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Nancy
Dababneh
Advocate, International Business Legal Associates
Ms. Nancy Dababneh is a Partner and Head of Intellectual Property
Department of International Business Legal Associates (IBLAW), as
well as a Board member of Jordanian Intellectual Property
Association (JIPA).
Ms. Dababneh serves over 200 prominent multinational corporations as
well as local firms and joint ventures, in respect of formation of
the companies, litigating their rights, drafting contracts or
rendering legal consultations in the fields of international trade
and business transactions, foreign investment, intellectual property
rights, joint ventures, technology transfer, licensing and
franchising agreements, corporate law, commercial law,
telecommunication and privatization related work.
Ms. Dababneh participated in drafting Jordan’s package of
Intellectual Property Legislation that is enacted in conformity with
the WTO, as well as participating in a project on amending
Intellectual Property Legislation of the Palestinian National
Authority. She has also participated in analyzing the sectors of
Micro Finance and Information Technology in Jordan and in providing
analysis and recommendations for regulatory reforms in such vital
areas.
Ms. Dababneh holds a Masters
degree in Intellectual Property Law from Franklin Pierce Law Center,
in the USA, and enjoys extensive practical experience in the fields
of Intellectual Property, International Trade and Investment,
Franchising, Technology Transfers, and Corporate Law.
Honorable Bernice B. Donald
US District Judge, United States District Court for the Western
District of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
The Honorable Bernice Donald was nominated to the U.S. District
Court on December 7, 1995 by President William Clinton, confirmed by
the United States Senate on December 22, 1995 and took the bench on
December 26, 1995. Prior to her appointment to the bench,
Judge Donald served as a US Bankruptcy Judge, also on the US
District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, from
1988-1995. She served as a Judge of the General Sessions
Criminal Court of the State of Tennessee form 1982-1988, and as an
Assistant Public Defender in the Shelby County Public Defender’s
office in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1980-1982.
Earlier legal practice included working as a Staff Attorney,
Employment Law and Economic Development Unit, Memphis Area Legal
Service; and as an attorney in private practice. Judge Donald
taught form 1984-1989 as an Adjunct Professor at Shelby State
Community College. Judge Donald received her BA in 1974 from
Memphis State University, and her JD in 1979 form Memphis State
University Law School.
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.
Linda S.
Lourie
Attorney-Advisor, Office of Enforcement,
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Ms. Linda S. Lourie has recently
returned from Baghdad, Iraq, where she served as Legal Counsel in
the Office of General Counsel, Coalition Provisional Authority
(CPA). In this capacity, she worked with the Iraqi Governing Council
to secure approval for draft CPA Orders, and developed and presented
technical assistance lectures on WTO accession issues to officials
of the Iraqi Ministries of Trade, Industry and Minerals, Foreign
Affairs, Interior, Agriculture and Culture, among other legal
issues.
Back in Washington, Ms. Lourie is an Attorney-Advisor in the Office
of External Affairs of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office. In this position, she is involved in a variety of copyright
and biodiversity related issues, including developing U.S. positions
on international multilateral and bilateral agreements in
coordination with other U.S. Government agencies, providing legal
and technical assistance to foreign governments and promoting
greater understanding of the importance of intellectual property
protection worldwide. Ms. Lourie also serves as Head of the U.S.
Delegation to the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual
Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folkore.
Prior to joining the USPTO, Ms. Lourie was a Consultant to the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
She has practiced in the field of intellectual property at the New
York City law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and was a summer
associate at the Washington, DC law firm of Finnegan, Henderson,
Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. She has also served as a judicial clerk
for Judge Peter K. Leisure of the Southern District of New York. In
addition, Ms. Lourie has written and lectured widely in the field of
intellectual property, in particular as it relates to international
affairs, in the U.S. and abroad. Prior to studying law, she was a
museum curator, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Ms. Lourie received her law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law, holds a Masters’ degree in the areas of Islamic and
Medieval art from New York University and earned her Bachelors’
degree, cum laude, from Harvard University. She is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and volunteers on the Schools Committee
of the Harvard Club of Washington.
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.
Tawfiq
Tabbaa
Attorney, Khalife & Partners
Mr. Tabbaa joined Khalifeh & Partners in September 2002. Mr.
Tabbaa's main specialization area is intellectual property and
commercial law, which has included intellectual property titles
registration, manageing anti-piracy/anti-counterfeiting programs for
multinational companies in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and
drafting all types of agreements and commerical transactions.
Prior to joining Khalifeh & Partners, Mr. Tabbaa was for six years a
staff member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
He commenced his career with WIPO in 1996 as a Program Office in the
Arab Bureau of WIPO and in 2000, moved to WIPO's Office in New York.
Tawfiq's Experience at WIPO included assisting Arab countries in
complying with the WTO's TRIPS Agreement and other international
intellectual property protection standards. He organized and
participated in numberous seminars on intellectual property,
arbitration and electronic commerce in Arab countries, Geneva and
New York.
Mr. Tabbaa hold an LL.M. in International Business and Trade Law
from Fordham University School of Law (2001) and an LL.B.l with
Honours from the University of London (1995). He is a member of
Jordan Bar Association.
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