Contributor Profiles
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Advokatfirmaet
Selmer DA
Støperigaten 2, PO Box 1324 Vika, 0112 Oslo, Norway
Tel +47 23 11 65 00 Fax
+47 23 11 65 01
Web www.selmerlaw.com
Other offices Trondheim
Are Herrem
Non-equity partner, Oslo
Email a.herrem@selmerlaw.com
Are Herrem is a partner within the intellectual property group. He regularly
advises on patent, trademarks and copyright law, as well as other intellectual
property rights. Mr Herrem focus on corporate transactions and is a member of
the board of a publishing house. He received his law degree from the University
of Oslo in 1990 and a LLM from Columbia University, New York in 1996. He has
previously worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Mr
Herrem is admitted to the Supreme Court.
Asbjørn Berg
Partner, Oslo
Email a.berg@selmerlaw.com
Asbjørn Berg is the partner leading the intellectual property group of
Selmer. His work encompasses all areas of intellectual property, sports and
entertainment law. Areas of particular experience include protection, licensing
and litigation of intellectual property, as well as marketing. Mr Berg received
his degree from the University of Oslo in 1982 and he plays lead guitar in the
company band.
Akin
Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
711 Louisiana, 1900 Pennzoil Place, South Tower, Houston,
Texas 77002
Tel +713 220 5800 Fax
+713 226 0822
Web www.akingump.com
Other offices Austin, Brussels, Dallas, Denver,
Houston, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia,
Riyadh, San Antonio, Washington, DC
Lester Hewitt
Partner, Houston
Email lhewitt@akingump.com
Lester L. Hewitt, BSME, LLB, RPA, is a member of the firmwide management committee
and co-head of the intellectual property practice. Mr Hewitt’s intellectual
property experience spans more than 30 years and includes serving as lead counsel
in numerous complex intellectual property cases involving patent, trademark,
copyright and trade secret issues. Mr Hewitt is also a frequent speaker on various
intellectual property matters and has authored many articles on intellectual
property law topics. Mr Hewitt is a former examiner for the US Patent and Trademark
Office and was a name partner in the Houston intellectual property law firm
of Pravel, Hewitt & Kimball, PC. Mr Hewitt is was also a treasurer of the
American Intellectual Property Law Association and former adjunct professor
at the University of Houston Law Center. Mr Hewitt is listed in the 2001-2002
edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Amat
& Vidal-Quadras Advocats
Pau Casals, 14, E-08021 Barcelona, Spain
Tel +34 93 321 10 53 Fax
+34 93 419 31 47
Dr Miguel Vidal-Quadras
Partner, Barcelona
Email mvq@quidasesores.com
Miguel Vidal-Quadras is an attorney-at-law. His practice focuses on counselling
and litigating intellectual property issues and unfair competition. He has a
PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona and coordinates and teaches on legal
protection of technology in post-graduate courses at the University of ESADE
in Barcelona and at the Centre of Patents of the Scientific Park of the University
of Barcelona. Dr Vidal-Quadras is member of AIPPI and LES and participates actively
in their working groups.
His areas of particular experience include pharmaceutical and competition issues related to certain specificities of patent and trademark law, as well as European Community issues with regards to licensing of intangible assets.
Appleby
Spurling & Kempe
Canons Court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton, HM 12, Bermuda
Tel +441 298 3542 Fax
+441 298 3372
Web www.ask.bm
Other offices Hong Kong, London, Cayman Islands,
Isle of Man, British Virgin Islands
Graham Wood
Associate, Bermuda
Email Gwood@ask.bm
Graham Wood is an associate and member of the Telecommunications & Technology
Team within the firm’s Corporate/Commercial Department. He practises in
the area of general corporate law, specialising in intellectual property law.
Examples of the types of transactions on which Graham has worked include the
drafting of specifications for a fully-automated online IP application software
package; assisting clients with the drafting of patent specifications for business
method patent applications in the US; drafting IT contracts; advising on IP
protection and restructuring; and writing numerous legal articles on IP and
IT.
Mr Wood joined Appleby Spurling & Kempe in 2000. Prior to that, in 1998, he was a partner and Head of the IT Team at Cobbetts (Solicitors) of Manchester where he became the first Chairman and founding member of Merit (Manchester) (an IT users organisation) and provided advice to a number of Internet businesses. Upon leaving he remained as a Consultant to Cobbetts on IT and e-commerce related matters.
Arent
Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn PLLC
1050 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, DC 20036
Tel +1 202 857 6000 Fax
+1 202 857 6395
Web www.arentfox.com
Elizabeth H. Cohen
Partner, Washington, DC
Email cohenelizabeth@arentfox.com
Elizabeth H. Cohen practices in the areas of trademarks, copyrights and other
IP. Her experience includes trademark litigation and advice, domestic and international
trademark filing and prosecution, false advertising and unfair competition,
brand management, domain name and internet issues, copyright laws, marketing
issues, agreements and licensing. She represents clients in trademark infringement
and unfair competition suits in federal courts nationwide and in trademark cancellation
and opposition proceedings before the Patent and Trademark Office. Ms Cohen
also has substantial experience in marketing licensing and other contracts,
and has worked with clients in a variety of industry segments, including automotive,
franchising, food and beverage, publishing, trade associations, software, internet,
real estate and hotel services sectors.
Ms Cohen is the manager of the firm’s Trademark Group. She has served as a member of the publications committee and the meetings committee of the International Trademark Association and is a member of the bars of New York, DC, Georgia and New Jersey, as well as many state and federal courts nationwide.
Edwin Komen
Partner, Washington, DC
Email komen.edwin@arentfox.com
Edwin Komen’s practice includes all aspects of copyright, trademark and
unfair competition law, with a particular emphasis on practice before the US
Copyright Office.
Ed often represents motion picture companies and other entertainment clients in transactional issues involving rights clearance and acquisition and negotiating and drafting agreements. In addition to work for the motion picture and television industries, Ed represents clients from all fields, including advertising, interactive software, online services, music, architecture, photography, toys making, clothing, textiles, carpets, industrial tools and products, automotive products, and virtually any other product or service whose value substantially depends on copyright and trademark protection.
Ed has also counseled on international copyright treaties and how they interact with domestic copyright laws and on the bilateral copyright relations the US has with many foreign countries.
Anthony Lupo
Partner, Washington, DC
Email lupo.anthony@arentfox.com
Anthony Lupo leads the firm’s E-commerce/Advertising Group. He specialises
in e-commerce, intellectual property and entertainment law, and has significant
experience in representing online and conventional businesses in all aspects
of conducting business over the internet. His practice covers intellectual property,
entertainment, advertising, product recall and CPSC, international, distance
learning, technology transfer, telemedicine and licensing. Mr Lupo has been
named one of the leading technology and internet attorneys by a number of publications
including Internet World and PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Counsel. He
often appears on CourtTV and National Public Radio as an internet legal expert
and has been frequently quoted by newspapers and magazines, including The New
York Times, Industry Standard, and The Los Angeles Times. He has also testified
before Congress on the issue of e-commerce.
Arthur
Cox
Earlsfort Centre, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel +353 1 618 0000 Fax
+353 1 618 0618
Web www.arthurcox.com
Email mail@arthurcox.com
Other offices Belfast, London, New York
Rob Corbet
Senior Associate, Dublin
Rob Corbet received a Bachelor of Business and Legal Studies Degree from University
College Dublin in 1996. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1999 and joined Arthur
Cox in 2000 where he is a senior associate in the firm’s Technology Group.
Rob is also a community trademark attorney. He lectures and publishes extensively
on intellectual property and technology issues, including for the Law Society
of Ireland. Rob has honorary membership in the Association of Fellow and Legal
Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies, Vienna.
Rob advises established and start-up clients on a range of intellectual property, software, hardware, e-business and data protection issues.
Practice areas: Intellectual property, technology, data protection, commercial.
Professor Robert Clark
Consultant, Dublin
Robert Clark graduated with a BA from the University of Northumbria, with an
LLM from the University of London and obtained his PhD from University College
Dublin and a BL from the Honourable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin. He
is a consultant with Arthur Cox, and teaches at University College Dublin. Robert
is a member of the Patent Office Users Council and the Chairman of the Copyright
Association of Ireland, and is the Irish Representative of the Copyright Experts
Group (European Commission). He is the author of many publications on intellectual
property, information technology, data protection and contract law and lectures
and speaks extensively on these areas.
Professor Clark advises a wide range of clients specifically in the areas of intellectual property (particularly copyright), information technology (with a special expertise in data protection) and contract law.
Practice areas: Intellectual property, information technology, commercial contracts
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Baker
& McKenzie
32 avenue Kléber – BP 2112, 75771 Paris Cedex
16, France
Tel +33 1 44 17 53 00 Fax
33 1 44 17 45 75
Web www.bakernet.com
Jean-François Bretonnière
Partner, Paris
Email jf.bretonniere@bakernet.com
JF Bretonniere is a member of the Paris Bar (Avocat à la Cour) and a
Partner of Baker & McKenzie since 1983.
He founded and heads the Intellectual Property practice in the firm’s Paris office. Since joining Baker & McKenzie, JF Bretonniere has concentrated his practice in national and cross-border IP issues (contentious and non-contentious issues). His practice focuses on the acquisition, protection, enforcement and exploitation of IP rights (trademarks, patents, designs and copyright, including internet related advice and domain names disputes); drafting and negotiating IP related agreements (research & development, technology transfer, franchising, licensing, OEM).
