STEPHEN M. MAURER

2607 Hearst Ave, MC 7320

University of California

Berkeley, CA. 94720

(510) 642-6511

smaurer@.berkeley.edu

 

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EDUCATION:

 

Yale University (1979).  B.A., summa cum laude.

 

Harvard Law School (1982).  J.D.

 

U.C. Berkeley (1997).  Sabbatical: Advanced coursework in Economics.

 

 

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

§          Academic Research.  Adjunct Associate Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy and Berkeley Law School. Original published research on open source biology (Public Library of Science - Medicine), R&D incentives for drug development (WHO Bulletin), database policy (Nature, Science), patent law (Economica), and academic/industry transactions (Research Policy). Lead editor and author, WMD Terrorism: Science & Policy Choices (MIT Press - forthcoming August 2009).

 

 §          Teaching.  University of California (Berkeley) Adjunct professor, presenting graduate-level courses on Internet law, economics, and technology (Designing Strategies for Neglected Disease Research , History of Computing, Public Policy for Engineers, Cyberlife, Science Policy, and Information Technology and Public Policy) and Homeland Security (Synthetic Biology and Security, Introduction to Homeland Security).  Invited speaker at intellectual property conferences hosted by US National Academy of Sciences, US National Institutes of Health, US Department of Transportation, The Human Genome Organization, Duke University Law School, Stanford University, and The University of California, Berkeley.

 

§          Intellectual Property and Litigation Attorney. Practiced intellectual property and high technology litigation at leading law firms from 1982 to 1997.  Handled complex, high-value cases for clients including IBM (computer hardware), Apple Computer and Symantec (software), ROLM (computerized telephone systems), UTC (advanced composite irrigation pipe), Zilog (semiconductor chip design), Tegal Corporation (microchip fabrication tools), Aerojet General Corporation (rocket engines), and The Navajo Nation (boundary dispute).  Responsible for preparing and/or examining over one dozen trial witnesses in $150 million insurance case.  Member of the California Bar.

 

 §          Policy Analysis and Consulting.  Performed sponsored research for The US National Academy of Sciences (academic/industrial research agreements; database protection legislation) and Industry Canada (US and European database policies).  Performed consulting services for Diversified Risk Management (designed novel insurance policy for intellectual property); Mutations Database Initiative (negotiated $2.3 million collaboration between academic scientist organization and Incyte Pharmaceutical Company); and Virtual Physics Associates (co-leader of group seeking to build advanced nuclear physics database at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory).

 

§          Related Skills.  Published feature articles and/or cover story for Sky & Telescope and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s Beam Line magazine.  

 

 

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

 

Ortí, L., R.Carbajo, U.Pieper, N.Eswar, S. Maurer, A.Rai, G.Taylor, M.Todd, A.Pineda-Lucena, A.Sali, and Marc Marti-Renom, "A Kernel for Open Source Drug Discovery in Tropical Diseases," Public Library of Science : Neglected Tropical Diseases 3:418 (2009).

 

Ortí, L., R.Carbajo, U.Pieper, N.Eswar, S. Maurer, A.Rai, G.Taylor, M.Todd, A.Pineda-Lucena, A.Sali, and Marc Marti-Renom, "A Kernel for the Tropical Disease Initiative," Nature Biotechnology 27:320 (2009).

 

S. Maurer, "Grassroots Efforts to Impede Bioterrorism," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March 5, 2009).

 

S. Maurer, "Introduction: Worrying about WMD Terrorism," Chapter 1 in S. Maurer (ed.), WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices, MIT Press (forthcoming: August 2009).

 

S. Maurer, "Technologies of Evil: Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons," Chapter 3 in S. Maurer (ed.), WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices, MIT Press (forthcoming: August 2009).

George W. Rutherford and S. Maurer, "The New Bioweapons: Infectious and Engineered Diseases," Chapter 4 in S. Maurer (ed.), WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices, MIT Press (forthcoming: August 2009).

S. Maurer, Jason C. Christopher, and Michael Thompson, "The Fire Next Time: Managing Large Urban Fires, " Chapter 10 in S. Maurer (ed.), WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices, MIT Press (forthcoming: August 2009).

S. Maurer, "Squeezing Value from Homeland Security Research: Designing Better R&D Incentives," Chapter 15 in S. Maurer (ed.), WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices, MIT Press ( forthcoming: August 2009).

