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Resume:
STEPHEN M. MAURER
University of California
Berkeley, CA. 94720
smaurer@.berkeley.edu
EDUCATION:
Yale University (1979). B.A., summa cum laude.
Harvard Law School (1982). J.D.
U.C. Berkeley (1997). Advanced coursework in Economics.
EXPERIENCE:
S
Academic Research. Adjunct Associate Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy and
Berkeley Law School. Original published research on open source biology (Public Library of
Science - Medicine), R&D incentives for drug development (WHO Bulletin), database policy
(Nature, Science), patent law (Economica), and academic/industry transactions (Research
Policy). Lead editor and author, WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices (MIT Press
2009).
S Teaching. University of California (Berkeley) Adjunct professor, presenting graduate-
level courses on Internet law, economics, and technology (Designing Strategies for
Neglected Disease Research, History of Computing, Public Policy for Engineers, Cyberlife,
Science Policy, and Information Technology and Public Policy) and Homeland Security
(Synthetic Biology and Security, Introduction to Homeland Security). Invited speaker at
intellectual property conferences hosted by US National Academy of Sciences, US National
Institutes of Health, US Department of Transportation, The Human Genome Organization, Duke
University Law School, Stanford University, and The University of California, Berkeley.
S Policy Consultant. Performed sponsored research for The US National Academy of Sciences
(academic/industrial research agreements; database protection legislation), Industry
Canada (US and European database policies), and World Health Organization (R&D incentive
design for neglected disease research). Co-led initiative by 650 academic biologists to
build $2.3 million open database in partnership with Incyte Pharmaceutical Company.
Partnered with leading trade association (International Association - Synthetic Biology)
to draft and implement a formal Code of Conduct definining member obligations to screen
incoming orders for possible biosecurity threats.
S Intellectual Property Attorney. Practiced intellectual property and high technology
litigation at leading law firms from 1982 to 1997. Clients including IBM (computer
hardware), Apple Computer and Symantec (software), ROLM (computerized telephone systems),
UTC (advanced composite irrigation pipe), Zilog (semiconductor chip design), Tegal
Corporation (microchip fabrication tools), Aerojet General Corporation (rocket engines),
and The Navajo Nation (boundary dispute).
S Related Skills. Published feature articles and/or cover story for Sky & Telescope and
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center s Beam Line magazine.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
GeoInfoSystems 36 (2000).
S. Maurer, Interdisciplinary Data, talk presented at US National Academy of
Sciences/CODATA National Conference on Scientific and Technical Data, Washington D.C.,
March, 2000.
S. Maurer & S. Scotchmer, Database Protection: Is it Broken and Should We Fix It?
Science 284:1129 (1999).
S. Maurer, Raw Knowledge: Protecting Technical Databases for Science & Industry, paper
commissioned by the US National Academy of Sciences (1999).
POPULAR PUBLICATIONS:
S. Maurer, Selected Blogs, The Berkeley Blog (2009 - ).
S. Maurer, Blog: "Sharp Pencil Compassion: Fixing Government-Funded Drug and Vaccine
Research, in Blue Sky: New Ideas for the Obama Administration (2009).
S. Maurer & D. Howell, Anatomy of a Supernova, Sky & Telescope (November 2002) (cover
story).
S. Maurer, Taking the Pulse of Neutron Stars, Sky & Telescope (August 2001) (nuclear
astrophysics).
S. Maurer, Idea Man, Beam Line (Winter 2001) (astronomer Fritz Zwicky)
SPEAKER:
Research Insitute of Industrial Economics - Innovation, Ownership & Competition Policy
Workshop (June 2010); Friedrich Schiller University - Workshop on Open Source, Innovation,
and Entrepreneurship (Jan. 2010); American Economics Association Annual Meeting (Jan.
2010); Global Economic Symposium (Sept. 2009); Hastings Law School - Bay Area IP Law
Professors Meeting (January 2009); UN Biological Weapons Convention/Meeting of States
Parties (December, 2008); Synthetic Biology 4.0 (October 2008); Boalt Hall Law School
Innovation Scholarship Seminar (September 2008); US Government Roundtable on Development
of a Synthetic Nucleic Acid Screening Framework (September, 2008); IASB Workshop on
Technical Solutions for Biosecurity in Synthetic Biology (April 2008); New York University
Law School (January 2008); Synthetic Biology 3.0 (June 2007); European School on New
Institutional Economics (June 2007); World Affairs Council Annual Conference ("Rethinking
the War on Terror") (May 2007); Wisconsin Stem Cell Institute (March 2007); UC Berkeley
China/India/Russia Conference (October 2006); UC Berkeley Constitution Day (September
2006); AAAS Wye River Biosecurity Conference (Sept. 2006); Institute on Global Conflict
and Cooperation Biosecurity Summer School (June 2006); Synthetic Biology 2.0 (May 2006);
California's Stem Cell Initiative (March 2006); Berkeley Symposium on Real Estate and
Catastrophic Risk (May 2006); Temple University Law School Conference on Evolution of Open
Source (February 2006);Stanford Medical School (January 2006); Medecins sans Frontieres,
Access Campaign for Essential Medicines (June 2005); Duke Workshop on Collective
Computational Biology for Neglected Diseases (May 2005); International Conference on
Pharmaceutical Innovation (May cFoundation (June 2004); US National Academy of Sciences
(March 2000, August 2002, and Sept.2009); The University of Auckland (August 2002); The
University of California at Berkeley (March 2006, March and October 2001); Duke Law School
(November 2001 and May 2007); Industry Canada (May 2001); The Mutation Database Initiative
(October 1999, April 2000, and October 2000); The American Association of Geographers
(November 1999).
POLICY ADVISOR:
Member, US National Academy of Sciences Committee on Geophysical Data (2003-2004). Co-
author, Licensing Geographic Data and Services (National Academies Press 2004), Advisor,
World Health Organization (2004), US National Academy of Sciences (1999, 2002, and 2007),
Industry Canada (2001), National Institutes of Health (September 2000), Transportation
Research Board Workshop on Public Agency Use of Proprietary Geographic Base Files,
(2000), and Incyte Pharmaceutical Company Workshop on an Integrated Genomics Software
Architecture, (2000).
A.
Huang & C. Weber, The Health of Nations: Open-Source Research and the Economics of
Life and Death in the Developing World, Berkeley Science Review 7:45 (Fall, 2004).
CHRONOLOGY:
2005 - 2009Adjunct Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy and Boalt Law School
.
1999-2004Lecturer, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
1998 Senior Associate, Fliesler, Dubb, Meyer & Lovejoy, San Francisco, CA.
1997 Sabbatical: advanced courses in economics, U.C. Berkeley
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1994-1996Senior Associate, Ritchey, Fisher, Whitman & Klein, Palo Alto, CA.
1992-1994ContractAttorney, San Francisco and Palo Alto, CA.
1988-1992Senior Associate, Lasky, Haas, Cohler & Munter, San Francisco, CA.
1982-1987Associate. Brown & Bain, Phoenix, AZ.
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