Date: 26 August 2011
Source: KEIonline.org

This year`s Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) annual meeting in Los Angeles will feature a one day program on global compulsory licensing of patents.  The program is heavily focused on lawyers representing big corporations such as Pfizer, GSK, Microsoft, Philips and Qualcomm, etc, along with Will Tom from the FTC, Hugh G. Hansen from Fordham, and some others.
This is from the IPO brochure of the meeting.  (Thanks for Kevin Outterson for noticing this).

ONE-DAY PROGRAM  Wednesday, September 14 COMPULSORY LICENSING AS AN  EMERGING GLOBAL IP ISSUE

The conference will address compulsory licensing from both geographical and industry perspectives. Those sessions directed to compulsory licensing in the United States and Asia (Japan, Taiwan and China) will consider, in particular, whether we are beginning to see a convergence in how countries apply compulsory licensing to patent enforcement and what this may mean to national and international IP rights.

Additional sessions will be directed to the impact of compulsory licensing on standards and the pharmaceutical industry. During the standards session we expect to review the FTC`s views regarding its Rambus, Qualcomm and Princo decisions, the draft `Disposal Rules for Inclusion of Patents in
National Standards by the China National Institute of Standardization, the Taiwan Orange Book decision, the EC competition Guidelines and its `safe harbors` as well as discussion concerning green  technology. Panelists will include representatives from various industries, academia and the judiciary.

ONE-DAY PROGRAM Wednesday, September 14

COMPULSORY LICENSING AS AN EMERGING GLOBAL IP ISSUE

8:00AM - 8:30AM . . . . . . REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30AM - 8:45AM . . . . . . INTRODUCTION COMPULSORY LICENSING AS A GLOBAL IP ISSUE
Edward Blocker, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Briarcliff Manor, NY
8:45AM - 10:15AM . . . . . STANDARDS AND COMPULSORY LICENSING

Moderator: Eugene Chang, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP, New York, NY
Speakers: Matthew Heim, Qualcomm, Inc., London, United Kingdom
S. Sam Li, JT&N Law Firm, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China
Minda R. Schecter, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP, Los Angeles, CA

10:15AM - 10:30AM . . . . COFFEE BREAK
10:30AM - 12:00NN . . . . COMPULSORY LICENSING IN THE PHARMACEUTICALINDUSTRY
Moderator: Ronald Bleeker, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington, DC
Speakers: David Rosenberg, GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, United Kingdom Bryan Zielinski, Pfizer, Inc., San Diego, CA
12:00NN - 1:45PM . . . . . LUNCHEON
Address by: Willard K. Tom, General Counsel of the Federal trade Commission
Will Tom is the General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission. He previously served as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition and as head of the Bureau`s policy office. He also served at the Antitrust Division
of the Department of Justice as Counselor to the head of the Division. In that capacity, he was a principal drafter of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of
Intellectual Property. His 30 years as an antitrust lawyer also includes stints as a partner in two major law firms. Will is a member of The American Law Institute and the Administrative Conference of the United States, was the editorial chair of the American Bar Association`s two-volume treatise, Antitrust Law Developments; has served as a member of the D.C. Federal Judicial Nominations Commission; and has been honored by listings in Who`s Who in the World, Who`s Who in America, The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, and PLC Which Lawyer`
1:45PM - 3:15PM . . . . . . . COMPULSORY LICENSING IN ASIA

Moderator: Kevin Luo, Microsoft Corp., Shanghai, People`s Republic of China
Speakers: Matthew Fitzpatrick, Procter & Gamble Co., Kobe, Japan
Dave B. Koo, Kim & Chang, Norwood, NJ
Dr. Xiang Wang, Orrick, Herrington Sutcliffe, Beijing, Peoples Republic of
China

3:15PM - 3:30PM . . . . . . . COFFEE BREAK
3:30PM - 5:00PM . . . . . . . COMPULSORY LICENSING IN THE U.S.

Moderator: Christopher E. Chalsen, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, New York, NY
Speakers: Hon. Paul R. Michel, IPO Education Foundation Distinguished
Scholar in Residence, Washington, DC
Prof. Hugh G. Hansen, Fordham University Law School, New York, NY
Robert P. Taylor, Arnold & Porter LLP, San Francisco, CA

5:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADJOURNMENT