Honorable Vichai Ariyanuntaka
Judge, Central Intellectual Property & International Trade Court,
Thailand
The Honorable Vichai Ariyanuntaka was a founding member of the Central
Intellectual Property and International Trade Court in 1997. He brought
with him the experience and expertise from the arbitration system to the
new court structure. The Central IP&IT Court is unique in its kind. The
system combines the requirements of prompt and effective enforcement of
intellectual property rights under the TRIPs Agreement and the speedy,
fair and not-too-costly trial brought about by case management under the
new regime of civil justice administration.
Judge Ariyanuntaka started his judicial career with the Provincial Court
of Srisaket close to the Cambodian border in the North-East of Thailand
where he was posted for two years. In Bangkok, he was appointed the
first Director of the Arbitration Office where ADR in general and
arbitration in particular was started in this country. Judge Vichai was
appointed Executive Director of the Arbitration Office from 1990 - 1994
when he was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the Office of Judicial
Affairs.
Judge Ariyanuntaka graduated LL.B. (Hons) from Chulalongkorn University
in Thailand and qualified as Barrister-at-Law from the Thai Bar
Association. He was granted a Thai Government Scholarship to further his
legal studies at the University of Wales where he graduated LL.B. (Hons)
and went on to read LL.M. at the London School of Economics.
Professor Martin Adelman
Director, Intellectual Property Law Program, The George Washington
University Law School
Prior to his appointment in 1999 as Professor of Law; Director of the
Intellectual Property Law Program and Director of the Dean Dinwoodey
Center for Intellectual Property Studies at George Washington University
Law School, Professor Adelman was a Professor of Law at Wayne State
University Law School. He joined that faculty in 1973.
Before joining Wayne State, Professor Adelman practiced as a patent
attorney in the Detroit area for several years. During that period he
served as lead counsel in several patent infringement actions including
acting as lead counsel for Motor City in the Kolene v. Motor City
litigation.
He has written many law review articles on patent law, the economics of
patent law and patent antitrust law subjects. From 1977 to 1988 he was
one of the co authors and currently is the sole author of the
continuously updated eight volume treatise on patent law entitled Patent
Law Perspectives (Matthew Bender). He is a co author of Cases and
Materials on Patent Law (West Group 1998). He has also testified either
by deposition or at trial as an expert in patent law and practice in
more than 150 patent infringement cases.
James G. Apple
President and Founder, International Judicial Academy
James G. Apple is President and Founder of the International Judicial
Academy, a not-for-profit corporation chartered in the District of
Columbia in 1998. Before devoting full time to the affairs of the
Academy beginning in the fall of 1999, he was for nine years a senior
staff member of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, the agency of
the federal courts responsible for education, training and research. As
Chief of the Interjudicial Affairs Office he directed and coordinated
the Center's international programs.
Most recently Mr. Apple was a professional in residence for the U.S.
State Department for three weeks during April and May of 2000 in
Bangkok, Thailand, assisting the Thai government in a major court reform
project. Mr. Apple, before coming to Washington, was a practicing trial
lawyer in the Commonwealth of Kentucky for 25 years, specializing in
civil litigation.
Mr. Apple received a B.A. degree with Honors in Philosophy from the
University of Virginia in 1959, and a J.D. degree from the University of
Virginia Law School in 1962, where he was an editor of the Virginia Law
Review. He holds a LL.M. in international and comparative law from the
University of Edinburgh, where he attended during the academic year
1988-89 under a leave of absence from his law firm.
Katharine Bostick
Senior Corporate Attorney, Microsoft Corporation
Katharine A. Bostick joined Microsoft Corporation in January 2001. As
Senior Corporate Attorney, she established Microsoft's
Anti-counterfeiting program in South Asia Pacific. Her team focuses on
enforcement actions involving the suppliers, manufacturers, and
financiers of high quality counterfeit Microsoft products.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Ms. Bostick served as a federal prosecutor
for over 11 years. As an Assistant United States Attorney she prosecuted
cases in the Southern District of New York, the Narcotic and Dangerous
Drug Section at the Department of Justice, and in the Northern District
of California. During her career as a federal prosecutor she handled a
wide range of investigations and prosecutions, including prosecutions of
major organizations involved in international drug trafficking and money
laundering. Just prior to joining Microsoft she served as the Chief of
the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force for the Pacific Region.
Mihir Kumar Chakrabarti
Senior Attorney, L.S. Davar & Co. and H.V. Williams & Co.
Mr. Mihir Kumar Chakrabarti is a Senior Attorney with law firms of L. S.
Davar & Co. and H. V. Williams & Co. (Patent and Trademarks Attorneys).
