Martin J. Adelman
Professor of Law and Director of Intellectual Property Law Program
George Washington University School of Law
Prior to his recent appointment in 1999 as a Professor of Law;
Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program and Director of
the Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Studies at
George Washington University Law School, Professor Adelman was a
Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School, joining that
faculty in 1973. Before joining Wayne State, he practiced as patent
attorney in the Detroit area for several years. During that period
he served as lead counsel in several patent infringement actions
including acting as lead counsel for Motor City is the Kolene v.
Motor City litigation.
After joining the faculty in 1973, he specialized in intellectual
property and antitrust law. The current focus of his teaching and
scholarship is in the field of patent law. He has written many law
review articles on patent law, the economics of patent law and
patent-antitrust law subjects. From 1977 to 1988 he was one of the
co-authors and currently is the sole author of the continuously
updated eight volume treatise on patent law entitled Patent Law
Perspectives (Matthew Bender) and available through LEXIS. He is a
co-author of Cases and Materials on Patent Law (West Group 1998), a
casebook that has been adopted by more than 50 law schools in the
United States, and a co-author of the Chapter on Patents in the
six-volume work entitled Business and Commercial Litigation in
Federal Courts (West Group 1998).
Professor Adelman has testified either by deposition or at trial as
an expert in patent law and practice in more than 150 patent
infringement cases. Finally, he has lectured widely on patent law
subjects. For example, during the past two years he has spoken at
intellectual property conferences in Amman, Beijing, Bonn,
Cincinnati, Nashville, New York, Phuket, Seattle, Sofia, Taipai,
Tokyo and Washington.
Vicki
E. Allums
Attorney Advisor, Office of Legislative and International Affairs
U.S. Patent and Trade mark Office (USPTO)
Since September of 1998, Vicki Allums has worked as an attorney in
the Office of Legislative and International Affairs at the United
States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). She is responsible for
intellectual property enforcement and other trade-related issues in
Asia. Prior to joining the PTO, Vicki was an Assistant General
Counsel at National Public Radio, Inc., where she worked on
trademark and copyright, licensing, communications and general
corporate issues. From 1988 to 1996, Ms. Allums was an attorney at
U.S. Customs. From 1993 to 1997, she was a senior attorney in
Customs' Intellectual Property Rights Branch. In that capacity, she
worked on a number of high-profile international intellectual
property rights issues, including the US/China IP Agreement, the US'
implementation of the TRIPS Agreement and the World Customs
Organizations' Model Legislation on intellectual property rights.
Ms. Allums received her B.A. degree from Berea College, her J.D.
degree from the University of Kentucky, and her MPA degree from
Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Vicki is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Paul
Almeida
Assistant Professor of International Strategy
Georgetown University
Professor Almeida studies the development and exploitation of
technological knowledge in firms and strategic alliances. He is
especially interested in the relationship between knowledge
development and the competitiveness of firms, high technology
regions and countries. Professor Almeida's research focuses on the
semiconductor, biotechnology and software industries. He currently
teaches executives and MBAs at Georgetown in the areas of knowledge
management, international business and strategy.
Professor Almeida's recent publications include: "The Localization
of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks" in
Management Science. He has also published articles in the Strategic
Management Journal; and Small Business Economics and contributed
articles to several scholarly books. He is currently co-writing a
volume on "Managing Knowledge in the 21st Century". His paper,
"Learning and Contributing: Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.
Semiconductor Industry," won the Best Paper Award in Technology and
Innovation Management by the Academy of Management. He is a member
and active contributor to the Academy of Management, Academy of
International Business and Strategic Management Society, and has
served as a reviewer for articles in over 10 scholarly journals. He
has served as a consultant to several firms including, IBM, AT&T and
Philips.
Professor Almeida has his Ph.D., International Business and
Strategy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, his M.A. on
Applied Economics and Managerial Science from the University of
Pennsylvania and his M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management ,
Ahmedabad.
Joseph
Battat
Foreign Investment Advisory Services, International Finance
Corporation
World Bank
Joseph Battat is the Manager of the Foreign Investment Advisory
Service (FIAS), a joint facility of the International Finance
Corporation and the World Bank. Formerly, he was the FIAS Program
Manager for a number of regions, including Europe, the Former Soviet
Union, China, the Middle East and North Africa. FIAS advises
governments on how to enhance and promote their foreign direct
investment environment to attract more and more beneficial foreign
direct investment.
