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Hearings Begin in Senate On Patent Reform

By Peter Zura

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on "Patent Reform in the 111th Congress: Legislation and Recent Court Decisions" for Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building.

A webcast of the hearings will be provided and may be accessed here (link)

The Witness List includes:

Steven R. Appleton
Chairman and CEO
Micron Technology, Inc.
Boise, ID
To view Appelton's written statement, click here (link)

Philip S. Johnson
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
Johnson & Johnson
New Brunswick, NJ
To view Johnson's written statement, click here (link)

David J. Kappos
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
Intellectual Property Law and Strategy
International Business Machines Corporation
Armonk, NY
To view Kappos' written statement, click here (link)

Taraneh Maghame
Vice President
Tessera, Inc.
San Jose, CA
To view Maghame's written statement, click here (link)

Herbert C. Wamsley
Executive Director
Intellectual Property Owners Association
Washington, DC
To view Wamsley's written statement, click here (link)

Mark A. Lemley
William H. Neukom Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Stanford, CA
To view Lemley's written statement, click here (link)

Additional written statements were provided by The Computing Technology Industry Association, and photo sharing company FotoTime. Their statements may be downloaded here and here.

You can also download a zipped file of all the testimony here (link)

Special thanks to Hal Wegner for providing advanced copies of the written statements.

Full post as published by Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).