Summer 1996 NBER Workshop on "Intellectual Property: Insights from Two Cases"

9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Session 1: Cistron Biotechnology v. Immunex Corporation

Welcome and Introduction to the Case

• Josh Lerner, Harvard University

Discussants

• Paul T. Clark, Fish and Richardson
• Joyce M. Brinton, Director, Office for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing, Harvard University
• Michael J. Astrue, Vice President--General Counsel & Secretary, Biogen
• Rebecca Eisenberg, University of Michigan
• Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel-Aviv University

General Discussion

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Session 2: Lotus Development Corporation v. Borland International

Introduction to the Case

• Suzanne Scotchmer, University of California at Berkeley

Discussants

• Michael A. Jacobs, Morrison & Foerster
• Thomas M.S. Hemnes, Foley, Hoag & Eliot
• Richard Gilbert, University of California at Berkeley

General Discussion