Public Hearing on Use of the Patent System to Protect Software-Related Inventions

Chronological List of Speakers

January 26, 1994

• Joseph Clark, VideoDiscovery
• Ryal Poppa, StorageTek
• William Ryan, Intellectual Property Owners, Inc.
• Richard LeFaivre, Apple Computer, Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturing Association
• Tom Lopez, Interactive Multimedia Association
• Paul Heckel, Abraham Lincoln Patent Holders Association
• Robert Kohn, Borland International, Inc.
• Douglas Brotz, Adobe Systems Incorporated
• Hans Troesch, Fish and Richardson
• Robert Sabath, World Intellectual Property and Trade Forum
• William Benman, Benman & Collins
• Jerry Baker, Oracle Corporation
• Carl Silverman, Intel Corporation
• Kaye Caldwell, Software Entepreneurs Forum
• James Chiddix, Time Warner Cable
• Prof. Lee Hollaar, University of Utah
• Dennis Fernandez, Fenwick and West
• Peter Antoniak, Solar Systems Software
• Robert May, Iconik Corporation
• Stephen Henry, Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C, Boston Patent Law Association
• Sal Cassamassima, Exxon Production Research Company
• Neil Brown
• Gordon Irlam, League for Programming Freedom
• Robert Yoches, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
• Jim Shay, Morrison & Foerster

January 27, 1994

• Introductory Comments
• Jerry Fiddler, Wind River Systems
• Jim Warren, Autodesk, Inc.
• Mary O'Hare and Michael Glenn, Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California
• Paul Lippe, Synopsys
• Tim Boyle, Multimedia Development Group
• Ronald Laurie, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
• Lee Patch, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• Christopher Byrne, American Committee for Interoperable Systems
• Gideon Gimlan, Fliesler, Dubb, Meyer & Lovejoy
• Tom Cronan, Taligent, Inc.
• William Neukom, Microsoft Corporation
• Charles Morgan, The Prudential Insurance Company of America
• Les Earnest
• Richard Stallman
• Timothy Casey, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
• Robert Sterne, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein and Fox
• Victor Siber, IBM Corporation
• Ewald Detjens, Exemplar Logic, Inc.
• Michael Lachuck, Poms, Smith, Lande & Rose
• Gregory Aharonian, Source Translation and Optimization
• George Cole
• Barry Graham, International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys
• Ted Lemon, Network Computing Devices
• Roger Schlafly, Real Software
• Wallace Judd, Mentrix Corporation
• Russell Brand, Reasonings Systems, Inc.
• Willis Higgins, Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum
• Joseph Grace, Tetrasoft International