Panel I: What the
Heck is Intellectual Property and Why Should I Care? What Every
International Trade Expert Should Know
Wednesday, January 31, 2001; 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m
Introduction
This first event was designed to give the audience a broad overview
of the basics of intellectual property, (i.e. copyright, patents and
trademarks), including a review of the policy justifications for
intellectual property rights, what intellectual property rights
entail and how those rights relate to current trade issues. This
event provided the necessary background for audience participants to
attend the following events in this discussion series.
Speakers
Professor
Christine Haight-Farley
Assistant Professor of Law, American University, Washington
College of Law
Professor Haight-Farley teaches courses in Intellectual Property,
United States Trademark Law, International and Comparative Trademark
Law, and Law and the Visual Arts. Before joining the law faculty at
American, she practiced copyright and trademark law at the New York
law firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky, & Lieberman.
Professor Haight-Farley has taught legal research and writing at the
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo School of Law and at
Columbia University School of Law and has taught various
Intellectual Property courses in Chile, Columbia, France, and
Panama.
Professor Haight-Farley received her J.D. from SUNY, Buffalo School
of Law in 1994, and she received her L.L.M. from Columbia University
School of Law in 1997. She is currently a J.S.D. (doctor of
juridical science) candidate at Columbia University School of Law,
where her dissertation is on intellectual property law.
Honorable Randall
R. Rader
Circuit Judge , United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit
Judge Rader was appointed to the United States Claims Court in 1988
and was nominated to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in
1990.
Judge Rader currently teaches several intellectual property law
courses at George Washington University Law School and has taught
Patent Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and
Comparative Patent Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is
co-author of the casebook, Patent Law (West Publishing 1998) - a
text used at over 45 law schools.
Judge Rader has led or participated in twenty-six delegations to
foreign nations, usually to teach rule of law or intellectual
property concepts in developing nations. Prior to his appointment,
Judge Rader served as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee,
where he was Chief Counsel or Minority Chief Counsel for the
Subcommittee on the Constitution and the Subcommittee on Patents,
Trademarks, and Copyrights.
Judge Rader received his B.A. in English from Brigham Young
University in 1974 and a J.D. from George Washington University in
1978.
Dr. Michael P. Ryan
Professor, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University
Dr. Ryan teaches Bachelor of Business Administration, Masters of
Business Administration and executive education programs. Dr.
Ryan also teaches in the executive education programs at the
University of Michigan Business School.
Dr. Ryan is the author of Knowledge Diplomacy: Global Competition
and the Politics of Intellectual Property (Brookings Institution
Press, 1998), and is presently co-authoring Knowledge Management
Strategies for the World Economy. Dr. Ryan has been a guest
lecturer at China University of Political Science and Law and a
guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.
Dr. Ryan received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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