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Mr. Van Dyke is a regular speaker to legal, university, and professional audiences on various technology, intellectual property protection, and litigation issues, both nationally and internationally. He has appeared as an expert commentator on TechTV and has been interviewed and quoted as an expert in a variety of legal and technical journals, including the National Law Journal, LegalTimes, Technology Review, Biotech Tech, and Science. In the coming months he has presentations on nanotechnology, Latin American legal developments and intellectual property enforcement, software, bioinformatics, and trade issues.

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Presentations

  • Legal Commentator, “Supreme Court and Legislative Update on Patent Rights” Defenders of Property Rights show on Rightalk.com Internet radio, June 8, 2006.
  • Faculty Member, “Breaking Down Organizational and Cultural Barriers: Legal Issues Impacting Licensing Negotiations in Europe” Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and the Licensing Executive Society (LES), Spring Meeting, Philadelphia, Pa., May 10, 2006.
  • Faculty Member, “Dynamic Changes in Biopharmaceutical Industry — Challenges and Opportunities: Procedures for Launching a Generic Drug in the United States” Beijing International Pharmaceutical & Chemical Intellectual Property Forum (Bioforum), Beijing, China, April 26, 2006.
  • Featured Speaker, “Intellectual Property Disputes in the United States” Peking University Law School, Beijing, China, April 26, 2006.
  • Featured Speaker, “Strategies for Chinese Companies in United States International Trade Commission 337 Action Cases” Zhang Jiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong District of Shanghai, April 18, 2006; Shenzhen WTO Affairs Center, Shenzhen, April 20, 2006; China (Shanxi) Association of Productivity Promotion Centre and Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, April 21, 2006; and Daoxianghu Park, Haidan District of Beijing, April 25, 2006 (series of lectures with Judge Paul Luckern of the USITC on 337 actions and their impact on Chinese and other companies, and with Chris Israel, Coordinator for International Intellectual Property Enforcement, U.S. Department of Commerce (Beijing only)).
  • Faculty Member, “The History of Technology and Law: From Fire to Fibre Optics” Southern Methodist University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oct. 21, 2005. Featured Speaker, “The Social and Ethical Dimensions of the Nanotechnology Movement” Southern Methodist University, Maguire Center for Ethics, Oct. 20, 2005. Legal Commentator, “Intellectual Property Update” Defenders of Property Rights show on Rightalk.com Internet radio, June 16, 2005.
  • Faculty Member, “Regulations and Marketing of Biomedical Devices: Legal and Ethical Challenges” Third International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, Rochester, N.Y., June 6, 2005. Faculty Member, “East Meets West: Comparisons of United States and Chinese Patent Systems” American Intellectual Property Law Association, IP Practice in the Far East Committee and the China Intellectual Property Society (CIPS) joint meeting, Philadelphia, Pa., May 10, 2005.
  • Faculty Member and Conference Co-chair, “Bioinformatics: the Intersection of the Life Sciences and Information Technology” and
    “Pharmacogenomics: the Power of Genomic Information” 2005 World Computer and Internet Congress, Computer Law Association, May 6, 2005.
  • Legal Commentator, “Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster: Copyright Under Siege” Defenders of Property Rights show on Rightalk.com Internet Radio, April 14, 2005.
  • Legal Commentator, “Legal Issues for Chinese Startups and Other Chinese Companies Operating in the United States” China Access Forum 2005 and Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association, Washington, D.C., April 8, 2005.
  • Faculty Member, “Bots Gone Wild: Some Observations and Speculations on Nanotechnology” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Orlando, Fla., Jan. 26, 2005.
  • Faculty Member, “Evolving Best Practices: Strategic Intellectual Property Protection in the New Economy” Law Seminars International: IP Licensing Transactions, Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 3, 2004.
  • Faculty Member, “Telematics: The Drive to Distraction” The 2004 Annual European Congress, Computer Law Association, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nov. 19, 2004.
