Faculty & Staff
The faculty of the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law and Policy is drawn from the full-time faculty of the University of Washington School of Law and from the ranks of the Pacific Northwest's most outstanding intellectual property and technology business practitioners and lawyers.
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Director, Intellectual Property Law &Policy Program
Professor of Law
Telephone: 206-616-4849
Fax: 206-685-4469
Email: bobgom@u.washington.edu
B.A. 1983, Pacific Lutheran University
M.A. 1987, University of Washington (International Studies)
J.D. 1987, University of Washington School of Law
Professor Gomulkiewicz joined the faculty in 2002 to direct the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law &Policy. Prior to joining the faculty, he was Associate General Counsel at Microsoft where he led the group of lawyers providing legal counsel for development of Microsoft's major systems software, desktop applications, and developer tools software (including Windows and Office). He also served as chair of the UCITA working group of the Business Software Alliance. He joined Microsoft from the law firm of Preston, Gates & Ellis where he represented developers and users of software and information products. While at Preston, Gates & Ellis he worked on the Apple v. Microsoft case. Professor Gomulkiewicz has published articles on open source software, mass market licensing, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, and legal protection for software.
Associate Director, Intellectual Property Law and Policy LL.M. Program
Director, Center for Advanced Study & Research
on Intellectual Property
Washington Research Foundation/W. Hunter Simpson Professor of Law
Telephone: 206-685-2996
Fax: 206-543-5671
Email: toshiko@u.washington.edu
LL.B. 1981, Seikei University
LL.M.1990, Ph.D. 1992, University of Washington
Professor Takenaka, a Washington Research Foundation Simpson Professor of Law, joined the UW law school faculty in 1993 and teaches Patent Law, Advanced Patent Law, Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Innovations in Science and Technology. She is the Director of Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP) and the Associate Director of the Intellectual Property Law and Policy LL.M. Program.
After receiving a Bachelor of Law degree from Seikei University, Tokyo, Professor Takenaka pursued a successful career in patent prosecution and management with Texas Instruments Japan Ltd., where she served as a patent prosecution specialist. In 1986, she passed the Japanese Patent Attorney (Benrishi) Bar and worked as an associate for the Yamasaki Law and Patent Office.
Professor Takenaka received her LL.M. in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Comparative Law in 1992 from the UW School of Law. She was as a visiting scholar with the Max Planck Institute for Domestic and International Intellectual Property in Munich, Germany, and a visiting professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She has extensively published in the field of comparative patent law and is a frequent speaker for academic and professional seminars focusing on patent law. She is on the board of editors for Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice.
Associate Director, Intellectual Property Law & Policy Program
Associate Professor of Law
Telephone: 206-543-7491
Fax: 206-616-3426
Email: soconnor@u.washington.edu
B.A., 1988, (History) University of Massachusetts
M.A., 1995, (Philosophy) Arizona State University
J.D., 1998, Stanford Law School
Professor O'Connor's research focuses on legal issues involved in commercializing art, science, and technology. He also studies the social and cultural context of artistic, scientific, and technological innovation. He is the Associate Director of both the Center for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP) and Intellectual Property Law & Policy Program.
Professor O'Connor has particular expertise in the multiple areas of law impacting the biotechnology industry as well as those impacting new media and digital arts. He lectures, publishes, and consults regularly in these areas in the U.S. and internationally. He has served as General Counsel to the seminal digital arts organization, Rhizome.org, since 2000. Professor O'Connor is also regularly quoted by major local and national media and has served as an expert witness in litigation involving intellectual property and corporate governance.
Before entering academia, Professor O'Connor was in private practice with Hale and Dorr in Boston (now Wilmer Hale) where he specialized in technology transactions and licensing, as well as corporate and securities law representation of emerging and established biotechnology and information technology companies. He began his legal career with Weil, Gotshal and Manges in New York in corporate and securities law representation of major multinational companies and partnerships. He is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts.
Professor O'Connor was Executive Editor of the Stanford Law Review and Brown & Bain Fellow in Law & High Technology. While at Stanford he also co-founded the Stanford Technology Law Review.
Assistant Professor of Law
Telephone: 206-399-5572
Email: danla@u.washington.edu
B.A. 1980, Pennsylvania State University
J.D. 1983, University of Michigan Law School
Visiting Student 1982-83, Harvard Law School
Professor Laster, who joined the law school faculty in 2003, specializes in various intellectual property law courses.
Professor Laster previously was Associate General Counsel for Microsoft Corporation responsible for the trademark, copyright, trade secret and standards practices. During his career with Microsoft he was responsible for the team registering the Windows trademark and also helped the company formulate its positions on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.
His expertise in intellectual property issues including traditional trademark, copyright, and trade secret issues, extends to computer software, open source software, database, and internet related issues. He is the author of the Copyright, Trademark and Database Issues, Intellectual Property for theInternet (Lee and Davidson ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,1997).
