Competition and IP Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy Hearings

February 6: Welcome and Overview of Hearings

2:00 p.m.
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

February 8: Foundational Issues in Patents and Antitrust

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

February 20: Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition and Innovation

(FTC - Room 432)

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.

9:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.
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

2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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

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.

February 25

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

February 26

9:00am - 12:30pm:
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

2:00pm - 4:30pm:
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.

February 27

9:30am - 12:30pm:
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

2:00pm - 5:00pm:
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, Partner, Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey

February 28

9:00 am to 9:30 am:
Independent Inventor Perspective on Patents

• Lawrence J. Udell, Executive Director, Intellectual Property International, Ltd.

9:30am - 11:30am:
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

1:00pm - 4:00pm:
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

Similar to the Berkeley sessions, these sessions will focus on testimony regarding "real-world" experience with patents and competition.

March 19

(FTC - Room 432)

9:15 am - noon:
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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1:30 - 4:45 pm:
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

March 20

(FTC - Room 432)

9:30 am - noon:
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

1:30 - 4:00pm:
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.

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.

April 9-11: 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)

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

April 10

(FTC - Room 432)

9:30 a.m - 12:30 p.m.:
Substantive Standards of Patentability

2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.:
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
• 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

April 11

(FTC - Room 432)

9:30 a.m. - 12:00 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.

2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.:
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

April 17: Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing: When Do They Promote or Harm Competition?

(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building)

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. and
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, 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, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Baltimore

April 18: Standard-Setting Practices: Competition, Innovation and Consumer Welfare

(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building)

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.

• Introduction, Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley

9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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, 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, Partner, Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP
• Daniel Weitzner, Director of Technology and Society Activities, World Wide Web Consortium

May 1: The Strategic Use of Licensing: Is There Cause for Concern about Unilateral Refusals to Deal?

(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building)

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. and
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, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
• Jonathan Gleklen, Partner, Arnold & Porter
• Paul Kirsch, Partner, Townsend, Townsend and Crew LLP
• Benjamin Klein, Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
• Jeff MacKie-Mason, 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

May 2: A Competition View of Patent Settlements

(Federal Trade Commission, Room 432)

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.
Introductory Presentations

• George S. Cary, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
• Stephen A. Stack, Jr., Partner, Dechert

9:30 a.m. - noon
Panel Discussion

• Thomas O. Barnett, Partner, Covington & Burling
• Joseph F. Brodley, 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

May 14

(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building)

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 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, 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

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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

May 22-23: 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)

9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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, Managing Director, Network Economics Consulting Group, Australia
• Ian Forrester, Executive Partner, White & Case LLP, Brussels
• David W. Hull, Partner, Covington & Burling, Brussels
• John Temple Lang, Counsel, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Brussels
• Patrick Rey, Professor of Economics, University of Toulouse, France, and Research Director, Institut d'Economie Industrielle
• James S. Venit, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Brussels

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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, Local Partner, European Law Center, Baker & McKenzie, London
• Yee Wah Chin, Senior Counsel, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
• Maurits Dolmans, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Brussels
• Mark D. Janis, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
• James Leavy, Member, Serra, Leavy & Cazals
• Kirtikumar Mehta, Director, DG COMP/A, European Commission
• Willard K. Tom, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

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.
Asian Perspectives

• Henry Ergas, 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"

July 10: FEDERAL CIRCUIT JURISPRUDENCE: SUBSTANTIVE TRENDS AND ANALYSIS

FTC - Room 432

9:30 a.m. - noon
Trends in Federal Circuit Jurisprudence

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Patent Law Analysis in Federal Circuit Jurisprudence

• 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

July 11: FEDERAL CIRCUIT JURISPRUDENCE: JURISDICTION, CHOICE OF LAW, AND COMPETITION POLICY PERSPECTIVES1

FTC - Room 432

10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

• 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, 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, 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

October 25: Competition, Economic, and Business Perspectives on Patent Quality and Institutional Issues: Competitive Concerns, Prior Art, Post-Grant Review, and Litigation

FTC - Room 432

10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m and 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.:

• 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

October 30: Competition, Economic, and Business Perspectives on Substantive Patent Law Issues: Non-Obviousness and Other Patentability Criteria

FTC - Room 432

10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.:

• 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

November 6: Antitrust Law and Patent Landscapes

FTC - Room 432

9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.:
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

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.:
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