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August 12 – Day One
8:00 – 8:30
Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:30 – 10:00
Opening Plenary Session
Introduction
Pam Samuelson – UC Berkeley Law School
Video
Impersonation
William McGeveran – University of Minnesota Law School
Video
IP – The Case for Participatory Culture
Madhavi Sunder – University of California, Davis
Video
Rethinking the Validity of Samuel Morse’s Telegraph Patent: A Foundational Patent Case in Historical
Context
Adam Mosoff – George Mason University Law School
Video
10:00 – 10:15
Break
10:15 – 11:30
First Breakout Session
Patent Track |
Copyright Track |
Trademarks Plus Track |
IP Theory |
Patentable Subject Matter |
Fair Use & Exhaustion |
Reputation, Publicity, and Trademark |
Open Innovation |
In re Bilski, Proxies, and the Role of Subject-Matter Thresholds in the Patent System Emily Morris – Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis Audio |
Objective Factors in Fair Use Litigation Barton Beebe – NYU Law School Matthew Sag – DePaul University College of Law Audio |
The Inalienability of the Right of Publicity Jennifer Rothman – Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Audio |
A Defense of Free Information Amy Kapczynski – UC Berkeley Law School |
The War on Patent Eligible Subject Matter in Software/Business Method Innovations Ann McCrackin – Franklin Pierce Law Center Audio |
Social Semiotics in the Fair Use Analysis Brian Holland – Texas Wesleyan School of Law Audio |
Social Shaming: Fighting Back Trademark Bullies Leah Grinvald – Saint Louis University School of Law Audio |
From Open Source Software to Open Patenting: What’s New in the Realm of Openness? Mariateresa Maggiolino – Bocconi University Audio |
Physicality in the Information Age: From Bilski to Non-Physical Methods Ben McEniery – Queensland University of Technology Audio |
Judges Playing Jury: Constitutional Conflicts in Deciding Fair Use on Summary Judgment Ned Snow – University of Arkansas School of Law Audio |
The Law of Reputation Laura Heymann – College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law Audio |
The Host’s Dilemma: Strategic Forfeiture in Platform Markets for Informational Goods Jonathan Barnett – University of Southern California Audio |
A Uniform Framework for Patent Eligibility Efthimios Parasidis – Saint Louis University School of Law |
Digital Exhaustion Aaron Perzanowski – Wayne State University Law School Jason Schultz – Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley Law School Audio |
The Moral Right of Dilution Sandy Rierson – Thomas Jefferson School of Law Audio |
The Penguin and the Cartel: Rethinking Antitrust and Innovation Policy for the Age of Commercial Open Source Stephen Maurer – UC Berkeley Law School Audio |
11:30 – 11:45
Break
11:45 – 12:30
Senior IP Scholar Session Video
Rob Merges – UC Berkeley Professor of Law and Technology; Director, Berkeley Center for Law &
Technology
Tom McCarthy – Senior Professor and Founding Director of the McCarthy Institute for Intellectual
Property and Technology Law, University of San Francisco School of Law
Paul Goldstein – Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
12:30 – 1:30
Lunch
1:30 – 2:45
Second Breakout Session
2:45 – 3:15
Break
3:15 – 4:30
Third Breakout Session
Patent Liability Rules |
ISPs and Takedown Notices |
Non-traditional IP Subject Matter |
IP Theory |
The Limitations of Intellectual Property: Tacit Knowledge and Vertical Academic Integration Peter Lee – UC Davis School of Law |
The Graduated Response Peter Yu – Drake University Law School |
“Hot News”: The Enduring Myth of Property in News Shayam Balganesh – University of Pennsylvania Law School |
Probabilistic Patent Races Ted Sichelman – University of San Diego School of Law Audio |
Secret Inventions Jonas Anderson – UC Berkeley Law School |
