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	Denis Borges Barbosa is a Brazilian lawyer and Law Professor. He holds a LL.B and a JSD (in International Law) from the Rio de Janeiro State University, a LL.M from Columbia Law School and a further LL.M (in Business Law) from the Gama Filho University. He is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Graduate Division of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and also at a number of other graduate programs in law schools elsewhere in the country, including the Rio de Janeiro State and São Paulo State Law Schools, and the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office IP Master Degree program. For some time, he was Attorney General of the Brazilian PTO, Special Assistant to the Minister of Trade and Brazilian Delegate to diplomatic conferences, including TRIPs. He authored Twelve IP books, co-authored or organized 24 other books and law reviews, and has over 200 law articles published.
	Lionel Bently is the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge (www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk). He is also a Professorial Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 2007 he was the Yong Shook Lin Visiting Professor of Intellectual Property law at the National University of Singapore, and for the spring Semester of 2008 he was the visiting BNL Professor of European Law at Columbia University.He is co-author (both with Brad Sherman) of Intellectual Property Law (Oxford, OUP, 2001; 2nd ed, 2004; 3d ed, 2008) and The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law – The British Experience, 1760-1911 (Cambridge: CUP, 1999). He is also the author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Problems Facing Freelance Creators in the UK Media Market-Place (London: Institute of Employment Rights, 2002) and co-editor (with Jennifer Davis and Jane Ginsburg) of Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique (Cambridge: CUP, 2008) and (with David Vaver) of Intellectual Property in the New Millennium: Essays in Honour of W.R.Cornish (Cambridge: CUP, 2004). With Martin Kretschmer, he is co-editor of the web-resource, Primary Sources on Copyright in 5 Jurisdictions, www.copyrighthistory.org As director of CIPIL, he was the leader of a team of lawyers and economists which advised the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property on the economic arguments for extension of the term of copyright for sound recordings, and of a team advising the Treasury on policy with respect to Public Sector Information.Lionel is series editor of the Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law Series, on the editorial board of Script-Ed and the European Intellectual Property Review. He is a member of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association, the ‘Wittem Group’ of European Copyright Professors working on a European Copyright Code and a founding member of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (www.ishtip.org). He is a door tenant at Hogarth Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn, offers expert evidence on British Intellectual Property law, and is honorary legal adviser to the Royal Historical Society.
	Carlos Correa is the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Industrial Property Law and Economics, University of Buenos Aires. Following studies on economics and law at the University of Buenos Aires, from which he also obtained his doctorate, he has pursued a career in academia and consultancy, with activities for a time in government.He is Director of the Post-graduate Courses on Intellectual Property of the University of Buenos Aires and is a member of the Permanent Court of Review of MERCOSUR. He has been a Visiting Professor in post-graduate courses of the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid, Spain), Tulane University (New Orleans, USA), Universidad del Externado (Colombia), UNAM (Mexico), Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Peru), and of the National Universities del Litoral (Santa Fe), Mar del Plata, Córdoba, Resistencia, La Plata and Entre Ríos (Argentina). He has also taught international trade law at the University of Toronto as well as in courses organized by the World Bank, Inter American Development Bank, UNIDO, UNCTAD, among other international organizations.He was a member of the UK Commission on Intellectual Property and of the Commission on Intellectual Property. In January 2004, he was appointed by the Director General of the World Health Organization as member of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health. He was also a member of the FAO Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture.He is the author of several books and numerous articles on law and economics, particularly on investment, technology and intellectual property. His recent publications include work on intellectual property and international trade; integrating public health concerns into patent legislation; policy options for intellectual property legislation on genetic resources; international investment regimes; and competition law and development policies. His last book (on the TRIPS Agreement) was published by Oxford University Press.