Prior to joining these firms, Mr. Chakrabarti was a patent and trademark
attorney for the firm DePenning and Depenning Co. Mr. Chakrabarti has
also worked as a reporter for the Industrial Property Law Reporter and
has published numerous articles on intellectual property rights issues
in the Industrial Property Law Reporter, The Statesman and Ananda Bazar
Patrika.
Mr Chakrabarti received a B.S. in Science with Honors in Chemistry and
an LL.B. from Calcutta University.
Mark A. Cohen
Attorney-Advisor, Office of Enforcement, USPTO
Mr. Mark Cohen is an Attorney-Advisor for the Office of Enforcement at
the United States
Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to joining the USPTO, Mr. Cohen was a
Washington, D.C.
attorney with over 15 years experience in Chinese legal matters. He is
the principal editor of Chinese Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Kluwer
Law International, 1999).Mr. Cohen has lectured on Chinese law at
numerous Chinese, European and US faculties. He has represented clients
or appeared as an expert before Congress, the USTR, various U.S. courts,
the U.S. International Trade Commission, Bureau of Export
Administration, and other organizations on Chinese intellectual property
and trade issues. He has represented many high tech businesses,
inventors, artists and non-profit organizations in their business
dealings with China.
Mr. Cohen is a graduate of Columbia University Law School and its Center
for Chinese Legal Studies (1984). He holds am M.A. and B.A. in Chinese
Literature and Chinese Studies, and was formerly a visiting lecturer at
the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing
(1987), as well as a visiting student at Nanyang University, Republic of
Singapore (1976).
Maria Dakolias
Chief Counsel, Legal and Judicial Reform Practice Group, The World Bank
As Chief Counsel (Acting) of the World Bank Legal Vice Presidency's
Legal and Judicial Reform Practice Group, Ms. Dakolias is committed to
promoting the discussion of legal and judicial reform issues. Since
joining the Bank in 1992, her work advising and managing legal and
judicial reform projects has spanned Latin America, the former Soviet
Union, the Middle East, and Asia. While access to justice issues are her
primary area of interest, her work in legal and judicial reform has been
much broader, including such operational activities as piloting improved
court management systems in model courts in Argentina, supporting the
development of new commercial litigation in Sri Lanka, and launching
legal services for women in Ecuador.
Ms. Dakolias is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam (L.L.M.,
European Union International Trade Law), George Mason University School
of Law (J.D), and Haverford College (B.A., Philosophy). Her recent
publications include Attacking Corruption in the Judiciary: A Critical
Process in Judicial Reform (with Kim Thachuk, Wisconsin International
Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 2000) and Judicial Reform: A Process
of Change Through Pilot Courts (with Javier Said, European Journal of
Law Reform, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2000).
Honorable Edward J. Damich
Chief Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
Judge Edward J. Damich was appointed Judge of the United States Court of
Federal Claims on October 22, 1998, by President Bill Clinton for a term
of 15 years. The United States Court of Federal Claims, based in
Washington, D.C., hears cases for monetary damages against the federal
government. Its docket includes cases involving government contracts,
land use, Indian lands, and patent and copyright.
From 1995-98 Judge Damich served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
for the Senate Judiciary Committee. During his tenure on the Committee,
Judge Damich assisted the Chairman, Senator Orrin Hatch, with the
passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Judge Damich was
also a member of the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference, which concluded the WIPO
Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. In
September 1992 Judge Damich was appointed by President George Bush to be
a Commissioner of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal (CRT).
At present Judge Damich is an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown
University Law Center. Judge Damich has been a professor of law at
George Mason University and at Delaware Law School of Widener
University.
Judge Damich has an A.B. degree from St. Stephen's College, Dover,
Massachusetts; a J.D. degree from Catholic University; and LL.M. and
J.S.D. degrees from Columbia University.
Honorable Reynaldo B. Daway
Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Quezon City, The Philippines
The Honorable Reynaldo B. Daway is the Presiding Judge of the Regional
Trial Court, Branch 90, Quezon City, The Philippines. He is also the
Specialized Intellectual Property (IP) court judge, and Commercial Law
judge, for Quezon City. A Certified Public Accountant, he obtained his
B.S. in Commerce, major in Accounting and Auditing, magna cum laude,
from the San Beda College, Manila in 1972. Graduating among the top ten
students in his class, he obtained his J.D. from the University of the
Philippines in 1977 and passed the Bar Examinations given that year. He
later took up a short course in Management at the Yale School of
Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. in 1980.
Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was a senior partner in a law
firm, Solicitor at the Office of the Solicitor General, Executive
Officer at the Presidential Commission on Good Government, and alternate
Action Officer of the Committee on Public Ethics and Accountability
formed by the President of the Philippines in 1987.
