| SBC Names Daley President |
11/19. SBC named William
Daley its new President. Daley will report directly to SBC's
Chairman and CEO Edward Whitacre.
SBC is the incumbent local exchange carrier in California,
Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana. SBC also holds a
majority equity interest in Cingular Wireless.
Daley was former President Bill Clinton's Secretary of
Commerce from January 1997 to June 2000. He resigned in June
2000 to become Chairman of former Vice President Al Gore's
presidential campaign. Whitacre stated in a release
that "His appointment as president of SBC signals the
importance of governmental matters to our company's ability to
grow revenues ..." |
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| More People and
Appointments |
11/20. The Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) named Dale Hatfield
to lead the inquiry of technical and operational issues
affecting deployment of wireless enhanced 911 (E911) services.
Hatfield is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecom
Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was
previously Chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and
Technology. See, FCC
release [PDF].
11/21. Randall Lee was named Regional Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's
Pacific Regional Office. He was previously Deputy Chief of the
Major Frauds Section in the Criminal Division of the U.S.
Attorney's Office (USAO) in the Central District of
California. Before joining the USAO, he was an associate in
the Los Angeles office of the law firm of Munger Tolles & Olson. He
replaces Valerie
Caproni, who is now Of Counsel in the New York City office
of the law firm of Simpson
Thacher & Bartlett. See, SEC release.
11/21. President Bush announced his intent to nominate Michael
Toner to be a Member of the Federal
Election Commission (FEC). Toner is currently Chief
Counsel to the Republican
National Committee. He was previously General Counsel to
the Bush Cheney Transition and Bush Cheney 2000. From 1997 to
1999, he was Deputy Counsel to the Republican National
Committee. In 1996, he was Counsel to the Dole Kemp campaign. He
was an associate in the Washington DC office of the law firm
of Wiley Rein and Fielding
from 1992 to 1996. See, White
House release.
11/19. Frank
Hunger joined the Washington DC office of the law firm
of Covington & Burling
as of counsel. He was Assistant Attorney General for the Civil
Division at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Clinton
administration. He is also former Vice President Al Gore's
brother in law. He will focus on litigation, including product
liability and class actions. See, CB
release [PDF].
11/20. The law firm of Howrey
& Simon announced the promotion of several associates
to partner in technology related fields. Juliana
Cofrancesco focuses on international trade and
intellectual property matters involving semiconductors,
computers, electronics, telecommunications, and other
industries. Chris Cooper focuses on antitrust,
including mergers, acquisitions and joint venture
transactions, including Hart Scott Rodino compliance and
filing and foreign competition filings. Buckmaster DeWolf
focuses on intellectual property litigation, including patent,
copyright, and trademark. Thomas Mavrakis focuses on
intellectual property matters, especially electrical
engineering topics, such as semiconductor manufacturing,
integrated circuit design, computer architecture and database
software. Andrew Piatnacia specializes in patent
litigation, primarily in the electronics area, including
microprocessors, memory chips, circuits, phase locked loops,
disk drive technology and software. Jennifer Sklenar
focuses on patent litigation involving biotechnology,
including electronic device patents. Hillary Snyder
focuses on counseling and representing clients before the
Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission in merger,
civil, and criminal investigations. Stephen Weissman
specializes in antitrust and trade regulation matters. Matthew
Wolf focuses on patent, copyright, and trade secret
issues, including patent matters concerning voice recognition
software. See, release. |
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| Monday, Nov 26 |
| The Senate and House will be in recess. |
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| Tuesday, Nov 27 |
The Senate will reconvene from its Thanksgiving recess at
10:30 AM. The House will reconvene at 2:00 PM. There will be
no votes before 6:30 PM.
TIME? There will be a hearing before the U.S.
District Court (DMD) in In re Microsoft Corp. Antitrust
Litigation, MDL No. 1332. This is a hearing on Settlement
Agreement, which proposes a settlement of the private
antitrust class action lawsuits against Microsoft alleging
that it overpriced its products.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM. The North American Numbering Council will
meet. Location: FCC, Room TW-C305 (Commission Meeting Room),
445 12th Street, SW, Washington DC.
1:30 PM. The U.S. International Telecommunication Advisory
Committee (ITAC) will hold a meeting. See, notice
in Federal Register. Location: State Department.
6:00 - 8:15 PM. The Federal
Communications Bar Association (FCBA) will host as CLE
seminar titled "The Economics of FCC Decisionmaking."
