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Professor Homer Blair, died on December 15, 2009 in San Angelo, Texas, having built a unique career with 35 years experience in the patent, trademark, licensing and technology transfer fields.

He was born in Tacoma, Washington, grew up in Tacoma and Seattle and graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma. He was an Eagle Scout and is a 100% disabled Army Infantry veteran of World War II, where he received the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the Combat Infantry Badge.

Professor Blair has degrees in Chemistry, Physics and Law from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire.

After working in the patent departments of Westinghouse Electric, Boeing, Kaiser Aluminum and Celanese Corporation, he was Vice President, Patents and Licensing, for Itek Corporation, Lexington, Mass. for 19 years.

After Itek was acquired by Litton Industries, Professor Blair was David Rines Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Industrial Innovation for 5 years at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire. While at Franklin Pierce, he was also Director, Kenneth J. Germeshausen Center for the Law of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

At Franklin Pierce he, together with Professor William Hennessey, established the unique Master of Intellectual Property Degree program, which educates people, especially those from developing countries, in United States law and practice in patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing and technology transfer.

While at Franklin Pierce, he created courses in Licensing Intellectual Property (Technology Transfer), Advanced Licensing and Preventive Intellectual Property Lawyering. He also created the Patent Systems Major Problems Conference, a unique biennial discussion conference of judges, corporate patent attorneys, private firm patent attorneys and intellectual property faculty members.

Professor Blair received a Award of Citation from the Franklin Pierce Law Center Class of 1989.

He has been on 6 US delegations to the United Nations in Geneva and New York and has been a consultant to the UN. He was also a member of the 1971 US/USSR Exchange on Patent Management and Patent Licensing, which made contacts leading to the negotiation of the period of "Detente" between the United States and the USSR.

Professor Blair has been a member of President Carter's Department of Commerce Advisory Committee on Industrial Innovation, the US State Department Advisory Committee on International Intellectual Property, and the US Department of Commerce Advisory Committee for Trademark Policy. He also played a significant role in the legislation that created the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

He has been President of the Licensing Executives Society USA/Canada (LES USA/Canada), was the first recipient of that organization's Award of Highest Honor, was one of the founders of Licensing Executives Society International and has been President of the International Trademark Association (INTA). Professor Blair is the only person to have been President of both LES USA/Canada and INTA.

Professor Blair has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Association and has also been a member, and Chairman, of various committees in the American Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel and the Boston Patent Law Association, from whom he received an award "in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of intellectual property law".

He has been admitted to the practice of law in Washington State, Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Professor Blair, and his wife, Jean, live in San Angelo, Texas. Their daughter, Patricia, also lives in San Angelo.

HOMER O. BLAIR INFORMATION SUMMARY EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

1985-1989 Franklin Pierce Law Center, David Rines Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Industrial Innovation and Director, Kenneth J. Germeshausen Center for the Law of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
1966-1985 Itek Corporation, Vice President, Patents and' Licensing
1962-1966 Celanese Corporation
1961-1962 Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation
1958-1960 Boeing Company
1954-1958 Westinghouse Electric Corporation

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

GOVERNMENT

Participant in six United Nations meetings in Geneva, Switzerland and one in New York.
Participant in U.S./U.S.S.R. Exchange on Patent Management and Patent Licensing
Member of three U.S. Government Advisory Committees:
1. Federal Policy on Industrial Innovation
2. State Department-International Intellectual Policy
3. Department of Commerce-Public Advisory Committee on Trademark Affairs

NON-GOVERNMENT

Licensing Executives Society
Founding Member, Licensing Executives Society International; President, Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A./Canada) (1974-1975); First Recipient, LES (U.S.A./Canada), Award of Highest Honor
International Trademark Association (formerly U.S. Trademark Association), President
(1983-1984)
American Intellectual Property Law Association Member, Board of Directors (1982-1985)
PTC Research Foundation
Member of Advisory Council and member of Editorial Advisory Board of IDEA, The Journal of Law and Technology
American Bar Association: Chairman and member of various Committees
Association of Corporate Patent Counsel: An original member of ACPC and Chairman, Management Committee
Pacific Intellectual Property Association, Boston Patent Law Association, Washington State Bar Association

BAR ADMISSIONS

Washington State, Massachusetts, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
EDUCATION:
B.S. in Chemistry (1948); B.S. (Physics) (1951); J.D. (Law) (1953), all from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

HONORARY DEGREES:

Doctor of Laws (LLD), (1989), Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, N.H.
PERSONAL:
Born in Tacoma, Washington, April 11, 1925. Married, one daughter. 100% Disabled Army Veteran, 75th Infantry Division, World War II, including European Infantry Combat duty in the Battle of the Bulge, Bronze Star, Purple Heart.

