August 13 – Day1
8:00 – 8:30
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00
First Plenary Session
An Empirical Study of the U.S. Copyright Fair Use Cases
Barton Beebe – Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Rethinking the Virtues of Uniformity in Our Patent System
Craig Nard – Case School of Law, Case Western Reserve University
Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Neuroscience
Rebecca Tushnet – Georgetown University Law Center
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:00
First Parallel Session
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch
1:00 – 2:30
Second Parallel Session
2:30 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 4:30
Third Parallel Session
Federal Circuit Issues |
Copyright and Trademark Intersecting? |
IP Challenges Posed By the Internet |
Prudence vs. Power: It Does Matter in Patent Cases Lisa Dolak – Syracuse University, College of Law |
Customary Intellectual Property Jennifer Rothman – Washington University School of Law |
Copyright Norms of the Blogosphere: Linking, Quoting, Copying and Self-Help Ann Bartow – Univ. of South Carolina School of Law |
Mob Mentality and the Federal Circuit Kristen Osenga – Chicago-Kent/Univ. of Richmond School of Law |
From Copyright to Trademark Greg Lastowka – Rutgers School of Law – Camden |
Trademark “Use” and Internet Keyword Advertising: Resolving the Confusion Michael Landau – Georgia State University Law School |
Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? The Obviousness Project Lee Petherbridge – Loyola Law School |
Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law James Gibson – IP Institute, Univ. of Richmond School of Law |
Complex Regulation |
Patentability, Infringement, and In Vivo Conversion Andrew Torrance – University of Kansas Law School |
The Secret Life of Legal Doctrine: The Divergent Evolution of Secondary Liability in Trademark and Copyright Law
Mark Bartholomew – University at Buffalo Law School John Tehranian – University of Utah |
New Architectures for Music: Law Should Follow Technology and Economics Henry Perritt – Chicago-Kent College of Law |
4:30 – 5:00
Break
5:00 – 6:00
Fourth Parallel Session
IP in Government-Funded Research | Indirect Infringement Issues |
Impact of the Bahy-Dole Act on Genetic Research & Development: The Empirical Evidence to Date Charles McManis – Washington University School of Law |
Indirect Liability for Copyright Infringement in Multisided Markets Barak Orbach – The Univ. of Arizona, Rogers College of Law |
Ownership of State Funded Innovation Michael Mireles – University of Denver – Sturm College of Law |
Safe Harbors Molly Van Houweling – BCLT, Boalt Hall School of Law |
The Price of Progress: Are Universities Adding to the Cost? Lorelei Ritchie de Larena – Florida State University School of Law |
Applying General Tort Law to the Indirect Infringement of Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Charles Adams – University of Tulsa College of Law |
August 11 – Day Two
8:00 – 8:30
Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00
Fifth Parallel Session
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:00
Sixth Parallel Session
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch
1:00 – 2:30
Seventh Parallel Session
IP as Property | Free Speech and IP | Software Design and Licensing |
Life, Liberty, and Intellectual Property: Patents and the Independence of Innovators Mark Schultz – Southern Illinois University School of Law |
Authorship, Audiences and Anonymous Speech Thomas Cotter – Washington & Lee University School of Law |
Establishing Software Defaults: Perspectives from Law, Computer Science and Behavioral Economics Jay Kesan – Clg of Law and the Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Why Patents Fail as Property Michael Meurer – Boston University |
Reason or Madness: A Defense of Copyright’s Growing Pains Marc Greenberg – Golden Gate University School of Law |
The Fictional Physics of “Technological Protection” Wendy Seltzer – Brooklyn Law School |
Patents as Property: Rethinking the Exclusive Right in Patent Law |
Principles for Resolving Conflicts Between Trade Secrets and the First Amendment Pamela Samuelson – BCLT, Boalt Hall School of Law |
Software Licensing and Market Power in the Age of the Virtualized Computer Andrew Chin –University of North Carolina School of Law |
The Normative Foundations of Trademark Law Mark McKenna – Saint Louis University School of Law |
Are Patents a Threat to Online Speech? Jason Schultz – EFF/Boalt Hall School of Law Corynne McSherry – EFF |
Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century |
2:30 – 3:30
Break
3:00 – 4:30
Closing Plenary Session
The Law and Economics of Information Overload Externaltities
Frank Pasquale – Seton Hall University School of Law
Chain Reaction: How Property Begets Property
Sabrina Safrin – Rutgers Law School, Newark
Rethinking Trade Secret Disclosure in the Internet Age
Elizabeth Rowe – Levin College of Law, University of Florida
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Patents and Competition: Toward a Knowledge Theory of Progress
Rudolph J.R. Pertiz – New York Law School