Background
Beck, Henry was born on October 20, 1945 in Samarkand, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Henry Beck
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Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (Bachelor of Arts, with honors, 1967). Stanford University (Master of Arts, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, 1973).
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law (Juris Doctor, 1982).
Career
Worked at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, Professional Corporation (New York, New York) specializing in General Practice. General Civil, Intellectual Property and Entertainment Litigation before all State and Federal Courts and Trademark Tribunals. Trials and Appeals, Trademark, Copyright, Patent, Unfair Competition and Licensing, Commercial and Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate and Financing, Taxation, Estate Planning, Trusts and Estates, Creditors and Debtors Rights, Publishing, Libel, Computer Law, International Law, Matrimonial Law.
Admitted to the bar, 1983, New York and United States.
District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New New York Member, University of California, Los Angeles Law Review, 1981-1982.
Fellow: Ford Foundation. National Science Foundation Mathematics; New York State Regents.
Author: "Control Of, and Access To, On-Lincolnshire Computer Data-Bases: Some First Amendment Issues In Videotex and Teletext," 5 Hastings J. Commander
& Ent. Law 1 (1982); "Internal Revenue Service Scraps Investment Credit in Master Tape Ruling," 1 (4) Computer Law Strategist 7 (August 1984). "Taxation of Computer Software Section 38: Investment Tax Credit," 25 Jurimetrics 387, 409-415 (1985).
"Contractual Restraints on Downloading Databases," 5 (5) Computer law Strategist 1 (1988).
"Is the Data Base Provider Liable for Wrong Info?" 5 (5) Computer Law Strategist 3 (May 1988). "Reverse Engineering and Intellectual Property Law," 44 Record of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York 132 (1989) (Company-Author), Reprinted in R. Milgrim, Trade Secrets (1991 educated). "Copyright Ownership of Computer Programs Developed by Independent Contractors: Problems in the Law and Some Proposed Drafting Solutions," 6 (3) The Computer Lawyer 23 (March 1989).
"Half a Loaf: Supreme Court Work for Hire Decision Leaves Many Questions Unanswered," 6 (7) The Computer Lawyer 37 (July 1989).
"1988: Significant Changes in the Laws Governing Intellectual Property," 5(4) Corporate Counsel"s Quarterly 25 (October 1989) (analyzes amendments to the Copyright Acting, the Lanham Acting and the Bankruptcy Acting, and incorporates the following two articles: "Major Changes Proposed by Lanham Acting Amendments," 6 (1) Computer Law Strategist (May 1989). And "Sweeping Changes in Lanham Acting in Store," 6 (2) Computer Law Strategist 3 (June 1989).
"Copyright Protection for Compilations and Databases after Feist," 8 (7) The Computer Lawyer 1 (July 1991). "Patent Issues in Establishing Technological Standards," 12 (3) Computer Law Strategist 1 (July 1995).
"Issues in the Development, Financing and Acquisition of Information Age Assets," 12(1) The Computer Lawyer 14 (January 1995).
"Patent Issues in Establishing Technological Standards," 12(3) Computer Law Strategist 1 (July 1995). Maine ember, National Academy of Sciences, Planning Committee on Application of Intellectual Property Law to Computer Software, 1989-1990. Member: Board of Editorial Advisors, Bankruptcy & Commercial Law Advisor, 1988-1990.
Board of Editors, Information Technology Law Report (Euromoney Publications), 1996.
Cognitive Science Society, 1991. Board of Editors, Information Technology Law Report (Euromoney Publications), 1996.
Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Computer Law, 1986-1989. 1991-1994; Chairman, International Subcommittee.
Liaison to Special Committee on the Information Superhighway).
American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Business. Science and Technology. Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights).
American Intellectual Property Association.
Computer Law Association. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, Professional Corporation, located in the heart of midtown Manhattan, was established in 1957, and has grown to a firm of more than 40 lawyers.
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Member, University of California, Los Angeles Law Review, 1981-1982. Fellow: Ford Foundation. National Science Foundation Mathematics; New York State Regents.
