Jeff Brennan is a partner in the Antitrust/Competition group at Dechert LLP, in Washington, D.C. Jeff joined Dechert last year, after serving for 5 years, and in two positions, at the Federal Trade Commission. From 2001-04, Jeff was Assistant Director of the Bureau of Competition, in charge of the Health Care Services and Products Division. That Division has responsibility for, among other things, antitrust investigations and law enforcement regarding conduct in the pharmaceutical industry. During Jeff's tenure, the FTC's pharma industry antitrust cases included settlements of patent infringement actions, alleged sham patent litigation, and allegedly improper listings of patents with the FDA. In 2005-06, Jeff became Associate Director of the Bureau of Competition. In that role, he continued to have oversight duties over pharmaceutical and other health care cases, and also served as the FTC's principal writer of the joint FTC-DOJ Commentary on the Horizontal Merger Guidelines, published last year.

Kenneth M. Frankel is a partner in the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farrabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP. His practice focuses on litigation of intellectual property rights in U.S. federal courts, and advice to clients on antitrust and misuse issues in licensing and enforcing intellectual property. Since joining Finnegan in 1990, he has litigated numerous cases in the pharmaceutical, electronics, and mechanical fields involving extensive pretrial discovery and trials.

Prior to joining Finnegan, Mr. Frankel served for 16 years as a trial attorney with the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division. At the Antitrust Division, he litigated and investigated antitrust matters involving intellectual property issues, price-fixing conspiracies, and agreements and mergers in high technology industries. He often speaks at seminars on antitrust and misuse issues for intellectual property.

Mr. Frankel chairs the AIPLA’s Antitrust Law Committee.

Mr. Frankel recieved his J.D. from George Washington University, National Law Center in 1973 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1970.

Suzanne Michel is Assistant Director for Policy in the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission. She is involved in many of the IP and IP/antitrust issues that arise in the agency’s enforcement and policy initiatives, and she speaks frequently on those topics. The FTC awarded her the Paul Rand Dixon award for that work in 2002. Before joining the FTC seven years ago, Suzanne worked in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice where she defended the United States in patent infringement litigation.

Suzanne received her B.S. with honors from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University. She graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and was awarded the prize for best paper published by a graduating student. Following law school she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul R. Michel (no relation) at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is a registered patent attorney.

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Joel Wolfson is a Vice President and Assistant General Counsel in the Legal Department of Banc of America Securities, LLC in New York City. He had been a partner in Blank Rome’s Washington, D.C. office, specializing in transactions, corporate law, and public policy in financial markets, information law, biotechnology, intellectual property, and computer law. Prior to that, Mr. Wolfson was Vice President and Associate General Counsel for The Nasdaq Stock Market’s e-Commerce and Intellectual Property Practice Group.

Mr. Wolfson chaired the 1200 member Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) Committee on the proposed Uniform Computer and Information Transaction Act (UCITA). His recent publications include a multi-volume treatise on high-technology contract law, and law review articles on: (1) First Amendment protections against liability for incorrect information; (2) express warranties and published information; (3) the ability of licensing law and copyright law to peacefully co- exist; and (4) class action suits in bankruptcy court.