2010 Materials and Biographies


October 14, 2010
8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks
8:45 - 10:30 a.m. A Multi-jurisdictional Mock Patent Argument

Hon. Paul R. Michel, Chief Circuit Judge (Retired), United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (United States)
John Baldwin, QC, 8 New Square, Lincoln's Inn (United Kingdom)
Mr. Toshiaki Iimura, Judge, Intellectual Property High Court (Japan)
Judge Dr. Klaus Grabinski, Judge at the Federal Court of Justice, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Carter G. Phillips, Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. Office, Sidley Austin LLP
Richard G. Taranto, Partner, Farr & Taranto

Background on the law in the different jurisdictions:

Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
Unites States

The Conference Problem
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Summary of Mock Argument

William F. Lee, Co-Managing Partner, WilmerHale
Frank Porcelli, Principal, Fish & Richardson
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. A View from the Bench

Hon. Alan D. Lourie, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Hon. Arthur J. Gajarsa, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Hon. Timothy B. Dyk, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Hon. Sharon Prost, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Seth P. Waxman, Partner, WilmerHale (moderator)  
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch / Keynote

Hon. Paul R. Michel, Chief Circuit Judge (Retired), United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
1:45 - 3:15 p.m. Relationships between IP and Health Care

William W. Fisher, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (moderator)
Aaron Kesselheim, Assistant Professor, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke Law School
3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Biologics, Drug Patents and the 2010 Biosimilars Legislation

Neil Flanzraich, Director, ContinuCare Corporation
Benjamin Roin, Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School
Vikas P. Sukhatme, Victor J. Aresty Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Panel and PowerPoint Presentations

PPT - Neil Flanzraich, Director, ContinuCare Corporation
PPT - Vikas P. Sukhatme, Victor J. Aresty Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks