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“AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the Senate section on pages S4194-S4195 on April 25, 2005.
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AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing on ``Perspectives on Patents'' on Monday, April 25, 2005, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Witness list
Panel I: Hon. Jon W. Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce, Alexandria, VA.
Panel II: Dr. Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University, New Haven, CT, and Co-Chair of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, National Research Council; Dr. Mark B. Myers, Visiting Executive Professor, Management Department at the Wharton Business School, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and Co-Chair of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, National Research Council.
Panel III: William Parker, Diffraction, Ltd., Waitsfield, VT; Dean Kamen, President, DEKA Research & Development Corp., Manchester, NH; David Simon, Chief Patent Counsel, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Robert A. Armitage, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; Joel Poppen, Deputy General Counsel, Micron Technologies, Inc., Boise, ID; and Michael K. Kirk, Executive Director, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, DC.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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