Faculty
The Law College’s intellectual property and communications law faculty consists of prolific scholars who have wide expertise in the fields of intellectual property and communications law, as well as experts in international trade and sports law. This prestigious group is joined by faculty members teaching in related areas, faculty associates from other MSU colleges and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, and experienced attorneys on the front lines of the legal profession.
D. Adam Candeub, Acting Director, Associate Professor of Law, brings to the IPCLP faculty his expertise in communications, administrative and antitrust law and an extensive economics background. He is a Senior Fellow with the Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media in the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University. His articles were published in the Alabama Law Review, BYU Law Review, Syracuse Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and Communications Lawyer. Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Candeub was an attorney-advisor in the Media and Common Carrier Bureaus in the Federal Communications Commission, where he was involved in critical decisions in communications. He was also a litigation associate with the Washington, D.C. office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and a corporate associate with the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Professor Candeub clerked for Chief Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He served as articles editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and is a member of the Order of the Coif.
Administrative Law • Communications Law and Policy • Regulated
Industries
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Adam Mossoff, Associate Professor of Law, is an expert in patent law and property theory. He writes on a wide range of issues, including legal philosophy, patent law and property law, and his publications have appeared in and are forthcoming from the Cornell Law Review, the Arizona Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, San Diego Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal and the University of Chicago Law School Roundtable. He was a visiting lecturer and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University School of Law, where he taught a seminar on property theory. Professor Mossoff graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with honors in 2001 and clerked for the Hon. Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He has an M.A. in philosophy from Columbia University, where he specialized in legal and political philosophy and a B.A. summa cum laude in philosophy from the University of Michigan.
Cyber Law • Patent Law • Trade Secrets • Property • Property
and Its Theoretical Foundations • Decedents’ Estates
and Trusts • Jurisprudence
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Kevin W. Saunders, Professor of Law, is an expert in First Amendment and media law. After a distinguished career as a mathematics educator, Professor Saunders turned his attention to the law. He taught at the University of Arkansas and the University of Oklahoma. During his 16-year tenure at Oklahoma, he was the recipient of four awards, including the 2001 Regents’ Award for Superior Accomplishment in Research and Creative Activity. He also served on the graduate faculty and the faculties of the College of Liberal Studies and the Film and Video Studies Program. Professor Saunders is the author of Violence as Obscenity: Limiting the Media’s First Amendment Protection (Duke University Press) and Saving Our Children from the First Amendment (NYU Press). He has authored dozens of book chapters, law review articles and commentaries in legal and popular periodicals and has testified before Congress on media law and policy issues. Professor Saunders graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School and clerked for the Hon. Kenneth Starr of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Constitutional Law II • Constitutional Law Topics:
Free Expression • Constitutional Theory Seminar
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Kevin C. Kennedy, Professor of Law, is a leading expert in international trade law and the director of the Law College’s newly-established Institute for Trade in the Americas at Michigan. He is the author of Competition Law and the World Trade Organization (Sweet & Maxwell) and the co-author of the treatise World Trade Law (Lexis), and editor of The First Decade of NAFTA: The Future of Free Trade in America (Transnational Publishers). He also has written more than 40 law review articles, mostly in the area of international trade law. He recently was appointed by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to serve as a bi-national dispute panelist in trade dispute between Canada and the United States involving imports of wheat from Canada. During 2006-2007, he will serve as Sturm Distinguished International Law Visiting Professor at University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Professor Kennedy was a visiting professor at the Marshall-Whythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. He served as the executive secretary of the Michigan Law Revision Commission and is currently a NAFTA Chapter 19 dispute settlement panelist. He was a law clerk at the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York and a trial attorney for the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Wayne State University and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
International Litigation and Arbitration • International
Trade Regulation • International Trade Remedies • Conflict
of Laws
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Robert A. McCormick, Professor of Law, is an expert in sports and labor law. Professor McCormick is the co-author of a textbook on sports law and a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. His writings have appeared in the Emory Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington Law Review, and the Washington and Lee Law Review. Professor McCormick was recently elected a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and served as the co-counsel in Clarett v. National Football League, in which the Ohio State University college football player Maurice Clarett challenged the NFL over his eligibility to play professional football. He was interviewed repeatedly in the Emmy-award winning ESPN television show, “Outside the Lines,” and his commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Press, The Arizona Republic, Fox Sports Net and CBS Radio. Professor McCormick is a co-producer of a video documentary on “Toil, Trouble, & Triumph: The Legacy of Michigan Labor Lawyers.” From 1973 to 1978, Professor McCormick served as an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and as counsel to the Hon. Howard Jenkins, Jr. of the NLRB in Washington, D.C. He joined the Law College faculty in 1979 and served as Associate Dean from 1986 to 1989. He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and his B.A. from Michigan State University.