HOMER O. BLAIR EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

1985-1989 Franklin Pierce Law Center, Director, Kenneth J. Germeshausen Center for the Law of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and David Rines Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Industrial Innovation. Initiated and taught two semester courses on Licensing and Technology Transfer I and II. Initiated and taught course on Preventive Intellectual Property Lawyering-Corporate and Private. Initiated, organized and moderated two Patent Systems Major Problems Conferences (1987, 1989) (Transcripts published in IDEA, The Journal of Law and Technology). Initiated Master of Intellectual Property Degree program which brings people from other countries to Franklin Pierce Law Center for two semesters of intellectual property and one semester composed of one month at the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, one month at an intellectual property law firm and one month at the intellectual property department of a corporation.

1966-1985 Itek Corporation, Vice President, Patents and Licensing. Reorganized and managed Patents and Licensing Department, first as Director of Patents and Licensing and, from 1971 to 1985, as Vice President. Department has included as many as fifteen people including six attorneys and a non-attorney, business oriented licensing specialist. (See attachment for technology involved.)

1962-1966 Celanese Corporation (New York) - Senior Patent Attorney, Polymer Unit Chief, followed by Senior Patent Attorney, Chemical Unit Chief (Supervised 1-4 attorneys).

1961-1962 Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation (Oakland, California) - Patent Attorney.
1958-1960 Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) - Patent Attorney
1954-1958 Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) - Patent Attorney.
Above experience includes all phases of performing and managing patent and trademark duties as well as innovation and technology transfer.
MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE includes reorganizing, and having complete responsibility for, a small corporate patent department, personnel administration and motivation including salaries, promotions, hiring and terminating, dealing with corporate and division management on all levels, establishing and administering corporate patent, trademark, technology transfer and innovation policies and dealing with outside organizations and individuals on both a legal and business basis. Budget requires financial planning, analysis and control.
Member, Corporate New Business Development Committee.

MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE also includes supervision of sections of a large patent department (Celanese).

HOMER 0. BLAIR TECHNOLOGICAL FIELDS OF EXPERIENCE

1966-1985 Non-chemical (large and small optics, all types of eyeglasses, graphic business equipment, electrostatic copier-duplicators, phototypesetters, military electronics).
Chemical (polymers for ophthalmic lenses and soft contact lenses, photographic materials and chemicals, printing plates).
Celanese

1962-1966 Polymers including epoxy resins, oxymethylene polymers, polyolefins, cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate propionate, and other polymers, polymerization processes and apparatus, catalysts, chemical and non-chemical stabilization, shaping and surface treatment of polymers. Chemicals including oxidation of hydrocarbons, resulting in a wide variety of compounds including formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, methanol, acetone, formic acid, pentaerythritol, acetic acid, acetic anhydride, ethyl acetate, ketene, beta-propiolactone, acrylic esters, etc. Other products included vinyl acetate, nylon intermediates, peracetic acid, trimethylolpropane, etc.
Kaiser

1961-1962 Coating and finishing aluminum surfaces, heat treatment of aluminum, hot and cold working of aluminum, the metallurgy of aluminum, the metallurgy of iron and steel, the oxygen steel process, fluorocarbons, hydrofluoric acid, aluminum fluoride, phosphoric acid, potassium chloride, and other areas of chemistry and metallurgy.
Boeing

1958-1960 Chemistry, physics, space, rocket propulsion and related technical areas. Particular developments relate to chemical milling, pickling, heat treatment, etc., of metals, ceramics, lubricants, adhesives, vinyl laminates, rocket fuels and engines, high temperature structures and materials, atomic and nuclear detectors, and new materials and processes.
Westinghouse

1954-1958 Electronic tubes including receiving tubes, cathode ray tubes, power tubes, microwaves and microwave devices, infrared detection, high vacuum devices, semiconductors, etc., with particular emphasis on the chemical and physical aspects of the above devices. Also included were chemical materials, organic and inorganic coatings, preparation and treatment of electronic tube parts, and manufacture of electronic tubes.

