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Thursday, April 15, 2004 at the Bancroft Hotel

12:00 - 1:00 pm
Press Conference
- Dean Designate Chris Edley: Boalt Hall School of Law
- Mark Myers: NAS & Xerox Corporation
- Commissioner Mozelle Thompson: FTC

1:30 - 3:00 pm
Overview of the Patent System and FTC Proposal for Reform
- Susan DeSanti: Senior Policy Analyst, FTC
- Prof. Peter Menell: BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law
- Prof. Robert Merges: BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law *

Friday, April 16, 2004 at the Bancroft Hotel
(click here for transcript of full day - 840 k)

8:00 - 8:30 am
Opening Remarks
(click for transcript - 74k)
- Robert Merges of BCLT and Boalt Hall School of Law
- Mark Myers: NAS & Xerox Corporation
- Commissioner Mozelle Thompson: FTC

8:30 - 9:40 am
Non-obviousness Panel (Reinvigorating the Non-obviousness Standard)
(click for transcript - 203k)
- Mark Lemley: BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law (moderator)
- John Barton: Stanford University
- Q. Todd Dickinson: General Electric (former Director, US PTO)
- Rochelle Dreyfuss: New York University
- Rebecca Eisenberg: University of Michigan *
- Ron Laurie: Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC

9:45-11:00 am
Opposition and Post-Grant Review Panel
(click for transcript - 164k)
(click the links below to download Powerpoint slides in pdf format)
- Robert Merges: BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law (moderator)
- Robert Blackburn: Chiron Corporation *
- Joe Farrell: Economics, UC Berkeley (CPC) *
- Bronwyn Hall: Economics, UC Berkeley *
- Dietmar Harhoff: University of Munich
- Steve Kunin: Patent and Trademark Office *
- Douglas Norman: Eli Lilly

11:00 - 11:15 am
Break

11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Litigation Panel (Including Presumption of Validity)
(click for transcript - 183 k)
- Pam Samuelson: BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law (moderator)
- Mark Janis: University of Iowa *
- Mark Lemley: BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law
- Lynn Pasahow: Fenwick & West
- James Pooley: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
- Matthew Powers: Weil Gotshal & Manges
- Arti Rai: Duke University *

12:45 - 1:40 pm.
Lunch

1:40 - 2:00 p.m.
Remarks on Patent Reform
(click for transcript - 51k)
- Judge Ronald Whyte: Northern District of California

2:00 - 3:45 pm
Industry/Institutional Issues Panel
(click for transcript: includes concluding remarks - 285k)
- Carl Shapiro: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley (co-moderator) *
- Commissioner Mozelle Thompson: FTC (co-moderator)
- Gary Griswold: AIPLA
- Robert Barr: CISCO
- Bart Eppenauer: Microsoft
- Sean Johnston: Genentech
- Jeffrey Kushan: Sidley Austin Brown & Wood & BIO
- Jay Monahan: eBay
- Ron Myrick: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
- Kulpreet Rana: Google
- Robert Sacoff: Pattishall, McAuliffe & ABA IP Section
- Michael Schallop: Symantec Corporation
- David Simon: Intel Corporation
- Herb Wamsley: Intellectual Property Owners

3:45 - 4:00 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Commissioner Mozelle Thompson

* These individuals will contribute an article to the BTLJ Symposium Issue.