February 6:
Welcome and Overview of Hearings
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FTC - Room 432
Timothy Muris, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
Charles James, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Department of Justice
James Rogan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
The Honorable Pauline Newman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Robert Pitofsky, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
Q. Todd Dickinson, Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, and former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Gerald Mossinghoff, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
Richard Gilbert , Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Department of Justice
Richard Levin, President, Yale University
Transcript of February 6, 2002 Proceedings
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February 8:
Foundational Issues in Patents and Antitrust
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9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Concurrent Sessions
These sessions will lay the foundation for all future hearings discussions. They will provide essential background information and identify critical issues.
Patent Law for Antitrust Lawyers (FTC - Room 432)
Scott A. Chambers, Arnold and Porter, Adjunct Faculty Member at Georgetown Law Center and The George Washington University Law School of Law
Lawrence M. Sung, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Law
John R. Thomas, Associate Professor, The George Washington University Law School
Transcript of February 8, 2002, Proceedings,Patent Law for Antitrust Lawyers
Antitrust Law for Patent Lawyers (FTC - Room 332)
William E. Kovacic, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission
Willard K. Tom [Document 2], Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Transcript of February 8, 2002, Proceedings, Antitrust Law for Patent Lawyers
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February 20:
Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition and Innovation
(FTC - Room 432)
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9:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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These sessions will explore what economic learning reveals, and does not answer, regarding the relationships between intellectual property and innovation, and between competition and innovation.
Intellectual Property and Innovation
Wesley M. Cohen, Professor of Economics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert E. Evenson, Professor of Economics, Yale University
Edmund W. Kitch, Joseph M. Hartfield Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Spring 2002)
James A. Langenfeld, Director, LECG, LLC.
Maureen A. O'Rourke, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
Competition and Innovation
Shane Mitchell Greenstein, Elinor and Wendall Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert, Principal, Economists, Inc.
Joshua Lerner, Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School
Stan Liebowitz, Professor of Managerial Economics, The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Management
Philip B. Nelson, Principal, Economists, Inc.
Janusz Ordover, Professor of Economics, New York University
Lawrence White, Arthur E. Imperatore Professor of Economics, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Transcript of February 20, 2002, Proceedings, Competition & Intellectual Property Law & Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy
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February 25-28:
Economic Perspectives and Real-World Experiences with Patents
With the support of the Competition Policy Center and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology of the University of California at Berkeley, all sessions will be held in the Wells Fargo Room, Cheit Hall, Haas School of Business, 2220 Piedmont Avenue, University of California, Berkeley.
Daily sessions will focus on business and other testimony regarding the "real-world" experience with patents and competition, as well as explore economic and business perspectives on intellectual property, competition, and innovation.
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1:00pm - 4:30pm: |
Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition, and Innovation
Opening Speech
Mozelle W. Thompson, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Ashish Arora,Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Memorial Prize and Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus, and Professor of Operations Research Emeritus, Stanford University
Richard J. Gilbert, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law, and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Howard Shelanski, Acting Professor of Law, and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley
Hal R. Varian, Dean, School of Information Management and Systems, and Professor, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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9:00am - 12:30pm:
2:00pm - 4:30pm: |
Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition, and Innovation
John H. Barton, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford University Law School
Bronwyn H. Hall, (attachment) Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology, and Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley
Suzanne Andersen Scotchmer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Robert D. Stoner, Vice President, Economists, Inc.
David J. Teece, Mitsubishi Bank Professor of International Business and Finance, University of California, Berkeley
Business Perspectives on Patents: Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
David W. Beier, Partner, Hogan & Hartson, Counsel to Biotechnology Industry Organization
Lee Bendekgey, General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Incyte Genomics
Robert Blackburn, Vice President, Chief Patent Counsel, Chiron Corp.
David J. Earp, Vice President, Intellectual Property, Geron Corp.
Michael K. Kirschner, Vice President Intellectual Property, Immunex Corp.