HOMER O. BLAIR PATENT, TRADEMARK AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER EXPERIENCE

Dealing with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:

Preparation and issuance of patent applications. Amendment and full prosecution of patent applications. Patent interferences.
Reissue and re-examination of U.S. patents. Interviews and negotiations with patent examiners. Appeals to the U.S. patent Office Board of Appeals. Appeals to the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. Preparation and issuance of trademark applications. Trademark oppositions.
Assisting and advising U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in international matters and negotiations.
Dealing with Other Corporate People:
Dealing with top corporate and division management on wide variety of business arrangements and policies relating to business and proprietary aspects of technology and trademarks, including innovation and technology transfer.
Explaining business and/or technical aspects of patents, trade secrets, trademarks, etc. to business and technical employees on all levels. Evaluating patent disclosures from employee inventors.
Working with employee inventors in getting patents on their inventions. Evaluating new products for possible infringement of patents owned by others.
Preparation of patent, trademark and technology clauses in varied types of agreements and contracts.
Evaluating preliminary prior art patent and technical literature searches and patent validity, infringement and state-of-the-art searches and trademark searches and reviewing them with management and non-management employees as required.
Technology Transfer:
Business and legal aspects of marketing and purchasing technology. Business and legal aspects of license negotiations.
License drafting. License administration.
Other:
Supervision of, and participation in, patent and trade secret litigation, in some cases representing the patent owner or trade secret owner, and in other cases representing the alleged patent infringer. Includes filing of administrative claims, and litigation in the U.S. court of Claims, against U.S. Government for infringement of patents.
Negotiation and administration of government contract patent and know-how matters.
Provision of detailed comments to assist foreign associates in obtaining appropriate foreign patent and trademark coverage.
Evaluating disclosures of technology submitted by outside inventors and companies.
Administering and analysis of payment of foreign patent taxes.

HOMER O. BLAIR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of five-man delegation in 1971 U.S./U.S.S.R. Exchange on Patent Management and Patent Licensing co-sponsored by the Licensing Executives Society and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Les Nouvelles, 10/71
Private industry member on U.S. Government delegation to United Nations meetings in Geneva, Switzerland as follows:
1. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on:
a. "The Role of the Patent System in the Transfer of Technology", September 1975.
b. "The Role of the Industrial Property System in the Transfer of Technology", September 1977.
2. Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), on "A Manual on Licensing Procedure", January 1979; and
3. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on "Establishment of a Guide on the Organization of Industrial Property Activities in Enterprises in Developing Countries", March 1981

Only U.S. participant (U.S. Government recommended) at:
1. United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Geneva meeting on "Trademarks and Developing Countries", July 1981.
2. United Nations Conference On Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Geneva meeting on "The Changing Legal Structure for the Development and Transfer of Technology Arising from New Technological Development", December 1988.

Member of U.S. delegation on the "Law of the Sea", United Nations, New York, March-April 1982.

Member of:
U.S. Gov't Advisory Committee on Federal Policy on Industrial Innovation. U.S. State Dept., Advisory Committee on International Intellectual Property. U. S. Department of Commerce, Public Advisory Committee on Trademark Affairs. Licensing Executives Society International, Founding Member.

Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A./Canada), President, 1974-1975. Recipient, Award of Highest Honor

International Trademark Association (formerly U.S. Trademark Association), President, 1983-1984.

American Intellectual Property Law Association Member, Board of Directors, 1982-1985. PTC Research Foundation, Member of Advisory Council and member of Editorial Advisory Board of IDEA, The Journal of Law and Technology.

American Bar Association, Sections on (1) Patents, Trademarks and Copyrightsmember and chairman of a number of committees including Chairman of International Technology Transfer Committee, and (2) International Law, committees on International Antitrust Law, Soviet Law and Disarmament. Association of Corporate Patent Counsel.

An original member of ACPC and Chairman, Management Committee Boston Patent Law Association.

Recipient of Special Award "In Recognition of Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Intellectual Property Law".

