{"id":4808,"date":"2012-02-01T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2012-02-01T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:33:26","slug":"director-kappos-testifying-before-congress-on-prior-user-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4808","title":{"rendered":"Director Kappos Testifying Before Congress on Prior User Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Honorable David Kappos\u00a0is testifying before the House Subcommittee on the Judiciary today in a hearing titled &#8220;Prior User Rights: Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing and Innovation.&#8221;\u00a0 Other notable\u00a0witnesses testifying\u00a0are Bob Armitage (General Counsel of Eli Lilly and Co.), Dennis Crouch (needs no introduction), Dan Lang (Vice President for Intellectual Property at Cisco Systems), and Dr. John C. Long (Vice President of Assoc. of American Universities).<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the hearing [<a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.edgeboss.net\/wmedia\/judiciary\/ip\/ip02012012.wvx\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can view the speakers&#8217; written\u00a0statements at this [<a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/hearings\/Hearings%202012\/hear_02012012.html\">link<\/a>] by selecting each speaker&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to note that the Federal Circuit recently granted <em>en banc<\/em> review of an intervening rights case but without supplemental briefing by the parties or oral argument.\u00a0 Amicus briefs are allowed and due by February 10th.\u00a0 So, to the extent any relevant issues are raised by these hearings,\u00a0they will have to be\u00a0brought to the attention of the court\u00a0by the <em>amici <\/em>rather than the parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honorable David Kappos\u00a0is testifying before the House Subcommittee on the Judiciary today in a hearing titled &#8220;Prior User Rights: Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing and Innovation.&#8221;\u00a0 Other notable\u00a0witnesses testifying\u00a0are Bob Armitage (General Counsel of Eli Lilly and Co.), Dennis Crouch (needs no introduction), Dan Lang (Vice President for Intellectual Property at Cisco Systems), and Dr. John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}