Faculty

Full-Time

Craig Allen Nard
Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law & Founding Director, Center for Law, Technology & the Arts
Courses: Patent Law, Intellectual Property Survey, and Intellectual Property Theory (seminar)
Craig Nard, who joined our faculty in 2001, is the founding Director of the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy at the University of Torino, Italy, and he lectures widely throughout Europe. Mr. Nard practiced intellectual property law in Dallas, Texas prior to becoming the Julius Silver Fellow in Law, Science, and Technology at Columbia University School of Law. After his fellowship, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. for the Honorable Helen W. Nies and the Honorable Giles S. Rich. Before joining our faculty, Mr. Nard was an Associate Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School and a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law at Camden. He has published in various law reviews, including the Northwestern Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, William & Mary Law Review, and the Wake Forest Law Review. He is also an author of the patent law casebook, Principles of Patent Law (Foundation Press 2001) (with Chisum, Schwartz, Newman, & Kieff) and Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law (Kluwer Law International 1999) (with Halpern and Port). Mr. Nard teaches in the areas of patent law and intellectual property.

Raymond Ku
Professor of Law & Co-Director Center for Law, Technology & the Arts
Courses: Copyright Law and Copyright Law in the Digital Millennium (seminar)
Raymond Ku is a nationally known expert in the field of copyright law. Prior to joining our faculty, he was an associate professor and director of the Institute of Law, Science & Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law. Before that he was an associate professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, where he established and directed the Center for Law, Technology & Communications. Mr. Ku was also a visiting associate professor at Cornell Law School during the 2002-03 academic year. He is the lead author of the first casebook devoted exclusively to the study of cyberspace law, Cyberspace Law: Cases & Materials (Aspen 2002). He has published articles in numerous law reviews and journals, including the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Minnesota Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and Tulane Law Review. Before entering academia Mr. Ku clerked for Timothy K. Lewis, justice on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Pittsburgh. He also has been an associate with the law firms Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch L.L.P. and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, both in Washington, D.C. Mr. Ku holds a J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was a Leonard Boudin First Amendment Fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, and an A.B. with honors in political science from Brown University. He is a member of the New York State Bar, the Washington, D.C. bar and the Copyright Society of the American Bar Association. In addition to the Center for LTA courses, Mr. Ku teaches Constitutional Law and Property.

Jacqueline Lipton
Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Law, Technology & the Arts
Courses: Cyberlaw and Commercial Information & the Law
Jacqueline Lipton is Associate Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center. Prior to joining the faculty in 2001, Ms. Lipton was a senior lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. From 1995-2000, she served as lecturer at the law school and Associate Director of the Banking Law Center at Monash University in Australia. Ms. Lipton also worked for two major commercial law firms in Melbourne, Australia, specializing in cyberlaw, banking, and finance law as well as serving as an in-house corporate solicitor at a major Australian bank. Ms. Lipton's scholarly interests are mainly in the areas of banking and finance law, personal property law, and the interplay between law and technology. She has published many journal articles in these areas and is the author of Security Over Intangible Property published by LBC Information Services in Sydney, Australia (2000). Ms. Lipton's teaching focuses primarily on comparative and international business and intellectual property law.

Arthur D. Austin II
Edgar A. Hahn Professor
Course: Unfair Competition Law
Before joining the Case Western Reserve University law faculty in 1968, Arthur Austin worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. In addition to teaching Copyright Law, Mr. Austin teaches Contracts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and Trends and Tensions in Legal Education; his writing is chiefly on antitrust law and on legal scholarship. A prolific author, he has published frequently cited articles in leading law reviews and three books: Antitrust: Law, Economics, Policy (1976), Complex Litigation Confronts the Jury System (1984), and The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education (1998).

Peter M. Gerhart
Professor of Law
Course: International Intellectual Property Law
For ten years (1986-96) Peter Gerhart was dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Earlier he had practiced in New York with Weil, Gotshal & Manges and taught for eleven years at Ohio State University. His primary scholarly interest is in trade regulation and international trade and investment. As a consultant to the Carter-appointed National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Law and Procedure, he wrote the report on its Empirical Case Studies Project (1979). He has published important articles in the Antitrust Law Journal, Duke Law Journal, 1982 Supreme Court Review, and Federal Rules Decisions.

Martha Woodmansee
Professor of English and Law
Course: Copyright and the Construction of Authorship (seminar)
A member of the English department since 1986, Martha Woodmansee joined the law faculty in 2003. She has served since 1990 as Director of the Society for Critical Exchange, a national organization devoted to collaborative interdisciplinary research in theory. Previously, she taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern Universities. Ms. Woodmansee is best known for her pathbreaking historical work at the intersection of literary, legal, and economic theory, and has published extensively in this area. The interdisciplinary conference she organized at Case with American University law professor Peter Jaszi led to the publication of The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature (1994 Duke University Press). Ms. Woodmansee holds a B.A. from Northwestern University (1968) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University (1969, 1977). A 2002 Guggenheim
fellow, her research for a new book, Commerce in Ideas, concerns book piracy and the emergence of international copyright during the nineteenth century.

Adjunct Faculty

Mark E. Avsec
Senior Associate, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff
Course: Law of the Music Industry
Mark Avsec is an associate with the Intellectual Property and Corporate and Securities Practice Groups at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff. He focuses his practice on entertainment, copyright, and e-business. Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Avsec was a studio musician, producer, and songwriter. He wrote more than 300 songs and produced more than 25 sound recordings for Bon Jovi ("She Don't Know Me"), Donnie Iris ("Ah! Leah!" and "Love Is Like A Rock"), The Grass Roots, Cellarful of Noise, Breathless, Wild Cherry ("Play That Funky Music, White Boy"), and Mason Ruffner ("Gypsy Blood"). Mr. Avsec is an American Music Award winner and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. He is a member of The American Federation of Musicians; The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers; The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists; and is chairperson of The Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts section of The Cleveland Bar Association. Mr. Avsec earned his B.A. summa cum laude in 1992 and his J.D. magna cum laude in 1994 from Cleveland State University.

Peter A. Carfagna
Distinguished Visiting Practitioner and Senior Counsel, Calfee, Halter & Griswold
Courses: The Business of Baseball, Sports Law (with Ms. Levine), and Representing the Individual Athlete (with Ms. Levine)
Peter A. Carfagna, who joined Calfee, Halter & Griswold as Senior Counsel in February 2005, was named Distinguished Visiting Practitioner by Case School of Law. Earlier, he was Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at IMG for ten years. Prior to his work with IMG, he was a partner with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue from 1979-1994. His experience includes corporate governance issues, general litigation (commercial, employment, and corporate criminal law), representation of publicly and privately held corporations, fiduciary duties and liabilities of directors and officers, and legal ethics/conflict of interest issues. Mr. Carfagna received his B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1975. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (University College) and in 1977 earned an Honours Degree in Jurisprudence. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1979.

Diane Dobrea
Calfee, Halter, & Griswold
Course: Biotechnology Law & Policy
Diane H. Dobrea joined Calfee, Halter & Griswold in 2000, where she practices IP law. She counsels nonprofit clients, closely-held and publicly-traded companies in technology transfer, negotiates licensing agreements, prepares and prosecutes patent applications, and has worked on a variety of FDA regulatory issues. She is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Association of University Technology Managers. Previously, she was associate counsel at the Cleveland Clinic, where she also managed the Technology Transfer department from 1995-2000. Ms. Dobrea received her J.D. cum laude (1994), her M.S. in Biochemistry (1990), and her B.A. (1986) from Case. She was admitted to the Bar in the State of Ohio in 1994 and to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2001.

Joseph D. Dreher
Partner, Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & McKee
Course: Computer Law & Policy
Joseph D. Dreher is a partner with the law firm of Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & McKee, LLP. He is a member of the Ohio Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Dreher's practice involves all phases of intellectual property law including procurement, counseling, and litigation. He has been a member of the Adjunct Faculty since 2000. He received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (B.E.E.) cum laude in 1988 from The University of Dayton and his J.D. cum laude in 1991 from Case.

Jason Korosec
Co-founder and CEO, EagleCheck, Inc.
Course: e-Payment Systems
Mr. Korosec earned his B.A. at the University of Rochester in 1990, with certificates in Management and International Relations. In 1997, he received a J.D./M.B.A. from Case School of Law and Weatherhead School of Management. At Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Mr. Korosec negotiated contracts and focused on many aspects of credit card processing in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the U.S. He then worked with Atos Origin, a leading European technology company, to help build its North American practice. In 2001, Mr. Korosec filed for patents on new ways to use credit card style technology to identify an individual in real-time. He used this patent, and others contributed by his co-founders, to create EagleCheck, Ltd. EagleCheck improves airport security by checking government watch lists to validate photo ID's and using sophisticated logic to detect irregular passenger activity.

Lisa Levine
Corporate Counsel, The Scott Fetzer Company
Courses: Sports Law (with Mr. Carfagna) & Representing the Individual Athlete (with Mr. Carfagna)
Lisa Levine became Corporate Counsel for The Scott Fetzer Company in 2005. Prior to that, she was Associate Counsel for the sports marketing firm, IMG Worldwide, Inc., where she worked on sponsorship, license and endorsement agreements, and employment issues. Earlier, Ms. Levine spent two years in litigation practice with a medium-sized firm, focusing on intellectual property and employment issues. She graduated from Virginia Tech (B.A.) and the College of William and Mary (M.A.) with degrees in English. In 1996, she graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law. Ms. Levine is on the advisory council for the American Arbitration Association.

Jeffrey Lietzke
Deputy General Counsel, Cuyahoga Community College
Course: Internet Business & Law
Jeffrey Lietzke is a business lawyer with experience handling a variety of merger and acquisition and regulatory and commercial transaction issues for e-business and other clients. He is an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio and in that capacity he serves as Deputy General Counsel at Cuyahoga Community College. Mr. Lietzke’s responsibilities include many legal issues arising out of the college’s extensive online learning programs. In addition, he has extensive experience with website design and creation. Mr. Lietzke is on the editorial board of Notre Dame’s Journal of College and University Law and he has published a guidebook to web-based legal resources, The Lawyer’s Internet Pathfinder. A 1995 Cornell Law School graduate with a strong background in computers and an advanced degree in economics, his academic interests include the many ways information technology can improve business, education, and the practice of law.

