IP and IT Conferences

George Mason University School of Law
Intellectual Property Program
Presents the Seventh Annual Symposium on

HOT TOPICS IN PATENT LAW 2008

July 21, 2008
Arlington, VA

http://www.law.gmu.edu/events/hottopics/2008

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*The Internet: Governance and the Law*

*Civil Society and the Governance of *

*Multimodal Communication*

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26-29 October 2008

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*McGill** University***

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*MONTRÉAL, Canada*

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*The Center for International Legal Studies in cooperation with McGill University and the Suffolk School of Law invites abstracts for papers on the role of civil society in the formulation, adoption and implementation of policies, regulations and laws affecting multimodal communication by governments and international organizations.*

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On the 28th and 29th October 2008 the European University Institute will host in Florence the first edition of “The Future of…” - Conference on Law & Technology, organized by the InfoSoc Working Group in conjunction with the Law Department of the European University Institute.

Such conference aims to be an original and ground-breaking symposium, attracting quality papers dealing with prospective studies and analyzes of legal developments and transformations expected in the future. Taking into account the present technological trends affecting society, the “Future of…” Conference challenges scholars to think and foresee the main problems and changes that Law will face and suffer in the upcoming future of ambient technologies, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, web 3.0, mixed realities (convergence between virtual and physical domains), autonomous software agents, artificial intelligence and many other features and elements.

Website: http://www.iue.it/LAW/InfosocWorkingGroup.shtml

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High Technology Protection Summit
July 25 and 26, 2008
University of Washington School of Law
Seattle, WA

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RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON PROPERTY RIGHTS ECONOMICS AND INNOVATION

November 13th - 14th 2008
Northwestern University School of Law
Chicago, IL
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Virtual Worlds, Social Networking and User-Generated Content
Vanderbilt University Law School
Nashville, TN
November 14-15, 2008

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High Technology Protection Summit
July 25 and 26, 2008
University of Washington School of Law
Seattle, WA

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The Boundaries of Intellectual Property Law
February 6-7, 2009
College of William & Mary - Marshall-Wythe School of Law
Williamsburg, Virginia

As the scope of intellectual property law continues to expand, courts and scholars are increasingly confronting the question of the law’s proper boundaries. Is it appropriate, for example, for content
owners to use copyright law to silence unflattering speech? Are countries’ trademark laws, which historically have been geographically limited, now essentially global trademark laws given Internet commerce? Is it consistent with the goals of patent law for the U.S. government, through the Patent and Trademark Office, to define the boundaries of what is patentable based on moral or other
non-innovation-related criteria? Is it important to cabin various IP doctrines to prevent overlap? Although such issues have been the topic of debate in the past, this symposium will provide the
opportunity for participants to take a systemic approach to the boundary question, yielding new scholarship that directly addresses the question of the proper goals of IP law and whether the scope of
our current system aligns with those goals.

Please contact Laura A. Heymann, laheym@wm.edu, for more information

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SubTech 2008 Conference
Substantive Technology in the Law School

William & Mary Law School
Williamsburg, Virginia

July 24 - July 26, 2008

http://www.legaltechcenter.net/subtech/index.html

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Register at http://lst.stanford.edu/transatlantic

Transatlantic Information Law Symposium
June 14, 2008
Stanford Law School
8:45am-5:30pm
(MCLE credits available)

In the twelve years since the publication of the paper Law and Borders – The Rise of Law in Cyberspaceby David G. Post and David Johnson, lawmakers and courts in the United States and European Union have had to address numerous new questions arising from new information technologies and online activities. What have we learned applying existing legal principles to new Internet phenomena? What new principles have been established and what new concepts underlie these principles? What role will new regulatory models and regimes play in the future?
The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) will host the first Transatlantic Information Law Symposium on June 14, 2008 at Stanford Law School. The goal of the symposium is to bring together the leading experts from the United States and European Union to discuss current issues in information law and to promote mutual understanding of the different approaches.

The symposium will address the following topics:
-Constitutional Rights and IT in the EU
-The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in EU Law
-The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in US Law
-Freedom of Speech and the Internet in US Law
-Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under US Law
-Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under EU Law
-The Future of Regulating Cyberspace - Open Discussion

Speakers include:
-Prof. Stefan Bechtold, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
-Prof. Paul de Hert, Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) - Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
-Lothar Determann, Baker & McKenzie LLP; UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
-Prof. Susan Freiwald, University of San Francisco, School of Law
-Prof. Paul Goldstein, Stanford Law School
-Michael Godwin, Wikimedia Foundation
-Prof. Dirk Heckmann, University of Passau, Germany
-Prof. Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
-Dr. Radim Polcak, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
-Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, University of Goettingen, Germany
-Prof. Andreas Wiebe, Austrian Visiting Professor, Stanford University; Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required at http://lst.stanford.edu/transatlantic

The Transatlantic Information Law Symposium dovetails with the 5th Annual Stanford E-commerce Best Practices conference. For more information about the E-commerce Best Practices conference and registration, please visit: http://lst.stanford.edu/best_practices.

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