Ross Oehler, Vice President, U.S. Patent Operations, Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Transcript of February 26, 2002 Proceedings
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9:30am - 12:30pm:
2:00pm - 5:00pm:
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Business Perspectives on Patents: Software and the Internet
Yar R. Chaikovsky, General Counsel, Zaplet, Inc.
Bradford L. Friedman, Director of Intellectual Property, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
R. Jordan Greenhall, Chief Executive Officer, Divx Networks
Joshua Kaplan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Intouch Group, Inc.
Robert H. Kohn, Vice Chairman, Borland Software Corp.
Paul Misener, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Amazon.com
David C. Mowery, Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business, University of California, Berkeley
James Pooley, Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCoy
Diverse Perspectives on Patents
Greg Aharonian, Editor, Internet Patent News Service Luis Mejia, Senior Associate, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University
John Love, Director for Cryptography and Security Technology Center, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Rick D. Nydegger, Shareholder, Workman, Nydegger & Seeley
John Place, Executive Director, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford University Law School
Carl Shapiro, Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy and Professor of Economics, Haas School of Business, and Director, Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, Berkeley
Robert P. Taylor, Partner, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP
David J. Teece, Mitsubishi Bank Professor of International Business and Finance, University of California, Berkeley
Les J. Weinstein, [Attatchment] Partner, Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey
Transcript of February 27, 2002 Proceedings
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9:00 am to 9:30 am:
9:30am - 11:30am:
1:00pm - 4:00pm:
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Independent Inventor Perspective on Patents
Lawrence J. Udell, Executive Director, Intellectual Property International, Ltd.
Economic and Other Perspectives on Patent Standards and Procedures
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and Chair, Competition Policy Center
Justin Hughes, Visiting Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
John Love, Director, Technology Center 2100, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology, and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley
Business Perspectives on Patents: Hardware and Semiconductors
Robert Barr, Vice President, Worldwide Patent Counsel, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Peter N. Detkin, Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs and Assistant General Counsel, Intel Corporation
Stephen P. Fox, Associate General Counsel and Director, Intellectual Property, Hewlett-Packard Company
Bronwyn H. Hall, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Julie Mar-Spinola, Chief Litigation and Intellectual Property Counsel, Atmel Corporation
Joel Poppen, Director, Patent Litigation and Licensing, Micron Technology, Inc.
Desi Rhoden, President and Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Memory International, Inc.
Frederick J. Telecky, Jr., Senior Vice President and General Patent Counsel, Texas Instruments
Transcript of February 28, 2002 Proceedings
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Business and Other Perspectives on Real-World Experience with Patents
Similar to the Berkeley sessions, these sessions will focus on testimony regarding "real-world" experience with patents and competition.
March 19
(FTC - Room 432)
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1:30 - 4:45 pm: |
Diverse Perspectives on Patents
Lynn J. Alstadt, Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll and Adjunct Professor, Duquesne University
F. M. Ross Armbrecht Jr., President, Industrial Research Institute
Makan Delrahim, Republican Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Joanne M. Hayes-Rines, Vice President, United Inventors Association
Brian Kahin, Visiting Professor & Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
Ronald Myrick, Chief Patent Counsel, General Electric; President-Elect, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Cecil D. Quillen, Jr., Senior Advisor, Cornerstone Research
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Business Perspectives on Patents: Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
Robert A. Armitage, Vice President and General Patent Counsel, Eli Lilly and Company
Monte R. Browder, Senior Intellectual Property Counsel, Ivax Corporation
Barbara Caulfield, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Affymetrix, Inc.
David Coffin-Beach, President, Torpharm, Inc.
