University of Houston
Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
Ninth Annual Spring Lecture
Sponsored by Baker Botts LLP
R. Anthony Reese
Chancellor’s Professor of Law
University of California – Irvine School of Law
Click here for his faculty listing.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
5:30 P.M. RECEPTION
6:15 P.M. LECTURE
Coronado Club
919 MILAM – HOUSTON
CONFERENCE ON LAW AND SOCIETY PERSPECTIVES ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND POLICY
Golden Gate University School of Law
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA November 4-5, 2011
University Conference Center, 6th Floor
Intellectual property law has become an increasingly important and prominent feature of the legal landscape worldwide over the past several decades. While there is by now a strong academic tradition of studying IP law and policy from legal-doctrinal, philosophical, and economic perspectives, there is still little scholarship that examines IP law, actors, institutions, and processes from other perspectives, including those drawing on socio-legal studies, legal history, political science, empirical legal studies, “law and society”, anthropology, and cultural studies.
This Conference brings together leading international scholars from diverse disciplinary perspectives to focus on the legal, social, and cultural dimensions of intellectual properties—including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and rights of publicity. These interdisciplinary IP scholars employ a creatively eclectic approach to the study of intellectual property law and policy, primarily through empirical examinations of intellectual property law “in action”—as it actually operates in society. The papers for this Conference also direct critical attention to the significance of intellectual property in contemporary processes of globalization and political economy.
The papers produced for this Conference will be published in an academic press book to be edited by GGU Law Professor William Gallagher and Professor Deborah Halbert, of the University of Hawaii.
Schedule of Presentations
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4:
1:30-2:00 Registration and Welcome
2:00 Introduction
“A ‘Law and Society’ Perspective on IP”
William T. Gallagher Golden Gate University School of Law
Deborah Halbert University of Hawaii Department of Political science
2:15 Presentations Begin
Overview:
“IP Law as Labor History”
Catherine Fisk U.C. Irvine School of Law
“Intellectual Property in Context: Creativity and Cultural Production.”
Olifunmilayo Arewa: U.C. Irvine School of Law, Department of Anthropology
IP Law and Policy:
“Intellectual Property Policy Space: Does Law and Society Have a Place?”
Shubha Ghosh University of Wisconsin School of Law
“Assessing the Progress of WIPO’s Development Agenda: Law and Policy”
Debora Halbert: University of Hawaii Department of Political Science
Intellectual Property Law “In Action”
“The Research Bay – Studying the Global File Sharing Community”
Mans Svensson Lund University, Department of Sociology
Stefan Larsson
Marcin de Kaminski
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5:
9:00 a.m. Presentations Begin
Intellectual Property Law “In Action”
“Do We Really Need Moral Rights Protection?”
Arul George Scaria Ludwig Maximilians University
Copyright, Culture, and Creativity:
“Copyright and Digital Art: Through the Looking Glass”
Smita Keria University of Edinburgh School of Law
“Making a Living and Making Do and Legal Instruction: Two Stages in the Harvesting of Intellectual Property, Analysis of a Qualitative Empirical Study”
Jessica Silbey Suffolk University School of Law
Patents, Politics, Innovation, and Markets
“The Social Consequences of Patent Institutions and Prizes in Technology Markets”
Zorina Khan: Bowdoin College Department of Economics Research Associate,
National Bureau of Economic Research
“Patent Law and Abortion Politics: A Historical Analysis.”
Kara Swanson Northeastern University School of Law, Department of History
“Startup Company Narratives of the Patent System”
Ted Sichelman University of San Diego School of Law
“All Together Now: Collaborative Innovation Trends in Patented Inventions”
Richard Gruner The John Marshall Law School
Enforcing and Resisting IP
“Policing Intellectual Property Under the Shadow of Law”
David S. Wall: Durham University Department of Criminology
“The IP Law Disputing Process”
William T. Gallagher Golden Gate University School of Law
Interpreting IP
“Exposing the Continuation of the Geographic Boundaries of Empire in the New Digital Order”
Doris Long The John Marshall Law School
“A Right is Born: Celebrity, Property, and Postmodern Lawmaking”
Mark Bartholomew University at Buffalo School of Law
Commentators:
Collen Chien Santa Clara University School of Law
John Conley University of North Carolina School of Law
Marc Greenberg: Golden Gate University School of Law
Cameron J. Hutchison University of Alberta Faculty of Law
Peter Yu Drake University School of Law
On Friday, November 18, 2011, the Intellectual Property Institute at the University of Richmond School of Law will host the Fifth Annual Evil Twin Debate, featuring Professor Daniel Crane of University of Michigan Law School and Professor Michael Carrier of Rutgers University School of Law at Camden.
