The Reed Institute for Applied Statistics

Speaker Series

Copyrights in Education, Research and Publishing - History and Current Use

David L. Garrison and Neil Smith
February 6, 2003

When does using ideas or quotations from web sites, books or other writings constitute plagiarism and copyright infringement? When a clinic team develops original writings and software how can they protect their work? What is the relationship between copyrights and patents? How may one copyright teaching and/or research materials? What protection is afforded an author if work is copied?

Thoughts on these topics will be presented by Mr. David L. Garrison and Mr. Neil Smith, intellectual property lawyers from Seattle and San Francisco at a symposium to be presented February 6, 2003 at the Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College. The speakers will discuss copyrights in education, the responsibilities and rights that copyright law bestows on authors and users and the implications for academic tradition, scholarship and research.

David Garrison is an intellectual property lawyer in Seattle, Washington. His firm specializes in patent and trademark prosecution, litigation, client consultation, mediation, arbitration and licensing. Mr. Garrison was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Puget Sound (1981-1992) where he taught a course in Intellectual Properties and Independent Studies for students in the areas of patents, trademarks and copyrights. Mr. Garrison is currently the author and editor of Intellectual Property: Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States, Oceana Publishing, Co., Dobbs Ferry, NY. Mr. Garrison is active in the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Bar Association, Federal Circuit Bar Association, The American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Washington State Bar Association.

Neil Smith is with the firm of Howard, Rice Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin and he clerked for the Honorable Giles Sutherlin Rich, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Smith has been active in many professional organizations including the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Bar Association, Federal Circuit Bar Association, and the California Bar. Mr. Smith is a frequent speaker on intellectual property issues. Mr. Smith is a director in the Litigation Department and a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group. His practice includes litigation and counseling in trademark, patent, copyright and unfair competition matters. He has represented a broad range of high-technology, corporate, software, and traditional brick-and-mortar business in publishing, multi-media and consumer product businesses, and is a frequent speaker and author on Internet and intellectual property subjects. Mr. Smith was named "Litigator of the Year, 1999" by Managing Intellectual Property and was the first recipient of the Joseph Rossman Award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society. He is also named in The Best Lawyers in America, Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Trademark Law, Guide to World's Leading Experts in Patent Law, and Who's Who of Internet and Electronic Commerce Lawyers.

The Reed Institute for Applied Statistics is honored to sponsor Mr. Garrison and Mr. Smith.