IP and IT Conferences

14th Annual Richard C. Sughrue Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy
University of Akron School of Law
Akron, OH
March 19, 2012

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The Privacy Paradox: Privacy and Its Conflicting Values

Co-Sponsored by the Stanford Law Review & the Center for Internet & Society

When: February 2 – 3, 2012
Location: Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbot Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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Everyone is Invited
How should the legal system adjust to our evolving and oftentimes conflicting expectations of privacy? The symposium will bring together some of the nation’s foremost practitioners and academics to address the conflict between privacy and our core values.

The symposium will begin Thursday evening with an interactive talk on robots, drones, and the civilian uses of military technology. There will be real drones on display Thursday evening (provided by the MLB company). On Friday, we will feature panels on privacy and its conflicting values, such as the First Amendment. The symposium will close with a keynote on Friday evening.

Last year, the Stanford Law Review symposium attracted roughly 400 Silicon Valley attorneys, professors, students, and advocates. Registration is free but required. CLE credit will be available.

Confirmed speakers include:

Keynote: Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Opening Speaker: Catherine Crump (ACLU)
Dr. Russ Altman (Stanford University)
Geff Brown (Microsoft)
Cindy Cohn (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Simon Frankel (Covington & Burling LLP)
Tom Goldstein (Stanford Law School/Goldstein & Russell, P.C.)
Kashmir Hill (Forbes)
Hank Greely (Stanford Law School)
Daniel Kreiss (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Betsy Masiello (Google)
Deven McGraw (Center for Democracy and Technology)
Kevin Milne (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services—Office for Civil Rights)
Stephen Morris (MLB Company)
Jeffrey Rosen (George Washington University Law School)
Peter Swire (Ohio State University Law School)
Omer Tene (Tene & Associates)
Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law School)

Brooklyn Law School Symposium: Private Data/Public Good: Emerging Issues in Trade Secrets Law

Wednesday, April 4 11:00am – 3:15pm, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn

Co-Sponsors:
Trade Secrets Institute
Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law

Please RSVP by Friday, March 30 (check back soon for online registration).

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: This inaugural symposium, to be held by the Trade Secrets Institute, will focus on emerging issues in trade secrets law and the tension between the rights of information owners and the public.

What are the limits of trade secret protection? Who owns the data generated by individuals and aggregated by vendors? When does the public’s right to know about the effects of private activities on their health, about the procedures and findings of tribunals outweigh countervailing interests in keeping those facts secret? The symposium will bring together leading legal minds – academics, practitioners, and advocates – to address these questions.

The first panel will address data mining, at issue in the recent Sorrell v. IMS Health decision. The second panel will discuss the public health implications of trade secret protection. The keynote lunch speaker is the New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman.

CLE CREDIT: This course provides two and a half (2.5) CLE credits in the State of New York. The credits are non-transitional and the category is Areas of Professional Practice.

$25 ($10 per CLE credit) for Brooklyn Law School graduates who hold a current BLS Alumni Association Membership Card. If you would like to join, please call 718-780-7966. $100 ($40 per CLE credit) for all others.

ATTENDANCE: The program is free for those who do not want CLE credit. All attendees, however, must RSVP. For more information, please call 718-780-7904.

The Role of Non-Practicing Entities in the Modern Patent System: A Debate
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Cleveland, OH
Friday, February 24, 2012
9 am – 2:15 pm
Free

http://law.case.edu/lectures

PatCon 2, the annual Patent Conference, will be held May 11-12 at Boston College Law School. The Conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 11th, and conclude around noon on Saturday, May 12th.

The Patent Conference, or Patent Con, is a cooperative effort between the University of Kansas School of Law, the Chicago-Kent College of Law, the University of San Diego School of Law, and Boston College Law School to hold an annual conference where patent scholars in law, economics, management science, and other disciplines can share their research.