Having been appointed by the President of The Philippines as a Regional
Trial Court judge in 1988, Judge Daway served as a consultant/resource
person of the Supreme Court on the Philippine Criminal Justice System, a
PHRD Grant for Judicial Reform Project. He has also served as moderator
/panelist in various training programs conducted by the Philippine
Judicial Academy.
Esmé du Plessis
Partner, Adams & Adams, Pretoria, South Africa
Ms. Esmé Desiré du Plessis obtained a B.S. and an LL.B. at the
University of Pretoria. Several academic prizes were awarded to her
during her studies, including the Grotius medal (the Bar Prize) for the
best law student. During this period she served on the Students'
Representative Council of the University of Pretoria and was awarded Dux
honours.
She was admitted as an attorney in 1965, having qualified also as a
patent agent - the first woman to do so in South Africa. For several
years she practised as a partner in the Pretoria firm of Adams & Adams,
well-known patent, trademarks and general attorneys.
In 1979 she joined the Law Faculty of the University of South Africa and
was promoted to associate professor in the Department of Mercantile Law.
In 1990 she returned to private practice and again joined Adams & Adams
as a partner. She still holds a professorship extraordinary in the Law
Faculty of University of South Africa.
She is currently a member of the following organisations chairperson of
the LSSA Standing Committee on IP and a fellow at the South Africa
Institute of Intellectual Property Law.
Donald R. Dunner
Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Mr. Donald R. Dunner is a partner in the Washington, D.C. firm of
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P. He is a graduate
of Purdue University and Georgetown University Law School. Mr. Dunner is
a past President of the American Intellectual Property Law Association,
past Chair of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law
Section, and has served as a member of the ABA House of Delegates since
2002. He has served on the Federal Circuit Bar Association's Board of
Governors from 1999-2002. He served as Chairman of the Advisory
Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from
1982-92 and served on the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Advisory Commission on Patent Law Reform in 1991-92.
Mr. Dunner is a co-author of Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit:
Practice and Procedure and a past co-author of Patent Law Perspectives.
Mr. Dunner has lectured extensively on patent law and is a Fellow of the
American College of Trial Lawyers.
Rodrick Enns
Partner, Enns & Archer, LLP
Rodrick J. Enns is a partner in the law firm of Enns & Archer LLP. His
practice focuses on the marketing and distribution of branded products
and services, including counseling and litigation concerning trademark,
copyright and related intellectual property issues, advertising
clearance, pricing, regulatory barriers to distribution, and other
antitrust and trade regulation matters.
Mr. Enns has been active in the International Trademark Association
(INTA) since 1987, serving for the past four years as Chair of its
Emerging Issues Subcommittee. This year he sits on INTA's U.S.
Legislation Subcommittee, and chairs a task force which is evaluating
possible amendments to the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995. He
was also a founding member of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law
Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, chaired that Section in
1991-92, and currently sits on the Section Council.
Mr. Enns practiced in the Winston-Salem office of Kilpatrick Stockton
LLP and its predecessor firm from 1983-2001, and with the Denver firm of
Lohf & Barnhill, P.C. from 1979-1983. He graduated from Harvard Law
School, cum laude, in 1979. He received his undergraduate degree, magna
cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction in Philosophy, from the
University of Washington in 1976.
Peter N. Fowler
Attorney-Advisor, Office of Enforcement, USPTO
Mr. Fowler is an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Enforcement at the
United States Patent and Trademark Office, having joined the USPTO
Office of Legislative and International Affairs in 1995. He served as
Executive Assistant for Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner
of Patents and Trademarks Bruce Lehman, and as Chief of Staff for Under
Secretary and Director Todd Dickinson, Acting Director Nicholas Godici,
and Under Secretary and Director James E. Rogan.
From 1995-1998, Mr. Fowler facilitated the Conference on Fair Use,
authoring its three reports; organized the Intellectual Property
Conference of the Americas in 1996; and served as a member and the
executive secretary of the U.S. Delegation to the 1996 WIPO Diplomatic
Conference on Copyright and Neighboring Rights.
Prior to working for the government, he was a partner with the San
Francisco firm of Lilienthal, Jacobson & Fowler, where he practiced
copyright, trademark, and entertainment law. Admitted to practice in
California, Nevada, and before several federal courts, he has authored a
number of law review articles, and served as a Judge Pro Tem of the
Municipal Court of the City and County of San Francisco.
He received a J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law, an M.A. in
Education from the University of Alabama, an M.A. in Political Science
from Ball State University, and a B.A. in Political Science from John
Carroll University.
Lee Gillespie-White
Projects Counsel, International Intellectual Property Institute
Lee Gillespie-White is a South African attorney with extensive
experience in international intellectual property rights. Based in
Washington, D.C., she works as a project manager, researcher and
consultant for the International Intellectual Property Institute.
Her expertise includes a wide range of patent issues in developing
countries such as licensing and marketing. In partnership with the
Congressional Economic Leadership Institute, Gillespie-White coordinated
a conference on technology transfer for developing countries and
arranging a hearing for members of Congress on access to HIV/AIDS
pharmaceuticals in Africa. She has also advised on copyright issues in
collecting oral history material at a conference held in South Africa
through Michigan State University.
Prior to her arrival in Washington, Gillespie-White was a senior
associate with the firm of Bell Dewar & Hall in Johannesburg. Her
clients included a number of prestigious corporations and organizations
such as Times Media Limited (The Sunday Times, Business Day and The
Financial Mail) Times Media Television, EDS Africa, Johnson & Johnson,
and the Financial and Fiscal Commission, a government agency formed by
the South African Constitution as a watchdog to the Department of
Finance. As an attorney to these clients, Gillespie-White advised and
litigated on regulatory law and intellectual property protections,
copyright and trademark law issues and defamation law as well as drafted
entertainment law contracts, litigated corporate disputes and advised on
constitutional law issues.
Hugh Hansen
Professor, Fordham University School of Law
Mr. Hugh C. Hansen is a professor of law at Fordham University School of
Law where he teaches courses in copyright law, trademark law, EC
intellectual property law and U.S. constitutional law. He is the founder
and director of Fordham's Annual Conference on International
Intellectual Property Law and Policy which is now in its eleventh year.
Professor. Hansen clerked for Judge Inzer B. Wyatt in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of New York. Later he clerked for Judge
Murray I. Gurfein in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
He was in practice as an associate with the law firm of Dewey Ballantine
in New York and then as an Assistant United States Attorney in the
Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division.
Professor Hansen is the Intellectual Property Editor of Preview, an
American Bar Association publication. Matthew Bender will soon publish
the 2003 edition of his book, New York Intellectual Property Handbook.
Professor Hansen is the editor of the proceedings of the Fordham annual
conference, International Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Volume
1--6.
Professor Hansen received his A.B. from Rutgers University, his J.D.
from Georgetown University School of Law and his LL.M. from Yale
University School of Law.
Singer John Huang
Managing Partner, East IP, Beijing, China
Mr. Singer John Huang has worked at Baker & McKenzie in Beijing, Taipei
and Hong Kong, and at O'Melveny & Myers's in China, where he was the
head of their IP practice and dealt with IP matters regarding high-tech
investment, dispute resolution and litigation planning and patent and
trademark applications.
After joining East IP in 2000 as the Managing Partner, Mr. Huang became
responsible for intellectual property right infringement prosecution,
licensing and enforcement, regulatory advice related to intellectual
property rights and patent infringement prosecution and litigation. Mr.
Huang has also served as the Chairman of the High-Tech Issues Working
Group of the US-China Business Council in Beijing and Special Counsel to
the China Intellectual Property Training Center under China's State
Council.
Honorable Zhipei Jiang
Chief Justice, No.3 Civil Court, Supreme People's Court, People's
Republic of China
The Honorable Zhipei Jiang has a Ph.D. in Law from People's University.
He has been a senior visiting scholar in Birmingham University's Law
School in the UK, and the John Marshall Law School in the US. He is now
a Member of Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court, Presiding
Judge of the Third Civil Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court and Vice
President of the China Law Society Intellectual Property Law Institute.
He has been engaged in the formulation of legislation for civil law,
civil procedure law, intellectual property law and other important laws.
Also he has participated in the drafting of the judicial interpretation
of many intellectual property laws. He been the chief editor of, or
written many books and academic essays including The Internet and
E-Commerce, IP Right Protection under the WTO, IP Right Guide and
Reference (four volumes) and Supreme People's Court IP Cases and
Remarks.
Nadim Kayyali
Partner, Khalifeh & Partners, Jordan
Mr. Nadim Kayyali is a Senior Associate with the law firm Khalifeh &
Partners, based in Amman, Jordan. Mr. Kayyali's practice is focused on
commercial law, particularly Intellectual Property and Investment
Promotion Law. Mr. Kayyali serves as a Member of the Reach Initiative
Regulatory Framework Committee, which is responsible for reviewing and
proposing changes to Jordanian law pertaining to software development
and information technology. Mr. Kayyali is also a member of the
Information Technology Association of Jordan, which is an Advocacy
Committee responsible for identifying and following up on issues that
concern the information technology sector in Jordan.
