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The 'Hot Topics' Symposium will be held on Friday, February 6, 2009 at Duke Law School. This year the panels will again focus on cutting-edge issues in intellectual property law We are greatly honored to welcome Mr. Carl Horton, Chief IP Counsel to The General Electric Company as our keynote speaker. In his career at GE, Mr. Horton has handled a broad spectrum of IP matters involving a remarkably diversity of technologies in a number of different countries. Today his company is a leading global participant in a wide array of “green” technologies, including wind turbines, photovoltaics, hybrid vehicles and advance battery technologies, and is improving the “greenness” of more traditional technologies as well. Our morning session will focus on the effect intellectual property protection has on the adoption of “clean” technologies, including in developing economies where the rapid expansion of industrial infrastructure has produced global environment effects. For technologies ranging from giant wind turbines to biofuel-producing micro-organisms and pollution-remediating nanotechnology, and players ranging from nations and established multi-national corporations to startups seeking their first round of venture capital, what effect is intellectual property protection having both on the global stage and in day-to-day practice ? The panel will be moderated by Professor Jerome Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. Our afternoon panel will explore the problems and possibilities in crafting a legal regime to expedite bringing follow-on protein product pharmaceuticals (sometimes called “generic biologics”) to the market. While these products promise therapies and cures beyond anything achieved by the more common “small molecule” pharmaceuticals, the extra complexities involved in producing them has cast doubt on whether an abbreviated approval process for “generic” versions of these pharmaceuticals is practical, and whether it would produce the savings that resulted from the Hatch-Waxman Act. Our panel explores the issues from economic, legislative, and practitioner’s perspectives. The panel will be moderated by Professor Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. For more information, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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