In 2010, the founders of PatCon, (David Olson, Dave Schwartz, Ted Sichelman, and Andrew Torrance) realized that the growth and importance of research in the area of patents required an exclusive forum that would enable participants to share their research with other experts and explore links across the legal and business side of patents. The first PatCon was held April 8, 2011, at the University of Kansas. Link. PatCon II will be hosted by Boston College Law School on May 11-12, 2012. Future annual conferences will rotate among the member institutions.

PatCon II will take advantage of its location in Boston, a leading center of public and private research and development. The 2012 Conference will offer a special plenary panel featuring general counsel from leading Boston-area companies that engage in cutting-edge research and development. These attorneys will discuss recent patent law and business developments and their practical effects, with a special emphasis on the life sciences. A Federal Circuit judge, who will also give a keynote speech during lunch, will moderate this panel.

Please note a change from last year’s format. This year we will be hosting both plenary and concurrent paper presentation sessions. The plenary panels will allow scholars to present current, well-developed work, while the concurrent sessions will be appropriate for less-developed drafts and works in progress.

If you would like to present your patent research at the 2012 Patent Conference, please submit an abstract to David Olson at david.olson.3@bc.edu by March 16th, 2012. If you’d like to attend without presenting, please also notify me by March 16th. Please specify if you’d like your paper to be considered for a plenary panel. Full papers for plenary sessions are due by April 27th. We welcome scholarship from not only from legal academics, but also from scholars in other fields, such as economics, business, management science, policy, public health, engineering, and technology studies.

Presenters will need to cover their own travel and accommodations expenses, but there will be no registration fee, and meals and refreshments during the conference will be provided. Dave, Ted, Andrew, and I look forward to your participation in PatCon2.

Sixth Annual Law & Information Society Symposium: Big Data, Big Issues
Fordham Law School
New York, NY
Website: http://www.law.fordham.edu/CLIPBigData

Date(s): 03.02.12 Fri
Time: 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
Location: Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge

Over the past few years we have witnessed the growth of a new type of data analysis where computers are able to analyze and use large interconnected databases of information in order to make useful predictions. This new form of data processing, popularly referred to as “Big Data,” has both benefits and risks. The public and private sectors are able to use this information aggregation and analysis to create new helpful information sets, but the same data collection and processing also poses threats to individual privacy. This conference will examine the rise of Big Data and consider how the law can address the privacy concerns without hampering innovation.

8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast & Registration

9:00 – 9:10 Welcome

9:10 – 10:00
Panel 1: How is Big Data Being Used?

This introductory panel will explore how the private and public sectors are using aggregated information to solve problems and create new products. Representatives of government and commercial data projects will discuss how information aggregation and analysis has produced new tools and useful information systems.

Moderator: Andrew E. Roth, Chief Privacy Officer, American Express

Panelists:
• Anjul Bhambhri, Vice President, Big Data Products, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
• Ken Dreifach, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, Rapleaf
• Linda I. Gibbs, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, New York City
• Eric Sammer, Principal Solutions Architect, Cloudera

10:00 – 11:15
Panel 2: Public Perceptions about Information Aggregation

This panel will explore what the public understands about data collection and aggregation and what they should know. Panelists will discuss what users understand about data collection, use and analysis. They will explore whether current methods of notice about aggregation and use are effective. Panelists will also discuss what level of knowledge consumers need and whether there are effective ways to educate and empower the public.

Moderator: Joseph Turow, Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

Panelists:
• Alessandro Acquisti, Associate Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
• Ryan Calo, Director, Consumer Privacy Project, Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School
• Daniel Jaye, President and Chief Operating Officer, Korrelate
• Maritza Johnson, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
• Jessica Staddon, Research Scientist, Google, Inc.

11:15 – 11:30 Break

11:30 – 1:00
Panel 3: Social Shifts and Privacy Risks Associated with Big Data

This panel will explore how big data projects have raised privacy concerns and altered social dynamics. Panelists will discuss how information aggregation and analysis can lead to re-identification and associated privacy risks. They will also explore the social and political impact of using aggregated information to predict behavior and serve content.

