Registration is now open for the 2012 IP Scholars’ Conference, to be held at Stanford Law School August 9-10. All the information you need is here:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/ipsc/dates.html.
We hope you will join us.
Please note the deadline of May 1 for requests to present, and the deadline of August 1 to submit your paper.
Avenue of the Arts: Connecting Creativity, Economics and the Law
Wake Forest University School of Law
Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law
Winston Salem, NC
Date: March 23, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. est.
Location: Worrell Professional Center – Room 1312
Overview
Inspired by Winston-Salem’s reputation as the “City of the Arts & Innovation,” this year’s symposium will focus on the intersection of intellectual property law practice and the arts, with special attention on the employment of artistic ventures as engines for economic development in local communities. In the field of the arts, intellectual property law provides artists and entrepreneurs with the tools to protect their original works, while the business-end of the industry deals with the monetization of such ventures. By exploring the intersections of these forces at work within the arts, we can come to a better understanding as to how to facilitate artistic expression in a way that both protects creators and disseminates the work to a large audience for maximum economic benefit. Panelists, including community leaders, attorneys, and legal and cultural scholars, will present on a variety of issues, including extension of protection for copyrighted works that have fallen in the public domain, the reach of personal liability for infringement of artistic works under the doctrines of contributory and vicarious liability, intellectual property issues related to public organizations, and programs designed to employ arts as an engine for economic development.
NYLS-IILP Panel 3/27 – International Perspectives on Copyright Reform #copyright #ACTA
New York Law School
New York, NY
On March 27 2012 the New York Law School Institute for Information Law and Policy will present a panel : International Perspectives on Copyright Reform. The program will address various international approaches to copyright law regulation as a means to combat piracy. The discussion will focus on recent legislation such as HADOPI (three strikes) in France, the now-abandoned PIPA/SOPA in the United States, Sinde Law in Spain, as well as international treaties such as ACTA. Panelists will compare the effectiveness of the legislation and the impact that it has on curbing online piracy.
When: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 – 6:00- 8:00 pm
Where: Faculty Commons, W203 185 W. Broadway St
RSVP: email naomi.allen@nyls.edu by Tuesday, March 20th
Webcast:: none.
Speakers::
* Steven Masur, Esq. Senior Partner, Technology, Corporate, Intellectual Property, Entertainment, MasurLaw
* Jason Pascal, VP, Licensing & Associate General, The Orchard
* Marie-Andrée Weiss, Law Offices of Marie-Andrée Weiss
* Professor Peter Yu, Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law Director, Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School
Moderator: Professor Molly Land, Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School
Website: http://isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=3044
We are pleased to announce the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal’s Annual Spring Symposium:
Piracy and the Politics of Policing: Legislating and Enforcing Copyright Law
March 28, 2012
Cardozo Law School, Moot Court Room
New York, Ny
Panel 1 4pm-6pm – 2 CLEs
Bring In The Nerds: Secrecy, National Security and the Creation of Intellectual Property Law
David Levine, Elon University School of Law
The negotiations of the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement has elevated intellectual property piracy to the level of national security concerns and have therefore been conducted largely in secret. However, the level of actual secrecy has been tiered, with corporate interests enjoying far more access to negotiation information than the general public. At the same time, similar intellectual property issues have been negotiated in the relative transparency of Congress’ debate over the pending Stop Online Piracy Act/PROTECT IP Act and OPEN Act, allowing for much greater public involvement. With national security concerns as the backdrop, the focus of this article is the use of national security arguments to prevent the public from accessing information about the creation of international intellectual property law and proposed ways to think about its implications.
Responders:
Annemarie Bridy, University of Idaho College of Law; Fellow and Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy
Mary LaFrance, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
*Dinner Reception 6pm-7pm*
Panel 2 7pm-9pm – 2 CLEs
Region Codes and The Territorial Mess
Peter Yu, Drake University Law School
Using DVD region codes as an illustration, this paper criticizes region codes as failing to provide effective protection against cross-border infringement. It outlines the various unintended consequences the codes have created, ranging from inconvenience to intrusion on cultural rights, and considers the extension of region codes to other areas, such as cloud computing.
Responders:
Derek Bambauer, Brooklyn Law School
Molly Land, New York Law School
Each panel is approved for 2 transitional/nontransitional MCLE credits in the area of professional practice.
Please RSVP to managing@cardozoaelj.com by Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Stanford Law School, Friday, April 27, 2012
Stanford, CA
Event: Stanford IP Law and the Biosciences Conference
Join us on April 27, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m for an informative discussion with leading experts from academia, industry and the judiciary on the latest developments in intellectual property law and the biosciences. Judges, top legal scholars and experienced practitioners from across the country will examine some of the key legal and policy issues raised by the biosciences industry.
Panels:
o Patent Litigation in the Biosciences: A View from the Bench
o Patentable Subject Matter
o Luncheon and Keynote
o Solutions to the Biotech Patent Thicket
o Exhaustion, International Sales, and Downstream Contr
Confirmed Speakers:
o Steven C. Carlson, Fish & Richardson P.C.
o Gary Cohen, Lecturer-in-Law, Boston University School of Law
o Rebecca S. Eisenberg, University of Michigan Law School
o Drew Endy, Stanford University
o John Duffy, University of Virginia School of Law
o Daralyn Durie, Durie Tangri
o Robin Feldman, UC Hastings College of the Law
o Richard J. Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley
o Herbert Hovenkemp, University of Iowa, College of Law
o Hon. Susan Illston, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
o William F. Lee, WilmerHale
o Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
o Hon. Randall R. Rader, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
o Dan Ravicher, Cardozo Law School
o Alfred C. Server, WilmerHale
o Seth P. Waxman, WilmerHale
o Li Westerlund, Bavarian Nordic Inc.