S. Maurer and Michael O'Hare, "Fear Itself: Predicting and Managing Public Response to a WMD Attack," Chapter 16 in S. Maurer (ed.), WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices, MIT Press (forthcoming: August 2009).

S. Maurer, "Summing Up," Chapter 18 in S. Maurer (ed.), WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices, MIT Press (forthcoming: August 2009).

S. Maurer, "Open Source Drug Discovery: Finding a Niche (or Maybe Several)," University of Missouri at Kansas City Law Review 76:2.

S. Maurer & L. Zoloth, "Synthesizing Biosecurity," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, (Nov. 2007).

J. Henkel & S. Maurer, "The Economics of Synthetic Biology," Molecular Systems Biology 3:117 (2007).

 

S. Maurer & S. Scotchmer, "Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law," American Law and Economics Review 8:476 (2007).

 

S. Maurer, K. Lucas & S. Terrell, "From Understanding to Action: Community-Based Options for Increasing Safety and Security in Synthetic Biology," (2006).

 

S. Maurer, "Inside the Anticommons: Academic Scientists' Struggle to Commercialize Human Mutations Data, 1999-2001," Research Policy 35:839 (2006) .  

 

S. Maurer & S. Scotchmer, "Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm," in T. Hendershott (ed.), Handbook on Information Systems (Elsevier: 2006).

 

S. Maurer, "Choosing the Right Incentive Strategy for R&D in Neglected Diseases," World Health Organization Bulletin 84:376 (2006).

 

S. Maurer, "The Right Tool(s): Designing Cost-Effective Strategies for Neglected Disease Research," (2005).

 

S. Maurer, A. Sali & A. Rai, “Finding Cures for Tropical Disease: Is Open Source the Answer?,” Public Library of Science: Medicine 1:56 (2004).

 

US National Academy of Sciences Committee on Geophysical Data, "Licensing Geographic Data and Services" (National Academies Press 2004).

 

S. Maurer, "New Institutions for Doing Science: From Databases to Open Source Biology", conference paper, University of Maastricht (2003).

 

S. Maurer & S. Scotchmer, "Procuring Knowledge," in G. Libecap (ed.), Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth: Vol. 15, at p. 1 (JAI Press 2004).

 

S. Maurer, P.B. Hugenholtz & H. Onsrud, “Europe’s Database Experiment,” Science 294:789 (2001).

 

S.  Maurer, R. Firestone & C. Scriver, “Science’s Neglected Legacy” Nature 405:117 (2000).

 

S. Maurer & S. Scotchmer, “Database Protection: Is it Broken and Should We Fix It?” Science 284:1129 (1999).

 

S. Maurer & S. Scotchmer, “The Independent Invention Defense in Intellectual Property,”  Economica 69:535 (2002)  (lead article).

 

S. Maurer, “Promoting and Disseminating Knowledge: The Public/Private Interface,” paper commissioned by the US National Academy of Sciences (2002).

 

S. Maurer, “Across Two Worlds: US and European Models of Database Protection,” paper commissioned by Industry Canada (2001).

 

S. Maurer, “Coping With Change: Intellectual Property Rights, New Legislation, and the Human Mutations Database Initiative,” 15 Human Mutations 23 (2000).

 

S.  Maurer, “Protecting What’s Yours: The Law and Economics of Geospatial Data,” 10 GeoInfoSystems 36 (2000).

 

S. Maurer, “Raw Knowledge: Protecting Technical Databases for Science & Industry,” paper commissioned by the US National Academy of Sciences  (1999).

 

S. Maurer, “Interdisciplinary Data,” talk presented at US National Academy of Sciences/CODATA “National Conference on Scientific and Technical Data,” Washington D.C., March, 2000. 

 

 

POPULAR SCIENCE:

 

S. Maurer & D. Howell, “Anatomy of a Supernova,” Sky & Telescope (November 2002) (cover story).

 

S.  Maurer, “Taking the Pulse of Neutron Stars,” Sky & Telescope (August 2001) (nuclear astrophysics).

 

S.  Maurer, “Idea Man,” Beam Line (Winter 2001) (astronomer Fritz Zwicky)

 

 

SPEAKER:

 