The Evil Twin Debate series is founded on the notion that experts are often at loggerheads on important issues of IP policy, yet remain friendly on a personal level. The series therefore brings together pairs of scholars who disagree on an important IP topic, but who can air their disagreements in a friendly exchange — serious in substance but lighthearted in tone. Past debates can be viewed on the Evil Twin website.
This year’s topic is “Drug Settlements: Patently Anticompetitive?” Many recent patent infringement suits between pharmaceutical manufacturers and generic drug manufacturers have resulted in settlements. Anticompetitive concerns arise when these settlements maintain the patent holder’s exclusivity even when the patent is not actually infringed or the patent is invalid. These concerns increase when the settlements include “reverse-payments” to the generic company to delay its entry into the market. This debate will address when, if ever, these settlements should be invalidated and, if so, how such improper settlements can be identified.
The debate will run from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the moot court room at Richmond Law. Admission is free and the public is welcome to attend. A Q&A session and reception will follow. The event has been approved for one hour of Virginia CLE credit.
Coodinating with ATRIP Annual Conference hosted by Chicago-Kent, UW CASRIP will extend IP prof list members and ATRIP members an invitation to attend 2012 High Tech Summit which will be held at the University of Washington School of Law on July 27 and 28, the dates right before ATRIP conference. We will offer a scholarship for covering registration fees for full-time academic participants.
Speakers include Chief Judge Rader from US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Chief Justice of IP Chamber at People’s Supreme Court of China, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, India
Topics include America Invents Act from Comparative Law Perspective; IP Protection and IT/Pharama Industries in Emergent Markets; Global Licensing and Cross-Border Infringement, etc.
We are planing a special event exclusive to academic participants for celebrating CASRIP 20th anniversary on Saturday afternoon, July 27.
Details will be announced soon at http://www.law.washington.edu/Casrip/
Call For Papers
Campbell Law Review Symposium
Raleigh, North Carolina, March 16, 2012
The New Global Convergence: Intellectual Property, Increasing Prosperity, and Economic Networks In The Twenty-First Century
Campbell Law Review is organizing its annual law review symposium, this year designed to address issues of new global convergence, particularly in the area of intellectual property. The symposium invites scholars to examine these economic and legal developments in light of the emerging global system, fraught with peril and promise as we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century.
PAPER DETAILS: Papers should be developed, but to a point where they can still benefit from the group’s discussion.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please submit an electronic version of the paper no later than January 6, 2012 to Michael Crook, Editor-in-Chief, culawreview@email.campbell.edu
Paper selection will be finalized by January 20, 2012.
CONFIRMED PRESENTERS:
- Tim Holbrook, Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
- William Hennessey, Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire School of Law
- Peter Yu, Professor of Law, Director of Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School
- Mark Cohen, Visiting Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
- Andrew Chin, Associate Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
Call For Papers
Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth Third Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation
Northwestern University, Thursday, June 21st, 2012 – Friday, June 22nd, 2012
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Third Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation. The conference will be held at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, IL. The conference will run from approximately 12:00 P.M. on Thursday, June 21st, 2012 to 3:00 P.M. on Friday, June 22nd, 2012. There will be a dinner reception and keynote address on Thursday night.
CONFERENCE DETAILS: The conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, and Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law (Courtesy). The goal of this conference is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern’s own distinguished faculty to present and discuss highquality research relevant to Internet search and innovation. The conference will cover academic work on Internet search and innovation and the discussion will examine related public policy issues in antitrust, regulation, and intellectual property.
