House Hearings on Patent Reform (109th, 110th, 111th
Congresses):
4/30/2009
House Judiciary Committee, Hearing
on H.R. 1260, The Patent Reform Act of 2009
Witness List:
David Simon, Chief Patent Counsel, Intel
Inc.
Phillip S. Johnson, Chief
Intellectual Property Counsel, Johnson & Johnson
John R.
Thomas, Professor, Georgetown University Law School
Jack W.
Lasersohn, Partner, Vertical Group
Dean Kamen, Inventor, DEKA
Research and Developmet Inc.
Mark
Chandler, Senior Vice President, Cisco
Bernard Cassidy, Senior
Vice President and General Counsel, Tessera Inc.
4/26/2007
House Judiciary Committee, Hearing on H.R. 1908, The Patent
Reform Act of 2007
Witness
List:
Gary
L. Griswold, President and
Chief Counsel of Intellectual Property 3M Innovative Properties St. Paul
Minnesota
Anthony Peterman, Director, Patent
Counsel Dell Incorporated Round Rock, TX
Kevin Sharer, Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive Officer Amgen Incorporated Thousand Oaks,
CA
John R.
Thomas, Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center Washington, D.C.
William T. Tucker, Executive Director
Research and Administration and Technology Transfer University of
California Oakland, CA
2/15/2007
House Judiciary
Committee, Oversight Hearing on: American Innovation at Risk:
“The Case for Patent Reform”
Witness List:
Adam B. Jaffe , Professor
of Economics and Dean of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University Whaltham, Massachusetts
Suzanne Michel , Chief
Intellectual Property Counsel and the Deputy Assistant Director for
Policy Coordination Federal Trade Commission Washington, D.C.
Mark Myers , Co-Chair of
the National Academy of Sciences Report Patent System for
21st Century Unionville, Pennsylvania
Daniel B. Ravicher,
Executive Director Public Patent Foundation New York, NY
6/15/2006
House Judiciary Committee, Oversight
Hearing on "Patent Trolls: Fact or Fiction?"
Witness
List:
Ed Reines
Esq., Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
Dean Kamen,
President, DEKA Research & Development Corporation
Paul Misener,
Vice President for Global Policy, Amazon.com
Chuck Fish,
Vice President & Chief Patent Counsel, Time Warner, Inc.
4/27/2006
House Judiciary Committee, Oversight Hearing on "Patent
Harmonization"
Witness
List:
Q. Todd
Dickinson, Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property
Counsel, General Electric Company
Robert A.
Armitage, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Eli Lilly
and Company
Gary
Mueller, President and Chief Executive
Officer, Digital Now, Inc.
Pat Choate,
political economist and author of Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in
an Age of Globalization
4/5/2006
House Judiciary Committee, Oversight Hearing on "Patent Quality Enhancement in the
Information-Based Economy"
Witness
List:
Honorable Jon W.
Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
& Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
James
Balsillie, Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Research in
Motion
Robert A.
Stewart, Director and Chief Patent Counsel of Americas, UBS
AG
Mark A.
Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
10/6/2005
House Judiciary Committee, Oversight
Hearing on "Improving Federal Court Adjudication of Patent
Cases"
Witness
List:
Kimberly A.
Moore , Professor of Law,
George Mason University School of
Law
John B. Pegram, Senior
Counsel, New
York Office of Fish &
Richardson, P.C.
Chris J.
Katopis, Counsel, Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
The Honorable T.
S. Ellis, III , United States District
Judge, Eastern District of Virginia
9/15/2005
House Judiciary Committee, Legislative
Hearing on "The Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 2795,
the 'Patent Act of 2005' "
Witness
List:
Emery Simon,
Counsel, The Small Business Software Alliance
(BSA)
Philip S.
Johnson, Chief Patent Counsel, Johnson & Johnson on behalf of the
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
(PhRMA)
Robert B.
Chess, Chairman, Nektar Therapeutics on behalf of the Biotechnology
Industry Organziation (BIO)
John R.
Thomas, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
6/9/2005
House Judiciary Committee, Legislative
Hearing on H.R. 2795, the "Patent Act of 2005"
Witness
List:
Gary L.
Griswold, President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, 3M
Innovative Properties Company (on behalf of the American Intellectual
Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Carl
Gulbrandsen , Managing Director,
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
Josh
Lerner , Professor, Harvard Business School
Daniel B.
Ravicher , Executive Director, Public
Patent Foundation (PUBPAT)
4/28/2005
House Judiciary Committee, Oversight Hearing on the "Committee Print Regarding
Patent Quality Improvement" (Part II)
Witness
List:
Honorable Jon W.
Dudas, Director of the USPTO
Dr. Richard C.
Levin, Yale University
Dr. Nathan P.
Myhrvold , Intellectual
Ventures
Darin E.
Bartholomew, John Deere and Company (on behalf of the Financial
Services Roundtable)
4/20/2005
House Judiciary Committee, Oversight
Hearing on the "Committee Print Regarding Patent Quality Improvement"
(Part I)
Witness
List:
Jeff Hawley,
Kodak (on behalf of Intellectual Property Owners Association)
Richard J. Lutton
Jr., Apple (on behalf of the Business Software
Alliance)
Jeffrey P. Kusham
Esq., Sidley Austin Brown and Wood, LLP (on behalf of
Genetech)
William L.
LaFuze (on behalf of the American Bar
Association and the ABA Section of Intellectual Property
Law)
Jack Haken,
Philips Electronics
= IPO Member