[A2k] Jan 12-13 in WashDC: Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years

[James Love]

This is an open, free meeting.  Jamie

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Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years

Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Workshop
Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance:  The Next Four Years
January 12-13, 2009

Venue: The Carnegie Institution, 1530 P Street, NW, Washington, DC

Registration on TACD=E2=80=99s website.

Provisional Program (81121)

Monday, January 12

Welcome - Jill Johnstone, Consumer Focus, UK; James Love, KEI

Panel 1 - Setting the Stage
Chair: Jill Johnstone, Consumer Focus
Professor Arti Rai, Duke
Professor Hugh Hansen, Fordham
Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota, Government of Brazil
Sisule Musungu, IQ Sensato

Panel 2 - Openness
Chair: Claudia Juech, Rockefeller Foundation
Tim Hubbard, Sanger Institute, Welcome Trust
Heather Joseph, Association of Research Libraries
Konstantinos Karachalios, European Patent Office

Panel 3 - Patents and Innovation
Chair: Vera Franz, OSI
Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic
Sciences, 2001
Professor Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Studies. Awarded the Nobel
Prize in Economic Sciences, 2007

Panel 4 - Copyright Policy
Chair: Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge
Professor James Boyle, Duke University
Professor Bernt Hugenholtz, Institute for Information Law of the
University of Amsterdam (IViR)
William Patry, Google
[Name to be announced later] Associate Register for Policy and
International affairs, Library of Congress
Fred von Lohmann, EFF

Tuesday, January 13

Panel 5 - Patent Reform
Chair: Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union
Josh Lerner, HBS, Harvard
Dan Ravicher, Public Patent Foundation
Philippe Aigrain, CEO, Sopinspace

Panel 6 - Innovation Inducement Prizes
Chair: Ed Mierzwinski, PIRG
James Love, KEI
Steve Merrill, NAS (TBC)
Michelle Childs, MSF

Panel 7 - Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
Chair: Sherwin Siy, PK
Professor Susan Sell, GWU
Eddan Katz, EFF
Paul Levy, Public Citizen
Anne-Cathernie Lorrain, TACD

Panel 8 - Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge: Software and
The Internet
Chair: Mark Rotenberg, EPIC
Professor Severine Dusollier, Centre de recherche informatique et droit
(CRID)
Bruce Perens
Nicole Allen, PIRG
Dr Christophe Geiger, Max-Planck-Institute
Brad Biddle, Intel

Panel 9 - Innovation and Access for Medical Technologies
Chair: Rohit Malpani, Oxfam
Rob Weissman, Essential Action
Judit Rius, KEI
Anthony So, Duke
Amy Kapczynski, University of California at Berkeley

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