Intellectual Property and the Trend towards Openness Speakers
October 10 2007
British Consulate-General
Cambridge, MA
Bios for Speakers
Pamela Samuelson
Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law; Professor of Information Management; Chancellor's Professor; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Pamela Samuelson is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. Since 1996, she has held a joint appointment with Boalt Hall and UC Berkeley's School of Information. In addition, Samuelson is director of the internationally-renowned Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (since 2000) and on the board of directors of the Open Source Application Foundation (since 2002).
Samuelson began her career as a legal academic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. While there, she was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School and Emory Law School. She also practiced with Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s New York office.
Samuelson has written and published extensively in the areas of copyright, software protection and cyberlaw. Her publications include “Enriching Discourse on Public Domains” in the Duke Law Journal; “Questioning Copyright in Standards” in the Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2007). Other recent publications include: “The Generativity of Sony v. Universal: The Intellectual Legacy of Justice Stevens” in the Fordham Law Review; and “The Generative Legacy of Sony v. Universal” in the Fordham Law Review.
Other recent publications include "Brief Amicus Curiae of Sixty Intellectual Property and Technology Law Professors and US-ASM Public Policy Committee, to the U.S. Supreme Court in MGM v. Grokster” in the Berkeley Technical Law Journal (2005); “Intellectual Property Arbitrage: How Foreign Rules Can Affect Domestic Protections” in the Chicago Law Review (2004); and “Should Economics Play a Role in Copyright Law and Policy?” in the University of Ottawa Law & Technical Journal (2004). She is also coauthor of Software and Internet Law, 2nd ed. (with Lemley, Merges and Menell, 2003).
Since 1990, Samuelson has been a contributing editor of Communications of the ACM, a journal is respected for its coverage of existing and emerging technologies. From 1997 through 2002, Samuelson was a fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. From 2001 to 2006, she held a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Professorship for distinguished research, teaching and service for her contributions to both Boalt Hall and the School of Information. In 2002, she was named an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam. Samuelson is the first Boalt faculty member to hold the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professorship which was given to her in 2006. She is also a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery.
MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries
MacKenzie oversees the MIT Libraries' use of technology and manages its digital library research program. Her research agenda focuses on Semantic Web applications to digital libraries, Grid applications in digital libraries, and developing open source communities in the digital library domain.
She is currently acting as the project director at MIT for DSpace, MIT's collaboration with HP Labs to develop an open source digital repository for scholarly research material in digital formats. She was formerly the Digital Library Program Manager in the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems, where she managed the design and implementation of the Library Digital Initiative there. She also held positions in the library IT departments at Harvard and the University of Chicago. She holds a BA from the University of Washington and an MA in Library Science from the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in applied technology for libraries and academia, and digital libraries and archives in particular.
John Taylor Williams
Ike Williams is Senior Counsel of Fish & Richardson P.C. His practice emphasizes intellectual property and First Amendment litigation and the creation, production, and licensing of intellectual property, particularly in the areas of publishing, film, television, and new media. He is the co-author with E. Gabriel Perle and Mark Fischer of the widely used Perle & Williams on Publishing Law (2 Vol. rev. 2002; Aspen Law and Business), was a member of the National Endowment for the Arts Literary Panel for many years, served as the Chair of the Boston Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and is Co-Chair of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
As a Director of Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson, the firm's literary and dramatic rights agency, Mr. Williams specializes in biography, history, politics, natural science and anthropology. Authors he represents include Howard Gardner, Joseph J. Ellis, David H. Donald, E.O. Wilson, Tim Berners-Lee, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Michael Porter, Charles Ogletree, James MacGregor Burns, Lawrence Schiller, and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot.
Together with Elaine Rogers (Boston) and Phyllis Kaufman (NYC), he represents screenplay and teleplay writers in the placement of dramatic rights. Recent projects include Vendetta: FBI Hero Melvin Purvis’s War Against Crime, and J. Edgar Hoover’s War Against Him by Alston Purvis, in development as a feature film by Misher Films and Universal Studios, and Turnaround, a television series for Touchstone based on William Bratton’s term as Police Chief of New York City.
Mr. Williams has lectured on intellectual property and entertainment law at Suffolk, Northeastern, Boston University, Boston College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard law schools, the Practicing Law Institute (PLI), and the International Bar Association. He has served as a panelist for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), Practising Law Institute, the International Bar Association, and the ABA Forum on Communications Law. Mr. Williams is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (in every edition since 1991) and in the Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers for 2004 and 2005. He was the recipient of the American Jewish Committee's 2005 Judge Learned Hand Award.
Bar admissions
Admitted to the federal and state bar in Massachusetts and the United States Supreme Court.
Ian Fletcher
Mr. Fletcher became Chief Executive of the UK Intellectual Property Office on April 30, 2007.
Ian joined the UK Civil Service in 1989 after an earlier career in the New Zealand diplomatic service. He worked initially in the (then) Monopolies & Mergers Commission, until 1991. Ian then worked in Trade Policy at the end of the GATT Uruguay Round, and continued this work during a secondment with European Commission, negotiating in the World Trade Organisation on Free Trade Agreements. He returned to the UK in 1998 and, after working in DTI’s HR area, joined the then Overseas Trade Services organisation at the time the Wilson Review of Export Promotion was being finalised and British Trade International was being established, working on finance HR and corporate policy issues. In 2000, Ian undertook a secondment with the UN Administration in Kosovo as Head of the Customs Service and Department of Trade & Industry returning later that year to head DTI’s Directorate responsible for electricity and gas policy. During 2002, Ian moved to the Cabinet Office as Principal Private Secretary to Sir Andrew Turnbull, the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service. Since 2004, Ian has been Managing Director, International in UKTI, managing the UK’s foreign commercial service.
