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Competition
and Intellectual Property Law and Policy
in the Knowledge-Based Economy
REPORT
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To Promote Innovation: The Proper
Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy
A Report by the Federal Trade Commission, October
2003
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS
PRESS
RELEASES
PUBLIC COMMENTS
SCHEDULE OF
HEARINGS
- Day 1: Welcoming Comments and Keynote Addresses
(February 6th, 2002)
- Day 2: Foundational Issues in Patents and Antitrust
(February 8th, 2002, 2 concurrent sessions)
- Day 3: Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property,
Competition and Innovation (February 20th, 2002,
2 consecutive sessions)
- Day 4-7: Economic Perspectives and Real-World
Experiences with Patents
With the support of the Competition Policy
Center and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
of the University of California at Berkeley, all sessions
will be held in the Wells Fargo Room, Cheit Hall, Haas School
of Business, 2220 Piedmont Avenue, University of California,
Berkeley.
- Day 4: Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property,
Competition, and Innovation (February 25th, 2002)
- Day 5: Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property,
Competition, and Innovation (February 26th, 2002,
2 consecutive sessions)
- Day 6: Business Perspectives on Patents: Software
and the Internet (February 27th, 2002, 2 consecutive
sessions)
- Day 7: Economic and Other Perspectives on Patent
Standards and Procedures (February 28th, 2002,
2 consecutive sessions)
- Day 8-9: Business and Other Perspectives on Real-World
Experience with Patents (March 19th-20th, 2002)
- Day 10-12: Economic and Other Perspectives on
Patent Standards and Procedures (April 9th-11th,
2002)
- Day 13: Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing: When
Do They Promote or Harm Competition? (April 17th,
2002) (The April 17th session will be held in the Great
Hall of the Department of Justice's Main Building, located
at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. See the
Details page for security procedures required for attendance)
- Day 14: Standard-Setting Practices: Competition,
Innovation and Consumer Welfare (April 18th, 2002)
(The April 18th session will be held in the Great
Hall of the Department of Justice's Main Building, located
at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. See the
Details page for security procedures required for attendance)
- Day 15: The Strategic Use of Licensing: Is There
Cause for Concern about Unilateral Refusals to Deal? (May
1st, 2002) (The May1st session will be held in the Great
Hall of the Department of Justice's Main Building, located
at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. See the
Details page for security procedures required for attendance)
- Day 16: A Competition View of Patent Settlements
(May 2nd, 2002)
- Day 17: Antitrust Analysis of Licensing Practices
(May 14th, 2002) (The May14th session will be held
in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice's Main Building,
located at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC.
See the Details page for security procedures required for
attendance)
- Day 18-19: An International Comparative Law Perspective
on the Relationship Between Competition and Intellectual
Property (May 22nd - 23rd, 2002) (The
May22nd session will be held in the Great Hall of the Department
of Justice's Main Building, located at 950 Pennsylvania
Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC. See the Details page for security
procedures required for attendance)
- Day 20-21: Trends in Federal Circuit Jurisprudence
(July 10th - 11th, 2002)
- Day 22: Competition, Economic, and Business
Perspectives on Patent Quality and Institutional Issues:
Competitive Concerns, Prior Art, Post-Grant Review, and
Litigation (October 25th, 2002)
- Day 23: Competition, Economic, and Business
Perspectives on Substantive Patent Law Issues: Non-Obviousness
and Other Patentability Criteria (October 30th,
2002)
- Day 24: Antitrust Law and Patent Landscapes
(November 6th, 2002)
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