Upcoming Events

Gigi Sohn will be speaking at the 2010 Intellectual Property Institute. Other notables:

Judge Leval Keynotes Morning; Commissioner Rosch Headlines Lunch; Updates by Lemley, McCarthy, Nimmer Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Leval will open the 2010 Institute with a keynote presentation. The morning will continue with an in-depth review of current developments in copyright, trademark and patent law with the leading academics in the field: Professors Lemley, J. Thomas McCarthy and Nimmer. Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch of the Federal Trade Commission will keynote the Institute’s luncheon presentation, discussing potential antitrust liability for single firm behavior in the IP context. The afternoon will feature three concurrent tracks of programming focused on copyright, patent and trademark issues.

Harold Feld will be speaking at Law Seminars International’s Fifteenth Annual Conference on Telecommunications Law on a panel entitled “Competition in Telecommunications: Net Neutrality.” Details include:

Moving beyond an abstract policy debate: Perspectives on the FCC’s new net neutrality policy, implementation issues, and Comcast v. FCC re the FCC’s authority to enforce net neutrality rules

Moving beyond an abstract policy debate: Perspectives on the FCC’s new net neutrality policy, implementation issues, and Comcast v. FCC re the FCC’s authority to enforce net neutrality rules

Other Panelist: David M. Don, Esq., Senior Director, Public Policy Comcast Corporation / Washington, DC

Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel - Seattle Downtown in Seattle, WA

Gigi Sohn will be speaking at the Pike and Fischer Broadband Policy Summit on a panel on Net Neutrality. Other notables:

• Moderator: Nancy J. Victory, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

After years of verbal sparring and heated debates about applicable principles, the FCC has now proposed specific net neutrality regulations. But are these rules really necessary? And, if they are, who stands to gain or lose by their application? How will activity in Congress and the courts possibly affect the Commission’s rulemaking efforts?

Panelists:

• Kathleen M. Grillo, Senior Vice President of Federal Regulatory Affairs, Verizon

• Paul Misener, Vice President for Global Public Policy, Amazon.com

• Gigi Sohn, President & Co-Founder, Public Knowledge

• Lawrence J.