Moderator: Mr. Sherif Sadallah, Director, Cooperation for Development Bureau for Arab Countries, WIPO

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

Mr. Aly Harakeh, representing the Business Software Alliance (BSA)

Tawfiq Tabbaa, Khalifeh & Partners, representing the Business Software Alliance

Moderator: Mr. Mamoon Talhouni, Director General, National Library

Mr. Ahmad Fouli, Consultant, IFPI Middle East Mr. Aly Harakeh,, Representing the
Business Software Alliance

Moderator: Ms. Mais Khleifat, Head of Trademarks' Cases Section, Directorate of Industrial Property, Ministry of Industry and Trade

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

Mr. Dominic Keating, Attorney Advisor, Office of International Relations and U.S. Trade Attaché for Intellectual Property, U.S. Mission to the U.N., Geneva

Moderator: Ms. Ghaida Alaa Dein, Saba and Company Intellectual Property

Mr. Samer Tarawneh, Counselor, Cooperation for Development Bureau for Arab
Countries, WIPO

Mr. Dominic Keating, Attorney Advisor, Office of International Relations and U.S. Trade Attaché for Intellectual Property, U.S. Mission to the U.N., Geneva

Speaker Biographies

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.