Shira Perlmutter (born 1956) is an American lawyer and law professor and the 14th

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. Perlmutter has given public lectures on copyright, stating that Americans desire copyright laws that make sense, that are fair, and that reflect the technologies currently in use. She has stated a desire for laws that keep pace with technology. Perlmutter was the chief policy officer and director for international affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She is a research fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at

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. She co-authored a leading casebook: ''International Intellectual Property Law and Policy''. Prior to that, she was Executive Vice President for Global Legal Policy at the

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. She was Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property Policy at

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. In 1995, she was appointed to be the first Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the

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. She was the copyright consultant to the Clinton Administration’s Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure in 1994–95.

Early life and education

Perlmutter was born to Daniel Perlmutter, a chemical engineering professor, and Felice Davidson Perlmutter, a social administration professor. She has a brother,

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, and a sister, Tova. She has an

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from

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and a J.D. from the

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