Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: ABA to hold antitrust and intellectual property law conference on October 10, (Sep 11, 2013)

The Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law Sections of the American Bar Association will conduct a one-day conference on issues emerging at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law on October 10, 2013 at Stanford Law School in Stanford, California. Among the faculty members scheduled to participate are William J. Baer, Assistant Attorney General in charge Department of Justice Antitrust Division; FTC Commissioner Julie S. Brill; and U.S. District Court Judge Lucy H. Koh.

The biennial Antitrust and Intellectual Property Conference is a considered a flagship program by the Section of Antitrust Law. The program will focus multiple panels of industry, government, and academic luminaries on issues of most importance to those who advise companies about their intellectual property. The conference will provide a deep exploration of the key issues and risks related to patent aggregation, standard essential patents, as well as other issues inherent in the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

The keynote address, entitled “Antitrust Ascends in 2013,” will be delivered by Mark A. Lemley of Stanford Law School. Other programs will include: Patent Pools Face New Antitrust Threats; Enforcing IP Rights and Defending Business Practices at Home and Abroad; Anti-Social Media? Existence and Exercise of Market Power in Social Networking Platforms; A Conversation with the Enforcers; Surviving Merger Review Involving Strategic IP; and Should Holders of FRAND-Encumbered SEPs be Able to Seek Injunctions?—An Oxford-Style Debate.

Conference co-chairs are Mark Lemley, Alfred C. Pfeiffer, Jr., and D. Daniel Sokol. Other faculty members will include Christopher B. Hockett; Craig A. Waldman; Arthur J. Burke; Paul M. Saraceni; Lore Unt of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; Lawrence Wu; FTC Deputy Director for International Antitrust Elizabeth F. Kraus; Kyle D. Andeer; Nicholas Bansevic, Head of Unit, Unit 3: Antitrust: IT, Internet and Consumer Electronics European Commission, DG Comp; Richard Y. Gilbert; Susan Ning; Trevor Soames; Amanda P. Reeves; Jonathan S. Kanter; Allen J. Ruby; Christopher S. Yoo; William J. Baer, Assistant Attorney General in charge Department of Justice Antitrust Division; FTC Commissioner Julie S. Brill; Senior Assistant Attorney General Kathleen E. Foote at the California Department of Justice; Logan M. Breed; Deborah A. Garza; Renata B. Hesse, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Antitrust Division; Carl Shapiro; Greg Sivinski; Michael A. Carrier; The Honorable Lucy H. Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; Susan A. Creighton; Leon B. Greenfield; John D. Harkrider; and Joseph Kattan.

Additional information may be obtained from the ABA Section of Antitrust Law,321 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654-7598; by phone: 312-988-5550; by fax: 312-988-5637; by e-mail: antitrust@americanbar.org; or online here.

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