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:

• Talal-Abu Ghazaleh - A major IP figure in the Arab world. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• Hisamitsu Arai - Twice Commissioner of the Japanese Patent Office. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• Heinz Bardehle - Adviser to the German government on IP. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2006
• Birch Bayh - Former US Senator, co-sponsor of the pivotal Bayh-Dole Act 1980. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2006
• Allen Baum - Past President of LES USA and Canada
• Bruce Berman - Author and IP consultant based in New York
• Joe Beyers - Head of IP Licensing at Hewlett Packard
• Dennis Crouch - Owner and host of PatentlyO blog
• Jerome Chauvin - Director of the Legal Affairs Department at Business Europe
• Peter Chrocziel - Past President of LES International and a partner with Freshfields in Germany
• Todd Dickinson - Former Director of the USPTO, current Executive Director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Tim Frain - Director of IP and Regulatory Affairs, Nokia
• Melvin Garner - Past President of the AIPLA and a partner of Darby & Darby in New York
• Jerome Gilson - Author of Gilson on Trademarks. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• Anne Gundelfinger - Former President of the INTA and Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Intel Corporation
• Ian Harvey - Chairman, Intellectual Property Institute, London
• Bo Heiden - Deputy Director, Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CIP), Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
• Karen Hersey - Former President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
• Robin Jacob - The senior patent judge in the UK. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2006
• Steven James - Former president of the UK's Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
• Karl Jorda - Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Franklin Pierce Law Center. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• Malte Koellner - Adviser on IP to the European Venture Capital Association
• Hugh Laddie - Former IP judge in the UK. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• Klaus-Dieter Langfinger - Head of Patents, Trademarks and Licences at BASF. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2006
• Bruce Lehman - Chair of the International Intellectual Property Institute. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2006
• James Malackowski - President and CEO, Ocean Tomo IP merchant banc
• Damon Matteo - Vice President, Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC)
• Dan McCurdy - Chairman of PatentFreedom LLC and former head of IP at Lucent
• Ciaran McGinley - Controller, European Patent Office
• Chris Mercer - President of the European Patent Institute
• Gerald Mossinghoff - Former USPTO Commissioner and partner at Oblon Spivak. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• Alexander von Mühlendahl - Former Vice President of the Community Trademark Office. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2006
• Ron Myrick - Partner with Finnegan Henderson, Vice President of the AIPPI and a former President of the AIPLA
• Pauline Newman - Judge at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• Shinjiro Ono - Former deputy Commissioner of Japanese Patent Office
• Ruud Peters - Head of IP at Phillips
• Marshall Phelps - Vice President of IP at Microsoft. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2006
• Jeremy Phillips - Professor of IP at London University, co-host of IP Kat blog
• Kevin Rivette - Author of Rembrandts in the Attic, chair of the US government's Patent Policy Advisory Committee. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• Peter Siemsen - Vice Chairman of ICC Commission on IP (Brazil)
• James Sobieraj - Past President of LES USA and Canada and a partner with Brinks Hofer in Chicago
• Joseph Straus - Professor of IP law, Director of the Max Planck Institute and Chairman of the Munich IP Law Centre. IP Hall of Fame inductee in 2007
• David Tatham - Former Head of Trademarks for ICI