Moderator: Joel R. Reidenberg, Stanley D. & Nikki Waxberg Professor of Law and Academic Director of the Center on Law & Information Policy, Fordham Law School

Panelists:
• Jessica Rich, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC
• Christopher Soghoian, Open Society Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Indiana University
• Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor in Media Studies, University of Virginia
• Darren Erik Vengroff, Ph.D., Chief Scientist & VP of Product, RichRelevance
• Tal Zarsky, Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa Faculty of Law

1:00 – 1:50 Lunch

1:50 – 2:10
Keynote Address
The Hon. Julie Brill
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

2:10 – 2:15 Break

2:15 – 3:45
Panel 4: Balancing Privacy Interests and Innovation

This panel will explore how the law can protect consumer privacy without stifling innovation. Panelists will consider both how information aggregation as spurred innovation and impinged on individual privacy. They will discuss various regulatory and market options available to address the privacy concerns.

Moderator: Christopher Wolf, Partner, Hogan Lovells LLP

Panelists:
• Edward W. Felten, Chief Technologist, Federal Trade Commission and Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
• Paul Ohm, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
• Ari Schwartz, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Department of Commerce
• Felix Wu, Assistant Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
• Jane Yakowitz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

3:45 – 4:00 Break

4:00 – 5:30
Panel 5: The Ethics of Big Data Collection and Use

This panel will explore practitioners’ ethical obligations when advising clients engaged in big data projects. Panelists will consider what rights consumers have in their data and what level of notice companies should ethically provide about their use of consumer data. Panelists will explore what level of caution practitioners should suggest given the diversity of international privacy laws and the evolving nature of privacy regulation in the U.S. They will also explore how practitioners should weigh their obligations to a corporate client against their professional values of fairness and justice.

Moderator: Alexander H. Southwell, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Panelists:
• Solon Barocas, Doctoral Candidate, Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
• Alison Pepper, Senior Director, Public Policy, Internet Advertising Bureau
• Brendan Schulman, Special Counsel & E-Discovery Counsel, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
• Lisa J. Sotto, Partner, Hunton & Williams LLP
• Omer Tene, Associate Professor, College of Management School of Law, Israel

5:30 – 6:00 Cocktail Reception

5.5 NYS CLE Credits Available: 4 Non-Transitional Professional Practice Credits and 1.5 Non-Transitional Ethics Credits

Fees:
$90 – 5.5 CLE Credits
$50 – 5.5 CLE Credits for Fordham Law alumni
$50 – 5.5 CLE Credits for public interest attorneys
$25 – General Public Registration Fee

Currently enrolled law students may attend the conference for free, but prior registration is encouraged. Fordham Law School has a financial hardship policy. For additional information, please visit law.fordham.edu/cle

Contact: Jamela Debelak
Telephone: (212) 930-8878
Email: debelak@law.fordham.edu

AALS Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Bio Law Adapt?
Berkeley, California
June 10 – 12, 2012

Why Attend?
Synthetic biology, regenerative stem cells, chimera, fMRI, nanotechnology, cloud computing, social networks, and web 2.0 are just a few of the many technological advances of the first decade of the twenty-first century to which intellectual property (IP), internet and biolaw professionals are having to help the law adapt. This workshop will bring together leading thinkers not only from the legal academy, but also from fields of economics, business, biology, and computer science, to share insights about these technologies and how the law and lawyers can best adapt to these new phenomena.

