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Distinguished Speakers

2005

Federal Circuit Judge
Paul Michel (invited)
Biography
A recent interview published by Managing Intellectual Property.

Judge Paul R. Michel has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 1988. Judge Michel was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. In his distinguished career, Judge Michel served as Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, Assistant Counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Deputy Chief of the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section, and Associate Deputy Attorney General. He has written more than 200 opinions in patent, trademark, contract, tax, and international trade and has participated in the advanced training of judges for courts of various nations, including Russia, Romania, Sweden, Norway, and Argentina.

Judge Michel is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc., and serves on advisory boards for intellectual property at several law schools. He was an adjunct professor at the George Washington University National Law Center and taught master classes at the John Marshall Law School and Chicago-Kent College of Law.


2004
Graeme Dinwoodie
Biography
Faculty spotlight article

Professor Graeme Dinwoodie joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2000 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was a three-time recipient of the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 2001, he was named a Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar, and he was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2003.

He is the author of the casebooks: International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (with Hennessey and Perlmutter); International and Comparative Patent Law (with Hennessey and Perlmutter); and Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (with Janis).

 

2003
Rochelle Dreyfuss
Biography

In 1983, Professor Dreyfuss began teaching at Columbia Law School. Her research and teaching interests include intellectual property, privacy, the relationship between science and law, and civil procedure. She has authored several articles on these subjects and has co-authored casebooks on civil procedure and intellectual property law.

Previously a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee and to the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents, and a member of the Science and Law and Patent Law Committees of the New York City Bar Association, Professor Dreyfuss today serves as a member of the American Law Institute, the BNA's Advisory Board to USPQ, and the American Association of University Professors' Intellectual Property Strike Force. She has visited at the University of Chicago and Santa Clara University Law Schools and University of Washington School of Law.

 

2002
Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Biography

Rebecca S. Eisenberg joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty in 1984. Professor Eisenberg regularly teaches courses in patent law, trademark law, FDA law, and has taught courses on torts, legal regulation of science, and legal issues in biomedical research. She has written and lectured extensively about patent law as applied to biotechnology and the role of intellectual property at the public-private divide in research science, publishing in scientific journals as well as law reviews.

She has received grants from the program on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research for her work on private appropriation and public dissemination of DNA sequence information. Professor Eisenberg has played an active role in public policy debates concerning the role of intellectual property in biomedical research.

2001
Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski|
Biography
Judge Kozinski's Diary, written for Microsoft's Slate electronic magazine.

Judge Alex Kozinski serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan on November 7, 1985, Judge Kozinski has won support from the left and the right with his common-sense decisions and libertarian instinct.

Judge Kozinski received his J.D. from UCLA Law School in 1975 and went on to clerk for then-Ninth Circuit Judge Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice Warren Burger. Then he spent a few years in private practice before going to work in the White House Counsel's office for then-President Ronald Regan. Judge Kozinski left his White House Consel job for a job as Chief Judge at the newly-formed Federal Claims Court. Then, at the age of 35, Regan appointed him to the Ninth Circuit, making him the youngest federal appeals court judge in the country.

 

2000
Mark Lemley
Biography

Mark Lemley is a Professor of Law and Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer and Internet law, patent law, and antitrust. He is of counsel to the law firm of Keker & Van Nest, where he litigates in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property and computer law. He is the author of six books (all in multiple editions) and 57 articles on these and related subjects, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust. He has taught intellectual property law to federal and state judges at numerous Federal Judicial Center and ABA programs, has testified twice before Congress and three times before the Federal Trade Commission on patent, antitrust and constitutional law matters, and has filed numerous amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and varied federal circuit courts of appeals.

 

1999
Paul Goldstein
Biography

Paul Goldstein has been Professor of Law at Stanford University since 1975, and was appointed Lillick Professor of Law in 1985. He is widely recognized as one of the country's leading authorities on copyright law, and is the author of a four-volume treatise on the subject, as well as of a widely-adopted law school text on intellectual property law. He is the author of four other books, including the widely-reviewed Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, and of numerous articles.

Professor Goldstein is a member of the Bars of New York and California and, over the past thirty years, has actively consulted on a wide range of copyright cases. He is Of Counsel to the law firm of Morrison & Foerster where he works with the firms Intellectual Property Group. Professor Goldstein has twice been awarded the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Law School.

Professor Goldstein spoke at Whittier Law School on April 6, 1999. His topic was "Continuity and Change in International Copyright."