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Day III: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
09:30	Session One: Impact of Piracy and Counterfeiting on the Industry Moderator: Mamoun Talhouni, Director General, National Library, Ministry of Industry & Trade Speakers: Aly Harakeh, Business Software Alliance Murad Bushnaq, Licensee, EMI, Virgin, Amman/Representing the music Industry Hani Ashkar, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Beirut, Lebanon
11:00	Coffee Break
11:30	Session Two: Recognizing Counterfeit Goods – Advanced Tools, Know How and Strategies Available to Customs Agents & Enforcement Officials Moderator: Samer Tarawneh, Counselor, WIPO, Geneva Speakers: Peter N. Fowler, Senior Counsel, Office of Enforcement, United States Patent and Trademark Office Presentation (PDF, 2.7Mb)) Aly Harakeh, Business Software Alliance Nasser Bakkar, Enforcement Manager, British American Tobacco
12:30	Session Three: Counterfeiting Problems and Solutions for ASEZA Moderator: Maher Hamdan, Attorney-at-law, Amman Speakers: ASEZA Senior Official – to describe any special problems faced by ASEZA and solutions that are being explore Nasser Bakkar, Enforcement Manager, British American Tobacco
13:30	Lunch
15:00	Session Four: Mechanisms for Exchange of Information Between Private Sector and Government Enforcement Agencies on Counterfeiting and Piracy Moderator: Mamoun Talhouni, Director General, National Library, Amman Speakers: H.E. Mahmoud Qutaishat, Director General Custom Department, Ministry of Finance Amjad Al-Amad, Board Member, Jordan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) Kawkab Seno, Brand Protection Group
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Speaker Biographies
Amjad Al-Amad Founder and Managing Director, Trimark, Intellectual Property Consulting Mr. Amjad Al-Amad is the Founder and Managing director of TIRMARK, Intellectual Property Consulting. He served as Executive Director at Abu Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) in Tunisia during 1996-2002, afterwards working as a Senior Intellectual Property consultant with International Business Legal Associates. Amjad Al-Amad’s main practice areas are in Industrial Property, Intellectual Property Licensing and anti-piracy and domain names. He is a member in the Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP), International Trademark Association (ITA) as well as a board member in the Jordan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA). Amjad Al-Amad received his BA in Finance and Banking from the University of Yarmouk. 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.