The conventional wisdom in the IP field has long been that the grant of exclusive rights such as patents and copyrights is essential to foster innovation in virtually all fields of endeavor. This wisdom has been called into question to some degree by the rise of peer production processes, such as open source development, and by other modes of open innovation. How has and how should the law respond to open innovation? If users are innovating by tinkering with products that are patented or copyrighted, should special rules privilege this tinkering? The internet and other advances in information technology have made it possible for people to collaborate at a distance to construct significant information resources such as Wikipedia. Who owns what has been created collaboratively? What role do commons play in promoting innovation and progress? The rise of amateur creations such as remixes and mashups of copyrighted content, which are widely available on sites such as YouTube, have generated more legal questions than answers.

Social networks allow sharing of information beyond anything that could have been imagined a decade ago. What responsibilities do the operators of these networks have toward their users, particularly as to data mining with personal data about the users? Data mining has also become extremely important with large data sets, and bioinformatics is a new field of research that does not fit within standard models of disciplinary fields. Among the challenging questions that have arisen in the biological sciences have been whether products of synthetic biology can be copyrighted or subject to Creative Commons licenses. Thickets of patents on stem cell innovations and genetic materials are said by some to pose threats to the ongoing progress of research in these fields, and law professors, among others, are offering suggestions about how to overcome obstacles of this sort.

Beyond IP, advances in biology and biotechnology increasingly challenge not just the margins, but the core of the law as well. Functional brain scanning can now provide a detailed picture of the living, thinking human brain, complicating our understanding of such legal concepts as scienter, responsibility, guilt, and punishment. Rapid, inexpensive genome sequencing allows patients intimate knowledge of their genetic heritages, with consequences for employment, insurance, health, and family law. Embryonic stem cells raise myriad bioethical issues, renewing legal debates over property rights in human body parts and abortion rights. And, synthetic biology raises concerns biosafety, biosecurity, and the democratization of biotechnology.

This workshop will not only consider these types of questions, but also what kinds of changes to legal institutions might be necessary or desirable to render the institutions better able to adapt to the rapidly changing technological environment in which we live. Should the Federal Communications Commission have more regulatory authority over the internet? Do we need to recreate the Office of Technology Assessment inside the U.S. Congress? Is the Patent & Trademark Office able to handle the influx of applications in new fields of technology? How might the U.S. Copyright Office be revamped to make better use of information technologies and the internet? Does the Food & Drug Administration need to be redesigned? Because so many of the technology challenges today are not just national, but global in character, how does or should the regulatory infrastructure on an international scale need to be reconfigured to respond to these changes? To what extent do technologies themselves express policy and even regulatory choices?

This two and a half day workshop will feature three keynote speakers, several plenary panels on substantive issues such as those mentioned above, a debate about the patenting of genetic information by lawyers who have been involved in active litigation on these matters, an opportunity to converse with a remarkable group of senior women in the IP field, and breakout sessions to discuss open innovation in various fields, creative ways to teach difficult subjects with and about technology, and influences from other fields of knowledge that have a bearing on the work of IP, internet, and biolaw professionals.

Planning Committee for 2012 AALS Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Bio Law Adapt?
Margo A. Bagley, University of Virginia School of Law
Mark P. McKenna, Notre Dame Law School
Paul Ohm, University of Colorado Law School
Pamela Samuelson, University of California Berkeley School of Law, Chair
Andrew W. Torrance, University of Kansas School of Law

Where?
The Mid-Year Meeting will be held at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, California. The room rate is $189 for single or double occupancy; subject to a nightly sales tax of 14.065%. Hotel reservations will be available in January.

Meeting Registration?
Look for meeting registration coming in January 2012. You may register for both the Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Bio Law Adapt on June 10-12 and Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster on June 8-10. The registration fees for faculty at AALS member and fee-paid law schools are: $495 Early Bird Registration, $535 After Early Bird Date, and $780 for both workshops.

PROGRAM

Sunday, June 10, 2012

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
AALS Registration

1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Welcome

Susan Westerberg Prager, AALS Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer

Introduction

Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and Chair,
Planning Committee for AALS Workshop on Intellectual Property

2:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Plenary Session- Open Innovation and Governance Keynote:

Eric Von Hippel, Professor of Management of Innovation and Engineering Systems, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2:30 – 3:45 p.m.

