SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

All events held in Wood Hall, Classroom 7, at Lewis & Clark Law School

8:30 am REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9 am WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Dean James Huffman
Lydia Pallas Loren

9:15 am MORNING SESSION I

Mark Lemley: The Changing Meaning of Patent Claim Terms

Michael Meurer: Lessons for Patent Policy from Empirical Research on Patent Litigation

10:45 am BREAK

11 am MORNING SESSION II

Dan Burk: Quantum Patent Mechanics
Chris Cotropia: Patent Claim Construction and Information Costs

12:30 pm LUNCH

1:30 pm AFTERNOON SESSION I

Ed Brunet: The Markman Decision and Summary Judgment

Timothy Holbrook: Procedural versus Substantive Formalism in Claim Construction

3 pm BREAK

3:15 pm AFTERNOON SESSION II

John Thomas: Claim Re-Construction: The Doctrine of Equivalents in the Post-Markman Era

Joe Miller: Renewing the Patent Document for Judicial Construction

4:45 pm RECEPTION