Hearing: China’s Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Innovation Policy

Wednesday May 4, 2011

485 Russell Senate Office Building
Constitution Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets, NE
Washington, DC 20510

[PRESS RELEASE]

AGENDA
8:30 am- 8:45 am           Co-chairs’ remarks: Commissioners Dick D’Amato and Dennis Shea

8:45 am – 9:15 am         Panel I: Congressional Perspectives

• Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA) [Testimony]
• Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA)

9:15 am – 10:45 am       Panel II: Business Software

• Mr. Michael Schlesinger, Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig, and International Intellectual Property Alliance, Washington, DC [Testimony] [Submission for the Record]
• Mr. Ken Wasch, President, Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC [Testimony]

11:00 am – 12:30 pm      Panel III: China’s Indigenous Innovation Policy

• Ms. Thea Lee, Deputy Chief of Staff, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC [Testimony]
• Mr. Alan Wm. Wolff,  Of Counsel, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Washington, DC [Testimony]