Pacific Intellectual Property Association, Washington State Bar Association
Substantial experience in dealing with U.S. Senators and Congressmen, Congressional staff people and U.S. Executive Branch people in preparing legislation, testifying before Congress and working to get laws enacted.

Numerous articles and speeches on patents, trademarks, technology transfer and related subjects.

HOMER 0. BLAIR SPEECHES AND PUBLICATIONS

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• Article entitled "Government Rights in Patents" in Les Nouvelles, November 1967, Vol. 2, No. 5, p.38. Reprinted in The Law and Business of Licensing edited by Finnegan & Goldscheider, Vol. 1, p. 763, Clark Boardman, 1975.
• Workshop moderator on "Field of Use and/or Territorial Limitations in U.S. and Foreign License Agreements Involving Patents, Know-how and/or Trademarks", Licensing Executives Society, Eastern Regional Meeting, 4/25/68. See Les Nouvelles, Vol. 3, No. 3., p.4.
• Discussion leader on "Motivating and Organizing the Corporate Patent Staff", Western Corporate Patent Seminar, 10/1/68.
• Discussion leader on "Invention Incentive Programs", Western Corporate Patent Seminar, 11/10/69.
• Speaker on "Administering and Enforcing the License Agreement", AMA International Licensing course, 5/21/70.
• Speaker on "International Licensing:, AMA International Finance course, 2/22/71.
• Speaker on "Joint Ventures and the Patent, Trademark and Know-how (Proprietary Asset) Laws", PTC Research Institute.)-day clinic on Joint-Ventures Abroad: Industrial Property, Taxation and Competition Speech, 3/31/71. Reported in IDEA, PTC Journal of Research & Education, Vol. 15, No. 2, p.202-232, Summer 1971.
• Article entitled "Licensing at Itek", Les Nouvelles, Vol 6, No. 2, p.69-70, 3/71.
• Workshop Co-moderator on "Systems Engineering Approach to Licensing", Licensing Executives Society, Eastern Regional Meeting, 4/21/71.
• Panel member and speaker on "Patents and Corporations in the U.S.", U.S. State Department meeting with U.S.S.R. delegation of the U.S.A/U.S.S.R. Exchange on Patent Management and Patent Licensing, 3/26/71. See Les Nouvelles, Vol. 6, No. 3, p.128-129, 5/71.
• Author of a chapter entitled "Administering and Enforcing the License Agreement" in The Law and Business of Patent and Know-how Licensing, Finnegan & Brunsvold, 1971.
• Co-author of 10/71 Special Issue of Les Nouvelles on "Report of USA Delegation on the USA/USSR Information Exchange on Patent Management and Licensing." Partially reprinted in The Law and Business of Licensing, Marcus B. Finnegan and Robert Goldscheider, Vol. 2, p.343-367, 1975.
• Workshop moderator (2 workshops) on "Administering the License", Licensing Executives Society Annual Meeting, 10/20/71.
• Speaker and panel member on "Soviet Proprietary Assets:, Licensing Executives Society Annual Meeting, 10/20/71.
• Speaker on "Inventions and Licensing in the Soviet Union", Rochester Patent Law Association, 11/9/71.
• Article entitled "Administering the License Agreement", Technology Mart, p.21-23, 3/4/72.
• Speaker op "Advantages and Disadvantages of International Licensing", International Licensing Seminar, International Center of New England, 4/11/72.
• Speaker on "Licensing of Western Technology to Soviet Union:, ABA International Law Section meeting, 8/15/72. Printed in Current Legal Aspects of Doing Business with Sino-Soviet Nations, ABA International Law Section, 1973.
• Speaker on "Inventions and the Soviet Union", New York Patent Law Association, 12/12/72.
• Article entitled "Inventions in the Soviet Union", International Lawyer, Vol. 7, No. 2, p.485-491, 4/73.
• Speaker on "Future of Licensing with U.S.S.R., Eastern Europe and China", Licensing Executives Society Regional meeting, 4/9/73.
• Panelist in U.S. room at London Licensing Executives Society meeting, 6/3/73.
• Speaker on "Practical Licensing", Research Management Association, 12/11/73.
• Speaker on "Approaches and Problems in Administering a Corporate Licensing Program", Practising Law Institute, 1/18/74.
• Speaker on "Licensing-A Case History", International Business Center of New England, 3/19/74:
• Author of "Approaches and Problems in Administering a Corporate Licensing Program" in Current Trends in Domestic and International Licensing, course handbook series No. 47, Practising Law Institute, 1974. Also appeared in same book title, patent transcript series No. 6, 1975.
• Panel member and speaker on "Licensing Between the East and West", Brussels Licensing Executives Society meeting, 5/74.
