David Maher

Country:	USA
Website:	[dmaher.org dmaher.org]
LinkedIn:	[David Maher David Maher]

David W. Maher is the Senior Vice President for Law and Policy of PIR, the .org registry. He is one of the founding members of PIR. He has forty years of experience in Law and Policy.

Current Positions

Mr. Maher is a registered patent attorney who specializes in intellectual property, communications and entertainment law. He is admitted to the bar in New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Panel of Neutrals.

Mr. Maher also serves as the Director of Better Business Bureau of Chicago. He is a visiting professor at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and is a member of the American Law Institute.. He is also a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.

Career History

David Maher was one of the founders of PIR in 2002, and acted as its Founding Chairman until 2004. He was then appointed as the Senior Vice President of Law and Policy For 20 years, he worked as a General Counsel at the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois Inc. He served on 11-member International Ad Hoc Committee in 1996. In 1997, he became chairman of the Policy Oversight Committee. He has been the VP of Public Policy at ISOC.

In 2011, he gave a speech titled The Slippery Slope at the ICANN Studienkreis #11. He was a panelist at "IP Address Allocation: Do wee need a Dual System?" panel at ICANN Studienkreis in 2005.

Awards and Honors

In 1999, he received the Better Business Bureau's Torch of Integrity Award.

Education

He holds a bachelor's degree in Classics from Harvard College and Law degree from Harvard Law School.

Publications

Mr. Maher has written the following books:

• Claiming in the Alternative: Beware the Minefield, published in 2003.
• The UDRP: The Globalization of Trademark Rights, published in 2002.
• The The Ambiguity of Or, Co-authored with Jennifer Hammond and published in 2002.
• Le droit international de l’internet Co-authored with Marc Rotenberg.
• Literary Evidence for Roman Arithmetic with Fractions Co-authored with John Makowski, published in 2001.
• How to Collect Your Email – Anywhere or Almost Anywhere, published in 1997.
• Trademark Law on the Internet – Will It Scale? The Challenge to Develop International Trademark Law, published 1997.
• Trademarks on the Internet: Who’s in Charge?, published in 1996.
• The Shrink-Wrap License: Old Problems in a New Wrapper
• Purity Versus Plugola: A Study of the Federal Communications Commission’s Sponsorship Identifcation Rules, published in 1974.

External Links

• David Maher on CircleID
• David Maher letter to Paul Twomey appreciating the Santa Monica Regional Gathering.