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MONDAY, October 23, 2017
Capitol Visitors Center
SVC 209-08
Washington, DC
12:00 NoonLUNCHEON
WELCOME: Stephen Haber (Stanford University and Hoover Institution)
12:30 p.m.David Kappos (Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP)
Jannie Lau (Executive Vice President and General Counsel, InterDigital, Inc.)
Don Rosenberg (Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Qualcomm Inc.)
Roy Waldron (Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Pfizer Inc.)
2:00 p.m.Break
2:30 p.m.ECONOMISTS PANEL: MAKING FINANCIAL, LABOR, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MARKETS MORE STABLE AND EFFICIENT
MODERATOR: Alan Marco (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Ross Levine (University of California, Berkeley) on Financial Markets
Kevin Murphy (University of Chicago) on Labor Markets
Stephen Haber (Stanford University and Hoover) on Intellectual Property Markets
4:00 p.m.BREAK
4:30 p.m.CONCLUDING REMARKS
INTRODUCTION: Richard Sousa (Hoover Institution)
FEATURED SPEAKER: Senator Christopher Coons (D-DE)
5:00 p.m.SESSIONS CONCLUDE
5:30 p.m.COCKTAIL RECEPTION (InterDigital Capitol Hill Townhouse)
Senator Christopher Coons was elected to the US Senate in 2010 following terms as New Castle County Council president and New Castle County executive. In the Senate he sits on the Appropriations, Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Ethics Committees. Chris has made strengthening US patent and intellectual property laws a top legislative priority. Chris is a co-chair of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, where he works to highlight the value that trademarks bring to the economy and the role they play in protecting the public from harms caused by counterfeit goods. He has championed a number of pro-innovation bills that have been signed into law, including the Defend Trade Secrets Act, which created a new federal private right-of-action for theft of trade secrets. Earlier this year, Chris and Republican senator Tom Cotton introduced the STRONGER Patents Act, a bipartisan bill to that seeks to restore certainty and predictability to the value of granted patents and return the US patent system to the world’s gold standard. As a result of his efforts to find common ground with his Republican colleagues in the Senate, in November 2016 the independent congressional tracking website GovTrack ranked Chris in the top three most productive senators of both parties. Before entering public service, he worked as an attorney for W.L. Gore & Associates, an advanced materials manufacturer in Delaware.
Stephen Haber, the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, is also professor of political science, history, and economics (by courtesy) at Stanford. He has been awarded every teaching prize at Stanford, including the Walter J. Gores Award for Distinguished Teaching. His research examines political institutions and economic policies that “hold up” innovation. His current research examines the creation of regulatory barriers to entry in finance, the economic and political consequences of hold up problems created by different systems of agricultural production, and the comparative development of patent systems. Haber’s most recent book, Fragile by Design (with Charles Calomiris), examines how governments and industry incumbents often craft banking regulatory policies in ways that stifle competition and increase systemic risk.
David J. Kappos is a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost leaders in the field of intellectual property. From August 2009 to January 2013 Kappos served as undersecretary of Commerce and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He was instrumental in achieving the greatest legislative reform of the US patent system in generations through passage and implementation of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, signed into law by the president in September 2011. Before leading the USPTO Kappos held several executive posts in the legal department of IBM, the world’s largest patent holder. Kappos has received numerous accolades for his contributions to the field of intellectual property, including the 2014 Global Agenda Council Vision Award for the Intellectual Property Council’s pro bono initiative from the World Economic Forum, the 2014 Jefferson Medal from the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association, 2013 Board of Director’s Excellence Award from the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the 2013 Champion of Intellectual Property Award from the District of Columbia Bar Association and the 2013 North America Government Leadership Award from Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International. Kappos serves on the Boards of Directors of the Partnership for Public Service, the Center for Global Enterprise, and the Intellectual Property Owners Educational Foundation.
Jannie K. Lau is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of InterDigital, Inc., an S&P 400® mobile technology company (NASDAQ: IDCC). Reporting to the president and chief executive officer, Lau manages the company’s legal and government affairs functions, including a worldwide team of approximately fifty legal professionals, and advises the board of directors on legal, governance and compliance matters. Prior to joining InterDigital, Lau served as securities and transactional counsel at IKON Office Solutions, Inc., then a Fortune® 500 technology company. Before beginning her in-house career, she was a corporate associate at leading global law firms in New York and Boston, where she represented public and pre-IPO companies, primarily in the high technology sector, with respect to securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, financings, and corporate governance matters and counseled private equity and venture capital fund managers on capital formations, portfolio investments and general governance issues. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Board of Directors of Jobs for Delaware Graduates, and the Comcast NBCUniversal Joint Diversity Advisory Council. Lau is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and earned a bachelor of arts in English and comparative literature from Columbia College of Columbia University.
Ross Levine is the Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the European Systemic Risk Board. His work focuses how financial sector policies and the operation of financial systems shape economic growth, entrepreneurship, and economic prosperity more generally. His two most recent books, Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern and Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us, stress that regulatory policies often stymie competition and encourage excessive risk-taking, with deleterious effects on productivity growth and living standards. Levine advises governments, central banks, regulatory agencies, and multilateral organizations.
Alan Marco is an associate professor at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. An economist, he specializes in innovation and patent policy; science and technology policy; industrial organization; game theory; law and economics; intellectual property strategy and management; big data analytics; and other areas related to regulation and empirical legal studies. He was chief economist at the USPTO until 2017 and has held faculty positions at Washington and Lee University and Vassar College. At the USPTO, Marco’s research focused on policy -relevant topics in intellectual property. He is the cocreator of the USPTO’s PatentsView.org, a free and open platform for exploring and accessing high-quality patent data. He also was the colead on the Cancer Moonshot Patent Challenge as part of the White H ouse Cancer Moonshot Task Force, and he participated in the G-20 Innovation Task Force. Marco has published academic articles on the intellectual property marketplace, uncertainty in intellectual property rights, patent valuation, and high-tech mergers. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of California , Berkeley, and his undergraduate degree from Skidmore College.
Kevin M. Murphy is the first professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to be chosen as a MacArthur Fellow. He was selected for “revealing economic forces shaping vital social phenomena such as wage inequality, unemployment, addiction, medical research, and economic growth.” In addition to his position at the University of Chicago, Murphy is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a faculty research associate for the NBER. He primarily studies the empirical analysis of inequality, unemployment, and relative wages as well as the economics of growth and development and the economic value of improvements in health and longevity. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Murphy was a John Bates Clark Medalist in 1997. He has received fellowships from the Earhart Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the Friedman Fund. Murphy is also the author of two books and many academic articles. His writing also has been published in numerous mainstream publications including the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and two Wall Street Journal articles coauthored by Nobel laureate Gary Becker. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago after graduating from the UCLA. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1984.
Donald J. Rosenberg is executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Qualcomm Incorporated. Rosenberg reports directly to CEO Steve Mollenkopf and is a member of the company’s Executive Committee. In his role as chief legal officer, he is responsible for overseeing Qualcomm’s worldwide legal affairs including litigation, intellectual property, and corporate matters. Qualcomm’s Government Affairs, Internal Audit, and Compliance organizations also report to him. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Rosenberg served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Apple Inc. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and general counsel of IBM Corporation, where he also held numerous positions including vice president and assistant general counsel for litigation and counsel to IBM’s mainframe division. Rosenberg has had extensive experience in corporate governance, compliance, law department management, litigation, securities regulation, intellectual property and competition issues. Rosenberg is a board member of NuVasive, Inc., Corporate Directors Forum, CONNECT, La Jolla Music Society, La Jolla Playhouse and a trustee of the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. He is immediate past national co-chairman of the Board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he continues to serve on the Board and the Executive Committee. Rosenberg is a member of the International Advisory Board, University of California, San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy. He has served as an adjunct professor of law at New York’s Pace University School of Law, where he taught courses in intellectual property and antitrust law. Rosenberg received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law.
Richard Sousa, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, is an economist who specializes in human capital, discrimination, labor market issues, and K–12 education. He is a member of Hoover IP2 steering committee. He co-authored School Figures: The Data behind the Debate and coedited What Lies Ahead … for America’s Children and Their Schools and Reacting to the Spending Spree: Policy Changes We Can Afford, an assessment of the government’s response to the economic crisis of 2008–09. While serving as Hoover’s senior associate director until 2014, Sousa was responsible for launching the institution’s major communications initiatives, including the Hoover Digest, Education Next, Policy Review, and Uncommon Knowledge as well as serving as the institution’s chief financial officer. From 1990 to 1995, he directed the institution’s Diplomat Training Program. He served as director of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives from 2007 to 2012 and was responsible for major acquisitions, including the Chiang Kai-shek diaries; the William Rehnquist papers; the Georgian, Estonian, and Lithuanian KGB files; and the Ba’th Party collection. His op-eds, primarily on education issues, have appeared in leading newspapers throughout the country.
Roy F. Waldron is the Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Senior Vice President, and Associate General Counsel at Pfizer Inc., one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with R&D focusing on oncology, vaccines, inflammation and immunology, rare diseases, neuroscience, pain, and metabolic diseases. Roy leads the team that procures and protects Pfizer patents and trademarks around the world; and works closely with Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development, the Pfizer Business Units and their Business Development groups. He represents Pfizer on the committees of various industry organizations including IFPMA (chair of IP & Trade Committee), PhRMA (International IP & Policy Working Group), Intellectual Property Owners Association (Board of Directors, Amicus Committee) and INTERPAT (Executive Committee). Prior to Pfizer, Roy was in private practice at White & Case LLP and Fish & Neave. He has a JD from New York University Law School, a PhD from Yale (physical-organic chemistry), and a BA (chemistry) from Dartmouth College. He was also a DAAD Scholar at the Albrecht-Ludwigs University in Freiburg Germany and a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto University, Japan.
