Patent Practice and Policy in the Pacific Rim

Thomas T Moga

 

Thomas T. Moga, of the Detroit-based law firm of Butzel Long, is a patent lawyer specializing in intellectual property and international business transactions. His experience in the arena of intellectual property includes the acquisition of patents and registrations for trademarks and copyrights, licensing, litigation, dispute resolution and mediation, portfolio management, and policy development.

In addition to his wide array of intellectual property work, Thomas Moga has managed anti-counterfeiting actions in Asia, including overseeing initial counterfeit product investigation, selecting and working with local investigators, selecting and working with local counsel, preparing administrative and judicial documents, and participating in raids. Mr. Moga has also researched and prepared a section on IP laws and practice for country reports (China, Korea, India) for a U.S. corporate client’s submission to the Office of the US Trade Representative as part of annual Sections 301 and 306 reviews. His China work has also included assisting in the preparation of a report on counterfeit IP for the US-China Commission in 2002.

A frequent speaker on the TRIPS Agreement of the WTO and on global intellectual property enforcement, Mr. Moga has organized and participated in several intellectual property delegations to Asia, both governmental and non-governmental. He represented the American Intellectual Property Law Association at several meetings in Geneva of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement.

Mr. Moga has been involved in intellectual property training and education programs both at home and abroad. He spent the first half of 1997 as a Fulbright Scholar in China where he taught patent law at Jilin University and acted as a foreign advisor to the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China. In 1990, Thomas Moga was a visiting foreign expert in law at Xiamen University, China. He also worked as a foreign legal expert for a patent and trademark office in Taipei in 1983-1984. Presently Mr. Moga is involved in intellectual property training as a member of the Intellectual Property Group of the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe. He is an adjunct professor of intellectual property law at the University of Toledo School of Law and the Michigan State University School of Law. He is on the Board of Advisors for the Thomas M. Cooley School of Law’s LLM program in intellectual property.