	Graeme B. Dinwoodie is the Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford. He is also Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and a Professorial Fellow of St. Peter’s College. Prior to taking up the IP Chair at Oxford, Professor Dinwoodie was a Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He has also previously taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and from 2005-2009 held a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary College, University of London. He teaches and writes in all aspects of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on the international and comparative aspects of the discipline. He is the author of four casebooks including TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION: LAW AND POLICY (2d ed 2008) (with Janis) and INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND POLICY (2d ed. 2008) (with Hennessey, Perlmutter and Austin). Professor Dinwoodie’s articles have appeared in several leading law reviews. He received the 2008 Ladas Memorial Award from the International Trademark Association for his article Confusion Over Use: Contextualismin Trademark Law (with Janis).Prior to teaching, Professor Dinwoodie had been an associate with Sullivan and Cromwell in New York. Professor Dinwoodie holds a First Class Honors LL.B. degree from the University of Glasgow, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and a J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. He was the Burton Fellow in residence at Columbia Law School for 1988-89, working in the field of intellectual property law, and a John F. Kennedy Scholar at Harvard Law School for 1987-88.
	Thomas Dreier, Dr. jur. (Munich), M.C.J. (NYU), is Professor of Law at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he is the Director of the Institute for Information Law, and Honorary Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Freiburg. Prof. Dreier has been studying law and art history at the universities of Bonn (German), Geneva (Switzerland), Munich (Germany) and New York (U.S.A.). He has written his doctoral thesis and his habilitation at the University of Munich. Before joining the University of Karlsruhe, Prof. Dreier has been working at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property Law in Munich, Germany. He has been an advisor to both the European Commission, the Council of Europe and UNESCO on copyright matters. Prof. Dreier is vice-president of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI) and vice-chairman of ALAI’s German national group, and he acts as Executive Secretary of the German Computer Law Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik e.V., DGRI). Prof. Dreier has been a guest Professor at the University of Toulouse (France), at the New York University School of Law (U.S.A.), at Haifa University (Israel) and at the National University of Singapore (Singapore).
	Josef Drexl, LL.M. Professor Drexl is director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. He was born in Fürstenfeldbruck (Germany). After legal studies in Munich and Geneva he graduated from the University of Munich in 1988. In 1990, he received the doctorate degree with a thesis on the development of copyright law in the framework of the Uruguay Round negotiations of GATT. In 1993, he received the LL.M. degree at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1996, the Munich Law Faculty accepted his post-doctorial thesis (“Habilitation”) on German and European consumer law.In 1997, Josef Drexl became a law professor at the University of Würzburg (Germany), holding a chair for Private Law and European Law. In 2000, Professor Drexl returned to Munich where he held a chair for Private Law, European and International Economic Law until 2006. In 2002, Professor Drexl became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition and Tax Law in Munich. In 2003, Professor Drexl was elected the first chair of the newly established Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA). Professor Drexl acted as a visiting professor at Oxford University in 2001, the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali in Rome in 2005 and 2007 and at New York University in 2007. Professor Drexl is an expert in international and European competition law, intellectual property law, consumer law and WTO law. He has a particular interest in the development of international competition law, the application of competition law to intellectual property and conflict of laws in the field of intellectual property, the interaction between economic theory and competition law and international IP law.
	William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was previously a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, which he joined in 1980, where he was elected President of the Faculty. In the UK, he was a Fulbright Scholar 1986-87, and was National Director of the UK’s Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) from 1993 to 1996.Among his recent publications on the social aspects of information and communication technologies are Society on the Line (Oxford University Press, 1999), Digital Academe, edited with Brian D. Loader (Routledge, 2003), and Transforming Enterprise, edited by Dutton, Brian Kahin, Ramon O’Callaghan and Andrew W. Wyckoff (MIT Press, 2005).
	Jane Ginsburg. Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School. B.A., Chicago, 1976; M.A., Chicago, 1977; J.D., Harvard, 1980; D.E.A., Université de Paris II, 1985 (Fulbright grantee); Doctor of Law, Université de Paris II, 1995. Editor and note editor, Harvard Law Review. Law clerk to Judge John J. Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1980-81. Spent three years in private practice before teaching. Co-director, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, 1999-present. With Professor Sam Ricketson, she is the co-author of INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS: THE BERNE CONVENTION AND BEYOND (Oxford University Press 2005).Other books include FOUNDATIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Foundation press 2004), with Professor Robert P. Merges, and INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STORIES (Foundation Press 2005), with Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss. With Professor Dreyfuss she is also a Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute project on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: PRINCIPLES GOVERNING JURISDICTION, CHOICE OF LAW AND JUDGMENTS IN TRANSNATIONAL DISPUTES.
