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Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 162-172
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His research interests include identifying emerging markets and technologies to enable growth in new and existing companies with special emphases on technology identification and selection, product development, and technology competences.
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He has litigated biotechnology patents on four continents. On behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization and other industry coalitions he has been involved in legislative and policy matters, including the Biotechnology Process Patent Act, the GATT/TRIPS implementing legislation, the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999, and several amicus briefings of the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court.
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, a past chairperson of the Intellectual Property Law Committee of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, and a past board member of the Biotechnology Institute. Prior to joining Chiron, Mr.
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Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, New York University School of Law After spending several years as a research chemist at Vanderbilt University Medical School, the Albert Einstein Medical School, and the Ciba Geigy Corporation, Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss entered Columbia University Law School, where she was articles and book review editor of the Columbia Law Review. Following her graduation in 1981, she became a law clerk first to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and later to Chief Justice Warren E
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McCurdy was vice president for corporate development at CIENA Corporation, a publicly traded telecommunications firm. As a member of CIENA's senior management team, he was responsible for mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, licensing, and corporate partnerships.
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As the scientific founder and later in various executive positions including president, she set the overall scientific direction for the company while playing a key role in building the company and its management team, raising capital, and increasing public awareness of the company as a pioneer in developing innovative products for patients needing replacement tissues and organs.
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He is currently an adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, a former director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and a director and officer of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation.
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MacArthur Foundation, and in 2000 she was named as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States by the National Law Journal. She was elected to membership in the American Law Institute and named a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery.
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George Elliott, Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellow (September 2000 through September 2001) George Elliott recently assumed the duties of acting director of the Office of Patent Quality Assurance at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where he is responsible for overseeing a review process aimed at detecting quality problems in allowed applications and applications that are still undergoing examination, and for assisting the Technology Centers in their efforts to improve patent examination quality.
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Peter Kozel, National Research Council Intern (Winter-Spring 2004) Peter Kozel participated in the Christine Mirzayan Internship Program of the National Academies in the winter and spring of 2004.
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