Traditional Knowledge 2007

Conference Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 am: Registration/Check-in Benson Parlors, Benson Student Center

 

 

 

9:00 - 9:15 am: Welcome & Opening Remarks

 

Director Elizabeth Chien-Hale, Institute for Intellectual Property in Asia

Director Mack Player & Assistant Dean Elizabeth Powers, Santa Clara University School of Law

 

 

 

9:15 - 10:30 am: Keynote Addresses

 

Dr. Hannu Wager, IP Division, WTO

Dr. Nicolas Gorjestani, The World Bank Group

 

 

 

10:30 - 10:45 am: Break

 

 

 

10:45 - 12:15 pm: Panel 1: Global Legislative Efforts on Protection for Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions

 

Moderator: Elizabeth Chien-Hale, Director, Institute for Intellectual Property in Asia

Professor Deepa Badrinarayana, Chapman University Law School

Dr. Lin Sun-Hoffman, Ph.D., Senior Patent Attorney, Applied Biosystems

Shantanu Basu, Of Counsel, Morrison Foerster

Gustavo de Freitas Morais, Dannemann Siemsen

 

 

 

12:15 - 1:30 pm: Lunch - Benson Parlors

 

Speaker: Bob Armitage, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Eli Lilly

 

 

 

1:30 - 3:00 pm: Panel 2: Indigenous Rights to Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions

 

Moderator: Professor Valerie Phillips, University of Tulsa College of Law

Professor Aroha Te Pareake Mead, Senior Lecturer in Maori Business, University of Victoria, New Zealand

Professor Angela Riley, Irving D. Florence Rosenberg Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School

Suzan Shown Harjo, President, The Morning Star Institute

Alberto Saldamundo, General Counsel, International Indian Treaty Council

 

 

 

3:00 - 3:15 pm: Break

 

 

 

3:15 - 4:45 pm: Panel 3: IP Protection for Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions

 

Moderator: Professor Jiri Toman, Santa Clara University School of Law

Dr. Hannu Wager, Counsellor, IP Division, World Trade Organization

Dr. Nicolas Gorjestani, (invited) Senior Advisor, The World Bank Group

Molly Torsen, Consultant, WIPO

 

 

 

5:00 - 6:30 pm: Closing Wine & Cheese Reception - Benson Student Center