Gregory J. Glover, Partner, Ropes & Gray, Counsel to Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Nancy J. Linck, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Guilford Pharmaceuticals
Rochelle K. Seide, Partner, Baker Botts, LLP
Edward A. Snyder, Dean and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Transcript of March 19, 2002 Proceedings
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March 20 :
(FTC - Room 432)
9:30 am - noon:
1:30 - 4:00pm: |
Business Perspectives on Patents: Hardware and Semiconductors
George B. Brunt, Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary, Alcatel USA
Daniel McCurdy, President and Chief Executive Officer, ThinkFire
Richard L. Thurston, [Statement] Vice President and General Counsel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
Harry Wolin, Vice President of Intellectual Property, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Gary Zanfagna, Associate General Counsel for Antitrust, Honeywell International
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Assistant Professor of Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Business Perspectives on Patents: Software and the Internet
Edward J. Black, President and CEO, Computer & Communications Industry Association
Dan L. Burk, Julius E. Davis Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
R. Lewis Gable, Partner, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
Scott Sander, President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, SightSound Technologies
Mark Webbink, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Red Hat, Inc.
Transcript of March 20, 2002 Proceedings
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Additional sessions will be held at the FTC, Room 432, during April and May, as indicated below. The panelists for these sessions will be announced as further information becomes available. Topics and dates for concluding sessions in June will be announced at a later time.
Economic and Other Perspectives on Patent Standards and Procedures
These sessions will explore economic and other perspectives, and the approaches that they suggest, regarding patent standards and procedures.
April 9:
(FTC - Room 432)
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9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: |
Cross-Industry Perspectives on Patents
Dean Alderucci, Chief Counsel of Intellectual Property, Walker Digital
Timothy D. Casey, Partner & Chairman of Intellectual Property and Technology, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Les Hart, Vice President of Intellectual Property, Harris Corporation
Nancy J. Linck, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Guilford Pharmaceuticals
Mary U. Musacchia, SAS Institute, Counsel to the President/CEO and Director, Government Relations & Public Policy
Richard Stallman, President, Free Software Foundation
Transcript of April 9, 2002 Proceedings
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2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: |
Substantive Standards of Patentability
Patenting Procedures, Presumptions, and Uncertainties
Introductory Speaker: Kenneth M. Frankel (Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner), speaking on behalf of the American Intellectual Property Law Association
Panelists:
Mark D. Janis, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Salem M. Katsh, Partner, Shearman & Sterling
Jay P. Kesan, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
F. Scott Kieff, John M. Olin Senior Research Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard Law School, and Associate Professor, Washington University School of Law
Stephen G. Kunin, Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Roger W. Parkhurst, Partner, Parkhurst & Wendel, L.L.P., and President, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Arti K. Rai, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Suzanne Andersen Scotchmer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
John R. Thomas, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
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2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: |
Patentable Subject Matter - Business Method and Software Patents
Mark D. Janis, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Brian Kahin, Visiting Professor & Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland
Jeffrey R. Kuester, Partner, Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley
Jeffrey P. Kushan, Partner, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP
Rick D. Nydegger, Shareholder, Workman, Nydegger & Seeley
John R. Thomas, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Robert Young, Chairman, Center for Public Domain, and Chairman, Red Hat, Inc.
Patent Criteria and Procedures - International Comparisons
Kenneth J. Burchfiel, Partner, Sughrue Mion, PLLC
Mark D. Janis, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Stephen B. Maebius, Partner, Foley & Lardner
Rick D. Nydegger, Shareholder, Workman, Nydegger & Seeley
Robert L. Stoll, Administrator for External Affairs, United States Patent and Trademark Office
John R. Thomas, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Transcript of April 11, 2002 Proceedings
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April 17:
(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building)
"This session will be held in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice's Main Building, located at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. The general public and press are invited to attend. However, for security purposes, notice of your intention to attend the hearings and your date of birth must be given to the Department at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing date. This information should be provided to Kathleen Leicht of the Antitrust Division via e-mail at kathleen.leicht@usdoj.gov, or telephone at (202) 514-7018. Interested persons will not be admitted to the Main Justice Building without advance notice.
Visitors must enter the Main Building at the 950 Pennsylvania Avenue entrance and are required to show two forms of identification, one of which must contain a photograph. Please allow sufficient time to permit getting through the security procedures. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis."
Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing: When Do They Promote or Harm Competition?
Participants in this session will discuss the benefits and competitive concerns of business arrangements in which multiple parties hold related intellectual property rights.
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing: When Do They Promote or Harm Competition?
Robert Potter, Chief, Legal Policy Section, Antitrust Division--Opening Remarks
Garrard R. Beeney, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
Jeffery Fromm, Senior Managing Counsel, Hewlett-Packard Company
Baryn Futa, Manager and Chief Executive Officer, MPEG LA
Peter Grindley, Senior Managing Economist, LECG, Ltd, London
Christopher J. Kelly, Special Counsel, Litigation Department, Kaye Scholer LLP
James Kulbaski, Partner, Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.
Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School
David McGowan [Document 2], Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota School of Law
M. Howard Morse, Partner, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP
Joshua Newberg, Assistant Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Jonathan Putnam, Assistant Professor of the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property, University of Toronto School of Law
Lawrence M. Sung [Document 2] [Document 3], Assistant Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Transcript of April 17, 2002 Proceedings
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April 18:
(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building)
"This session will be held in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice's Main Building, located at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. The general public and press are invited to attend. However, for security purposes, notice of your intention to attend the hearings and your date of birth must be given to the Department at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing date. This information should be provided to Kathleen Leicht of the Antitrust Division via e-mail at kathleen.leicht@usdoj.gov, or telephone at (202) 514-7018. Interested persons will not be admitted to the Main Justice Building without advance notice.
Visitors must enter the Main Building at the 950 Pennsylvania Avenue entrance and are required to show two forms of identification, one of which must contain a photograph. Please allow sufficient time to permit getting through the security procedures. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis."
Standard-Setting Practices:
Competition, Innovation and Consumer Welfare
Participants in this session will discuss the antitrust treatment of common practices used by organizations to set standards that incorporate intellectual property. Participants will address effects on innovation and product market competition.
9:00 a.m - 9:30 a.m.
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Introduction
Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Intellectual Property Strategies in Standards Activities
Michael Antalics, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP
Carl Cargill, Director Corporate Standards, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Donald R. Deutsch, Vice President, Standards Strategy and Architecture, Oracle Corp.
Ernest Gellhorn, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Peter Grindley, Senior Managing Economist, LECG, Ltd, London
Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Amy A. Marasco, Vice President and General Counsel, American National Standards Institute
Richard T. Rapp, President, National Economic Research Associates
David J. Teece, Mitsubishi Bank Professor of International Business and Finance, University of California, Berkeley
Dennis A. Yao, Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy and Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Licensing Terms in Standards Activities
Stanley M. Besen, Vice President, Charles River Associates
Daniel J. Gifford, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Professor of Law, University of Minnesota School of Law
Richard Holleman, [Document 2] Industry Standards Consultant
Allen M. Lo, Director of Intellectual Property, Juniper Networks, Inc.
Mark R. Patterson, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Scott K. Peterson, Corporate Counsel, Hewlett-Packard Company
Lauren J. Stiroh, Vice President, National Economic Research Associates
Daniel Swanson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Andrew Updegrove [Document 2] [Document 3], Partner, Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP
Daniel Weitzner, Director of Technology and Society Activities, World Wide Web Consortium
Transcript of April 18, 2002 Proceedings
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May 1:
(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building)
"This session will be held in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice's Main Building, located at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. The general public and press are invited to attend. However, for security purposes, notice of your intention to attend the hearings and your date of birth must be given to the Department at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing date. This information should be provided to Kathleen Leicht of the Antitrust Division via e-mail at kathleen.leicht@usdoj.gov, or telephone at (202) 514-7018. Interested persons will not be admitted to the Main Justice Building without advance notice.
Visitors must enter the Main Building at the 950 Pennsylvania Avenue entrance and are required to show two forms of identification, one of which must contain a photograph. Please allow sufficient time to permit getting through the security procedures. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis."
The Strategic Use of Licensing:
Is There Cause for Concern about Unilateral Refusals to Deal?