TOPICS: Topics include:
- Internet search and antitrust
- Privacy issues in Internet search and marketing
- Competition and barriers to entry in two-sided markets
- Business method inventions and patents for Internet inventions
- The Internet, innovation, and intellectual property
- Market design, platforms, and e-commerce
- R&D and innovation in high-tech
- Open standards and entrepreneurship
- Data portability
- Cloud computing
- Joint work in economics and computer science on search algorithms and other topics related to Internet search
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: editjems@kellogg.northwestern.edu
PARTICIPATION: Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. Potential attendees should indicate their interest in receiving an invitation by sending a message to Derek Gundersen at: dgundersen@law.northwestern.edu
Authors will receive an honorarium of $1,500 per paper. The honorarium is intended to cover reasonable transportation expenses. Government employees and non-US residents may be reimbursed for travel expenses up to the honorarium amount. Authors are expected to attend and participate in the full duration of the conference. If more than one author attends the conference, the honorarium or travel reimbursement will be divided equally between the attending authors.
The Searle Center will make hotel reservations and pay for rooms for authors and discussants for the night of Thursday, June 21st. For those travelling from the West Coast or from out of the country, we will also reserve and pay for the night of Wednesday, June 20th. The Searle Center gratefully acknowledges the support and participation of Microsoft and Google.
REVIEW PROCEDURE AND TIMELINE: Conference Papers Submission Deadline: Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: editjems@kellogg.northwestern.edu by February 7, 2012.
NOTIFICATION DEADLINE: Authors will be notified of decisions by February 23, 2012. Potential attendees should send a message indicating their interest to Derek Gundersen at d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu by June 17, 2012.
The conference is organized in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), which is edited by Daniel F. Spulber. JEMS encourages submissions on Internet search and innovation. Submissions are independent of the conference. Authors presenting papers at the conference need not submit to JEMS and are welcome to publish their work in other venues (with appropriate acknowledgement of the Searle Center). To submit to the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, access ScholarOne at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jems
Papers prepared for the conference will be permanently hosted on the Searle Center website: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law was established in 2006 to research how government regulation and interpretation of laws and regulations by the courts affect business and economic growth. Information on the Searle Center’s activities may be found at: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter
Please save the date for the 31st Annual Congress of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in IP (ATRIP) on July 29- Aug. 1, 2012.
Chicago-Kent College of Law is honored to host this international conference, marking only the second time the ATRIP Congress has been hosted in the U.S.
The theme of the conference will be:
Intellectual Property: Methods and Perspectives.
Chicago is known as the home of law and economics, a methodology that has loomed larger in intellectual property law scholarship (and policymaking) in recent years. However, the diversity of methods used and perspectives displayed in scholarship is now quite vast. This Congress will explore examples of a variety of methods and perspective, including some that are long-standing (e.g., historical analysis or political economy) and some that are more recent (empirical analysis or international relations).
Can Canada Learn Anything From Europe?
European Perspectives on Copyright Law in the Information Era
Friday, October 21, 2011 – 9:00am-5:00pm
Ottawa Convention Centre, Ottawa, Canada
(Also available by webcast)
Overview
We don’t hear enough about European copyright law, especially when it comes
to reforming the law in Canada. Is there anything we can learn from Europe?
This conference is a forum to hear the various European perspectives on the
copyright issues countries, like Canada, face. This event will provide an
opportunity to discuss and consider comparative and regional approaches
emanating from Europe – which will contribute to ongoing debates regarding
copyright policy in Canada. This conference is designed for a wide-ranging
audience, from government to the academy, from stakeholder organizations to
members of the public.