He also advises in relation with complex licensing projects, including transactions concerning IP assets in international mergers and acquisitions and similar transactions.
JF Bretonnière’s practice includes projects within the EU and in the Asia-Pacific region (where he practised more than 10 years) concerning the exploitation of IP assets through joint projects such as R&D, joint ventures, co-development and sale and purchase or pledging of IP assets.
Baker
& McKenzie
Hirsch gebouw, Leidseplein 29, 1017 PS, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Tel +31 20 5517 555 Fax
+31 20 6267949
Web www.bakernet.com
Alexander Odle
Partner, Amsterdam
Email alexander.r.t.odle@bakernet.com
Alexander Odle is a partner with Baker & McKenzie’s Amsterdam office.
He specialises in intellectual property law, communications and media law. He
has represented many multinationals in various industries with respect to prosecution,
protection and enforcement of their intellectual property rights, defamation
actions and advertising claims.
Monique van Herksen
Partner, Amsterdam
Email Monique.van.Herksen@bakernet.com
Monique van Herksen is a partner with Baker & McKenzie’s Amsterdam
office. She specialises in international taxation with an emphasis on transfer
pricing, exchange of information and the competent authority process. She advises
and represents many multinationals as to tax matters involving the international
transfer and use of intellectual property.
Banner
& Witcoff Ltd
1001 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-4597
Tel +1 202 824 3000 Fax
+1 202 824 3001
28 State Street, 28th Floor, Boston, MA 02109-1775
Tel + 1 617 720 9600 Fax
+1 617 720 9601
Web www.bannerwitcoff.com
Other offices Chicago, IL, Portland, OR
William J. Fisher
Shareholder, Washington, DC
Email wfisher@Bannerwitcoff.com
William J. Fisher is a shareholder resident in the firm’s Washington,
DC office. He earned a BS and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute
of Technology, Chicago and a JD from Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark,
and he is a regisered patent attorney. He practices a range of intellectual
property law, typically in the chemical and mechanical arts. His practice has
included client counselling, patent prosecution including interferences, licensing
and litigation.
Mr Fisher has particular experience in freedom-to-operate, infringement, validity, patentability opinions and patent preparation and prosecution. He has expertise in organic chemistry, including pharmaceuticals, and inorganic chemistry.
Christopher J. Verni
Associate, Boston
Email cverni@bannerwitcoff.com
Christopher J. Verni is a registered patent attorney who has a broad range of
experience in intellectual property matters. He draws upon his industry experience
in his practice, which emphasises procuring intellectual property rights for
clients in the areas of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology and counselling
clients regarding their rights.
He graduated with a BS in Chemistry from the University of Rochester and a JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center.
Becerril,
Coca & Becerril SC
Thiers 251, 9th to 14th floors,
Col. Anzures, 11590 Mexico City
Tel +5255 5254 8730 Fax
+5255 5263 8731
Web www.bcb.com.mx
Other offices Guadalajara, Mexico
Armando Gomez
Legal Director
Email agomez@bcb.com.mx
Armando Gomez is director of our Legal Department. He graduated with a law degree
from the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), and has Diplomas
in Corporate Law and Competition Law, as well as in Legal English for International
Attorneys. He is in charge of all legal activities of the firm, operational
and corporate, and is also head of our Enforcement and Litigation team and leads
our Trademark and Copyright department.
Areas of particular experience include trademarks, copyrights contracts and all IP-related litigation causes, including anti-counterfeiting, as well as licensing and technology transfer agreements.
Practice areas: Pharmaceutical industry and consumer products.
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Cermák
Horejs Myslil
Národní 32, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Tel +420 296 167 111 Fax
+420 224 946 724
Web www.cermakhorejsmyslil.cz
Other office Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Dr Antonin Krízek
Associate, Prague
Email akrizek@apk.cz
Dr Krízek was born on 11 March 1953. He graduated in 1977 from Kiev State
University, Faculty of International Law and International Relations, Kiev,
the Ukraine. In 1981 he received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Faculty
of Law, Charles University, Prague. From 1978 to 1990 he was the in-house lawyer
of KOOSPOL Ltd and from 1990 to 1991 he was the in-house lawyer of the Travel
Agency ×CEDOK. In 1992 he was admitted as an attorney of commercial law
and was a partner with Bubník and Myslil from 1994 to 2000. Since 2001
he has been an associate of ×Cermák Hor×ejs× Myslil.
He speaks Czech, English, German and Russian.
Practice areas: Commercial and business law, intellectual property, corporate law.
CMS
Strommer Reich-Rohrwig Karasek Hainz
Ebendorferstrasse 3, A-1010 Wien, Austria
Tel +43 1 40 443 0 Fax
+43 1 40 443 9000
Web www.cmslegal.at
Dr Egon Engin-Deniz
Partner, Vienna
Email egon.engin-deniz@cmslegal.at
Since 1997 Dr Egon Engin-Deniz has been a partner of the firm, which is part
of the CMS trans-national legal services network. He specialises in IP work,
both contentious and non-contentious, mainly in the fields of information technology,
consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. His litigation work includes
the criminal prosecution of IP violations.
Mr Engin-Deniz advises a wide range of companies in both the public and private sector on all legal aspects of IP-related issues. Through representing clients in the media business he has acquired wide experience with regard to the conditional access rule and domain dispute resolution.
He holds regular seminars on copyright and advertising violations in the pharmaceuticals sector and has written articles on IP issues. He is a member of the International Trademarks Association, the Deutsche Studienvereinigung für Kartellrecht, eV and MARQUES Cyberspace team.
Mr Engin-Deniz holds a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna (1990) and is a member of the Vienna and International Bar Associations.
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Dallal
& Associates
3rd Circle, Jabal Amman, Anani Centre, 6th Floor
PO Box 741 Amman (11118) Jordan
Fax +962 6 4642468
Email dallalaw@go.com.jo
Mubadda Issa Dallal
Managing Partner, Amman
Mubadda is the managing partner of Dallal & Associates and has been since
1997. Having obtained his LLB (with honours) from Leeds University in 1992,
he pursued his studies at the University College of London, University of London
and obtained his LLM with merits in International Business Law in 1993. His
main practice areas are foreign investment, corporate, project financing, banking,
e-banking, government contracts, privatisation, intellectual property, agency
and distributorship, drafting and reviewing agreements and commercial and civil
litigation.
Throughout his career Mubadda has been advising world leading companies such as Coca-Cola, Gillette, Duracell, KLM, France Telecom, Caterpillar, Kier Plc, Citibank NA, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Airbus Industrie, Nomura International, American Express, Foreign and Colonial Middle East Emerging Fund and Middle East Broadcasting Corporation, among others
Danubia
16 Bajcsy Zsilinszky út, Budapest H-1051, Hungary
Tel +36 1 411 8700 Fax
+36 1 338 2304
Web www.danubia.com
Michael Lantos
Partner, Budapest
Email lantos@danubia.com
Michael Lantos has been the elected managing partner of the firm since 1990.
He graduated with an Msc. in electronic engineering and a degree in economics
from the Budapest Technical University and obtained a registration as a patent
attorney at the Hungarian Patent Office. In addition to his management duties,
he deals with complex IP litigation cases concern-ing both patent and trademark
matters. These cases concern patent and trademark infringements, patent invalidation
cases, trademark cancellations and the enforcement of appellations of origin
rights.
Areas of particular experience include patents concerning batteries, battery chargers, medical instruments and devices, trademark prosecution and preparing opinions in patent and trademark matters.
He is the president of LES Hungary, the vice president of the Hungarian Trademark Association and member of a large number of international and national professional associations concerning IP matters.
Day
Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder LLP
20300 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Suite 400, Cupertino,
CA 95014
Tel +1 408 873 0110 Fax
+1 408 873 0220
Web www.daycasebeer.com
James R. Batchelder
Partner, Cupertino
Email batchelderjr@daycasebeer.com
Jim is one of the firm’s founding partners. He has principally litigated
issues of patent, copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition and
breach of technology licensing agreements. He also has assisted in interference
proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In recent
years, Jim’s practice has included the representation of Sun Microsystems
in its dispute against Microsoft regarding the JAVA technology; Amgen in its
licensing dispute against Johnson & Johnson regarding the patented biotechnology
pharmaceutical, erythropoietin; Genencor in its patent infringement litigation
against Novo Nordisk regarding mutant subtilsin; Perkin-Elmer/Applied Biosystems
in its patent infringement litigation against Pharmacia regarding products and
processes used to synthesize DNA/RNA; and QUALCOMM in its patent infringement
litigation against GTE Wireless regarding system determination technology for
wireless telephones; and in its patent infringement litigations against Maxim,
Conexant and Skyworks regarding radio frequency chip technology.
Practice areas: IP litigation, antitrust and unfair competition litigation
Krista Carter
Associate, Cupertino
Email kcarter@daycasebeer.com
Krista joined the firm as an associate in May 2003. She received her JD and
High-Tech Law Certificate from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2002
and BA in Political Science in 1998 at the University of Nebraska. While in
law school, Krista served as a staff writer and editor for The Advocate, received
the Pro Bono award for dedication to community service and was elected President
of Women & Law, a student-run organisation dedicated to raising awareness
of women’s legal, political and social issues.
Prior to joining the legal profession, Krista served in the United States Air Force as a Russian Linguist and Intelligence Analyst.
