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Panel 2: INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY & ARTICLE 2B: PERSPECTIVES & COMMENTARY ON PATENT AND TRADE SECRET LICENSING Papers to be Presented:
Commentators: Dan L. Burk, Seton Hall University School of Law PRESENTER BIOS Martin J. Adelman Martin J. Adelman has been a professor of law at Wayne State University Law School since 1973. Before assuming his present position, Professor Adelman practiced as a patent attorney in the Detroit area for several years. During that period he served as lead counsel in several patent infringement actions. Currently, he is teaching a course on international and comparative patent law and a seminar covering advanced aspects of patent law and practice. He has written many law review articles on patent law and patent-antitrust law subjects. From 1977 to 1988 he was one of the co-authors of the eight volume treatise on patent law entitled Patent Law Perspectives published by Matthew Bender. Since 1988 he has been solely responsible for writing the updates as well the new materials for each of the eight volumes. He is also a co-author of Patent Law-Cases and Materials (with Randall R. Rader, John R. Thomas and Harold C. Wegner), West Group (in press). He has also testified in court or had his deposition taken as an expert in patent law and practice in over 140 patent infringement cases. Finally, Professor Adelman will spend the 1998-99 academic year as a visiting professor of law at George Washington University's National Law Center. Rochelle Dreyfuss Rochelle Dreyfuss received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1968 and her M.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970. After spending several years as a research chemist at Vanderbilt University Medical School, Albert Einstein Medical School, and the Ciba Geigy Corporation, she entered Columbia University Law School, where she served as Articles and Book Review Editor of the Columbia Law Review. Graduating in 1981, she was a law clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court. She has taught at N.Y.U. Law School since 1983 and visited at the University of Chicago Law School in 1991 and Santa Clara University Law School in 1997. She has been a member of the New York City Bar Association (Science and Law and Patent Law committees), the American Law Institute (Unfair Competition and Complex Litigation projects), and BNA's Advisory Board to USPQ. She was a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee and to the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents. She is a past-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Association of Law Schools. She is currently director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy.Professor Dreyfuss's research and teaching interests include intellectual property, privacy, the relationship between science and law, and civil procedure. In the intellectual property area, her articles include: Information Products: A Challenge to Intellectual Property Theory, 20 J. Int'l L. & Pol. 897 (1988); The Federal Circuit: A Case Study in Specialized Courts, 64 N.Y.U. L.Rev. 1 (1989); Expressive Genericity: Trademarks as Language in the Pepsi Generation, 65 Notre Dame L. Rev. 397 (1990); A Wiseguy's Approach to Information Products: Muscling Copyright and Patent Law into A Unified Theory of Intellectual Property, 1992 S. Ct. Rev. 195 (1992); We Are Symbols and Inhabit Symbols, So Should We Be Paying Rent? Deconstructing the Lanham Act and Rights of Publicity, 20 Colum.-VLA J. L. & the Arts 123 (1996); and Two Achievements of the Uruguay Round: Putting TRIPS and Dispute Settlement Together, 37 Va. J. Int'l L. 275 (1997)(with A. Lowenfeld). She has also written some more general pieces on law, science, and intellectual property, including General Overview of the Intellectual Property System, in Owning Scientific and Technical Information (V. Weil and J. Snapper ed. 1989); Computers, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (1991)(with D. Leebron); The Jurisprudence of Genetics, 45 Vand. L. Rev. 313 (1992)(with D. Nelkin); Is Science a Special Case: The Admissibility of Scientific Evidence After Daubert v. Merrell Dow, 73 Tex. L. Rev. 1779 (1995); Intellectual Property Law, in Fundamentals of American Law (A. Morrison ed. 1996); and Galileo's Tribute: Using Medical Evidence in Court, 95 Mich. L. Rev. 2055 (1997). In addition to several articles on issues in civil procedure, she has co-authored casebooks on civil procedure and intellectual property law. COMMENTATOR BIOS Dan L. Burk Dan L. Burk is an Assistant Professor of Law at Seton Hall University in Newark, New Jersey, where he teaches in the areas of Tort, Patents, and Intellectual Property. Mr. Burk is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on scientific misconduct, the regulation of biotechnology, and the intellectual property implications of global computer networks. Mr. Burk holds a B.S. in Microbiology (1985) from Brigham Young University and an M.S. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (1987) from Northwestern University. He completed his J.S.M. (Master of Law) degree at Stanford Law School, and the Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, at Arizona State University (1990).David L. Hayes is the Chair of the Intellectual Property Group of Fenwick & West, LLP. Mr. Hayes specializes in intellectual property counseling, litigation and audits, and technology licensing, distribution and transfer. He is a registered patent lawyer. Mr. Hayes represents a wide range of high technology companies, counseling them on setting up and maintaining procedures to protect the company's intellectual property through copyrights, patents, trade secrets, mask works and trademarks, and on avoiding infringing the rights of others. He has served as counsel in a number of precedent setting software copyright infringement cases, including Ashton-Tate v. Ross, Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland International and Apple Computer v. Microsoft Corp. Among the companies he has represented are: Sun Microsystems, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., Logitech, Inc., Electronic Arts, Inc., Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Plantronics, Inc. CyberMedia, Inc., and Gateway Technologies, Inc. Mr. Hayes has published many articles and given many speeches throughout the United States and in Japan on various intellectual property topics. He has testified before Congress and several federal agencies concerning intellectual property issues. Mr. Hayes received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering in 1978 from Rice University where he graduated summa cum laude. He received a master of science degree in electrical engineering in 1980 from Stanford University. He received his law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1984, where he graduated cum laude. He is a member of the California Bar Association section on intellectual property, the American Bar Association section on patent, trademark & copyright law, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Computer Law Association, and the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers. He serves on the intellectual property advisory committee of the Practicing Law Institute, and the advisory board of The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology as well as serving on the editorial boards of The Computer Lawyer, The Cyberspace Lawyer, The Intellectual Property Counselor, The Intellectual Property Strategist, The Journal of Internet Law and Mealy's Litigation Reports on Intellectual Property. James Pooley Please check back soon for this commentator's bio
Margaret J. Radin
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