Mr. Kayyali received his B.A. in politics, philosophy and economics from
the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from George Washington
University Law School. Mr. Kayyali is licensed to practice law by the
New York Bar Association and the Jordanian Bar Association.
Michael Landau
Professor, Georgia State University College of Law
Mr. Michael Landau is Professor of Law and Head of the Intellectual
Property, Technology, and Media Studies Group at Georgia State
University College of Law, where he teaches courses in Copyrights,
Trademarks, Unfair Competition, Entertainment Law, Computer Law, and
Antitrust. Professor Landau received his law degree from the University
of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a recipient of the Nathan
Burkan Memorial Copyright Award.
Before becoming affiliated with Georgia State, Professor Landau
practiced with the New York law firms of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he primarily handled matters
for media, entertainment, and technology clients.
Professor Landau has also been a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar
at the University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law, the
University of Georgia, Dickinson Law School of Penn State, the Johannes
Kepler University of Linz, Austria, and Louisiana State University. He
has written numerous articles on Copyright, Trademark, Entertainment
Law, and Art Law for various academic and professional journals.. He is
a member of the New York Bar, the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and
the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). Professor
Landau is also on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lawyers for the
Arts and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.
Honorable Bruce A. Lehman
President, International Intellectual Property Institute
Mr. Bruce Lehman is President and CEO of the International Intellectual
Property Institute (IIPI). Mr. Lehman is a member of the Policy Advisory
Commission to the director general of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) and he is president of the U.S. Committee for WIPO.
Mr. Lehman is also a member of several corporate boards, including the
Patent & Licensing Exchange, Inc. and Ford Technology Licensing, Inc., a
wholly owned subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company.
Prior to founding IIPI, Mr. Lehman served as Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks from August
1993 through December 1998. As the Clinton Administration's primary
representative for intellectual property rights protection, he was a key
player on these issues, both domestically and internationally, and was
intimately involved in negotiations related to the Agreement on Trade
Related Aspects of Intellectual Property, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and
the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty.
For ten years prior to joining the Clinton administration, Lehman was a
partner in the Washington, D.C., 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 received a B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Jennifer Lucas
Attorney-Advisor, Office of International Relations, United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Ms. Jennifer B. Lucas is an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of
International Relations for the USTPO. Ms. Lucas represents the USPTO in
domestic and international fora to formulate, present, explain and
advocate approved U.S. positions on intellectual property. As part of
her duties, Ms. Lucas serves as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the
Hague Conference negotiating the proposed Convention on Jurisdiction and
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. Before
joining the USPTO, Ms. Lucas held the positions of senior legal editor
for American Lawyer Media's IP Law Weekly and legal editor for BNA's
Electronic Commerce and Law Report. Ms. Lucas also has worked in private
practice, as a trademark and copyright attorney in Washington, D.C. She
holds a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law and an LL.M. in
Intellectual Property from the John Marshall Law School.
Stefan Luginbuehl
Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Stefan Luginbuehl, a native of Bern, Switzerland, completed his law
degree at the University of Bern, then worked at a well-established law
firm specializing in business law, with offices in Zurich and Bern, and
was admitted to the bar in 1999. In the same year, he began his
employment at the Federal Institute of Intellectual Property where he
has since represented Switzerland as a member of the Swiss Delegation to
the first part of the Diplomatic Conference concerning a worldwide
agreement on jurisdiction and foreign judgements in civil and commercial
matters of the Hague Conference, to the Second Intergovernmental
Conference, and to the Diplomatic Conference of the EPC Contracting
States on the reform of the European patent system. He currently serves
as the deputy head of the Swiss Delegation to the Committee on Patent
Law within the European Patent Organisation (EPO) and on the EPO Working
Party on Litigation committee as well as sub-group where he is involved
in elaborating the future agreement for the settlement of litigation for
European Patents (EPLA).
Steven J. Metalitz
Senior Vice President, International Intellectual Property Alliance
(IIPA)
Steven J. Metalitz serves as Senior Vice President of the International
Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), the coalition of copyright
industry trade associations working for stronger copyright protection
and enforcement around the world. His duties with IIPA focus on the
Asia/Pacific region and on issues of copyright protection in the digital
and electronic commerce environments, including ratification and
implementation of the WIPO Internet treaties. He is also counsel to the
Copyright Coalition on Domain Names and a partner in the Washington, DC
law firm of Smith & Metalitz LLP. As counsel to the Creative Incentive
Coalition, he was instrumental in the drafting of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act of 1998.