Previous to his current position, Joseph Battat was a professor of
International Business at the School of Business, Indiana University
in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, and a Marketing Systems Engineer for
IBM in Montreal, Canada. In the late 1970s and 1980s, he worked with
the Chinese Government to establish the first MBA program in China.
He also helped set up the International Management Center in
Budapest, the first market-oriented management education institution
in Hungary.
Joseph Battat has a M.Sc. in Electronic Physics from the Université
de Grenoble, France; a Ph.D. in International Business from MIT,
USA; and a Certificate in Political Philosophy, Beijing University,
China.
Mark
Bohannon
Vice President and General Counsel,
Software & Information Industry Association
Mark Bohannon is the General Counsel and Vice President of
Government Affairs for the Software & Information Industry
Association (SIIA). SIIA is the principal trade association of the
code and content industry. It represents more than 1,000 companies
in 33 countries around the world that develop and market software
and digital content for business, education, consumers and the
Internet.
In this position, Mr. Bohannon is responsible for the legal and
public policy agenda of the principal trade association of the
digital code and content industry. His work in areas such as
intellectual property, ecommerce, and the Internet, includes not
only North America, but also Europe and the Pacific Rim.
Prior to joining SIIA, Mr. Bohannon was a senior official of the
U.S. Department of Commerce where he served as Chief Counsel for
Technology and Counsellor to the Under Secretary. During his tenure,
he was integrally involved in a wide range of technology
development, government information, intellectual property, trade,
global legal framework, ecommerce and domain name policy areas. His
duties also included advising the Secretary of Commerce and other
government agencies on technology transfer laws, practices and
policies. He was actively involved in establishing a number of
public-private partnerships as chief legal advisor to the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and as Co-Chair of the
Legal Committee of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
(PNGV), the so-called "clean car" initiative.
Mark A.
Cohen
Attorney
Cohen & Associates, PLLC
Mark Cohen is a Washington, DC attorney who has had had over 15
years of experience in Chinese legal matters. He is the principal
editor of Chinese Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Kluwer Law
International, 1999), and currently maintains a comprehensive
multilingual list of Chinese IP websites at: www.chinaipr.com/chinese.htm.
Mr. Cohen is a graduate of Columbia University Law School and its
Center for Chinese Legal Studies (1984). He holds am M.A. and B.A.
in Chinese Literature and Chinese Studies, and was formerly a
visiting lecturer at the University of International Business and
Economics in Beijing (1987), as well as a visiting student at
Nanyang University, Republic of Singapore (1976). Mr. Cohen has
lectured on Chinese law at numerous Chinese faculties as well as at
law faculties in the United States and Europe. He has represented
clients or appeared as an expert before Congress, USTR, U.S. courts,
the U.S. International Trade Commission, Bureau of Export
Administration, and other organizations on Chinese intellectual
property and trade issues, and has represented many high tech
businesses, inventors, artists and non-profit organizations in their
business dealings with China. He has his own firm, Cohen &
Associates, PLLC and is also "Of Counsel" to Moore & Bruce, LLP in
Washington, DC.
Patrick Dean Coleman
Deputy Director, Office of Africa
U.S. Department of Commerce
Patrick Coleman is the Deputy Director of the Office of Africa at
the U.S. Department of Commerce. He is responsible for U.S. market
access and commercial trade policy issues concerning Sub-Saharan
Africa. His office is located in the Commerce Department's
International Trade Administration and he works on encouraging and
supporting U.S. trade and investment in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Prior to joining the Commerce Department, Mr. Coleman served for
four years in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Foreign
Agricultural Service (FAS). He was a senior international economist
at USDA, handling agricultural trade policy issues regarding all the
countries on the African continent. Mr. Coleman has traveled
extensively throughout Africa representing and discussing U.S. trade
interests. Mr. Coleman also has experience working at the U.S.
International Trade Commission (USITC). Mr. Coleman supported the
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in investment negotiations
and analyzed the effects of international agreements on U.S. trade
in services.
In addition to Mr. Coleman's international experience in government,
he also served five years at the U.S. Department of Labor as an
economist.
Mr. Coleman holds a master's degree in international affairs and a
Certificate in African Studies from Columbia University's School of
International and Public Affairs. While a graduate student, he was a
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow in International Affairs.