Rights Enforcement in Digital Environments Jennifer Urban – Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley Law School Audio |
Personal Information as Intellectual Property Dorothy Glancy – Santa Clara University School of Law Audio |
Duration in Intellectual Property Jeanne Fromer – Fordham Law School Audio |
Patent Inflation
Jonathan Masur – University of Chicago Law School |
The French Copyright Authority (HADOPI), the graduated response and the disconnection of illegal file-sharers Nicholas Jondet – The University of Edinburgh Audio |
The Fashion of TV Show Formats Stefan Bechtold – ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) |
The Placebo Effect in Intellectual Property Mark McKenna – Notre Dame Law School |
Property Rules, Liability Rules and Patent Law: Legal Experiments in the Cathedral Andrew Torrance – University of Kansas School of Law |
Eldar Haber – Tel Aviv University |
Talk Derby to Me: Emergent Property Norms Governing Roller Derby Pseudonyms David Fagundes – Southwestern Law School |
Interpretation as Constraint Satisfaction: A Theoretical Framework for Patent Claim Construction Harry Surden – University of Colorado Law School |
4:30 – 5:00
Break
5:00 – 6:15
Fourth Breakout Session
Inequitable Conduct, Willfullness, and Patent Examination |
Copyright in Specific Contexts |
Trade Secrets |
Empirical and Historical Studies of IP |
Supplemental Examinations to Consider, Reconsider, or Correct Patent-Related Information: A Tangled Web Indeed Lisa Dolak – Syracuse University College of Law Audio |
Creative Commons Olympics Herkko Hietanen – Berkman Center for Internet and Society |
How the Use of algorithms and Trade Secrets in Credit odeling Scuttled the Financial Capital Market Brenda Reddix-Smalls – North Carolina Central University School of Law Audio |
William Callyhan Robinson and the Shaping of Modern Patent Law Jeffrey Lefstin – UC Hastings College of Law Audio |
Reforming Inequitable Conduct Tun-Jen Chiang – George Mason University School of Law |
Copyright in Memoriam Julie Cromer Young – Thomas Jefferson School of Law Audio |
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Copyright Strength and Growth in the Creative Industries Mark Schultz – Southern Illinois University School of Law Audio |
Christoper Seaman – Chicago-Kent College of Law |
Romancing Tradition: A Cautionary Note on Traditional Knowledge-Folklore Rights Sean Pager – Michigan State University College of Law |
Private Law Theory and Corrective Justice in Trade Secrecy Eric Claeys – George Mason University School of Law Audio |
An Empirical Study of U.S. Copyright Publication Cases Deborah Gerhardt – UNC School of Law Audio |
An Economic Analysis of Patent Law’s Inequitable Conduct Doctrine Thomas Cotter – University of Minnesota Law School |
Copyright, Norms, and Copyright Norms: Examining Incentives in Today’s Photojournalism Eva Subotnik – Columbia Law School |
Channeling Best Mode’s Barrier to Trade Secrecy David Levine – Elon University School of Law, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society Audio |
Zvi Rosen |
6:15 – 8:30
Conference Dinner
8:30
End of Day One
August 13 – Day Two
8:00 – 8:30
Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:30 – 9:45
Fifth Breakout Session
9:45 – 10:15
Break
10:15 – 11:30
Sixth Breakout Session
11:30 – 12:00
Break
12:00 – 1:15
Seventh Breakout Session
1:15 – 2:15
Lunch
2:15 – 3:30
Eighth Breakout Session
3:30 – 4:00
Break
4:00 – 5:30
Closing Plenary Session
The Creativity Effect
Christopher Buccafusco – Chicago-Kent College of Law
Christopher Sprigman – University of Virginia School of Law
Video
Employment IP and Innovation: A Dynamic Model of Optimal Human Capital Flows
Orly Lobel – University of San Diego School of Law
Video
Data Sharing, Latency Variables and the Science Commons
Jorge Contreras – Washington University in St. Louis
Video
6:30 – 9:00
Conference Dinner
9:00
End of Day Two