Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy

Participants and Topics

Hearings will be held at the FTC, Room 432 in Washington, DC, unless otherwise noted.

For more information, consult the hearings information page or contact contact Frances Marshall, Legal Policy Section (frances.marshall@usdoj.gov or 202-305-2520).

February 6
2:00 p.m.
Welcome and Overview of Hearings (FTC, Room 432)

Participants

Charles James

Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Department of Justice

Timothy Muris

Chairman, Federal Trade Commission

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 (former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission)

Q. Todd Dickinson

Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White (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 (former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks)

Richard Gilbert

Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley (former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Department of Justice)

Richard Levin

President, Yale University

Participant presentations and session transcript for February 6

February 8
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m
Foundational Issues in Patents and Antitrust
(Two concurrent sessions)

Session 1: Patent Law for Antitrust Lawyers (FTC, Room 432)
Participants:

Scott Chambers

Arnold & Porter

Lawrence Sung

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Maryland

John Thomas

Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

Session 2: Antitrust Law for Patent Lawyers (FTC, Room 332)
Participants:

William E. Kovacic

General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission

Willard Tom

Morgan Lewis & Bockius

Participant presentations and session transcripts for February 8

February 20
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2:00-4:30 p.m.
(FTC, Room 432)

Session 1: Intellectual Property and Innovation
(9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)
Participants:

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

James A. Langenfeld

Director, LECG, LLC

Maureen A. O'Rourke

Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

Session 2: Competition and Innovation
(2:00-4:30 p.m.)
Participants:

Shane M. Greenstein

Elinor and Wendall Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern University

Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert

Principal, Economists, Inc.

Joshua Lerner

Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School

Stan Liebowitz

Professor of Managerial Economics, The University of Texas at Dallas

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

February 25-28
Berkeley, CA
Business and Economic Perspectives on Real-World Experience with Patents

February 25: Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition, and Innovation
(1:00-4:30 p.m.)
Participants:

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

Lawrence Lessig

Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

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, Session 1: Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition, and Innovation
(9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)
Participants:

John H. Barton

George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Bronwyn H. Hall

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 Anderson Scotchmer

Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of
California, Berkeley

Andrew Steinberg

Vice President and General Counsel, Travelocity

Robert D. Stoner

Vice President, Economists, Inc.

David J. Teece

Mitsubishi Bank Professor of International Business and Finance, University of California, Berkeley

February 26, Session 2: Business Perspectives on Patents: Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
(2:00-4:30 p.m.)
Participants:

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, Session 1: Business Perspectives on Patents: Software and the Internet
(9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)
Participants:

Yar R. Chaikovsky

General Counsel, Zaplet, 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

John Place

Executive Director, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School

James Pooley

Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCoy

February 27, Session 2: Diverse Perspectives on Patents
(2:00-4:30 p.m.)
Participants:

Greg Aharonian

Editor, Internet Patent News Service

Katherine Ku

Director, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University

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

Les J. Weinstein

Partner, Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey

February 28, Session 1: Economic and Other Perspectives on Patent Standards and Procedures
(9:30-11:30 a.m.)
Participants:

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

Robert P. Merges

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology, and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley

February 28, Session 2: Business Perspectives on Patents: Hardware and Semiconductors
(1:00-4:00 p.m.)
Participants:

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

Associate General Counsel, 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

March 19-20
Business and Other Perspectives on Real-World Experience with Patents (FTC, Room 432)

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

March 19, Session 1: Diverse Perspectives on Patents
(9:15 a.m.-noon)
Participants:

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 and 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

March 19, Session 2: Business Perspectives on Patents: Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
(1:30-4:45 p.m.)
Participants:

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, Session 1: Business Perspectives on Patents: Hardware and Semiconductors
(9:30 a.m.-noon)
Participants:

George B. Brunt

Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary, Alcatel USA

Daniel McCurdy

President and Chief Executive Officer, ThinkFire

Richard L. Thurston

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

March 20, Session 2: Business Perspectives on Patents: Software and the Internet
(1:30-4:00 p.m.)
Participants:

Dean Alderucci

Chief Counsel of Intellectual Property, Walker Digital

Edward J. Black

President and CEO, Computer & Communications Industry Association

Scott Sander

President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, SightSound Technologies

Mark Webbink

Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Red Hat, Inc.

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: Cross-Industry Perspectives on Patents
(9:30 a.m-noon)
Participants:

Dean Alderucci

Chief Counsel of Intellectual Property, Walker Digital

Les Hart

Vice President of Intellectual Property, Harris Corporation

Nancy J. Linck

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Guilford Pharmaceuticals

Mary U. Musacchia

Counsel to the President/CEO and Director, Government Relations and Public Policy, SAS Institute

Richard Stallman

President, Free Software Foundation

April 10, Session 1: Substantive Standards of Patentability
(9:30 a.m-12:30 p.m)

April 10, Session 2: Patenting Procedures, Presumptions, and Uncertainties
(2:00-4:30 p.m.)

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

Roger W. Parkhurst

Member, Parkhurst & Wendel, L.L.P., and President, American Intellectual Property Law Association

Stephen G. Kunin

Deputy Commssioner for Patent Examination Policy, United States Patent and Trademark Office

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, Session 1: Patentable Subject Matter: Business Method and Software Patents
(9:30 a.m.-noon)

Participants:

Mark D. Janis

Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law

Jeffrey R. Kuester

Partner, Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley

Jeffrey P. Kushan

Partner, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP

Rick D. Nydegger

Shareholder, Workman, Nydegger & Seeley

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

Robert Young

Chairman, Center for Public Domain, and Chairman, Red Hat, Inc.

