[A2k] Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute: Seventeenth Annual Conference Intellectual Property Law & Policy

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

http://www.fordhamipinstitute.com/ip_conference/2009_program.html

Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute


Seventeenth Annual Conference

Intellectual Property Law & Policy

www.fordhamipconference.com

  Cambridge University

Wednesday and Thursday, April 15th and 16th, 2009

  Hugh C. Hansen

Director

  Learn.   Debate.   Have Fun.

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SESSION 1: Plenary Session What Does the Future Hold?

Wednesday: 8:15 AM =96 1:00 PM

  Plenary Session Moderator:

Prof. Hugh C. Hansen

         Fordham University School of Law

  A.  Multilateral and Bilateral Relations

8:15 AM =96 9:15 AM

Speakers:

Dr. Francis Gurry
Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva

Stanford McCoy
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and
Innovation,
U.S.T.R., Wash. D.C.

Hannu Wager
Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade Organization,
Geneva

  Panelists:

Prof. Robert Burrell
Visiting, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; TC Beirne School of Law
at the University of Queensland, Australia

James Love
Director, Knowledge Ecology International,Wash. D.C.

Hon. Weerawit Weeraworawit
Deputy Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission, Thailand,
Bangkok

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Thursday Morning, April 16th

Faculty of Law

SESSION 8:  ENFORCEMENT; TRADE LAW

Concurrent Session

(Thursday, 8:30 AM =96 1:00 PM)

  A. Enforcement & Counterfeiting:  IP=92s Drug War: Can it Be Won?

What is the Enforcement Role for WIPO? ACTA: What Is and What Should
be its Role?

8:30 AM =96 10:00AM

  Moderator:

Speakers:

Giovanni Casucci
Casucci Studio Legale, Milan

         IP Enforcement during Trade Fairs and Exhibition: Toward an
International ADR Urgent Enforcement Policy

Dr. Roya Ghafele
Oxford University

         IP as a Tainted Brand:  What Can Be Done?

Hon. Jed S. Rakoff
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Eric H. Smith
Greenberg Traurig, Wash. D.C.

         What Role for ACTA and WIPO?

Additional speaker to be announced.



Panelists:

Dr. Francis Gurry
Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva

Howard Knopf
Macera & Jarzyna LLP, Ottawa

  BREAK

10:00AM =96 10:30 AM



B. Trade Policy and IP Rights:  The Road Ahead; Development Agenda

10:30 AM =96 12:00 PM



Moderator:

Prof. Victoria Espinel
George Mason University School of Law, Arlington



Panelists:

Jason Albert
Director, International Intellectual Property Policy, Microsoft
Corporation, Redmond

Dr. Francis Gurry
Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva

James Love
Director, Knowledge Ecology International, Wash. D.C.

Stanford McCoy
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and
Innovation, Wash. D.C.

Hon. Alice Pezard
Chief Justice, Cour de Cassation, French Commercial Court, Paris

Hon. Weerawit Weeraworawit
Deputy Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission, Thailand,
Bangkok

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Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
thiru@keionline.org


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