| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome
Gregory Hicks, Interim Dean, University of Washington School of Law |
| Session 1: Patent Exhaustion and Implied License |
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
Honorable Hiroaki Imai, Japanese Intellectual Property 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
Dr. Narinder Banait, Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View
Ms. Debra Leith, Heller Ehrman LLP, Seattle |
| 11:30 a.m. | Open Discussion |
| 11:45 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| Session 2: Patent Eligible Subject Matter |
| 12:45 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 |
| 1:15 pm | Patent Office Views
Mr. John Whealan, Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law George Washington
University Law School, Washington, DC (former Solicitor, USPTO)
Mr. Tadashi Inoue, Senior Director, Japan Patent Office, Tokyo
Dr. Doris Thums, European Patent Office, Munich |
| 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. Douglas Stewart, Dorsey & Whitney, Seattle
Panelists
Mr. Christopher Cox, 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
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| 5:15 p.m. | Open Discussion |
| 5:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 6:30 p.m. | Reception (Hosted by Seed IP Law Group) |
| Session 4: New IP Business Models and Markets |
| 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
Ms. Helen Dutton, Farella Braun + Martel, LLP, San Francisco
Mr. Matt Rainey, Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue
Mr. Jay Zhang, Myriad Genetics, Inc., Salt Lake City
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| 10:45 a.m. | Open Discussion |
| 11: 00 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session 5: Proposed Information Disclosure Rule and Duty of Candor |
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| 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 |