Background
Lehman, Bruce Arthur was born on September 19, 1945 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Dean A. Lehman and Wanda R. Watson.
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Lehman, Bruce Arthur was born on September 19, 1945 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Dean A. Lehman and Wanda R. Watson.
Bachelor of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1967; Juris Doctor, University of Wisconsin, 1970.
Nominated by President Bill Clinton on April 23, 1993, and confirmed by the United States Senate on August 5, 1993. During this short period of time, he was responsible for significant changes to the United States patent law. Lehman"s streak of successful changes was finally ended when he tried to move control of the United States. Copyright Office from the Library of Congress to his department.
After leaving the USPTO, Lehman founded the International Intellectual Property Institute, a non-profit, non-governmental organization.
He went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1967 and a Juris Doctor in 1970. He was named "Lawyer of the Year" 1994 by National Law Journal.
In 1996 he served as the head of the United States. delegation to World Intellectual Property Organization (World Intellectual Property Organization) on the December 1996 Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights Questions. He also chaired the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights of the National Information Infrastructure Task Force.
Lehman was asked by the President on September 5, 1997, to serve on an interim basis as Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
On June 16, 1997 he was named one of the 100 most influential men and women in Washington by the National Journal. He has been legal counsel to:
the Wisconsin State Legislature
United States House of Representatives (nine years)
Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, in the drafting of the 1976 Copyright Acting, the 1980 Computer Software Amendments, and 1982 amendments to the Patent Laws. On February 7, 2006, Mr.
Lehman was honored as one of 23 initial inductees to the newly created International Intellectual Property Hall of Fame, a project sponsored by the London-based Intellectual Property Asset Management Magazine.
Currently, he is President and Chairman of the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), a non-profit, non-partisan economic development organization based in Washington, District of Columbia, and is President of the United States. Committee for the World Intellectual Property Organization. Concurrently, Mr. Lehman serves as an expert witness in intellectual property and advises clients on intellectual property related matters, both domestically and internationally.
He continues to fight against submarine patents. Lehman is openly gay.
He was the first openly gay man to be confirmed by the United States. Senate.
He has also worked as an attorney with the United States. Department of Justice, as a partner at Swidler & Berlin (10 years), as an officer in the United States. Army and is currently a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.