Monday, November 10

Moderator – Rick D. Nydegger

Welcome and Introduction

PRESENTATION OF ISSUES

First-to-File                               CIPA - Presentation by Timothy Roberts
                                                             Paper by Timothy Roberts
                                                            Appendix

             Questions and Clarifications

Grace Period                             FICPI - Presentation by Francis Ahner and Robert Mitchell
                                                             Paper by Francis Ahner
                                                             Appendix

             Questions and Clarifications

Prior Art                                      IPO - Presentation by Jeff Hawley
                                                            IPO Position Paper

Applicability of Pending Applications as Prior Art

                         Patentanwaltskammer (DE) - Presentation by Dr. Christof Keussen
                                                                        Position Paper

                                                 AIPLA - Presentation by Charles Van Horn
                                                               Power Point Presentation
                                                               Paper by Charles Van Horn

             Questions and Clarifications

COMMENTS — Introduction by Rick Nydegger

             IPIC — Bill Edgar and John Bochnovic
            JIPA — Sumio Numoto
            CNCPI — Jean-Bruno Thevenet and Alain Michelet
             IPTA — Malcolm Royal
             epi — Walter Holzer

Tuesday, November 11

Moderator – Anna Denholm

Welcome and Introduction

Summary of Trilateral Agreement — Mike Kirk

COMMENTS (continued)

AIPPI — Michael Brunner

IIPS — Michael Pantuliano and Sam Helfgott
           IIPS Position Paper

UNION — Gwilym Roberts

JPAA — Kazuaki Takami

CNIPA — John Brown

UNICE — Mike Barlow

TMPDF — David Lewis

             Attendee Observations — John Pegram

BDI — Lothar Steiling

IPI — Tony Rollins

ABA/IPL — Bill LaFuze and Todd Dickinson

ICC — Ivan Hjertman

APAA — Ichio Shamoto

ABPI — Ivan Ahlert

OCPI — Francesco Macchetta
             OCPI Paper

FICPI — Julian Crump and Jan Modin

IPO — Robert Armitage
           Prior Art Paper by Robert Armitage

CIPA — Catriona Hammer

Patentanwaltskammer (DE) — Dr. Christof Keussen

AIPLA — Rick Nydegger

             Attendee Observations — Philip Thomas, Robert Armitage, Walter Holzer, Ivan Ahlert, and Michael Brunner

Observations by WIPO — Francis Gurry

Next Steps – All Participants

Concluding Remarks