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>From: "Skip Gain" <mail_at_sgain.com>
>To: <declan_at_well.com>
>Subject: Software Patent ISOC Meeting
>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:13:46 -0400
>
>Mr. McCullagh,
>
>I'm helping to promote the next DC ISOC meeting on software patents and I
>wondered if you could send a notice out on the Politech mailing list. The
>speakers are going to be Commissioner Dickinson, Tim O'Reilly, and Lawrence
>Lessig. It's somewhat of a continuation of the debate Dickinson and
>O'Reilly had last May on the O'Reilly network
>(http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/patents/2000/05/24/PizzoFiles.html).
>
>I pasted the meeting announcement below, and any advice you have concerning
>promotion would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Skip Gain
>mail_at_sgain.com
>
>
>
>MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
>Washington, DC Chapter -- The Internet Society
>
>
>PATENTS AND THE INTERNET:
>Protection for, or roadblock to, innovation?
>
>
>SPEAKERS:
>Q. TODD DICKINSON: Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
>Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
>
>TIM O'REILLY: founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates, a pioneer in
>the popularization of the Internet, and an activist for Internet standards
>and for Open Source software.
>
>LAWRENCE LESSIG: one of the nation's leading authorities on Internet law,
>author (Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace), and Professor of Law at the
>Stanford Law School,
>
>
>The October meeting of The Internet Society, DC Area Chapter will bring
>together three special
>authorities to address the U.S. Patent Office and its attempts to keep in
>step with the increasing pace of technology, a topic that has significant
>short and long term impacts on the Internet.
>
>Many feel the Internet has become a world wide marvel because of an open
>environment with minimal regulation. Others feel patent protection is
>needed in order to have continuous innovative development. Are patents
>being granted for old ideas in "new clothing"; how easy is it to determine
>"prior art" vs uniqueness? Hear why patents for Internet related business
>processes and software have generated so much controversy. Listen to what
>these experts have to say; ask your questions; do some networking.
>
>
>WHEN:
>Tuesday, October 3rd
>7:00-9:00 p.m.
>6:00-7:00 p.m. for sign-in and networking
>
>
>LOCATION:
>Booz-Allen at Tysons Corner
>Allen Building, 8283 Greensboro Drive
>McLean, VA 22102
>Telephone: 703-902-5000
>
>Directions are at: http://www.dcisoc.org/trav0001.html
>A map is at http://www.dcisoc.org/map0001.html
>
>There is no charge to attend this event, which is open to the public. While
>not required to attend, please RSVP to Terry Weigler tweigler_at_isoc.org if
>you plan to come.
>
>If your organization would like to sponsor this meeting, contact Marty
>Burack <burack_at_isoc.org>,
>tel.: 703-645-2468, cell: 703-599-4344
>
>
>SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES:
>
>Q. TODD DICKINSON was appointed by President Clinton as Under Secretary of
>Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent
>and Trademark Office on March 29, 2000. Dickinson had served as Assistant
>Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks since
>November 10, 1999, as Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Acting
>Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks since January 1, 1999, and as Deputy
>Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Deputy Commissioner of Patents and
>Trademarks since June 18, 1998. In addition to managing the United States
>Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) operations, Dickinson serves as
>principal policy advisor to the Clinton Administration and Congress on all
>domestic and international intellectual property matters. He also serves as
>co-chair of the National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination
>Council, which coordinates domestic and international intellectual property
>enforcement issues.
>
>Under Dickinson's leadership, the USPTO is implementing the most sweeping
>reform in patent law in a half-century and is restructuring itself into a
>performance-based organization. Other initiatives he has undertaken include
>making more than two million patents and all registered trademarks and
>applications freely available on the Internet; implementation of the
>electronic filing of trademark and patent applications; creation of the
>Office of Independent Inventor Programs; and the establishment of the Office
>of Quality Management.
>
>Previously with the Philadelphia-based law firm of Dechert, Price and Rhoads
>and having served as Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property and Technology
>at Sun Company, Inc., Dickinson has more than twenty years of experience in
>the private sector representing a wide-range of clients, from individual
>inventors to major corporations, on intellectual property protection
>matters.
>
>A native of Pennsylvania, Director Dickinson earned a B.S. degree in
>Chemistry from Allegheny College in 1974 and a J.D. from the University of
>Pittsburgh School of Law in 1977. He is a member of the bars of
>Pennsylvania, California and Illinois.
>
>
>LAWRENCE LESSIG is a Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School. He is a
>renowned constitutional scholar and one of the nation's leading authorities
>on Internet law. Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional
>law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace.
>His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, published by Basic Books,
>explores how the architecture of computer networks affects basic liberties,
>and the implications of the use of code to either suppress or promote
>freedom. Lessig has paced the field in research about the development and
>regulation of the Internet. He recently served in an advisory capacity to
>Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on the Microsoft antitrust case, and his work
>has been cited in numerous media reports about societal issues raised by the
>Internet and electronic commerce. In 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the
>Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
>
>Before coming to Stanford, Lessig was the Berkman Professor of Law at
>Harvard Law School. From 1991 to 1997, he was a professor at the University
>of Chicago Law School. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1989, and then
>clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and
>Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
>
>
>TIM O'REILLY is founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates, thought by
>many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly has also
>been a pioneer in the popularization of the Internet. O'Reilly's Global
>Network Navigator site (GNN, which was sold to America Online in September
>1995) was the first Web portal and the first true commercial site on the
>World Wide Web.
>
>O'Reilly continues to pioneer new content developments on the Web via it's
>O'Reilly Network affiliate, which also manages sites such as www.perl.com
>and xml.com. O'Reilly's conference arm hosts the popular Perl Conference,
>the Open Source Software Convention, and a Java Enterprise Conference.
>
>Tim has been an activist for Internet standards and for Open Source
>software. He has led successful public relations campaigns on behalf of key
>Internet technologies, helping to block Microsoft's 1996 limits on TCP/IP in
>NT Workstation, organizing the " summit" of key free software leaders where
>the term "Open Source" was first widely agreed upon, and, most recently,
>organizing a series of protests against frivolous software patents. Tim
>received Infoworld's Industry Achievement Award in 1998 for his advocacy on
>behalf of the Open Source community.
>
>Tim has written numerous books on computer topics. He has served on the
>board of trustees for both the Internet Society and the Electronic Frontier
>Foundation, two organizations devoted to making sure that the Internet
>fulfills its promise. He is on the boards of Collab.Net, ActiveState Tool
>Corp, Epit, Invisible Worlds, and IntellectMarket.
>
>Tim graduated from Harvard College in 1975 with a B.A. cum laude in
>Classics. His honors thesis explored the tension between mysticism and logic
>in Plato's dialogues.
>
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