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[David Maher David Maher]

	Currently a member of ICANN's RySG

	Has attended 30+ ICANN Meetings

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.^[1]

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 and of ICANN's Whois Task Force 1 and 2.^[2]

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..^[3] 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 is considered instrumental in the early development of PIR. He was then appointed as the Senior Vice President of Law and Policy^[4] 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, this committee provided foundation for the UDRP. In 1997, he became chairman of the Policy Oversight Committee.^[5] He has been the VP of Public Policy at ISOC.^[6]

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.^[7]

Awards and Honors

In 1999, he received the Better Business Bureau's Torch of Integrity Award.^[8]

Education

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Classics from Harvard College and Law degree from Harvard Law School.^[9]

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.

References

[1] PIR.org

[2] PIR.org

[3] CircleId.com

[4] PIR.org

[5] CircleId.com

[6] ISOC.org

[7] ICANN-Studienkreirs.net

[8] CircleId.com

[9] LawyerNow.com

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-David W. Maher became senior vice president for law and policy of Public Interest Registry (PIR) in September 2004. From 1999 until 2002, he served as vice president for public policy of the Internet Society. In 2002, he became a member of the founding board of PIR and served as chairman until August 2004.
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+'''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.<ref>[http://www.pir.org/node/383 PIR.org]</ref>
-Maher is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience 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. Maher served for more than 20 years as general counsel to the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois Inc. and was the recipient of the bureau's Torch of Integrity Award in 1999. He currently is a director of the bureau.
+== Current Positions ==
+Mr. Maher is a registered patent attorney who specializes in [[Intellectual Property|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 and of ICANN's [[Whois Task Force]] 1 and 2.<ref>[http://www.pir.org/pdf/archive/David%20W%20Maher%20Joins.pdf PIR.org]</ref>
-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.
+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..<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/members/1867/ CircleId.com]</ref> He is also a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
-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.
+== Career History ==
-===Articles===
+David Maher was one of the founders of PIR in 2002, and acted as its Founding Chairman until 2004. He is considered instrumental in the early development of PIR. He was then appointed as the Senior Vice President of Law and Policy<ref>[http://www.pir.org/pdf/archive/David%20W%20Maher%20Joins.pdf PIR.org]</ref> 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  [[IAHC|International Ad Hoc Committee]] in 1996, this committee provided foundation for the [[UDRP]]. In 1997, he became chairman of the Policy Oversight Committee.<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/members/1867/ CircleId.com]</ref> He has been the VP of Public Policy at [[ISOC]].<ref>[http://www.isoc.org/dotorg/10-8.shtml ISOC.org]</ref>
-[[http://www.icannwiki.org/Reporting_to_God Reporting to God]]
+In 2011, he gave a speech titled [http://pir.org/pdf/slippery_slope.pdf 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.<ref>[http://www.icann-studienkreis.net/conf/brussels2005/program.html ICANN-Studienkreirs.net]</ref>
+== Awards and Honors ==
+In 1999, he received the Better Business Bureau's Torch of Integrity Award.<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/members/1867/ CircleId.com]</ref>
+== Education ==
+He holds a Bachelor's degree in Classics from Harvard College and Law degree from Harvard Law School.<ref>[http://www.lawyernow.com/attorneys/davidmaher2 LawyerNow.com]</ref>
+== Publications ==
+Mr. Maher has written the following books:
+*[http://dmaher.org/Publications/Claiminginthealternative.pdf Claiming in the Alternative: Beware the Minefield], published in 2003.
+*[http://dmaher.org/Publications/globaliz.pdf The UDRP: The Globalization of Trademark Rights], published in 2002.
+*[http://dmaher.org/publications/ambiguityofor.pdf The The Ambiguity of Or], Co-authored with Jennifer Hammond and published in 2002.
+*[http://dmaher.org/Publications/droitinternationaldelinternet.pdf Le droit international de l’internet] Co-authored with Marc Rotenberg.
+*[http://dmaher.org/Publications/romanarithmetic.pdf Literary Evidence for Roman Arithmetic with Fractions] Co-authored with John Makowski, published in 2001.
+*[http://dmaher.org/Publications/Howtocollectemail.pdf How to Collect Your Email – Anywhere or Almost Anywhere], published in 1997.
+*[http://dmaher.org/Publications/willitscale.pdf Trademark Law on the Internet – Will It Scale? The Challenge to Develop International Trademark Law], published 1997.
+*[http://dmaher.org/Publications/whosincharge.pdf Trademarks on the Internet: Who’s in Charge?], published in 1996.
+*[http://dmaher.org/Publications/shrinkwrap.pdf The Shrink-Wrap License: Old Problems in a New Wrapper]
+*[http://dmaher.org/Publications/fccsponsorid.pdf Purity Versus Plugola: A Study of the Federal Communications Commission’s Sponsorship Identifcation Rules], published in 1974.
+== External Links ==
+*[http://www.circleid.com/members/1867/ David Maher] on [[CircleID]]
+*David Maher [http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/maher-to-twomey-07feb07.pdf letter] to [[Paul Twomey]] appreciating the Santa Monica Regional Gathering.
+== References ==
+{{reflist}}
+[[Category:People]]
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