[Ecommerce] AU debate on Business Methods Patents - April 11th 3-5 pm

[James Love]

April 11th 3-5 pm
Patenting Business Methods:
Is the US patent system bad for business?

  GLIPP (Global Intellectual Property Project)   Symposium for Spring 2003:

Amazon has patented 1-Click (impulse) shopping. SBC has patented 
web-based frames. A company called PanIP owns patent 5576951 that covers 
“automated sales and services system” and is going after mom-and-pop 
businesses around the USA. One patent was approved for the way you swing 
your tennis racquet!  Business patent methods have become the subject of 
derision and fear.

Businesses that never thought of patenting their “methods” are now 
hiring consultants to analyze their processes for potential patents. 
Owning a portfolio of patents is an avenue to consistent cash flows.

Is this good for business? Is this good for America?.

Location Kogod School of Business , Room 118, American University campus

Date: Friday, April 11th 3-5 pm.

Panelists:

·         Jamie Love, Director of Consumer Project on Technology that is 
part of the Center for Study of Responsive Law (CSRL)

·         Q. Todd Dickinson, former Under Secretary of Commerce for 
Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office (USPTO). Now Partner at the law firm Howrey Simon 
Arnold & White.

·         Josh Sarnoff, Washington College of Law, American University

·         Renée E. Marlin-Bennett, School of International Service, 
American University

Dean Alderucci, Chief Counsel of Intellectual Property, Walker Digital.

·         Jay Walker, Walker Digital (invited). Walker was founder and 
CEO of PriceLine.

·         Chair: Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Business, American University

Audience:  the public is invited. RSVPs from outside AU campus -- 
appreciated to tonid@american.edu

Light refreshments

            Cost: free

Sponsored by: Kogod School of Business and School of International Service
             Advisory:
             Renee Marlin-Bennett, School of International Service, 
American University
             Christine Farley, Washington College of Law, American 
University
             Steve Holmberg, Kogod School of Business, American University
Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law, American University
             Michael Mass, Kogod School of Business, American University

GLIPP (Global Intellectual Property Project, can be found at: 
http://www.american.edu/academics/acainst/glipp/


-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org, mailto:james.love@cptech.org
tel. +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040