The Changing Role of Intellectual Property in Asia: Moving Beyond "Producers" and "Consumers"

March 7 - March 8, 2008

Room 149 National Soybean Research Laboratory

1101 West Peabody Drive, Urbana

The standing paradigm is that certain countries are primarily producers of intellectual property (IP), while others are primarily consumers of that IP. Producers generally favor strong IP protection. Consuming nations see strong enforcement as burdensome, but improved IP enforcement is widely seen as key to spur their economic development. New realities challenge this paradigm. Many countries are both “consumers” and “producers.” AIDS and other diseases have created incentives for countries to violate IP protection on critical drugs. The globalization of production and trade has dramatically increased the stakes of IP enforcement. This conference will bring together leading academics and policy makers to examine the changing paradigm and its impact on law, business strategy, and economic and social development.

This conference is free, but registration is required

Symposium support provided by Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Center for Advanced Study, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Institute for Genomic Biology and College of Law.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 7

8:30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am
Introduction
Glenn Hoetker, CAS Resident Associate, University of Illinois

9:15am
Keynote address The Changing Role of Intellectual Property in Asia: National Innovation Policies of India and China
Alan Wm. Wolff, Dewey and LeBoeuf LLP, Washington, DC

10:30am
Intellectual Property and Economic Development
Doris Long, The John Marshall Law School Jerome Reichman, Duke Law School Jayashree Watal (Intellectual Property Division), World Trade Organization
Moderator: Thomas Ulen (Law), University of Illinois

Noon
Lunch

1:30pm
Intellectual Property and Agriculture
Srividhya Ragavan, University of Oklahoma College of Law Guanming Shi (Agricultural and Applied Economics), University of Wisconsin Brian Wright (Agricultural and Resource Economics), University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: Bryan Endres (Agricultural Law), University of Illinois

3:15pm
Intellectual Property and Venture Capital
Robert Kneller (Intellectual Property), University of Tokyo Ulrike Schaede (Japanese Business), University of California, San Diego Paul Vaaler (International Business), University of Minnesota
Moderator: Janet Bercovitz (Business, Institute for Genomic Biology), University of Illinois

SATURDAY, MARCH 8

8:30am
Continental Breakfast

9:00am
Intellectual Property, Piracy and Trade
Fred Abbott, College of Law, Florida State University Richard Komaiko, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission Shubha Gosh, SMU Dedman School of Law Antony Taubman, World Intellectual Property Organization
Moderator: Todd Allee (Political Science), University of Illinois

10:45am
Break

11:00am
What have we learned and where do we go from now
Moderator: Jay Kesan (Law), University of Illinois

12:15pm
Lunch