Mr. Murad Bushnaq, President, Jordanian Intellectual Property Association (JIPA)

Mr. Peter Fowler, Senior Attorney-Advisor for Enforcement, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Mr. Sherif Saadallah, Director, Cooperation for Development Bureau for Arab
Countries, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Hon. Bruce Lehman, President, International Intellectual Property Institute, former
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Commissioner, USPTO (1993-1998)

Mr. David Barth, Acting Mission Director, Regional Legal Advisor, United States
Agency for International Development (USAID)

Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Vice-Chair, United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (UN ICT TF), New York, USA, and Chairman of Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP)

Moderator: Mr. Tarif Nabil, Attorney at Law, Al Nabil Law Firm

Hon. Bruce Lehman, President, International Intellectual Property Institute,
former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
Commissioner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1993-1998)

Mr. Sherif Saadallah, Director, Cooperation for Development Bureau for Arab Countries, WIPO

Professor Martin J. Adelman, George Washington University Law School, Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program; Director of the Dean Dinwoody Center for Intellectual Property Studies

There were four workshop sessions over the course of the conference as outlined below:

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Peter N. Fowler
Senior Counsel, Office of Enforcement, United States Patent and Trademark Office

Peter N. Fowler is Senior Counsel in the USPTO Office of Enforcement, providing technical advice, assistance and training on intellectual property policy and IPR law enforcement issues. Having joined the USPTO in 1995, as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legislative and International Affairs, where he worked on copyright issues, he
has served as the Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and as Acting Deputy Administrator for External Affairs.

Prior to joining the USPTO, Mr. Fowler was the managing partner of the law firm of Lilienthal, Jacobson & Fowler in San Francisco, California, representing a wide range of artists, authors, composers, filmmakers, performers, and software developers, and indulged his artistic side by occasionally acting, film producing, and serving as an executive director of an international film arts organization and film festival.

Mr. Fowler served as a judicial extern for Associate Justice Marcel Poche of the California Court of Appeal, and clerked for Chief Justice Justice E.M. Gunderson of the Supreme Court of Nevada. His work in local and state government has included stints as a Special Assistant to the Clerk of the California Court of Appeal, First District, in San Francisco; Special Assistant to the Grant County (Indiana) Clerk of Courts; Chief Investigator for an Indiana Prosecuting Attorney; and Special Assistant to the Mayor of Marion, Indiana. From 1990-1995, he served as Judge Pro Tempore on the Municipal Court of the City and County of San Francisco. He is admitted to practice in California and Nevada, and before the U.S Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and for the Ninth Circuit. He has taught law as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law, and at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, California State University-Hayward, and the University of San Francisco, having also taught at Martin University in Indianpolis, and the Colegio Cristobal Colon and Bolivarian Pontifical University in Medellín, Colombia. Mr. Fowler is the author of several law review articles on intellectual property legal issues.

Mr. Fowler has a B.A. degree from John Carroll University; an M.A. degree from the University of Alabama; an M.A. degree from Ball State University; and a J.D. degree from Golden Gate University School of Law.


Eric Garduño
Project Manager, International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI)

Garduño's responsibilities include the management of primary intellectual property research, policy development and IIPI project design and implementation. Garduño has been involved in much of IIPI's activities in his fours years with the organization. Garduño's thematic areas of responsibility include technology transfer and commercialization, national innovation policy and digital media and copyright. Garduño has spoken at a number of events and has authored several articles on intellectual property law and policy.

Garduño has spoken at a number of events and has authored several articles on intellectual property law and policy. Garduno served as an intellectual property advisor for the trade association CropLife America and is an active member in the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Garduño received his Juris Doctor from American University's Washington College of Law, a certificate in International Intellectual Property Law from Tulane University and a B.A. in political science from California State University , Dominguez Hills.


Michael P. Ryan, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant, International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI)
Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Professor Michael P. Ryan began assisting the Jordanian economic reform effort in 1998 when he was asked by USAID to draft new patent and plant variety protection laws in support of its accession to the World Trade Organization. In the years since he has lectured frequently in Jordan regarding intellectual property and technology policy and management, e.g., at the invitation of the Higher Council for Science and Technology and the Royal Scientific Society at its technology entrepreneurship conference and at the invitation of the Young Entrepreneurs Association at its annual conference. In cooperation with USAID-AMIR, the US Patent and Trademark Office, and the International Intellectual Property Institute (Washington, DC) he established and has lectured at the annual King Abdullah II Intellectual Property Week conference. The IP Week conference involves the software, info tech, pharmaceutical, and bio-medical business communities, university researchers, government policymakers and public administrators, and judges who settle intellectual property-based commercial disputes. During 2003-4 Professor Ryan, funded by USAID-AMIR and the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, is with a colleague assessing Jordan's pharmaceutical and bio-medical institutional infrastructure (law, regulation and public administration, business strategy, university research) in cooperation with the Jordan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and Jordan Intellectual Property Association. The report will be released in August 2004 at a conference under the patronage of the His Majesty King Abdullah II. In 2003 he lectured members of the Ministry of Economics, Palestinian Authority, in Ramallah, West Bank, under auspices of USAID. He, USAID, and the local authorities have designed an intellectual property policy and economic reform program that will be carried out when security and diplomatic circumstances permit.

Professor Ryan, an associate research professor of policy and ethics at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, and a senior consultant to the International Intellectual Property Institute, is advising and lecturing Thailand's business, government, university, and judicial communities in order to assist with their national bio-medical strategy. He co-authored a report for the university system of South Africa concerning the commercialization of technology and the establishment of university technology transfer offices. He has also lectured business and policy communities in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Malaysia, Peru, the Philippines, and Singapore. His Intellectual Property Rules! Trade Secrets, Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks in the World Economy will be published in fall 2004; his co-authored (with Paul Almeida) Knowledge Strategy: Technology, Intellectual Property, and Organization in the World Economy will be published in 2005 as will his Knowledge Ethics: Intellectual Property and Social Responsibilities in the World Economy. He is the author of Knowledge Diplomacy: Global Competition and the Politics of Intellectual Property (1998) and Playing by the Rules: American Trade Power and Diplomacy in the Pacific (1995). He holds a PhD in political science with concentrations in international political economy, organization, and law from the University of Michigan, holds a master's degree in philosophy from Ohio State University, and previously served on the faculty of the Michigan Business School.


Sherif Saadallah
Bureau Director, Development Cooperation and External Relations, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Mr. Sherif Saadallah, joined the International Bureau pf WIPO in April 1991, as Special Assistant to the Office of the Director General.  In January 1993, he was transferred to the Development Cooperation and External Relations Bureau for Arab Countries, and was promoted as Bureau Head in November 1995 amd became Bureau Director in 1997.

In December 2003, Mr. Saadahllah was promoted to Executive Director, responsible for two departments, namely, the Economic Development Bureau for Arab Countries and the Intellectual Property and Economic Development Department.

Before joining the International Bureau, Mr. Saadahllah served for eight years as a diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, in particular in the Permanent Mission of Egypt in Geneva.

Mr. Saadahllah has a BA in Economics and Political Science from the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and has studied at the Diplomatic Institute for International Studies in Cairo and at the Institute Universitaire des Hauter Etudes Internationales in Geneve. Mr. Saadahllah is well versed in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.