About
The authors of the IP ADR Blog have their own independent mediation, arbitration, and/or law practices. We are not affiliated with one another in any way except to the extent that we share a mutual respect for each other's experience, knowledge, expertise and creativity. We are not one another's partners, business associates, agents, principals, joint venturers, employees, servants, masters or soothsayers. We simply share an interest in the negotiation of IP settlements; the arbitration of IP cases; and, the mediation of IP disputes. We each bring a different perspective, different industry knowledge and different legal and ADR experience to bear upon the issues raised by this blog.
More extensive bios than the summaries provided below can be found on our IP ADR Website here.
PROFILES OF THE IP ADR BLOGGERS BELOW
View Victoria Pynchon's profile
Victoria Pynchon is a full-time neutral with IP and insurance coverage specialties at the Southern California ADR firm ADR Services, Inc. and the renowned International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. She is also a Settlement Officer with the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Ms. Pynchon spent her legal career litigating "bet the company" antitrust, unfair competition, intellectual property and insurance coverage actions. Her clients have been in the garment and import-export industries, as well as in the health care, entertainment, banking and finance, manufacturing and insurance industries.
She is an Adjunct Professor at the prestigious Straus Institute where she received her LL.M. in 2006. Ms. Pynchon received her J.D., Order of the Coif from U.C. Davis School of Law in 1980.
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Eric van Ginkel is a mediator and arbitrator specialized in domestic and international commercial dispute resolution and recently took the reigns of the IPADR blog. He serves several Arbitration Panels including AAA, ICDR, the ICC, and LCIA and has mediated more than 350 civil disputes. Mr. van Ginkel holds law degrees from Leiden University in the Netherlands and Columbia University in the United States and an LL.M. from The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law.
Mr. van Ginkel is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution of Pepperdine University School of Law, where he has taught courses in “Alternative Dispute Resolution Survey”, “Arbitration”, “International Commercial Dispute Resolution”, “International Investment Disputes”, “Introduction to the Legal Process,” and the “Mediation Clinic” (in alphabetical order). Since 2007, Mr. van Ginkel also teaches a course in Advanced Mediation at the Law School of City University of Hong Kong.
In addition, he is one of the trainers in the “Mediating the Litigated Case” seminar offered by the Straus Institute as a six-day course. In 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and again in 2010, Los Angeles Magazine and Law and Politics Media honored him as one of a small group of "Super Lawyers" in Southern California in the “ADR Arbitrator/Mediator” category.
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Mary Zachar is a lawyer and mediator with a contemplative law practice specializing in business and copyright matters. After practicing business litigation in Los Angeles for 25 years and raising two daughters, she returned to her alma mater, Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, Indiana, to pursue an LL.M. in Intellectual Property under Kenneth Crews, now Director of Columbia University’s Copyright Advisory Office.
While working on her LL.M., Mary taught employment law to IUPUI undergraduates, and served as a pro bono mediator, assisting Steve Tilden, Director of Mediation with the Indiana Civil Rights Commission. As she finished her thesis, she also served as a juvenile court public defender, witnessing the need for mediation of disputes and conflicts within the criminal justice system at the adjudicative stage, as well as post-conviction restorative justice. Mary has trained in both Indiana and Los Angeles, and is an advocate of mediation for the resolution of conflict, agreeing with Kenneth Cloke that at the heart of every conflict is a place of reconciliation awaiting skillful resolution.
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Robert J. Rose is a registered patent attorney and practices patent prosecution and patent, copyright, trademark and antitrust litigation with Sheldon, Mak, Rose & Anderson in Pasadena, California. Mr. Rose has written, lectured and testified extensively as an expert in the areas of patents and antitrust.
Mr. Rose has authored patent litigation opinions in the fields of image compression, digital imaging, printer ink cartridges, industrial control of high-speed food processing machines, industrial lighting, geometric optics and remote control devices. He has been chair of the Board of Advisors to the Physics Department of the University of Arizona since 2000. He is also a member of the Dean’s Board of Advisors for the College of Science at the UA. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law in intellectual property. He was also awarded the UA Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award in 2004, nominated by the College of Science. Mr. Rose was recently profiled in the American Physical Society newsletter, APS News, click here. Rose is Chambers rated.
Previously employed as Senior Litigation & Antitrust Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, he has valuable insight into the needs and problems of in-house counsel.