Practice areas: Intellectual property litigation, antitrust and unfair competition litigation
Ryan Kent
Associate, Cupertino
Email rkent@daycasebeer.com
Ryan Kent is an associate at Day, Casebeer, Madrid, & Batchelder, LLP. He
joined the firm in 2001, after clerking for the Hon. Tena Campbell, United States
District Court, District of Utah. Ryan received his JD from Yale Law School
in 2001 and his BA in History from the University of California at San Diego.
In the last year, Ryan’s practice has included the representation of Amgen
in its patent infringement suit against Hoechst Marion Roussel regarding the
patented biotechnology, erythropoietin, and Lilly ICOS in its dispute against
Pfizer regarding the use of inhibitors of phosphodiesterase sub-type V to treat
erectile dysfunction.
Practice areas: Intellectual property litigation
De
Keersmaeker Vromans
Wetstraat 67 Rue de la Loi , 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel +32 2 235 03 05 Fax
+32 2 235 03 06
Christine De Keersmaeker
Partner, Brussels
Email cdekeersmaeker@dkv-law.be
Christine De Keersmaeker is a partner with De Keersmaeker Vromans a firm specialising,
among other things, in the field of IP, media and entertainment. She is a graduate
of the University of Brussels (KU Brussel, 1977) and of Leuven (KU Leuven, 1980),
and was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1982.
She has practiced intellectual property law, with an emphasis on copyright law, media and entertainment, as well as trade practices and advertising. Her practice includes both litigation and commercial/transactional advice in these areas.
She publishes regularly on these subjects and is chief editor of the media law review Mediarecht, an edition of Kluwer Editorial since 1994. She is, inter alia, Vice-President of the Commission Entertainment Law of the Union Internationale des Avocats.
Dickstein
Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP
2101 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037-1526
Tel +1 202 785 9700 Fax
+1 202 887-0689
Web www.dsmo.com
1177 Avenue of the Americas, 41st Floor, New York,
NY 10036-2714
Tel +1 212 896 5471 Fax
+1 212 997 9880
James W. Brady, Jr.
Partner, Washington, DC
Email bradyj@dsmo.com
James Brady is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group in
Washington, DC. He has a BS degree in engineering, with highest distinction,
from The Pennsylvania State University and a JD from Cornell Law School.
James Brady has served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and on the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Bar Association. He focuses his practice on patent law pertaining to litigation, opinions and client counselling, patent procurement and business transactions. He is active in all areas of intellectual property and concentrates primarily on pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical inventions.
Practice areas: Intellectual property, Technology Group; procurement, litigation, counselling
Edward Meilman
Partner, New York
Email meilmane@dsmo.com
Edward Meilman is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group
in New York City. He graduated with an AB degree in chemistry from the University
College of Arts and Science, New York University and with a JD degree from New
York University School of Law.
He focuses his practice on intellectual property as it pertains to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and unfair competition. In the area of patent procurement, he concentrates primarily on chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology matters, but in the areas of litigation, counselling, licensing and acquisition of rights, he handles matters pertaining to all technologies.
Practice areas: Intellectual property, Technology Group; procurement, litigation, counselling.
Dorsey
& Whitney LLP Registered
Associated Offices with Kyo Sogo Law Offices
Shiroyama MT Bldg 9F, 4-1-17, Toranomon,
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan
Tel +81 3 5473 5150 Fax
+81 3 5473 5199
Web www.dorsey.com
Noriko Higashizawa
Partner, Tokyo
Email higashizawa.noriko@dorsey.com
Noriko Higashizawa is a partner in charge of the IP-related matters in Dorsey
& Whitney’s Tokyo office. She graduated from Keio University, Faculty
of Law in 1982. She later earned her LLM from Duke Law School in 1994 before
working for Howrey & Simon in Washington, DC and Becker, Glynn, Melamed
& Muffly in New York.
Her areas of particular experience include e-commerce and internet advice, including brand protection and advice on advertising issues, technology transfer and licensing agreements and patent and copyright litigation, as well as the provision of general corporate advice to foreign clients that are entering or doing business in the Japanese market.
Practice areas: Internet and high-tech law, copyright law, privacy law, licensing, joint ventures, general corporate and transaction matters, patent, copyright and other IP litigations, international litigation and arbitration
Kunihiro Sumida
Associate, Tokyo
Email sumida.kunihiro@dorsey.com
Kunihiro Sumida is an associate in charge of IP-related matters in Dorsey &
Whitney’s Tokyo office. He graduated from Meiji University, Faculty of
Law in 1992.
His areas of particular experience include trademark protection, including brand
protection and advice on advertising issues and patent and copyright litigation,
as well as the provision of general corporate advice to foreign clients that
are entering or doing business in Japan.
Practice areas: IP litigation, privacy law, mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters
Dorsey & Whitney
21 Wilson Street, London EC2M 2TD, UK
Tel + 44 20 7588 0800 Fax
+44 20 7588 0555
Ian Craig
Partner, London
Email craig.ian@dorsey.com
Ian is a partner in the London office of Dorsey & Whitney. Ian is an intellectual
property lawyer with a technical background, and handles both contentious and
non-contentious IP matters from the wider issues of how a company can maximise
the potential of its IP assets to heavy weight patent litigation. Ian's clients
are in a number of different industrial fields from biotech and medical instruments
to software. Ian teaches at both Anglia Polytechnic University and at Cambridge
University on IP issues.
Drinker
Biddle & Reath LLP
One Logan Square, 18th and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia,
PA 19103-6996
Tel +1 215 988 2700 Fax
+1 215 988 2757
Web www.drinkerbiddle.com
Other offices New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Princeton, Florham Park, NJ, Berwyn, PA and Wilmington, DE
Stephen J. Meyers
Partner, Philadelphia
Email stephen.meyers@dbr.com
Steve Meyers is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at Drinker Biddle
& Reath LLP. Mr Meyers’ intellectual property practice specialises
in trademarks, unfair competition, copyrights, rights of publicity and trade
secrets for clients in both established and emerging fields. He is a co-author
of What the General Practitioner Should Know About Trademarks and Copyright,
and has written articles for national publications on such topics as merchandising
licenses, copyrights and the right of publicity.
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is a full-service national law firm, with more than 450 attorneys committed to solving complex legal problems for businesses and other clients. Established in 1849, the firm maintains offices in Philadelphia, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Florham Park and Princeton, NJ, Berwyn, PA and Wilmington, DE.
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Eitan,
Pearl, Latzer & Cohen-Zedek
2 Gav Yam Center, 7 Shenkar Street, Herzelia 46733, Israel
Tel +972 9 970 9092 Fax
+972 9 970 9001
Other offices New York, NY
Mark S. Cohen
Senior Partner
Email Markc@eplc.com
Mr Cohen is a senior partner and chair of the Life Science Practice. He is a
registered patent attorney in the United States and is experienced in patent
prosecution in the pharmaceutical, chemical, biological and medical device area,
licensing matters and client counselling. He is admitted to the bars in New
York, New Jersey and Israel. Mr Cohen is currently a contributing editor to
the Journal of Biolaw and Business and a strategic advisory board member of
the University Of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute – Limbach Entrepreneurial
Center. He lectures on patent issues in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical
area in the United States.
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Fish
& Neave
1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Tel +1 212 596 9000 Fax
+1 212 596 9090
Web www.fishneave.com
Vincent N. Palladino
Partner, New York
Email vpalladino@fishneave.com
Vincent N. Palladino is a partner in the New York office of Fish & Neave.
He has practised trademark, copyright and unfair competition law since graduating
from Columbia University School of Law in 1975. He received his BA from Yale
University in 1972.
Mr Palladino’s practice involves litigation, counseling, licensing, transactional work and prosecution.
Mr Palladino is listed in the 2003/4 edition of the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Trademarks), is a member of the advisory board and former editor-in-chief of The Trade Mark Reporter, serves on the board of editors of The Intellectual Property Strategist and is the author of more than 40 book chapters and articles.
He is a former board member and is active in the International Trademark Association. He also belongs to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association, the Copyright Society of the USA and the New York Intellectual Property Law Association.
Susan Progoff
Partner, New York
Email sprogoff @fishneave.com
Susan Progoff is a partner at Fish & Neave in New York City where she specialises
in trademark, copyright and unfair competition law. Her practice includes all
aspects of these areas, including litigation, corporate transactions, licensing,
prosecution and counselling clients, both in the United States and internationally.
She has been involved in a number of major lawsuits in the trademark, copyright
and unfair competition fields. Ms Progoff has also lectured and written extensively
on topics in these areas. She is active in the International Trademark Association
and is the former chair and a current member of the New York City Bar Association’s
Committee on Trademark and Unfair Competition.
W. Edward Bailey
Partner, New York
Email ebailey@fishneave.com
W. Edward Bailey has served on the firm’s managing committee and for almost
six years as the firm’s Managing Partner. Mr Bailey’s practice has
primarily focused on the areas of patent infringement litigation and patent
interferences. He has also done copyright, trademark, trade dress and trade
secret litigation. He has served as lead trial counsel in numerous cases involving
diverse technologies and has spoken on intellectual properties issues at continuing
legal education programmes conducted by the American Intellectual Property Law
Association and The Practicing Law Institute.
Mr Bailey is listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2003-2004 (11th Edition) and profiled in the 2003/4 edition of The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Patents). He is a member of the American Bar Association, New York Intellectual Property Law Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association and Federal Circuit Bar Association.
