The full Senate Judiciary Committee has quickly scheduled a hearing on patent reform. Tomorrow at 10AM, the Committee will hold “Patent Reform in the 111th Congress: Legislation and Recent Court Decisions,” the first reform hearing for the 111th Congress.
The hearing will be webcast (link available here).
More of the same?
The witness list includes several familiar names from reform hearings of past Congressional sessions. Noticeably absent is a representative of university technology transfer offices, the biotechnology industry, and individual inventors.
Steven R. Appleton
Chairman and CEO
Micron Technology, Inc.
Boise, ID
Philip S. Johnson
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
Johnson & Johnson
New Brunswick, NJ
David J. Kappos
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
Intellectual Property Law and Strategy
International Business Machines Corporation
Armonk, NY
Taraneh Maghame
Vice President
Tessera, Inc.
San Jose, CA
Herbert C. Wamsley
Executive Director
Intellectual Property Owners Association
Washington, DC
Mark A. Lemley
William H. Neukom Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Stanford, CA
Related posts:
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- Redline version of The Patent Reform Act of 2009 as approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
- Patent Reform Act of 2009, as reported by Senate Judiciary Committee
- Sughrue Symposium – Panelists rank chances of patent reform passing in the 111th Congress
- Senate amendments to the Patent Reform Act of 2009
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