The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a remote program entitled "Innovation and Incentive Systems" on May 26, 2020 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EST). Laura Masurovsky of Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP will moderate a panel consisting of Eb Bright of the Alliance of U.S. Startups & Inventors for Jobs (USU); Bill Harmon, Director, IP and Trademarks, Uber Technologies, Inc.; Philip Hirschhorn of Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP; and Liane Peterson of Foley & Lardner LLP. The panel will discuss the types of incentives (and disincentives) that exist in the Global IP community and their impact on innovation. The panelists will also discuss their viewpoints including:
• Medtech perspective on innovation and incentives with an overview from startup ecosystems to aggregators to investors, focusing on practical experience and experience with what works and what does not.
• Recent PTO initiatives related to promoting new COVID-19 treatments on the market more quickly, discussion of the COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Trial Program and the Patents 4 Partnerships IP marketplace platform.
• Tech perspective and global incentive systems from different vantage points, discussion of compulsory reward system in China and comparison to other systems in terms of impact on innovation.
• Inventor incentives globally, importance of certainty in marketplace for IP, discussion of laws, e.g., antitrust laws, that incentivize or discourage innovation or add to the uncertainty investors and patentees lace.
The webinar is complimentary for FCBA members and students, $25 for government and students, or $75 for private practitioners. Those interested in registering for the program, can do so here.
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