Participants in this session will discuss the extent to which refusals to license intellectual property create competitive concerns, how recent case law on refusals to license is being interpreted, and whether this recent case law appropriately balances the interests of intellectual property law and antitrust law.
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
The Strategic Use of Licensing: Is There Cause for Concern about Unilateral Refusals to Deal?
Ashish Arora [Document 2], Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Gleklen [Document 2], Partner, Arnold & Porter
Paul Kirsch, Partner, Townsend, Townsend and Crew LLP
Benjamin Klein, Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Jeff MacKie-Mason, [Document 2] Arthur W. Burks Professor of Information and Computer Science and Professor Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan
A. Douglas Melamed, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Carl Shapiro, Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy and Professor of Economics, Haas School of Business, and Director, Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher J. Sprigman, Counsel, King & Spalding
Mark Whitener, Antitrust and General Counsel, General Electric
John Shepard Wiley Jr., Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
Transcript of May 1 Proceedings
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May 2:
(Federal Trade Commission, Room 432)
A Competition View of Patent Settlements
Participants in this session will explore the efficiencies and competitive concerns that patent settlements may generate in a variety of industries and factual settings.
Patent Settlements: Efficiencies and Competitive Concerns
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
9:30 a.m. - noon
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Introductory Presentations
George S. Cary, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Stephen A. Stack, Jr., [Document 2]Partner, Dechert
Document 2
Panel Discussion
Thomas O. Barnett, Partner, Covington & Burling
Joseph F. Brodley [Document 2], Professor, Boston University School of Law
George S. Cary, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Robert N. Cook, Partner, Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP
James J. Egan, Senior Vice President, Business and Corporate Development, Novirio Pharmaceuticals
Richard A. Feinstein, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Phillip A. Proger, Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
Prof. Carl Shapiro, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Steven A. Stack, Jr., Partner, Dechert
Transcript of May 2, 2002 Proceedings
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May 14:
(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building)
"This session will be held in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice's Main Building, located at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. The general public and press are invited to attend. However, for security purposes, notice of your intention to attend the hearings and your date of birth must be given to the Department at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing date. This information should be provided to Kathleen Leicht of the Antitrust Division via e-mail at kathleen.leicht@usdoj.gov, or telephone at (202) 514-7018. Interested persons will not be admitted to the Main Justice Building without advance notice.
Visitors must enter the Main Building at the 950 Pennsylvania Avenue entrance and are required to show two forms of identification, one of which must contain a photograph. Please allow sufficient time to permit getting through the security procedures. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis."
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Antitrust Analysis of Specific Intellectual Property Licensing Practices: Bundling, Grantbacks and Temporal Extensions
Rebecca P. Dick, Of Counsel, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP, Washington, DC
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Competition Policy Center, UC Berkeley
Jonathan M. Jacobson, [Document 2] Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
Abbott "Tad" Lipsky, Jr., Partner, Latham & Watkins, Washington, D.C.
David S. Sibley, John Michael Stuart Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
J. Gregory Sidak, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute
Gregory Vistnes, Vice President, Charles River Associates
Practical Issues Encountered in Antitrust Analysis of Licensing Practices: The Problem of Dealing With Uncertain or Disputed Patent Rights
Molly S. Boast, Partner, Debevoise and Plimpton
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and Chair, Competition Policy Center
Salem M. Katsh, Partner, Shearman & Sterling
Joseph Kattan, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Joseph Scott Miller, Assistant Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School
A. Douglas Melamed, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering
M.J. Moltenbrey, former Director of Civil Non-Merger Enforcement, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
Gregory Vistnes, Vice President, Charles River Associates
Transcript of May 14, 2002 Proceedings
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An International Comparative Law Perspective
on the Relationship Between Competition and Intellectual Property
Participants in these sessions on May 22 and 23 will discuss competition law approaches that are presently in place or are under consideration in jurisdictions outside the United States.
