Hector Ariel Manoff
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| Country: | Argentina |
| Email: | amanoff[at]vmf.com.ar |
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| LinkedIn: |  [hector-ariel-manoff Hector Ariel Manoff]
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Hector A. Manoff is a partner at the law firm Vitale, Manoff & Feilbogen. He deals with Internet and intellectual property;[1] but has additional expertise in franchise law, computers and softwares, copyrights, media law, patents, domain names, and ICANN.[2]
Current Positions[edit | edit source]
Mr. Manoff is currently working as head of the Intellectual Property Department at Vitale, Manoff & Feilbogen. He joined this firm back in 1985. Hector is also the Legal advisor for CABASE. He is Co-Chair of Board of Intellectual Property Journal of Ad-Hoc publishers, Buenos Aires;[3] and has acted as Chairman for various subcommittees. He is President of the Industrial Property Committee of the Association of Lawyers of Buenos Aires.
Memberships[edit | edit source]
His memberships include:
- INTA Legal Services industry from 1996 to 2010
- ICANN IRT Legal Services industry 2009.[4]
- AIPPI-International Industrial Property Protection Association.
- Argentine Transference of Technology Studies Association.
- A.A.A.-Argentine Industrial Property Agents Association.
- INTA-International Trademark Association.
- ASIPI-Interamerican Industrial Property Association
- ABA-American Bar Association.
- AIPLA-American Intellectual Property Law Association.[5]
- IPC constituency in ICANN.
- Copyright Society, LES-Licensing Executive Society.[6]
- Argentine Chapter of ISOC.
- Chamber Member Database and Online Services CABASE.
- Academic Advisor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Ad-Hoc Editores, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Board of the Alumni Association of The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois.[7]
Participations[edit | edit source]
Hector has participated in several meetings as a speaker. His participations include:
- He dealt with WHOIS information controversy and presented a report on September 13, 2007.[8]
- Industrial Property Commission was chaired by him on April 27, 2010.[9]
- He participated in HSTLD advisory group volunteers on December 23,2009 and February 11, 2010.[10] [11]
- He attended ISOC-AR (Internet Society Argentina Chapter) meeting on September 13, 2007.[12]
- ICANN Public Meetings on November 12, 2001 in Marina del Rey, California.[13]
- Speaker in the meeting held on July 27,2008 in Buenos Aires.[14]
- Speaker at 2004 NYSBA (New York State Bar Association) Spring meeting, Santiago de Chile (IP in Latin America).
- Speaker at 126th INTA Annual Meeting, in Atlanta (Intellectual Property in Latin America) 2004.
- Speaker at 125th INTA Annual Meeting, in Amsterdam (Rights Derived from the Use of Unregistered Marks and Cancellation for Nonuse in South America) 2004 AIPLA.
- Speaker at Latin America Committee (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Argentina after the Implementation of the TRIPS Agreement) 2004.
- Speaker at Buenos Aires Translator Bar Association Annual Meeting (Translators Rights) 2003 “Domain Names and Trademarks.[15]
- He was a member of Implementation Recommendation Team IRT on March 23,2009.[16]
Education[edit | edit source]
He attended Universidad de Buenos Aires from 1980 to 1985 and got the degree of Industrial Property Agent Advocate.[17] After that he got his Master Degree in L.L.M. in Intellectual Property Law from The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL USA in 1997.[18] He did two intensive courses on International Business Law from The John Marshall Law School and Chicago Board and Trade Technical management from Chicago Board and Trade. He did a postgraduate course in "Corporate Governance" from Universidad del CEMA in 2006.[19]
Mr. Manoff can speak Spanish, English and Portuguese.[20]