A. Joy Arnold
Partner, New York
Email jarnold@fishneave.com
A. Joy Arnold is a partner at Fish & Neave where she specialises in complex
chemical, pharmaceutical and medical device intellectual property cases. She
has represented numerous clients in the pharmaceutical, consumer healthcare
and food industries and has substantial trial experience in a number of high-profile
litigations.
Ms Arnold is a member of the American Bar Association, National Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Federal Circuit Bar Association. Her extensive list of publications includes several articles relating to the Hatch-Waxman Act.
Prior to beginning her practice, Ms. Arnold worked as a research scientist for the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and for GlaxoSmithKline. Ms Arnold is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania Law School where she was a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her graduate degree from Wesleyan University.
Staci L. Julie
Associate, New York
Email sjulie@fishneave.com
Staci L. Julie is an associate in the New York office of Fish & Neave where
she specialises in patent litigation across a broad range of technologies, including
the chemical and pharmaceutical fields. Her list of publications includes several
articles relating to the Hatch-Waxman Act. She is a graduate of the Georgetown
University Law Center and received her undergraduate degree from the University
of Delaware. Ms. Julie is resident in the firm’s New York office.
Fish &
Richardson PC
45 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 2800, New York, NY 10111
Tel +1 212 765 5070 Fax
+1 212 258 2291
Web www.fr.com
Other offices Boston, Washington, DC, Delaware,
Minneapolis, Dallas, Silicon Valley, San Diego
William Stern
Principal, New York
Email stern@fr.com
William Stern is a Principal in the Corporate and Securities Group. He graduated
with a BA in History from Brown University and a law degree and a master’s
degree in business from The University of Chicago. His practice emphasises a
broad range of corporate transactions with a focus on public and private sales
of securities, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He has particular
expertise with computer hardware and software, life sciences, Internet and new
media companies. He is admitted to the bar in New York, Connecticut and Colorado.
Practice areas: Corporate and securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance
Foley
& Lardner
3000 K Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20007
Tel +1 202 672 5300 Fax
+1 202 672 5399
Web www.foley.com
Stephen B. Maebius
Partner, Washington, DC
Stephen B. Maebius is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Foley &
Lardner, where he is the leader of the Nanotechnology Industry Team. Mr Maebius
serves on the advisory board of the NanoBusiness Alliance. He previously worked
as a patent examiner in the biotechnology group of the US Patent Office. Mr
Maebius regularly operates in Japan, working with the firm’s Tokyo office.
Mr Maebius lectures on intellectual property topics in the US and abroad and has authored a number of articles in the field. In addition, he testified at the 2002 FTC/DOJ hearings on the “Implications of Competition and Patent Law and Policy”.
Mr Maebius graduated from Cornell University (BS biology, 1989) and the George Washington University Law School (JD, 1994). Mr Maebius is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the State of Virginia and before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the US Supreme Court and the US Patent Office.
Dr Steven Rutt
Associate, Washington, DC
J. Steven Rutt is an associate in the Intellectual Property Department of Foley
& Lardner’s Washington, DC, office. A member of the Chemical, Biotechnology
and Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Groups and the Nanotechnology
and Emerging Companies/Venture Capital Industry Teams, his practice includes
patent litigation support, licensing, counselling and patent prosecution matters,
with emphases in the materials, polymer, nanotechnology and pharmaceutical arts.
Dr Rutt is also an active member, writer and conference presenter with respect
to nanotechnology and the law.
His experience also includes coordinating the delivery of all aspects of IP legal services to young companies and representing them in their transactional negotiations. His legal papers have been published in National Law Journal, IP Asia, American Laboratory News, and Mealey’s Litigation Reports on subjects including nanotechnology, integrating patent and trademark portfolios, international aspects of indirect infringement and litigating defective patents. He holds a doctorate in chemistry and he is admitted to practice before the US Patent Office, as well as in the District of Columbia and in Virginia.
Frommer
Lawrence & Haug LLP
745 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10151, United States
Tel +1 212 588 0800 Fax
+1 212 588 0500
Web www.flhlaw.com
Other office San Diego
William S. Frommer
Founding Partner, New York
Email wfrommer@flhlaw.com
William S. Frommer is one of the founding partners of Frommer Lawrence &
Haug LLP. He has extensive experience in all aspects of patent and trademark
law and particular expertise in electronics, computers and software in the patent
field.
Mr Frommer represents a number of major electronics and computer multinational corporations, as well as large companies in the biotechnology field. Mr Frommer is involved with counselling and licensing, and supervises a large international patent and trademark preparation practice. He works closely with emerging companies to assist them in their developments and licensing of new technology and in attracting capital.
He is presently active in the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section, where he has chaired an ad hoc sub-committee on Patent and Trademark Office practice, the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, the International Bar Association, the International Trademark Association and the International Patent and Trademark Association. He has lectured on legal points of interest and new developments in the United States patent laws.
William F. Lawrence
Founding Partner, New York
William F. Lawrence is one of the founding partners of Frommer Lawrence &
Haug LLP. Mr Lawrence has more than 25 years experience in the chemical, biotech,
mechanical and computer fields. He represents a number of large and small international
corporations in all IP areas. Mr Lawrence is involved with counselling, licensing,
opinion and appellate work, and supervises a large international patent and
trademark application practice. He is an expert in patent interference proceedings
and conducts other inter partes proceedings, such as trademark oppositions and
litigation in district courts. He works closely with companies doing biological
and chemical research to conclude complicated licensing deals and to form joint
research ventures between universities and industry. He also conducts due diligence
studies for emerging growth technologies and has lectured on a variety of IP
topics. His extensive trademark experience has successfully guided clients through
difficult trademark and domain name disputes and he is relied upon by many companies
to plan and execute worldwide trademark and domain name programmes.
Thomas J. Kowalski
Partner, New York
Email tkowalski@flhlaw.com
Thomas J. Kowalski is a founding partner of the firm. He graduated from New
York University with a BS in Chemistry. His studies fulfilled the requirements
for the American Chemistry Society certification of the degree, and included
Graduate Biochemistry, Graduate Inorganic Chemistry, Genetics, Computer Science
and Laboratory Research. He was also awarded a National Science Foundation Grant
for Laboratory Research; the results of which were published in the Journal
of Organic Chemistry.
Mr Kowalski was awarded the degree of Juris Doctor cum laude from St. John’s University. He has been in practice for over 17 years. His practice includes biotech, chemical and medical apparatus patent prosecution, licensing, counselling, interferences and litigation. Mr Kowalski is admitted to practise before the US Patent and Trademark Office, the Courts of the New York State, the US Federal Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York, the Federal Circuit and the US Supreme Court. He has authored or co-authored articles that have appeared in various journals.
Robert E. Colletti
Associate, New York
Email rcolletti@flhlaw.com
Mr Colletti’s practice is primarily focused on litigating patent and trademark
cases at both the district court and appellate level. His patent litigation
experience has involved the pharmaceutical industry and related Food and Drug
Administration topics including the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act. Mr Colletti’s
patent litigation experience further includes cases involving semiconductor
technologies. His practice also includes due diligence work and client counselling.
Mr Colletti is a graduate of Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, receiving a BSEE in Engineering. He received his JD at Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York.
Mr Colletti is admitted to practise in the State of New York. He is also admitted to practise before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States District court for the Southern District of New York.
Stephen J. Lieb
Associate, New York
Email slieb@flhlaw.com
Stephen J. Lieb is an associate in the New York office of Frommer Lawrence &
Haug LLP.
Mr Lieb specialises in patent litigation. In addition, he prepares and prosecutes
patent applications and advises clients on intellectual property issues covering
a wide variety of technologies including electronics, integrated circuit design
and fabrication, digital communications, cryptography and on-line financial
systems.
Mr Lieb has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Union College and a Master’s
degree in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received
his law degree from Fordham University. Mr Lieb is a member of the New York
State Bar and is registered to practise before the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Samuel H. Megerditchian
Associate, New York
Email smegerditchian@flhlaw.com
Sam Megerditchian is an associate at the New York office of Frommer Lawrence
& Haug LLP. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Iona
College and a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from Polytechnic University.
He was awarded his Juris Doctor degree from St. John’s University School
of Law, where he was on the Dean’s List and an editor of the Law Review.
Sam Megerditchian is admitted to practise before the Courts of the State of New York, the United States Federal Court for the Southern District of New York, and is registered to practise before the US Patent and Trademark Office. His practice includes all aspects of patent law, including patent strategy and procurement (US and international), client counselling, opinion work (non-infringement, invalidity and validity studies) and inter partes proceedings including interferences. Further, Sam Megerditchian has worked in diverse technologies, for example, pharmaceuticals, immunochemicals, agrochemicals, herbicides, pesticides, synthetic organic polymers, gene therapy, DNA purification devices, transdermal delivery systems, biocides, semiconductors, electrical devices and textiles.
Fross Zelnick
Lehrman & Zissu PC
866 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
Tel +1 212 813 5900 Fax
+1 212 813 5901
Web www.frosszelnick.com
Jason M. Vogel
Associate, New York
Email jvogel@frosszelnick.com
Jason Vogel is an associate with Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, PC, where
his practice is focused on US and international trademark prosecution, enforcement,
portfolio management and transactional work. He is an Adjunct Professor of Advanced
Trademark Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and has lectured on the
United States' Accession to the Madrid Protocol and on the Enlargement of the
European Community Trademark system. He is active in the International Trademark
Association and New York Intellectual Property Lawyers Association. He received
his JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, summa cum laude, in 1999.
