Profile

Ms. Beldiman has extensive experience with IP related transactions, trademark and international IP strategy:

• Ms. Beldiman has structured complex IP transfer transactions as part of corporate transactions, both domestic and cross-border.
• She has provided strategic advice, structured, drafted and negotiated numerous agreements in the IT and life sciences/chemical areas, including all forms of licensing, development, distribution, systems integration agreements.
• She has provided counsel on corporate IP management and monetization strategies (licensing-in/licensing-out programs and guidelines).
• Ms. Beldiman has structured brand protection programs; provided strategic advice on mark selection, clearance, monitoring; conducted trademark prosecution in front of the Patent and Trademark office and Trademark Trial Appeal Board, from application through registration and handled domain name protection.
• She has developed corporate trade secret protection programs; confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
• Ms. Beldiman has also provided general strategic advice on patenting matters; supervision of patent prosecution counsel.
• She has conducted IP inventories and audits; due diligence and  handled enforcement of IP rights.
• Ms. Beldiman has taught and continues to teach courses in IP licensing transactions, international and comparative intellectual property, trademark and unfair competition, intellectual property and human rights at UC Hastings (San Francisco, USA), Santa Clara University Law School (Santa Clara, USA), Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany), the University of Strasbourg (CEIPI) (France), Humboldt University (Berlin Germany).

Presentations and Publications

Leveraging ex situ Genetic Resources to Shape Downstream IP Protection, Chapter in IP Law at the Cross-Roads of Trade, Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2012.

Utilitarian Information Works - Is Originality the Proper Lens?, 14 Marquette Intellectual Property L. Rev. 1 (2010).

Functionality, Information Works and Copyright; Yorkhill Law Publishing, Salzburg, Austria (2008).

Fundamental Rights, Author's Right and Copyright - Commonalities or Divergences; Book Review: Dr. Christophe Geiger, Droit d'Auteur et Droit du Public à l'Information, LITEC, Paris, 2004, 29 Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts 39 (2005).

Copyright and the Challenges of Digital Age - Can All Interests be Reconciled in "Legal Issues in the Global Information Society." Oceana Publications Inc. of Dobbs Ferry, New York, 2005 Future of Innovation in Science, Culture Depends on the "Grokster" Decision, San Francisco Daily Journal (April 2005). 

Future of Innovation in Science, Culture Depends on the "Grokster" Decision, San Francisco Daily Journal (April 2005).

The Role of Copyright Limiting Doctrines in the Digital Age - Can Their Vigor Be Restored? in Interessenausgleich Im Urheberrecht, Hilty/Peukert (Hrsg.), Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, Germany (2004).

Protecting the Form but not the Function: Is U.S. Law Ready for a New Model? 20 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 529 (2004).

An Information Society Approach to Privacy Legislation: How to Enhance Privacy While Maximizing Information Value, 2 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 71 (November 2002).

Misappropriation of Trade Secrets and the Doctrine of Inevitable Disclosure (December 2001).

Complying with European Union Data Protection Requirements (August 2001).

Will Privacy Legislation Act as a Boost to E-Commerce? (May 2001).

Cyberpiracy - Are Trademark Owners Adequately Protected on the Internet (Spring 2001).

How To Protect Your Domain Name, Insights (A publication of APS International) (Fall 1998).

Market Analysis - Foreign Investment In U.S. Telecommunications, Daily Journal (December 26, 1996).

Telecom Privatizations in Central/Eastern Europe - A Case Study, ABA Section of International Law and Practice (March 1996).

Call To Account - A New Era For Telecommunications Competition, Daily Journal (February 27, 1996).

From Monopoly to Competition, Legal Times, Washington, D.C. (November 20, 1995).

Numerous presentations on IP topics at academic conferences and professional gatherings in different countries, including Austria, China, France, Germany, Latvia, Singapore, Tunisia (World Summit for the Information Society), and the U.S.