David Maher
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David W. Maher is the Senior Vice President for Law and Policy of PIR. He is one of the founding members of PIR. He has forty years of experience in Law and Policy.[1]
He is a registered patent attorney and 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.
Mr. Maher also serves as the Director of Better Business Bureau of Chicago.
Career History[edit | edit source]
He founded PIR in 2002 and held the position of its Chairman till 2004. For 20 years, he worked as a General Counsel at the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois Inc.
Awards and Honors[edit | edit source]
In 1999, he received the Better Business Bureau's Torch of Integrity Award
Maher is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience in intellectual property, communications and entertainment law.
In 1996, as a well-regarded authority on Internet domain names, Maher was asked by the Internet Society to serve on the 11-member International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC). In 1997, he became chairman of the Policy Oversight Committee, the successor to IAHC. The IAHC developed proposals that included, for the first time, provisions for expeditious resolution of disputes with cybersquatters. These proposals were later adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and now form the nucleus of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), which provides a global arbitration and mediation system for trademark-domain name disputes. Maher is a member of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Panel of Neutrals.
Maher currently serves as a member of the visiting committee to the divinity school at the University of Chicago. Maher is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in classics (Latin), and he earned his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1959. He is a member of the American Law Institute and has lectured and written articles on the Internet, intellectual property and communications law.