February_IPR_Conference_Agenda

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The STEP Board held 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 brought 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. Some of the presentations are currently available below. Links to raw transcripts from the conference are provided below. Streaming audio and synchronized PowerPoint presentations linked from the speaker's names.

Day One Transcript

Day Two Transcript

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
8:45 a.m.	Keynote Remarks Hon. Q. Todd Dickinson, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Remarks
9:15 a.m.	Issues for Consideration F.M. Scherer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University PowerPoint Robert Merges, Boalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley Panel Q&A Dickinson, Merges and Scherer
10:00 a.m.	IPRs in Semiconductors Bronwyn Hall, University of California, Berkeley Rosemarie Ziedonis, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Hall and Ziedonis' PowerPoint Discussants: James Rose, formerly of Altera PowerPoint Richard Ehrlickman,IBM Microelectronics PowerPoint Panel Q&A Hall, Ziedonis, Rose, Ehrlickman
11:00 a.m.	IP Protection, Technology Development, and Competition Timothy Bresnahan, U.S. Department of Justice, Chair Richard Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley PowerPoint Susan DeSanti, Federal Trade Commission Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California, Berkeley Don Kash, George Mason University PowerPoint Panel Q&A, Bresnahan, Gilbert, DeSanti, Scotchmer and Kash
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	IPRs in Software & Business Methods Mark Myers, Senior VP, Xerox Corporation David Mowery, University of California, Berkeley PowerPoint Greg Aharonian, Internet Patent News Service PowerPoint Discussants: Martin Konopken, Autodesk Jeff Brandt, Walker Digital Corporation PowerPoint Panel Q&A, Mowery, Aharonian, Konopken, Brandt
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 PowerPoint Cecil Quillen, Jr., PHB Hagler Bailly, Inc. Remarks Brian Kahin, Internet Policy Institute Remarks | PowerPoint Panel Q&A, McKelvie, Thomas, Quillen, Samuelson, Kahin
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 PowerPoint Joshua Lerner, Harvard Business School PowerPoint Kevin Baer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office James Pooley, Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich Panel Q&A, Smith, Lanjouw, Lerner, Baer Pooley
6:00 pm	Reception and Dinner, Great Hall, National Academy of Sciences

Thursday, February 3, 2000

8:30 a.m.	Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University, STEP Board Chair
8:40 a.m	Hon. Randall Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
9:15 a.m	Iain Cockburn, Boston University PowerPoint Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley PowerPoint Discussants: Eric Larson, Pfizer, Inc. PowerPoint Lee Bendekgey, Incyte Michael Roth, Monsanto PowerPoint Panel Q&A, Rader, Cockburn, Wright, Bendekgey, Roth
10:30 a.m.	Michael Morgan, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Chair PowerPoint John Barton, Stanford University Law School Robert Blackburn, Chiron Corporation Boro Dropulic, Virxsys Corporation PowerPoint Elke Jordan, National Human Genome Research Institute PowerPoint Evelyn McConathy, Dilworth Paxson, LLP PowerPoint Panel Q&A, Morgan, Barton, Jordan, Blackburn, McConathy, Dropulic
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Richard Levin, Yale University Wesley Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University PowerPoint James Pooley, Gray Cary Ware & Friedenrich, LLP PowerPoint Alfonso Gambardella, University of Urbino PowerPoint Panel Q&A, Levin, Cohen, Pooley, Gambardella
2:30 p.m.	Summary and Discussion Richard Levin and Mark Myers, Chairs John Barton, Stanford University Law School Mark Myers, Xerox Corporation Audience Comment
3:30 p.m.	Adjourn

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