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Intellectual Property Scholarship Seminar

Instructors: Pamela Samuelson and Suzanne Scotchmer
Meeting Time: Tuesday 2:20 - 4:10
Meeting Location: Boalt 145

This seminar will provide an opportunity for students to hear and engage with scholars of intellectual property law as they present current works in progress. Students will be expected to submit written reactions to some of the papers presented during the seminar and to take responsibility for leading discussions as to at least one of the papers. This seminar will be especially useful for those who want to deepen their knowledge of IP law, for those who want to sharpen their analytic skills, and who are interested in cutting edge research in the making.

Prerequisite: Due to delays in contruction; this course will meet in the Deans Conference room for the first week of the semester.

	August 21 Pamela Samuelson UC Berkeley School of Law Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability? (download paper in pdf format)
	August 28 Suzanne Scotchmer School of Law, Economics, & Public Policy, UC Berkeley KSR
	September 4 Mark Lemley Stanford Law School Copying In Patent Law (paper available in pdf format)
	POSTPONED to be scheduled later in the semester Jeff Lefstein University of California, Hastings College of the Law The Formal Structure of Patent Law and the Limits of Enablement (paper available in pdf format)
	September 18 Peter Lee University of California, Davis Public Norms and Private Ordering: The Contractual Construction of a Basic Biomedical Research Commons (paper available in pdf format)
	September 25 Steven Maurer University of California, Goldman School of Public Policy The Economics of Synthetic Biology (paper available in pdf format)
	October 9 Christopher Sprigman University of Virginia School of Law The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms in Stand-Up Comedy (paper available in pdf format)
	October 16 Molly Van Houweling UC Berkeley School of Law Author Autonomy and Atomism in Copyright Law (paper available in pdf format)
	October 23 Tony Reese University of Texas School of Law Are Creative Commons Licences Forever? (paper available in pdf format)
	October 30 Peter DiCola Northwestern University School of Law Sequential Musical Innovation and Sample Licensing (paper available in pdf format) new! updated 10/24
	November 6 William Fisher Harvard Law School A Prize System as a Partial Solution to the Health Crisis in the Developing World (paper available soon)
	November 13 Amy Kapczynski UC Berkeley School of Law Implementing TRIPS in India: A Case Study (paper available soon)
	November 20 Margaret Taylor Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Induced Technical Innovation under Cap-and-Trade Abatement Programs (paper available in pdf format) (supporting documents available in pdf format)