TIPLA cordially invites all members to attend the 2nd Annual Quad City IP Meeting Dinner Event on July 16, 2009. A formal invitation to the TIPLA membership will be circulated to the membership in the near future. TIPLA members may register for the event online here (courtesy of CincyIP).
We look forward to seeing you at the event, a description of which follows. Please contact the officers should you have any questions.
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Date: July 16, 2009
Event: Quad City IP Dinner Event
AGENDA – THURSDAY – JULY 16th – DINNER AT L’AUBERGE in Dayton, Ohio http://www.laubergedayton.com/
1 HOUR GENERAL CLE APPLIED FOR
6:00PM-6:30PM – Arrival and Mixer in Bar Area
6:30-PM-8:00PM – Dinner
8:00PM-9:00PM – Inside the Legislative Process – Judge Damich (http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/node/6) will discuss how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed in 1998 to provide insight into the current reform process concerning patent law.
Bio: Edward J. Damich was appointed a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims on October 22, 1998, by President Bill Clinton. He served as Chief Judge from 2002 – 2009. Judges of the Court serve for a term of 15 years. The United States Court of Federal Claims, based in Washington, D.C., hears cases for monetary damages against the federal government, except cases for physical injury. Its docket includes cases involving government contracts, tax refunds, civil service and military pay, land use, Indian lands, and patent and copyright. A resident of Washington, D.C., Judge Damich was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Miami, Florida.
Judge Damich has an A.B. degree from St. Stephen’s College, Dover, Massachusetts; a J.D. degree from Catholic University; and L.L.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Columbia University. From 1995-98 Judge Damich served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. During his tenure on the Committee, he assisted the Chairman, Senator Orrin Hatch, with the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the most significant change in copyright law since the Copyright Act of 1976. The DMCA updated U.S. law for the digital age and for the Internet. In addition, he worked on the Omnibus Patent Act, the basis for the 1999 American Inventors Protection Act. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference, which concluded the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty.
In September 1992, Judge Damich was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to be a Commissioner of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal (CRT). In formal adjudicatory proceedings, the CRT set rates and distributed royalties under the statutory license provisions of the Copyright Act regarding cable television, non-commercial broadcasting, satellite television, sound recordings, and digital audio recording technology. He served as a Commissioner until November 1993.
At present Judge Damich is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Intellectual Property at the Columbus School of Law of Catholic University. He has been an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center and a professor of law at George Mason University and at Delaware Law School of Widener University.
9:00 PM – CLE and Dismissal
