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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION AND ANTITRUST DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE hold hearings on "Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Antitrust Analysis of Specific Intellectual Property Licensing Practices: Bundling, Grantbacks and Temporal Extensions
Rebecca P. Dick, Of Counsel, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP, Washington, DC
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Competition Policy Center, UC Berkeley
Jonathan M. Jacobson, Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
Abbott "Tad" Lipsky, Jr., Partner, Latham & Watkins, Washington, D.C.
David S. Sibley, John Michael Stuart Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
J. Gregory Sidak, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute
Gregory Vistnes, Vice President, Charles River Associates
1:30 p.m. - Practical Issues Encountered in Antitrust Analysis of Licensing Practices: The Problem of Dealing With Uncertain or Disputed Patent Rights
Molly S. Boast, Partner, Debevoise and Plimpton
Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and Chair, Competition Policy Center
Salem M. Katsh, Partner, Shearman & Sterling
Joseph Kattan, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Joseph Scott Miller, Assistant Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School
A. Douglas Melamed, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, & Pickering
M.J. Moltenbrey, former Director of Civil Non-Merger Enforcement, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
Gregory Vistnes, Vice President, Charles River Associates
DATE: May 14, 2002
LOCATION: Room 432, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-326-2180
WEB ADDRESS: ftc.gov
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: SMITSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents Dave Marcum business transformation leader at FranklinCovey, discussing a new method for achieving success, with new rules for accelerating work while revitalizing the enterprise.
DATE: May 14, 2002
LOCATION: International Finance Corp., 2121 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 2001-2002 VRC SEMINAR SERIES presents "Generation of Live Attenuated Dengue Virus Vaccine Candidates Using Recombinant cDNA Techniques," with Brian Murphy, NIAID.
DATE: May 14, 2002
LOCATION: Main Floor, Conference Center, Building 40, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301-594-8591
