Third International Conference on the Intellectual Property Protection of High Technology:
Intellectual Property Protection of Computer Software

Organizer: Research Center for Intellectual Property Law, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Chair: Bing Wang, Director, Research Center for Intellectual Property, Professor of Law, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Co-Chairs:
Bill Hennessey, Professor of Law, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, USA.

Joan Clark, Gowling, Strathy & Henderson, Ottawa, Canada.

Secretary-General: Dr. Cui Guobin Assistant Professor, School of Law, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Date: December 9-10, 2005.

Place: Minglilou, School of Law, Tsinghua University, Beijing China.

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IP3: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INNOVATION POLICIES AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Hong Kong
December 9-10, 2005

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:

Hong Kong will host the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference on December 13-18, 2005. Held the weekend before the WTO Ministerial, this conference brings together leading academics, legal practitioners, policy makers and technology experts to address the latest developments and challenges in the areas of intellectual property and information technology.

CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZERS:

– China Information Technology & Law Centre, Faculty of
Law, University of Hong Kong
– Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program,
Michigan State University College of Law

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Regulating Search: A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy
Yale Information Society Project
December 3, 2005
Yale Law School

Search is big business, and search functionality increasingly shapes the information society. Yet how the law treats search is still up for grabs, and with it, the power to dominate the next generation of the online world. How will this potential to wield control affect search engine companies, their advertisers, their users, or the information they index? What will search engines look like in the future, and what is the role of regulators in this emerging market? This symposium will map out the terrain of search engine law & policy.

Regulating Search? is the first academic conference devoted to search engines and the law. The symposium will bring together technologists, policymakers, entrepreneurs, executives, lawyers, computer scientists, and activists to discuss the emerging field of search engine law. It will examine trends in litigation involving search engines, identify the interests that are implicated by the increasing legal control of search, and discuss appropriate public policy responses.

Link: http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/regulatingsearch.html