	A. James Isbester. James Isbester has been advising and representing clients in intellectual property, antitrust, and related matters since 1987. Although his clients include various traditional businesses, most of his work is on behalf of emerging high technology and medical device companies. In 2002, Mr. Isbester formed his own practice in order more effectively to pursue patent counseling and non-litigation resolutions of patent controversies. In 2003, Mr. Isbester became a member of the Northern District of California panel of mediators, specializing in intellectual property matters and has assisted other lawyers and their clients on numerous occasions. Mr. Isbester has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in technology based or intellectual property related litigation for twenty years, in jury trials, bench trials, various state and federal courts of appeal, and arbitrations.
	The Rt Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob. Sir Robin is the first holder of the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in Intellectual Property law at the University College London (UCL). As holder of the Sir Hugh Laddie Chair, Sir Robin is also Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law at UCL. Sir Robin’s career began at Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences. Sir Robin then read for the Bar and also took an LLB from the London School of Economics. He practiced at the Intellectual Property Bar from 1967. From 1976 to 1981 he was the Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and for Government departments in intellectual property. He was made a Queen’s Counsel in 1981. His practice took him abroad often (Hong Kong, Singapore, Europe, USA, Australia). He was appointed to the Bench in 1993. From 1997 to 2001 he was Supervising Chancery Judge for Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2003. He was Treasurer of Gray’s Inn in 2007. He has written extensively on all forms of intellectual property. He is President of the Intellectual Property Institute, Hon President of the UK branch of the Licensing Executive Society, and Hon President of the Association of Law Teachers. He was a Founding Governor of the Expert Witness Institute until 2006. He is an Hon. Fellow of the LSE, Visiting Professor of Law at Birmingham University and a Distinguished Judicial Visitor at University College London. He was Treasurer of Grays Inn for 2007. He often lectures on IP topics both in the UK and abroad. His practice at the Bar involved working with experts in many fields – scientists or engineers concerned with the technology of a particular patent case, accountants concerned with valuation of patents and so on. He is in charge of the Court of Appeal intellectual property list and sits on most appeals in IP cases and nearly all patent cases.
	Peter Jaszi teaches domestic and international copyright law at the Washington College of Law of American University in Washington, D.C., where he also directs the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and helped to establish the Program on Intellectual Property and Information Justice. Prof. Jaszi is a frequent speaker to professional audiences in the United States and abroad. With Craig Joyce, Marshall Leaffer and Tyler Ochoa, he co-authors a standard copyright textbook, Copyright Law (Lexis, 7^th ed., 2006). Alone and with Martha Woodmansee, he has written several articles on copyright history and theory; together they edited The Construction of Authorship, published by Duke University Press. In 1994, Prof. Jaszi was a member of the Librarian of Congress’ Advisory Commission on Copyright Registration and Deposit, and in 1995 he was an organizer of the Digital Future Coalition. He is a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and a member of the editorial board of its journal. In 2007, he received the American Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. Since 2005, Prof. Jaszi has been working with Prof. Patricia Aufderheide of the American University’s Center for Social Media on projects designed to promote the understanding of fair use by documentary filmmakers and other creators. In 2006-07, he led an interdisciplinary research team, funded by the Ford Foundation, that investigated the connections between intellectual law and the traditional arts in Indonesia. He currently serves on the board of ITVS, an important funder of documentary film projects. For the years 2009-2011, Prof. Jaszi is serving as the Intellectual Property Scholar of the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College.
	Hector MacQueen has been a member of the Edinburgh Law School staff since 1979, having also taken his LL.B and Ph.D at Edinburgh. Appointed to the Chair of Private Law in 1994, he was Dean of the Law School 1999-2003, and is currently (2004-2008) Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science in the University. Professor MacQueen has held visiting appointments at Cornell University in the USA and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He is currently (2007-2009) Distinguished International Visiting Professor at Stetson University College of Law (‘Florida’s first law school’). He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 1995 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006.