• Speaker on "Licensing Technology and Know-how in U.S.S.R.", American Bar Association, Honolulu, Hawaii meeting, 8/74.
• Speaker on "Negotiating, Drafting and Implementing the License Agreement", LES/Know-how '74, Oslo, Norway, 10/74.
• President's Message, Licensing Executives Society, Les Nouvelles, 12/74, 3/75, 6/75 and 9/75.
• Speaker on "Licensing", Harvard Business School graduate students, Boston, MA, 2/19/75.
• Speaker on "The Advantages of Licensing for the Businessman", Seattle, WA Rotary Club, 5/75.
• Speaker on "Licensing", University of Washington School of Business Administration graduate students, 5/75.
• Book review of Patents, Trademarks and Related Rights--National and International Protection, Stephen P. Ladas, in IDEA, The Ptc Journal of Research and Education, Vol. 17, No. 2, p.59, Summer 1975.
• Speaker on "Promotion of National Scientific and Technological Infrastructures of Developing Countries" and "Systems, Including Industrial Property Systems, for Improving the National, Scientific and Technological Infrastructures of the Developing Countries", as a U.S. Delegate to Meeting of Group of Governmental Experts on the Role of the Patent System in the Transfer of Technology of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, Switzerland, 9/1-12/75.
• Speaker on "Administration of a License After It Has Been Executed", licensing symposium, Budapest, Hungary, 9/19/75. -Speech appeared in book entitled Trends, Problems and Solutions in International Licensing, Dr. A. Vida, Budapest, Hungary, p.109-142, 1975.
• Speaker on "United Nations meeting on Role of the Patent System in the' Transfer of Technology and Its Implications for American Business", American Patent Law Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 10/3/75. Printed in APLA Bulletin, p.657-672, 10/11/75.
• Speaker on "Licensing to Europe", Ontario Ministry of Industry and Tourism licensing seminar, Toronto, CAN, 11/18/75.
• Speaker on "Licensing", Harvard Business School graduate students, Boston, MA, 11/25/75.
• Speaker on "The Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A.), Inc., What it is, What it does", Philadelphia Patent Law Association meeting, 2/19/76.
• Speaker on "The Role of Proprietary Assets in Licensing and Joint Ventures", International Business Center of New England Licensing and Joint Venture meeting, Boston, MA, 2/18/76.
• Speaker on "Impact of United Nations (UNCTAD) September 1975 Geneva fleeting on International Technology Transfer", to State Department, Commerce Department and Industry representatives at meeting of U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Intellectual Property, 4/27/76.
• Speaker on "Response to Collective Bargaining Proposals for Technology Tranfer" and member of Organizing Committee at United Nations Industrial Development Organization/Licensing Executives Society International Symposium on "Licensing and the Proposed New International Economic Order", 9/20-22/76.
• Speaker on "The Licensing Executive-Who He Is and What He Does", Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A.), Inc. spouse's program, Las Vegas, NV, 10/25-29/76.
• Speaker on "History and Activities of the Licensing Executives Society", Licensing Executives Society, Toronto, CAN, 1/19/77.
• Speaker on "Licensing with the Soviet Union and Other East Bloc Countries", International Business Center of New England, Boston, MA, 3/15/77.
• Speaker on "Basic Terms Involved in Technology Transfer", "When and How to Seek Patent Protection of Inventions" and "How to Protect Trade Secrets and Know-how", workshop leader on "A Simulated Case History and panel member on "Discussion of a Simulated Case History" at American Management Association/Licensing Executives Society seminar on "Introduction to Technology Transfer", New York, NY, 5/2-3/77.
• Speaker on "Trademarks in Commerce and Technology Transfer" as U.S. Delegate to Meeting of Group of Governmental Experts on the Role of the Industrial Property System in the Transfer of Technology of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, Switzerland, 10/6-14/77.
• Speaker on "The Role of Licensing in the Transfer and Development of Technology", U.S. State Department, White House staff, Congressional staff, Commerce Department and other U.S. governmental representatives re: Council of the Americas project on Transfer of Technology and the U.S. Private Sector, Washington, DC, 12/7/77.
