with media institutions on digital
copyright issues and speaks and participates in various
international economic forums on the topic of technology transfer.
He has also led project teams in the field of software licensing for
large telecom companies and in other industries as well.
Prior to joining NERA in 2003, Dr. O'Haver was a Partner at Ernst &
Young, where he directed the global development (including design,
services, channels & alliances) of the firm's intellectual property
business advisory practice. Dr. O'Haver has a Ph.D. from the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, an M.A. from
Brown University, and a B.A. from the University of Maryland. He has
taught law and economics at the graduate business school level, has
given a number of seminar/conference presentations on intellectual
property, and has published articles in various journals on IP
management and transfer pricing. He is a member of the Licensing
Executives Society.
Arvin Patel
Chief Executive Officer, Maxelera Software Solutions
Mr. Patel serves as CEO for Maxelera Software Solutions, where he
heads and manages Global and Corporate Strategic Planning,
Governance, Regulatory Relations and Legal Affairs. In the role of
CEO, Mr. Patel has global function responsibility for worldwide
legal matters including intellectual property development and
procurement, technology licensing, regulatory compliance and
corporate governance issues.
Mr. Patel has authored articles on globalization and intellectual
property strategy, and has developed and managed international
business strategies for companies participating in all facets of
science, manufacturing and technology disciplines. Mr. Patel holds a
JD from California Western School of Law and a BA from the
University of California at Berkeley. In addition to his J.D., Mr.
Patel holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) specializing in Intellectual
Property from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire.
Nithya Radhakrishnan
Corporate Counsel, Infosys Technologies Limited
Nithya is the Corporate Counsel and Head of the Legal Department for
Infosys Technologies Limited. He reports directly to the CFO and
advises the Board on all legal issues. Nithya’s special areas of
expertise include in-depth compliance experience with US Securities
Laws, Sarbanes-Oxley Act Compliances, Corporate Governance
Practices, laws relating to the software industry, cross-border M&A
transactions, venture and private equity funding, multinational
employment law compliance issues and information technology
outsourcing, IP and software service contracting, privacy laws, data
protection laws. Nithya is also responsible for setting up Infosys’
intellectual property processes and for filing the company’s first
software patents.
Nithya has spoken widely on the technology issues and the IT
industry. He received his law degree from the National Law School of
India University, in Bangalore, India.
Pablo Rodríguez Gauna
Director of New Technologies in Commerce, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Argentina
Mr. Rodríguez Gauna is a senior executive with more than 7 years of
experience directing projects in the private and public sectors
oriented towards creating business vision with a result-oriented
management. Currently he serves as Coordinator of a United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) team of consultants which work to
promote international trade in new sectors throughout Argentina. Mr.
Rodríguez Gauna works to facilitate better cooperation between the
International Secretary of Trade and the Foundation Exportar and
reports directly to the Secretary International Of Trade, Dr. Martin
Redrado. Mr. Rodríguez Gauna mediates between software industry
demands and government export strategy and goals. As the software
industry export market differs significantly from most other
Argentinean exports, Mr. Rodríguez Gauna assists the industry in
seeking new markets, setting export strategy and performing
technology poles of the private sector, the chambers of commerce,
and fostering relationships with the local and international press.
Previously Mr. Rodríguez Gauna served as a consultant to the UNDP in
developing and implementing a completely new strategy for SME on
software development sector. Mr. Rodríguez Gauna also previously
served as Director of New Technology of Secretary of Education
before assuming the position of Director of New Technology and
Training of Foundation Capital. In this position he was responsible
for the training of more than 3000 SME all over the country in
management, sales, costs, quality assurance and managing the
logistical and the education plans of the training programs.
Mr. Rodríguez Gauna holds a Master's degree in Business
Administration from IAE (Instituto de Altos Estudios Empresariales),
Argentina and a Computer Science degree from Buenos Aires National
University, Argentina - Lic.
Dr. ROM Hiranpruk
Director, Software Park Thailand
Dr. Rom is Director of Software Park Thailand. Dr. Rom's career in
computer science and policy has spanned more than 20 years. Dr. Rom
taught various undergraduate and graduate classes in computer
science in the United States during 1980’s and in Thailand during
1990s. He has served on various advisory panels on IT and computing
for government organizations such as the Civil Service Commission,
Thai Parliament, Military Supreme Command, Ministry of Justice,
Ministry of Finance, Budget Bureau, Stock Exchange of Thailand, etc.
Dr. Rom has also served on the subcommittee for computer science
terminology of the Royal Institute since 1989; and on the curriculum
committee on Computer Science for the Ministry of University Affairs
since 1990.
In December 1999, Dr. Rom was named “IT Person of the Year” by the
Nation newspaper for his work in software industry promotion. His
primary computing interests are: fault-tolerant systems, software
engineering, object-oriented technology, and professional training
in IT. Dr. Rom received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Kansas.
Richard Straussman
Partner, Morgan & Finnegan, LLP
Richard Straussman is a Partner in the law firm of Morgan &
Finnegan, whose practice is directed solely to intellectual property
matters. He graduated with a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from
Hofstra University and a J.D. from The New York Law School. His
practice deals with a broad range of intellectual property issues,
including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, and his
practice includes litigation, solicitation and client counseling and
advice in these areas. Areas of particular experience include
computer hardware and software, system architecture, opto-electronics,
e-commerce and the internet. He has assisted both individuals and
corporations in the protection and enforcement of their proprietary
rights in technology, and licensing involving such technology on a
domestic and international basis. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr.