    “United States International Trade Commission Section 337 Actions: A
    Weapon in the Arsenal of U.S. Companies” Rochester Fall CLE Program, Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 5, 2004.
  • Faculty Member, “International Transactions Involving Outsourcing Technology” Law Seminars International, Reston, Va., Oct. 15, 2004. Moderator and Sponsor, “The Business Case for Diversity in Biotechnology IP Law” “Access Issues Associated with Drug Development” and (with Biojudiciary Project) “PTO Roundtable” BIOIntellectual Property Counsels’ Committee Fall Meeting, Boston, Mass., Oct. 5, 2004.
  • Featured Speaker, “Law and Procedure of 337 Patent Litigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission: Strategies for Chinese Companies” China University of Political Science and Law, International Cooperation and Exchange Center, Beijing, China, Sept. 23, 2004; Zhejiang Provincial Senior WTO Center, Hangzhou, China, Sept. 24, 2004; and Xiamen University, International Economic Law Institute, Xiamen, China, Sept. 27, 2004 (series of lectures with Judge Paul Luckern of the USITC on 337 actions and their impact on Chinese and other companies).
  • Featured Speaker, “Antitrust and Industrial Property: Weighing the Balance” Peking University Law School, Beijing, China, Sept. 22, 2004.
  • Faculty Member, “Size Does Matter: Nanotechnology and the Law” National Association of Patent Practitioners Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., July 13, 2004.
  • Faculty Member, “International Transactions Involving Technology Exports and Imports” Law Seminars International, Atlanta, Ga., June 25, 2004.
  • Faculty Member, “Patenting Nanotechnology: Big Patents for Small Inventions” Advanced Biotechnology & Chemical Patent Practice Seminar, American Intellectual Property Law Association, St. Louis, Mo., June 18, 2004.
  • Moderator, panels on “Intellectual Property Enforcement in Latin America” and “Nanotechnology: the Emerging Legal Landscape of the Small” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Dallas, Texas, May 14, 2004.
  • Faculty Member, “The 2004 World Computer and Internet Law Congress: Nanotechnology Licensing-the New Frontier” Computer Law Association, Washington, D.C., May 6, 2004.
  • Faculty Member, “Licensing Little Things: Practical Concerns in Nanotechnology” and “The Future of Technology Transfer” European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN), Fifth EIPIN Congress, Centre d’Études Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle (CEIPI), cole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), Strasbourg, France, April 2-3, 2004.
  • Faculty Member and Co-moderator, “Intellectual Property in the 21st Century: Weighing the Balance” Second Conference of the Americas: Electronic Commerce: Progress and Development, joint meeting of the Computer Law Association and the Instituto Latinoamericano de Alta Tecnología, Informática y Derecho (ILATID), Santa Domingo, DominicanRepublic, Feb. 6, 2004.
