[Pharm-policy] National Academies Workshop - starts today

[James Love]

http://www4.nationalacademies.org/pd/step.nsf/8525648b0070c170852562cb0073ff22/371702b9c0c250a38525674d0061f3a6?OpenDocument

     BOARD ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC POLICY
 Intellectual Property Rights in a Knowledge-Based Economy

The STEP Board announces a 2-day conference, Intellectual Property
Rights: How Far Should They Be Extended? in the Lecture Room of the
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC on Wednesday, February 2
and Thursday, February 3, 2000. The conference will bring together
economists, legal scholars, inventors, corporate representatives, legal
practitioners, members of the Federal branch, and policymakers to begin
to assess the benefits and costs of national policy which, for two
decades with few exceptions, has been to extend patent,
copyright and trade secret protection. Registration is free. Below is
the program:

               Intellectual Property Rights:
              How Far Should They Be Extended?

               Wednesday, February 2, 2000 & 
                Thursday, February 3, 2000

                         Auditorium 
                  National Academy of Sciences
                      2100 C Street, N.W.
                         Washington, DC

                 Wednesday, February 2, 2000
  8:30 a.m.
          Welcome
          Richard Levin, President, Yale University
          Mark Myers, Senior VP, Xerox Corporation
  8:45 a.m.
          Keynote Remarks
          Hon. Q. Todd Dickinson, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  9:15 a.m.
          Issues for Consideration
          F.M. Scherer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
          Robert Merges, Boalt Hall Law School, University
          of California, Berkeley
 10:00 a.m.
          IPRs in Semiconductors
          Bronwyn Hall, University of California, Berkeley
          Rosemarie Ziedonis, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

          Discussants: James Rose, formerly of Altera

          Richard Ehrlickman, IBM Microelectronics
 11:00 a.m.
          IP Protection, Technology Development, and Competition
          Timothy Bresnahan, U.S. Department of Justice, Chair
          Richard Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley
          Susan Desanti, Federal Trade Commission
          Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California, Berkeley
          Don Kash, George Mason University
 12:30 p.m.
          Lunch
  1:30 p.m.
          IPRs in Software & Business Methods
          David Mowery, University of California, Berkeley
          Greg Aharonian, Internet Patent News Service

          Discussants: Martin Konopken, Autodesk
          Jeff Brandt, Walker Digital Corporation
  2:30 p.m.
          Patent Quality, Scope, and Suitability
          Hon. Roderick R. McKelvie, U.S. District Court
          for the District of Delaware, Chair

          John Thomas, George Washington University National Law Center
          Pam Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley
          Cecil Quillen, Jr., PHB Hagler Bailly, Inc.
          Brian Kahin, Internet Policy Institute
  4:00 p.m.
          Patent Administration and Litigation
          Hon. Fern Smith, Federal Judicial Center and U.S. District
          Court for the Northern District of California, Chair
          Jean Lanjouw, Yale University
          Joshua Lerner, Harvard Business School
          Kevin Baer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
 6:00 pm
          Reception and Dinner, Great Hall, National Academy of Sciences




                  Thursday, February 3, 2000
  8:30 a.m.
         Welcome
         Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University, STEP Board Chair
  8:40 a.m.
         Opening Remarks
         Hon. Randall Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit
  9:15 a.m.

         IPRs in Biotechnology:
         Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Applications
         Iain Cockburn, Boston University
         Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley
         Discussants: Eric Larson,Pfizer, Inc.
         Lee Bendekgey, Incyte
         Michael Roth, Monsanto
 10:30 a.m.
         IP Rights to Tools and Results of Fundamental Research
         Michael Morgan, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Chair
         John Barton, Stanford University Law School
         Robert Blackburn, Chiron Corporation
         Boro Dropulic, Virxsys Corporation

         Elke Jordan, National Human Genome Research Institute
         Evelyn McConathy, Dilworth Paxson, LLP
  12:00 pm
         Lunch
  1:00 p.m.
         IP Protection and Knowledge Transfers
         Wesley Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University
         James Pooley, Gray Cary Ware & Friedenrich, LLP
         Alfonso Gambardella, University of Urbino
  2:30 p.m.
         Summary and Discussion
         Richard Levin and Mark Myers, Chairs
         John Barton, Stanford University Law School
         Mark Myers, Xerox Corporation
  3:30 p.m.
         Adjourn

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