May 22:
(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building)
"This session will be held in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice's Main Building, located at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. The general public and press are invited to attend. However, for security purposes, notice of your intention to attend the hearings and your date of birth must be given to the Department at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing date. This information should be provided to Kathleen Leicht of the Antitrust Division via e-mail at kathleen.leicht@usdoj.gov, or telephone at (202) 514-7018. Interested persons will not be admitted to the Main Justice Building without advance notice.
Visitors must enter the Main Building at the 950 Pennsylvania Avenue entrance and are required to show two forms of identification, one of which must contain a photograph. Please allow sufficient time to permit getting through the security procedures. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis."
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Refusals To License and Compulsory Licensing in the European Union, Canada, and Australia
Gwillym Allen, Senior Economist & Strategic Policy Advisor, Competition Policy Branch, Canadian Competition Bureau
Steven D. Anderman, Professor of Law, Department of Law, Essex University, United Kingdom
Henry Ergas, [Document 2] Managing Director, Network Economics Consulting Group, Australia
Ian Forrester, Executive Partner, White & Case LLP, Brussels
David W. Hull, [Document 2] Partner, Covington & Burling, Brussels
John Temple Lang, Counsel, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Brussels
Patrick Rey, [Document 2] Professor of Economics, University of Toulouse, France, and Research Director, Institut d'Economie Industrielle
James S. Venit, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Brussels
Licensing in the European Union: The Technology Transfer Block Exemption and Agreements That Fall Outside its Scope
Peter Alexiadis, Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Brussels
Fiona Carlin, [Document 2] Local Partner, European Law Center, Baker & McKenzie, London
Yee Wah Chin, [Document 2*] [Document 3] [Document 4] [Document 5] Senior Counsel, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
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Maurits Dolmans, [Document 2] Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Brussels
Mark D. Janis, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
James Leavy, [Document 2] Member, Serra, Leavy & Cazals
Kirtikumar Mehta, Director, DG COMP/A, European Commission
Willard K. Tom, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
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May 23
An International Comparative Law Perspective
on the Relationship Between Competition and Intellectual Property, Part II
(Federal Trade Commission, Room 432)
9:30 - 12:00 noon.
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Asian Perspectives
Henry Ergas, [Document 2] Managing Director, Network Economics Consulting Group
H. Stephen Harris, Jr., [Document 2]Partner, Alston & Bird LLP
Karl F. Jorda, David Rines Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Industrial Innovation, Franklin Pierce Law Center
Byungbae Kim, Competition Policy Counselor/Director General, Korean Fair Trade Commission
Masayuki Koyanagi, Director, Institute of Intellectual Property
Abbott "Tad" Lipsky, Partner, Latham & Watkins
Dr. Len-Yu Liu, Commissioner, Taiwan Fair Trade Commission
Joshua Newberg, Assistant Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
James Rill, Partner, Howrey & Simon
Toshiaki Tada, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Japan Fair Trade Commission 2002 Study Group On "Patents in New Areas and Competition Policy"
Transcript of May 23, 2002 Proceedings
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FTC - Room 432
FEDERAL CIRCUIT JURISPRUDENCE: SUBSTANTIVE TRENDS AND ANALYSIS
9:30 a.m. - noon
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Trends in Federal Circuit Jurisprudence
Patent Law Analysis in Federal Circuit Jurisprudence
Participants
Dan L. Burk, Julius E. Davis Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
John F. Duffy, Associate Professor of Law, William and Mary School of Law
Stephen G. Kunin, Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Professor of Law, Tulane Law School
F. M. Scherer, Roy E. Larson Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard University
Gerald Sobel, Partner, Kaye Scholer LLP
Herbert C. Wamsley, Executive Director, Intellectual Property Owners Association
Transcript of July 10, 2002 Proceedings
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July 11
FTC - Room 432
FEDERAL CIRCUIT JURISPRUDENCE: JURISDICTION, CHOICE OF LAW, AND COMPETITION POLICY PERSPECTIVES
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Participants
The Honorable T. S. Ellis, III, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Charles P. Baker, Partner, Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
R. Bhaskar, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Business School
Roxane C. Busey, [Document 2] Partner, Gardner Carton & Douglas, and Chair, American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
George G. Gordon, Partner, Dechert
Robert J. Hoerner, [Document 2] [Document 3] [Document 4]Former Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
James B. Kobak, Jr., Member, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Stephen G. Kunin, Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Cecil D. Quillen, Jr., Senior Advisor, Cornerstone Research
Robert P. Taylor, Partner, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP
Matthew F. Weil, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery
Transcript of July 11, 2002 Proceedings
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FTC - Room 432
Competition, Economic, and Business Perspectives on Patent Quality and Institutional Issues: Competitive Concerns, Prior Art, Post-Grant Review, and Litigation
10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m and 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.:
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R. Bhaskar, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Business School
Scott Chambers, Arnold & Porter, and Adjunct Faculty Member at Georgetown Law Center and The George Washington University Law School
Q. Todd Dickinson, Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, and former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
James B. Gambrell, Visiting Professor, The University of Texas School of Law
Melvin C. Garner, Darby & Darby, Second Vice President of American Intellectual Property Law Association
Brian Kahin, Visiting Professor & Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland
Jay Kesan, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
Jeffrey Kushan, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Jonathan D. Levin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Nancy J. Linck, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Guilford Pharmaceuticals, and former Solicitor for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Stephen A. Merrill, Executive Director, Board on Science Technology and Economic Policy, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences
Robert Taylor, Howrey Simon Arnold & White LLP
John R. Thomas, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Transcript of October 25, 2002 Proceedings
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FTC - Room 432
Competition, Economic, and Business Perspectives on Substantive Patent Law Issues:
Non-Obviousness and Other Patentability Criteria
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.:
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Mark T. Banner, Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., and Chair, ABA Intellectual Property Law Section
Robert Barr, Vice President and Worldwide Patent Counsel, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Margaret A. Boulware, Jenkens & Gilchrist, Past President and Fellow of American Intellectual Property Law Association
Wesley M. Cohen, Professor of Economics and Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
John Duffy, Professor of Law, William and Mary School of Law
Brian Kahin, Visiting Professor & Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland
Edmund Kitch, Joseph M. Hartfield Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Stephen A. Merrill, Executive Director, Board on Science Technology and Economic Policy, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences
Gerald Mossinghoff, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
Ronald E. Myrick, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, General Electric Company and President, Monogram Licensing, Inc.
James Pooley, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Robert D. Stoner, Vice President, Economists, Inc.
John R. Thomas, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Transcript of October 30, 2002 Proceedings
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FTC - Room 432
Antitrust Law and Patent Landscapes
9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.:
2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.:
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Standard Setting Organizations: Evaluating the Anticompetitive Risks Of Negotiating IP Licensing Terms and Conditions Before A Standard Is Set
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Kattan, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Scott Peterson, Corporate Counsel, Hewlett-Packard Company
Carl Shapiro, Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Earle Thompson, Intellectual Asset Manager and Senior Counsel, Texas Instruments
Paul Vishny, D'Ancona & Pflaum and General Counsel, Telecommunications Industry Association
Relationships Among Competitors and Incentives to Compete: Cross-Licensing of Patent Portfolios, Grantbacks, Reach-Through Royalties, and Non-Assertion Clauses
Michelle Burtis, LECG, Inc
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Jeffery Fromm, Former Senior Managing Counsel, Hewlett-Packard Company
Michael McFalls, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue
Barbara M. McGarey, Deputy Associate General Counsel, National Institutes of Health
Janusz A. Ordover, Department of Economics, New York University
Charles F. (Rick) Rule, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Carl Shapiro, Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Transcript of November 6, 2002 Proceedings
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Further information about these and other sessions will be posted on the Antitrust Division's Web site www.usdoj.gov/atr/hearing.htm and the FTC Web site www.ftc.gov/opp/intellect/index.htm as it becomes available.