Program
· Conference Chair: Dr. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Associate Professor,
Founder & Director of IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
8:15am-9:00am Registration and Breakfast
9:00am-9:15am Welcoming Remarks
· Dr. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Associate Professor, Founder & Director
of IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
9:15am-9:45am Keynote
· Prof. Dr. Silke von Lewinski, Max Planck Institute for
Intellectual Property and Competition Law
9:45am-11:00am Session #1: The Tortuous Path to Reform
· Chair: Dr. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Associate Professor, Founder &
Director of IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
· Denis Dambois, Administrator at the European Commission, DG Trade,
“Intellectual Property and Public Procurement” Unit
· Justice Vittorio Ragonesi, Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy
· Jonathan Griffiths, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen Mary
University of London
11:00am-11:15am Break
11:15am-12:30pm Session #2: Collective Licensing: Promises and Pitfalls
· Chair: Dr. Carys Craig, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law
School, York University
· Eric Baptiste, Chief Executive Officer, Society of Composers,
Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
· Dr. Martin Schaefer, Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert, Berlin
· Prof. François Dessemontet, Professor Emeritus of Contract and
Tort Law, Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Enterprise Law (CEDIDAC)
of Lausanne University
12:30pm-1:45pm Luncheon Buffet
· Lunch will be served in the second floor foyer with a spectacular
view of downtown Ottawa and the Parliament Buildings
1:45pm-3:00pm Session #3: Enforcement: Has it a Future?
· Chair: Prof. David Vaver, Professor of Intellectual Property Law,
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
· Dr. Mihály Ficsor, President, Hungarian Copyright Council, former
Assistant Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO), Budapest
· Giovanni Maria Riccio, Professor of Private Comparative Law,
University of Salerno, and Partner, Scorza Riccio & Partners, Rome
· Ted Shapiro, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Deputy
Managing Director – Europe, Motion Picture Association
3:00pm –3.15pm Break
3:15pm –4:30pm Session #4: Beyond Copyright: Contract and Commerce
· Chair: Prof. Victor Nabhan, Special Professor, Nottingham
University, President and Chair, Association Littéraire et Artistique
Internationale (ALAI)
· Dr. Gillian Black, Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of
Edinburgh; Solicitor
· Dr. Mindaugas Kiškis, Professor, Head of Department of E-Business,
Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
· Ted Shapiro, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Deputy
Managing Director – Europe, Motion Picture Association
4:30pm -4.45pm Concluding Remarks
· Prof. Victor Nabhan, Special Professor, Nottingham University,
President and Chair, Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale
(ALAI)
· Dr. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Associate Professor, Founder & Director
of IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
4:45pm End
Registration
All are welcome to attend. There is no registration fee.
Please RSVP by Monday, October 17, 2011, by email to
iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca.
Attend in Person
Ottawa Convention Centre
Room 210
55 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Canada
Attend via Webcast at Osgoode (or wherever you are!)
Osgoode Hall Law School
Faculty Common Room, Rm 2027
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Canada
Call for Papers
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Fourth Annual ISHTIP Workshop: Intellectual property as cultural technology
London School of Economics, 25 & 26 June 2012
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Intellectual property rights are generally supposed to function as means of stimulating and diffusing cultural production. This instrumentalist understanding of how intellectual property works as a cultural technology has survived for more than two centuries; it has been amplified and refined by a long tradition of economic analysis and economic history, and it has now been retrenched as the basic premise of contemporary debates about public domains, digital commons, and the expansion of corporate semiotic power. How plausible or illuminating is this pervasive representation of the agency of intellectual property rights?
There are some familiar ways of testing this representation. Lawyers and economists ask whether patent laws work as they should in the domains of, for example, software or biomedical innovation, they speculate as to the reasons why creativity in the fashion industry seems to flourish in a ‘negative space’ (a domain unframed by copyright law), and they ask how formal intellectual property rights work with ‘social norms’. But these lines of inquiry still reduce culture to what can be rendered in terms of scarcity, efficiency, and instrumentality.
The theme of this conference seeks to elicit alternative approaches to the cultural implications of intellectual property and cultural property laws. A rubric that turns on the terms ‘culture’ and ‘technology’ can only be open-ended, but the following questions might be taken as a rough starting point for reflection:
1.How might we understand the implication of different forms of intellectual or cultural property in economic, political, aesthetic, or scientific cultures? How might we schematize the ‘functions’ or ‘effects’ of intellectual property law in terms other than those of instrumentality, efficiency, or repressive power?