Plenary Session – Open Innovation Panel

Carliss Y. Baldwin, William L. White Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts
Andrew Endy, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University School
of Medicine, Stanford, California
William W. “Terry” Fisher III, Harvard Law School
Brett Frischmann, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.

Refreshment Break

4:00 – 5:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions:

User-Generated Content on Social Networks and Other Collaborative Websites
Edward Lee, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Rebecca L. Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center

Open Biology

Joseph P. Jackson III, Founder, Open Science Summit, Mountain View,
California
Dave Opderbeck, Seton Hall University School of Law

Commercializing Open Innovations

Stuart Graham, Assistant Professor, College of Management, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Greg R. Vetter, University of Houston Law Center

Social Networks and Privacy

Chris Hoofnagle, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Frank A. Pasquale, Seton Hall University School of Law

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

AALS Reception

Monday, June 11, 2012

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Plenary Session – Updating the Regulatory Infrastructure –
Domestic Regulatory

Arti K. Rai, Duke University School of Law
Philip J. Weiser, University of Colorado Law School
Fred von Lohmann, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Inc., Mountain View,
California
Christopher M. Holman, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Law

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.

Refreshment Break

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Plenary Session – Challenges of Updating International Regulatory Infrastructure

Daniel J. Gervais, Vanderbilt University Law School
Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School
Amy N. Kapczynski, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Additional speaker to be announced

12:00 – 1:45 p.m.

AALS Luncheon

Edward W. Felten, Chief Technology Officer, Federal Trade Commission

2:00 – 3:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions: Pedagogy

Teaching Biotech
Sean O’Connor, University of Washington School of Law

Teaching with Digital Technology
Lydia P. Loren, Lewis and Clark Law School

Teaching Cyber Law
Ira S. Nathenson, St. Thomas University School of Law

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Plenary Session – Debate

Daniel Ravicher, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Kevin E. Noonan, Partner, McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert, & Berghoff LLP,
Chicago, Illinois

5:15 – 7:00 p.m.
AALS Reception

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Plenary Session – Conversation with Senior Women in the Intellectual
Property Field

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, New York University School of Law
Rebecca S. Eisenberg, The University of Michigan Law School
Wendy Jane Gordon, Boston University School of Law
Jessica Litman, The University of Michigan Law School

Moderator: Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.

Refreshment Break

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions – Influences from Other Fields

New Institutional Economics
Paul Heald, University of Illinois College of Law

Behavioral Economics
Christine Jolls, Yale Law School

Neuroscience/Cognitive Psychology/Marketing Behavior
Teneille Brown, University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law

Experimental
Christopher Sprigman, University of Virginia School of Law

12:00 – 1:45 p.m.

AALS Luncheon
Speaker to be Announced

2:00 – 3:15 p.m.

Plenary Session – Big Data / Evolutionary / Geonomics

Jeff Jonas, Chief Scientist, IBM Entity Analytics and IBM Distinguished Engineer,
IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York
Daniel Katz, Michigan State University College of Law
Peter Lee, University of California, Davis, School of Law
Victoria C. Stodden, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia
University, New York, New York

3:15 – 3:30 p.m.

Refreshment Break

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Plenary Session – Technology as Policy

Dan L. Burk, University of California, Irvine, Law School
Henry T. Greely, Stanford Law School
Orin S. Kerr, The George Washington University Law School
Deirdre K. Mulligan, University of California, Berkeley, Information School

Mark your calendars! TPRC 2012: 40th Research Conference on Communications, Internet and Information Policy will be held September 21-23, 2012 at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, VA.

