Speakers
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Prof. Martin Adelman is teaching at The George Washington University Law School. Before joining the GW Law faculty in 1999, Professor Adelman had been a professor of law at Wayne State University Law School specializing in intellectual property and antitrust law. Before joining the faculty at Wayne State in 1973, he practiced as a patent attorney in the Detroit area for several years. |
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Christian W. Appelt is German and European patent attorney with a background in physics and is partner in the law firm Boehmert & Boehmert. Beside his professional career in Europe, he has been in Japan for 2 years, from 1995 to 1997, working with a patent attorneys office in Osaka, the Patent Department of Ebara Corporation and the Intellectual Property Department of Sony Corporation in Tokyo. |
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Keiko Kawakami is partner in the law firm Ikeuchi, Sato and Partner Patent Attorneys. She was registered as Japanese Patent Attorney in 2001. She graduated from Osaka University in 1989, earning a B.S. in Information and Computer Sciences. She has been serving on the Japan Patent Attorneys Association Software Committee since 2003 and serves as a vice chair in 2007. |
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Jörg Machek is a physicist, holds a Diploma of the Technical University of Vienna and a PhD of Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK. After he spent six years in manufacturing and researching semiconductor devices he joined the European Patent Office in 1986. Currently he is as director in charge of searching and examining Computer Implemented Inventions and Methods for Doing Business. |
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Prof. Dr. Peter Meier-Beck is Judge at the German Federal Court of Justice as member of the 10th Civil Senate and the Cartel Senate; he is Honorary Professor at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. From 1991 to 2000 he was judge at the Patent Litigation Court in Düsseldorf and before Judge at the Düsseldorf District Court. |
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Yutaka Osawa is member of Osawa Patent Office and was registered as Japanese Patent Attorney in 2002. He obtained master degree from Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Science, Tokyo University in 1999. He served on the JPAA Software Committee in 2005, on the JPAA Patent Committee in 2006, and as a vice chair on the JPAA Software Committee in 2007. |
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Randall R. Rader is a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the U.S. Claims Court in 1988. President George Bush nominated Judge Rader to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1990. Judge Rader also has taught patent law and advanced intellectual property courses at the law schools of the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, The George Washington University and the MIPLC. |
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Prof. Dr. Katsuya Tamai teaches at the University of Tokyo. From 1990 until 1997 he was associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. Before he was associate professor at the Gakushuin University. Prof. Tamai was visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute, Munich, The George Washington University and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Cirucuit in Washington. |
