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 here 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 here 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 here for transcript – 164k)
Robert Merges: BCLT & Boalt Hall School of Law (moderator)
Robert Blackburn: Chiron Corporation *
Joe Farrell: Economics, UC Berkeley (CPC) pdf *
Bronwyn Hall: Economics, UC Berkeley pdf *
Dietmar Harhoff: University of Munich pdf
Steve Kunin: Patent and Trademark Office pdf*
Douglas Norman: Eli Lilly pdf
11:00 – 11:15 am
Break
11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Litigation Panel (Including Presumption of Validity)
(click here 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 here for transcript – 51k)
Judge Ronald Whyte: Northern District of California
2:00 – 3:45 pm
Industry/Institutional Issues Panel
(click here 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.