Fulbright
& Jaworski LLP
First American Center, 600 Congress Avenue,
Suite 2400, Austin, Texas 78701-3271
Tel +1 512 474 5201 Fax
+1 512 536 4598
Web www.fulbright.com
Other offices Dallas, TX, Hong Kong, China, Houston,
TX, London, UK, Los Angeles, CA, Minneapolis, MN, Munich, Germany, New York,
NY, San Antonio, TX, Washington, DC
Jeffrey D. Mills
Senior Counsel, Austin
Email jdmills@fulbright.com
Jeff Mills is Senior Counsel in the firm's Intellectual Property & Technology
Department. Mr Mills' practice involves IP litigation, licensing and transactions.
Prior to joining Fulbright, he practiced in London, UK where he was partner-in-charge
of international IP for a large US law firm. Before entering private practice
Mr Mills served as law clerk to the Honourable Helen W. Nies, Chief Judge, United
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He graduated with a BA in History
and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and with a
JD also from the University of Michigan.
Mr Mills’ has extensive experience representing clients in matters involving technology and IP rights across a broad spectrum of technologies, from the internet to satellites and from automotive window glass to semiconductors. This experience includes IP audits, patent and trademark litigation and licensing, technology transfer agreements and technology-related disputes, including arbitration and ADR.
Practice areas: IP litigation and licensing, technology transfer, ADR and arbitration.
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Gilbert
+ Tobin
2 Park Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Tel +61 2 9263 4000 Fax
+61 2 9263 4111
Web www.gtlaw.com.au
Brendan Coady
Partner, Sydney
Email bcoady@gtlaw.com.au
Brendan Coady is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at Gilbert and
Tobin. He has over 10 years experience as a commercial lawyer dealing with technology
transactions and all aspects of the commercialisation of IP.
Brendan has been involved at a strategic level in a wide range of commercial transactions in the communications and technology industries. These have included major international telecommunications joint ventures, advising on the acquisition and disposal of communications and technology assets and negotiating a range of deals in the communications and infrastructure sectors.
He is also a director of realiseIP, a strategic alliance between Gilbert + Tobin, ICMG, a Palo Alto-based intellectual property consulting group, and Atrico (formerly Cyberresearch), a Perth-based technology consulting firm. realiseIP has been established to advise companies on the management of their intangible assets. Brendan is the co-author of the recently published Ideas, Innovation and Intangible Assets – benchmarking study of the extraction of value from intellectual property.
Kate Harrison
Partner, Sydney
Email kharrison@gtlaw.com.au
Kate Harrison is a specialist Intellectual Property lawyer, who has been a partner
at Gilbert & Tobin since 1998. Gilbert & Tobin has won the Lawyers Weekly
Award for the Leading Australian IP Practice in 2001 and again in 2003.
Kate has extensive experience in acting for clients to enforce their IP rights, and has worked on copyright and trademark infringement actions, and other Federal Court IP enforcement litigation, including actions under the recently enacted digital copyright laws in Australia.
Kate has conducted numerous successful Anton Pillar civil raids against counterfeiters, and Gilbert & Tobin’s IP Group has been instrumental in the development of new procedures enabling IP rights owners to bring enforcement more quickly and cheaply against multiple parties in different locations.
Kate also advises clients on complex licensing and IP transactions. She has extensive experience drafting licensing and distribution agreements for advanced technology companies, content licensing agreements for clients such as major record companies and pay TV channel providers, as well as web development agreements and patent licences, and a variety of other agreements. Kate also advises clients on aspects of trademark protection and licensing, and avenues of legal protection against passing off.
In addition to her Australian law degree, Kate holds a Masters in Law from Columbia Law School, and practised as an attorney in New York for some years. She also holds a doctorate from the University of Sydney. Prior to joining Gilbert & Tobin Kate had been the Founding Director of the Communications Law Centre at the University of New South Wales, and had also worked as a Ministerial advisor.
Goodmans
LLP
250 Yonge Street, Suite 2400, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2M6
Canada
Tel +1 416 979 2211 Fax
+ 1 416 979 1234
Web www.goodmans.ca
Other offices Vancouver, Hong Kong
H.B. Radomski
Partner, Toronto
Email hradomski@goodmans.ca
Harry Radomski is the head of Goodmans’s intellectual property group.
Harry completed his BComm (1972) and LLB (1975) at the University of Toronto
and his LLM (1976) at the University of California at Berkeley. Harry was awarded
the Treasurer’s Medal for standing first in the Ontario Bar Admission
course on his call to the bar in 1978. He has been a partner with Goodmans since
1987 and is presently a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
Harry’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and advice regarding all IP issues. Harry frequently appears before Canadian appellate courts and the Supreme Court of Canada on matters concerning a broad range of IP issues, and particularly patent-related matters.
In 1999, Managing Intellectual Property named Harry as Canada’s Intellectual Property Patent Litigator of the Year. He has written and spoken extensively on patent litigation and other IP topics and taught a course on IP remedies at the University of Toronto.
Richard Naiberg
Partner, Toronto
Email rnaiberg@goodmans.ca
Richard practices IP law and litigation. His focus is on patent and trademark
litigation, enforcing IP rights and defending companies against infringement
actions. He provides strategic advice on the development, acquisition, sale
and protection of technology and IP assets, including patents, copyrights, trademarks,
trade secrets and industrial designs. He appears regularly at the trial and
appeal levels of the Ontario and Federal courts and has appeared before the
Supreme Court of Canada.
Canadian Legal Lexpert Director recognises Richard as an “up and coming” IP litigator, and Global Counsel 3000 recommends him for IP and life sciences law. He frequently speaks at industry conferences, contributes to Lawyer’s Weekly, writes various articles on IP law and advocacy and lectures at the Rotman School of Business on IP rights and remedies.
Richard is on the litigation, lectures and seminar committees of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and is a member of the Advocates’ Society and the American Intellectual Property Law Institute.
Julie Perrin
Associate, Toronto
Email jperrin@goodmans.ca
Julie Perrin is an associate in the IP group of our litigation department. Julie
completed her BA at McGill University in 1995 and received her LLB from the
University of Toronto in 1998. Her practice focuses on patent and trademark
litigation.
Julie frequently appears before the Federal Court, Trial Division on a broad
range of intellectual property issues and has appeared as counsel on a number
of matters before the Federal Court of Appeal and the Ontario Court of Appeal.
She is also a co-author of articles on various intellectual property issues
in Canada.
Goodwin
Procter LLP
599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022
Tel +1 212 813 8800 Fax
+1 212 355 3333
Web www.goodwinprocter.com
103 Eisenhower Parkway, Roseland, NJ 07068
Tel +1 973 992 1990 Fax
+1 973 992 4643
Other offices Boston, MA and Washington, DC
Ethan Horwitz
Partner, New York
Ethan Horwitz is chair of Goodwin Procter’s Intellectual Property Practice.
His practice includes worldwide acquisition and enforcement of intellectual
property and he has litigated patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright and
false advertising cases in the United States and internationally. Mr Horwitz
is the author of World Trademark Law and Practice (5 volumes) and the co-author
of Patent Litigation: Procedure and Tactics (3 volumes). Mr Horwitz has had
a number of historic patent cases, including obtaining the first-ever preliminary
injunction on a design patent for Oscar Mayer’s Lunchables and obtaining
a preliminary injunction for Pepperidge Farm based on dilution of its rights
to the shape of its Goldfish cracker. Mr Horwitz has over 25 years of experience
and is listed in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Experts
in Patent Law.
William Hwang
Partner, New York
William Hwang is a corporate partner, a member of the firm’s Intellectual
Property Practice and a practising patent attorney. Mr Hwang focuses his practice
primarily on intellectual property transactions, advising clients on intellectual
property matters and patent and copyright prosecution. He has a broad range
of experience in all areas of intellectual property and has represented clients
involved in the internet, computer, telecommunication, electronics, publishing,
medical, pharmaceutical and other industries. Mr Hwang has negotiated numerous
intellectual property acquisitions and licenses and has experience in patent,
copyright and trademark prosecution, as well as patent litigation, antitrust
and opinion work. His prosecution, litigation and opinion work includes cases
relating to the internet, computer hardware and software, charge-coupled devices,
amorphous silicon solar cells and other semiconductor devices and technology.
Mr Hwang’s representation includes extensive domestic and international
negotiations for Telcordia , numerous content distribution agreements for Dow
Jones and extensive intellectual property counselling for GMAC.
Jacqueline Klosek
Associate, Roseland, NJ
Jacqueline Klosek is a corporate associate in Goodwin Procter’s Intellectual
Property Practice. Ms Klosek’s practice focuses on advising clients on
various issues related to data privacy and security. She also drafts and negotiates
various technology agreements, conducts legal audits of websites and advises
on different aspects of the law related to intellectual property and technology.
Ms Klosek is currently serving as Team Leader of Intellectual Property and Technology
Law for the Afghanistan Transitional Commercial Law Project, an initiative which
seeks to assist Afghanistan in revising its commercial laws. Ms Klosek is the
author of The Legal Guide to e-Business (Praeger, 2003) and Data Privacy in
the Information Age (Greenwood, 2003).
