LES Foundation DAY 2007
Audio File Archives
Keynote Address:
"Patents, Innovation and the 'Flat World': What's the Same, What Has
Changed, and Where is the Balance?"
12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Marshall C. Phelps
Corporate Vice President and
Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property
Microsoft Corporation
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Afternoon Forum:
Does the U.S. Patent System Help or Hinder U.S. Competitiveness?
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Allen Baum
LES (USA and Canada) President
Allen Baum makes an introductory speech to the panel discussion. He poses the first question to the panel: Is this [Supreme Court MedImmune v. Genentech decision] something we should really be worried about? Is it really a limited number of deals this decision is going to effect?
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Listen to the panel's response >>
Richard Razgaitis
LES Foundation President
Richard Razgaitis asks the panel to discuss in further detail Marshall Phelp's key topic of "global patent harmonization".
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Richard Razgaitis asks Marshall Phelps and the other panelists what they would like to see happen in U.S. law and what is their number one priority?
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The panel then engages the audience in a question and answer session on questions related to harmonization and its impact on individual inventors, small business, and innovation.
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Forum Panelists:
Brian P. Barrett
Associate General Patent Counsel, Eli Lilly and Company
Wes Blakeslee
Executive Director, Office of Technology Transfer,
Johns Hopkins University
The Honorable Gerald J. Mossinghoff
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of
Patents and Trademarks and Senior Counsel, Oblon, Spivak,
McClelland, Maier & Neustadt
Marshall C. Phelps
Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for
Intellectual Property, Microsoft Corporation
Donald Ware
Partner, Foley Hoag