Professor Laster was also in private practice as an associate specializing in intellectual property and litigation at Monroe Stokes Lawrence and Eitelbach (1991-92) and Perkins Coie (1983-86; 89-90). He was a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, from 1986-89, teaching courses in intellectual property, commercial law and law and economics.
Assistant Director, Intellectual Property Law & Policy Program
Assistant Director, Center for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property
Part-time Lecturer
Telephone: 206-543-9974
Fax: 206-616-3426
Email: bruns@u.washington.edu
B.A. 1995, Washington State University
J.D. 2000, University of Washington
Ms. Naeve returns to the University of Washington after several years of practicing intellectual property and media litigation at Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle. At Perkins, her practice focused on trademark, copyright, trade secret, e-commerce, public disclosure and First Amendment issues. She has successfully argued before the Ninth Circuit and Washington courts.
Ms. Naeve has also clerked for Justice Bobbe J. Bridge on the Washington State Supreme Court and externed for Judge Margaret M. McKeown on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 2000, where she was selected to the Moot Court Honor Board and the Order of the Barristers.
Program Manager, Intellectual Property Law and Policy Program
Telephone: 206-616-3809
Email: jsnider@u.washington.edu
A.A.S. 1988; A.A. 2006, Highline Community College
B.S., Central Washington University (in progress)
Ms. Snider joined the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law and Policy in 2005 after working more than six years in the Associate Dean's Office at the University of Washington School of Law. She divides her time between the IP Program and the Center for Law, Science and Global Health. Her primary responsibilities are providing administrative support and management of the Program.
Associate Law Librarian, Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library Part-time Lecturer
Telephone: 206-543-4089
Email: jafrank@u.washington.edu
M. Libr., 1994, University of Washington
J.D., 1993, Stanford Law School
A.M. Anthropology, 1988, Stanford University
A.B. Values, Technology, Science and Society, 1988, Stanford University
Mr. Franklin has written and spoken extensively on copyright, licensing, database protection, international copyright, and library issues. He is actively interested in art law, international conflict of laws, and the use of technology in legal education. He teaches tutorials in Intellectual Property and Video Games, and IP and Indigenous People.
Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology
Director, Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology
Professor of Law
Telephone: 206-616-8441
Email: arama@u.washington.edu
B.A. 1988 Harvard University
M.A. 1990, University of Sydney
J.D. 1992, Harvard University
Professor Ramasastry joined the faculty in 1996. Her research interests include commercial law, banking and payments systems, law and development and comparative law.
She has served as a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an associate attorney at the international law firm of White & Case in Budapest, Hungary, and assistant professor of law at the Central European University in Budapest, founded by financier George Soros. She was the symposium editor for the Harvard International Law Journal and has clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
In 1998-99, she served as a special attorney and advisor to a special claims resolution tribunal in Zurich, Switzerland, established to resolve claims to World War II-era bank accounts. She has been a visiting professor and Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary Westfield College, University of London. Professor Ramasastry served as a visiting scholar at the British Financial Services Authority. During the fall of 2001, she was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
Professor Ramasastry is a commissioner and chair of the Washington state delegation to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. She has been a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program, the European Commission, The Open Society Institute and the International Commission of Jurists.
She has been recognized by the students as the Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year in 1997, 2003, and 2006. In 1998, she received the UW Distinguished Teaching Award and in 2002, she received the UW Outstanding Public Service Award for her work with battered immigrant women and children.
Director, Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology
Professor of Law
Telephone: 206-685-2535
Fax: 206-616-3427
Email: jkwinn1@u.washington.edu
B.Sc.(Econ) 1980, Queen Mary College, University of London
J.D. 1987, Harvard University
Professor Winn joined the faculty in 2002 to teach commercial and technology law courses, and to join the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce & Technology. From 1989 to 2001, she taught commercial law and comparative law at Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas, Texas. In Spring 2002, she was a visiting professor at the University of California - Berkeley School of Law, and since 2001 has been a Visiting Fellow of the University of Melbourne School of Law, teaching in the e-Law program there. Professor Winn is a member of the American Law Institute and a board member of CALI - Computer Assisted Legal Instruction. From 1987 to 1989, she practiced law at the New York office of Shearman & Sterling. She is coauthor of the treatise Law of Electronic Commerce (4th ed. 2001) and the casebook Electronic Commerce (2002). Her current research interests include electronic commerce law developments in the US, EU and Greater China.
