IP and IT Conferences

Bend or Break: Tailoring the Patent System to Promote Innovation

January 22, 2010
UC Irvine School of Law

This one-day conference will address technology and innovation policy related to the U.S. patent system. The conference will consider current legislative proposals for patent reform, the role of the Patent Office, the role of the court system, and substantive changes in patent law that address such critiques. Consideration of these topics will be structured around commentary and discussion of The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It (D. Burk & M. Lemley, University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Presentations by nationally and internationally recognized scholars from law, business, and economics will consider historical, doctrinal, comparative, and empirical perspectives. Collected papers from the conference will be published in the UC Irvine Law Review. Confirmed speakers include:

Dan L. Burk – UC Irvine School of Law
Colleen Chien – Santa Clara University School of Law
Rebecca Eisenberg – University of Michigan Law School
Jeanne Fromer – Fordham University School of Law
Stuart Graham – Georgia Tech College of Management
Mark Lemley – Stanford Law School
Christopher Leslie – UC Irvine School of Law
Robert Merges – Berkeley Law
Michael Meurer – Boston University School of Law
Fiona Murray – MIT Sloan School of Management
Katherine Strandburg – New York University School of Law
Geertrui Van Overwalle – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Law
Polk Wagner – University of Pennsylvania Law School

Keynote Speaker: Honorable Randall Rader, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

“Patent Law Triumphs and Tragedies: A Professorial Commentary on Areas of Improvement for the Patent Act”

Eight hours of MCLE credit are available through UC Irvine Extension, an approved State Bar of California CLE provider.

Registration fee: $200 general; $75 students and faculty.

Register at events [at] law.uci.edu