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]

Current Positions

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. 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. He is also a member of the American Law Institute..[2] He is also a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.

Career History

He founded PIR in 2002 and held the position of its Chairman till 2004.[3] 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.[4] He has been the VP of Public Policy at ISOC.[5]

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.[6]

Awards and Honors

In 1999, he received the Better Business Bureau's Torch of Integrity Award.[7]

Education

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

Publications

Mr. Maher has written the following books:

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