DOJ/FTC HEARINGS TO HIGHLIGHT BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC
PERSPECTIVES ON COMPETITION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Department of Justice's 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. O'Rourke, 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 as it
becomes available.
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