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PUBPAT Board of Directors

Daniel B. Ravicher, President and Executive Director

Daniel B. Ravicher is Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation (“PUBPAT”) and a Lecturer in Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Prior to founding PUBPAT, Professor Ravicher was associated with the patent law practice groups of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP, and Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP, all in New York, and served the Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. Labeled a modern day 'Robin Hood' by Science magazine, Professor Ravicher is a registered patent attorney and he writes and speaks frequently on patent law, including twice testifying as an invited witness before Congress on the topic of patent reform. As a result of his accomplishments and professional reputation, in 2008 Professor Ravicher was named to both Managing Intellectual Property magazine's '50 Most Influential People in IP' list and IP Law & Business magazine's 'Top 50 Under 45' list. Professor Ravicher received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Franklin O'Blechman Scholar of his class, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award recipient and an Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in materials science magna cum laude with University Honors from the University of South Florida. Professor Ravicher writes about patent policy issues for The Huffington Post and patent related corporate valuation issues for Seeking Alpha. He is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeals for the Federal, 2nd and 11th Circuits, the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the State of New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Margo Bagley, Director

Margo A. Bagley is Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law where she teaches courses on patent law, international and comparative patent law, intellectual property, fundamentals of innovation, and contracts. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering in 1986 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bagley worked in products research and development with the Procter & Gamble Company, where she was named Product Development Excellence "Rookie of the Year" and was co-inventor on a U.S. patent for improved peanut butter. Later, she worked as a senior research analyst for the Coca-Cola Company. Through her corporate experience, Bagley developed an interest in the law of intellectual property. Bagley received her J.D. in 1996 from Emory, where she was a Robert W. Woodruff Fellow, an editor of the Emory Law Journal, and was elected to Order of the Coif. She is a member of the Georgia bar and is licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Bagley worked as an associate with Smith, Gambrell & Russell and Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner before becoming an assistant professor of law at Emory University in 1999. She was a visiting professor of law at Washington & Lee University School of Law in fall 2001 and at the University of Virginia School of Law in fall 2005. She has also taught international patent law and policy courses in Germany, China, and Singapore. She joined the University of Virginia faculty in 2006.

Michael Herz, Director

Michael Herz is Professor of Law and Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, teaching primarily in the areas of administrative, environmental, and constitutional law. A graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Herz served as law clerk to Chief Judge Levin Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Justice Byron R. White of the United States Supreme Court. He joined the Cardozo faculty in 1988 after three years as an attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund in New York City. In addition to his Cardozo teaching, he has twice been a Visiting Professor at the NYU School of Law and has also taught at Princeton University and the Columbia Law School. Professor Herz is currently the Vice Chair of the ABA's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, having previously served as a member of the Section Council and as co-chair of the Rulemaking Committee. Professor Herz has written widely on a variety of public law topics.

Brian Kahin, Director

Brian Kahin is Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington, DC. He is also Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and a special advisor to the Provost’s Office. From 2003-2005, he taught at the University of Michigan as a Visiting Professor with joint appointments in the School of Information, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and the Department of Communication Studies. His current research focuses on patent policy and codification-based infrastructure. Professor Kahin was formerly Director of the Center for Information Policy and Visiting Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, with affiliate appointments in the School of Public Affairs and the R.H. Smith School of Business. Kahin’s work at the Center included projects on open source software, U.S. and European perspectives on information process patents, and the economic and social implications of information technology. From March 1997 to January 2000, Kahin served as Senior Policy Analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he was responsible for issues in intellectual property, Internet policy, and electronic commerce. He received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1969 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976.

Eben Moglen, Director

Eben Moglen is Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School -- and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel-Aviv University and the University of Virginia -- since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.

Cecil D. Quillen, Jr., Director

Cecil Quillen is a Research Fellow at the Intellectual Property Institute of the University of Richmond School of Law. He is a former General Counsel of Eastman Kodak Company where he was a Senior Vice President and member of the Board of Directors, and is currently a Senior Advisor at Cornerstone Research, an economic and financial consulting firm. He has spoken or written on innovation and the United States patent system, simplification and reform of the U.S. patent system, patent valuation and patent damages issues, the management of patent litigation, the impact of continuing patent applications on performance of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), and patent and licensing strategies for innovators. He testified at the USPTO Hearing concerning the nonobviousness standard and at the Federal Trade Commission-Department of Justice Hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy, and has been a guest lecturer on patent strategies for innovators at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Richmond School of Law, and on corporate licensing practices at The George Washington University and Georgetown University Law Schools. Mr. Quillen has also written on the professional responsibilities of in-house lawyers, and served as a faculty member for the Virginia State Bar Mandatory Professionalism Course for newly licensed lawyers. He holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and a Bachelor of Laws (L.L.B.) from the Law School of the University of Virginia, and is a graduate of the Executive Development Program of the University of Tennessee. He has been licensed to practice law in Virginia, New York, and Tennessee, is registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office, and has been appointed to the Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Quillen does not represent Eastman Kodak, Cornerstone Research, or the University of Richmond School of Law on the Board of Directors of the Public Patent Foundation, and positions taken by the Public Patent Foundation are independent of the affiliations of its Directors, and of Eastman Kodak Company, Cornerstone Research, or the University of Richmond School of Law.

Joshua D. Sarnoff, Director

Joshua Sarnoff is the Assistant Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and a practitioner-in-residence at the Washington College of Law, American University, where he supervises law students in the practice of intellectual property law. Mr. Sarnoff is a registered patent attorney, teaches patent law, and has been involved in a wide range of intellectual property legal and policy disputes. He has published articles on patent law, has coordinated an academics’ position statement on patent law reform, has filed amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and has been a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on intellectual property, trade, and environmental issues. Mr. Sarnoff was formerly in private practice in Washington, DC, and previously taught at the University of Arizona College of Law.