HOPKINTON, Mass., March 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
WHO: Krish Gupta, Senior
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at EMC
WHAT: Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on "The Impact of Abusive Patent Litigation Practices on
the American Economy"
WHERE: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
WHEN: 10:00 a.m. ET,
March 18, 2015
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that at 10:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, March 18, 2015, Krish Gupta, SVP and Deputy General Counsel at
EMC, will testify at a hearing before the Unites States Senate,
Committee on the Judiciary, on a panel of invited experts. The
hearing will examine "The Impact of Abusive Patent Litigation
Practices on the American Economy." Just last month, Gupta
testified on this matter as part of an invited panel before
the United States House of
Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on
Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
"Abusive patent litigation is causing billions of dollars in
misdirected litigation spending and threatens to undermine the
very reason for which the patent system was created – to
provide the incentives and protections necessary for innovators to
invest in the next new technology that will benefit the American
consumer and economy. EMC urges Congress to pass
thoughtful legislation that restores balance and strengthens our
patent system so that it can continue to serve as a catalyst
for innovation."
Testimony Details
Panel testimony will take place at
10:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, March 18 at the Dirksen Senate Office
Building in room 226. A live stream of the hearing will be
available through the Senate Judiciary Committee website. As of the
distribution of this media alert, plans for live broadcast coverage
are being finalized, which may include C-SPAN.
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in
enabling businesses and service providers to transform their
operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this
transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and
services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping
IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most
valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and
cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found
at www.EMC.com.
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