Henry Levine, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia from the Department of Commerce and Stanford McCoy, Associate General Counsel for United States Trade Representative and Chris Israel, Coordinator for Intellectual Property Rights in China will brief U.S. industry on the Latest on IPR in China. Below is a list of speaker bios. Topics covered will include the April 11 2006 Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade and USTR’s 2006 Special 301 Report.

This seminar is closed-press, and all discussions are off the record.

Speaker Bios

Henry Levine

Henry A. (Hank) Levine serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Asia in the International Trade Administration's office of Market Access and Compliance. His responsibilities include the market access concerns and compliance with international trade agreements that affect U.S. companies operating in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, and the member countries of ASEAN.

Mr. Levine, a career State Department Foreign Service Officer since 1981, served as U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, China from 1999 - 2002, immediately prior to joining the Commerce Department. He was also Deputy Director for Economic Affairs in the State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs. Mr. Levine has a B.A. in Political Science from Bucknell University. He did graduate work in international affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is a 1993 graduate, with distinction, from the U.S. National War College. He is fluent in Chinese (Mandarin).

Stanford K. McCoy

Stanford K. McCoy serves as Associate General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Mr. McCoy is the principal legal adviser to U.S. trade negotiators on intellectual property matters, including the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, U.S. free trade agreements, and the annual "Special 301" review of international protection of intellectual property rights. Mr. McCoy participates in multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations on a wide variety of intellectual property issues. He has been extensively involved in U.S. Government efforts to improve enforcement of intellectual property rights in China and elsewhere around the world. He also coordinates Administration review of Section 337 actions against infringing imports, and has represented the United States as lead attorney in both WTO and North American Free Trade Agreement dispute settlement proceedings.

Before joining USTR, Mr. McCoy worked for the law firm of Covington & Burling in Brussels and Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of DePauw University and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Chris Israel

Chris Israel was appointed to be the first Coordinator for International Intellectual Property Enforcement by President Bush on July 22, 2005. In this capacity, Mr. Israel coordinates and leverages the resources within the federal government to protect U.S. intellectual property at home and abroad. The Office of the Coordinator for International Intellectual Property Enforcement s erves as the head of the National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council (NIPLEC); develops policies to address international intellectual property violations and enforce intellectual property laws, and implements strategies for protecting American intellectual property overseas.

Mr. Israel has been part of the Bush Administration since November 1, 2001 when he joined the Commerce Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy. On January 1, 2004, Mr. Israel became Deputy Chief of Staff to Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans and continued to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff for current Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez until his recent appointment.