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The Open COVID Pledge at One Year: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

April 28, 2021 | 12:30pm-3:30pm EDT  | 4:30pm-7:30pm UTC
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Please join us for a one year retrospective of the .  We will examine the origins of the pledge and the reasons for pledgors to take the pledge, the potential of pledges to serve the public interest and future opportunities for pledges to promote innovation that serves the greater good.

Agenda

12:30 - Welcome: Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

  • Michael Carroll 
    Professor of Law, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Washington College of Law
  • Mark Lemley 
    William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology

12:40 - Open COVID Pledge at One Year: A Status Report

  • Jorge Contreras
    Professor of Law, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law 
    Senior Policy Fellow, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, Washington College of Law

1:15 - Motivations For Participating in the Open COVID Pledge - Opportunities for collaboration and benefit

  • Jorge Contreras (Moderator)
  • Michael Eisen
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, University of California, Berkeley
  • Eric Steuer
    Creative Director, Creative Commons
  • Isabella Fu
    Associate General Counsel, Microsoft
  • Ben Treuhaft
    Co-Ceo, Helpful Engineering

2:10 - The Open COVID Pledge and the Public Interest

  • Diane Peters (Moderator)
    Senior Policy Fellow, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, Washington College of Law
  • Frank Tietze
    University Lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management, Cambridge University
  • Jenny Molloy
    Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
  • Merith Basey
    Executive Director, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
  • Mariângela Simão
    Chair, C-TAP Steering Committee, World Health Organization

3:00 - Upcoming Developments in Public Interest IP Pledges

  • Meredith Jacob (Moderator)
    Director, Copyright and Open Policy Project, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, Washington College of Law
  • Brett Alten 
    Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

3:20 - Questions / Discussion