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Hale
and Dorr LLP
Alder Castle, 10 Noble Street, London EC2V 7QJ, UK
Tel +44 20 7645 2400 Fax
+44 20 7645 2424
Web www.haledorr.com
Dr Miles Gaythwaite
Consultant, London
Dr Gaythwaite is now a part-time consultant to Hale and Dorr. His particular
professional interests are biotechnology, computer software, copyright and patent
and know-how licensing.
He is a fluent French speaker and has done much work in France and for French
clients and, in particular, has been involved in multi-country patent litigation.
He is a lapsed chemist having obtained his first degree from Glasgow University.
He then did a PhD at Cambridge before deciding to work in intellectual property.
He now splits his time between his house in London and his retreat in the southwest
of France.
Robert Barry
Senior partner, London
Robert Barry joined Hale and Dorr in 2003 as a senior partner and European Head
of Intellectual Property Litigation based in our London office. He has considerable
experience in intellectual property litigation, with a particular emphasis on
patents and trademarks. Robert Barry has acted in many major patent disputes
in the High Court and the European Patent Office, covering a range of technologies
in the pharmaceutical, electronic, chemical and bioscience industries.
Mr Barry has been named a leader in the field of intellectual property by the
Chambers Directory, Guide to the Legal Profession.
HAMI
Legal Services, Inc.
Suite 402, Sayeh Tower, Mellat park, Vali asr Avenue,
Tehran
19677, Iran
Tel +98 21 204 36 84 Fax
+98 21 204 36 86
Web www.iranip.com
Mohammad Badamchi
Partner, Tehran
Email mohammad@iranip.com
Mohammad Badamchi, lawyer, is a partner of the firm. He is an LLB graduate from
Azad University, Tehran. He deals with intellectual property and foreign investment
and his practice includes both litigation and advice in these areas. He is also
experienced in unfair competition and anti-counterfeiting cases.
Areas of particular experience include intellectual property protection and advice on trademark, patent and ccTLDs registration and protection, licensing and foreign investment.
Practice areas: Intellectual property, anti-counterfeiting and unfair-competition, foreign investment, litigation.
Heller
Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP
1666 K Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006-1228
Tel +1 202 912-2000 Fax
+1 202 912 2020
Web www.hewm.com
Other offices: San Francisco, CA, Silicon Valley,
CA, Los Angeles, CA, San Diego, CA, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Anchorage, AL,
New York, NY, Madison, WI, Hong Kong and Singapore
James N. Czaban
Shareholder, Washington, DC
Email jczaban@hewm.com
James N. Czaban is a shareholder in the firm's FDA Group and a member of the
Life Sciences & Technology and Intellectual Property Litigation National
Practice Groups. Mr Czaban's practice focuses on FDA regulation of medical technology,
including prescription and OTC pharmaceuticals and biologics, as well as food,
dietary supplements, cosmetics and federal and state laws governing the promotion
and advertising of such products.#
Mr Czaban is also a frequent writer and lecturer on FDA regulatory issues. He has spoken at and moderated numerous symposia for the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI), the Drug Information Association, the Practicing Law Institute and other private conference providers. He has taught Food & Drug Law at Fordham University Law School and at FDLI. Mr Czaban is the co-author of the drug regulation chapter of FDLI's two-volume Food and Drug Law treatise, a member of the Advisory Board of BNA's Pharmaceutical Law and Industry Report and a columnist for the journal Drug Delivery Technology.
Practice areas: FDA, life sciences & technology, IP litigation
Hoet
Pelaez Castillo & Duque
Centro San Ignacio, Torre Kepler,
Av. Blandín, La Castellana, Caracas 1060, Venezuela
Tel +58 212 201 8611 Fax
+58 212 263 7744
Web www.hpcd.com
Ricardo Fischer
Partner, Caracas
Email rfischer@hpcd.com
Ricardo Fischer is a partner of our IP group. He was admitted to practise law
in Venezuela in 1991. He received his law degree from the Universidad Santa
María and his Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property from Franklin
Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH in 1993. Mr Fischer deals with a wide array of
IP-related matters including trademarks, patents, copyrights and trade secrets,
both in prosecution and enforcement related actions.
He also advises clients on international IP filing projects for clients mainly within the Americas, including trademark, patent filing and prosecution.
Practice areas: IP prosecution and enforcement
Homburger
Weinbergstrasse 56-58, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel +41 43 222 1000 Fax +41
43 222 1500
Web www.homburger.ch
Gregor Bühler
Partner, Zurich
Email gregor.buehler@homburger.ch
Gregor Bühler is a partner in the IP/IT practice group of Homburger. He
graduated from the University of St. Gallen in 1990, receiving his doctorate
in 1995. He also studied at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he
graduated with an LLM in 1997. His practice focuses on intellectual property
law, information technology and sports/entertainment law, as well as on commercial
litigation.
Areas of particular experience include internet and e-commerce advice; trademark and branding strategies; advice on advertising issues; trademark, copyright and unfair competition litigation; licensing agreements and transactional advice in all intellectual property-related matters.
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Johan
Schlüter Law Firm
Sundkrogsgade 9, PO Box 867, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Tel +45 33 63 96 50 Fax
+45 33 63 96 60
Web www.jschluter.com
Schlüter, Johan
Partner, Chairman of the Board
Email jos@jschluter.com
Johan Schlüter became a qualified lawyer in 1970 and was admitted to the
Danish Supreme Court in 1979. He was a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen
and has been a censor at the University of Copenhagen and general secretary
of IFPI Danmark, the Danish Video Association, the Association of Danish Film
Distributors, the Rights Holder Alliance and the film- and the record producers’
rights management societies. He has also served as a board director in a number
of commercial companies and rights organisations and written various books and
articles on IPR, company law, e-commerce and competition law.
He is a member of the Danish Bar (former chairman of the committee on IPR and competition), the Danish Copyright Society (board member) and the IBA Committee C and L (chairman of the copyright committee).
Mr Schlüter studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the University of Copenhagen.
Practice areas: Intellectual property rights, competition law, company law, M&A and arbitration.
Julius
& Creasy
41 Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka
Tel +94 1 2422 601 Fax
+94 1 2446 663
Email juliusc@lankacom.net
J.M. Swaminathan
Partner, Colombo
J.M. Swaminathan is a Partner of Julius & Creasy and a member of the Intellectual
Property Advisory Commission of Sri Lanka. He is also an Examiner in Intellectual
Property Law for the Post Attorneys Diploma in Intellectual Property course
conducted by the Sri Lanka Law College.
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Kenyon
& Kenyon
One Broadway, New York, NY 10004-1050
Tel +1 212 425 7200 Fax
+1 212 425 5288
Web www.kenyon.com
Other offices Washington, DC and Silicon Valley,
CA
Deborah A. Somerville
Partner, New York
Email dsomerville@kenyon.com
Deborah A. Somerville is co-chair of the firm’s Life Sciences/Chemical
practice group. She has extensive experience in the management, protection and
enforcement of intellectual property rights for major US and foreign clients
within the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical and medical device industries.
Her representative technology areas have included immunology, genomics, proteomics,
bioinformatics, nanotechnology, small molecules and biosensors, including microarrays.
Ms Somerville counsels clients on the validity, scope, enforceability and transfer of IP rights. She actively guides clients in introducing new products and in developing intellectual property strategies and portfolios. While successfully procuring commercially significant patents, she has supervised the drafting of applications and their prosecution, including interferences, reissues, protests, re-examinations and oppositions. She also negotiates licenses and conducts due diligence for major corporate transactions. In addition, Ms Somerville has considerable experience in patent litigation before the federal courts.
Ms. Somerville received a JD from University of Michigan in 1984 and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Denver, summa cum laude, in 1981. She is a registered patent attorney.
Kathryn M. Lumb
Associate, New York
Email klumb@kenyon.com
Kathryn M. Lumb is involved in a wide variety of intellectual property matters,
with an emphasis in the biotechnological and pharmaceutical arts. She prepares
and prosecutes patent applications and counsels clients on the validity, scope,
enforceability and transfer of intellectual property rights.
Ms Lumb received her JD in 1998 from The George Washington University School of Law and her BS in Molecular Biology from Lehigh University in 1993. She is a registered patent attorney.
Kim
& Chang
Seoul Building, 114-31 Uni-Dong, Chongro-Ku, Seoul 110-350,
Korea
Tel +822 764 8855 Fax
+822 741 0328
Web www.ip.kimchang.com
Jay (Young-June) Yang
Partner, Seoul
Email yjyang@kimchang.com
Jay (Young-June) Yang is a senior partner at Kim & Chang. He received his
BJur degree at Seoul National University in 1977 and his LLM degree at the University
of Michigan Law School in 1985. He was trained at the Judicial Research and
Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea and served as a Judge Advocate
in the Republic of Korea Army for three years prior to joining Kim & Chang.
He also participated in the foreign lawyers programme at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison for two years and was admitted to the New York bar in
1986.
Mr Yang has extensive experience in litigation, enforcement and dispute resolution involving intellectual property issues, foreign and domestic customs seizures and international and domestic licensing and distribution disputes. In recent years, he has also been in the forefront of internet-related legal developments in Korea, including “cyber-squatting” and domain name dispute cases.
Sang-Young Lee
Associate, Seoul
Email sylee1@ip.kimchang.com
Sang-Young Lee is a patent attorney in the chemical practice group of Kim &
Chang. He received a BS degree in Food Science and Technology at Seoul National
University in 1993. Prior to joining Kim & Chang, Mr Lee worked at First
Law Offices of Korea from 1998 to 2001. He has expertise in chemical-related
areas, including biotechnology, agrochemistry, biochemistry, and food processing.
