Robin Gross
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | Robin [at] ImagineLaw.com |
| LinkedIn: |  [imaginelaw Robin Gross]
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| Twitter: |  @robingross
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Robin Gross is the Founder and Executive Director of IP Justice. [1]
She is a member of the Advisory Group to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF). She has also been the representative of NCUC on ICANN GNSO Policy Council since 20005.[2] Alongside, she runs Imagine Law.[3]
Education[edit | edit source]
- Santa Clara University School of Law Juris Doctorate, High Technology Law (1995 – 1998)
- Michigan State University BA, Political Philosophy & International Relations (1988 – 1994)
Career History[edit | edit source]
Robin Gross began her legal career as the first intellectual property (IP) attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in 1999.[4]
In 2003, she gave a keynote speech at the WSIS in Geneva, she argued that in an information society, communication rights are human rights.[5]
She organized a campaign named CODE, which was successful in reforming the European Union's Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights in 2004. She advised the Latin American Policy maker on how to implement the US-Chile Free Trade Agreement's IP
Gross participate in WIPO meetings to the "Development Agenda". She organized an international campaign to support the proposal for a "Development Agenda" at WIPO in 2005.
In 2005 at WSIS in Tunis, Gross addressed the WSIS plenary. She also chaired two panel discussions on the topics of the World Intellectual Property Organization and P2P and Digital Rights.[6]
She taught a course regarding international copyright law at Santa Clara University School of Law in 2005. She also served on the High Technology Legal Advisory Board from 2004-2006.[7]
Awards and Honors[edit | edit source]
The Daily Journal chose Gross as one of “California’s Top Ten Most Influential Attorneys in 2001."
On several TV and radio shows she has appeared as a Legal Expert. She has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Business Week, Wired News, Associated Press, Reuters, Financial Times, Billboard, and other media outlets.[8]
In 2004, Managing Intellectual Property Magazine named Robin Gross one of the "Top 100 Most Influential People in Intellectual Property in the World."[9]