The call for papers for this year’s conference will be available the end of January. Abstract submissions will begin March 1 with a deadline of March 31. Information concerning panel proposals, demonstrations and the student paper contest will be included in the call for papers.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

TPRC is switching to the SSRN (the Social Sciences Research Network) conference and archiving system this year. Abstracts and papers will be submitted via SSRN, and accepted papers will be accessible in the SSRN eLibrary. The TPRC archive of papers will also be migrating to the SSRN eLibrary. This will provide wider visibility and better searchability. The papers will be identified as TPRC conference papers.

If you are concerned about SSRN listing of a paper that you presented at TPRC, there are two options: (1) you may go to ssrn.com and mark the paper as private, which will remove it from the publicly searchable space, or (2) you may contact TPRC to have your paper marked as private or remove it from the archive altogether.

As part of the process of moving our archive to SSRN, you will receive a notification from SSRN when your archived paper has been uploaded. We will be archiving from 2011 backwards and this may take several months. Emails used to establish SSRN accounts for TPRC authors are solely used in conjunction with TPRC.

We Robot 2012: Setting the Agenda

Call for Papers

The University of Miami School of Law seeks submissions for “We Robot” – an inaugural conference on legal and policy issues relating to robotics to be held in Coral Gables, Florida on April 21 & 22, 2012. We invite contributions by academics, practitioners, and industry in the form of scholarly papers or presentations of relevant projects.

We seek reports from the front lines of robot design and development, and invite contributions for works-in-progress sessions. In so doing, we hope to encourage conversations between the people designing, building, and deploying robots, and the people who design or influence the legal and social structures in which robots will operate.

Robotics seems increasingly likely to become a transformative technology. This conference will build on existing scholarship exploring the role of robotics to examine how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, and even to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking of various policy issues.

Full details here.

Call For Papers: Third Annual INTA Trademark Scholarship Symposium

The International Trademark Association (“INTA”) is pleased to host the Third Annual Trademark Scholarship Symposium during the 134th INTA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The Symposium will take place on Monday, May 7, 2012 as part of INTA’s Academic Day and is an opportunity for trademark scholars from around the world (including full-time and part-time professors, graduates and post-graduate students) to participate in small group discussions of scholarly works-in-progress. Each selected scholar will present their project in a workshop setting, receive comments, and then have the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with other academic scholars and accomplished trademark practitioners.

Participants in the Symposium will also be able to attend other INTA Academic Day programs, including an academic forum all-professor panel, a trademark professor luncheon featuring presentations on the latest developments in the trademark field, a reception and other networking opportunities.

On or before January 15, 2012, interested academic scholars should send an abstract (approximately 300 words) describing a current scholarship project for a paper on a topic in the field of trademark or unfair competition law to Signe H. Naeve at SNaeve@uw.edu. The Task Force will then select a maximum of 12 projects to be presented at the Symposium, grouped into related topics or themes. Selections will be announced by February 15, 2012. For each selected project, a working draft of the paper to be presented must be submitted by April 15, 2012. Contact Signe if you have any questions.

The Symposium is organized by the INTA Professor Task Force:

· Barton Beebe, Professor of Law, New York University Law School
· David C. Berry, Professor of Law and Director, Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
· Megan M. Carpenter, Associate Professor of Law, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
· Eric Goldman, Associate Professor and Director High Tech Law Institute, Santa Clara University School of Law
· Mark Janis, Chair of Law and Director, Center for Intellectual Property Research, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
· Susan Barbieri Montgomery, Executive Professor of Law and Business, Northeastern University School of Law & College of Business Administration
· Signe H. Naeve, Associate Director, Law, Technology & Arts Group, University of Washington School of Law
· Antonio Selas, Professor of Law, Law School of Universidad Carlos III, Madrid Spain

INTA Academic Day and Annual Meeting Registration Information: INTA offers a variety of discounted registration options for INTA professor and student members and non-member professors and students to attend the 2012 INTA Annual Meeting. For Annual Meeting registration information, please contact Carin Diep-Dixon at cdiep@inta.org.