[Ecommerce] The Future of WIPO Workshop, September 13-14

[James Love]

The Future of WIPO Workshop, September 13-14
Conference Centre of Varemb=E9 (CCV), Room A
Rue de Varemb=E9 9, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
www.cicg.ch/e/ccvconf.asp

MONDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER

8:30 am Registration

9:00 am Welcome
      Jim Murray - TACD / BEUC-European Consumers Organization
      Ed Mierzwinski, TACD / U.S Public Interest Research Group

9:15 am -  11:00 am
Panel 1 -- What is the WIPO Mission?
Chair: Benedicte Federspiel, Danish Consumer Council (FBR)
Panel Members:
      Tony Taubman, WIPO
      Rogier Wezenbeek, European Commission
      Larry Lessig, Stanford Law School
      Sisule Musungu, South Centre
      Sir John Sulston, The Sanger Centre Wellcome Trust


11:00 am - 11:15 am=09Break

11:15 am -  1:00 pm
Panel 2 --  WIPO and the Information Society I
Chair:  Manon Ress, CPTech
Panel Members:
      Richard Owens, WIPO
      Jukka Liedes, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
      Volker Grassmuck, Humboldt University Berlin
      Michael Keplinger, USPTO
      Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School
      James Boyle, Duke University


1:00 pm to 3:00 pm    Break for lunch in local restaurants

3:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Panel 3  -- WIPO and Medical technologies
Chair: Sarah Lenz Lock, AARP
Panel Members:
      Tony Taubman, WIPO
      Ellen 't Hoen, MSF
      Eric Noehrenberg, IFPMA
      Sir John Sulston, The Sanger Centre Wellcome Trust
      William W. Fisher III, Harvard Law School


4:45 pm - 5:00 pm - Break

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Panel 4  --  WIPO and the Arts -- Relationships between
artists, owners of works and the public
Chair:    Machiel van der Velde, Consumentenbond
Panel Members:
      Nick Ashton-Hart, International Music Managers Forum
      Cory Doctorow, EFF
      Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, Attorneys
      Dr. Sothi Rachagan, Consumers International
      Hugh Hansen, Fordham Law School
      Larry Lessig, Stanford Law School


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TUESDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER

9:00 am - 10:45 am
Panel 5  --   The future of WIPO work in the area of patents
Chair:   Mark Silbergeld, Consumer Federation of America
Panel Members:
      Philippe Baechtold, WIPO
      Jon Santamauro, USTR
      Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
      Philippe Aigrain, Sopinspace, Society for Public Information Spaces
      Brian Kahin, University of Michigan
      Tim Hubbard, The Sanger Centre Wellcome Trust


10:45 am - 11:00 am - Break


11:00 am -  12:45 pm
Panel 6  --  WIPO and the Information Society II
Chair: Patrick von Braunmuehl, Federation of German Consumers Organizations
Panel Members
      Shira Perlmutter, Time-Warner
      Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, First Monday / Meus X Machina
      Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School, respondent
      Luis Villarroel, Ministry of Education, Chile
      Richard Owens, WIPO, respondent
      Bernt Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam


12:45 pm - 2:30 pm - Lunch at local restaurants

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Panel 7  -- WIPO and Technical Assistance.
Chair:  Anna Fielder, Consumers International
Panel members:
      Denis Croze, WIPO
      Martin Khor, Third World Network
      David Vivas, ICTSD
      Robin Gross, IP Justice, respondent
      Graham Dutfield, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research
Institute,   respondent


4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Panel 8 -- WIPO and Access to Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge,
and Folklore
Chair:    Jill Johnstone, UK National Consumer Council
Panel Members:
Tony Taubman, WIPO
      Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network
      Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation, respondent
      Maria Julia Oliva, CIEL
      Jerome H. Reichman, Duke University


5:15 - 5:30 Break


5:30 - 6:30
Panel 9 -- What should the new WIPO mission be?
Chair:  Ed Mierzwinski, US PIRG
Speakers
      James Love, CPTech
      Darius Cuplinskas, OSI
      Sisule Musungu, South Centre
      Marta L. Gabrieloni, Argentine Mission to the UN
      Benedicte Federspiel, Danish Consumer Council (FBR)
      Anthony So, Duke University