IP Speaker Series Lunches- Spring 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 12 p.m.
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Fl. Burns
Laura Heymann, Associate Professor, William and Mary Law School
Naming, Identity, and Trademark Law

Wednesday, February 3, 12 p.m.
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Fl. Burns
Michael Ryan, Director, Creative and Innovative Economy Center, GW Law
Patent Incentives, Technology Markets, and Public-Private Bio-Medical Innovation Networks in Brazil

Wednesday, February 10, 12 p.m.
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Fl. Burns
Abraham Drassinower, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Law School
What’s Wrong With Copying?

Wednesday, February 24, 12 p.m.
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Fl. Burns
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor, Harvard University Law School
Minds for Sale

Wednesday, March 24, 12 p.m.
Tasher Great Room, 1st Fl. Burns Library
Mark Janis, Professor, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law
Daniel Webster’s Patent Cases

*Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP one week in advance to iplaw@law.gwu.edu. Please RSVP to no more than one event at a time.

“Copyright and the First Amendment: An Examination of Golan v. Holder.”

Featured Speakers:

Moderator:

Robert Brauneis, Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director, Intellectual Property Law Program, George Washington University

Panelists:

David Lange, Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law, Duke University
Edward Lee, Professor of Law, Ohio State University
Christopher Mohr, Member, Meyer, Klipper & Mohr PLLC
Eric Schwartz, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Location: The George Washington University Law School, 2000 H Street, NW, Moot Court Room, Washington, DC 20052

Cost (includes lunch):

Copyright Society and D.C. Bar Members – $10.00

Students, academics, and government employees – Free (courtesy GWU Law).

Those who are entitled to free registration can register by sending an e-mail to Devin Doherty at meyerklipper@verizon.net. Those who need to pay the registration fee can register through use of the form available at http://www.csusa.org/chapters_dc_area.cfm

Co-sponsored by The University of Akron School of Law and Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Akron, Ohio
March 8, 2010

The 12th Annual Richard C. Sughrue Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy will be held in Akron,
Ohio on March 8, 2010. The program will include presentations by leading practitioners and academics on the
major issues of the day affecting intellectual property law. Presenters will discuss, among other topics, the
Bilski case, the proposed Google Books Library Project settlement, the doctrines of inequitable conduct and fraud,and the host of ethical and other issues associated with the practice of outsourcing work. A review of recent legislative developments also will take place.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

For registration Information, visit: http://www.uakron.edu/law/ip/sughrue-registration.dot

Intellectual Property Program
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Speaker: David Nimmer, Esq.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
6:00 pm

Jacob Burns Moot Court Room
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
55 5th Avenue
New York, NY

RSVP ipprogram@yu.edu

A workshop at Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Information Technology Policy

January 21–22, 2010
http://citp.princeton.edu/open-government-workshop/

This workshop will bring together academics, government, advocates and tinkerers to examine a few critical issues in open and transparent government. How can we better conceptualize openness and transparency
for government? Are there specific design and architectural needs and requirements placed upon systems by openness and transparency? How can openness and transparency best be sustained? How should we change the provision and access of primary legal materials? Finally, how do we best coordinate the supply of open government projects with the demand from tinkerers?

Anil Dash (Director, Expert Labs) will deliver the keynote.

Confirmed speakers include:
Jerry Brito, Tom Bruce, Brian Carver, Anil Dash, Ed Felten, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Ginny Hunt, John Joergensen, Clay Johnson, Eric Kansa, Carl Malamud, Patrice McDermott, Helen Nissenbaum, Roger Schonfeld,
Stephen Schultze, Adam Sedgewick, Lewis Shepherd, J.H. Snider, Josh Tauberer, Mike Wash, John Wonderlich

Schedule:
http://citp.princeton.edu/open-government-workshop/#schedule

*This workshop is free and open to the public.*
Please RSVP to citp@princeton.edu for a name tag and lunch.

Location:
Princeton University
Friend Center Convocation Room

Directions, Parking, Lodging:
http://citp.princeton.edu/open-government-workshop/#directions

Link and the blog.

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

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

From June 20 to June 22, 2010, the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation and the Professorship for Intellectual Property at ETH Zu-rich will jointly organize their

2010 WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS ON THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW.

