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Eric maintains an active pro bono practice, including through the firm’s Emerging Enterprises Pro Bono Program, which provides free legal support to eligible small and medium-sized for-profit enterprises and market-focused NGOs and non-profits that have a clear social impact in developing countries across Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the Caribbean. He also has successfully represented several clients seeking asylum in the United States.

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American Bar Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Duke University Alumni Admissions Committee

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Co-author, Patentability Standards for Follow-On Pharmaceutical Innovation, 37 Biotechnology Law Report 131 (June 2018)
Co-author, TRIPS Agreement Flexibilities and Their Limitations: A Response to the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel Report on Access to Medicines, George Washington International Law Review, Volume 50, Number 1 (November 2017)
Co-author, A Manufacturing-for-Export Exception to Patent Protection: A Proposal for Exporting Violations of the TRIPS Agreement and Beyond, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford University Press) (2017)
Co-author, International Intellectual Property Protection, in THE BUSINESS GUIDE TO TRADE AND INVESTMENT (International Chamber of Commerce) (2017)
Quoted in, “4 Tips for Representing Sovereign Nations at the WTO,” Law360 (June 17, 2016)
Co-author, Implementation and Enforcement of the WTO Agreements, in the World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic, and Political Analysis (2005)
Co-author, “The Role of Intellectual Property in Procurement and Development of Medicines for Developing Country Diseases,” background paper prepared for the Working Group on Access to Medicines, UN Millennium Project Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines (2004)
Co-author, “The Protection of Test and Other Data Required by Article 39.3 of the TRIPS Agreement,” 24 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 1 (Fall 2003)
“In Depth: WIPO Asks World to Ease Maintenance Fee Deadlines,” IP Law Weekly (May 3, 2000)
Co-author, “The Role of Private Parties in WTO Dispute Settlement Under the TRIPS Agreement, PATENT, TRADEMARK AND COPYRIGHT LAW, ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law,” 15th Annual CLE Program (April 2000)
Co-author, “The Process and Procedure of Litigating at the World Trade Organization: A Review of the Work of the Appellate Body,” 31 Law and Policy in International Business 677 (Spring 2000)

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Selected Presentations

Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen, Webinar on TRIPS & the Life Sciences: Data Exclusivities and TRIPS Article 39.3 (January 2018).
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Conference on “WTO Law in the Legal System of the Russian Federation: Problems of Application and Teaching” (2015, Moscow, Russian Federation): presentation on the WTO TRIPS Agreement and SCM Agreement
Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI) Annual Conference (2013, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic): presentation on the WTO TRIPS Agreement
Lecturer at the Academy of WTO Law and Policy, Georgetown University Law School, presenting on “International Intellectual Property Protection: TRIPS Obligations and Derogations” (2012, 2013, 2014)
Canadian Council of International Law Annual Conference (2013, Ottawa, Canada): panel discussion on recent WTO Appellate Body jurisprudence under the WTO TBT Agreement
Presenter at the International Law Institute’s (ILI) Seminar on “Dispute Mechanisms of the WTO: Winning Strategies”
Judge for the European Law Students Association/International Law Institute’s Moot Court Competition on WTO Law
Moderator for the WIIT Panel Discussion “Latest Developments on the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)”
Presenter at the ABCI Institute (Brazilian International Trade Scholars, Inc.) International Trade Symposium at American University

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