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Franklin Pierce Law Center Professor Karl Jorda to be Inducted Into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Concord, NH -- Franklin Pierce Law Center Professor Karl Jorda is one of nine individuals to be selected for induction into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame. He was recently chosen from a field of over 300 nominations solicited from members of the global intellectual property community.
The Intellectual Property Hall of Fame was established in 2005 by Intellectual Asset Management magazine and is designed to honor those who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of intellectual property law and practice, thereby helping to establish intellectual property as one of the key business assets of the 21st century.
Former chief intellectual property counsel at CIBA-GEIGY Corporation (Novartis) for 26 year, Jorda joined Pierce Law 1989. He serves as director of Pierce Law's Germeshausen Center for the Law of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He lectures frequently throughout the U.S. and abroad and is a consultant to the Indonesian Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization. He was awarded the 1996 Jefferson Medal, the highest American award in the field of intellectual property and the PIPA Medal (1989) for "Outstanding Contributions to International Cooperation in the Intellectual Property Field." He is the past president of the New York Intellectual Property Association and the Pacific Intellectual Property Association (PIPA).
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