• Advises clients on all aspects of intellectual property law, including prosecution, litigation and policy, both domestically and internationally
• Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, August 1993-December 1998
• Principal Legal Adviser, 1976 Copyright Act, the 1980 Computer Software Amendments and the 1982 Amendments to the Patent Laws, Committee on the Judiciary

• Chairman: International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI)
• Chief Executive Officer: International Intellectual Property Institute (January 1999-May 2004)
• Member: Policy Advisory Commission, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• Member: Board of Directors, U.S. Committee, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• Named: "Lawyer of the Year," National Law Journal (1994); "One of the 100 Most Influential Men and Women in Washington," National Journal (1997)
• Inductee: International IP Hall of Fame, a project sponsored by the Intellectual Property Asset Management Magazine (2006)
• Acting Chairman: National Endowment for the Humanities (1997)
• Selected speeches:
  • "How Well Does the IP System Protect Individual Innovators?" University of Maryland (October 2008)
  • "Addressing the Crises in the Global Patent System" Singapore (October 2004) PDF
  • "Protecting Pharmaceutical Patent Rights Into the Future" Paris, France (June 2004) PDF
  • "Intellectual Asset Management: Going Beyond IP" Singapore (March 2003) PDF
  • "Digital Commerce in Copyrighted Works: Where is the World Going?" Berlin, German (September 2002) PDF
  • "Patents and Health" Beijing, China (May 2002) PDF
  • "Copyright, Culture and Development: The Role of Intellectual Property and of WIPO in the Cultural Industries" Beijing, China (May 2002) PDF
  • "The Need for a Stronger PCT" Geneva, Switzerland (March 2002) PDF
  • "Culture and Industry as a Development Chance for Poland" Warsaw, Poland (June 2001) PDF
  • "Who Owns the Human Genome? Human Genetics and Intellectual Property" Washington D.C. (April 2001) PDF
  • "The Leadership of the USA on Business Method Patenting" Paris, France (March 2001) PDF
  • "The Future of the Global Patent System" Copenhagen, Denmark (January 2001) PDF
  • "Multimedia - Problems for the Future" Monte Carlo, Monaco (September 1999) PDF

• University of Wisconsin (J.D. 1970)
  
• University of Wisconsin (B.S. 1967)
  

• Global Patent Protection
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