Keith M. Kupferschmid

Keith M. Kupferschmid is the Senior Vice President for Intellectual Property Policy & Enforcement for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Mr. Kupferschmid is responsible for working directly with SIIA's Intellectual Property Committee to establish SIIA positions and moving the SIIA agenda on issues relating to intellectual property.

He also supervises the Association's Anti-Piracy programs.  Prior to joining SIIA, Mr. Kupferschmid was an attorney with the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner and an intellectual property attorney at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), where he was responsible for international and legislative patent and copyright issues. Mr. Kupferschmid has also served on special assignments at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where he was the Director of Intellectual Property, and the U.S. Copyright Office, where he was a Policy Planning Advisor.