Karen F. Copenhaver
Practice Focus
Business & Technology Transactions: technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property, particularly in the areas of software licensing and open source business models.
Previous Experience
Black Duck Software: executive vice president and general counsel, where she was instrumental in establishing automated methods of software compliance management as an industry best practice, and she continues to serve on Black Duck's Board of Advisors.
IBM: served as, among other positions, site counsel for the IBM Microelectronics Division, Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing facility in Essex Junction, Vermont.
Publications and Presentations
Karen has served as an adjunct professor at Suffolk Law School in the field of Computer Law, lectured at Suffolk's Advanced Legal Series conferences on copyright law and sophisticated licensing issues, and served as chair for the Practicing Law Institute’s annual conference on Structuring, Negotiating and Implementing Strategic Alliances. Karen is a frequent speaker on issues relating to technology licensing and open source software. Over the past year she has presented at more than 20 national and international events related to the adoption and management of open source software.
Palle Pedersen
Chief Technology Officer , Black Duck Software
Palle brings more than 20 years of high tech and entrepreneurial experience to Black Duck Software. He has developed a technical expertise in building innovative systems and processes that efficiently hold, manage, process and deliver large-scale electronic data sets. In addition, Palle has a strong background in object-oriented and optimizing compiler technology and has worked with Open Source Software for more than 15 years.
He has founded and served as CTO of both Wallaware, which developed server software for wireless carriers and Justa Technology, which built scalable software for network based applications. He was also founder and Managing Director of Spydre LLC, a venture catalyst, and Vice President of Product Development and CTO at Integrated Computing Engines, Inc. (ICE), where he was responsible for the technology strategy and the creation of ICE's high-performance parallel processing architecture.
Earlier in his career, Palle created new parallel algorithms and designed parallel compilation techniques exploiting multi-level memory hierarchies at Thinking Machines Corporation (TMC). While at Thinking Machines, Palle achieved multiple world record benchmarks.
Matthew Lowrie
Matt is a successful litigator and well-experienced in the patent application and counseling process. He is practiced in computer architecture, algorithms and software, analog and digital circuits, semiconductor design, telecommunications, consumer products and medical devices.
A Bigger Picture:
Matt is one of the founders of LL&A, where he practices in the areas of patent litigation, counseling and the patent acquisition process. In addition to his experience as a litigator and counselor, Matt draws on his experience as a law clerk in the United States District Court of Massachusetts (for the Honorable Robert E. Keeton), as a corporate attorney experienced in licensing as well as corporate transactions, and as someone with a deep technical background, having published and presented his research in books, journals and at international conferences. Matt also draws on his experience as a Shareholder, and as the first Chairperson of the Litigation Practice Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks – a position he held for more than four years, until he left to form LL&A.
These experiences have helped Matt achieve many successes for his clients, when in an adversarial setting, by settlement, dispositive motion, trial and/or appeal to the Federal Circuit. In many instances, however, the results he is most proud of are achieved through prudent counseling in advance of litigation.
Matt’s patent practice is built around a strong technical background. In addition to getting a black belt in Karate and going to every home football game for eight years, Matt’s college years saw him earn a B.S. in computer engineering (highest honors) from the University of Illinois. He went on to spend four years there in graduate school, received a Masters degree in electrical engineering and completed the course work for a PhD in electrical engineering. During that time he studied at the graduate level: electrical circuits, solid state design, computer circuits, computer architecture and software. He also wrote (i) a book chapter and an invited journal paper on computer software and hardware architecture for artificial intelligence, (ii) a peer-reviewed paper on Supercomputers for Artificial Intelligence, (iii) a peer-reviewed paper on Machine Learning, and (iv) a peer-reviewed journal article, and paper presented at an international conference, on fault tolerant computer architecture.
Matt’s appetite for the academic continues. While practicing full-time as an attorney, Matt spent two years teaching software patent prosecution at the Franklin Pierce Law Center. Currently, Matt is an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School, where he teaches patent law. Matt frequently speaks on patent law and issues, for example, at the National Contract Management Association (local chapter and national conference), the Massachusetts Software Council, a Boston Patent Law Association seminar on inventorship controversies, the Suffolk Annual Conference on High Technology Dispute Resolution, a Franklin Pierce Law Center/Licensing Executive Society seminar, a national FindLaw seminar, at Suffolk University Law School and Harvard Law School (where he has also served as a moot court judge), Boston University (SAGE), an ACCA/ABA seminar on patent litigation, has been an invited author and speaker at national conferences and international conferences (e.g., at SPIE and SSGRR) and was the keynote speaker for the ring ceremony of the Order of the Engineer (an ethics society) at Boston University. For the last, Matt was also admitted and still wears his ring.
Matt has published a variety of articles and been frequently quoted in, for example, The Boston Business Journal, Mass. High Tech. Weekly, Bureau of National Affairs, Pharmaceutical Policy & Report, and Credit Card Management Magazine. Matt also chairs the Patent Litigation Committee of the Boston Patent Law Association, chaired its Patent Law Committee and chaired the Boston Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Litigation Committee. He also has been named in Boston Magazine as one of Massachusetts' "Super Lawyers" in the practice of both intellectual property and intellectual property litigation.
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