• Speaker on "Licensing Executives Society Proposal to Encourage Technology Transfer to the Developing Nations" and panel member, Electronic Industries Association meeting, Washington, DC, 12/7/77.
• Article entitled "The Licensing Executives Society (USA), Inc. Proposal to Encourage Technology Transfer to the Developing "Nations", Les Nouvelles, Vol. XII, No. 4., p. 11 ff LES News Section, 12/77.
• Book review of Licensing Guide for Developing Countries, Gust A. Ledakis, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland, appeared in Les Nouvelles, Vol. XII, No. 4, p.8 LES News Section, 12/77.
• Speaker on "Restrictive Business Practices and International Transfer of Technology", Fordham University Conference, New York, NY, 12/14/77.
• Speaker on "U.N. Conference on Trade and Development Activities Relating to Technology Transfer, Patents and Trademarks", Licensing Executives Society/New Jersey Bar Licensing seminar, Newark, NJ, 3/18/78.
• Speaker on "International Licensing", International Business Center of New England-Chief Executive Officers Roundtable meeting, Newton, MA, 4/4/78.
• Speaker on "Current Activities and Prospects on the International Patent Scene", Licensing Executives Society Central Regional Meeting, Oakbrook, IL, 5/26/78.
• Speaker on "Understanding Patents, Trademarks and Other Proprietary Assets and Their Role in Technology Transfer and Licensing", AMA/Licensing Executives Society seminar, New York, NY, 6/5-6/78.
• Author of Understanding Patents, Trademarks and Other Proprietary Assets and Their Role in Technology Transfer and Licensing-The Practical View, 1978.
• Speaker on "Licensing", Inventors Association of New England, Cambridge, MA, 7/10/78.
• Speaker on "Licensing Aspects of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Guide for International Operation", American Bar Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 8/3-9/78.
• Speaker on "Varieties of International Technology Transfer", International Business Center of New England, Boston, MA, 12/7/78.
• Speaker on "United Nations Code of Conduct on the Transfer of Technology", John Marshall Law School, 2/22-23/79. Expanded version printed in The John Marshall Journal of Practice and Procedure, Vol. 13, No. 1, p.163-203, Fall 1979.
• Article on "The Antitrust Guide and Licensing of Patents, Trade Secrets and Trademarks", in Perspectives on the Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Antitrust and Other Laws, Joseph P. Griffin, p.105-118, 1979.
• Speaker on "Intellectual Property Law of the Soviet Union as it Affects Foreigners", American Bar Association National Institute on "Current International Legal Aspects of Licensing and Intellectual Property". Also session moderator on "The Soviet Union: Licensing and Intellectual Property Law" and "Adjudication and Arbitration of Disputes Under International Licensing Agreements", Washington, DC, 4/5-6/79.
• Testified at hearing of U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee re S.677 (later S.1477), the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1979, Washington, DC, 5/7/79.
• Speaker on "The Role of Patents, Trademarks and Other Proprietary Assets in Technology Transfer", AMA/LES course on "Introduction to Technology Transfer Worldwide", New York, NY, 6/11-12/79.
• Speaker on "Advanced Technology Transfer: An International Course:, AMA/LES course on "The Acquisition of Technology: The Importance of Licensing In vs. Licensing Out, New York, NY 6/13-15/79.
• Speaker on "Recommendations of the Patent Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Federal Policy on Industrial Innovation" ACPC meeting, Colorado Springs, CO, 6/17-19/79.
• Speaker on "Technology Transfer from Small Organizations to Large Organizations-An Example", Pacific Industrial Property Association (PIPA) 10th Annual Congress, Philadelphia, PA, 10/25/79.
• Speaker on "Licensing of Inventions", MIT Innovation Center, Cambridge, MA, 1/23/80.
• Testified on "The Administration's Proposed Bill on Government Patent Policy", at Joint Hearing of U.S. Senate Commerce Committee and Judiciary Committee, Washington, DC, 1/25/80.
• Speaker on "Government Patent Policy and Other Pending Patent Legislation", Semi-annual Meeting of Association of Corporate Patent Counsel, Palm Springs, CA, 1/29/80.
• Speaker on "The World Industrial Property Association Model Law for Developing Countries on Inventions, Know-how and Technovations", Annual Spring Meeting, American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, Patent, Trademark and Know-how Committee, Washington, DC, 1/27/80.
