Santa Clara University’s School of Law held a reception on June 14, 2005 to honor the Law School’s Intellectual Property Law Faculty and programs and the High Tech Law Institute for sustained contributions to the development of high tech and intellectual property law and policy. In addition, special recognition was given to F. Thomas Dunlap, ’79 former Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Intel Corporation.
The High Tech Law Institute at SCU School of Law is built upon a quarter-century of educational innovation for and professional leadership to intellectual property and technology lawyers and policymakers. The School of Law’s leadership in law and public policy began more than 25 years ago with the offering of a copyright and patent law courses. Today, the School’s curriculum includes more than 50 IP law courses, and its nationally recognized Institute and intellectual property law faculty have educated a generation of the leading intellectual property and technology lawyers in California and the nation. F. Thomas Dunlap, former Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Intel Corporation, is representative of those graduates. Its Computer & High Technology Law Journal has been a leading national provider of legal analysis and knowledge in intellectual property law for more than twenty years. The High Tech Law Institute is guided by the School’s Faculty of Law, the Dean’s High Tech Advisory Council and its High Tech Advisory Board.
F. Thomas Dunlap, a 1979 graduate of the School of Law, joined Intel in June 1974 as a product engineer after graduation from the University of Cincinnati (B.S. Engineering). He became administrator of technology exchange contracts in August 1977, while he attended law school, and subsequently joined Intel’s legal department in June of 1980 as senior attorney/European counsel. He became corporate counsel and secretary in 1983 and general counsel and secretary in 1984, before being appointed a vice president in 1987. In 2001, he became a senior vice president. Dunlap is a member of the State Bar of California and the Peninsula Association of General Counsel. He was a key contributor to the passage of a number of pieces of legislation important to the chip industry including the Chip Protection Act of 1984, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. He also oversaw the Intel/NEC litigation which established that microcode can be protected under federal copyright law.
On the occasion of Mr. Dunlap’s recent retirement, Intel CEO Craig Barrett said, “Tom Dunlap’s many outstanding contributions to Intel’s legal strategy during the past 30 years have had a significant impact on our business and in the protection of Intel’s innovations. His dedicated and extensive career has been a tremendous asset to the company.”
About Santa Clara University School of Law
The SCU School of Law, founded in 1912, combines a tradition of excellence with a commitment to ethics, diversity, and social justice, and is fully accredited by the American Bar Association. Its students work in criminal and civil community law clinics and may earn certificates in intellectual property law, international law or public interest law, and LL.M. degrees in intellectual property law, and international law. For more information, visit www.scu.edu/law.
About Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California’s Silicon Valley, offers its 8,213 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the second-highest graduation rate among all U.S. master’s universities, California’s oldest higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. More information is online at www.scu.edu.
