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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
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