On Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m., the Intellectual Property Committee, in conjunction with the Antitrust & Trade Regulation Section of the Houston Bar Association, will present an innovative program on standard setting issues. The program will be held in Houston, Texas at Baker Botts L.L.P., One Shell Plaza, 38th floor, 910 Louisiana, Houston, Texas, 77001. Satellite locations include Brussels, Belgium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Diego, California, Santa Clara, California, St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington D.C.

The program will cover antitrust and intellectual property issues that arise in competitors' participation in standard setting and will include brief vignettes. The brief vignettes will each be followed by commentary and analysis. Key issues will relate to explicit and implicit disclosure obligations relating to patents and patent applications. This is an area of growing importance to patent holders, standard setting organizations, and companies that engage in standard setting activity. The recent litigation involving SDRAM (Rambus v. Infineon) and DIMM interface (Kingston v Sun Microsystems), and the FTC enforcement action against Dell Computer Corp., (121 F.T.C. 616, 1996 FTC Lexis 291, 1996 WL 350997), underscore the importance of this topic.

A listing of relevant resources is set forth below.

This program will feature:

Ms. Lewis is a partner with Vinson & Elkins and is located at the firm's Dallas office. Ms. Lewis specializes in complex commercial litigation, including intellectual property and antitrust matters.

Mr. Cowie is currently a partner with Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP and is located at the firm's Washington D.C. office. Mr. Cowie, who was lead counsel for Sun Microsystems in its litigation with Kingston Technology Company, has been named as Senior Litigation Counsel of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission.

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From a conference room in the Brussels office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Contact Maurits Dolmans to register. His contact information is set forth below::

From a conference room in Dorsey & Whitney's Minneapolis office. Contact Michael Lindsay to register. His contact information is set forth below:

Michael Lindsay
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Pillsbury Center South Ste. 1300
220 South Sixth Street
Minneapolis MN 55402
Tel: (612) 340-7819
Fax: (612) 340-8800
email: lindsay.michael@dorseylaw.com

From a conference room in Duane Morris's Philadelphia office. Contact Ed Biester to register. His contact information is set forth below:

From a 7th Floor conference room in Gray Cary's Golden Triangle Office. Contact David R. Steinman to register. His contact information is set forth below::

From a conference room in Armstrong Teasdale's office in St. Louis. Contact Glenn Davis to register. His contact information is set forth below::

Glenn E. Davis
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
One Metropolitan Square-2600
St. Louis, MO 63102-2740
Main: 314.621.5070
FAX: 314.621.5065
Direct: 314.342.8002
Direct Fax: 314.612.2241
Cell: (314) 550-5122

From a conference room in Duane Morris's Philadelphia office. Contact Ed Biester to register. His contact information is set forth below:

From a conference room in McDermott, Will & Emery's Washington D.C. Contact Carl W. Schwarz to register. His contact information is set forth below:

Organizations.

James J. Anton, Dennis A. Yao, Standard-Setting Consortia, Antitrust, and High-Technology Industries, 64 Antitrust L.J. 248 (1995).

David A. Balto, Standard Setting in the 21^st Century Network Economy, 18 Computer & Internet Lawyer 5 (June 2001).

Jack E. Brown, Technology Joint Ventures to Set Standards or Define Interfaces, 61 Antitrust L.J. 921, 932 (1993).

Dennis W. Carlton & J. Mark Klamer, The Need for Coordination Among Firms, with Special References to Network Industries, 50 U. Chi. L.Rev. 446 (1983).

Michael G. Cowie and Joseph P. Lavelle, Patents Covering Industry Standards: The Risks to Enforceability Due to Conduct Before Standard-Setting Organizations, AIPLA LJ (in press).

Paul David and Shane Greenstein, The Economics of Compatibility Standards: An Introduction to the Recent Research, I Economics of Innovation and New Tech. 3 (1990).

Farrell, Standardization and Intellectual Property, 30 Jurimetrics J 35 (1989).

Sean P. Gates, Standards, Innovation, and Antitrust Integrating Innovation Concerns into the Analysis of Collaborative Standard Setting, 47 Emory L.J. 583 (1998).

Richard Gilbert, "Symposium on Compatibility: Incentives and Market Structure," 40 J. Ind. Econ. 1 (1992).

Harry S. Gerla, Federal Antitrust Law and Trade and Professional Association Standards and Certification, 19 Dayton L. Rev. 471, 531 (1994).

Carole E. Handler and Julian Brew, The Application of Antitrust Rules to Standards in the Information Industries--Anomaly or Necessity 14 The Computer Lawyer 1, 7 (Nov. 1997).

Jennifer L. Gray, Antitrust Guidelines for Participating in Standard Setting Activities, Corporate Counseling Report, Spring 2001.

Michael Katz & Carl Shapiro, Systems Competition and Network Effects, 8 J. Econ. Persp. 93 (1994);

Douglas D. Leeds, Raising the Standard: Antitrust Scrutiny of Standard-Setting Consortia in High Technology Industries, 7 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment L.J. 641 (1997).

Mark A. Lemley, Antitrust and the Internet Standardization Problem, 28 Conn. L. Rev. 1041 (1996).

Mark A. Lemley, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and Standard-Setting Organizations, (in preparation).

Veronica Lewis, Rambus’ Limited Patent Disclosure To A Standard Setting Body Was Found To Be Fraudulent But Not An Antitrust Violation, AT-IP Report (June 6, 2001).

Miller, Standard-Setting in the Computer Industry - the Antitrust Risks, 13 The Computer Lawyer 1 (Dec. 1996).

Schallop, Leveraging Intellectual Property Rights to Encourage Interoperability in the Network Computing Age, 28 AIPLA L.J. 195 (2000).

Carl W. Shapiro & Hal R. Varian, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy at 208-210 (1999).

D. Schneck, Setting The Standard: Problems Presented to Patent Holders Participating in the Creation of Industry Uniformity Standards, 20 Hastings Comm/Ent. L.J. 641 (1998).

Mary L. Azcuenaga, The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Adaptations, Aphorisms and Advancing the Debate, before the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Antitrust/Intellectual Property Claims in High Technology Markets, San Francisco, California, January 25,1996.

Robert A. Skitol, Antitrust Issues Confronting Collective Standard Setting in High-Technology Industries, before the ABA Antitrust Section , February 25, 1999.