Sports Law • Comparative Labor Law • Decedents’ Estates
and Trusts • Discrimination in Employment • Labor
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Doris E. Long, Visiting Professor of Law, is a Professor of Law and Chair of the Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Privacy Group at John Marshall Law School. She is the author of numerous books and articles in the area of intellectual property law and has been actively involved in training intellectual property enforcement officials. A frequent lecturer, she has presented papers at conferences in such diverse places as Havana, Cuba; Beijing, China; Moscow, Russia; Lima, Peru; Dakar, Senegal; Kiev, Ukraine; and Conakry, Guinea. Before joining the faculty, she was an attorney for over 14 years with the Washington, D.C. law firms of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn and Howrey & Simon. More recently, she served as an attorney advisor in the Office of Legislative and International Affairs of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and as a Fulbright Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tung University.
Rights in Art • Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
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Nancy Costello, Associate Clinical Professor in the Research, Writing & Advocacy Program, joined the Law College after practicing in the area of commercial litigation, defamation law, e-business law and collections litigation for the law firm of Dickinson Wright PLLC in Detroit. She co-supervises the Midwest Student Press Clinic, through which MSU Law students review claims brought by high school student journalists who believe their first amendment rights have been violated. She received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University and earned her J.D. cum laude from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where she served as an editor of the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review and the president of the Women’s Law Caucus. Before becoming an attorney, she worked for 15 years as a journalist, writing for the Detroit Free Press, the Associated Press, the Harvard University News Office and news organizations in Seattle, Massachusetts, Ohio and New Hampshire.
Copyright Law • Intellectual Property
Law in the Internet Age • Midwest Student Press Clinic • RWA
I—from an Intellectual Property Law Perspective
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Paul Arshagouni, Associate Professor of Law & Director, Health Law Program, is an expert in health law and had a distinguished career in medicine before entering the legal profession. Prior to joining MSU Law, he was an assistant research professor at the Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center, researching various healthcare related legal and policy issues. He was an associate with the health care practice group in the Los Angeles offices of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and Foley & Lardner. Professor Arshagouni has served as a physician and assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the College of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a J.D. from UCLA School of Law.
Mary A. Bedikian, Professor of Law in Residence & Director, Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, brings to the IPCLP faculty her wide expertise in negotiation and alternative dispute resolution. A former district vice president, Detroit Region of the American Arbitration Association, she has extensive ADR experience in labor, commercial, construction, international, and employment-sectors and in training mediators and arbitrators. Professor Bedikian created one of the first interactive ADR courses in Michigan in 1987 and has served as adjunct professor for more than 10 years at both the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and Wayne State University Law School. Professor Bedikian is the co-author of two practice books in ADR published by West. She was instrumental in creating the ADR Section of the State Bar of Michigan and received from the Section the Distinguished Service Award in Recognition of Significant Contributions to the Field of Alternative Dispute Resolution in 1999. She received her J.D. from Detroit College of Law (now Michigan State University College of Law) and M.A. from Wayne State University.