From 1989 through 1994, Mr. Metalitz was Vice President and General
Counsel of the Information Industry Association, directing the trade
association's government relations program and developing and advocating
its policy positions in copyright, telecommunications, privacy,
government information policy, and other areas. From 1982-1989, he held
several senior staff positions with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee,
including Chief Nominations Counsel, and Chief Counsel and Staff
Director of its Subcommittee on Patents, Copyright and Trademarks.
Mr. Metalitz has taught copyright law as Professorial Lecturer in Law at
the George Washington University Law School. He is a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A. 1972) and earned his law
degree at Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1977).
Bartolomeo Migone
Senior Legal Officer, Arbitration and Mediation Center, World
Intellectual Property Organization
Bartolomeo Migone, a national of Italy and the United States, holds a
J.D. from Columbia Law School, an M.A. in International Economics and
American Foreign Policy from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), and a B.S.
degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Before joining the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, he practiced
at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and at the United Nations
Compensation Commission, where he worked on corporate oil sector claims
arising from the 1990-91 Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. Between 2000 and
2002 he was employed by Schroder Salomon Smith Barney (SSSB) as Chief of
Staff to the Chairman of SSSB Italy, and then as Vice President for
Special Projects (Europe).
Honorable Gerald J. Mossinghoff
Senior Counsel, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier and Neustadt
The Honorable Gerald J. Mossinghoff is Senior Counsel to Oblon, Spivak,
McClelland, Maier and Neustadt, a leading intellectual property law firm
in Arlington, Virginia. He is a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce
and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks and a former President of the
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). He is a
Cifelli Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University Law
School and an adjunct Professor of Law at the George Mason University
School of Law. Mr. Mossinghoff has served as United States Ambassador to
the Diplomatic Conference on the Revision of the Paris Convention and as
Chairman of the General Assembly of the United Nations World
Intellectual Property Organization.
As one of the world's premier intellectual property specialists, he
advised President Reagan concerning the establishment of the Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has strengthened and brought
certainty to patent law in the United States.
Mr. Mossinghoff received an Electrical Engineering degree from St. Louis
University and a Juris Doctor degree with Honors from the George
Washington University Law School. He is a member of the Order of the
Coif and Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society and is a
Fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration. He is a member
of the Missouri, District of Columbia and Virginia bars.
David Plant
From 1957 through 1998, Mr. Plant practiced law in New York City with
Fish & Neave. Since retiring from Fish & Neave, he has been serving as a
mediator, arbitrator, special master, and teacher. Mr. Plant holds
degrees in engineering and law from Cornell University. He is a member
of the bars of New York, the United States Supreme Court, various United
States courts of appeals and district courts, and the United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
While at Fish & Neave, Mr. Plant's practice focused on trials and
appeals in federal courts, proceedings before the ITC, FTC, and USPTO,
and various ADR processes. He has served as managing partner of Fish &
Neave, chair and director of various professional committees and
organizations, and on various ADR panels in both court-annexed and
voluntary procedures in the U.S., Europe, and Canada.
Mr. Plant has served as a Special Master in U.S. district courts, as a
mediator in more than 60 domestic and international disputes, and as an
arbitrator in more than 60 ICC, Stockholm, UNCITRAL, AAA, CPR, WIPO,
court-annexed, and ad hoc arbitrations. He has written and spoken on ADR
issues in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, Africa, and South America,
and has led courses and workshops in arbitration and mediation at WIPO,
UNITAR, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration,
Franklin Pierce Law Center, and bar associations.
Honorable Randall R. Rader
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
The Honorable Randall R. Rader is a Circuit Judge on the United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He obtained a B.A. in English
from Brigham Young University in 1974 and a J.D. from George Washington
University in 1978. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the United
States Claims Court in 1988. President George Bush nominated Judge Rader
to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1990.
While on the appellate bench, Judge Rader has also served actively as an
educator. He has taught patent law and advanced intellectual property
courses at the University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown
University Law Center, and The George Washington University Law School.
Judge Rader is co-author of a casebook on patent law used at over 65 law
schools. He received the J. William. Fulbright Award for Distinguished
Public Service, 2000. As an appellate judge, Judge Rader has also led or
participated in over 40 delegations to foreign nations, usually to teach
rule of law or intellectual property concepts in developing nations.
Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Rader served members of the
House of Representatives (1975-1980) and as counsel to the Senate
Judiciary Committee (1980-88), where he was Chief Counsel or Minority
Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the
Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights.
Professor Michael P. Ryan, Ph.D.
