IP Hall of Fame Academy members
The IP Hall of Fame Academy comprises previous, living inductees into the IP Hall of Fame, the panellists from the 2006 IP Hall of Fame induction process and individuals who have been put forward for membership as a consequence of their acknowledged expertise in international intellectual property issues. Moving forward, people will qualify for Academy membership only if they are inducted into the IP Hall of Fame or if their names are submitted for consideration by an existing member.
The role of Academy members is to select IP Hall of Fame inductees from the nominations made by the global IP community.
Current members are (click on name for more information):
Joseph Straus
Professor of IP law, director of the Max Planck Institute and chairman of the Munich IP Law CentreIP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
Professor of IP law and director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, as well as chairman of the management board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre, Joseph Straus is one of the world's most influential patent scholars. He has helped to shape many current IP doctrines and is a consultant to the OECD, WIPO, UNCTAD, UNIDO, the European Commission, the World Bank, Scientific Services of the German Bundestag and the German government, as well as to the European Parliament, the European Patent Office, the Swiss government and the Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property. Strauss is also a member of the Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the Human Genome Organisation.