FTC/DOJ Hearings to Highlight Additional Business and Economic Perspectives on Competition and Intellectual Property Policy

April 9
FTC - Room 432

[Panelists to be listed on the DOJ Web site www.usdoj.gov/atr/hearing.htm and the FTC Web site, www.ftc.gov/opp/intellect/index.htm.]

April 10
FTC - Room 432

Patenting Procedures, Presumptions, and Uncertainties

Introductory Speaker: Kenneth M. Frankel (Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner), speaking on behalf of the American Intellectual Property Law Association

Panelists:

Mark D. Janis, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Salem M. Katsh, Partner, Shearman & Sterling
Jay P. Kesan, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
F. Scott Kieff, John M. Olin Senior Research Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard Law School, and Associate Professor, Washington University School of Law
Roger W. Parkhurst, Member, Parkhurst & Wendel, L.L.P., and President, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Stephen G. Kunin, Deputy Commssioner for Patent Examination Policy, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Arti K. Rai, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Suzanne Andersen Scotchmer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
John R. Thomas, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School

April 11
FTC - Room 432

Patentable Subject Matter - Business Method and Software Patents

Mark D. Janis, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Jeffrey R. Kuester, Partner, Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley
Jeffrey P. Kushan, Partner, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP
Rick D. Nydegger, Shareholder, Workman, Nydegger & Seeley
Suzanne Andersen Scotchmer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
John R. Thomas, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Robert Young, Chairman, Center for Public Domain, and Chairman, Red Hat, Inc.

Patent Criteria and Procedures - International Comparisons

Danielle M. Bush, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Mark D. Janis, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Rick D. Nydegger, Shareholder, Workman, Nydegger & Seeley
Robert L. Stoll, Administrator for External Affairs, United States Patent and Trademark Office
John R. Thomas, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School