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Session 4: The Changing Industry and Geopolitical Landscapes
“Change” is the key element for this session—how is it affecting the industrial environment? Identify the major global changes, including Asian vitality, European stagnation, and property rights.
Presentations
David Wyss, The Changing Geopolitical Landscape (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Links of Interest
Speakers
David A. Wyss
Chief Economist
Standard & Poor’s
David A. Wyss is chief economist at Standard & Poor’s, based in New York. In this position, he is responsible for S&P’s economic forecasts and publications, and co-authors the monthly Equity Insight and the weekly Financial Notes. David joined Data Resources, Inc. in 1979 as an economist in the European Economic Service in London, which was acquired by McGraw-Hill. He came back to the United States in 1983 as Chief Financial Economist for DRI/McGraw-Hill, became chief economist for Standard & Poor’s DRI in 1992, and chief economist for Standard & Poor’s in 1999. Before joining DRI, Dr. Wyss was a Senior Staff Economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and Economic Advisor to the Bank of England.
David holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He is on the board of the National Association for Business Economics. David testifies regularly before Congress, is quoted regularly in the press, and has appeared on many major television programs. He has written many articles for popular and professional publications.
Marshall J. Schmitt
Partner
Jenner & Block
Marshall J. Schmitt is a partner in Jenner & Block’s Chicago office. He is a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice. With a deep and varied background in physical and organic chemistry, Mr. Schmitt is especially well qualified to resolve disputes involving complicated scientific issues and to counsel clients in chemical and biotechnology matters.
Mr. Schmitt’s experience encompasses many subject matters including: patent; trade secrets; trademark; unfair competition; antitrust; False Claims Act; government contracts (including terminations for default); cable television franchising; insurance coverage; and dissolution of partnerships and professional corporations. Mr. Schmitt also has extensive experience in criminal matters representing indigent clients pro bono, including several death penalty cases.
Mr. Schmitt has extensive trial experience in a wide range of civil and criminal matters. He has participated in major trials in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois; the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of Missouri; and the United States Court of Federal Claims. He also has litigated cases in the California Superior Courts (Los Angeles and San Diego). He has argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the California Court of Appeals, and the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and participated in other appeals before the Illinois Appellate Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Schmitt is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the DuPage County Bar Association. He is a member of the Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Antitrust Law Sections of the American Bar Association and a former chairperson of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association.
Mr. Schmitt’s publications and other professional credentials include: “Long-Distance Fluorescence Quenching by Electron Transfer in Rigid Solutions,” Journal of American Chemical Society, 1982, 104, 6488 (co-author); “Private Enforcement, Antitrust and Unfair Competition (Under Illinois Law and Practice),” Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (co-author) (1996); and United States Patent No. 4,537,985, Process for the Manufacture of 1,4-Bis [2-(4’-Carbomethoxystyrenyl Benzene)] (co-inventor).
Mr. Schmitt is extremely active in his local community, where he has pursued many volunteer projects. In 2001, he was elected as a member of the Downers Grove (Illinois) Elementary School District 58 Board of Education. Mr. Schmitt is an avid runner, having completed many marathons in the United States and Europe.
Mr. Schmitt obtained his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1980 and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1983. At Harvard, he was an active member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. He has been admitted to practice in Illinois (1983) and before the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (1984), including the trial bar (1987), the Eastern District of Michigan (2004), and the Northern District of California (San Francisco Division), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1986), and the United States Court of Federal Claims (1995). He is also registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Patent Attorney (2002).