Director, Technology Law & Public Policy Clinic
Assistant Professor of Law
Telephone: 206-616-4481
Fax: 206-543-2164
Email: covinw@u.washington.edu
B.A. 1972, New York University
J.D. 1977, University of Michigan School of Law
Bill Covington joined the law faculty in September of 2003 to direct the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic. Prior to his selection as clinic director, he was a principal at the North Star Group's Seattle office. He brings in-depth experience in the field of telecommunications law and policy, having previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services and Telecommunications, Inc. While at AT&T Wireless, he provided input to the Federal Communications Commission and influenced policy in the wireless E-911 implementation project to extend the automatic number and location identification system to cell phones. During the past four years, he has also served as a full-time instructor at Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, Wash., where he developed and teaches government, civics, legal system and business relations courses.
Adjunct Faculty
Maggy Bailly
Bailly Law Firm
Marguerite (Maggy) Bailly has more than 20 years of experience in facilitating and negotiating complex business deals. She is a specialist in US and international transactions involving intellectual property transfers, including licensing, donations, assignments, and joint ventures. She holds a Doctorate of Laws from Liege University and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School.
Ms. Bailly teaches Strategic Technology Licensing.
Hugh F. Bangasser
Partner, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP
Hugh Bangasser concentrates on antitrust and complex corporate litigation, including class actions, and advises public and private sector clients on corporate and litigation issues related to antitrust, franchise, computer law and intellectual property matters. He has litigated numerous antitrust, trade regulation and technology cases, and has represented various clients in grand jury proceedings and civil investigations by federal and state government enforcement agencies. He received his B.A. from Seattle University and his J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University.
Mr. Bangasser teaches Intellectual Property & Competition Law and Antitrust.
Dave V. Carlson
Principal, Seed IP Law Group
David V. Carlson specializes in electrical and electronic patent matters, including licensing and litigation. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University (1979) and a J.D. from the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young (1982).
Mr. Carlson co-teaches Patent Prosecution.
Thomas Daemen
Senior Attorney, Microsoft Corp.
Thomas Daemen is a Senior Attorney in Microsoft's Legal and Corporate Affairs group. With legal degrees from Europe and the United States, Mr. Daemen is both an English Solicitor and a U.S. qualified lawyer. Mr. Daemen worked in Brussels for many years, where he helped a wide range of companies navigate the European Union's legal and political maze and launch products and services across the region. He also has extensive litigation experience, and is a frequent speaker and author on cross-border compliance challenges.
Mr. Daemen co-teaches EU law and EU/US comparative law.
Parag Gheewala
Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati
Parag Gheewala leads the technology transactions practice in the Seattle, Washington office, which specializes in domestic and international business transactions driven by the use or acquisition of rights in technology and intellectual property. He receiving his B.S. in Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies from the University of Washington and his J.D. from New York University.
Mr. Gheewala teaches Drafting Technology Contracts.
Karl R. Hermanns
Principal, Managing Director, Seed IP Law Group
Karl R. Hermanns, Seed IP Law Group's Managing Director, specializes in chemical-related patent matters including overall portfolio management and strategy. He graduated with both a B.S. and an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Washington. He received his J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law (1988).
Mr. Hermanns co-teaches Patent Prosecution.
Paul T. Meiklejohn
Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Mr. Meiklejohn is a Partner in Dorsey's Intellectual Property litigation group. He graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry at Allentown College and a M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry at Georgetown University. He received his J.D. from American University – Washington College of Law.
Mr. Meiklejohn teaches Litigation Strategies for Protection of Technology.
Bill Snyder
Consultant
Bill practiced commercial law in Seattle before joining Microsoft in a business
development role in 1991. Between 1991 and 2001 he devised and implemented business
development plans for emerging market segments, including server based business
applications, telephony/public networks, embedded systems, advanced interface technologies,
and on-line services, and negotiated collaboration agreements and licenses related
to those markets. Following Microsoft, Bill shifted his attention to the role of
Intellectual Property Rights in sustainable resource management, which became the
focus of his LL.M. studies. While pursuing his LL.M., he collaborated with Professor
Jane Winn to develop a multi disciplinary course on Law, Technology and Economic
Development, which is offered Winter Quarter. Bill also consults on commercial and
public/private projects that address sustainable resource management issues through
applied technology, including PATH's Safe Water and Ultra Rice initiatives.
Peter A. Winn
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Western District of Washington
Peter A. Winn has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Department of Justice since 1994. He has taught privacy law, computer crime and health care law at the University of Washington School of Law. He also taught as an adjunct lecturer at Southern Methodist School of Law, and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Melbourne. His legal experience includes service as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the Texas Attorney General's Office, work in private practice at corporate law firms in New York and Dallas, service as a staff attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He clerked for Federal District Judge James McMillan in the Western District of North Carolina. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1986, and his B.A. from Williams College, magna cum laude, in 1980. He also received an MPhil in Philosophy from the University of London where he studied as a Marshall Scholar from 1980 until 1983. He is married and has two children.
Mr. Winn teaches Privacy Law and Computer Crime.