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DAY ONE: April 4, 2003

8:30 a.m. — 8:45 a.m.

Opening RemarksDean Kate Bartlett, Dean and A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke Law School

8:45 a.m. — 9:15 a.m.

Welcoming Address:

Keith Maskus, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder
and
Jerome Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke Law School

9:15 a.m. — 10:30 a.m.

Session 1: International Provision of Public Goods in the New Regime

Speakers:

Paul David, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford and Stanford University:
Koyaanisqatsi in Cyberspace: the Economics of an ‘Out-of-Balance’ Regime of Private Property Rights in Data and Information

Peter Drahos, Professor, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University:
The Regulation of Public Goods

Commentators:

Chair: Robert O. Keohane, James P. Duke Professor of Political Science, Duke University

Eric Maskin, A.O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study

10:30 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m.

Session 2: Technology Transfer in the 21st Century

Speakers:

Carlos Correa, Professor and Director of the Masters Program on Science and Technology Policy and Management, University of Buenos Aires:
Can the TRIPS Agreement Foster Technology Transfer to Developing Countries?

Arti Rai, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Law:
Collective Action and Technology Transfer: The Case of "Low‑Value" Research

Keith Maskus, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder
and
Kamal Saggi, Associate Professor of Economics, Southern Methodist University:
Patent Rights and International Technology Transfer through Direct Investment and Licensing

Commentators:

Chair: Pedro Roffe, Project Director, IPRs and Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development — International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (UNCTAD— ICTSD)

Samuel Kortum, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota

12:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m. — 3:30 p.m.

Session 3: Reforming the Global IPR System to Promote Public Goods

Speakers:

John Barton, Professor, Stanford University School of Law:
A World Patent System

Pamela Samuelson, Professor, University of California at Berkeley School of Law
and
Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley:
Intellectual Property Arbitrage: How Foreign Rules Can Affect Domestic Protections

Timothy Swanson, Professor and Chair of Law and Economics, University College London:
Pests, Pathogens and Patent holders: Implications of Biotechnologies for Patent Policies

Commentators:

Chair: Wesley Cohen, Professor of Economics and Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

William Kingston, Professor, School of Business Studies, Trinity College, Dublin

3:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m. — 6:00 p.m.

Session 4: Ensuring Access to Essential Medicines

Speakers:

Frederick Abbott, Edward Ball Eminent Scholar, Professor of International Law, Florida State University College of Law:
Managing the Hydra: Resolving Roadblocks to Ensuring Access to Essential Medicines

Henry Grabowski, Professor of Economics, Duke University:
Patents, Innovation and Access to New Pharmaceuticals

Rebecca Eisenberg, Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law, University of Michigan School of Law:
Access to Essential Medicines: Is Law the Problem? Is Law the Solution?

Commentators:

James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology

Heinz Klug, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School

Chair: Jayashree Watal, Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade Organization (WTO)

DAY TWO: April 5, 2003

9:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m.

Session 5: Stimulating Local Innovation

Speakers:

Ashish Arora, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University:
Trading Technology: IPR and the Market for Technology and R&D Services

Michael Blakeney, Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London:
Stimulating Agricultural Innovation

Tracy Lewis, Professor of Economics, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
and
Chair: Jerome Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke Law School:
Economics and Law of Liability Rules and Small—Scale Innovation

Commentators:

Lee Branstetter, Associate Professor of Business, Columbia University Business School

Jonathan Putnam, Assistant Professor, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

10:30 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00 a.m. — 12:45 p.m.

Session 6: The Critical Role of Competition Law in Preserving Public Goods

Speakers:

Eleanor Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law:
Can Antitrust Protect the Global Commons from the Excesses of IPRs?

Mark D. Janis, Professor, H. Blair & Joan V. White Intellectual Property Law Scholar, University of Iowa College of Law:
"Minimal" Standards for Patent/Antitrust Under TRIPS

Hanns Ullrich, Professor, Institut fur vergleichendes Wirtschaftsrecht, Fakultat fur Wirtschafts— und Organisationswissenschaften, Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen:
Expansionist intellectual property protection and reductionist competition rules: A TRIPS Perspective

Commentators:

Chair: Josef Drexl, Director, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law

Carsten Fink, Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank

Shubha Ghosh, Associate Professor of Law, SUNY—Buffalo

12:45 p.m. — 2:15 p.m.

Lunch and Panel Discussion: Feasibility of an Academic Web of Influence on Global Intellectual Property Issues

2:15 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.

Session 7: Preserving the Cultural and Scientific Commons

Speakers:

Robert Evenson, Professor of Economics, Yale University:
Agricultural Research and Intellectual Property Rights

Richard Nelson, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University:
The Market Economy, and the Scientific Commons

Ruth Okediji, William L. Prosser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota College of Law:
Sustainable Access to Information Works in the Digital Age

Paul Uhlir, Director of International Scientific and Technical Information Programs, the National Academies:
Preserving Access to Public Data Resources for Science and Development

Commentators:

James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke Law School

Laurence Helfer, Professor of Law and Lloyd Tevis Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Chair: Monroe Price, Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director, Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society, Cardozo School of Law

4:00 p.m. — 4:30 p.m.

Break

4:30 p.m. — 6:00 p.m.

Session 8: Recognition of Public Goods in WTO Dispute Settlement

Speakers:

Joost Pauwelyn, Associate Professor, Duke Law School:
The Nature of WTO Dispute Settlement

Eric Bond, Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University:
Economics of Dispute Resolution with IPRs

Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
and
Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor of Law & Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar, Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law, Chicago—Kent College of Law:
WTO Dispute Resolution and the Preservation of the Public Domain of Science under International Law

Commentators:

Chair: Michael Byers, Associate Professor, Duke Law School

Wilfred Ethier, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Gregory Shaffer, Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School

DAY THREE: April 6, 2003

9:00 a.m. — 10:45 a.m.

Session 9: Assessing the Suitability of IPRs for Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Industries

Speakers:

Thomas Cottier, Professor, the Institute of European and International Economic Law, Universität Bern, Switzerland:
Legal Perspectives on Traditional Knowledge

Graham Dutfield, Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London:
Legal and Economic Aspects of Traditional Knowledge

Antony Taubman, Acting Director, Traditional Knowledge Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Senior Lecturer, Australian National University:
Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore - An International Perspective

Commentators:

Rosemary Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies, York University, Canada

David Lange, Professor, Duke Law School

Chair: Geoffrey Onyeama, Director, Cooperation for Development Bureau for Africa, WIPO

10:45 a.m. — 11:15 a.m.

Break

11:15 a.m. — 12:45 p.m.

Session 10: Overview Commentary on Balancing Public and Private Interests

Chairs: Jerome Reichman and Keith Maskus

David Vaver, Reuters Professor of Intellectual Property & IT Law, University of Oxford

Martin J. Adelman, Professor and Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program, George Washington University Law School

Peter Gerhart, Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Hugh Hansen, Professor, Fordham University School of Law

Geoff Tansey, TRIPS Programme Consultant, Quaker United Nations Office

Gustavo Ghidini, Professor of Intellectual Property, Faculty of Law, Luiss University, Rome, Italy

12:45 p.m. — 2:00 p.m.

Box Lunch

2:00 p.m. — 3:30 p.m.

Meeting of those interested in forming an Academic Web of Influence