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Richard Leo
Leo Awarded Guggenheim FellowshipStory

Schedule & Panels

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

9:00-9:15 a.m.

Alice Kaswan, Symposium Faculty Advisor and Professor, USF School of Law

Keynote Address presented by Arthur O’Donnell, Executive Director, Center for Resource Solutions

9:15-10:00 a.m.

Break

10:00-10:15 a.m.

Panel 1: Key Issues in Distributed Generation: Regulatory Incentives and Authority

10:15-11:45 a.m.

Distributed generation poses new challenges to the existing framework of utility regulation. This panel will focus on whether existing utility policies governing 3rd-party ownership, net metering, interconnection, and feed-in tariffs work effectively and provide sufficient incentives for distributed generation. In addition, panel members will address how a moratorium on AB-32 implementation could impact incentives for distributed generation and other clean technologies

Moderator

Steve Weissman, Lecturer in Residence; Associate Director for the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment, Berkeley Law

Panelists
  • Paul Douglas, Supervisor – Renewable Procurement and Resource Planning, California Public Utilities Commission
  • Kevin Fox, Partner, Keyes & Fox, LLP
  • Matthew Freedman, Staff Attorney, The Utility Reform Network
  • David Rubin, Director of Service Analysis, PG&E

Lunch

11:45-12:45 p.m.

Panel 2: Intellectual Property Mechanisms for the Development and Dissemination of Clean Technologies in the US

12:45-2:15 p.m.

Considering the need for incentives for both technology development and diffusion, this panel will examine the effectiveness of existing intellectual property mechanisms and explore alternatives such as patent pools, compulsory licensing, open source standards, and intellectual property requirements associated with government funded research.

Moderator

David J. Franklyn, Professor of Law; Director of the McCarthy Institute for IP and Technology Law, University of San Francisco School of Law

Panelists
  • Matthew Dunne, Acting Chief Counsel, ARPA-E, U.S. Department of Energy
  • Peter S. Menell, Professor of Law; Director Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Berkeley Law
  • Vern Norviel, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  • Roger Ross, Vice President of Legal Affairs, Via Licensing

Break

2:15-2:30 p.m.

Panel 3: Intellectual Property and International Clean Technology Transfer to the Developing World

2:30-4:00 p.m.

Developed nations' transition to sustainable energy economies will be insufficient to stem global climate change if developing nations do not adopt clean technologies. This panel will examine the current debate regarding intellectual property rights and the transfer of clean technologies to developing countries.

Moderator

Robert Collier, Visiting Scholar, Center for Environmental Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Panelists

  • Jorge Contreras, Deputy Director, Intellectual Property Program, Washington University Law School
  • Mei Gechlik, Lecturer in Law and Microsoft Rule of Law Fellow, Stanford Law School
  • Victor Menotti, Executive Director, International Forum on Globalization

Reception

4:00-5:00 p.m.