(Transcript) 2024 LeadershIP Conference Panel III: Architecting the Future: Call to Action for Innovation Policy

April 12, 2024

This transcript is from the 2024 LeadershIP Conference hosted at CSIS on April 9th, 2024. Watch the full video here.

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Panel Description: There are several legislative proposals on the table today affecting IP, antitrust, and competition. Is more (or less) needed to establish a holistic innovation policy regime that prepares us for the future?

Speakers

Holly Fechner, Partner, Covington

Kate Hudson, Associate Vice President and Counsel for Government Relations and Public Policy, American Association of Universities

Judge Paul Michel, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Ret.)

Brian Pomper, Partner, Akin Gump

Judge Randall R. Rader, Former Chief Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Ret.)

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