Successful life science businesses depend on developing and leveraging partnerships both domestically and abroad. The foundations for these global partnerships include shared priorities placed on intellectual property. Most life science partnerships, deals and mergers pivot on U.S. intellectual property policy as well as the TRIPS Agreement. All of these foundational beliefs are not universally shared. An understanding of IP increasingly shapes industry communications with investors, patients, policy makers and other stakeholders at home and abroad.

Join BayBio and Science Magazine as we explore these issues and implications for life science executives, dealmakers, communications and public affairs professionals, bioethicists, policymakers and legal professionals.

What: The Patenting of Life Forms: 25 Years since the Chakrabarty Patent
When: Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Where: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA. Map and directions.

MCLE Credit: Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This activity has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 1.75 hours, of which 1.75 hours will apply to the general requirement.

Our program includes presentations by:

Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty, University of Illinois at Chicago, on the 25 years since the first gene patent.
Hardip Passananti, Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, on the evolution of the U.S. patent system since 1980.

And a roundtable discussion featuring:

Mark E. Andrews, BioTech Nation, National Public Radio
Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Bosse, Gilead Sciences
George Elliott, Director, Technology Center 1600, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Hardip Passananti, Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe

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