Steven L. Fritz
Director, Technology Transfer
Maryland Technology Development Corporation
Dr. Steven Fritz was named Director, Technology Transfer for the
Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) in August 2000.
His areas of responsibility include management of the university
technology development fund and the TEDCO technology investment fund
programs, outreach to university and federal laboratory technology
transfer offices and coordination of business development.
Prior to joining TEDCO Dr. Fritz was Associate Vice President,
Research and Development at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, a
post he assumed in October 1997. Dr. Fritz had also served as
Director of the Office of Technology Development from March 1995
until October 1997.
Dr. Fritz was awarded his Ph.D. in Radiation Biophysics from the
University of Kansas in 1979. He was on the faculty of the
Diagnostic Radiology Department at the University of Kansas School
of Medicine from 1977 until 1986, earning tenure and rising to the
rank of Associate Professor. In 1986 he became Chief of the Imaging
Physics section of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology in the
School of Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He was
awarded tenure at the University of Maryland in 1988, and presided
over growth of Imaging Physics to a total of four faculty members
and two research associates.
Dr. Fritz is a member of the Association of University Technology
Managers (AUTM) and the Licensing Executives Society (LES).
Fernando Jiménez-Ontiveros
Priorities and Programming Unit, Multilateral Investment
Fund (MIF)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Fernando Jiménez-Ontiveros was born in Madrid in 1958. Mr.
Jiménez-Ontiveros has a Bachelors' Degree in Economics and was,
since 1984, a Civil Servant of the State Body of Trade and Economist
Technicians and developed most of his professional career at the
Trade Department in Spain.
From 1984 to 1987, Mr. Jiménez-Ontiveros served as Secretary of the
Tariff Commission in the General Directorate for Imports. From 1987
to 1990 he was in charge of the Spanish Commercial Office for
Central America and Panama, and from 1990 to 1994, he was a
technical advisor in international economics for the Office of the
President of the Government. In 1994 he was appointed Economic and
Commercial attaché for Spain in Mexico, and was in charge of the
same trade office of the Embassy until 1999.
The same year, Mr. Jiménez-Ontiveros joined the Inter-American
Development Bank in Washington, and is currently the Chief of the
Programming and Priorities Unit of the Multilateral Investment Fund.
Hon. Bruce A. Lehman
President
International Intellectual Property Institute
Bruce Lehman is President and CEO of the International Intellectual
Property Institute (IIPI), a non-partisan, not-for-profit
institution, based in Washington, D.C. The Institute fosters the use
of intellectual property rights as a mechanism for investment,
technology transfer and the creation of wealth in developing
countries of the world.
In addition Mr. Lehman is a member of the Policy Advisory Commission
to the Director General of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO). He is President of the U.S. Committee for the
WIPO and is a member of several corporate Boards, including the
Patent & Licensing Exchange, Inc. and Ford Technology Licensing,
Inc. He also serves as consultant to companies such as Oracle
Corporation and the Patent & License Exchange.
From August 1993 through 1998, Mr. Lehman served as Assistant
Secretary of Commerce and United States Commissioner of Patents and
Trademarks. As the Clinton Administration's primary representative
for intellectual property rights protection, he was a key player on
these issues, both domestically and internationally.
In 1994 the National Law Journal, the largest selling weekly
publication for lawyers, named Mr. Lehman its "Lawyer of the Year".
In 1997, another publication, the National Journal, named Mr. Lehman
one of the 100 most influential men and women in Washington. Mr.
Lehman's guidance on the development of the intellectual property
provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreement, now known as TRIPS (Trade
Related Aspects of Intellectual Property), has enabled American
creators and inventors to more easily protect their creations from
piracy throughout the world.
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. 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.
Samir
Mansour
The Jordanian Commercial Representative to the United States of
America
Mr. Samir Mansour is Jordan's Commercial Representative to the
United States. He holds a B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from the
University of Jordan, an MBA from Marymount University in Arlington,
Virginia and a Masters Degree in International Public Policy
(International Economics) from the school of Advanced International
Studies at the John Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Mansour held several positions at the Ministry of Supply in
Jordan including as Economic Researcher, Foreign Aid Program
Coordinator, Director of the Special Bureau and Director of Trade.
He was also the General Manager at the Arab Trading Group Inc.
