Todd Baker is a patent attorney in the electrical and mechanical departments at Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., in Alexandria, Va. His practice includes advising clients on patent interference prosecution matters and preparing and prosecuting patent applications. He is a former patent examiner with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, where he specialized in multiplex communications.

Mr. Baker received his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1996 and his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 1993. He is admitted to the Maryland State Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

William Patry, a partner in the New York office of Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, is one of the foremost copyright experts in the nation. He is often described as a “copyright lawyer’s copyright lawyer” and has extensive experience formulating successful strategies for trial and appellate cases in the most complex litigations.

Mr. Patry litigates across a broad spectrum of copyright law.  He regularly represents companies in the entertainment, media and computer industries. In addition to litigating intellectual property issues, Mr. Patry advises on infringement, ownership, visual artists’ rights, conflicts of laws, extraterritorial application of U.S. intellectual property laws, and application of non-U.S. intellectual property laws, as well as issues raised by the intersection of bankruptcy and estate law for copyrighted works.

Mr. Patry is a prolific writer. He is the author of the forthcoming 4,000-page definitive treatise on copyright law to be published in 2006 by West Publishing. He recently co-authored an article on the copyright fair use doctrine with Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  Mr. Patry’s writings on copyright are frequently cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts, and his treatise on fair use is the standard work on the subject. He is also the author of the Patry Copyright Blog (http://williampatry.blogspot.com).

He is regularly requested as an expert witness in cases involving U.S. Copyright Office practices, the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act, and architectural protection.  Mr. Patry has testified before Congress on copyright legislation and, in 1998, he was appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to advise the court on international conflicts of laws issues in the first and, to date, only appellate decision involving this increasingly important area. The court adopted the positions advocated by Mr. Patry’s brief to the court.

As copyright counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and the Administration of Justice, Mr. Patry drafted numerous provisions of the Copyright Act.  Before becoming a congressional staffer, he served for more than four years as a policy planning advisor to the register of copyrights, where he participated in the 1988 Berne Convention Implementation Act.  He has taught copyright law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and was a full-time professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School, serving as the founder and director of its LL.M. program in intellectual property law. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. for 11 years.

Mr. Patry earned a B.A. in 1974 and an M.A. in 1976 in music theory and composition from San Francisco State University. He graduated from The University of Houston Law Center with a J.D. in 1980 and was elected to Order of the Coif. He is admitted to practice in New York, Texas and the District of Columbia, before the U.S. Supreme Court, and before numerous federal District and Circuit Courts.

Michael Remington is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. He has more than 25 years of experience in intellectual property law (including copyrights, trademarks, patents and semiconductor chip mask works), court reform, government relations, and lobbying.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Remington held high-level positions in the three branches of the federal government. For 13 years, he was chief counsel of the Judiciary Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration and counsel to the House Committee on the Judiciary. In the judicial branch, he served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge John W. Reynolds and Deputy Legislative Affairs Officer to the Judicial Conference of the United States (under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger). In the executive branch, he was a prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division, where he specialized in criminal appeals. Finally, Mr. Remington is the former director of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, an entity established by Congress to study and report to the president, the chief justice and Congress on issues relating to judicial misconduct and impeachment.

As a Fulbright Scholar in Paris, Mr. Remington studied at the Conseil d’Etat and the Tribunal Administratif de Paris. He also served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Côte d’Ivoire, Africa. Mr. Remington earned his B.S. in 1967 and his J.D. in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin, where he was also elected to Order of the Coif. He is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Remington is an adjunct law professor at the George Mason School of Law and the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America. Internationally, he has served as a consultant to the United Nations, the World Intellectual Property Organization, The Asia Foundation, and the Library of Congress.

Jule Sigall is associate register for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office. Before being appointed to that position in 2003, Mr. Sigall was a senior associate in the intellectual property and technology practice group at Arnold & Porter LLP, specializing in copyright law and its application to new technologies.

During his tenure at Arnold & Porter, Mr. Sigall represented and advised a wide range of creators, distributors and users of copyrighted works, including photographers, record companies, magazine publishers, public television stations, sports leagues, and advertising agencies. He represented clients in several significant cases involving copyright and the Internet, including Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp. (addressing the use of digital copies of photographs by Internet search engine), UMG Recordings, Inc. v. MP3.com, Inc. (addressing the use of digital copies of sound recordings in an Internet music service), and Bonneville Int’l Corp. v. Peters (addressing the application of the sound recording digital performance right to Internet streaming of radio signals). In Ets-Hokin v. Skyy Spirits, Inc., he successfully argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on behalf of an individual photographer for reversal of a lower court decision involving copyright in derivative works.

From 1997-1998, Mr. Sigall worked at the Copyright Office in the Office of Policy and International Affairs, making significant contributions to a number of domestic and international copyright policy issues and legislative matters, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act . He participated in a number of multilateral and bilateral intellectual property negotiations where he served as lead copyright counsel and provided advice on international copyright policy to executive branch agencies. He was specifically responsible for the enforcement-related provisions of the TRIPS Agreement.

Mr. Sigall is a 1990 graduate of Duke University and a 1996 summa cum laude graduate of The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, where he served as Notes and Comments Editor of the Catholic University Law Review. He has published several articles on copyright law, and has spoken frequently on copyright and new technologies, including lectures at Duke University School of Law and The Catholic University of America.