May 11, 2019 | 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
U.S. District Court for the NMI - Courtroom 301
 Peter N. Fowler Senior Counsel for Enforcement Office of Policy and International Affairs United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) |
Mr. Fowler is Senior Counsel for Enforcement in the USPTO Office of Policy and International Affairs. He joined the agency in 1995, as an Attorney-Advisor working on domestic and international copyright issues, and from 1998-2002, served as Chief of Staff, and was posted in Bangkok, Thailand, as Regional Intellectual Property Attaché for Southeast Asia from 2011-2017. He has extensive experience in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific working on IP protection and enforcement issues and trade agreements. He has been a technical advisor to the Office of the United States Trade Representative on numerous trade agreement negotiations, including those with Australia, Bahrain, Cambodia, Colombia, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, as well as the Anti- Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (now CPTPP), and U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. He is a recipient of three Gold Medal Awards for distinguished performance and extraordinary contributions in support of the U.S. Department of Commerce mission.
Mr. Fowler is admitted to practice in California, where he practiced for a decade before joining the USPTO, and has authored a number of legal articles on copyright, film censorship, IP and the digital economy/trade environment, and IP protection and enforcement in ASEAN. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Golden Gate University School of Law IP and Privacy Law Center and on the Regional Advisory Group for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He has taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law, and as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and the University of San Francisco College of Professional Studies, and as an Adjunct Visiting Professor at Universidad Pontifícia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia. |
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