• Speaker on "Business Aspects of Patents, Trademarks and Licensing:, Boston Bar Association Luncheon Meeting, Boston, MA, 4/17/80.
• Chairman at two workshops on "Licensing Inventions and Innovations" as part of a U.S. Government-sponsored National Innovation Workshop entitled "Making Invention Work", Babson College, Wellesley, MA, 6/20/80.
• Speaker on "Renewed Interest in Patents, Invention, and Innovation on the National Scene", Medtronic Forum, Patent Recognition Day, Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 8/26/80.
• Co-chairman of two workshops on "Licensing Inventions and Innovations" as part of a U.S. Government-sponsored National Innovation Workshop entitled "The Innovation Process", Atlanta, GA, 10/3/80.
• Luncheon speaker on "Technology Transfer as an Issue in North/South Dialogue" at symposium on "Transnational Technology Transfer", Vanderbilt University School of Law, Nashville, TN, 10/24/80.
• Speaker and Workshop Leader on "International Technology Transfer", International Business Center of New England, Boston, MA, 12/10/80.
• Speaker on "International Technology Transfer: United Nations Code of Conduct and the Law of the Sea", John Marshall Law School, 25th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law, Chicago, IL, 2/20/81.
• Speaker on "Patent Models--History and Examples", Inventors Association of New England Meeting, Boston, MA, 3/9/81.
• Article entitled "Technology Transfer as an Issue in North/South Negotiations", Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 14, No. 2., p.301-3216, Spring 1981.
• Testified on "Government Patent Policy and the Proposed Uniform Science and Technology Research and Development Utilization Act" at Hearing of U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Washington, DC, 7/28/81.
• Speaker on "Product Liability and Trademark Licensing-Hoist by His Own Petard?", at the American Bar Association, Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, New Orleans, LA, 8/81.
• Article entitled "Product Liability and Trademark Licensing-Hoist by His Own Petard?", in Recent Developments in Licensing, Editor, Joseph J. Previto, American Bar Association, Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, p.220-229, 1981.
• Speaker on "Trademark Licensor Liability and Special Alert-Mandatory Technology Transfer Under the Law of the Sea", Licensing Executives Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 10/7/81.
• Speaker on "Technology for the Underdeveloped World-Current United Nations Activities", Joint Meeting of the Pittsburgh Patent Law Association and the Licensing Executives Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 10/21/81.
• Speaker on "Law of the Sea-Current Status", Pacific Industrial Property Association 12th Annual Congress, New York, NY, 11/81.
• Article entitled "International Technology Transfer: United Nations Code of Conduct and Law of the Sea Treaty", Intellectual Property Law Review-1981, p.113-146, Clark Boardman Co., Ltd., 1981.
• Speaker on "Licensing", Innovation Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 3/16/82.
• Keynote speaker on "Alphabet Soup at the United Nations: WIPO, UNCTAD, UNIDO, etc.", seminar on International Technology Transfer, International Business Center of New England, Lexington, MA, 3/31/82. Also workshop co-chairman on "General Aspects of Transfer of Technology."
• Speaker On "Licensing Your Invention", Inventors Association of New England, Cambridge, MA, 4/12/82.
• Speaker on "Consideration of the Nature of the Item to be Licensed: Patents, Trade Secrets, Copyrights and Trademark Factors" and "Structuring the License Agreement: How to Put It all Together", 5th Annual Conference of University of North Carolina School of Law-"Exporting Technology and Industrial Know-how Abroad: Legal Aspects of Transfer and Portection Through Licensing", 11/12/82.
• Speaker on "The Corporate Patent Counsel", Semi-annual Meeting of Association of Corporate Patent Counsel, Spouses Program, Durango, COLO, 6/14/82.
• Article entitled "Overview of Licensing and Technology Transfer", North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, Volume 8, Number 2, p.167-190, 1984.
• Speaker and Panel Member on "Funding a New Venture Based on Acquired Technology-An Example", Eastern Regional Meeting of the Licensing Executives Society USA/Canada, New York, NY 4/27/84.