Andrew Choung
Foreign Legal Counsel
Email achoung@ip.kimchang.com
Andrew Choung is a foreign legal counsel in the IP group. He received a BA in
Physics and a BA in Philosophy from Bard College, New York, and an MS in Aerospace
from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his JD from the UCLA School
of Law. Before joining Kim & Chang, Mr Choung was an associate in the IP
group at Irell & Manella, Los Angeles, California.
Mr Choung’s practice covers the full range of IP matters, with a focus on patent prosecution and litigation and strategic IP counselling. He has particular experience with hi-tech, complex litigation and counselling companies on global IP strategies. His technical specialties include general physics, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, electronics, telecommunications and internet-related technologies, semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing technologies and LCD-related technologies.
Kirkland
& Ellis LLP
Aon Center, 200 East Randolph Drive, Chicago, IL 60601
Tel +1 312 861 2000 Fax
+1 312 861 2200
Web www.
kirkland.com
Other offices New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles,
San Francisco
Russell E. Levine, PC
Partner, Chicago
Email rlevine@kirkland.com
Russell E. Levine is a partner with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, in the firm’s
Chicago office. He specialises in patent infringement litigation and patent
licensing and has written and lectured on these legal topics. His practice also
includes Section 337 litigation before the US International Trade Commission.
Mr Levine is co-chairman of the Licensing Executives Society’s Laws and Government Committee. He is also a member of the ABA, the AIPLA, the Federal Circuit Bar Associations and the International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association.
He holds a BS in Interdisciplinary Engineering and a BS in Economics, both degrees from the University of Michigan. He received a law degree from the University of Chicago and he is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is admitted to the bars of Illinois, New York, the US Supreme Court, the Federal and 7th Circuits, the Northern District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the Eastern District of Michigan.
James B. Coughlan
Of Counsel, Chicago
Email jcoughlan@kirkland.com
James Coughlan concentrates on IP litigation, and has particular expertise in
litigation before the US International Trade Commission (ITC). Prior to joining
the firm, he was a senior investigative attorney with the ITC’s Office
of Unfair Import Investigations, where he served as trial counsel in numerous
ITC infringement actions.
Mr Coughlan has also served as legal counsel on the staff of a US senator,
where his responsibilities included various IP issues and as a member of the
IP litigation group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. In addition, he was
a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Marion T Bennett, US Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit.
Mr Coughlan holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University, a
law degree from DePaul University and an LLM in IP law from the John Marshall
Law School. He is admitted to the bars of Illinois, the District of Columbia
and the Federal Circuit, and is a member of the Federal Circuit and the ITC
Trial Lawyers Bar Associations.
Kirkland
& Ellis International LLP
Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1HQ
Tel +44 20 7816 8700 Fax
+44 20 7816 8800
Web www.kirkland.com
Pierre-André Dubois
Partner, London
Email pdubois@kirkland.com
Pierre-André Dubois is in charge of the firm’s UK IP Group. He
is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as a barrister and solicitor
in Canada. His practice covers all aspects of IP and IT law. His work involves
commercial matters, including licensing, distribution, supply, joint ventures
and outsourcing agreements. He advises on European competition law related issues
and handles disputes in all fields of IP, including trademarks, copyright, misappropriation
of confidential information, data protection, IT related disputes and patents.
He acts for large Fortune 250 companies and smaller UK and US-based enterprises
and start-ups, operating in the IT, biotechnology, life sciences, pharmaceuticals,
new media, financial services and consumer goods sectors.
His work includes addressing IP issues as they arise in the context of mergers
and acquisitions, IPOs, venture capital transactions, private placements and
takeovers. He provides risk assessments on IP issues to investment banks and
venture capitalists.
Pierre is listed in The Legal 500 (2003 Edition) as a leading IP/IT lawyer.
Joanna Shepherd
Associate, London
Email jshepherd@kirkland.com
Joanna Shepherd is an intellectual property associate in the London office.
She obtained her BSc (Natural Sciences) (Honours) in 1992 from the University
of Durham and completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Law in 1993 and the Legal
Practice Course in 1994, both with commendation from Nottingham Law School.
She is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales. Her practice focuses on
English intellectual property and information technology transactions, data
protection as well as pre-litigation and dispute advice.
Kirkpatrick
& Lockhart LLP
Henry W. Oliver Building, 535 Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh,
PA 15222-2312
Tel +1 412 355 6500 Fax +1
412 355 6501
Web www.kl.com
Other offices Boston, MA, Dallas, TX, Harrisburg,
PA, Los Angeles, CA, Miami, FL, New York, NY, Newark, NJ, San Francisco, CA,
Washington, DC
James R. Kyper
Partner, Pittsburgh, PA
Email jkyper@kl.com
Mr Kyper’s practice includes a wide range of intellectual property and
commercial litigation involving patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets,
copyrights and unfair competition. He is experienced in patent and trademark
litigation and prosecution, in a broad variety of licensing and technology transactions
and in insurance coverage issues of intellectual property claims. Mr Kyper has
represented clients in technical fields ranging from high strength ceramics
to medical software to railroad equipment. He also advised automobile distributors
concerning the protection and enforcement of their trademark rights and counsels
such clients extensively on internet domain name issues. He has litigated product
liability claims, engineering and construction disputes and UCC issues. He has
been responsible for matters in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, New
York, California, Florida, Colorado, Missouri, Rhode Island and West Virginia
and has experience in both Court annexed, AAA and CPR arbitrations and mediations.
He has recent experience counselling clients with respect to intellectual property
and other business aspects relating to the internet. He is also involved in
many projects concerned with the intellectual property aspects of entertainment
and multi-media properties.
Robert D. Yeager
Partner, Pittsburgh, PA
Email ryeager@kl.com
For more than 35 years, Mr Yeager has focused his practice on intellectual property
litigation throughout the United States. He has served as lead counsel in dozens
of trials and appeals involving a wide array of technologies and businesses.
For a decade, he taught the course in intellectual property at Duquesne University
School of Law. Mr Yeager has been named in the peer recognition directory, The
Best Lawyers in America, since it began to list intellectual property lawyers.
His expertise in the field of patent litigation has been acknowledged in the
federal court in Pittsburgh by his being appointed as a Special Master for claim
construction purposes. He continues his highly active litigation practice with
emphasis in patent infringement cases.
Patrick J. McElhinny
Partner, Pittsburgh
Email pmcelhinny@kl.com
Mr McElhinny concentrates his practice in the area of complex commercial litigation
with a focus on claims involving intellectual property, insurance coverage,
securities law and business torts. His experience includes prosecution and defense
of claims for patent infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, breaches
of non-competition agreements, trademark and copyright claims and claims for
insurance coverage for intellectual property disputes. He also has been involved
in significant environmental insurance coverage litigation, including claims
involving both third and first party policies, reimbursement of costs paid by
insurers and bad faith claims handling. The cases in which Mr McElhinny have
been involved frequently have entailed requests for injunctive relief and regularly
require an understanding of complex technological issues.
Konnov
& Sozanovsky
23 Shota Rustaveli Street, Suite 5, Kiev, 01023, Ukraine
Tel +380 44 490 5400 Fax
+380 44 490 5490
Web www.konnov.com
Other offices Chernovtsy, Ukraine, Moscow, Russia
Tetyana Glukhovska
Associate, Kiev
Email tgluhovskaya@konnov.com
Tetyana Glukhovska is an associate with Konnov and Sozanovsky and a trademark
and patent attorney-at-law and an attorney-at-law.
Ms Glukhovska concentrates her practice in intellectual property law. She represents and counsels individuals and corporate clients on intellectual property matters, including patent, trademark infringement matters and trademark protection. She has been heavily involved in all aspects of intellectual property litigation, including trademark and copyright infringement actions.
Ms Glukhovska received her degree in law from Kiev University School of Law. She also received her degree in intellectual property from the Institute of Intellectual Property and Law. She is an associate member of the American Bar Association.
Ms Glukhovska is admitted to practice in Ukraine. She speaks Russian, Ukrainian, English and German.
Practice areas: Trademarks, patents, designs, unfair competition, litigation, licensing, technology transferring, trade secrets.
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Landwell
1 Embankment Place, London WC2N 6DX
Tel +44 20 7212 1574 Fax
+44 20 7212 1570
Web www.landwellglobal.com
Latika Sharma
Partner, London
Email latika.sharma@uk.landwellglobal.com
Latika Sharma is a partner and head of the IP group at Landwell UK and specialises
in all aspects of intellectual property law and practice. This includes conducting
intellectual property audits, beneficial ownership investigations, devising
licensing strategies and drafting and negotiating agreements for use in multiple
territories, conducting intellectual property litigation and advising on the
intellectual property aspects of corporate transactions.
Landwell is the correspondent law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Lellos
P Demetriades Law Office
The Chanteclair House, 2 Sophoulis Street, 9th Floor,
1096 Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel +357 22 676060 Fax
+357 22 676061
Web www.ldlaw.com.cy
Achilleas Demetriades
Partner, Nicosia
Email achilleas@ldlaw.com.cy
Achilleas Demetriades is a partner at Lellos P Demetriades Law Office. He was
called to the English Bar and holds a Master’s in International Trade
from Georgetown Law Centre in Washington, DC. He specialises in IPR matters
and his anti-piracy approach is not usually confined to a particular cause of
action, but combines creatively available laws so as to achieve speedy and effective
results.