Straussman was a Senior Engineer for Harris Corporation's Government
Support Systems Division.
Larry Rosen
Counsel, Open Source Initiative
Larry Rosen provides legal services to the Open Source Initiative.
He is both an attorney and a computer specialist. He has extensive
experience teaching computer programming and has been a department
and product manager in the computer and communications industry. As
an attorney, his specialty is technology, but he is also a skilled
litigator, negotiator and a legal advisor to individuals and
companies throughout the California Bay Area.
Michael Shapiro
Attorney Advisor, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Michael S. Shapiro is an attorney specializing in domestic and
international copyright law. The former General Counsel of the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Shapiro was a founding
principal of the International Intellectual Property Institute
(IIPI) before returning to public service. Currently Dr. Shapiro
serves as Attorney-Advisor, Office of International Relations, U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office. He is the co-author of A Museum Guide
to Copyright and Trademark (1999) and a contributing author to
Copyright and Consequences: Central European and U.S. Perspectives
(2003) and to International Intellectual Property: The European
Community and Eastern Europe (1992). Dr. Shapiro earned the Ph.D. in
American Civilization from Brown University and the JD from the
George Washington University Law School.
Paul Tjia
GPI Consultancy
Paul Tjia is a senior consultant at GPI Consultancy, a
Rotterdam-based consulting company. He has a background in Cultural
Anthropology and Information Technology. He has been active in
global IT consulting for more than ten years. He does research on
the experiences of Dutch companies with offshore outsourcing and
publishes articles on this subject.
WANG Yuelin
Vice Director of Enterprise Technology, Founder Group Corporation
Mr. Wang is the Vice Director of Enterprise Technology and a Senior
Engineer for the Founder Group Corporation. He graduated from China
Central Normal University.
Amie White
Market Development and Consulting Director, Global Research
Organization, International Data Corporation
Amie White is a Market Development and Consulting Director
supporting IDC's Global Research Organization. In this capacity, she
contributes to the market development of both consulting
engagements, including The 2002 and 2003 Worldwide Economic Impact
Model, The 2003 Piracy Impact Model, and the 2004 Piracy Rate Study
as well as research products such as The eWorld Survey, the
Worldwide Black Book, Leading IT Indicators, and the Executive
Market Watch.
Prior to joining the Global Research Organization, Ms. White was a
senior analyst in the Software Research Group. In this capacity, she
provided in-depth market analysis, research, and consulting in all
areas of groupware, collaborative technologies, and the emerging
intranet market, with a specific emphasis on document management and
knowledge management. Ms. White has authored numerous, high-level
research offerings, including IDC's Document Management Software
Market Review and Forecast and Is Document Management Dead? Looking
at the Year 2000 and Beyond. Additionally, Ms. White contributed to
AIIM's 1998 State of the Document Technologies Market Report Series.
Previous to IDC, Ms. White worked as a consultant, providing market
analysis and strategic planning services to several prestigious
Boston-based businesses, including The Counsell Group, Inc., a
rapidly growing information technology firm.
Ms. White holds a bachelor of arts degree in history from Skidmore
College and a master's degree in business administration from Babson
College.
James Wills
Interim Dean, College of Business Administration, University of
Hawai‘i at Mānoa
James R. Wills, Jr. is the Interim Dean of the College of Business (CBA)
at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Dr. Wills joined the College
in 1977 as a marketing professor. He specializes in strategic
marketing management, relations between advertising agencies and
clients and international high-tech marketing. He previously held
the position of Associate Dean of the College 2000-2003 and earlier
in his career 1982-1985.
Dr. Wills received a Doctoral in Business Administration in
Marketing and International Business from Kent State University in
1976 and a Masters in Business Administration from Western Michigan
University in 1970. Dr. Wills served on the executive board of the
Academy of International Business and was the executive secretary
for the organization from 1994-2003. He was faculty director of
CBA’s Executive Master of Business Administration Program from
1995-2003. Dr. Wills has been published widely in professional and
academic journals, and has presented papers at numerous scholarly
conferences.
Melanie Wyne
Public Policy Manager, Initiative for Software Choice
Melanie Wyne is a public policy manager with the Computing
Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). She manages intellectual
property and government procurement issues and acts as a
spokesperson for the Initiative for Software Choice.
Ms. Wyne has over a decade of experience in law, public policy and
technology. Prior to joining CompTIA, she was employed with a
Washington, DC-based public affairs firm. Ms Wyne’s work history
also includes acting as Regulatory & Compliance counsel for an early
stage software company in San Francisco, CA. She gained significant
public policy experience while working for the Bank of America on
privacy, technology and e-commerce issues. Earlier in her career,
Melanie practiced law as a commercial litigator and worked for Chase
Manhattan Bank in New York as a financial analyst.
Jonathan Zuck
President, Association of Competitive Technology
Jonathan Zuck is a widely known and respected leader in the
technology industry. As a professional software developer and IT
executive with more than 15 years of experience, Mr. Zuck brings an
insider's perspective to his role as President of the Association
for Competitive Technology. Since assuming leadership of ACT, Mr.
Zuck has provided analysis, commentary and background information on
a wide range of technology issues to the media, the public and
Congress. He has been called on as a technology expert for the major
news networks including CNN, CNBC and ABC, he is a frequent
contributor to national and local radio news programs, and is
consistently quoted in the trade and popular press. A prolific
writer whose work has appeared in trade publications including PC
Magazine, PC Week, Windows Tech Journal and in several books, Mr.
Zuck is in high demand as a speaker at trade conferences around the
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