  • Faculty Member, “Nano-Biotech Patenting: Riding the Wave of the Bio-Nanotechnology Revolution” speaker on U.S. litigation, patenting, regulatory, and privacy concerns for a conference sponsored by EuroLegal, London, England, October 21, 2003
  • Faculty Member, “Size Does Matter: Nanotechnology and the Law” The Legal and Business Forum on Nanotechnology, speaker on litigation and patenting concerns in nanotechnology innovation, Boston, MA, June 16, 2003
  • Moderator, panel on the “Basics of Trademark Practice” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Atlanta, GA, May 15, 2003
  • Faculty Member, “The 2003 World Computer and Internet Law Congress: Intellectual Property-New Legal Developments and Today’s Critical Issues” Computer Law Association, Washington, D.C., May 1, 2003
  • Faculty Member, “The Economics of Lost Profits Damages” Eighth National Forum on Litigating Patent Disputes, American Conference Institute, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, CA, February 19–20, 2003, and March 10–11, 2003
  • Featured Luncheon Speaker, “Recent Developments in Business Method Patenting” New York Intellectual Property Law Association, New York, NY, January 31, 2003
  • Speaker, “Biotechnology and Traditional Knowledge” American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., October 30, 2002
  • Speaker, “Intellectual Property Rights: a U.S. Perspective” Post Graduate Degree Program in Intellectual Property for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Speaker, “Intellectual Property Issues in Developing Countries” George Washington University, Department of International Business, Washington, D.C., October 8, 2002
  • Legal Commentator, “The Long and Winding Road of Equivalents: the Relevance of Festo to United Kingdom Practitioners” speaker on U.S. law for a seminar sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, London, England, September 18, 2002
  • Legal Commentator, “Intellectual Property Issues within Universities” Eye on the Internet show on KRLD, Dallas, TX, May 20, 2002
  • Legal Commentator, “The Balance Between Pharmaceutical Patents and the Public Good” John Dvorak’s Silicon Spin show on TechTV, February 19, 2002. Mr. Van Dyke was interviewed on the various public policy arguments in favor of a patent system in the aftermath of the anthrax scare, as well as the Cipro patent issues in both the U.S. and Canada
  • Faculty Member, “Legal Issues Concerning Internet Startups” El negotio de las Technologias de Información en las Americas: Una actualización al año 2002/The IT business in the Americas: An update toward year 2002, Computer Law Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2001
  • Speaker, “Intellectual Property and World Commerce” George Washington University, Department of International Business, Washington, D.C., November 12, 2001
  • Faculty Member, “Current Issues in Copyright Law” University of Houston Law Foundation program: Intellectual Property Survey for the General Lawyer, Houston, and Dallas, TX, July 27, 2001, and August 3, 2001
  • Faculty Member, “Managing the Global Digital Information Technology Explosion: Issues on Trade Secrets, Software and Business Method Patents, and Patent Litigation” Computer Law Association, Washington, D.C., May 4, 2001
  • Speaker, “Fencing Off the Open Space of Algorithmic Intellectual Property” North Texas Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Dallas, TX, April 26, 2001
  • Speaker, “Historical Overview of Software Patenting in the United States” American Intellectual Property Law Association, Boca Raton, FL, January 30, 2001
  • Faculty Member, “Current Issues in Copyright Law” University of Houston Law Foundation program: Intellectual Property Survey for the General Lawyer, Dallas and Houston, TX, July 14 and 21, 2000
  • Faculty Member, “Litigating Business Method Patents” The 17th Annual Pacific Rim Computer Law Institute, Seattle, WA, June 2, 2000
  • Speaker, “Principles of Intellectual Property Law for the Computer Science Industry” Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, November 12, 1999
  • Faculty Member, “Software Patenting Issues” joint meeting of the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations, New York, NY, April 17, 1996
  • Quoted and interviewed by C/Net, TechTV, KRLD Radio, the American Lawyer, National Law Journal, Legal Times, Science magazine, Technology Review, Dallas Business Journal, Washington Business Journal, Baltimore Business Journal, Biotech Tech, and other publications on technology and intellectual property issues.

Legal Writings

  • “Functional Economics: The New Language in Computing Lost Profits" American Intellectual Property Law Association, Quarterly Journal, Volume 34, Number 2, Spring 2006.
  • “Millions of Patents and Patent Applications Dodge a Bullet" E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, June 26, 2006.
  • “eBay Ruling Puts Patent Rights Under the Microscope" E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, May 16, 2006.
  • “Blackberries, Patents and the Public Good" E-Commerce Times and Technology News World, April 3, 2006.
  • “Sing a Song for your Blackberry" ComputerWorld, Jan. 25, 2006.
  • “What Is the Significance of Brazil’s Stance on Open-Source Software" Commentary, Latin American Advisor, Feb. 10, 2005.
  • “Bots Gone Wild: Some Observations and Speculations on Nanotechnology" American Intellectual Property Law Association, Orlando, FL, Jan. 26, 2005.