Jacob Manaster
Course: Law & the Entertainment "Biz" (with Mr. Shall)
Jacob Manaster served as Vice President, Acquisitions, at Sony Pictures Entertainment's digital division. He provided counsel in a multitude of areas in connection with film and television distribution and production, as well as studio wide digital policy, digital technology implementation/distributions and electronics. Prior to Sony Pictures Entertainment, Mr. Manaster was an associate at the prestigious boutique entertainment law firm Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman and Silverman LLP in Beverly Hills. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Mr. Manaster received his B.A. from UCLA and graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1997.

Kathleen O'Malley
U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
Course: Patent Litigation
President William J. Clinton appointed Judge O'Malley to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on October 12, 1994. Prior to that, she served as First Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff to Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher (1992-94). From 1991-92, Judge O'Malley was Chief Counsel to the Attorney General. From 1985-91, she practiced law and became a partner in litigation at Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur. Judge O'Malley's litigation practice involved intellectual property, securities fraud, trade secrets, shareholder's rights, and large-scale coverage disputes. From 1983-85, she was an associate at Jones Day Reavis and Pogue. Judge O'Malley began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Kenyon College in 1979. Judge O'Malley received her J.D. from Case School of Law, Order of the Coif, in 1982. She was on Law Review, was Chair of the National Mock Trial Team, and won numerous awards, including the International Trial Practice Award. Named Distinguished Recent Graduate in 1992, she was recently named Distinguished Visiting Jurist at the School of Law. Judge O'Malley frequently travels nationally as a lecturer and panelist on topics involving patent litigation, use of technology in the courtroom, mass torts, and litigation tactics and strategy.

David Shall
Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs and General Counsel, FremantleMedia North America
Course: Law and the Entertainment "Biz" (with Mr. Manaster)
David Shall has been a television programming production and distribution executive for more than twenty years. He oversees all business and legal affairs for one of the foremost producers of reality-based programming, including American Idol (Fox), The Swan (Fox), The Price is Right (CBS), How Clean is Your House (Lifetime), Your Face or Mine (MTV), Family Feud (syndication) and Da Ali G Show (HBO). FMNA is a division of the London-based television production company FremantleMedia, a wholly owned subsidiary and the content business arm of the publicly traded RTL Group, one of Europe’s largest television and radio broadcast companies and a division of leading integrated media and entertainment company Bertelsmann AG. Prior to joining FMNA in 2003, Mr. Shall was Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, at Twentieth Television in Century City, where he oversaw all business and legal affairs for America’s Most Wanted, COPS, Divorce Court, Texas Justice and A Current Affair (all Fox). During his ten-year tenure at Twentieth, he was also responsible for all legal matters relating to the off-network syndication sales of Fox television series including The X-Files, Malcolm in the Middle, The Simpsons, NYPD Blue, Dharma and Greg and M*A*S*H. Mr. Shall received his B.A. in English and History and J.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1983.

Theodore C. Theofrastous, Esq.
Managing Director & Fund Counsel, Panzica Investments, LLC
Courses: Intellectual Property Transactions and Intellectual Property Ventures
Theodore Theofrastous has nearly twenty years experience in the field of high technology development, both as a business architect/manager and as a legal professional. In addition to his role as Managing Director and Fund Counsel, he serves as executive management for various Panzica Investments entities (including the Beta Technology Park and Euphonyx, Ltd.). Mr. Theofrastous is also a General Partner of the Beta Opportunity Partners Fund and serves on numerous technology company boards of directors. Earlier, he launched startup companies for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, designed to commercialize products based on CCF intellectual property. Before joining The Clinic, Mr. Theofrastous practiced at the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, where his practice focused on the nexus of investment capital and technology, counseling clients in matters ranging from start-up formation to domestic and off -shore private equity fund formations.

Barry L. Tummino
Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP
Course: Patent Prosecution
Barry L. Tummino is a partner with the law firm of Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP. He has over twenty five years experience in preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications for clients ranging from individual inventors to large corporations. Mr. Tummino also has extensive experience in conducting patentability searches and preparing opinions, and also performing validity and infringement searches and preparing opinions. As a partner in his law firm, he has spent time training new associates in the area of patent law and prosecution. Mr. Tummino has B.E.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Cleveland State University and worked for Gould Inc. as an engineer in the research and development department prior to becoming a lawyer. He earned his J.D. from Cleveland Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University.

Thomas F. Zych
Partner & Chair, e-Business Group, Thompson Hine
Courses: Trademark Litigation and Copyright Litigation
Tom Zych chairs Thompson Hine's eBusiness and Emerging Technologies Practice Group and has extensive intellectual property litigation experience. He is a 1979 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University, and a 1993 graduate of the Duke University School of Law, where he was a member of the editorial board of the Duke Law Journal and of the Order of the Coif. Mr. Zych is a past President of the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Film Society and a Vice President of the Board of the Cleveland Music School Settlement.