• Article entitled "Export Controls on Nonmilitary Goods and Technology: Are We Penalizing the Soviets or Ourselves?", Texas International Law Journal, Volume 21, Number 2, Spring 1986.
• Article entitled "The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - Should Its Judges be Technologically Literate or Illiterate?", IDEA, The Journal of Law and Technology, Volume 27, Number 2, Winter 1986.
• Book review of Attorney's Practice Guide to Negotiations by Phil Sperber, Les Nouvelles, June, 1986.
• Publication (second. edition) entitled "Patents, Inventions and You", 7/86.
• Speaker on "Working as a Corporate Lawyer" at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH Open House for prospective students, 3/3/86.
• Speaker on "Actions and Program on Intellectual Property and Developing Nations" at installation as the first David Rines Professor of Intellectual Property and Industrial Innovation at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, 12/8/86
• Co-editor, The Law and Business of Licensing, 1986-87, Clark Boardman.
• Speaker on "The United States Position on Patent Harmonization", Boston Patent Law Association, 1/30/87.
• Speaker on "From Corporation Patent Counsel to Law Professor", Association of Corporate Patent Counsel, Ft. Lauderdale, FLA, 1/21/87.
• Organizer and moderator of "Patent Systems Major Problems" Conference, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, 3/31/87. Transcript published in IDEA, The Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 28, Numbers 2 and 3, 1987.
• Speaker on "Trademark Protection" at Law & Business for retail and small business seminar, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, 10/21/87.
• Speaker on "Creative Licensing/Technology Transfer Business Arrangements", Connecticut Patent Law Association, New Haven, CT, 11/3/87.
• Speaker and participant on the "The Changing Legal Structure for the Development and Transfer of Technology Arising from New Technological Developments", UNCTAD Expert Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 12/9-11/87.
• Article entitled "Intellectual Property and the United States Government-A Change of View", requested by and submitted to United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland, 1/88.
• Chief editor, The Law and Business of Licensing, 1987-88, Clark Boardman.
• Speaker on "Patents, Inventions and You" at NH Young Inventors Program, Academy of Applied Science, Concord, NH, 3/3/88.
• Speaker on "Technology Licensing", Intellectual Property Seminar, Technology Transfer Institute, NYC, NY, 4/6/88.
• Speaker on "Careers for Science Majors in the Field of Law", Sacred Heart College, Bridgeport, CT, 4/19/88.
• Speaker on "Careers for Science Majors in the Field of Law", University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 4/19/88.'
• Speaker on "Introduction to Intellectual Property", Law Librarians of New England, Portsmouth, NH, 4/22/88.
• Speaker on "Licensing Technology: A Primer on Licensing and Technology Transfer", Franklin Pierce Law Center Seminar, New York, NY, 6/13/88.
• Speaker on "Creative Technology Transfer Arrangements", Franklin Pierce Law Center Seminar, New York, NY, 6/14/88.
• Moderator on "Intellectual Property Liability and Malpractice Problems and How to Avoid Them", Franklin Pierce Law Center Seminar, New York, NY, 6/17/88.
• Speaker on "Intellectual Property Law: Its Possible Impact on Technology Transfer", U.S. Information Agency WORLDNET satellite television program between the U.S., Venezuela and Argentina, Washington, DC, 9/19/88.
• Speaker on "The Role of Technologically-Trained Corporate Lawyers in Managing Risk", Franklin Pierce Law Center Seminar, Concord, NH, 10/13-14/88.
• Speaker on "Licensing and Technology Transfer", University of Maine, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Inventors and Entrepreneurs Workshop, Augusta, ME, 11/9/88.
• Speaker on "Joint Ventures", Licensing Executives Scoiety, Greater Boston Meeting, Lexington, MA, 11/17/88.
• Speaker on "Intellectual Property and Other Legal Matters - How Do I Protect Myself and My Ideas?", University of New Hampshire Symposium on "Starting Your Own Business", Durham, NH, 12/5/88.
• Organizer and moderator of second "Patent Systems Major Problems" Conference, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, 3/23/89. Transcript to be published in IDEA, The Journal of Law and Technology.

 

 

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