[Ip-health] Some policy recommendations on IP to the US and EU governments for the next four years - TACD IP Conference, 12-13 January 2009, Washington, DC

[Anne-Catherine Lorrain]

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The *Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue* (TACD) hosted a conference
on intellectual property last Monday and Tuesday in Washington DC: Patents,
Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four
Years<http://www.tacd-ip.org/blog/?page_id=5>
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The conference was the occasion to gather several of the biggest IP lawyers
and economists of the moment, among whom Maria Pallante, Professor Arti Rai,
Prof. Bernt Hugenholtz, Prof. Dan Ravicher, Guilherme Patriota, Josh Lerner,
Prof. Anthony So... , as well as the main NGOs and activists people working
on IP issues (Fred von Lohman and Eddan Katz from EFF, Philippe Aigrain from
'La Quadrature du Net', Ellen 't Hoen from UNITAID, Paul Levy from Public
Citizen, Sisule Musungu from IQsensato...), some industry people (William
Patry from Google, Richard Wilder from Microsoft)... and two Nobel Prizes:
Joseph Stiglitz and Eric Maskin (check the program below).
One week before the new American Administration takes office and a few
months before the European elections, the speakers made some policy
recommendations to the US and EU administrations for the next four years.

What should the US and EU governments do in terms of international
norm-setting on copyright, in terms of patent reform, of health R&D, of
software standards...? Check the recommendations on the TACD IP blog:
http://www.tacd-ip.org/blog/?page_id=282
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*Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four
Years*<http://www.tacd-ip.org/blog/?page_id=5>
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*Program*

*Monday, January 12*

08:45 - Registration and welcome coffee

09:00 - Opening remarks: Jill Johnstone, Consumer Focus (UK); James Love,
KEI (US)

*09:30 - Panel 1 - Setting the Stage*
Chair: Jill Johnstone, Consumer Focus
Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota, Government of Brazil
Professor Arti Rai, Duke
Prof. Hugh Hansen, Fordham
Sisule Musungu, IQ Sensato

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

12:45 - Lunch

*14:00 - Panel 3 - Patents and Innovation*
Chair: Vera Franz, OSI
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic
Sciences, 2001
Prof. Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Studies. Awarded the Nobel Prize
in Economic Sciences, 2007

*Panel 4 - Copyright Policy*
Chair: Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge
Maria Pallante, Associate Register for Policy and International affairs,
Library of Congress
Prof. Bernt Hugenholtz, Institute for Information Law of the University of
Amsterdam (IViR)
William Patry, Google
Fred von Lohmann, EFF
Prof. Michael Geist, University of Ottawa

18:00* -* *Reception*

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*Tuesday, January 13*
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*09:00 - P**anel 5 - Patent Reform*
Chair: Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union
Prof. Josh Lerner, HBS, Harvard
Dan Ravicher, Public Patent Foundation, Cardozo School of Law
Philippe Aigrain, CEO, Sopinspace

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

*Panel 7 - Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
*Chair: Sherwin Siy, PK
Prof. Susan Sell, GWU
Eddan Katz, EFF
Paul Levy, Public Citizen
Associate Prof. Christophe Geiger, CEIPI (Strasbourg)/ Max Planck Institute
for IP (Munich)

13:00 Lunch

*14:00 - Panel 8 - Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge: Software
and The Internet
*Chair: Mark Rotenberg, EPIC
Bruce Perens
Nicole Allen, PIRG
Richard Wilder, Microsoft
Anne-Catherine Lorrain, TACD

*Panel 9 - Innovation and Access for Medical Technologies*
Chair: Rohit Malpani, Oxfam
Rob Weissman, Essential Action
Judit Rius, KEI
Ellen 't Hoen, University of Amsterdam, UNITAID
Sophie Bloemen, Health Action International
Prof. Anthony So, Duke


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Anne-Catherine Lorrain
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