[Ip-health] DC conference: The IP Grab - The Struggle Between Intellectual Property Rights & Antitrust

[James Love]

http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/conference2006/index.cfm

The American Antitrust Institute's Seventh Annual Conference

The IP Grab - The Struggle Between Intellectual Property Rights &
Antitrust

National Press Club
Washington, D.C.
June 21, 2006
8:30 a.m.	Welcome and Introduction
Albert A. Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute
8:45 a.m.	Is There an IP Grab?
Harry First, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law and Director, Trade
Regulation Program, New York University School of Law
9:15 a.m.	Where is the Antitrust Modernization Commission Heading on IP?
Michael Carrier, Associate Professor, Rutgers School of Law-Camden
9:35 a.m.	IP and the Collapsing of Aftermarkets
Bruce Abramson, President, Gordian Solutions and Senior Consultant,
CRA International
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:10 a.m.	A Government Perspective on IP and Antitrust
Deborah Majoras, Chair, Federal Trade Commission
10:40 a.m.	The EC, IP and Competition Policy
European Commission Representative
11:25 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Breakout Sessions for Facilitated Discussion

-Patent Tying
Phil Nelson, Economist, Economists, Inc.,
Barry Brucker, President, Independent Ink, Inc.

-Standard Setting
Howard Morse, Attorney, Drinker Biddle & Reath
Jonathan Rubin, Senior Fellow, AAI

-Aftermarkets
Gregory Gundlach, Professor of Marketing, University of North Florida
Bruce Abramson, President, Gordian Solutions and Senior Consultant,
CRA International
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California,
Berkeley
12:30 p.m.	Luncheon

Introduction to "Fair Fight in the Marketplace" by Bert Foer,
President, AAI

Presentation of the Fourth Annual Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Award for
Antitrust Scholarship
Herbert Milstein, Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll

Presentation of AAI Antitrust Achievement Award to Senators Mike
DeWine (R-OH) and Herb Kohl (D-WI) by Hon. Jonathan Leibowitz,
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Presentation of AAI Antitrust Achievement Award to Senators Mike
DeWine (R-OH) and Herb Kohl (D-WI) by Hon. Jonathan Leibowitz,
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
2:25 p.m.	Closing Remarks

Information:
aai@antitrustinstitute.org
202-276-6002