(Transcript) 2025 LeadershIP Conference Panel IV: Architecting the Future: Call to Action for Innovation Policy

April 4, 2025

This transcript is from the 2025 LeadershIP Conference hosted at CSIS on April 1st, 2025. 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

Jamie Simpson, Chief Policy Officer and Counsel, Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP)

Hon. Makan Delrahim, Partner, Latham & Watkins

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

Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Brian Pomper, Partner, Akin Gump

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