Projects Director, International Intellectual Property Institute
Professor Michael Ryan is Projects Director at the International
Intellectual Property Institute and is a leading academic in the field
of intellectual property. Professor Ryan also teaches and conducts
research regarding international political economy at the Georgetown
University's McDonough School of Business. In 1994, Ryan established the
first intellectual property course in a school of public and
international affairs with his course at the Georgetown School of
Foreign Service and in 1996 established the first business school course
dealing with the subject of intellectual property and knowledge-based
competition.
Professor Ryan is the author of two books: Knowledge Diplomacy: Global
Competition and the Politics of Intellectual Property (Brookings, 1998)
and Playing by the Rules: American Trade Power and Diplomacy in the
Pacific (Georgetown, 1995). He is presently co-authoring Knowledge
Management Strategies for the World Economy. Since the publication of
Knowledge Diplomacy, Ryan has assisted the Kingdom of Jordan with
intellectual property law and policy reform associated with its WTO
accession and conducted a study of the institutional design and public
administration of intellectual property policy in Peru on behalf of its
government.
Professor Ryan received his Ph.D. in political science, with
concentrations in international organization, law, and comparative
political economy from the University of Michigan. He earned a master's
degree in philosophy, with a concentration in social and political
philosophy and in philosophy of science, at Ohio State University.
Michael S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Attorney-Advisor, Office of International Affairs, USPTO
Mr. Michael S. Shapiro is an author and attorney specializing in
domestic and international copyright law. The former General Counsel of
the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Shapiro currently serves
as Attorney-Advisor, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office. He is the co-author of A Museum Guide to Copyright and
Trademark (1999) and is currently working on a book entitled The
Cultural Bargain: Arts, Copyright and the Public Interest. Mr. Shapiro
earned a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and a J.D.
from the George Washington University Law School.
Robert M. Sherwood
Mr. Robert M. Sherwood has done research in 18 developing countries to
identify the benefits of robust intellectual property protection for
national interests. He pioneered in measuring the damage done to
national economies by poor judicial system performance.
He diagnosed intellectual property systems throughout Latin America for
the Inter-American Development Bank. He has consulted for the World Bank
on intellectual property reform. For USAID, he helped local groups in
Ecuador and Peru promote improved intellectual property protection.
His writings include two books and numerous articles on intellectual
property and economic development. The World Intellectual Property
Organization commissioned his study of the TRIPS Agreement's
implications for developing countries. His comparative analysis of
intellectual property systems in 18 developing countries is widely
cited. With Brazilian co-authors, he proposed a new model for developing
country patent offices designed to encourage local inventors.
With Geoffrey Shepherd of the World Bank and Celso Marcos de Souza of
Brazil's foreign ministry, he co-authored the seminal paper "Judicial
Systems and Economic Performance". He has generated judicial system
research projects in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Peru, Philippines,
Portugal, Spain and is fashioning research for the European Commission.
Mr. Sherwood is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia University and
Harvard Law School.
Michael L. Smith
Attorney-Advisor, Office of Enforcement, United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO)
Mr. Smith is an attorney-advisor in the Office of Enforcement at the
USTPO, focusing on enforcement issues relating to the protection of
intellectual property rights.
Prior to joining the USPTO, Mr. Smith served as a foreign affairs
officer at the Department of State, Economic Bureau, Intellectual
Property and Competition Division. Mr. Smith has also served as an
attorney-advisor, United States Customs Service, Intellectual Property
Rights Branch and as a judicial law clerk for the United States
Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas.
Mr. Smith attended the London School of Economics, University of London,
receiving an LL.M. in commercial and corporate law, South Texas College
of Law where he received a J.D. and University of Houston where he
received a B.A.
Robert L. Stoll
Director, Office of Enforcement, United States Patent and Trademark
Office
Mr. Robert Stoll was appointed Executive Assistant to the Assistant
Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks on
November 1, 1994. In that position, Mr. Stoll was responsible for
providing technical and policy assistance to the Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks on a broad range of
national and international intellectual property issues, and the
development and planning of PTO-wide strategic goals, objectives, and
priorities. He also served as liaison with patent and trademark bar
groups and the academic and scientific communities.
In 1995, Mr. Stoll was promoted to the position of Administrator, Office
of Legislative and International Affairs at the Patent and Trademark
Office. In this capacity, he was responsible for the organization that
developed and analyzed legislation relating to intellectual property as
well as international issues related to intellectual property. With the
reorganization of the office in July of 2002, Mr. Stoll assumed his
current duties which include domestic and international enforcement
initiatives.
Mr. Stoll received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the
University of Maryland and he earned a J.D. degree from Catholic
University.
Honorable Bruce H. Stoner Jr.
Chief Administrative Patent Judge, Board of Patent Appeals and
Interferences, USPTO
Chief Judge Bruce H. Stoner, Jr., is a native of Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the
Pennsylvania State University and a Juris Doctor Degree from the
American University (cum laude). He is a member of the Virginia State
Bar and the bars of the Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Fourth
Circuits. Judge Stoner entered the Patent and Trademark Office in 1970
as an Examiner. He became a Primary Examiner in 1977 and from 1983-1986
served as a Supervisory Patent Examiner. Judge Stoner was appointed to
the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in 1986. He has served as
Chief Administrative Patent Judge since 1995.
James A. Toupin
General Counsel, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Mr. James Toupin received his A.B. degree with distinction from Stanford
University in 1973, and his J.D. degree from the Boalt Hall School of
Law, University of California at Berkeley, in 1977, where he was an
editor of the law review. He is a member of the California and District
of Columbia Bars.
Mr. Toupin began his career at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.,
specializing in intellectual property and unfair competition law and
administrative agency litigation. From 1985-1987, he worked for Memel,
Jacobs, Pierno, Gersh and Ellsworth, concentrating on international
trademark registration and licensing. In 1987, he was appointed
Assistant General Counsel for Litigation of the U.S. International Trade
Commission and subsequently Deputy General Counsel, supervising defense
of the ITC's actions in U.S. courts and international tribunals. He has
been a member of advisory committees of the Court of International Trade
and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Toupin became General Counsel of the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office in January 2001. He has executive responsibility for the USPTO
Office of the Solicitor, Office of General Law, Office of Enrollment and
Discipline, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, and Trademark
Trial and Appeal Board.
Robin Whaite
Partner, Linklaters & Alliance, London
Mr. Robin Whaite became a partner in Linklaters in 1989, having joined
their Intellectual Property and Technology department in 1986. Mr.
Whaite represents a wide range of clients in the computing and
healthcare sectors and other high-tech areas, from leading
multi-nationals to start-up companies. His main areas of practice are
international patent litigation, trade mark litigation, technology
transfer, and the IP aspects of corporate transactions. He has handled,
for example, multi-jurisdiction litigation over semi-conductor and
biotech patents; one of the first patent cases to be referred to the
European Court of Justice on the meaning of the jurisdiction rules of
the Brussels Convention; joint ventures for b2b and biotech companies;
and the IP aspects of the merger of two major pharmaceutical companies.
Mr. Whaite is Secretary of the IP Lawyers Association, and for many
years represented the British Chambers of Commerce on the UK
Government's Standing Advisory Committee on IP. He chairs an annual
conference on International Patent Litigation, speaks and writes widely
on IP subjects, is on the editorial board of Managing Intellectual
Property, and is co-author of Joint Ventures (Longmans) and European
Rules on the Exploitation of Intellectual Property (Butterworths, in
preparation).
Johannes Christian Wichard
Head, Legal Development Section, Arbitration and Mediation Center, World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Mr. Johannes Christian Wichard, a German national, is Head of the Legal
Development Section of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. He
holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in law from Tübingen
University, Germany, and is admitted to the New York Bar. Before joining
WIPO in 1998, he was responsible for trademark and unfair competition
law in the German Federal Ministry of Justice, and, before that, taught
German and international private law at the Universities of Tübingen and
Berlin.
Tim Yaworski
Assistant General Counsel, United States International Trade Commission
(USITC).
Mr. Tim Yaworski has been with the USITC since 1976. Mr. Yaworski is
currently the USTIC's Assistant General Counsel for Section 337
Investigations.
Mr. Yaworski received his B.A. in Chemistry from Rice University, an
M.S. in Chemistry from Ohio State University, an M.B.A. from the
University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from George Washington
University.
Michael Young
Dean, The George Washington University Law School
Dean Young currently serves as Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom, having served as chair from July 2001
to July 2002. He is a member of the Committee on International Judicial
Relations of the Judicial Conference of the United States and serves as
a member of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Before
coming to the George Washington University Law School, Dean Young was
the Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and Legal Institutions at Columbia
University.
Before beginning his teaching career, Dean Young served as a law clerk
to Justice Rehnquist and to Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Supreme
Judicial Court of Massachusetts. During the administration of President
George Bush, he served as ambassador for trade and environmental
affairs, deputy under secretary for economic and agricultural affairs,
and deputy legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State.
Dean Young has published extensively, including articles and books on
the Japanese legal system, dispute resolution, mergers, the legal
profession, comparative law, industrial policy, international trade law,
legal reform in Eastern Europe, NAFTA, GATT, and international human
rights and freedom of religion. His latest books are The Fundamentals of
U.S. Trade Law and Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, The
Economy, and Politics (with C. Milhaupt and M. Ramseyer), both published
in 2001.
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