[icann-nominations] Statement of Acceptance by David W. Maher

[dwmaher@ibm.net]

STATEMENT OF ACCEPTANCE OF NOMINATION
1. Full name:  David W. Maher

2. E-mail address:  dwmaher@ibm.net

3. Organization you work for (if apply): Chair, Policy Oversight
Committee

4. Snail-mail address (street, city, country):  c/o Sonnenschein
Nath & Rosenthal

        

        

        

        

        

        

8000
Sears Tower

        

        

        

        

        

        

Chicago
IL 60606

        

        

        

        

        

        

USA

     

        

        

5. The region that includes the country of which you are a citizen: 
North America

6. The region that includes the country in which you reside:  North
America

7. A clear statement of acceptance of the nomination: I accept the
nomination.

8. If you are a Member of the Names Council, state your intention
(*)
        to resign from the Names
Council if you are elected to the ICANN Board:

        

        

        

I
am not a Member of the Names Council

9. A Curriculum Vitae (no more than 500 words long):

Born:         August 14, 1934, in
Chicago, Illinois

Married:      Jill Armagnac Maher, December 20,
1954

Children:     Philip Armagnac Maher, born November 5,
1956
             
Julia Armagnac Maher de Romero, born March 19, 1958

Education:    Harvard School for Boys, Chicago,
Illinois

             
Harvard College, major in Classics (Latin)
             
A.B. Degree (Cum Laude), 1955

             
Harvard Law School, LL.B. Degree, 1959

Served in United States Air Force as Second Lieutenant, 1955-56

Employed by law firms in Boston and New York, 1958-60

Member of the Bar:  New York; Illinois; Wisconsin; United
States
Patent Office (registered Patent Attorney); U.S. District Court, Northern
District of Illinois;
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit.

Associate:    Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz &
Masters,
             
Chicago, Illinois, 1960-65

Partner:      Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago,
Illinois, 1966-78

Founding Partner:  Reuben & Proctor, Chicago, Illinois
1978-86

Partner:      Isham, Lincoln & Beale,
Chicago, Illinois,
             
1986-1988

Partner:      Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal,
Chicago, Illinois,
             
1988-present

Member of Chicago, Illinois, Wisconsin, American, and Federal
Communications Bar Associations; Intellectual Property Law Association of
Chicago; American Intellectual Property Law Association; International
Trademark Association; Computer Law Association; Licensing Executives
Society; International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law;
and American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Practice consists primarily of matters relating to the communications,
patent, copyright, trademark, computer, and entertainment fields.

Member, American Law Institute

Vice President - Public Policy, Internet Society

Chair, Internet Policy Oversight Committee

Member,  Internet International Ad Hoc Committee, 1996-1997

Member,  Convening Committee, National Conference on Electronic
Publishing Standards and Formats in the Fields of Law and Accounting,
National Center for Automated Information Retrieval, Washington, DC (May,
1991).  

Special Counsel, American Bar Association for telecommunications matters
(1988-1992).

Member,  Legal Technology Conference National Advisory Board (Price
Waterhouse).

General Counsel, Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois,
Inc. (Director, 1975 - 1994); Recipient, Torch of Integrity Award,
1999

Lecturer, DePaul University School of Law, 1973-79

Lecturer, Law School of Loyola University of Chicago, 1980-84

Member, Visiting Committee to the Divinity School, University of
Chicago

Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Life Fellow, Chicago Bar Foundation

Publications: 

   "The Shrink-Wrap License:  Old Problems in a New
Wrapper," Journal of the Copyright Society, Vol. 34, No. 3, April
1987;

     "Purity Versus Plugola:  A Study of
the Federal Communications Commission's
Sponsorship Identification Rules," DePaul Law Review Vol. 23, Spring
1974, No. 3;

     "Wired:  How Isham Lincoln & Beale
Plugged Into Computers," Sept. 1987 CBA Record.

      "Trademarks on the Internet: Who's in
Charge?" The Data Law Report, Vol. 4, No. 1, 
July, 1996.

      “Trademark Law on the Internet - Will it
Scale? The Challenge to Develop International Trademark Law” The John
Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law, Vol XVI, No. 1, Fall
1997.


     10. A statement indicating your ideas,
intentions and/or the reason why
         you consider you should
be elected to serve in the ICANN Board
         (no more than 500
words):

        

I believe
that I am well qualified by background and experience to serve in the
ICANN Board. My Internet experience dates back to 1994, when I was
involved in the amicable resolution of one of the first domain
name-trademark disputes. In 1995, I was a co-chair of the newly created
Internet subcommittee of the International Trademark Association (INTA).
When I was appointed to the International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC) by the
Internet Society in 1996, I had already had the privilege of getting to
know Jon Postel. I am afraid that, at first, he regarded me as another
one of those trademark lawyers who was out to screw up the Internet. Over
a period of a year or so, I believe I helped persuade him that my
intentions were honorable. He came to realize that his proposals for
restructuring the domain name system would have to take account, in some
way, of the interests of owners of intellectual property.

        

Since
1995, I have devoted most of my time attempting to further the goals
stated in the IAHC Final Report: "enhancing …use [of the domain name
system] while attempting to juggle such concerns as administrative
fairness, operational stability and robustness, and protection of
intellectual property."

        

 I believe
that ICANN is now basically on the right track in pursuing these goals,
and that further building of consensus among all the constituencies and
interest groups is the principal task of the Board.

        

 I do not
regard myself as beholden to any particular interest group. I am a member
of the American Law Institute, which prepares the Restatements of
American law. One of its procedural rules (Sec. 9.04), states in part:
"To maintain the Institute's reputation for thoughtful,
disinterested analysis of legal issues, members are expected to leave
client interests at the door. Members should speak and vote on the basis
of their personal and professional convictions and experience without
regard to client interests or self-interest. ...." This has always
been the standard that I have adhered to in my work for professional
organizations and the Policy Oversight Committee, and it is the same
standard that I would adhere to in acting as a director of ICANN.