IP and IT Conferences

The GW Law Symposium on Intellectual Property

The George Washington University Law School, along with Howrey LLP and Cornerstone Research, is proud to present its second annual Law Symposium on Intellectual Property.

Join colleagues from private practice, the judiciary, economic consulting groups and academia to discuss hot topics and recent developments in IP law.

DATE
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

TOPICS INCLUDE:

Tips and trends for litigating in the busiest patent courts in the US
Interplay between “written description” and “enablement”
Strategic management of an IP portfolio
Industry perspectives on Bilski v. Kappos

VENUE

The symposium will be held at The George Washington University Law School, located at 2000 H Street NW, Washington, DC. The Law School is about 4 blocks from the Foggy Bottom/GWU and Farragut West Metro stations, both of which are on the Metro’s Blue and Orange lines. Parking is very limited around the law school.

Visitor parking is located at the Marvin Center Garage, 800 21st Street, between 21st and 22nd Streets. The cost is $7.00 for up to one hour, $13.00 for up to two hours and $16.00 daily.

CLE CREDITS
The George Washington University is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

The George Washington University will submit applications to the state bar associations for continuing legal education credits for the states of Pennsylvania and New York. Since crediting is decided by the local bar associations, no advance assurance can be given that credit will be granted in all cases. Please contact your state’s CLE administrative office to determine whether your state will accept the requirements established by Pennsylvania and New York.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Contact Stacey Gardiner at ipsymposium@law.gwu.edu

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The Scholarly Symposia Series
Current Issues in Intellectual Property Law
“The Brewing Storm on the Horizon: Terminations of Transfers Under the Copyright Act”
Prof. Lydia Loren
Lewis & Clark Law School

University of Dayton School of Law
Dayton, OH
Program in Law and Technology
March 11, 2010
6 pm to 8:30 pm

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*TPRC Presents*

*The 38th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet
Policy*

*Hosted by the Center for Technology and the Law, George Mason University
Law School, Arlington, Virginia*

*Friday, October 1 through Sunday, October 3, 2010*

*www.tprc.org*

TPRC is an annual conference on communication, information and internet
policy that convenes international and interdisciplinary practitioners and
researchers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations
together with policymakers. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint
policymakers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers
with the knowledge requirements of policymakers and industry. The conference
agenda will consist of papers selected from reviewed, submitted abstracts,
student papers and selected panel submissions.

TPRC is now soliciting abstracts of papers, panel proposals, and student
papers for presentation at the 2010 conference. Proposals should be based on
current theoretical or empirical research relevant to communication and
information policy, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. TPRC seeks
submissions of disciplinary, comparative, multidisciplinary or
interdisciplinary excellence. Subject areas of particular interest include,
but are not limited to the following: (Click on topic below for topic
descriptions.)

1. Network Competition, Policy and
Management
2. Broadband Deployment, Adoption and
Measurement
3. Spectrum Policy
4. Societal Issues: Universality and Affordable
Access
5. The Transformation and Future of
Media
6. The Transformation and Future of Intellectual Property and Digital
Rights
7. Privacy, Security, Identity and
Trust
8. Internet Governance and Institutional Strategies for Information
Policy
9. Advanced Mobile Services: Broadband, Video and New
Applications
10. The Internet
Ecosystem
11. Other Emerging Topics are highly
encouraged

Submissions are due by *March 31, 2010. *Abstracts and panel proposals must
be submitted electronically at http://www.tprc.org. Abstracts are not to
exceed 500 words. For paper abstracts, please identify the methods, central
ideas, and outcomes (obtained or expected) of the research. Responses will
be made by *May 15, 2010*. Selected papers will be due to TPRC on *August
15, 2010 *and one author of the paper is expected to present the accepted
submission.

Students are encouraged to submit papers for the student paper
competition (Click
Here for Student Papers CFP). *Full Student papers must be submitted by
April 30, 2010*.

We also welcome theme and industry-specific but not vendor-specific panel
proposals. These should include the Panel topic, a brief abstract, the name
of the Panel Moderator and an initial list of proposed panelists. The Panel
proposals should be submitted by *March 31, 2010*.

*Thank you to our current 2010 TPRC Sponsors*: Comcast, Google, Verizon,
George Mason University School of Law, Time Warner Cable, NextGenWeb.org,
Sprint, T-Mobile

Academic sponsors: Georgetown University, Michigan State University Quello
Center for Telecommunications Management and Law, University of Florida
PPRC, University of Colorado Silicon Flatirons Center, University of
Colorado Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, University of
Michigan School of Information, University of Texas Telecommunications and
Information Policy Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Center for Telecommunication Management & Law

For sponsorship information, please contact Syd Verinder,
sverinder@hotmail.com.

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Conference on Intellectual Property
April 30 – May 1, 2010

Iona College
New Rochelle, NY

In our second year, the Conference on Intellectual Property will continue to explore intellectual property in a cross-disciplinary context. What is it, how has it evolved as a concept, and in what ways do we feel its practical and theoretical impact upon academic, economic, legal and technological fields? From plagiarism, to patent law, to the Creative Commons and beyond, the conference is sure to offer a remarkable breadth and depth of insights and approaches to what may well be the defining issue of our time. Come join the conversation!

Dr. James Boyle will be presenting the keynote address.

Selected essays will be published in a proposed collection for a peer-reviewed press.

500-word Papers/Panel abstracts or complete papers should be submitted by February 25th, 2010 to Shannon Donlon at sdonlon@iona.edu. Questions can be directed to Dr. Amy Stackhouse at astackhouse@iona.edu.

http://www.iona.edu/cip

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The Information Economy Project at George Mason University is proud to announce the next ‘Big Ideas About Information’ Lecture:

Regulating Communications: Stories from the First Hundred Years
GLEN ROBINSON
Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission, 1974-76
David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus
University of Virginia School of Law

Thursday, February 18 at 4 p.m.
Room 120
George Mason University School of Law
3301 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Va.
(Orange Line: Virginia Square-GMU Metro)

Professor Robinson, drawing on his distinguished career as a scholar and policy maker, will present three stories to illustrate salient features of FCC regulation: (1) a story about the construction of regulatory paradigms, specifically the natural monopoly model, (2) a story of regulatory parthenogenesis, or the FCC’s self-defining qualities, and (3) a story about the symbols that drive or distort regulation, particularly in spectrum allocation policy. Flyer: Glen Robinson’s Feb. 18 Lecture

Admission is free, but seating is limited. To reserve your spot, please email: iep.gmu@gmail.com.

Thursday February 18
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., reception to follow

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George Washington University
Washington DC
Event link

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.

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The George Washington University Law School and the Washington DC Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA are excited to invite you to a luncheon program:

“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

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RICHARD C. SUGHRUE SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND POLICY

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

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Copyright Year in Review

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

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Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency

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

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