March 10, 2005

Speaker Biographies

André Carter has worked in the high tech industry for nineteen years, a career which began with a job at IBM and which has included positions at six tech startups. He is the founder and CEO of Irimi, Inc., a business consulting firm that helps technology-focused companies chart, develop, and implement strategic and business planning and distribution channel architectures for their products and services. Prior to founding Irimi, he was the chief operating officer of Concept Kitchen/Smaller.com and held positions at Puma Technology, Xircom, and the software startup Matesys.

Christopher DeMuth has been president of AEI since 1986. He previously practiced law, was a consulting economist, taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and held positions in the Reagan and Nixon administrations. His articles have appeared in Commentary, The Public Interest, the Harvard Law Review, the Wall Street Journal, and The American Enterprise.

James V. DeLong is the director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property at the Progress and Freedom Foundation and the principal of the Regulatory Policy Center. Prior to joining PFF, Mr. DeLong was a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, vice president and general counsel of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest, and an independent consultant, lawyer, and writer. He is the author of Property Matters: How Property Rights are Under Assault—and Why You Should Care (Free Press, 1997) and writes frequently for scholarly, professional, and popular publications. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, the State of California, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Q. Todd Dickinson is the vice president of and the chief intellectual property counsel at General Electric. He has more than twenty-five years of experience as an intellectual property lawyer, most recently as a partner in the law firm of Howrey Simon Arnold & White. In this position, he helped lead the Intellectual Property Practice Group and focused on counseling, licensing, prosecution, strategic portfolio management, and government relations issues involving intellectual property. Mr. Dickinson also served as the under secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, as the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and as the principal Executive Branch policy advisor on intellectual property matters.

John F. Duffy is a professor at The George Washington University Law School and currently serves as a visiting professor at the New York University School of Law. He clerked for Judge Stephen Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, served as an attorney–adviser in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, and practiced law with Covington & Burling. Professor Duffy has been on the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the William and Mary School of Law, and has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. He has published articles in the University of Chicago Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and the Supreme Court Review, and he is the coauthor of a casebook on patent law.

Bradford L. Smith is Microsoft's senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary. He leads the company's Department of Law and Corporate Affairs and has played a leading role at Microsoft on matters involving intellectual property, competition law, and other Internet legal and public policy issues. He has helped spearhead Microsoft's global campaigns to bring enforcement actions against those engaged in illegal spamming, virus creation, and software counterfeiting. Mr. Smith previously worked as the deputy general counsel for Worldwide Sales, and before that spent three years managing Microsoft's European Law and Corporate Affairs group in Paris. He has written numerous articles on international intellectual property and electronic commerce issues, and has served as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law.

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