Date and Time: April 27, 2012, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Location: Paul Brest Hall | Stanford Law School
Conference website: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/forms/IP2012_Participant.fb
7th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association
IP IN MOTION
O P E N I N G U P I P?
University of Leuven, Belgium
September 27-28, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
We kindly request that you share this call with your colleagues.
To subscribe to EPIP’s mailing list, please send an email to epip2012@law.kuleuven.be
with the word “Subscribe” in the subject field
The EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property) association will hold its 7th Annual Conference on September 27-28, 2012 in Leuven (Belgium). Scholars and practitioners interested in the economic, legal, political and managerial aspects of intellectual property (IP) rights are encouraged to attend the conference with or without paper presentation.
The conference aims to explore and stimulate debate regarding open innovation and creation, and to examine the interaction between open innovation and proprietary IP mechanisms. Is the IP rationale under pressure in view of these changing innovation dynamics? Are IP strategies ‘in motion’ in response to these emerging trends of increased openness?
The plenary sessions will be centered around the major theme of ‘IP in motion’. Leading economists, renown legal scholars, industry representatives and policy makers will take the floor as keynote speakers to share their insights and views on recent developments in the innovation and IP landscape. More in particular, the plenary sessions will address:
Open innovation and IPRs
Open source, open access and IPRs
Open standards and IPRs
Within the EPIP tradition, we are now issuing a call for papers to be presented in the parallel sessions. Submission is open to papers of general interest in the area of IP law and policy. Papers may address topics such as:
Open innovation, new business models and the role of IPRs
Patent pools, patent clearinghouses and open source models
Crowd sourcing and IPRs
Platform technologies and IPRs
Commons and IPRs
Standard setting and IP
Markets for IPRs
IPRs, entrepreneurship and growth
Green innovation and IPRs
Governance and IPRs
Trade secrecy and know how
Mobility of inventors
Networks of inventors
Disambiguating inventors’ names and addresses (methodological papers)
IPRs in science
Economic/financial valuation of IPRs (methodological and practical challenges)
University patenting
Conference website: http://www.epip.eu/conferences/epip07/
The 2012 Georgia Journal of Intellectual Property Law Conference
Back to the Future: Global Perspectives on the Future of IP Law in the Next Decade
University of Georgia School of Law
Dean Rusk Center
Athens, GA
Friday, March 2, 2012
Speakers:
Stacey Dogan
Jason Du Mont
Orit Fischman Afori
Mark D. Janis
Annette Kur
Michael Madison
Mark McKenna
Alain Strowel
Andrew Torrance
Rebecca Tushnet
Moderators: Joseph S. Miller & David Shipley
Call for Papers: Charting the New Frontiers of Intellectual Property Protection of Luxury Goods
The Law and Technology Center at the University of Hong Kong will host a conference entitled “Charting the New Frontiers of Intellectual Property Protection of Luxury Goods.” This two-day event will take place at the University of Hong Kong on Friday, June 15, and Saturday, June 16, 2012.
The conference aims to explore intellectual property protection of luxury goods from inter-disciplinary perspectives, such as law and economics, cultural studies, psychology, consumerism, and social justice. The context of the conference is very interesting: Hong Kong is an international hub for merchandising luxury goods and China has become the world’s largest luxury market. This interdisciplinary conference will feature presentations by a group of leading intellectual property scholars from the USA and Europe and leading practitioners in Hong Kong and mainland China.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Barton Beebe, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.
- Sonia Katyal, Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
- David Llewelyn, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, King’s College London
- Haochen Sun, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
- Uma Suthersanen, Professor in International Intellectual Property Law, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London
- David Tan, Assistant Professor of Law, National University of Singapore
- Peter Yu, Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law, Drake University Law School
- Diane Zimmerman, Samuel Tilden Professor of Law Emerita, New York University School of Law
We will invite more scholars to speak at the conference.
If you are interested in participating, please send your paper or abstract to: lawtech@hku.hk by April 20, 2012. We will make decisions by April 30, 2012.
We will seek to publish the collected conference papers with a leading publisher. We welcome any submissions about intellectual property protection of luxury goods, but prefer those applying inter-disciplinary methods. For any inquiries about the conference, please contact Professor Haochen Sun at haochen.sun@hku.hk.
Are Patents Good for Science?
The Innovation Law Lecture
Rochelle Dreyfuss
March 22, 2012 – 4:00pm – 5:00pm
University of Pittsburgh School of Law – Innovation Practice Institute
3900 Forbes Avenue – Room 109
Pittsburgh, PA, 15260
On April 5, 2012, the Golden Gate University School of Law and IP Law Center will host Professor Mark Lemley at the 4th Annual Distinguished IP Law Speaker Series event. 6 p.m. Professor Lemley will lecture on the topic of “Why Do Juries Decide Whether Patents are Valid?”.
Place:
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
