THURSDAY, Nov. 18 :

9:00 - 9:45 - Economics Tutorial -Nicholas Economides - Stern Business School

9:45 - 10:30 - Legal Tutorial - Cliff Potter - Freeborn & Peters

10:45 - 12:30 - The competitive implications of Intellectual Property in the Cyber-world

Moderator: Said Mosteshar - Mosteshar Mackenzie

Jim Burger - Dow, Lohnes & Albertson PLC
Seth Greenstein - McDermott, Will & Emery
Steven J. Metalitz - Smith & Metalitz, LLP
Douglas E. Rosenthal - Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal

• How great is the need for international comity regarding intellectual property law?
• How can the WIPO treaty be uniformly implemented and enforced?
• How can the WIPO treaty be coordinated with existing law?
• What are the political and economic implications for the third world and NICs?
• What approaches to intellectual property might foster competition in the Cyber-world?
  Luncheon Speaker - David McGowan - U of Minn., School of Law
  
  "Contract Law and Public Policy: Some Implications of UCITA for Intellectual Property and Competition Policy"
  2:15 - 4:00 - The competitive implications of Trade Policy in the Cyber-world
  
  Moderator: Edward Montgomery Graham - Institute for International Economics
  Rob Anderson - World Trade Organization
  Eleanor Fox - New York University Law School
  Rick Johnson - Arnold & Porter
  Kenneth Lindhorst - AT&T
  Mark Warner - OECD
• Can/should the WTO implement a supranational competition policy?
• What are the implications of the TRIP's agreement for software and the Internet?
• What are likely to be new competitive strategies in the cyber-world and is a regulatory response indicated?

Moderator: Mark Warner - OECD

Mary Azcuenaga - Heller, Ehrman, White, and McAuliffe
Hassan Qaqaya - UNCTAD
Douglas Rosenthal - Sonnenschein, Nath, & Rosenthal

• What countries have effective competition policies re the Cyber-World?
• What are the different regulatory approaches?
• How are the different approaches to be accommodated?
• What are the international political and economic implications of differing national policies?
  
  10:45 - 12:30 - Current Government Intervention in the Cyber-World

  Moderator: David McGowan - U of Minn., School of Law
  

  Ron Katz - Coudert Brothers
  Christopher Kelly - U.S. Department of Justice
  Charles F. (Rick) Rule - Covington & Burling l

• In what areas of the cyber-world are nation states currently intervening?
• What are the objectives of the various interventions?
• What are the probable outcomes?
• Is there a role for private intervention? (in the U.S. ?; abroad?)

   

  1:45 - 3:30 - Mergers and Joint Ventures in the Cyber-World
  
  Moderator: Steve Hogan - Litman, Asche,& Gioiella

  Bernard Amory - Jones Day
  Colin Long - Olswang
  Paul Saunders - Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• What is the need for supervision and control of mergers and consolidation?
• What are the trends for consolidation in the telecommunications and software industries?
• What are the implications for international competitiveness?
  
  3:45 - 5:15 - Panel Discussion & Questions
  
  5:15 - Closing
  
  Organized by
  
  The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information