ADR Survey • Arbitration • Mediation • Negotiation
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Brian C. Kalt, Associate Professor of Law, is an expert in administrative and constitutional law. Prior to joining Michigan State University, he worked at the Washington, D.C. office of Sidley and Austin, one of the top appellate law practices in the country. Professor Kalt published articles in Georgetown Law Journal, American University Law Review, Washington Law Review, Constitutional Commentary and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. His book, Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies, is forthcoming from Yale University Press. Professor Kalt earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he served as a law clerk for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Administrative Law • Constitutional Law • Torts
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Donald E. Laverdure, Assistant Professor of Law, is a leading expert in taxation of indigenous peoples and tribal court systems and founding director of the Indigenous Law Program at the Law College. He brings to the IPCLP faculty his unique expertise and insights into the protection of folklore, traditional knowledge, and indigenous culture. Professor Laverdure is a former Chief Justice of the Crow Nation and a faculty associate in the American Indian Studies Program at Michigan State University. Born on the Crow Indian Reservation, Professor Laverdure writes and speaks frequently on tribal court systems; tribal, federal, and state taxation of entities and activities in Indian country; indigenous identity, affirmative action, and Indian preference; and treaty rights of indigenous peoples. Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Laverdure was a lecturer-in-law on Federal Law & Indian Tribes, William H. Hastie Fellow, and executive director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In fall 2000, he participated in President Clinton’s White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges & Universities. He received his J.D. and LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. During 2006-2008, Professor Laverdure is on leave to serve as the Attorney General of the Crow Nation.
Advanced Topics in Indian Law • Federal
Law and Indian Tribes • State, Tribal and Local
Taxation • Property
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Glen Staszewski, Associate Professor of Law, brings to the IPCLP faculty his expertise in administrative law and legislation. He was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice before joining the Law College faculty in 2001. He published articles in the Wisconsin Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review and Indiana Law Journal. He graduated from the Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he served as the editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review, participated in the school’s civil legal practice clinic and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduation, he clerked for the Hon. Fortunato P. Benavides of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Administrative Law • Legislation
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Faculty Associates
Johannes
M. Bauer is professor of telecommunication, information
studies & media and co-director of the Quello Center for
Telecommunication Management & Law in the College of Communication
Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University. During 2000-2001,
he was a visiting professor at the Interfaculty Research Center
for Design and Management of Infrastructures at the Delft University
of Technology in the Netherlands. From 1993 to 1998 he directed
the Institute of Public Utilities and Network Industries at the
Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University.
Professor Bauer has written and edited six books and more than
50 articles on issues of regulatory reform in telecommunications
and energy. He also has served as an advisor and expert witness
for public and private sector organizations in Argentina, Bolivia,
Brazil, Canada, the United States and in several European countries.
Together with a team from Cornell University and Rutgers University,
he is currently working on a National Science Foundation-funded
research project on strategies for optimizing the benefits from
mobile Internet applications in the unlicensed spectrum bands.
He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Vienna University of Economics
and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria.
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Janice
A. Beecher is the director of the Institute of
Public Utilities (IPU). She is also an adjunct professor
at the Law College and in the Political Science Department
at Michigan State University. She brings 20 years of experience
in public utility regulation to the IPU and is responsible
for Institute development, program management and interdisciplinary
research in support of the IPU’s mission of service
to the regulatory community. Dr. Beecher has lectured and
consulted with public, private and international organizations.
She has authored and coauthored numerous sponsored research
reports, as well as several book chapters and journal articles.
Dr. Beecher’s areas of expertise include regulatory
theory, institutions and policy and comparative utility industry
analysis. She received a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science
from Northwestern University.
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Jane
Briggs-Bunting is the director of the School of Journalism
at Michigan State University. She joined MSU after 24 years
as a faculty member and director of the Journalism Program
at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She has worked
extensively as a journalist, as a staff writer for the Detroit Free Press and for People and Life magazines as well as other
publications. She is also an attorney specializing in media
law. In April 2003, she was inducted into the prestigious Michigan
Journalism Hall of Fame. Richard J. Enbody is associate professor
of computer science and engineering at Michigan State University.
His research interests include computer architecture, security,
web-based distance education and parallel processing. Most
recently, he and his students created a honeynet and a kernel-level
intrusion-detection system with nearly zero false positives.
In collaboration with the Department of Physics and Astronomy,
he has one patent awarded and one patent pending on nanoscale
devices. Dr. Enbody is the director of the MSU CyberSecurity
Initiative and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Minnesota.
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Richard
J. Enbody is associate professor of computer science
and engineering at Michigan State University. His research interests
include computer architecture, security, web-based distance education
and parallel processing. Most recently he and his students created
a honeynet and a kernel-level intrusion-detection system with
nearly zero false positives. In collaboration with the Department
of Physics and Astronomy, he has one patent awarded and one patent
pending on nanoscale devices. Dr. Enbody is a member of the advisory
committee of MSU CyberSecurity Initiative and holds a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.
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Frederic
H. Erbisch is a consultant in intellectual property
management and an adjunct professor at the Institute of International
Agriculture at Michigan State University. From 1992 to 2000,
he was the director of the University’s Office of Intellectual
Property. He has been involved in technology transfer and intellectual
property management for more than 20 years and has presented
at and participated in intellectual property management programs
in 17 countries, primarily developing countries. He co-designed
and taught the International Internship Program in Intellectual
Property Rights and Technology Transfer. He is a co-editor of
Intellectual Property Rights in Agricultural Biotechnology and
has authored more than 70 refereed book chapters, papers and
abstracts. In 1998, he received the Thomas Jefferson Award for
Technology Transfer from the Technology Transfer Society. Before
joining Michigan State University, he was professor of biological
sciences and the executive director of the intellectual properties
office at Michigan Technological University. He holds a Ph.D.
in botany from the University of Michigan.
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Michael
A. Geist is Canada Research Chair in Internet and Ecommerce
Law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and the 2005 Trilateral
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Michigan State University
College of Law. Specializing in Internet and e-commerce law,
he also serves as technology counsel to Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
LLP. Professor Geist has written numerous academic articles and
government reports on the Internet and law. He is a national
columnist on cyberlaw issues for the Toronto Star, the creator
and consulting editor of BNA’s Internet Law News, the editor
of Internet and E-commerce Law in Canada, and the founder of
the Ontario Research Network for E-commerce. Professor Geist
is the author of the textbook Internet Law in Canada, which is
now in its third edition. He sits on the advisory boards of several
leading Internet law publications and serves on the boards of
directors and advisory boards of several Internet and information
technology law organizations, including the Canadian Internet
Registration Authority, the dot-ca administrative agency, the
Canadian IT Law Association, Watchfire and Verifia. He received
his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, an LL.M. from Cambridge
University and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia Law School.
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Daniel
J. Gervais is Vice-Dean of Research and Osler Professor
of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University
of Ottawa Faculty of Law and the 2004 Trilateral Distinguished
Scholar-in-Residence at Michigan State University College of
Law. He has been at the leading edge of debates concerning
international intellectual property for more than 10 years.
As a consultant and legal officer to the GATT/World Trade Organization
(WTO), he participated in the negotiation and drafting of the
TRIPs Agreement. Professor Gervais subsequently authored the
reference book, The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and
Analysis (2d ed., Sweet & Maxwell 2003). He also served as head
of the section dealing with copyright and digital technology
at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); assistant
secretary-general of the International Confederation of Societies
of Authors and Composers (CISAC); vice-chairman of the International
Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations, and vice-president
of Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. In addition, Professor
Gervais was a consultant to the Paris-based Organisation for
Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) on issues concerning
intellectual property and biotechnology. He is a member of
the Council of the Canadian Section of the International Commission
of Jurists and the general editor of the Journal of World
Intellectual Property. He serves as a panelist in WIPO’s Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Service. In 2003, he was awarded the Charles
B. Seton Award by the Copyright Society of the USA.
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Ian
R. Kerr is Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology
at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Prior to his appointment
to Ottawa in 2000, he held a joint appointment in the Faculty
of Law, the Faculty of Information & Media Studies and the
Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.
His teaching has earned six awards and citations, including the
Bank of Nova Scotia Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching,
the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Graduate
Studies’ Award of Teaching Excellence, and the University
of Ottawa’s AEECLSS Teaching Excellence Award. Professor
Kerr currently teaches a graduate seminar in the LL.M. concentration
in law and technology at Ottawa, as well as a seminar offered
each January in Puerto Rico that brings students from different
legal traditions together to unite in the study of technology
law issues of global importance. Professor Kerr also teaches
in the areas Internet and ecommerce law, contract law and legal
theory. Professor Kerr has published in academic books and journals
on ethical and legal aspects of digital copyright, automated
electronic commerce, artificial intelligence, cybercrime, nanotechnology,
Internet regulation, ISP and intermediary liability and online
defamation.
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Karim
M. Maredia is Professor and Technology Transfer Coordinator
at the Institute of International Agriculture and the Department
of Entomology in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
at Michigan State University. He has wide-ranging experience
in coordinating international training and capacity building
programs in intellectual property rights and technology transfer,
and his projects feature collaboration with Costa Rica, Egypt,
India, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, and South Africa.
Professor Maredia was instrumental in developing the International
Internship Program in Intellectual Property Rights and Technology
Transfer and is the co-editor of Intellectual Property Rights
in Agricultural Biotechnology. Before joining Michigan State
University, he was an international scientist at the International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico. His research interests
include international technology transfer, agricultural biotechnology,
intellectual property rights, biosafety and food safety, integrated
pest management, and sustainable agriculture. He holds a Ph.D.
in agriculture from the University of Arkansas.
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Charles
Steinfield is professor of telecommunication, information
studies & media at Michigan State University. His research
interests center on the social and organizational impacts of
information technologies. He focuses his recent work in two areas:
(1) electronic commerce, particularly emphasizing the impact
of network-based transactions on the relationships between buyers
and sellers, and on business strategy, and (2) distributed collaborative
work, emphasizing how communication and information technologies
can be used to support group work. Professor Steinfield has been
a visiting professor and researcher at a number of institutions
in the U.S. and in Europe, including the Institut National des
Telecommunications in France, Delft University of Technology
in the Netherlands, Bellcore, and the Telematica Instituut in
the Netherlands. His recent books include E-Life after the
Dot Com Bust (Springer) (co-edited with Brigitte Preissl and Harry
Bouwman) and New Directions in Research on E-Commerce (Purdue
University Press) (editor).
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Steven
S. Wildman is James H. Quello Chair
of Telecommunication Studies and co-director of the James H.
and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law
in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan
State University. Prior to joining Michigan State University
in fall 1999, he was associate professor of communication studies
and director of the program in telecommunications science, management & policy
at Northwestern University. Earlier positions include senior
economist with Economists Incorporated and assistant professor
of economics at UCLA. Professor Wildman is well-known for his
research and publications on economics and policy for communication
industries, including the broadcasting, cable television, and
recording industries. In addition to numerous articles and book
chapters, he has authored or edited five books, including Video
Economics (Harvard University Press) and Rethinking
Rights and Regulations Institutional Responses to New Communications
Technologies (MIT Press). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
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Practice
John C. Blattner iis a shareholder practicing in Butzel Long’s Ann Arbor office. He oversees Butzel Long’s trademark portfolio management program, including trademark counseling, clearance, registration, and maintenance both in the U.S. and overseas. He also has extensive experience in patent, trademark, copyright and unfair competition litigation in state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels, and represents clients in proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. In addition, he works with the Higher Education Law Practice (HELP) group in the areas of intellectual property counsel and litigation, student and faculty discipline cases, and tenure revocation issues, and with the firm’s Media Law group. He received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a member of the Michigan Law Review. He holds an A.B. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. from American University.
Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
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Monte L. Falcoff is a principal with Harness, Dickey & Pierce, PLC. His primary areas of practice include the preparation and prosecution of mechanical and electromechanical patent applications, patent litigation, trade secret evaluation and drafting licensing agreements. Before entering the legal profession, he was the manager of marketing program development and patent and trademark coordinator for the business unit of United Technologies Automotive, where he was responsible for developing, selling, and licensing new technology. He was also a systems engineer at the modular headliner programs at United Technologies Automotive, from which he had 10 U.S. patents issued. He received his B.S. in Engineering from Michigan State University and a J.D. from Wayne State University School of Law, where he served as the Note and Comment editor of the Wayne Law Review.
Advanced
Patent Law • Patent
Litigation
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Karen Kimble is the founder of Technology Law, PLLC. She has extensive experience in the areas of licensing and patents and has been involved with all aspects of the patent process, including strategy, drafting, prosecution, interference, oppositions, and litigation matters. Prior to founding Technology Law, Ms. Kimble worked for The Dow Chemical Company as a Patent Attorney (Senior Counsel and lead attorney of the Biotechnology group), visioning level (1985-2004). She was a patent attorney for Eli Lilly & Co. and a patent agent for G.D. Searle & Co. She received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from St. Cloud State University, an M.S. in Chemistry from Purdue University, and a J.D. from Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis.
