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Bruce A. Lehman
Senior Counsel
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036-5405
Phone: 202.262.0262
Fax: 410.223.3725
blehman@wtplaw.com
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Experience

  • 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

General Information

  • 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)
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2011
  • 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

Education

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