Lehman predicts IP will be sidelined under Obama (full version)
16 March 2009
Peter Ollier, Hong Kong
“The age of IP rights being at the forefront of American trade policy is over”, according to former USPTO commissioner Bruce Lehman
Speaking last Wednesday at a breakfast briefing for the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and later the same day at a public lecture for the Hong Kong IP Department Lehman, now of counsel at Whiteford Taylor Preston in Washington, spoke about how the Obama administration’s IP policies may affect China and the rest of Asia.
Lehman was head of the USPTO from 1993 to 1998, during the previous Democratic administration under former president Bill Clinton. During this time the TRIPs Agreement was finalised, the DMCA passed into law and WIPO’s two copyright treaties were developed. ...
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