Hector Ariel Manoff

Country:	Buenos Aires Argentina
Email:	amanoff[at]vmf.com.ar
Website:	[vmf vmf]
LinkedIn:	[hector-ariel-manoff Hector Ariel Manoff]

Mr. Manoff is a partner at the law firm Vitale, Manoff & Feilbogen. He deals with internet and intellectual property. An interview with him is published in e-Commerce in 24 jurisdictions worldwide 2011 edition.

Languages

He can speak Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Education

He attended Universidad de Buenos Aires from 1980 to 1985 and got the degree of Industrial Property Agent Advocate. 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. 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.

Practice Areas

Hector has a wide practicing area which includes Intellectual property law, Franchise law, computers and softwares, copyrights, media law, patents and ICANN.

Current Positions

Mr. Manoff is currently working as head of the Intellectual Property Department at Vitale, Manoff & Feilbogen. He joined this firm back in 1985. He is Legal advisor for CABASE (Chamber of data base owners and internet providers companies). He is Co-Chair of Board of Intellectual Property Journal of Ad-Hoc publishers Buenos Aires Argentina.

Memberships

His memberships include:

• INTA Legal Services industry from 1996 to 2010
• ICANN IRT Legal Services industry 2009.
• AIPPI-International Industrial Property Protection Association.
• Licensing Executive Society.
• 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.

• IPC constituency in ICANN.

• Copyright Society, LES-Licensing Executive Society and of Argentina Association of Industrial Property Agents (AAAPI).
• Chairman of the Subcommittee on Trademark Dilution and notorious - Latin America and the Caribbean.

President of the Industrial Property Committee of the Association of Lawyers of Buenos Aires (AABA).

• 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.

Participations

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.
• Industrial Property Commission was chaired by him on April 27, 2010.
• He participated in HSTLD advisory group volunteers on December 23,2009 and February 11, 2010.
• As a speaker in the meeting held on July 27,2008 in Buenos Aires.
• He attended ISOC-AR (Internet Society Argentina Chapter) meeting on September 13, 2007.
• ICANN Public Meetings on November 12, 2001 in Marina del Rey, California.

• 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.
• He was a member of Implementation Recommendation Team IRT on March 23,2009.