Lawyers on IAHC

["Leo Smith" <barter@ntplx.net>]

FYI...Background Info on lawyers serving as IAHC members

•Sally M. Abel, specializes in international trademark and trade name
counseling, chairs the Internet Subcommittee of the International Trademark
Association (INTA), and will represent that organization on the IAHC. Ms.
Abel is the partner in charge of the Trademark Group of the law firm of
Fenwick and West, a Palo Alto, Ca. firm specializing in high technology
matters.

•David W. Maher, is a partner at the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath &
Rosenthal, of Chicago, IL, is a registered patent attorney and has
extensive experience in intellectual property and entertainment law.
Principal outside trademark counsel for several nationwide companies, he
has served as special counsel to the American Bar Association for
telecommunications matters. 

•Albert Tramposch is senior legal counsellor at the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. WIPO is a United Nations
organization which has responsibility for the promotion of the protection
of intellectual property throughout the world. It also administers various
treaties dealing with legal and administrative aspects of intellectual
property, including the international registration of trademarks. 

In addition, Stuart Levi, a partner in the New York Office of Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and the head of the firm's Computer and
Information Technology Practice, will serve as outside counsel supporting
the IAHC.

Would it be unfair to call into question the impartiality of the three IAHC
members whose primary business involves protecting trademark rights?