The American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law will honor law professor Jane C. Ginsburg, legal editor Tony Dutra and lawyer Donald R. Dunner with its 2015 Mark T. Banner Award.
The award, which recognizes individuals who have made an impact on intellectual property law and/or the practice, will be presented on Friday, July 31, at the annual Mark T. Banner Award luncheon held during the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. These award recipients are recognized for expressing a clear passion and enthusiasm for, and advancing the practice, profession and/or substance of, IP law through extraordinary contributions, teaching, scholarship, innovation, legislation, advocacy, bar or other association activities or the judiciary.
The 2015 Mark T. Banner Award recipients:
Jane Ginsburg is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at the Columbia Law School. She also directs the law school's Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts. In 2011, she was elected to the British Academy, a distinct and rare honor for American scholars.
She is the daughter of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late law professor Martin Ginsburg, both of whom formerly served on the Columbia Law School faculty. Justice Ginsburg and Jane are the first mother-daughter pair to serve on the same law faculty in the U.S.
Ginsburg is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, and received both a D.E. A. (Diplôme d'études appliquées) in 1985 and doctor of law in 1995 from the University de Paris II. Her principal areas of interest are in intellectual property, comparative law, private international law and legal methods. She served as law clerk to Judge John J. Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and spent three years in private practice before teaching. She is the co-author of "International Copyright and Neighboring Rights: The Berne Convention and Beyond." Other titles she has co-authored include "Foundations of Intellectual Property" and "Intellectual Property Stories."
Tony Dutra is the legal editor for Bloomberg BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal. He came to the legal profession after a 25-year career in the software and computer networking industry. He joined Bloomberg in 2008 after graduating from the George Washington University Law School, and writes about all intellectual property topics with a focus on patent law.
He is also co-host of "Do You Copy?" Bloomberg BNA's intellectual property law podcast. Dutra authored the 2014 Supreme Court Brief, Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, submitted on behalf of the American Bar Association. He is an inventor listed on seven U.S. patents related to Internet telephony and was lead inventor on two of them.
Donald R. Dunner is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP. He has worked in all phases of patent law, including prosecution, licensing, litigation, validity and infringement studies and counseling. He has vast technical experience in chemical engineering, chemistry, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and is a member of the American Bar Association, where he serves on the Board of Governors. He is also past chair of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law and a former member of the ABA House of Delegates.
Dunner has litigated numerous cases in the federal district courts and is best known for appellate practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and its predecessor court, the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. The New York Times reported that he has argued more federal circuit cases than any other litigator in the United States. He served as chair of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for the first 10 years of the court's existence and participated in the drafting of the court's rules (1982-92). He was the recipient of the 2014 Who's Who Legal Award - Patent Lawyer of the Year and received the 2014 American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award.
Published: Fri, May 22, 2015
