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Brad Biddle: Professional Info
My primary role is with Intel Corporation, where I lead the global legal team focused on technology standards development efforts and other related industry collaborations. I assumed this role in Sept. 2008. Previously I was primary counsel for Intel's Systems Technology Lab, led Intel's involvement with the Internet Governance Forum and the World Intellectual Property Organization (including the efforts that culminated in a decision by WIPO to not actively pursue the flawed Broadcast Treaty), and engaged in various other copyright policy and open source matters.

In early 2008, while on sabbatical from Intel, I co-founded a non-profit social venture called the Desert Biofuels Initiative, and I currently serve as policy director for DBI. DBI focuses primarily on policy-oriented research aimed at advancing a vision of environmentally sustainable, locally-created biofuels.   In 2011 I was able to connect my interest in sustainable biofuels with my role at Intel, and as a side project led an Intel effort focused on capturing CO2 emissions from an Intel fab as an input for growing algae for biofuel (see, e.g. this article).

Additionally, I am currently an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, where I teach a Technology Standards Seminar.  I am also a Research Fellow with ASU's Center for the Study of Law, Science and Innovation, where my research focuses in two distinct areas: technology standards and biofuel policy.

During the 2007-08 academic year I was a non-residential Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, where my research focused on the economics of copyright fair use.

In the past I've taught Internet Law as an adjunct faculty member at ASU and at California Western School of Law, practiced information technology law with Silicon Valley law firm Cooley Godward LLP, and served a brief stint as General Counsel and VP of Business Development for Internet music pioneer MP3.com. I was vice-chair of the Electronic Commerce Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Cyberspace Law Committee, and served on the ABA's Ad Hoc Task Force on Electronic Contracting. I have published various papers and speak regularly on energy policy and intellectual property-related topics.

I graduated cum laude from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1997; at USD I was as an editor of the San Diego Law Review and was awarded membership in the Order of the Coif.  I received a B.A. from the University of California at San Diego in 1994 (I majored in "Third World Studies" -- essentially an interdisciplinary international studies degree, focused on East Asia -- and minored in Japanese Studies), and studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts from 1986-87.  I was a National Merit Scholar Finalist, graduating from Malvern Preparatory School in Malvern, PA.