  • “A Survey of Intellectual Property Enforcement in Latin America” R. Van Dyke et al., American Intellectual Property Law Association, Intellectual Property in Latin America Committee, May 15, 2003
  • “Software Patents: Procuring and Enforcing” Patent Resources Group, R. Van Dyke et al., Contributor Re: Bioinformatics, April 2003
  • “Deep Pockets, Clear Heads Lead to Biotech Success” Building Biotech column, Baltimore Business Journal, April 11, 2003
  • “Biotech Growth in 2003: The Catalysts for Success” Industry Focus column, Washington Business Journal, March 28, 2003
  • “E Wars—Episode One: The Patent Menace” Volume VII, No. 2, Computer Law Review and Technology Journal, Southern Methodist University School of Law, Winter 2003
  • “Functional Economics: The New Language in Computing Lost Profits” Conference Proceedings of the Eighth National Forum on Litigating Patent Disputes, American Conference Institute, Washington D.C., and San Francisco, CA, February 19–20, 2003, and March 10–11, 2003
  • “The Law of the Internet” National Business Institute, R. Van Dyke et al., January 2003
  • “Trade Secrets: Protecting Intangible Assets” Thinking Judicially column, Biotech Tech, November 2002
  • “Weighing the Balance, report on hearings of the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy” AIPLA Antitrust Committee, October 25, 2002
  • “Supreme Court ruling of great value to patent holders” Expert Opinion, Washington Business Journal, July 26, 2002
  • “Festo: The Supreme Court Preserves the Value of Patents, but Increases the Risk of Litigation” Decision of Note, Intellectual Property Strategist, June 2002
  • “Patent Rescue” Points of View, Legal Times, June 3, 2002
  • “Patents and the Public Good” feature article for TechTV’s Silicon Spin, February 19, 2002
  • “How Big are Patents? High Court must choose between two visions of a good IP system” Points of View, Legal Times, January 7, 2002
  • “The Birth of an Internet Company: Web Site Development Agreements and Domain Names” Conference Proceedings of the Computer Law Association program on El negotio de las Technologias de Información en las Americas: Una actualización al año 2002/The IT business in the Americas: An update toward year 2002, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2001
  • “The Copyright Done Gone: The Challenge to Copyright Ownership and Exclusive Rights” Conference Proceedings of the University of Houston Law Foundation program: Intellectual Property Survey for the General Lawyer, Houston and Dallas, TX, July 27, 2001, and August 3, 2001
  • “Trade Secrets: Facing the Inevitable” and “Business Method Patents: Taming a New Frontier” Conference Proceedings of the Computer Law Association program on Managing the Global Digital Information Technology Explosion, May 4, 2001
  • “Copyright Law: Ownership and Transference Rights” Conference Proceedings of the University of Houston Law Foundation program: Intellectual Property Survey for the General Lawyer, Dallas and Houston, TX, July 14 and 21, 2000
  • “E Wars” Conference Proceedings of the 17th Annual Pacific Rim Computer Law Institute, June 2, 2000
  • “Software Patents Offer Opportunities and Obstacles” special article to the National Law Journal, May 24, 1999
  • “Intellectual Property Law for the Health Care Provider” feature article for Vital Signs, Spring 1997
  • “File Not Found: The Controversy in Software Patents and the Search for Prior Art” Conference Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations, April 17, 1996
  • “Drawing the Line Between Licensing Unpatented Goods and Illegal Tying” R. Van Dyke et al., Vol. 75, No. 7, Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, July 1993 and Vol. 33, No. 3, IDEA: The Journal of Law and Technology, 1993
  • “Three-dimensional Computer Graphics in Dentistry” feature article in Dentistry ’87, December 1987
  • “PARD: Prototype Atomic Relational Database” and “CCCShell: Command Correcting C-Shell” graduate research projects at the University of North Carolina Department of Computer Science, R. Van Dyke et al., Spring 1986 and Spring 1987 (project head)



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