UN Biological Weapons Convention/Meeting of States Parties (December, 2008); Synthetic Biology 4.0 (October 2008); Boalt Hall Law School (September 2008); US Government Roundtable on Development of a Synthetic Nucleic Acid Screening Framework (September, 2008); IASB Workshop on Technical Solutions for Biosecurity in Synthetic Biology (April 2008); New York University Law School (January 2008); Synthetic Biology 3.0 (June 2007); European School on New Institutional Economics (June 2007); World Affairs Council Annual Conference ("Rethinking the War on Terror") (May 2007); Wisconsin Stem Cell Institute (March 2007); UC Berkeley China/India/Russia Conference (October 2006); UC Berkeley Constitution Day (September 2006); AAAS Wye River Biosecurity Conference (Sept. 2006); Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Biosecurity Summer School (June 2006); Synthetic Biology 2.0 (May 2006); California's Stem Cell Initiative (March 2006); Berkeley Symposium on Real Estate and Catastrophic Risk (May 2006); Temple University Law School Conference on Evolution of Open Source (February 2006);Stanford Medical School (January 2006); Medecins sans Frontieres, Access Campaign for Essential Medicines (June 2005); Duke Workshop on Collective Computational Biology for Neglected Diseases (May 2005); International Conference on Pharmaceutical Innovation (May 2005); World Health Organization (November 2004 and May 2005); European Commission/OECD/US National Science Foundation (June 2004); US National Academy of Sciences (March 2000 and August 2002); The University of Auckland (August 2002); The University of California at Berkeley (March 2006, March and October 2001); Duke Law School (November 2001 and May 2007); Industry Canada (May 2001); The Mutation Database Initiative (October 1999, April 2000, and October 2000); The American Association of Geographers (November 1999).  

 

 

POLICY ADVISOR:

 

Member, US National Academy of Sciences Committee on Geophysical Data (2003-2004).  Co-author, Licensing Geographic Data and Services (National Academies Press 2004), Advisor, World Health Organization (2004), US National Academy of Sciences (1999, 2002, and 2007), Industry Canada (2001), National Institutes of Health (September 2000), Transportation Research Board Workshop on Public Agency Use of Proprietary Geographic Base Files,” (2000), and Incyte Pharmaceutical Company “Workshop on an Integrated Genomics Software Architecture,” (2000).

 

MEDIA COVERAGE:

 

B. Bergman, "Goldman School portal takes the worry out of 'experiments of concern," The Berkeleyan (April 2, 2009).

 

P. Aldhous, "Are Fears Over Bioterrorism Stifling Scientific Research?" New Scientist (Feb. 5, 2009).

 

E. Check Hayden, "Experiments of Concern to Be Vetted On Line, Nature 457:643 (Feb. 5, 2009).

 

______, "DNA Firms Step Up Security Over Bioterrorism," New Scientist (Sept. 10, 2008).

 

______, "Fifty People Who Matter Now," Business 2.0 (June 2006) (ranked at 41).

 

R. Service, "Synthetic Biologists Debate Policing Themselves," Science 312:1116 (May 26, 2006).

 

P. Aldhous, "Synthetic Biologists Reject Controversial Guidelines," New Scientist (May 23, 2006).

 

N. Johnson, "Steal This Genome!," East Bay Express 25:13 (March 30, 2005).

 

______, “Open Wide – This Won’t Hurt a Bit,” Red Herring (Jan. 31 2005).

 

K. Cukier " An Open Source Shot in the Arm? " The Economist (June 10, 2004).

 

K. Miller, “Innovation Sales Free,” Newsweek (international edition) and MSNBC.com  (Oct. 18, 2004).

 

A. Huang & C. Weber, “The Health of Nations: Open-Source Research and the Economics of Life and Death in the Developing World,” Berkeley Science Review 7:45 (Fall, 2004).  

 

 

 

CHRONOLOGY:  

 

2005 - 2008                Adjunct Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy and Boalt Law School.

 

1999-2004                   Lecturer, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.

 

1998                            Senior Associate, Fliesler, Dubb, Meyer & Lovejoy, San Francisco, CA.

 

1997                            Sabbatical: advanced courses in economics, U.C. Berkeley.

 

1994-1996                   Senior Associate, Ritchey, Fisher, Whitman & Klein, Palo Alto, CA.

 

1992-1994                   Contract Attorney, San Francisco and Palo Alto, CA.

 

1988-1992                   Senior Associate, Lasky, Haas, Cohler & Munter, San Francisco, CA.

   

1982-1987                   Associate.  Brown & Bain, Phoenix, AZ.