Honorable Bruce A. Lehman
President, International Intellectual Property Institute
Mr. Bruce Lehman is President and CEO of the International Intellectual Property Institute
(IIPI). Mr. Lehman is a member of the Policy Advisory Commission to the director general
of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and he is president of the U.S.
Committee for WIPO. Mr. Lehman is also a member of several corporate boards, including the
Patent & Licensing Exchange, Inc. and Ford Technology Licensing, Inc., a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company.
Prior to founding IIPI, Mr. Lehman served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and U.S.
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks from August 1993 through December 1998. As the
Clinton Administration's primary representative for intellectual property rights
protection, he was a key player on these issues, both domestically and internationally,
and was intimately involved in negotiations related to the Agreement on Trade Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and
Phonograms Treaty.
For ten years prior to joining the Clinton administration, Lehman was a partner in the
Washington, D.C., law firm of Swidler & Berlin. There he represented individuals,
companies, and trade associations in the areas of intellectual property rights. Prior to
entering private practice, Lehman worked for nine years in the U.S. House of
Representatives as counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary and chief counsel to the
Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice. Lehman was the
Committee's principal legal adviser in the drafting of the 1976 Copyright Act, the 1980
Computer Software Amendments, and 1982 Amendments to the Patent Laws.
Mr. Lehman received a B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Honorable Ronald Evans Quidachay
Presiding Judge, San Francisco Superior Court, State of California
Judge Ronald Evans Quidachay is the Presiding Judge of the San Francisco Superior Court,
State of California, comprised of 50 superior court judges, 14 other judicial officers,
and 500 court employees. Governor Jerry Brown appointed him to the San Francisco Municipal
Court in 1983, and in 1998 he was elevated to the superior court through consolidation of
the municipal and superior courts. He has presided in both the civil and criminal trial
divisions and in the civil Law and Motion, Writs and Receivers Department. In 1991-1992 he
served as Presiding Judge of the San Francisco Municipal Court.
Judge Quidachay has been active in efforts to improve the courts. In 1991-1992, as the
Municipal Court Presiding Judge, he and then Superior Court Presiding Judge Edward Stern
submitted the Court's first coordination plan the Judicial Council of California and was
also a member of the Consolidation Committee, which set the foundation for today's
consolidated court. From 1997 through 1998 Judge Quidachay chaired the Rules Committee
which rewrote the mandated Uniform Local Rules that took effect July 1, 1998. In 1992 he
also co-chaired, and now chairs, the joint Courthouse Construction Committee, which
oversaw the planning and building of San Francisco's first dedicated civil courthouse. As
Presiding Judge, he oversees the Court's civil master trial calendar and assignment of the
judges who preside over the criminal, family, juvenile, and probate cases.
At the state level, Judge Quidachay is a member of the Judicial Council of California
Presiding Judges Advisory Executive Committee and he chairs the Subcommittee on
Legislation. He has also served as a member of the State Trial Court Budget Commission,
and was an executive board member of the California Judges Association and President of
the California Asian Judges Association.
Judge Quidachay has taught criminal search and seizure at the National Judges College in
Reno, Nevada, and has been a facilitator and team leader with the California Judicial
Education and Research Program for new presiding judges.
His legal career began as a staff attorney with the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal
Assistance Foundation serving the poor and community groups in civil matters. Thereafter,
he served as a San Francisco Assistant District Attorney prosecuting misdemeanors and
felonies. As a partner in a small private practice, his emphasis was on immigration and
criminal defense and serving as the firm's chief trial counsel. Before his appointment as
a judge, Judge Quidachay was selected by the San Francisco Municipal Court judges to serve
as a San Francisco Municipal Court commissioner.
Judge Quidachay is a graduate of both the University of California School of Law and San
Francisco State University. While at law school he co-founded the Filipino and Pacific
Islander Law Student Association and worked to recruit and admit minority and
underprivileged students. At San Francisco State University he chaired the Third World
Minority Student Coalition working to establish the university's School of Ethnic Studies,
Filipino Studies, and the Educational Opportunity Program.
Judge Quidachay has remained active in civic and community affairs. He is an executive
board member of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA), a
member and co-founder of the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California, and honorary
member of the Advisory Board to the San Francisco Chapter of the Integrated Bar of the
Philippines. He has also served as an officer of the San Francisco State University Alumni
Board.
Judge Quidachay was born of Filipino-Irish parentage in San Francisco, California, USA.
