Outreach Workshop International Intellectual
Property Law
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School
Agenda
2:45-3:00
Registration
3:00-3:05
Welcome
Professor Heinz Klug
Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law &
Director, Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School
3:05-3:40
International Patent Issues
Dr Geoffrey Hudson
Assistant Counsel & Technology Transfer Manager
Promega Corporation, Madison
3:40- 4:10
International Trademarks and Copyright Issues
Eugenia Carter
Attorney, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek SC., Madison
4:10- 4:20
Comments by Professor Anuj Desai
Associate Professor, UW Law School
4:20- 4:30
Q & A Session
4:30-4:40
Break
4:40-5:10
“WTO/TRIPS and Developing Country Concerns”
Professor Heinz Klug
Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law &
Director, Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School
5:10-5:30
Q&A Session
5:30-6:00
Reception
Biographies of Speakers
Eugenia Carter is an attorney in the Madison office of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. She heads the
firm’s intellectual property litigation team and the intellectual property practice in the Madison
office.
Ms. Carter has lectured and published extensively on intellectual property, e.commerce, and
international law issues and has taught copyright law at the UW Law School. She has litigated
patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret cases in federal courts across the country. She advises
a wide array of clients, including high technology manufacturers, computer software manufacturers,
media companies and trade associations, on all aspects of intellectual property law protection and
rights enforcement.
Ms. Carter serves on the Board of Advisors of the University of Wisconsin E Business Consortium
and is on the Board of Directors of the International Law Section of the State Bar, having served two
terms as its Chair. In 2005 she was once again voted one of Madison’s best Intellectual Property
lawyers and in 1996 was named by the Business Forum as Dane County’s Outstanding Professional
Woman.
Anuj Desai received his A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University, a Master's in International
Affairs from Columbia University and a J.D. from the University of California-Berkeley (Boalt Hall),
where he was Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review.
After receiving his J.D., Professor Desai clerked for Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer at the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia and Judge David S. Tatel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
D.C. Circuit. He then served as a legal assistant to the American judges at the Iran-United States
Claims Tribunal in The Hague and practiced law with the Seattle, Washington firm of Davis Wright
Tremaine, where his practice focused primarily on First Amendment, defamation, newsgathering,
copyright and trademark litigation. He also worked briefly in the Legal Adviser's Office at the U.S.
State Department and also at the Legal Resources Centre in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Professor Desai has written on a variety of topics related to law in cyberspace, including Internet
filters, copyright, privacy, the First Amendment. and domain name dispute resolution. His current
research focuses on understanding the interconnections between various types of information and
communications networks, from the post office to public libraries to the Internet. His papers are
available on the Social Science Research Network.
Professor Desai teaches in both the law school and the School of Library and Information Studies ,
offering classes in Copyright, First Amendment, International Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw. He
is also a founding member of the University of Wisconsin's Communication Technologies Research
Cluster.
Geoffrey Hudson is Assistant Counsel and Technology Transfer Manager at Promega Corporation in
Madison. Dr Hudson received his BS Degree from Duke University, PhD Degree in Microbiology
from University of Maryland and his JD Degree from University of Wisconsin Law School. He
carried out postdoctoral research at Duke University. He worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Microbiology at University of Saskatchewan in Canada and as a Senior Scientist at Applied
Biotechnology Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before joining Promega Corporation as a Senior
Scientist and Group Leader in 1985. He is a member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Association of University Technology Managers, Inc., the Licensing
Executives Society, Inc. and the Wisconsin State Bar. He currently chairs the Human Subjects
Review Board of Promega Corporation. Dr Hudson has extensive international patent experience
on the prosecution side in both the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), and European Patent
Office (EPO) as well as in litigation.
Heinz Klug is Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law, the Director of the Global Legal Studies Center and H.
I. Romnes Faculty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He is also an Honorary Senior
Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa. Growing up in Durban, South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle,
spent 11 years in exile and returned to South Africa in 1990 as a member of the ANC Land
Commission and researcher for Zola Skweyiya, chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee.
He was also a team member on the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform and Rural
Restructuring. He has taught at the UW Law School since September 1996.
Professor Klug has presented lectures and papers on the South African constitution, land reform,
and water law, among other topics, in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, South Africa,
the Netherlands, and at several U.S. law schools. His research interests include: constitutional
transitions, constitution-building, human rights, international legal regimes and natural resources.
His current teaching areas include Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law, Property, and Natural Resources Law. Professor Klug's book on
South Africa's democratic transition Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism and South Africa’s
Political Reconstruction was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2000.
This is part of a series of workshops on global legal issues on the theme:
“The Impact of Globalization on National Law: Lessons for Wisconsin”