The following people assisted the committee’s deliberations in a variety of ways—providing financial support, participating in workshops, speaking at conferences, presenting views at open meetings of the committee, conducting and reporting on research, and providing other valuable information. These contributions were indispensable to the committee’s work, and we are very grateful for them. Affiliations are at the time of participation in the project.

Greg Aharonian

Internet Patent News Service

John Allison

University of Texas, Austin

Bob Armitage

Eli Lilly

Ashish Arora

Carnegie Mellon University

Kevin Baer

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Robert L. Barchi

The University of Pennsylvania

Robert Barr

Cisco Systems

Erwin Basinski

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Eugene Bauer

Stanford University

Kathy Behrens

Robertson Stephens Investment Management

Lee Bendekgey

Incyte Corporation

Jeff Brandt

Walker Digital Corporation

Timothy Bresnahan

U.S. Department of Justice

Charles Caruso

Merck & Co.

Yar Chaikovsky

Zaplet

Adriana Chiocchi

J.H. Marsh & McLennan

Iain Cockburn

Boston University

Ray Conley

Oak Hill Venture Partners

John Danforth

Rambus

Bill Davidow

Mohr Davidow Ventures

Susan DeSanti

Federal Trade Commission

Hon. Q. Todd Dickinson

Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP

Raoul Drapeau

Independent Inventor

Boro Dropulic

VIRxSYS Corporation

Hon. Jon W. Dudas

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Hon. Timothy Dyk

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Richard Ehrlickman

IBM

Hon. T. S. Ellis III

Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Joe Farrell

University of California, Berkeley

Don Felch

UOP, Inc.

Maryann Feldman

Johns Hopkins University

Jim Finnegan

Lucent Technologies

Alec French

House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property

Nancy Gallini

University of Toronto

Alfonso Gambardella

University of Urbino

Richard Gilbert

University of California, Berkeley

Scott Giles

House Science Committee

Nicholas P. Godici

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Hon. Daniel S. Goldin

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Stuart Graham

University of California, Berkeley

Hilary Greene

Federal Trade Commission

Gary Griswold

3M Innovative Properties, Co.

Lewis Gruber

Arryx, Inc.

Christian Gugerell

European Patent Office

Dietmar Harhoff

University of Munich

Frank Hecker

CollabNet, Inc.

Markus Herzog

Weickmann & Weickmann, Munich

Diana Hicks

CHI Research, Inc.

Jennifer Horney

Center for the Public Domain

Justin Hughes

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Robert Hunt

Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank

Daniel Hunter

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Hon. Susan Illston

Federal District Court for the Northern District of California

Daniel K. N. Johnson

Wellesley College

Elke Jordan

National Human Genome Research Institute

Dale Jorgenson

Harvard University

Brian Kahin

Internet Policy Institute

Don Kash

George Mason University

Michael L. Katz

University of California, Berkeley

Julie Katzman

Senate Judiciary Committee

Esther Kepplinger

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

John King

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Michael Kirk

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Gert Kolle

European Patent Office

Martin Konopken

Autodesk, Inc.

Samuel Kortum

Boston University

Katharine Ku

Stanford University

Stephen G. Kunin

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Jeffrey P. Kushan

Powell, Goldstein, Frazier and Murphy

Jean Lanjouw

Yale University

Eric Larson

Pfizer

Ron Laurie

Skadden Arps

Mark Lemley

University of California, Berkeley

Joan Leonard

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Josh Lerner

Harvard Business School

Julia Liebeskind

University of Southern California

Nancy Linck

Guilford Pharmaceuticals

Bill Long

Business Performance Research Associates, Inc.

Chuck Ludlam

Biotechnology Industry Organization

Kristina Lybecker

University of California, Berkeley

Peter Lyman

University of California, Berkeley

Michael Lynch

Micron

Ron Marchant

United Kingdom Patent Office

Charles Marmor

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Evelyn McConathy

Dilworth Paxson, LLP

Hon. Roderick McKelvie

Federal District Court for the District of Delaware

Peter S. Menell

University of California, Berkeley

Robert Merges

University of California, Berkeley

Hon. Paul Michel

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Steven W. Miller

Procter & Gamble

Mary Ellen Mogee

Mogee & Associates

Kimberly Moore

George Mason University School of Law

Michael Morgan

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus

Michael Morris

Pharmacia

David Mowery

University of California, Berkeley

Ronald Myrick

General Electric Co.

Lita Nelsen

MIT

Hon. Pauline Newman

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Maria Nuzzolillo

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Sue H. Palk

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

R. Hewitt Pate

Department of Justice

Wayne Paugh

Intellectual Property Owners Association

Bob Potter

Department of Justice

Arati Prabhakar

U.S. Ventures Partners

Jonathan Putnam

Charles River Associates

Cecil Quillen

Cornerstone Research

Laurie Racine

Center for the Public Domain

Mark Radcliffe

Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, LLP

Hon. Randall R. Rader

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Terry Rea

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Dai Rees

European Patent Office

Larry Respess

Ligand Pharmaceuticals

Betsi Roach

American Bar Association

Mark Rohrbaugh

National Institutes of Health

James Rose

Altera Corporation

Michael Roth

Monsanto Company

Annalee Saxenian

Univeristy of California, Berkeley

Mark Schankerman

London School of Economics

Manny Schechter

IBM

F. M. Scherer

Harvard University

Petra Schmitz

European Patent Office

Susanne Scotchmer

University of California, Berkeley

Charles Shank

Berkeley Labs

Elizabeth Shaw

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

James F. Shekleton

South Dakota Board of Regents

Donald Siegel

University of Nottingham

Hon. Fern Smith

Federal Judicial Center and U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Neil Smith

Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin

Deepak Somaya

University of Maryland

Ronald Stern

Patent Office Professionals’ Association

Scott Stern

Northwestern University

Robert Greene Sterne

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C.

Robert Stoll

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Sylvie Strobel

European Patent Office

John (“Jay”) Thomas

George Washington University School of Law

Marie Thursby

Purdue University

Emerson Tiller

University of Texas, Austin

Albert Tramposch

George Mason University School of Law

Lawrence Trask

University of California, Berkeley

Jack L. Tribble

Merck & Co. Inc.

Paul Uhlir

The National Academies

Charles Van Horn

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Duner, LP

Hal Varian

University of California, Berkeley

Allen Wagner

Consultant

John Walsh

University of Illinois, Chicago

Mark Webbink

Red Hat, Inc.

Frank Weiss

Carr & Ferrell

John Wetherell

Fish & Richardson, PC

Brian Wright

University of California, Berkeley

Douglas Wyatt

Wyatt, Gerber & O’Rourke

Bob Young

Red Hat, Inc.

Arvids Ziedonis

University of Pennsylvania

Rosemarie Ziedonis

University of Pennsylvania

Thomas Zindrick

Amgen

Harriet Zuckerman

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation