IPSC 2006 Schedule
Last Updated: October 17, 2006

Day One | Day Two

August 10 ~ Day One

8:00 – 8:30 a ~ Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 am ~ First Plenary Session......
Audio

Barton Beebe
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
An Empirical Study of the U.S. Copyright Fair Use Cases

Craig Nard
Case School of Law, Case Western Reserve University
Rethinking the Virtues of Uniformity in Our Patent System

Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown University Law Center
Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Neuroscience

10:00 – 10:30 am ~ Break

10:30 – Noon ~ First Parallel Session

Patentable Subject Matter Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2	Copyright Puzzles Audio	IP as Regulation Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2
Robert Merges BCLT, Boalt Hall School of Law Locke Remixed	Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder University of California, Davis The Right to Mary Sue	Susan Scafidi SMU Dedman School of Law Counterfeit Chic: The Culture of the Copy in an Outlaw Medium
Kevin Emerson Collins Indiana University School of Law Propertizing Thought	Lydia Loren Lewis and Clark Law School Building a Reliable Semi-commons of Creative Works: Enforcement of Creative Commons Licenses	Shubha Ghosh SMU Dedman School of Law Decoding and Recoding Natural Monopoly Theory in Intellectual Property Law
Sean O’Connor University of Washington School of Law Using Science & Technology Studies to Redefine Patentable Subject Matter under the Progress Clause of the Constitution	Samuel Murumba Brooklyn Law School Originality, Fixation, and Idea-Expression Dichotomy: Copyright’s Trilogy or E Pluribus Unum?	Chris Holman Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law Do Exclusionary Settlements of Hatch-Waxman Patent Suits Violate Antitrust Law?
Eileen Kane Penn State Law School The Dormancy and Revival of the Patentable Subject Matter Doctrine	Mira Sundara Rajan The University of British Columbia The Phoenix from Ashes: Moral Rights and the Future of Copyright Law	Jessica Silbey Suffolk University Law School Origin Stories and Other Tales: Mythical Beginnings of Intellectual Property

Noon – 1:00 pm ~ Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 pm ~ Second Parallel Session

Invention Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2	Reconceptualizing IP Audio	International IP Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2
John Duffy George Washington University School of Law Inventing Invention: A Case Study of Legal Innovation	Trotter Hardy William and Mary Law School Copyright Law and Public Goods Revisited	Mary Wong Franklin Pierce Law Center Toward an Appropriate Normative Framework for Access to Knowledge in Shaping International Copyright Law & Policy
Gregory Mandel Albany Law School Patently Non-Obvious: How the Hindsight Bias Renders Patent Decisions Irrational	Ariel Katz University of Toronto School of Law Substitution and Schumpeterian Effects and a Product Life Cycle Theory of Copyright	Cynthia Ho Loyola University School of Law Extraterritorial Patent Infringement: A Comprehensive Consideration of Patent Policy
Katherine Strandburg DePaul University College of Law Research Tools and User Innovation	Alissa Centivany BCLT, Microsoft Research Fellow Copyright and DVRs: Implications of Timeshifting, Commercial Skipping, and Networking	Margaret Chon Seattle University School of Law Towards a Development-Oriented International Intellectual Property Balance
Richard Gruner Whittier Law School Attorneys as Patent Infringers: Patent Restrictions on Tax Planning Methods	Sara Stadler Emory University School of Law Copyright as Trade Regulation	Peter Yu Michigan State Univ. College of Law The International Enclosure Movement

2:30 – 3:00 pm ~ Break

3:00 – 4:30 pm ~ Third Parallel Session

Federal Circuit Issues Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2	Copyright and Trademark Intersecting? Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2	IP Challenges Posed By the Internet Audio
Lisa Dolak Syracuse University, College of Law Prudence vs. Power: It Does Matter in Patent Cases	Jennifer Rothman Washington University School of Law Customary Intellectual Property	Ann Bartow Univ. of South Carolina School of Law Copyright Norms of the Blogosphere: Linking, Quoting, Copying and Self-Help
Kristen Osenga Chicago-Kent/Univ. of Richmond School of Law Mob Mentality and the Federal Circuit	Greg Lastowka Rutgers School of Law – Camden From Copyright to Trademark	Michael Landau Georgia State University Law School Trademark “Use” and Internet Keyword Advertising: Resolving the Confusion
Lee Petherbridge Loyola Law School Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? The Obviousness Project	James Gibson IP Institute, Univ. of Richmond School of Law Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law	Susan Crawford Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Complex Regulation
Andrew Torrance University of Kansas Law School Patentability, Infringement, and In Vivo Conversion	Mark Bartholomew University at Buffalo Law School John Tehranian University of Utah The Secret Life of Legal Doctrine: The Divergent Evolution of Secondary Liability in Trademark and Copyright Law	Henry Perritt Chicago-Kent College of Law New Architectures for Music: Law Should Follow Technology and Economics

4:30 - 5:00 pm ~ Break

5:00 – 6:00 pm ~ Fourth Parallel Session

IP in Government-Funded Research Audio	Indirect Infringement Issues Audio
Charles McManis Washington University School of Law Impact of the Bahy-Dole Act on Genetic Research & Development: The Empirical Evidence to Date	Barak Orbach The Univ. of Arizona, Rogers College of Law Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement in Multisided Markets
Michael Mireles University of Denver – Sturm College of Law Ownership of State Funded Innovation	Molly Van Houweling BCLT, Boalt Hall School of Law Safe Harbors
Lorelei Ritchie de Larena Florida State University School of Law The Price of Progress: Are Universities Adding to the Cost?	Charles Adams University of Tulsa College of Law Applying General Tort Law to the Indirect Infringement of Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks

Day One | Day Two

August 11 ~ Day Two

8:00 – 8:30 a ~ Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 am ~ Fifth Parallel Session

Patent Reform Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2	Trademark Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2	IP Outlaws Audio
Kali Murray The University of Mississippi School of Law The Cooperation of Many Minds: Domestic Patent Reform Viewed Through a Multi-Institutional Perspective	Sean Pager Seattle University School of Law “I Get No Kick from [Sparkling Wine]”: A ‘Semi-Generic’ Analysis of Geographical Indications as Trademark Fair Use	Sonia Katyal Fordham University School of Law Property Outlaws II: Free(dom) Riding in the Age of Intellectual Property
Beth Noveck New York Law School “Peer to Patent”: Collective Intelligence and Intellectual Property Reform	Jasmine Abdel-Khalik UM-KC School of Law Timing is Everything: Trademark Applications for Scandalous and Disparaging Marks	Tyler Ochoa Santa Clara University School of Law Who Owns an Avatar? Assessing Claims of Copyright Ownership in Virtual Worlds
Matthew Sag DePaul University Patent Reform and Differential Impact	Robert Brauneis George Washington Univ. School of Law Geographic Trademarks and the Protection of Competitor Communication	Eddan Katz Yale Law School Copyright Contraband
Jay Dratler University of Akron School of Law Invention is a Process, or Why the Electronics and Pharmaceutical Industries are at Loggerheads over Patents	Eric Goldman Santa Clara University School of Law Brand Spillovers	Paul Ohm University of Colorado Law School The Myth of the Superuser

10:00 – 10:30 am ~ Break

10:30 – Noon ~ Sixth Parallel Session

Intellectual Property, Firms, & Access Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2	Public Domain/Intellectual Commons Audio	Contract Issues in Intellectual Property Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2
Dan Burk University of Minnesota Law School The Goldilocks Hypothesis: Balancing Intellectual Property Rights at the Boundary of the Firm	Elizabeth Townsend Gard Seattle University School of Law Unpublished Works in the Public Domain: A legal Assessment at Three	Viva Moffat University of Denver College of Law Opting Out of Copyright: Standard Form Contracts in the Digital Age
William Gallagher Golden Gate University School of Law Strategic Intellectual Property Litigation: An Empirical Study of Enforcement of Intellectual Property Claims	Robert Reis SUNY at Buffalo Law School The Public Trust Doctrine in the Intellectual Commons – Who Has Standing to Represent the Public Interest?	Lothar Determann USF School of Law Dangerous Liaisons – Software Combinations as Derivative Works?
Peter Menell BCLT, Boalt Hall School of Law Accessibility without Piracy: Reinvigorating Copyright’s Deposit and Catalog Functions in the Digital Age	Paul Heald University of Georgia Law School Copyright Ownership and Efficient Exploitation: An Empirical Study of American Works	Mark Lemley Stanford Law School Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking
Justin Hughes Cardozo School of Law Created Facts – Copyright and the Collapse of the Fact/Value Distinction	Christine Galbraith University of Maine School of Law A Panoptic Approach to Information Policy: Utilizing a More Balanced Theory of Property In Order to Ensure the Existince of a Prodigious Public Domain	Esther van Zimmeren University of Leuven, Belgium Patent Pools and Clearinghouse Mechanisms in Genetics

Noon – 1:00 pm ~ Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 pm ~ Seventh Parallel Session

IP as Property Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2	Free Speech and IP Audio	Software Design and Licensing Audio pt. 1 Audio pt. 2
Mark Schultz Southern Illinois University School of Law Life, Liberty, and Intellectual Property: Patents and the Independence of Innovators	Thomas Cotter Washington & Lee University School of Law Authorship, Audiences and Anonymous Speech	Jay Kesan Clg of Law and the Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Establishing Software Defaults: Perspectives from Law, Computer Science and Behavioral Economics
Michael Meurer Boston University Why Patents Fail as Property	Marc Greenberg Golden Gate University School of Law Reason or Madness:  A Defense of Copyright's Growing Pains	Wendy Seltzer Brooklyn Law School The Fictional Physics of “Technological Protection”
Adam Mossoff Michigan State University College of Law Patents as Property: Rethinking the Exclusive Right in Patent Law	Pamela Samuelson BCLT, Boalt Hall School of Law Principles for Resolving Conflicts Between Trade Secrets and the First Amendment	Andrew Chin University of North Carolina School of Law Software Licensing and Market Power in the Age of the Virtualized Computer
Mark McKenna Saint Louis University School of Law The Normative Foundations of Trademark Law	Jason Schultz EFF/Boalt Hall School of Law Corynne McSherry EFF Are Patents a Threat to Online Speech?	Michael Carroll Villanova University School of Law Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century

2:30 – 3:30 pm ~ Break

3:00 – 4:30 pm ~ Closing Plenary Session
Audio

Frank Pasquale
Seton Hall University School of Law
The Law and Economics of Information Overload Externaltities

Sabrina Safrin
Rutgers Law School, Newark
Chain Reaction: How Property Begets Property

Elizabeth Rowe
Levin College of Law, University of Florida
Rethinking Trade Secret Disclosure in the Internet Age

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Rudolph J.R. Pertiz
New York Law School
Patents and Competition: Toward a Knowledge Theory of Progress