Promoting the Useful Arts: How can Congress prevent the issuance of poor quality patents?
Subcommittee Hearing

Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Time: 02:00 PM
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building 226
Presiding: Chairman Tillis
Status: TIME CHANGE
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Agenda

October 29, 2019

TIME CHANGE

NOTICE OF A SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING

            The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property hearing entitled “Promoting the Useful Arts: How can Congress prevent the issuance of poor quality patents?” originally scheduled for Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building will now begin at 2:00 p.m.

            By order of the Chairman.


Witnesses

Panel I

  1. Mr. Drew Hirshfeld
    Commissioner of Patents
    United States Patent and Trademark Office
    Alexandria , VA

Panel II

  1. Professor R. Polk Wagner
    Michael A. Fitts Professor of Law
    University of Pennsylvania Law School
    Philadelphia , PA
  2. Professor Melissa Feeney Wasserman
    Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law
    The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
    Austin , TX
  3. Ms. Teresa Stanek Rea
    Partner, and Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Group
    Crowell & Moring LLP
    Washington , DC
  4. Professor Colleen V. Chien
    Professor of Law
    Santa Clara University School of Law
    Santa Clara , CA