Mr. Robert Wesley Sacoff

· American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section: Former Chair

· Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriete Intellectuelle United States: Past President (2004-2006)

· Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriete Intellectuelle (AIPPI): Executive Committee Member

· International Trademark Association: Former Board member

· American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA): Former Board member

· Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property Law: Former Advisory Board member

· The Trademark Reporter: Former Editorial Board Member

· Trademark Public Advisory Committee: Former Member

· Lawyers Club of Chicago: Former Board member

Publications

· "A Survey of Surveys," 42 World Trademark Review.45 (March/April 2013)

· Firm Seminar on "Brand Power Through Strategic IP Management," Pattishall Newsletter (January 2012)

· "The Ethics of Deception, Pretext Investigations in Trademark Cases," Colorado Bar Association (April 2010)

· "A Consumer's View of the UDRP Process," ABA IPL Newsletter, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Summer 2005).

· Co-author, "Trademark Dilution and the Plain Language Solution to Victoria's Secret," John Marshall Law School News Source, Vol. IV, No. 2 (Fall, 2002).

· "Trademark Law in the Technology-Driven Global Marketplace," 4 YALE SYMPOSIUM ON LAW & TECHNOLOGY 8 (2001).

Presentations

· "Register Clogging and Goods/Services Designation: US versus The European Model," FICPI ExCo Meeting & 13th Open Forum, Rome, Italy (November 2011).

· "Border Measures and Goods in Transit," AIPPI Forum & ExCo 2011, Hyderabad, India (October 2011).

· "Brand Power through Strategic IP Management," Moderator, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (September 2011).

· "The Functional Boundary of Trademark Rights," Intellectual Property Owners Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (September 2011).

· "The Ethics of Deception," Fourth Annual Conference on Legal Ethics in the Practice of IP Law, The Center for Intellectual Property Law at John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL (April 2011).

· "Workshop on Non-Traditional Trademarks, Especially 3D Trademarks," Moderator/Speaker, AIPPI 42nd World Intellectual Property Congress, Paris (October 2010).

· "The Ethics of Deception," Colorado Bar Association, Denver, CO (April 2010).

· "The Impending, Controversial Expansion of the gTLD Space," Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Association's Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (September 2009).

· "Well-Known and Famous Marks" (Workshop Moderator), 41st AIPPI World Congress, Boston (September 2008).

· "Trademark Cases in the International Trade Commission," AIPPI/ASIPI Meeting, Mexico City (April 2008).

· "Ten Things Every Brand Owner Should Know About Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy," Panel Member, IPO Annual Meeting, Chicago (2006).

· "Survey Evidence in Trademark Cases," Panel Moderator, AIPPI 40th World Intellectual Property Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden (2006).

· "The Madrid Link to the Community Trade Mark System," AIPLA Spring Meeting, Chicago (September 2006).

· "Ethical Issues Involving Pretext Investigations in Trademark Infringement Cases," INTA Trademark Administrators Conference, Chicago (September 2005).

· "A Consumer's View of the UDRP Process," World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO)/ABA Program on Mediation And Arbitration Of Intellectual Property Disputes, New York (2005).

· "Mediation and Arbitration of Intellectual Property Disputes," United Nations headquarters, New York City, NY, jointly sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law (March 2005).

· "The Ethics and Implementation of Pretext Investigations," International Trademark Association's Trademark Administrators Conference, Chicago, Illinois (September 2005).

· "Practical Consequences of Case Law Granting Protection as Registered Trademarks of Descriptive Marks and Determination of Their Scope of Protection," 39th AIPPI World Congress, Geneva, Switzerland (June 2004).

· "Ideas Into Action: Implementing Reform of the Patent System," FTC Conference at the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law (April 2004).

· "U.S. Trademark Clearance In View Of The Madrid Protocol," 14th Annual All-Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property, Cleveland and Toledo (September 2004).

· "Madrid, and Other Harmonies And Discords In International Trademark Law," Michigan State Bar, 30th Annual Intellectual Property Law Summer Institute, Mackinac Island (July 2004).

· "Trademark Dilution in the United States," IBC Conferences IP Law Summer School, Cambridge, England (2003).

· "Trademark Piracy and Dilution -- From Bricks To Clicks," IPO Annual Meeting, Chicago (2003).