Mark Janis joined the University of Iowa faculty in 1995 after six years in private practice with Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he specialized in patent prosecution and litigation. In 1999, he was promoted to full professor, and, in 2002, he was appointed the H. Blair and Joan V. White Intellectual Property Law Scholar. He is the 2001 recipient of the law school's Collegiate Teaching Award and a 2002-2005 recipient of the University of Iowa Faculty Scholar Award. Professor Janis teaches courses in patents, trademarks/unfair competition and property, as well as seminars on advanced problems in intellectual property. His scholarly research focuses on patent and trademark law, the intellectual property/antitrust interface, and intellectual property protection in the agricultural biotechnology industry. Professor Janis is a member of the Indiana bar and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Daniel J. Kevles writes about issues in science and society past and present. He is the author, most recently, of The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character and a co-author of Inventing America: A History of the United States. His previous books include In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity and The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in scholarly and popular journals, including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Kevles received his B.A. in physics and Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. From 1964 to 2001, he taught at the California Institute of Technology, where he was the Koepfli Professor of Humanities and directed the Program in Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. In 2001 he joined the faculty of Yale University where he is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History and also teaches a course on the engineering and ownership of life in the Law School. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Society of American Historians, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His works have been honored with a National Historical Society Prize, a Page One Award, and the Watson Davis Prize of the History of Science Society. In 2001 he received the Society's George Sarton Medal for career achievement.
Sergio Lence is Professor of Economics and Marlin Cole Chair in International Agricultural Economics at Iowa State University. His research agenda includes the economics of intellectual property protection, genetically modified crops, and financial and agricultural markets.
Roger A. McEowen is Associate Professor of Agricultural Law at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. He received a B.S. with distinction from Purdue University in Management in 1986, an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University in 1990, and a J.D. from the Drake University School of Law in 1991. Before joining Iowa State in 2004, he was an associate professor of agricultural law and extension specialist in agricultural law and policy at Kansas State since 1993. Professor McEowen has published scholarly articles in the Journal of Agricultural Taxation and Law, Indiana Law Review, Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, North Dakota Law Review, Nebraska Law Review, the Monthly Digest of Tax Articles, Tax Notes, West’s Social Security Reporting System, Toledo Law Review, Washburn Law Review, Creighton Law Review, Agricultural Law Update, and the Agricultural Law Digest. He is also the lead author of a 1,300-page textbook/casebook on agricultural law that is updated twice annually, and a second 300-page book on agricultural law. In 2003, Professor McEowen was named the recipient of the American Agricultural Law Association (AALA) Distinguished Service Award. He is also the recipient of the AALA’s award of excellence for professional scholarship. He is a member of the Kansas and Nebraska Bar Associations and is a current member of the AALA Board of Directors.
GianCarlo Moschini is a professor of economics at Iowa State University, where he also holds the Pioneer Hi-Bred Endowed Chair in Science and Technology Policy. Moschini's current research interests focus on the economic analysis of biotechnology innovations in agriculture, the analysis of intellectual property rights, and the role of public policy and market institutions in fostering innovation and economic growth. Moschini has published widely in economics and agricultural economics. He is a former editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association.
Max Rothschild received his B.S. in animal science, with an emphasis in genetics at the University of California, Davis in 1974 and his M.S. at the University of Wisconsin in animal science in 1975. In 1978 he obtained his Ph.D. in animal breeding with minors in statistics and genetics from Cornell University. Since 1980 he has been in the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University where he was eventually promoted to the highest rank of C.F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture in 1999. Since 1993 Rothschild has served as the USDA Pig Genome Mapping Coordinator. Recent research has been directed towards identifying genes controlling traits of economic importance in the pig. More recently he was named co-director of the Center for Integrated Animal Genomics. He is a member of many national and international societies. He has presented numerous invited papers in over 30 countries and has over 210 referred publications, 450 other publications and 5 patents. His awards include AAAS fellow, USDA Group Honor Award, ASAS award in Animal Breeding and Genetics, two R&D100 awards and was named Iowa Inventor of the year in 2002.
Stephen Smith is a Research Fellow and Germplasm Security Coordinator at Pioneer Hi-Bred International. The main applications of his work are to support intellectual property protection and to thereby promote innovation and the use of a broader array of genetic diversity in production agriculture. Dr. Smith grew up on a small-grains farm in Spalding, Lincolnshire, Great Britain. He earned his Bachelors degree in plant science at the University of London. His Masters degree (Conservation and Utilisation of Plant Genetic Resources) and Ph.D. (Biochemical Systematics of Zea, Tripsacum and Related Genera) were earned at the University of Birmingham in England. He conducted post-doctorate research at North Carolina State University in Raleigh on isozyme diversity in maize and teosinte. Dr. Smith is a member of the Crop Science Society of America and of the Economic Botany Society. He has published upwards of 70 scientific papers on fingerprinting techniques, biodiversity, germplasm conservation, and intellectual property protection of plant varieties. He chaired the Genetic Resource Division of the Crop Science Society in 2000. He is a member of the editorial board for the journal "Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation".
Clark Wolf is Director of Bioethics at Iowa State University, and also serves on the faculty of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Sustainable Agriculture. He has done work on property rights and environmental law, intergenerational justice, and the ethics of human population policy.
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