April 14: Making "Intellectual Property" Law Through Trade Negotiations

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Subject: [CYBERIA] April 14: Making Intellectual Property Law Through
TradeNegotiations
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:31:58 -0400
From: James Love <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

         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.

--

James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org, mailto:[email protected]
tel. +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040


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