April 11, Session 2: Patent Criteria and Procedures: International Comparisons
(2:00-4:30 p.m.)

Participants:

Danielle M. Bush

Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Mark D. Janis

Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law

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
9:00-11:30 a.m. and 1:00-4:30 p.m.
Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing: When Do They Promote or Harm Competition?
(Great Hall, Department of Justice Main Building, Washington, DC)

Robert Potter

Chief, Legal Policy Section, Antitrust Division

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, Washington, DC)

Introduction
(9:00-9:30 a.m.)

Mark Lemley

Professor of Law, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley

Session 1: Intellectual Property Strategies in Standards Activities
(9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)

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

Session 2: Licensing Terms in Standards Activities
(2:00-5:00 p.m.)

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?
(9:30 a.m.-noon and 1:30- 4:00 p.m.)

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.

Participants:

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
Patent Settlements: Efficiences and Competitive Concerns (FTC, 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.

Introductory Presentations
(9:00-9:30 a.m.)

George S. Cary

Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

Steven A. Stack, Jr.

Partner, Dechert

Panel Discussion
( 9:30 a.m.-noon)

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

Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP

Richard A. Feinstein

Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP

Phillip A. Proger

Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

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

Steven A. Stack, Jr.

Partner, Dechert

May 14
Antitrust Analysis of Specific Intellectual Property Licensing Practices (Originally scheduled for April 16, 2002.)

Participants in these sessions will analyze practices such as package licensing and grant backs, methods of extending the life of intellectual property rights, and the practical issues encountered in analyzing these practices.

Session 1: Antitrust Analysis of Specific Intellectual Property Licensing Practices: Bundling, Grantbacks, and Temporal Extensions
(9:00 a.m.-noon)

Participants:

Rebecca P. Dick

Of Counsel, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP, Washington, DC

Joseph Farrell

Professor of Economics and Chair of the Competition Policy Center, University of California, 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

Session 2: Practical Issues Encountered in Antitrust Analysis of Licensing Practices: The Problem of Dealing With Uncertain or Disputed Patent Rights
(1:30-4:30 p.m.)

Participants:

Molly S. Boast

Partner, Debevoise and Plimpton

Joseph Farrell

Professor of Economics and Chair of the Competition Policy Center, University of California, Berkeley

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

Participant presentations for May 14

May 22-23
An International Comparative Law Perspective on the Relationship Between Competition and Intellectual Property

Participants in these sessions will discuss competition law approaches that are presently in place or are under consideration in jurisdictions outside the United States.

May 22
An International Comparative Law Perspective
on the Relationship Between Competition and Intellectual Property, Part I

Session 1: Refusals to License and Compulsory Licensing in the European Union, Canada, and Australia
(9:30 a.m.- 12.30 p.m.)

Participants:

Gwillym Allen

Senior Economist and 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

Session 2: Licensing in the European Union: The Technology Transfer Block Exemption and Agreements That Fall Outside Its Scope
(2:00-5:00 p.m.)

Participants:

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

Participant presentations for May 22

May 23
An International Comparative Law Perspective
on the Relationship Between Competition and Intellectual Property, Part II

Session: Asian Perspectives
(9:30-noon.)

Participants:

Henry Ergas

Managing Director, Network Economics Consulting Group

Eleanor M. Fox

Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law

H. Stephen Harris, Jr.

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

Joshua Newberg

Professor, Assistant Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

James Rill

Partner, Howrey & Simon

Toshiaki Tada

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

July 10-11
Federal Circuit Jurisprudence

Participants in these sessions will explore the jurisprudence of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, including substantive trends and analysis, the Court's jurisdiction, and its choice of law decisions.

July 10
Federal Circuit Jurisprudence: Substantive Trends and Analysis

Session 1: Trends in Federal Circuit Jurisprudence
(9:30 a.m.-noon)

Session 2: Patent Law Analysis in Federal Circuit Jurisprudence
(1:30-4:30 p.m.)

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

July 11
Federal Circuit Jurisprudence: Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Competition Policy Perspectives
(10:00 a.m.-noon and 2:00-4:00 p.m.)

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

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

Participants:

R. Bhaskar

Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Business School

Scott Chambers

Arnold & Porter; Adjunct Faculty Member, Georgetown Law Center and The George Washington University Law School

Q. Todd Dickinson

Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White; former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

James B. Gambrell

Visiting Professor, University of Texas School of Law

Brian Kahin

Visiting Professor and 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; 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
(10:00 a.m.-noon and 2:00-4:30 p.m.)

Participants:

Mark T. Banner

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., and Chair, ABA Intellectual Property Law Section

Robert Barr

Vice President and Worldwide Patent Counsel, Cisco Systems, Inc.

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

Mark Janis

Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law

Brian Kahin

Visiting Professor and Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland

Edmund Kitch

Joseph M. Hartfield Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

Roderick McKelvie

Fish & Neave; former U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Delaware

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; former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks

James Pooley

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

John R. Thomas

Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

November 6
Antitrust Law and Patent Landscapes

Session 1: Standard Setting Organizations: Evaluating the Anticompetitive Risks of Negotiating Intellectual Property Licensing Terms and Conditions Before a Standard Is Set
(9:30-11:30 a.m.)

Participants:

Joseph Farrell

Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Joseph Kattan

Partner, 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

Member, D'Ancona & Pflaum

Session 2: Relationships Among Competitors and Incentives to Compete: Cross-Licensing of Patent Portfolios, Grantbacks, Reach-Through Royalties, and Non-Assertion Clauses
(2:00-4:00 p.m.)

Participants:

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