2.Do intellectual property regimes themselves have specific cultures? Here, ethnographic, historical, or sociological analyses might reveal the specific practices, techniques and media that condition the existence and effects of intellectual property forms.
3.Might we understand intellectual property as a mode of cultural creativity in its own right? Intellectual property law has evolved a complex set of fictions, semantic artifacts, themes, and figures that have an existence in broader cultural life, not just as agents of encouragement or constraint, but as conceptual resources that have shaped the discursive fields of various social cultures. Somewhat more abstractly, regimes of intellectual property have turned the improbable notion of ‘intangible property’, or of ‘intangible things’, into common currency. So, instead of seeing legal forms as secondary ratifications of cultural figures, might we instead explore intellectual property law’s own cultural intelligence and authorship?
We invite contributions from established and doctoral scholars working in the broad field of the humanities and the social sciences, including anthropology, economic history, history of science, media studies, literary theory, science studies, and critical theory, as well as legal history and legal theory.
Papers selected for presentation at the workshop will be circulated in advance to registered participants. Abstracts of proposed papers (together with a brief author bio) should be submitted by 1 March 2012. A maximum length of 9,000 words is recommended.
Important dates
Submission of proposal (abstract and bio): 1 March 2012
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2012
Submission of paper: 1 June 2012
Workshop: 25-26 June 2012
Contacts
For information and programme updates visit the ISHTIP website
Please also visit the specific website for the Workshop at the LSE
Abstracts and author bios can be submitted to any of the following, who will circulate these to the Program Committee.
Alain Pottage, Law Department, LSE: r.a.pottage@lse.ac.uk
Tatiana Flessas, Law Department, LSE: t.flessas@lse.ac.uk
Dev Gangjee, Law Department, LSE: d.gangjee@lse.ac.uk
DePaul University College of Law
Chicago, IL
The Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT®)
cordially invites you to the
14th ANNUAL NIRO HALLER & NIRO DISTINGUISHED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LECTURE & LUNCHEON
followed by the annual CIPLIT
CONVERSATION WITH THE JUDICIARY
OCTOBER 28, 2011
12:00 -1:30 p.m. (1.25 CLE hours)
Crystal Room
Union League Club
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, Illinois
featuring:
Peter Lee, Professor of Law; UC Davis School of Law, 14th Annual Niro Distinguished Lecturer
Honorable James F. Holderman, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, ND IL
Honorable Virginia M. Kendall, Judge, U.S. District Court, ND IL
Honorable Matthew F. Kennelly, Judge, U.S. District Court, ND IL
Honorable Joan Humphrey Lefkow, Judge, U.S. District Court, ND IL
Honorable Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, Judge, U.S. District Court, ND IL
Patent Law and the Two Cultures
The 14th Annual Niro Haller & Niro Distinguished IP Lecturer Peter Lee will discuss his recent article, Patent Law and the Two Cultures , 120 Yale L.J. 2 (2010) focusing on the role of generalist judges in adjudicating technically complex patent cases, and the high information costs that such cases generate. Professor Lee will comment on recent Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Supreme Court cases distinguishing between the Federal Circuit’s heuristic approach and the Supreme Court’s holistic approach in its recent rulings in patent cases. He will offer prescriptions for crafting Supreme Court patent doctrine to ameliorate resulting cognitive burdens on generalist judges as well as address the impact of the new Leahy-Smith America Invents Act on the ease and/or difficulty of patent adjudication. A distinguished panel of judges who opted to participate in the Patent Pilot Project in the Northern District of Illinois will discuss the article and address related topics of current importance immediately following Professor Lee’s remarks as part of CIPLIT’s annual Conversation with the Judiciary.
The fee for the luncheon and panel discussion is $25.
Seating is limited. Please register online by October 21, 2011 by visiting http://www.regonline.com/niroandjudiciary.
DePaul students, faculty, and staff can register to attend for free by emailing Cecelia Story at cstory@depaul.edu.
DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider.
This program had been approved for 1.25 hour of CLE credit.
For more information, please contact:
Vadim Shifrin, Esq., Assistant Director, CIPLIT®
vshifrin@depaul.edu or (312) 362-8415
