Staff
The ITTI Team
Dr. Stanley Kowalski - Director
Dr. Stanley Kowalski is the Director of ITTI and is well known in the intellectual property international development area for his pioneering work with the patent landscape of Golden Rice and other technologies. He served as an editor for the recently released and highly acclaimed IP Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices.
Professor Jon Cavicchi - Director of Research
Professor Jon Cavicchi is the law librarian at Pierce Law’s Intellectual Property Library, the only academic IP Library in the Western Hemisphere. He has taught and developed innovative techniques in patent searching, mining patent data, and IP research tools and strategies for almost two decades. He is the founder of the patent landscape educational report service. He is the lead research resource coordinator on technology tranfer capacity building projects. He is author of numerous articles on IP researc tools and strategies and Site Director of the award winning IP Mall website.
Professor Karen Hersey
With over 25 years of experience, Professor Karen Hersey has been a major participant in the evolution of university technology transfer in the United States. She teaches courses on technology transfer at Pierce Law and lectures on technology transfer strategies at international forums. Hersey is the former senior counsel for intellectual property at MIT and a past president of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).
Professor John Orcutt
Professor John Orcutt’s classes and research at Pierce Law focus heavily on entrepreneurialism and what is needed to create more entrepreneurial environments. Orcutt is a former capital markets attorney and served as a senior investment banker with a Silicon Valley investment bank that focused on financing emerging growth companies.
Research Fellows
Shashwat Purohit is a Graduate Fellow currently working with Pierce Law's International Technology Transfer Institute. At ITTI clinic he has been a part of a study with broad, global implications, "Developing Effective University/Industry/ Government partnerships in Key Economies: Engineering More Innovative Environments." Focusing on India-specific issues, this study is designed to provide an informational tool that examines, illustrates and elucidates the dynamic engagement of governments and academia in a dialogue that fosters industrial development of government-assisted academic-based innovation.
Shashwat was a part of the class of '07 at National Law University, Jodhpur and after a small stint at Mumbai based Law firm Paras Kuhad & Associates he joined Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire, USA to pursue his LLM in Intellectual Property Laws. As a part of the LLM in Intellectual Property Laws he trained with the IP Policy Division at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA and was the recipient of the "Graduate Student Award 09" for Leadership and Academic Excellence.
Student Teams
Each semester the Staff is assisted by law and graduate program students from around the globe who assist as part of the ITTI Clinic as well as Research Assistants.
We represent:
China
Colombia
France
Hong Kong
India
Israel
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Nepal
Poland
Taiwan
USA
The Spring 2008 HIV Vaccine Patent Landscape team included students from China, Korea, USA and India.
