IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global Conversation
Friday, November 14, 2025 | 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM (PT)
Heyns Room, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law Center
Co-Hosted by Robbins Collection Research Center & UC Berkeley Korea Law Center
| Time (PT) | Panel |
Speakers & Moderators |
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Registration + Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. | Welcoming Keynote Speech | Robert Merges, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law |
| 9:15 – 10:25 a.m. |
Panel I: AI’s Challenge to Inventorship 1.25 General CLE Credit |
Speakers: Nalini Mummalaneni, USPTO Christopher Mammen, Womble Bond Dickinson (United States) Chris de Mauny, Bird and Bird (United States) Yong woo Shin, Jipyong LLC (Korea) Moderator: Yuan Hao, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law |
| 10:25 – 10:40 a.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 10:40 – 11:50 a.m. |
Panel II: AI’s Challenges to Non-obviousness / Inventive-step and Disclosure 1.25 General CLE Credit |
Speakers: Yuan Hao, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law Peter Lee, UC Davis Law Lisa Ouellette, Stanford Law Arti Rai, Duke Law Moderator: Robert Merges, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law |
| 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. |
Lunch |
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| 1:10 – 2:35 p.m. |
Panel III: Style, Voice and NIL: Protecting Human Persona in the AI Age 1.25 General CLE Credit |
Speakers: Jyh-An Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong Chien-Chih (Jesse) Lu, National Chengchi University (Taiwan) Robert Merges, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law Duane Valz, Valz Legal Peter Yu, Texas A&M Moderator: Laurent Mayali, UC Berkeley Law |
| 2:35 – 2:50 p.m. | Coffee Break |
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| 2:50 – 4:15 p.m. |
Panel IV: AI’s Challenge to Authorship 1.25 General CLE Credit |
Speakers: Matt Blaszcyzyl, Michigan Law James Freedman, Capital Architects (United States) Ge Jiang, Tsinghua (China) Hon. Kwangnam Kim, Seoul High Court, IP Division (Korea) Matthias Leistner, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) Moderator: Peter Yu, Texas A&M |
| 4:15 – 4:30 p.m. | Coffee Break |
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| 4:30 – 5:55 p.m. |
Panel V: Copyright Infringement and the Fair Use Defense 1.25 General CLE Credit |
Speakers: Brian Carver, Google Matthias Leistner, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) Sangchul Park, Seoul National University (Korea) Seagull Song, King & Wood Mallesons (China) Janel Thamkul, Anthropic Moderator: Daryl Lim, Penn State Dickinson Law |
| 5:55 – 6:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
Yuan Hao, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law |