[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


                 Subcommittee on Intellectual Property

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property be authorized to meet to conduct 
a hearing on ``Perspectives on Patents'' on Monday, April 25, 2005, at 
1:30 p.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

     Witness list

  Panel I: Hon. Jon W. Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for 
Intellectual Property, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark 
Office, Department of Commerce, Alexandria, VA.
  Panel II: Dr. Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University, New 
Haven, CT, and Co-Chair of the Committee on Intellectual Property 
Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Board on Science, Technology, 
and Economic Policy, National Research Council; Dr. Mark B. Myers, 
Visiting Executive Professor, Management Department at the Wharton 
Business School, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and 
Co-Chair of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the 
Knowledge-Based Economy, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic 
Policy, National Research Council.
  Panel III: William Parker, Diffraction, Ltd., Waitsfield, VT; Dean 
Kamen, President, DEKA Research & Development Corp., Manchester, NH; 
David Simon, Chief Patent Counsel, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; 
Robert A. Armitage, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Eli 
Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; Joel Poppen, Deputy General 
Counsel, Micron Technologies, Inc., Boise, ID; and Michael K. Kirk, 
Executive Director, American Intellectual Property Law Association, 
Washington, DC.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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