	Alberto Musso is Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law in the School of Law (“Facoltà di Giurisprudenza”) at the University of Bologna; since 2004 he is Deputy-Dean.In the same University he also teaches: Copyright and Publishing Law at the Superior School of Human Studies (“Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici) in a Master Program on Books and Multimedia directed by Prof. U. Eco; Patents and other technical features in the Alma Graduate School’s Master Program on Intellectual Property, directed by Prof. F. Munari; International IP and Contracts in the Master Program for International Lawyers, directed by Prof. L.S. Rossi; Industrial Property in the Master Program for Business Lawyers and Consultants (“Master per Giuristi, Consulenti e Operatori d’Impresa”), directed by Prof. C. Bottari.He is a Member of the Directive Board of the Italian Review of Copyright Law (“Il diritto di autore“), published by Giuffrè, Milan, since 2005; Member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Business Law and Practice (“La Giurisprudenza Commerciale“), published by Giuffrè, since 1999; Member of the International Association for Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), since 1993. National Director of a MIUR Research Project on Digital Rights Management and Software Agents (2003-2005).
	Victor Nabhan has taught at Laval University as a full time professor until 1999 (Subjects: Intellectual Property, Contract law, Consumer Protection). He has also lectured in a number of universities in France and Canada as a guest professor. He has advised the Canadian Government with respect to the drafting of four revisions of the Copyright Act, as well as the Quebec Ministry of Culture on Copyright matters. From 1999-2005, he served also as a WIPO consultant and as such has assisted a number of developing countries in drafting their Copyright laws in compliance with TRIPS or /and WCT and WPPT. Since 2005, he is a guest professor at Ottawa University (Canada), Institut des Etudes Politiques (Paris) and Nottingham University (UK). He also acts as a consultant with different organisations and developing countries. He is also Of Counsel with the law firm of Kimbrough and Associés (Paris) Since 1996, Victor is Chairman of ALAI (Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale). He has authored a number of articles and publications and has exhibited as an occasional artist.
	Bernard Remiche is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law and of Business Law at the University of Louvain and also teaches at other Universities in Belgium and in France. He is also the Chairman of the Department of Social and Economic Law at the law school (Faculté) of the University of Louvain and directs the “Chaire Arcelor” which is becoming a research center in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. Bernard is also the founding member and President of the International Association of Economic Law (Association Internationale de Droit Economique). His main fields of research currently include: the scope of patentability, patents in the field of pharmaceuticals and access to medicine, technology transfer, environmental technologies, sustainable development, the role of IP in the development of developing countries, the community patent, and border regulations and counterfeiting.
	Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman ’74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California at Berkeley and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw, and information privacy. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as well as a member of the Advisory Boards for the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge.A 1971 graduate of the University of Hawaii and a 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, Samuelson practiced law as a litigation associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools. She has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1996 and was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School during the fall term 2007.
	F. M. Scherer is Aetna Professor Emeritus at the Kennedy School of Government, and lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. His research specialties are industrial economics and the economics of technological change. Scherer has taught at several universities including Northwestern, Swarthmore College and the Central European University. He was chief economist at the Federal Trade Commission from 1974-76. Scherer earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and an honorary doctorate from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He has authored several books including International High-Technology Competition; Competition Policies for an Integrated World Economy; Mergers, Sell-offs, and Economic Efficiency (with David J. Ravenscraft); and New Perspectives on Economic Growth and Technological Innovation. He is past president of the Industrial Organization Society and the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, past vice president of the American Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association, and a member of the Review of Industrial Organization board of editors.
	Ruth Towse is Professor of Economics of Creative Industries at Bournemouth University, UK and Professor Emerita at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She specialises in cultural economics and the economics of copyright. She has published widely on both fields in academic journals and books and has also edited several collections of papers and original contributions. Publications in 2008 include The Internet and the Mass Media, edited with Lucy Kueng and Robert Picard (Sage), Recent Trends in Economics of Copyright with Richard Watt (Edward Elgar) and ‘The Economics of Copyright Law: a Stocktake of the Literature’ in the Review of Economic Research in Copyright Issues, 5 (1) June:1-22 , with Christian Handke and Paul Stepan.Ruth Towse was Joint Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics from 1993-2002 and President of the Association for Cultural Economic International from 2006-8. She was President of the Society for Economic Research in Copyright Issues from 2004-6 and was one of the Netherlands national representatives on the European Science Foundation COST A20 programme ‘Impact of the Internet on the Mass Media’, 2001-6.