A lunchtime brown bag seminar

Featuring
Cynthia Cannady
Former Director, Intellectual Property Policies and New Technologies,
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

3001 Elings Hall (CNSI), UC Santa Barbara

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

This event is sponsored by the NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society.

All are welcome to attend to this free event.

Dr. Cannady delivers a presentation on intellectual property to a standing room-only crowd

Dr. Cannady is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D. 1975) and Stanford University (B.A. 1972).  Prior to joining WIPO, she practiced law in the private sector concentrating in the fields of intellectual property and commercial litigation and technology licensing. Her professional experience has included: Principal, Tech Law Group; Vice President of Law for Manufacturing and Development, Apple Computer; Partner, Litigation, Fenwick & West; and Litigation associate, Williams & Connolly. Dr. Cannady’s public sector and public service experience includes service as a Trustee of Stanford University from  1993-1998, where she was a member of the Committee on Finance and Investment.  She also served on the Ethics Committee of the Stanford University Medical Center. Earlier in her career, from 1977 to 1980, she was an attorney for the United States Department of State, and, from 1975 to 1977,  he was a law clerk to the late Hon. Alvin B. Rubin, United States District Court.

She was on the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Section, and has been an active member of the Licensing Executives Society, where she served as chair of the Semiconductor Committee.  Dr.  annady was a commercial arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, and a Special Master and Early Neutral Evaluator for the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California.  She was a member of the Inns of Court for the Northern District of California.  She is a current member of the Bars of the State of California and the District of Columbia. Her publications include “North South Trade in Intellectual Property; Can it be Fair?”, World Trade Review, (2004), 3: 317-328 Cambridge University Press.