Background
S. Hemnes, Thomas M. was born on November 10, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Thomas M. S. Hemnes
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Harvard College (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1970). Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1974).
Career
Worked at Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP (Boston, MA) specializing in Intellectual Property Practice. Admitted to the bar, 1976, Massachusetts. Editor, 1972-1973 and Articles Editor, 1973-1974, Harvard Law Review.
Editor, "Intellectual Property World Desk Reference," Kluwer, 1992. Author: "Restraints on Alienation, Equitable Servitures, and the Feudal Nature of Computer Software Licensing," Denver University Law Review, Spring, 1994. "Software Revenue Generation in Network Environments," Jurimetrics, Spring 1993, republished in Software Taxation Letter Volume 4 No.
7, October 1993; "Export Controls Changing Rapidly," Les Nouvelles (September, 1991. Co-authored with Martha Bishai). "The User Interface: Copyright? Or a Right to Copy?" The Boston Computer Society (November 1990).
"The Qualified Privilege to Use a Competitor's Trademark in Comparative Advertising," The Corporate Analyst, Volume 1, No. 4 at 78 (August 1989). "From Experience: Perspectives of a Trademark Attorney on the Branding of Innovative Products," 4 J. Prod.
Innov. Mgt. 217 (1987). "The Adaptation of Copyright Law to Video Games," 131 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 171, 1982. "Paralegal Profitability," Law Office Economics and Management, Summer, 1984.
"How Can You Find a Safe Trademark," Harvard Business Review, March-April, 1985. "The Unintended Partnership Between Software Vendors and Users," Asset Based Finance Journal 18, 1985. "Computer Software Licensing After the Enactment of the Intellectual Property Bankruptcy Protection Act," 5 The Computer Lawyer 7 (1988).
Co-Author, "The Bankruptcy Code, The Copyright Act and Transactions in Computer Software," The Computer L.J. 327 (1987). "Three Common Fallacies in the User Interface Copyright Debate," 7 The Computer Lawyer 14 (1990). "Diamonds Didn't Used to be Forever," Remarks, Trademark News for Business, Volume 5, No.
2 (1992). Co-Compiler, "The Legal Wordbook," Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1978, revised edition, 1982. Co-Chair, International Subcommittee, American Bar Association Law of Commerce in Cyberspace. Chair, Lex Mundi Intellectual Property Committee, 1992-1993.
Chair, Boston Bar Association Intellectual Property Committee, 1995-1996. Lecturer in Intellectual Property, Northeastern University School of Law, 1985. Law Clerk to Judge Francis L. Van Dusen, United States.
Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1974-1975. Chair, Foley Hoag & Eliot Intellectual Property Practice, 1993. Member: Massachusetts Bar Association.
Copyright Society of USA (Co-Founder, New England Chapter). Boston Patent Law Association. Computer Law Association.
Licensing Executives Society, Inc. Massachusetts Computer Software Council. International Trademark Association.
Membership
Member: Massachusetts Bar Association. Copyright Society of USA (Co-Founder, New England Chapter). Boston Patent Law Association.
Computer Law Association. Licensing Executives Society, Inc. Massachusetts Computer Software Council.
International Trademark Association.
