Background
Winter, Harvey John was born on April 6, 1915 in New Albion, New York, United States. Son of George J. and Irene (Harvey) Winter.
Winter, Harvey John was born on April 6, 1915 in New Albion, New York, United States. Son of George J. and Irene (Harvey) Winter.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, U. Buffalo, 1938; Master of Arts, University Buffalo, 1939; teaching fellow, George Washington University, 1939-1940.
Historian United States National Park Service, 1940-1942. Archivist United States National Archives, 1942-1943. With United States Office Alien Property Custodian, 1943-1951, chief reports and statistics section, 1948-1951.
With State Department, since 1951, chief international business practices division, 1959-1961, assistant chief, 1961-1970, chief business practices division, 1970-1971, director office business protection, 1971-1973, director office business practices, 1973-1990. Director office intellectual property and competition, 1991-1992. United States delegate European Productivity Agency cartel meetings, Paris, 1958-1960.
Member United States delegate diplomatic conferences International Design Agreement, The Hague, 1960, 17th session General Agreement of Tariff and Trades, Geneva, 1960. United States alternate representative 5th session Intergovtl. Copyright Committee, London, 1960, 6th session, Madrid, 1961, 7th session, New Delhi, 1963.
United States alternate representative Interunion Coordinating Committee, Geneva, 1963-1969. United States observer African Seminar on Industrial Property, Brazzaville, Congo, 1963. United States alternate observer Latin American Industrial Property Seminar, Bogota, Colombia, 1964, Asian Industrial Property Seminar, Colombo, Ceylon, 1966, Committee of Experts on Inventors' Certificates, Geneva, 1965, Committee of Experts on Administrative Agreement, Geneva, 1965, Intellectual Property Diplomatic Conference, Stockholm, 1967, Diplomatic Conference on Agreement for Classification of Industrial Designs, Locarno, Switzerland, 1968, Diplomatic Conference on Patent Cooperation Treaty, Washington, 1970, Diplomatic Conference on Agreement for International Patent Classification, Strasbourg, France, 1971, Diplomatic Conference on Universal Copyright Convention, Paris, 1971.
United States alternate representative Diplomatic Conference on Phonogram Convention, Geneva, 1971, Diplomatic Conference on Industrial Property, Vienna, 1973. United States representative Committee Experts on Type Face Agreement, Geneva, 1972, Committee Experts on Communications Satellites Problems, Nairobi, Kenya, 1973. United States delegate Diplomatic Conference on Communications Satellites Convention, Brussels, 1974, Diplomatic Conference on Treaty for Deposit Microorganisms, Budapest, Hungary, 1977, Diplomatic Conference on Plant Protection Convention, Geneva, 1978, World Intellectual Property Organization Governing Bodies, Geneva, 1979-1982, alternate delegate, 1983-1991.
Alternate United States delegate Diplomatic Conference on Revision of Paris Convention, Geneva, 1980, 82, 83, 84 Nairobi, 1981. Retired, 1992
United States delegate United Nations Educational Experts on Rental of Videograms, Paris, 1984, Committee Governmental Experts on Audiovisual Works and Phonograms, Paris, 1986, Committee Governmental Experts on International Register of Audiovisual Works, Geneva, 1988, Diplomatic Conference on Treaty for International Registration of Audiovisual Works, Geneva, 1989, Committee Experts on Disputes Steelement Treaty on Intellectual Property, 1990. Chairman International Patent Classification Assembly, 1992.
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Virginia M. Shaw, September 2, 1939. 1 child, Jeffrey S.