click above to reach source click below for course material	click the appropriate tab for more information about registration	click above to reach source In the decade since the Internet and cellular communication became omnipresent and inexpensive, intellectual property law has been pressed by technology in ways never imagined. Examples include: digital rights management (DRM), creative commons, open source software, digital movie and music downloading, eroding US patent dominance, Internet piracy, personal data ownership and privacy, fair use and the Internet.
	SPRING 2009 – March 20,21 Course Program PRESENTERS: Dr. David W. Matula PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Ph. D. Engineering Science University of California at Berkley Dr. Matula holds 18 U.S. Patents. Five of his Ph.D. students have been co-inventors (with D. W. Matula) on these patents and pending applications. He has consulted for industry on intellectual property and served as an expert witness. He has been a member of SMU’s intellectual property committee for eleven years. Professor Matula’s research focuses on the foundations and applications of algorithm engineering with specific emphasis on computer arithmetic and graph/network algorithms. He has published over one hundred peer reviewed papers. He has consulted on the design of arithmetic units for fifteen years with Cyrix, National Semiconductors, and AMD. He is the co-designer of the floating point unit of the one-watt AMD Geode microprocessor chosen for the OLPC project. Dr. Matula’s research has been funded by numerous federal, state, and corporate agencies. Email: matula@engr.smu.edu Raymond Van Dyke PARTNER AND PATENT ATTORNEY, Merchant & Gould, Alexandria, VA. Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D. UNC. M.S. Computer Science Raymond Van Dyke focuses his practice in technology and intellectual property counseling, procurement, licensing, and litigation in federal courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission. He represents companies and universities in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical, chemical, software, financial services, telecommunications, internet, voice over IP (VoIP), and digital industries, both domestic and international, and in emerging areas, such as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, genomics, pharmaco-genomics, nanotechnology, proteomics, and computational analysis. Email: vandyke@acm.org Dr. Shubha Ghosh PROFESSOR OF LAW, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Ph. D. University of Michigan J.D. Stanford Law School Professor Ghosh teaches courses in the areas of intellectual property, copyright, patent, trademark, international intellectual property, antitrust and competition policy, business associations, and law & economics. He holds a BA from Amherst College, a PhD in Economics from The University of Michigan, and a JD from Stanford. He clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and the law firm of Baker & McKenzie. Email: ghosh7@wisc.edu
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