[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 51 (Monday, April 25, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D398]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PATENT REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Intellectual Property 
concluded a hearing to examine the current and future U.S. patent 
system and perspectives on patent reform, after receiving testimony 
from Jon W. Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 
Property, and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office; 
Richard C. Levin, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and Mark B. 
Myers, University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School, 
Philadelphia, both on behalf of the National Research Council Committee 
on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy; William 
Parker, Diffraction, Ltd., Waitsfield, Vermont; Dean Kamen, DEKA 
Research and Development Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire; David 
Simon, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, on behalf of the 
Business Software Alliance; Robert A. Armitage, Eli Lilly and Company, 
Indianapolis, Indiana; Joel L. Poppen, Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, 
Idaho; and Michael K. Kirk, American Intellectual Property Law 
Association, Arlington, Virginia.