Mr. Mansour lectured at the University of Jordan in the fields of
international organizations and their performance in Jordan and on
the roled of government in the marketing process.
He is a member of the Delta Epsilon Sigma, the National Scholastic
Honor Society and Delta Mu Delta, the National Honor Society in
Business Administration.
His Majesty King Abdullah II recently awarded him the Jordanian
Independence Medal of the Fifth Order for his role in the Free Trade
agreement signed between Jordan and the United States.
Sally Rood
Washington D.C. Representative,
Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC)
Sally Rood is the Washington Representative for the Federal
Laboratory Consortium, a Congressionally-chartered network for
technology transfer. Previously, Dr. Rood was Associate Director of
the National Technology Transfer Center's Washington Operations;
Manager of the Technology Information Services for a government
contracting firm and Project Director of the National Association of
Counties. In these positions, she worked for the Departments of
Defense, Energy, Commerce, and Transportation, and the National
Science Foundation. Earlier, as a university researcher and
consultant, she worked for a variety of interest groups including
the U.S. Conference of Mayors, National Council for Urban Economic
Development, Academy for State & Local Government.
Dr. Rood has a Ph.D. in Public Affairs, an MA in Science Policy, and
an MBA. She is on the editorial boards of 3 journals and has written
numerous journal articles, her first book was published in early
2000. She has also held elected positions with organizations such as
AAAS and the Technology Transfer Society.
Pierre
Rosseau
Senior Program Manager
South-East Consortium for International Development (SECID)
As senior program advisor Pierre Rosseau explores possible
involvements with target countries and develop working relationships
with new partners. In this regard he secured Memoranda of
Understanding with more than ten institutions of public interest,
including a university consortium in Europe, the United Nations
University and several research institutions worldwide. Dr. Rosseau
also coordinated the development of several SECID proposals and
expressions of interest for the World Bank, USAID, the Asian
Development and the Inter American Development Bank. Among those,
one component of the Haiti Forest and Parc Protection Technical
Assistance Project, funded by the World Bank, was awarded to SECID.
Under the Soil Fertility Initiative (SFI), an inter-agency effort
lead by the World Bank, special emphasis was given to efficient use
of indigenous natural resources. In particular Dr. Rosseau reviewed
and synthesized documents regarding the use of phosphate rock in
Africa and presented the results at the SFI workshop in Lome, Togo
in April 1997. He also has prepared a portfolio review for projects
in Latin America and the Caribbean, where he identified the most
efficient ways for implementing sustainable land management
techniques.
As the agronomist/Farming System/Watershed Management Specialist in
a four-member team, Dr. Rosseau has identified the proposed
Government of Haiti's policy toward agricultural intensification,
identified anticipated issues related to implementation and made
recommendations for their resolution.
Dr Rosseau obtained his Ph.D. in Soil Science from Auburn
University, Al. USA., his masters in Agronomy Soil Science in 1977
and his Bachelors of Science in Science Education and Post Graduate
Certificate in Tropical Agriculture from the University of Gembloux
in Belgium.
Ernesto
Rubio
Director, Development for Cooperation Bureau for Latin America and
the Caribbean, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Ernesto Rubio is a national of Uruguay. He was appointed to his
current position of Director, Cooperation for Development Bureau for
Latin America and the Caribbean, World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), in Geneva, on October 1, 1991. He has been with
WIPO since 1983.
Before joining WIPO he worked for the Government of Uruguay as the
head of the Science and Technology Department, International
Cooperation Division, Planning Secretariat, Presidency of the
Republic. He also worked as a researcher and advisor for the
National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in
Montevideo. He has represented Uruguay at several international
meetings and conferences. He has also worked as a consultant to the
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Dr. Rubio has a Doctorate of Law and Social Sciences degree from the
Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay and a certificate
of postgraduate studies on the administration of science and
technology policies at the Universidad del Salvador, in Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
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.
Professor Ryan in 1994 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.