The workshop will enable a small number of junior researchers from law and from economics to engage in an intensive, rigorous discussion of their own scholarly work. Several senior professors from law and from economics departments in Europe and the United States will provide feedback on the research projects. The workshop will be held in Wildbad Kreuth, a lovely region one hour south of Munich, Germany, from June 20 to June 22, 2010. The organizers will fund travel and hotel expenses for all invited workshop participants.

Excellent junior researchers (doctoral students, post-docs, research fellows and assistant professors) from law and from economics are invited to submit a curriculum vitae, a list of two references as well as an extended abstract of their research project and/or a draft paper by February 15, 2010.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by March 1, 2010. Papers are due for circulation among workshop participants and commentators on May 15, 2010. Please send your submissions to Prof. Stefan Bechtold,
sbechtold@ethz.ch. For junior researchers from economics, research projects should relate to industrial organization, competition, innovation and/or intellectual property and may include formal models as well as empirical or experimental approaches. For junior scholars from law, research projects should relate to intellectual property and/or competition law and must use law and economics as a research approach. In order to achieve a good international mix of workshop participants, submissions from researchers
from outside Europe are particularly encouraged.
The International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation
is a joint initiative by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property,
Competition and Tax Law as well as the Department of Economics, the Munich
School of Management, and the Faculty of Law of the Ludwig Maximilians
University of Munich. Any questions concerning the workshop should be
directed to Prof. Stefan Bechtold, sbechtold@ethz.ch, phone:
+41-44-632-2670.

The International Trademark Association (“INTA”) is pleased to host its First Annual Trademark Scholarship Symposium, which will be held during the 132nd INTA Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday, May 24, 2010. The Symposium will take place in connection with INTA’s Academic Day schedule, which will feature a series of programs of particular relevance to professors and students interested in trademark law and practice.

The Symposium will allow scholars working in the trademark field to participate in small panel presentations of their works-in-progress related to trademark law. In a workshop setting, presenting scholars will have the opportunity for feedback and dialogue with other academics and accomplished trademark practitioners. The Symposium will provide a unique opportunity for presenters to further develop their scholarship based on the insights of trademark specialists. Participants in the Symposium will also be able to attend other INTA Academic Day programs, including an Academic Forum panel, a Trademark Professors’ lunch meeting featuring presentations by leading in-house trademark counsel, and other networking events.

The Symposium is organized by the INTA Professor Task Force:

Mark Janis, Professor of Law and Ira C. Batman Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

David C. Berry, Professor of Law and Director, Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Antonio Selas, Professor of Law, Law School of Universidad Carlos III, Madrid Spain

Megan M. Carpenter, Associate Professor of Law, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law

Interested authors should send an abstract (approximately 300 words) describing a current scholarship project in the field of trademark or unfair competition law by March 1, 2010 to Prof. David C. Berry at berryd@cooley.edu. Questions and requests for further information can be directed to Prof. Megan M. Carpenter at mcarpenter@law.txwes.edu.

INTA Academic Day and Annual Meeting Registration Information: INTA offers a variety of registration options for INTA professor and student members and non-member professors and students to attend the 2010 INTA Annual Meeting. For Annual Meeting registration information, please contact Carin Diep-Dixon at cdiep@inta.org.

Submit articles for consideration by January 25, 2010

Junior Scholars in Intellectual Property (JSIP) offers an opportunity for junior scholars* writing in the areas of intellectual property, communications, and cyberlaw to receive commentary from established scholars in a focused workshop setting. Articles will be chosen prior to JSIP through a blind-review selection process. Accepted articles will receive detailed feedback from at least two commentators as well as from workshop participants.

COMMENTATORS:

Dan L. Burk, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Rebecca S. Eisenberg, University of Michigan Law School
Lydia Loren, Lewis & Clark Law School
Trotter Hardy, William & Mary Law School
Michael J. Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School
Maureen A. O’Rourke, Boston University School of Law
Gideon Parchomovsky, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Alfred C. Yen, Boston College Law School

JSIP PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Applicant-scholars should submit papers online at
http://www.law.msu/ipclp/workshop by January 25, 2010.

*Eligible junior scholars have seven years or less full-time teaching experience.

For more information please contact:

Adam Candeub, associate professor and acting director of IPCLP,
517-432-6906 or candeub@law.msu.edu

Sean Pager, assistant professor,
517-432-6972 or spager@law.msu.edu

Robert Heverly, visiting professor,
517-432-6936 or rheverly@law.msu.edu