FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2002 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Justices Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission today announced topics, updated times and locations, and participants for many of the upcoming sessions in their joint hearings on "Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy." The hearings primarily will examine the implications of competition and patent law and policy for innovation and other aspects of consumer welfare. The general public and press are invited to attend. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis with an overflow room provided for hearings at the FTC. Written comments from interested parties may be submitted to the FTC. Available information for hearing sessions scheduled for February through May follows below.
February 20: Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition, and Innovation (FTC - Room 432) 9:30am - 12:30pm: Intellectual Property and Innovation Wesley M. Cohen, Professor of Economics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University Robert E. Evenson, Professor of Economics, Yale University Edmund W. Kitch, Joseph M. Hartfield Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law James A. Langenfeld, Director, LECG, LLC Maureen A. ORourke, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law 2:00pm - 4:30pm: Competition and Innovation Shane M. Greenstein, Elinor and Wendall Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern University Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert, Principal, Economists, Inc.
Joshua Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School Stan Liebowitz, Professor of Managerial Economics, The University of Texas at Dallas Philip B. Nelson, Principal, Economists, Inc.
Janusz Ordover, Professor of Economics, New York University Lawrence White, Arthur E. Imperatore Professor of Economics, New York University February 25-28: Economic Perspectives and Real-World Experiences with Patents With the support of the Competition Policy Center and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology of the University of California at Berkeley, all sessions will be held in the Wells Fargo Room, Cheit Hall, Haas School of Business, 2220 Piedmont Avenue, University of California, Berkeley.
February 25 1:00pm - 4:30pm: Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition, and Innovation Ashish Arora, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Memorial Prize and Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus, and Professor of Operations Research Emeritus, Stanford University Richard J. Gilbert, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law, and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Howard Shelanski, Acting Professor of Law, and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley Hal R. Varian, Dean, School of Information Management and Systems, and Professor, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley February 26 9:00am - 12:30pm:Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition, and Innovation John H. Barton, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford Law School Bronwyn H. Hall, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology, and Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley Suzanne Anderson Scotchmer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Andrew Steinberg, Vice President and General Counsel, Travelocity Robert D. Stoner, Vice President, Economists, Inc.
David J. Teece, Mitsubishi Bank Professor of International Business and Finance, University of California, Berkeley 2:00pm - 4:30pm:Business Perspectives on Patents: Biotech and Pharmaceuticals David W. Beier, Partner, Hogan & Hartson, Counsel to Biotechnology Industry Organization Lee Bendekgey, General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Incyte Genomics Robert Blackburn, Vice President, Chief Patent Counsel, Chiron Corp.
David J. Earp, Vice President, Intellectual Property, Geron Corp.
Michael K. Kirschner, Vice President Intellectual Property, Immunex Corp.
Ross Oehler, Vice President, U.S. Patent Operations, Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
February 27 9:30am - 12:30pm:Business Perspectives on Patents: Software and the Internet Yar R. Chaikovsky, General Counsel, Zaplet, Inc.
R. Jordan Greenhall, Chief Executive Officer, Divx Networks Joshua Kaplan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Intouch Group, Inc.
Robert H. Kohn, Vice Chairman, Borland Software Corp.
Paul Misener, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Amazon.com David C. Mowery, Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business, University of California, Berkeley John Place, Executive Director, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School James Pooley, Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCoy 2:00pm - 4:30pm: Diverse Perspectives on Patents Greg Aharonian, Editor, Internet Patent News Service Katherine Ku, Director, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University Carl Shapiro, Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy and Professor of Economics, Haas School of Business, and Director, Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, Berkeley Robert P. Taylor, Partner, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP Les J. Weinstein, Partner, Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey February 28 9:30am - 11:30am:Economic and Other Perspectives on Patent Standards and Procedures Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and Chair, Competition Policy Center Justin Hughes, Visiting Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Distinguished Professor of Law and Technology, and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley 1:00pm - 4:00pm: Business Perspectives on Patents: Hardware and Semiconductors Robert Barr, Vice President, Worldwide Patent Counsel, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Peter N. Detkin, Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs and Assistant General Counsel, Intel Corporation Stephen P. Fox, Associate General Counsel and Director, Intellectual Property, Hewlett-Packard Company Bronwyn H. Hall, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Julie Mar-Spinola, Chief Litigation and Intellectual Property Counsel, Atmel Corporation Joel Poppen, Associate General Counsel, Litigation and Licensing, Micron Technology, Inc.
Desi Rhoden, President and Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Memory International, Inc.
Frederick J. Telecky, Jr., Senior Vice President and General Patent Counsel, Texas Instruments Additional sessions will be held at the FTC, Room 432, during March, April, and May. The panelists for these sessions will be announced as further information becomes available. Topics and dates for concluding sessions in June will be announced at a later time. Several hearing sessions in April and May will provide a forum for addressing a number of topics central to the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law.
March 19-20: Business and Other Perspectives on Real-World Experience with Patents Similar to the Berkeley sessions, these sessions will focus on testimony regarding "real-world" experience with patents and competition.
April 10-11: Economic and Other Perspectives on Patent Standards and Procedures These sessions will explore economic and other perspectives, and the approaches that they suggest, regarding patent standards and procedures.
April 16: Antitrust Analysis of Specific Intellectual Property Licensing Practices Participants in this session will analyze practices such as package licensing and grant backs, methods of extending the life of intellectual property rights and the practical issues encountered in analyzing these practices.
April 17: Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing: When Do They Promote or Harm Competition? Participants in this session will discuss the benefits and competitive concerns of business arrangements in which multiple parties hold related intellectual property rights.
April 18: Standard-Setting Practices: Competition, Innovation and Consumer Welfare Participants in this session will discuss the antitrust treatment of common practices used by organizations to set standards that incorporate intellectual property. Participants will address effects on innovation and product market competition.
May 1: The Strategic Use of Licensing: Is There Cause for Concern about Unilateral Refusals to Deal? Participants in this session will discuss the extent to which refusals to license intellectual property create competitive concerns, how recent case law on refusals to license is being interpreted, and whether this recent case law appropriately balances the interests of intellectual property law and antitrust law.
May 2: A Competition View of Patent Settlements Participants in this session will explore the efficiencies and competitive concerns that patent settlements may generate in a variety of industries and factual settings.
May 22-23: An International Comparative Law Perspective on the Relationship Between Competition and Intellectual Property Participants in these sessions will discuss competition law approaches that are presently in place or are under consideration in jurisdictions outside the United States.
Further information about these and subsequent sessions in June will be posted on the Department of Justice web site www.usdoj.gov/atr/hearing.htm and the FTC web site www.ftc.gov/opp/intellect/index.htm MEDIA CONTACT DOJ:Gina Talamona, Office of Public Affairs 202-514-2007 STAFF CONTACT DOJ:Frances Marshall 202-305-2520 MEDIA CONTACT FTC:Cathy MacFarlane, Office of Public Affairs 202-326-3657 STAFF CONTACT FTC:Susan DeSanti 202-326-2167 Robin Moore 202-326-3133 02-081
Source: US Department of Justice