James A. Severson
Immediate Past President and General Counsel
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
James A. Severson is the President of Cornell Research Foundation (CRF)
where he has overall responsibility for technology transfer from
Cornell's Ithaca campus and the Weill Medical College of Cornell
University in New York City. Prior to joining the CRF in October of
1999, Dr. Severson was the Director of Health Technologies, Office
of Patents & Technology Marketing at the University of Minnesota. In
this position he was responsible for technology transfer activity
from the University's Academic Health Center. Dr. Severson joined
Minnesota in 1990 as an assistant director, and was promoted to
director in 1995. From 1986 to 1990, he was with Amersham
Corporation and held positions in new technology assessment and
market development. At the time that he left Amersham he was the
Manager of Pharmaceutical Market Development.
Dr. Severson received a B.S. in Zoology and a Ph.D. in Physiology
from Iowa State University, and did postdoctoral research at the
University of Southern California. From 1980 to 1986 he held a
faculty appointment in the University of Southern California School
of Medicine.
Dr. Severson is currently the Immediate Past President of the
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), a national
organization of university technology transfer professionals.
Robert M. Sherwood
International Business Consultant
Robert Sherwood is an author and consultant who has devoted 20 years
to researching the role of intellectual property in developing
countries. He is at present advancing research on the relation of
judicial system performance to economic development.
Building from experience as an international corporate lawyer, Mr.
Sherwood has conducted in-country diagnoses of intellectual property
systems throughout Latin America for the Inter-American Development
Bank. This led to creation of a numerical system that permits
detailed assessment and comparison of national intellectual property
systems from the perspective of private investment, both foreign and
national. This approach to system analysis has been applied thus far
to 18 developing countries.
Supported by a private group of American companies, he has visited
Brazil for four separate weeks each year since 1986 to investigate
in depth the influence of intellectual property on a broad range of
activities there, writing extensively and conferring with government
officials and business leaders to present his findings. His first
book, Intellectual Property and Economic Development, is drawn
largely from this experience and comparable experience in Mexico.
Mr. Sherwood has consulted for the World Bank on matters of
intellectual property in relation to investment promotion in Costa
Rica and in relation to research in agriculture.
His commissioned writings include co-authorship with Carlos Primo
Braga, a World Bank economist, of a road map for negotiating
intellectual property arrangements in the Western Hemisphere.
He is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia University, and
Harvard Law School.
Wolfgang Starein
Director, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Division,
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Wolfgang Starein, a national of Germany, has been employed by the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) since 1989. At
present he is the Director of the SME division. Prior to this
position, he was the Department Head of the Industrial Property Law
section and Deputy Director of the Cooperation for Development (Law
and Industrial Property Information). In his position he was
responsible for advising and preparing draft legislation for
developing countries in the field of industrial property.
Mr. Starein holds a law degree from the University of Frankfurt in
Germany. From 1972 to 1979 he was a judge of the German district
court and the High Courts of Frankfurt and Linburg. From 1979 to
1982 he was Deputy Head of Division in the Economic and Commercial
Law Department of the German Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn. In
1983 he was appointed as a judge at the Federal Patent and Trademark
court in Munich.
Andy Y.
Sun
Executive Director
Asia-Pacific Legal Institute
Andy Y. Sun is the Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Legal
Institute (APLI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the
comparative legal studies between the U.S. and East Asian region.
In spring 2000 Mr. Sun was a Visiting Associate Professor to the
Institute of Technology and Innovation Management of the National
Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, teaching intellectual
property law and technology transfer related courses. From 1994 to
1998, he was the Earle H. and Suzanne Harbison Professorial Lecturer
in Intellectual Property Law and Associate Director of Dean
Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Studies of the George
Washington University Law School. In this capacity, he was in charge
of, among other things, the management of Asia/China related
programs at the Center.
Professor Sun has published a number of articles on issues related
to international intellectual property law and trade. He has also
lectured on the subjects in the United States, Asia and Europe,
including at the World Bank Group, Special Library Association,
World Affairs Council, the International Law Association, Hong Kong
Productivity Council, the Industrial Technology Research Institute
of Taiwan, Peking University of China and the Chinese Southwest
University of Political Science and Law.
Previously Professor Sun has served as Deputy Director for
Communications Outreach at the Republican National Committee and
Executive Director of the Chinese American Society. As a part of the
latter capacity, he was involved extensively in the research work on
international and comparative law related to Sino-American
relationship, including intellectual property laws.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1959, Mr. Sun is an attorney by
profession. He holds a degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from
National Chengchi University in Taiwan, Master of Comparative Laws (M.C.L.)
from the George Washington University and Juris Doctor (J.D.) from
University of Maryland.
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