From 6:00 to 7:00 PM David Sappington (FCC Chief Economist)
will speak on "Economic Principles of Telecommunications
Regulation." From 7:15 to 8:15 PM there will be a panel
discussion titled "Economists Roundtable: Of Caps,
Limits, and the Free Market." The speakers will be Robert
Pepper (Chief of the FCC's Office of Plans and Policy), Jim
Bird (head of the FCC's antitrust merger review office), Walt
Strack (Chief Economist in the FCC's Wireless Bureau), and
Jonathan Levy (Deputy Chief of the FCC's Office of Plans and
Policy). RSVP to wendy@fcba.org.
Location: Dow Lohnes &
Albertson, 1200 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Suite 800,
Washington DC. |
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| Wednesday, Nov 28 |
8:30 AM - 12:00 NOON. The North American Numbering Council
will meet. Location: FCC, Room TW-C305 (Commission Meeting
Room), 445 12th Street, SW, Washington DC.
10:00 AM. The Supreme
Court will hear oral argument in Ashcroft v. ACLU,
No. 00-1293. This case involves the constitutionality of the
1998 Child Online Protection Act which makes it illegal
to provide to minors over the web material that is harmful to
minors. |
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| Neukom to Retire from
Microsoft |
11/21. Microsoft announced that Executive Vice President and
General Counsel William Neukom will retire at the end of this
fiscal year. He joined Microsoft in 1985. However, he began
his legal work for Microsoft in 1979 while at the law firm of Preston Gates.
Microsoft also named Brad Smith SVP and General
Counsel. He was previously Microsoft's Deputy General Counsel.
From 1993 to 1996, Smith directed Microsoft's European law and
corporate affairs efforts in Paris. Microsoft still faces
antitrust scrutiny by EU regulators.
Smith was previously a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling, where
he handled antitrust, intellectual property, and governmental
issues. See, MSFT
release. |
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| More News |
| 11/21. NASA published a notice
of prospective patent license in the Federal Register. It
states that Digital Interface Systems has applied for an
exclusive license to practice the invention described and
claimed in U.S.
Patent No. 5,905,568, titled "Stereo Imaging
Velocimetry". See, Federal Register, November 23, 2001,
Vol. 66, No. 226, at Pages 58761. |
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| Thursday, Nov 29 |
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Day one of a two day meeting of the National Science Foundation's
Advisory Committee for Cyber Infrastructure. See, notice
in Federal Register. Location: Room 1150, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA.
10:00 AM. The Senate
Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold an executive
business meeting. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.
12:00 NOON - 2:00 PM. Jane Mago,
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hosted by the District of Columbia Bar Association (DC Bar)
and the FCBA. To
register, contact the DC Bar at 202 626-3463.
12:15 PM. The Federal
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Michael Reede of the Hong Kong office of Paul Weiss
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China and India. Location: Paul Weiss, 1615 L Street, 13th
floor, Washington DC.
2:00 PM? The U.S. International Telecommunication Advisory
Committee (ITAC) will hold a meeting regarding preparations
for the 2002 World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC).
See, notice
in Federal Register. Location: State Department, Room 1408.
Extended to January 15, 2001.
Deadline to submit comments and Notices of Intention
to Participate with the Copyright Office (CO)
regarding royalty payments for retransmission of over the air
broadcast signals. The CO notice
"directs all claimants to royalty fees collected under
the section 119 statutory license in 2000 to submit comments
as to whether a Phase I or Phase II controversy exists as to
the distribution of those fees, and a Notice of Intention to
Participate in a royalty distribution proceeding." See, 17 U.S.C.
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| Friday, Nov 30 |
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Day two of a two day meeting of the
National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee for Cyber
Infrastructure. See, notice
in Federal Register. Location: Room 1150, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA.
10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. The American
Enterprise Institute (AEI) will host a panel discussion
titled "The PCS C Block Mess: The FCC as Auctioneer and
Banker". The panelists will be Robert Hahn (AEI
Brookings), Rudy Baca (Precursor Group), Harold Furchtgott-
Roth (AEI), George Reed- Dellinger (Washington Analysis), John
Thorne (Verizon), and Thomas Hazlett (AEI). See, online registration
page. Location: AEI, Wohlstetter Conference Center,
Twelfth Floor, 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington DC.
Deadline to submit comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
in its a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding
extending its Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule.
It proposes to extend the time period during which web site
operators may use an e-mail message from the parent, coupled
with additional steps, to obtain verifiable parent consent for
the collection of personal information from children for
internal use by the web site operator. The current rule
expires on April 21, 2002. The FTC proposes to extend this
until April 21, 2004. See, FTC release,
and notice
to be published in the Federal Register.
Deadline to submit comments to the Bureau of Export Administration
(BXA) regarding its annual review of the foreign policy based
export controls in the Export Administration Regulations to
determine whether they should be modified, rescinded, or
extended. See, for example, Export Administration Regulations
(EAR), Section 742.12, pertaining to high performance
computers. See, BXA
notice. |
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