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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 10:30:13+00:00

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TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 1,619, July 31, 2007.
July 31, 2007, Alert No. 1,619.
The Senate will meet at 10:00 AM for morning business. It will then consider HR 976 [LOC | WW].
10:00 AM. The Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) will hold a hearing titled "The Leegin Decision: The End of the Consumer Discounts or Good Antitrust Policy". This pertains to the June 28, 2007, opinion [55 pages in PDF] of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCUS) in Leegin Creative Leather Products v. PSKS, an antitrust case regarding minimum resale price maintenance by manufacturers and intermediate distributors. See, story titled "SCUS Holds That All Vertical Price Restraints Are Subject to Rule of Reason" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 1,603, June 28, 2007. The witnesses will be Pamela Harbour (FTC Commissioner), Robert Pitofsky (Arnold & Porter), Marcy Syms (SYMS), Stephan Bolerjack (Dykema Gossett, for the National Association of Manufacturers), and Janet McDavid (Hogan & Hartson). See, notice. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.
10:00 AM. The House Judiciary Committee's (HJC) Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property (SCIIP) will hold a hearing titled "Ensuring Artists Fair Compensation: Updating the Performance Right and Platform Parity for the 21st Century". The witnesses will be Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH), Marybeth Peters (Register of Copyright), Judy Collins (recording artist), Charles Warfield (ICBC Broadcast Holding, Inc.), and Sam Moore (recording artist). See, notice. Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.
POSTPONED. The House Judiciary Committee's (HJC) Subcommittee on Crime and Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law will hold a joint hearing titled "Protecting Consumer Privacy and Combating Identity Theft". Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.
2:30 PM. The Senate Commerce Committee (SCC) will hold a hearing titled "Oversight of Telemarketing Practices and the Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA)". The witnesses will be Lydia Parnes (Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection), Richard Johnson (AARP), Joanne Faulkner, Robin Holland (Equifax), and Steve St. Clair (Assistant Attorney General, Iowa). See, notice. Location: Room 253, Russell Building.
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM. Day one of a two day meeting of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission to consider drafts of material for its 2007 end of year report to the Congress. See, notice in the Federal Register, July 30, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 145, at Page 41584. Location: Conference Room 333, Hall of the States, 444 North Capitol St., NW.
10:00 AM. The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a business meeting. It will mark up S 1000 [LOC | WW], the "Telework Enhancement Act of 2007". It will also consider the nomination of Jim Nussle to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). See, agenda [PDF]. Location: Room 342, Dirksen Building.
12:00 NOON. The University of Baltimore School of Law's Student Chapter of the Federalist Society will host an event titled "The Future of Internet Regulation: Will Free Speech and Property Rights Prevail?" The speaker will be Randy May (Free State Foundation). See, notice. Location: Miles & Stockbridge, 10 Light Street, 13th Floor, Baltimore, MD.
Deadline to submit applications to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Media Bureau requests seeking preemption flexibility in connection with the children's television obligations of digital television broadcasters. See, FCC's July 27, 2007, Public Notice (DA 07-3386).
9:00 AM. The House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Trade will hold a hearing titled "Legislation Related to Trade with China". See, notice. Location: Room 1100, Longworth Building.
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM. Day two of a two day meeting of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission to consider drafts of material for its 2007 end of year report to the Congress. See, notice in the Federal Register, July 30, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 145, at Page 41584. Location: Conference Room 333, Hall of the States, 444 North Capitol St., NW.
10:00 AM. The Senate Commerce Committee (SCC) will meet in executive session. The agenda lists four bills, including S 781 [LOC | WW], a bill to extend the authority of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to collect Do-Not-Call Registry fees to fiscal years after fiscal year 2007, and S 602 [LOC | WW], the "Child Safe Viewing Act of 2007". See, notice. Location: Room 253, Russell Building.
10:00 AM. The U.S. Court of Appeals (FedCir) will hear oral argument in Dolby Labs v. Lucent Technologies, App. Ct. No. 2006-1583, a patent infringement case. Location: Courtroom 203, 717 Madison Place, NW.
10:00 AM. The U.S. Court of Appeals (FedCir) will hear oral argument in PostX Corp. v. Secure Data in Motion, Inc., App. Ct. No. 2006-1565. See, Federal Circuit calendar. Location: Courtroom 201, 717 Madison Place, NW.
