2008 High Technology Protection Summit
Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26, 2008
(Tentative Schedule as of 5/5/08)
This conference covers advanced issues of legal protection of technology presented by speakers from patent offices, and industry and inventors.
July 25, Morning
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome Dean, University of Washington School of Law |
| Session 1: Patent Exhaustion and Implied License | |
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8:35 a.m. |
Recent Developments in Patent Exhaustion in U.S., Europe and Japan Moderator Professor Mario Franzosi, University of Bergamo Speakers Professor Scott Kieff, Washington University in St. Louis Professor Joseph Straus, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany Speaker from U.K. Judge, Japanese IP High Court, Tokyo, Japan |
| 9:40 a.m. | Open Discussion |
| 10:00 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 a.m. | Panel Discussion: Impact of L.G. v. Quanta on Business Arrangements Moderator Mr. Paul Meiklejohn, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Seattle Panelists Mr. Larry Bassuk, Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas Mr. Jon Wood, Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc., Akron, Ohio Speaker (Biotech Industry) |
| 11:45 a.m. | Open Discussion |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
July 25, Afternoon
| Session 2: Patent Eligible Subject Matter | |
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| 1:00 p.m. | Keynote Speech: New Standard for Computer Software and Business Method Inventions Honorable Randall R. Rader, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, DC |
| 1:30 pm | Patent Office Views Mr. John Whealan, Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC (former Solicitor, USPTO) Speaker, JPO, Tokyo |
| 2:15 pm | Panel Discussion: Needs of IT Industry and Current Patent System Moderator and Commentator Professor Martin Adelman, George Washington University School of Law, Washington, DC Speakers Mr. Richard Wilder, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond Mr. Michael D. Stein, Woodcock Washburn, Seattle Mr. David D. Carlson, Seed IP Law Group, Seattle Dr. Matthias Bosch, Bosch Graf Von Stosch Jehle, Munich |
| 3:30 p.m. | Open Discussions |
| 3:45 p.m. | Coffee Break | Session 3: Litigation Strategies and Ethical Issues after Seagate and SanDisk |
| 4:00 p.m. | Panel Discussion Moderator Mr. Paul Meiklejohn, Dorsey & Whitney, Seattle Panelists Mr. Vernon Winters, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Redwood Shores Mr. Ramsey Al-Salam, Perkins Coie, LLP, Seattle Dr. Jochen Pagenberg, Bardehle Pagenberg, Munich Mr. Brian Bodine, Merchant & Gould, Seattle |
| 5:15 p.m. | Open Discussion |
| 5:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 6:30 p.m. | Reception (Hosted by Seed IP Law Group) |
July 26, Morning
| Session 4: Technology Entrepreneurship | |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Panel Discussion Moderator Professor Sean O’Connor, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle Panelists Professsor Dr. Heinz Goddar, Boehmert & Boehmert, Munich Dr. Dirk Zetzsche, Assistant Professor, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf Mr. Jay Zhang, Myriad Genetics, Inc., Salt Lake City Ms. Helen Dutton, Farella Braun + Martel, LLP, San Francisco |
| 10:45 a.m. | Open Discussion |
| 11: 00 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session 5: Proposed Information Disclosure Rule and Duty of Candor | |
| 11:15 p.m. | Panel Discussion Moderator and Commentator Mr. Stephen Kunin, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., Alexandria Panelists Mr. Erik Puknys, Finnegan Henderson, Palo Alto Mr. Shinjiro Ono, Yuasa and Hara, Tokyo, Japan |
| 12:30 p.m. | Open Discussion |
| 12:45 p.m. | Adjourn |
