"Contributors" [2017] ELECD 519; in Contreras, L. Jorge; Jacob, Meredith (eds), "Patent Pledges" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) vii

Book Title: Patent Pledges

Editor(s): Contreras, L. Jorge; Jacob, Meredith

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785362484

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 9

Extract:

Contributors
Clark D. Asay is an Associate Professor of Law at Brigham Young
University (BYU) Law School. Before coming to BYU, Professor Asay
was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Shughart Scholar at Pennsylvania
State University's Dickinson School of Law. Prior to entering legal
academia, Professor Asay worked at Amazon's Lab126 and supported the
Kindle, Kindle Fire, Amazon Fire, and Amazon Echo teams. Professor
Asay also worked at the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati,
where he practiced in the field of technology transactions and intellectual
property licensing. Professor Asay's research and teaching interests focus
on intellectual property law, technology, and innovation. He has pub-
lished papers relating to patents, copyright, open source software licens-
ing, and information privacy. He has taught courses on intellectual
property law, information privacy, and contracts. Professor Asay is a
graduate of Stanford Law School, where he was an Executive Editor for
the Stanford Law Review. Professor Asay also earned an MPhil from the
University of Cambridge and a BA, summa cum laude, from Brigham
Young University.
Bassem Awad is the Deputy Director and theme leader of intellectual
property law and innovation at the International Law Research Program,
Canadian Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He is
an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
and a head tutor of the distance learning courses for the Academy of the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Mr. Awad served for
several years as a judge and head of the intellectual ...