10:00 AM. The U.S. Court of Appeals (FedCir) will hear oral argument in Overview Books v. U.S., App. Ct. No. 2006-5138. This is an appeal from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, in a inartfully plead and argued challenge to the Library of Congress's (LOC) Cataloging in Publication (CIP) program, which discriminates against certain small publishers. See, Federal Circuit calendar. Location: Courtroom 201, 717 Madison Place, NW.
Deadline to submit initial comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its request for comments regarding what constitutes a "near reservation" area for federal Lifeline and Link-Up support purposes. See, DA 07-1239 in CC Docket No. 96-45, and notice in the Federal Register, July 5, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 128, at Pages 36706-36708.
10:00 AM. The U.S. Court of Appeals (FedCir) will hear oral argument in US Philips v. Iwasaki Electric, App. Ct. No. 2007-1117, a patent infringement case. See, Federal Circuit calendar. Location: Courtroom 203, 717 Madison Place, NW.
10:00 AM. The U.S. Court of Appeals (FedCir) will hear oral argument in Samsung Electronics v. Rambus, App. Ct. No. 2006-1579, a patent case. See, Federal Circuit calendar. Location: Courtroom 201, 717 Madison Place, NW.
6:00 - 9:15 PM. Day one of a two day continuing legal education (CLE) seminar hosted by the DC Bar Association titled "Software Patent Primer: Acquisition, Exploitation, Enforcement and Defense". The speakers will be Stephen Parker (Watchstone P+D), Brian Rosenbloom (Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck), David Temeles (Temeles & Temeles), and Martin Zoltick (Rothwell Figg). See, notice. For more information, call 202-626-3488. The price to attend ranges from $105-$160. Location: DC Bar Conference Center, B-1 Level, 1250 H St., NW.
Day one of a two day conference hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Computer Security Division (CSD) titled "Federal Computer Security Program Managers' Forum Annual OffSite Meeting". See, notice. July 31 is the deadline to register. Location: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, MD.
7:00 PM. Keynote by David Gross (Department of State).
8:45 AM. Speech by Dale Jorgenson (professor of economics at Harvard) titled "Whatever Happened to the New Economy?"
9:30 AM. Panel titled "Whither Regulation? Telecommunications Policy in a Converged World". The speakers will be Scott Wallsten (PFF), Chris Libertelli (Skype North America), Robert McDowell (FCC Commissioner), Roger Noll (professor of economics at Stanford University), Thomas Tauke (Verizon Communications), and Joseph Waz (Comcast).
11:00 AM. Panel titled "Property Rights and Patent Reform". The speakers will be John Duffy (PFF), Mark Chandler (Cisco Systems), Bronwyn Hall (professor of economics at UC Berkeley), Scott Kieff (Washington University School of Law), Michael Meurer (Boston University School of Law).
12:30 PM. Speech by FTC Commissioner William Kovacic titled "Antitrust and the IT Sector".
7:00 PM. Four working dinners titled "Wireless and the Economics of Secondary Spectrum Markets", "Current & Future Threats to Free Expression", "How Much Free Can We Take: DRM-Free, Free Riders, and Production", and "Online Privacy and the Development of New Business Models"
9:00 AM. Speech by Laurence Tribe (Harvard Law School) titled "Freedom of Speech and Press in the 21st Century: New Technology Meets Old Constitutionalism".
9:45 AM. Panel titled "Building Awareness about Parental Controls and Online Child Protection Efforts". The speakers will be Adam Thierer (PFF), Jeff Breuggeman (AT&T), Michael Gallagher (head of the Entertainment Software Association), David George (Microsoft), Tim Lordan (Internet Education Foundation), and Hemanshu Nigam (MySpace.com).
11:30 PM. Panel titled "Let's Make a Deal: Getting Content & Tech to the Table". The speakers will be Solveig Singleton (PFF), Alan Bell (Paramount Pictures), Stan Liebowitz (professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas), Bill Rosenblatt (GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies), Thomas Rubin (Microsoft), and Matt Zinn (TiVo).
7:00 PM. Speech by Eric Schmidt (Ch/CEO of Google).

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