“Perspectives on Patents”

NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING

The hearing on "The Patent System Today and Tomorrow" scheduled by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property for Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 2:30 p.m. has been rescheduled for April 25, 2005 at 1:30 p.m. and combined with the hearing on "Perspectives on Patents" hearing.

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Witness List
Hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property on
"Perspectives on Patents"
Monday, April 25, 2005
1:30 p.m., SD 226

Panel I

The Honorable Jon W. Dudas
Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Department of Commerce
Alexandria, VA

Panel II

Dr. Richard C. Levin,
President of Yale University
New Haven, CT
and
Co-Chair of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the
Knowledge-Based Economy
Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
National Research Council

Dr. Mark B. Myers
Visiting Executive Professor
Management Department at the Wharton Business School
The University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
and
Co-Chair of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the
Knowledge-Based Economy
Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
National Research Council

Panel III

William Parker
Diffraction, Ltd.
Waitsfield, VT

Dean Kamen
President
DEKA Research & Development Corp.
Manchester, NH

David Simon
Chief Patent Counsel
Intel Corporation
Santa Clara, CA

Robert A. Armitage
Senior Vice President and General Patent Counsel
Eli Lilly and Company
Indianapolis, IN

Joel Poppen
Deputy General Counsel
Micron Technologies, Inc.
Boise, ID

Michael K. Kirk
Executive Director
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Washington, DC