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First Principal Address: Chief Judge Damich
October 10, 2002, 9:15 - 10:30 am

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The Honorable Edward J. Damich is Chief Judge at the United States Court of Federal Claims. He undertook his legal training at The Catholic University of America and Columbia University.  Prior to his appointment to the bench, he served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee.  There, he assisted with the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and in the drafting of the proposed Omnibus Patent Act.  He was a member of the United States delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference, which concluded the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty.  He is a past Commissioner of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal. He currently teaches copyright law as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and has previously been a professor of law at George Mason University and at Delaware Law School of Widener University. He is the author of numerous articles on copyright law.