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Since 2004, the George Washington University Law School in association with the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) has hosted the IPR Summit in India as part of its India Project. The annual event seeks to
enhance education in the field of intellectual property (IP) law. Participants include leading academics,
industry leaders, lawyers, judges and policymakers in the IP field from the U.S., Europe, India and other
Asian countries.
The IPR Summit has certain distinct features: mock trials/moot courts that are held at an Indian university
(e.g., lIT-Delhi, National Law School in Bangalore) with US and Indian judges and lawyers; judicial
roundtables; court and patent office visits; and international conferences. Summit events have been held in
New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune and Goa.
From its inception, the IP Summit has attracted a stellar line-up of IP experts. The following judges have
participated:
• Hon. Randall R. Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Sir Hugh Laddie, Chief Judge of the Patent Court of the U.K. (deceased)
• Hon. Dr. Meier-Beck, Patent Senate, German Federal Supreme Court
• Hon. Dalia Dorner, Israeli Supreme Court (retired)
• Hon. Barbara Rothstein, Director, U.S. Federal Judicial Center
• Hon. Ronald Whyte, U.S. District Court, N.D. of California
• Hon. Michael Fysh, Patent Judge, UK
• Judge Ryoichi Mimura, Intellectual Property High Court of Japan
• Judge Toshiaki limura, Tokyo IP High Court
Participating academics have included: Dean Frederick Lawrence, Associate Deans John Whealan and
Susan Karamanian and Professor Martin Adelman of the George Washington University Law School;
Katsuya Tamai of the University of Tokyo, Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty, University of Illinois; Professor David
Nimmer of UCLA Law; and Dr. Eliora Ron, Tel-Aviv University.
Leaders from government and from IP field have included: Holly Vineyard, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, US International Trade Administration; Q. Todd Dickinson, Executive Director of the
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA); and Dominic Keating, US IP Attaché
to India.
Leading IP specialists from industry have been active, including representatives from: Acusphere, Inc.,
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Aurobindo Pharmaceuticals, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Caterpillar,
Dr. Reddy’s, Eastman Chemical Company, Eli Lilly, Ford Motor Company, Fujitsu, Genetech, General
Electric Company, H. Lundbeck AIS, Honeywell International Inc., Hughes Network Systems LLC, IBM
Corporation, Intel Corporation, Intellectual Property Owners Association, Interpat, Ipal GmbH, IP Value
Management, Intellectual Ventures, Kimberly Clark Corp., Mars Incorporated, Medimmune, Medtronic,
Merck, Microsoft Corporation, Nektar Therapeutics, Novartis, Oracle Corporation, PCT Capital, PhRMA,
Qualcomm, Ranbaxy, Rohm & Hass Co., Royal Philips Electronics, SAP AG, Samsung, Seagate Technology
Inc., Sharp USA, Siemens Information Systems Ltd., Symyx
Technologies, Inc., U.S.-lndia Business Council, World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) and Zydus Pharmaceuticals.
Lawyers from the following law firms have also participated: Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler,
Bawden & Associates, Becker Kurig Straus, Boehmert & Boehmert, Chadbourne & Parke LLP, Finnegan,
Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Harrison Goddard Foote, Hogan & Hartson, Ikubo &
Katayama, Intellevate, Jones Day, King & Spalding, Lee & Hayes, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP, Lovells
LLP, Lowenstein Sandier PC, Lex Orbis, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Naren Thappeta, Oblon, Spivak,
McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, PC, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Plougmann & Vingtoft, Ropes & Gray
LLP, Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, PC, Pharmaceutical Patent Attorneys, LLC, Puschmann Borchert
Bardehle, Steptoe & Johnson, LLC, Sughrue Mion, PLLC, Vision IPR, Welsh & Katz and Wilmer Hale LLP.
IP Summit - A Retrospective
The summit has received wide coverage. The Hindu described “The team-brought together by George
Washington (GW) University Law School [as a] bastion of intellectual property law in the United States.”
The Economic Times observed, “The objective of the international conference is to foster partnership
between US, European and Asian industry leaders for collaborative projects in IPR and disseminating
international best practices in IP protection and enforcement.”
The Telegraph stated “Frederick M. Lawrence, dean of America’s prestigious George Washington University
Law School, was quarter way into his speech at Aligarh Muslim University a few weeks ago when he noticed
some objects coming in his direction. Lawrence was pleasantly surprised that the flying objects moving in his
direction were rose petals being showered on their guest speaker by students of the 134-year old residential
university.”
The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel has twice profiled GW Law’s India Project. In a recent issue, Associate
Dean Karamanian was quoted in an interview as follows: “We have contributed to education by heightening
the dialogue and understanding between India and the U.S. on IP law.”
1 Moot Court Sunday 14 feb, 2010 /National Law School, Dwarka, Delhi
/2:OOpm-6:OOpm
Seminar on Role of IP in
Technology Development & Transfer
15 February 2010;0900-1700 hrs; Hotel: Le Meridien; New Delhi
The session will focus on the issues like Technology Transfer through
Licensing: Essential Terms of IP Licensing, Marketplaces for Technology
knowledge, valuation, Capital, Mechanisms for Evaluating and Sharing IPRs in
Joint Ventures. Each topic would be discussed with the help of case study.
Suggested Programme
Day 1 of IP Symposium 2010
0830-0930 hrs Registration
0930-1030 hrs Opening Session
1030-1100 hrs Tea & Coffee Break
1100-1230 hrs Panel Discussion I: Patentable subject matter in
Biotechnology and Pharma
1230-1300 hrs Q&A
1300-1400 hrs Networking Lunch
1400-1630 Hrs Panel Discussion II: IP issues in Life Science
Discussion in the session will revolve around following topics:
Data Protection vs. Data Exclusivity,
National & International Perspective on Data Protection,
Pre-Grant opposition,
Implications of Bayh-dole type legislation in
commercialization will be discussed during the session.
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