Lovells
23rd Floor, Cheung Kong Centre, 2 Queen’s Road Central,
Hong Kong
Tel +852 2219 0888 Fax
+852 2219 0222
Web www.lovells.com
Henry J H Wheare
Partner, Hong Kong
Email henry.wheare@lovells.com
Henry heads the Asia intellectual property group of Lovells. He graduated with
a law degree from Jesus College Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor and patent
attorney in London in 1977 and in Hong Kong in 1985. He has been a partner with
Lovells since 1994. He was International Vice-President of the Asian Patent
Attorneys Association (APAA) until 2003 and is now secretary of the Hong Kong
Group.
Henry’s practice covers all areas of IP, including contentious and non-contentious matters relating to patents, copyrights, designs and trademarks, confidential information and privacy. He also advises on competition law, intellectual property rights management, entertainment, licensing and all aspects of information technology and telecommunications.
In China, he has been involved in patent and trademark registration, copyright advice, contentious trademark and patent cases, including court and administrative actions, cross-border infringements, technology transfer (contractual and joint venture) agreements and related licensing, as well as general advice on IP law.
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Majmudar
& Co
96 Free Press House, 9th Floor, Free Press Journal Marg,
Nariman Point, Mumbai 400 021, India
Tel +91 22 5630 7272 Fax
+91 22 5630 7252
Web www.majmudarindia.com
Other offices New Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad,
Chennai
Akil Hirani
Managing Partner, Mumbai
Email akil@majmudarindia.com
Akil Hirani heads the IP and corporate practice at Majmudar & Co. and is
the firm’s managing partner. He graduated with a BA in Psychology from
St. Xavier’s College, University of Mumbai in 1989, and obtained his LLB
(Hons) from the Government Law College, University of Mumbai in 1992, having
specialised in Private International Law.
Mr Hirani is admitted to practise law in India, California and England & Wales, has clerked at the Santa Clara County Superior Court in San José, California in 1995 and has worked at the London firm of Lawrence Jones in 1996.
Mr Hirani’s particular experience includes India IP strategy advice, including software and biotechnology intellectual property rights protection advice, technology transfer agreements, IT contracts, structuring investments of foreign companies into India, M&A, joint ventures and corporate finance. He represents Microsoft Corporation, Cadence Design Systems Inc., the GE Asia Pacific Capital Technology Fund, Wells Fargo Bank, Travelers Group, Hitachi Metals Ltd., HSBC Software India and many other international companies and banks in India.
Practice areas: IP, telecommunications, media, technology, corporate, M&A
Anoop Narayanan
Senior Associate, Mumbai
Email: anoop@majmudarindia.com
Anoop Narayanan is a member of the firm’s TMT practice group. He obtained
his LLB degree from the Government Law College, University of Calicut, Kerala
in 1994 and his LLM degree from the School of Legal Studies, Cochin University
of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala.
Mr Narayanan deals with a broad range of intellectual property, information technology, telecommunications and entertainment law matters, and his practice includes both litigation and commercial/transactional advice in these areas.
Areas of particular experience include trademark, e-commerce and internet advice, including passing off actions, domain name disputes, brand protection and advice on advertising issues, patent litigation, technology transfer agreements, IT contracts and technology disputes, copyright exploitation and plagiarism actions and arbitration and ADR in context of IP disputes.
Practice areas IP, telecommunications, media, technology, licensing
Moody’s
Investors Service
99 Church Street, New York, NY 10007
Tel +1 212 553 4377 Fax +1
212 553 7820
Web www.moodys.com
Jay H. Eisbruck
Managing Director
Jay Eisbruck is a Managing Director in Moody’s Investors Service Asset-Backed
Finance Group, where he has worked since 1991. During this time Mr Eisbruck
has evaluated transactions backed by a variety of assets including credit cards,
autos loans, manufactured housing, intellectual property, and water and sewer
systems. He currently focuses much of his efforts on aiding the development
of new assets.
Mr Eisbruck has also contributed to a number of articles on structural innovations and general trends in the asset-backed market. His article on the rating approach to intellectual property assets was included in the Wiley and Co. publication, From Ideas to Assets, Mr Eisbruck earned both a MBA in Finance and a B.S. in Economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he was a Racoosin Scholar.
Morgan
& Finnegan, LLP
345 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10154-0053
Tel +1 212 758 4800 Fax +1
212 751 6849
Web www.morganfinnegan.com
Other offices Washington, DC
Andrew M. Riddles
Partner, New York
Email amriddles@morganfinnegan.com
Andrew Riddles is a partner in the firm, whose practice is directed solely to
intellectual property matters. He graduated with a BS in Engineering from Columbia
University, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a JD from Brooklyn
Law School, and an LLM from New York University. His practice deals with a broad
range of intellectual property issues, including patents, trademarks, copyrights
and trade secrets and his practice includes litigation, solicitation and client
counselling and advice in these areas.
Areas of particular experience include e-commerce and the internet, including domain name disputes, online sales systems and financial products. He has assisted both individuals and corporations in the protection and enforcement of their proprietary rights in technology as well as the licensing of such technology both domestically and internationally. He has negotiated technology transfer agreements, joint venture agreements, and licensing agreements.
Morgan Stanley
25 Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 4QA, UK
Tel +44 20 7425 5000 Fax
+44 20 7425 5300
Web www.morganstanley.com
Hardip Rai
Executive Director, London
Email hardip.rai@morganstanley.com
Hardip Rai is an executive director in the Global Structured Products group
of Morgan Stanley’s Capital Market’s division based in London. He
graduated with a MA in Engineering from St John’s College, Cambridge.
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Paul,
Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
3579 Valley Centre Drive, San Diego, CA 92130
Tel +1 858 720 2850 Fax
+1 858 720 2555
Web www.paulhastings.com
John Benassi
Partner, San Diego
Email johnbenassi@paulhastings.com
John Benassi is a partner with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, is
co-head of their worldwide IP group and is listed in the peer review publication
The Best Lawyers in America (1992-1993). He has represented clients in all courts
in intellectual property matters and technologies ranging from semiconductors
to biotechnology. He has extensive litigation experience including in criminal
jury trials. In patents, he represented generic drug manufacturer Gensia Sicor
in the invalidation of Bristol Myers’ Cisplatin chemotherapy patent which
was used to cure Lance Armstrong’s cancer. In the areas of copyright,
software and the internet, he was counsel to Streamcast Communications (Morpheus)
in the successful “next Napster case” against the music and entertainment
industry which involved alleged peer-to-peer copying. In the trademark area,
he has successfully litigated a number of cases including against Microsoft
preliminarily invalidating the “Windows” mark as being generic.
In addition to litigation, Mr Benassi has been involved in securing patents,
trademarks and copyrights in a variety of different technological areas. He
is a co-author of Patent Litigation published by the Practicing Law Institute
(PLI) in 2002-3. He has lectured and/or written on “Trade Secrets”,
“Commercialising Intellectual Property”, “Trademark Litigation
and “Trial Tactics” (1995-2003). Mr Benassi received a technical
undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois (1971) and his JD, cum
laude, from George Washington University (1974) and clerked for the US Claims
Court. He is a member of the Bars of California, Illinois and the District of
Columbia.
Perani Mezzanotte
& Partners
Piazza San Babila, 5, Milano 20122, Italy
Tel + 39 02 76 31 61 61 Fax
+39 02 76 31 76 19
Web www.perani.com
Paolo Perani
Partner, Milano
Email pperani@perani.com
Paolo Perani is admitted to the Italian Bar and is head of the litigation group
of the firm. He graduated from the University of Milan (Dr. Jur.) and is member
of the most important IP associations, such as AIPPI, INTA, ECTA and LIDC.
Areas of particular experience include e-commerce and internet advice, including domain name disputes, brand protection and advice on advertising issues (he contributed to the volume International comparative advertising, INTA, 1997), patent and trademark litigation, licence and technology transfer agreements, IT contracts and technology disputes, copyright actions and arbitration and ADR in context of IP disputes.
Practice areas: Trademarks, patents, copyright and related litigations, internet law and information technology, advertising, antitrust, unfair competition
Piper Rudnick
LLP
1200 Nineteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2412
Tel +1 202 861 3900 Fax
+1 202 223 2085
Web www.piperrudnick.com
Other offices Chicago, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Los Angeles, Dallas, Edison, Las Vegas, Reston and Tampa
Ann K. Ford
Partner
Email ann.ford@piperrudnick.com
Ann Ford is a partner in Piper Rudnick’s intellectual property practice
group and heads the firm’s Washington, DC trademark group. Ms Ford practices
in the area of US and international trademark and copyright law, including the
developing law governing the use and protection of intellectual property on
the internet. She advises clients with respect to business and transactional
aspects of intellectual property, as well as litigation and pre-litigation protective
measures.
Ms Ford specialises in working with both mature and emerging companies on developing and strengthening brands in a wide variety of industries. Other areas of particular experience include copyright compliance programs, trademark licensing and maintenance issues relating to tax-driven ownership structures and domain name disputes.
Ms Ford graduated with a BA from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and a JD from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In October 2003, she was selected by the Legal Times as one of 15 notable intellectual property attorneys in the Washington, DC area.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Web www.pwcglobal.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP
350 South Grand Avenue, 49th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Tel +1 213 356 6000