The eldest of ten children, he grew up on the Island of Guam, his stepfather's native
home. His paternal grandparents originate from the Province of Cebu. His wife is a high
school English & journalism teacher. They have two boys. The older son is enlisted in
the United States Navy submarine service and the younger son is a junior at Brown
University in Providence Rhode Island and plays on the varsity soccer team.
Honorable Randall R. Rader
Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)
Randall R. Rader is a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit. He was born on April 21, 1949, in Hastings, Nebraska, son of Raymond A. Rader and
Gloria R. Smith. He obtained a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University in 1974 and a
J.D. from George Washington University in 1978. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to
the United States Claims Court in 1988. While a federal trial judge, he became the first
Claims Court judge ever appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to a committee
of the Judicial Conference. President George Bush nominated Judge Rader to the Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1990.
While on the appellate bench, Judge Rader has also served actively as an educator. From
1993-1999, he taught Patent Law I and Patent Law 11 at the University of Virginia School
of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia; from 1998-99 Comparative Patent Law at Georgetown
University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; and from 1993-97 Trial Advocacy at the George
Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. Currently Judge Rader teaches several
general and specialized intellectual property law courses at George Washington University.
In addition, he serves on advisory boards affiliated with three law schools. Judge Rader
is co-author of a casebook, Patent Law, West Publishing, 1998 - a text used at over 45 law
schools. As an appellate judge, Judge Rader has also led or participated in twenty-six
delegations to foreign nations, usually to teach rule of law or intellectual property
concepts in developing nations.
Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Rader served members of the House of
Representatives (1975-1980) and as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee (1980-88).
While counsel to the Judiciary Committee, he was Chief Counsel or Minority Chief Counsel
for the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and
Copyrights.
Michael P. Ryan
Professor of International Political Economy and Public Management
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Michael Ryan teaches and conducts research regarding international political economy at
the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. He specializes in the
International law, politic, policy, diplomacy and public administration of intellectual
property and trade.
Professor Ryan is the author of two books: Knowledge Diplomacy: Global Competition and the
Politics of Intellectual Property (Brookings, 1998) and Playing by the Rules: American
Trade Power and Diplomacy in the Pacific (Georgetown, 1995). He is presently co-authoring
Knowledge Management Strategies for the World Economy. In 1994, Professor Ryan established
the first intellectual property course in a school of public and international affairs
with his Georgetown School of Foreign Service course and in 1996 established the first
business school course dealing with the subject of Intellectual Property and
Knowledge-Based Competition.
He has recently lectured in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia and Peru and
is a consultant to developing country governments and has been a guest lecturer at China
University of Political Science and Law and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.
He coordinates the electronic commerce executive education program at Georgetown.
Professor Ryan received his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Michael S. Shapiro
Attorney-Advisor, Office of Legislative and International Affairs
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Dr. Shapiro is an attorney specializing in domestic and international copyright issues.
The former General Counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Shapiro
currently serves as Attorney-Advisor, Office of International and Legislative Affairs,
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Prior to joining the USPTO, Dr. Shapiro was in private practice, counseling a diverse
clientele in the commercial and nonprofit sectors. With Bruce A. Lehman, Dr. Shapiro
helped to launch the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) and served as
its first General Counsel. Within the IIPI, Dr. Shapiro directed the “World Museums
and Economic Development” project. The resource materials resulting from the project
are available on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Dr. Shapiro has written extensively and lectured widely on a broad range of legal and
cultural topics. He is the co-author of A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark (1999),
the editor of The Museum: A Reference Guide (1990), a contributing author to
Copyright’s Role in Economic and Social Development (2001) and to International
Intellectual Property: the European Community and Eastern Europe (1992). Dr. Shapiro
earned the Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and the JD from the George
Washington University Law School.
Honorable Rany L. Simms
Administrative Trademark Judge, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Rany L. Simms is an Administrative Trademark Judge with the Trademark Trial and Appeal
Board. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in
1969 and his J.D. in 1972 from the University of Illinois College of Law. He first joined
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1972 as a Trademark Examining Attorney, and worked
for the Board as an Interlocutory Attorney from 1975 until 1980. He became an Acting
Member of the Board in 1980 and has been an Administrative Trademark Judge (formerly
called Member) since 1981. He has written numerous articles for the Trademark Reporter
(published by the International Trademark Association) and has spoken on a number of
occasions about practice before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. He is admitted to
practice in the state of Maryland.
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