Lawrence Kurland
		Special Professor of Law
		B.E.E., New York University J.D., Brooklyn Law School

Biography

Mr. Kurland is a member of the Committee on Patents, Trademark, and Copyrights of the American Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association of the New York Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Association.  He taught as special professor of patent law at the Hofstra University School of Law from 1973 to 1978.  He has published monographs on protection for computer software and protection under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984.  He worked as a patent examiner for the United States Patent and Trademark Office and as an assistant patent counsel for the National Security Agency.