Intellectual Property Management and Technology Transfer • Licensing
Intellectual Property
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Frances Marshall is Special Counsel for Intellectual Property in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she advises on a wide range of matters related to the intersection of competition and intellectual property law and policy. Before joining the Division, she was an attorney-advisor in the General Counsel’s Office at the U.S. International Trade Commission. She clerked for the Hon. Raymond C. Clevenger, III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She received her J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was managing editor of the International Tax and Business Lawyer. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Carleton College and then spent two years in West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Antitrust Law
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Harold W. Milton, Jr. is of counsel to Dickinson Wright PLLC and manages the firm’s Intellectual Property Academy. He has engaged in all phases of patent, trademark and copyright practice, including prosecution of patent applications and licensing. He served as lead trial counsel in successfully litigating various patented technologies, assisting new enterprises in protecting their technology to entice investment or the sale of the enterprises and overseeing the creation of patent, trade secret and trademark portfolios during periods of significant growth for several large corporations. Listed among the America’s Best Lawyers (Woodward/White, Inc.), Mr. Milton has mentored over 50 new attorneys into the practice of patent law through his intellectual property internship program during the last 30 years. He is the editor of the Patent, Trademarks and Copyright sections of the Michigan Institute of Continuing Legal Education Business Forms Book and was an examiner in the U.S. Patent Office and a patent advisor in the Office of Naval Research, U.S. Navy. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Patent Application Preparation
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Thomas T. Moga is a senior attorney practicing in Butzel Long’s Bloomfield Hills office. He was a delegate to the WIPO Consultation Meeting on Enforcement and a delegation member to the Sino-U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Exchange Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. In addition, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Jilin University in China and the resident foreign advisor at the State Intellectual Property Office in China. He also worked at the Saint Island Patent & Trademark Office and was a visiting professor of law at Tamsui-Oxford University as part of a Joint M.B.A. Program with Madonna University. Mr. Moga is the author of a three volume treatise, Patent Practice and Policy in the Pacific Rim (Oceana), and regularly contributes journal articles on intellectual property developments in Asia. He earned his J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law and M.A. in English Language & Literature from the University of Michigan.
Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Patents • Topics
in Intellectual Property & Communications
Law: Intellectual Property Practice and Policy in the Pacific
Rim
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S. Gary Spicer advises and counsels corporate executives, professional athletes, sports broadcasters and entertainers in their business and legal matters. Mr. Spicer earned his J.D. from Detroit College of Law (now Michigan State University College of Law) and an M.B.A. from Wayne State University. In 2002, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Adrian College, from which he received his B.A. He opened his own law practice in 1970 and presently serves as a trustee and director for numerous nonprofit organizations and foundations.
Entertainment Law • Sports Law
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David L. Suter is a principal with Harness, Dickey & Pierce, PLC. Prior to joining the law firm, he was associate general counsel—patents for The Procter & Gamble Company, where he was responsible for all intellectual property matters for its Health Care and Corporate New Ventures business unit. He has extensive experience in a variety of technology and business areas, including chemical, molecular biological, and mechanical technologies in the pharmaceutical and consumer products industries. His law practice includes the development and implementation of intellectual property strategies; patent preparation and prosecution; patent portfolio management, infringement and validity opinions; intellectual property-related antitrust issues; trade secret matters; and the negotiation and drafting of complex agreements. He received his J.D. with honors from the Ohio State University.
Licensing Intellectual Property
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Margaret Vroman is an assistant city attorney with the City of Lansing, where she is the chief appellate counsel and legal advisor to the General Services Committee and the Telecommunications Board. She is also responsible for negotiating and approving all contracts for the purchase of software and technology services, developing computer use policies for the City, handling all other legal issues involving technology, and enforcing intellectual property rights. Professor Vroman has served as a consultant on cyberlaw issues for The Detroit News and The Christian Science Monitor. She sits on the Cyberlaw Committee of the Ingham County Bar Association and is a member of the Computer Law section of the Michigan Bar Association. She received her M.A. in political science (international relations) from Western Michigan University and her J.D. from the University of Toledo College of Law.
Cyberlaw
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