April 14: Making Intellectual Property Law Through Trade Negotiations

From: James Love <james.love[_at_]cptech.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:20:21 -0500

         American University Washington College of Law
                           Presents

           "Making Intellectual Property Law through
                     Trade Negotiations"?

              Intellectual Property Provisions of
         Proposed Free Trade Area for the Americas and
                Bilateral Free Trade Agreements

                        April 14, 2003
           9:00 am -4:00 pm       Reception 4:00 pm
                           Room 603

                    Information on Program

      Using its new trade promotion authority, the United

States Trade Representative (USTR) is negotiating regional and bilateral trade agreements which Congress will consider for approval without the possibility of amendment. USTR has finished or will soon finish regional agreements with Central America countries (CAFTA), countries of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and bilateral agreements with Morocco, Australia, Chile and Singapore. The USTR is also pushing for a vast regional agreement for the Western Hemisphere. All these agreements have extensive provisions on patents, copyrights, trademarks, and sui generis intellectual property regimes, which may affect domestic US law as well as the laws of our trading partners.

      This one day meeting at American University Washington College of Law sponsored by the Consumer Project on Technology and the Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest will bring together experts on intellectual property agreements, stakeholders and government officials to explain and debate the intellectual property provisions of these agreements.

                           Speakers

Roberto Bission, Third World Institute/TWN Latin America Ed Black, Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
Jennifer Brant, Oxfam America
Rachel Cohen, MSF
Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Sarah B. Deutsch, Verizon Communications Christine Farley, American University Washington College of Law
Jesse Feder, Library of Congress
Gwen Hinze, Electronic Frontier Foundation Peter Jaszi, American University Washington College of Law Fabiana Jorge, MFG International
James Love, Consumer Project on Technology John T. Mitchell, Interactionlaw.com
Bob Oakley, Georgetown University Law Center Mark J. Palchick, Holland & Knight, LLP
Josh Sarnoff, American University Washington College of Law John R. Thomas, George Washington University School of Law Rob Weissman, Essential Action

                       Program Schedule

                    9:30 am Opening Remarks
                    Dean Claudio Grossman,
         American University Washington College of Law

                      9:30 am - 10:15 am
                       Setting the scene

                      10:15 am - 10:30 am
                         Coffee break
                      10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Panel: Copyright, Trademark and Geographic Indication Issues

                      12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
                     Questions and answers

                      12:30 pm - 12:30 pm
                    Lunch in WCL cafeteria

                       1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
                         Patent Issues

                       3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
                     Questions and answers

                       3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
                Next steps – an open discussion

                       4:00 pm Reception




                           Sponsors

The Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) is a public interest non-profit organization that represents consumer interests in a range of technology policy areas. In particular, CPTech focuses on intellectual property policy in the fields of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, computer software and information services. CPTech is active in a number of multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations on patents, copyrights and other areas of intellectual property policy, as reported at http//www.cptech.org.

The WCL Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was organized in 2001 to conduct research, promote scholarly exchange, and provide public information around the connections between IP laws on the one hand, and social, cultural and economic policy on the other.

To register for this event: wwww.wcl.american.edu/secle click

                    on event registration.

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James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology http://www.cptech.org, mailto:james.love@cptech.org tel. +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040

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James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology http://www.cptech.org, mailto:james.love@cptech.org tel. +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040 Received on Fri Apr 04 2003 - 21:20:21 GMT