Podcasts

October 15 & 16, 2009

9th Annual CIPLIT Symposium
Cyberlaw 2.0: Legal Challenges of an Evolving Internet

• Session 1: Characterizing Online Privacy
• Session 2: New Challenges to Privacy
• Session 3: Regulating Cyberspace
• Session 4: Constitutional dimensions of Cyberspace
• Session 5: Tackling Intellectural Property Law in Cyberspace
• Session 6: Junior Privacy Scholars Workshop

12th Annual Niro Distinguished Lecture

• 12th Annual Niro Scavone Haller & Niro Distinguished IP Lecture, Featuring Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, Standford University

For more information, please visit the Symposium Website.

September 16, 2009

Protecting Your Marks In & From the New Top Level Domains

• IT Contractual Aspects of New Top Level Domains
• Top Level Domains
• Trademark Protections in the New Top Level Domains

For more information, please visit the Domain Name Website.

April 8, 2009

Visiting Artist Series: Frank Catalano

• CIPLIT Visiting Artist Series - Part 1
• CIPLIT Visiting Artist Series - Part 2
• CIPLIT Visiting Artist Series - Part 3

For more information, please see the online brochure.

October 16, 2008

Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting Amercan Museums in the 21st Century

• Session 1 - Governance: The Increasing Challenges of Collecting, Displaying and Maintaining Museum Collections
• Session 2 - Risks Associated with Collecting Antiquities: Evolving Museum Practices and Standards
• Session 2 - Risks Associated with Collecting Antiquities: Evolving Museum Practices and Standards
• Session 3 - Risks Associated with International Loans: Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Immunity of Art Works from Seizure
• Session 4 - Future Directions: What's a Poor Museum (and Board) to Do?

For more information, please visit the Museum Conference Website.

September 20, 2007

Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines in the Developing World

• Opening Remarks
• Honorable Ronald A. Cass, Cass & Associates
• Dr. Buddhima Lokuge, Doctors Without Borders/MSF
• Professor Brook K. Baker, Northeastern University
• Dr. Sigrid Fry-Revere, Cato Institute
• Discussion

For more information, please see the online brochure.

August 9 & 10, 2007

Intellectual Property Scholars Conference 2007

First Plenary Session

• Did Phillips Change Anything? Empirical Analysis of the Federal Circuit’s Claim Construction Jurisprudence
• Aligning Incentives with Reality: Using Motivation for Creation to Shape the Scope of Copyright Protection
• Accommodating the Evolution of Intellectual Infrastructure: Applying Lessons from Trademark and Copyright to Improve Patent Law
• PatentSimT - Multi-User Interactive Patent System Simulation

1st Parallel Session

• Nonobviousness and Nerd Culture
• Remixing Obviousness
• Law & Economic Analysis of Patent Claim Construction
• The Path-Dependence of Claim Construction, and its Implications for Predictability in Patent Litigation
• The Public's Domain in Trademark Law
• Trademark Litigation as Consumer Conflict
• Category Theory Applied to Trademark Law: Cognitive Economy as the Paramount Goal in Genericism Cases
• Trademark Extortion: The End of Trademark Law
• Orphan Works and Google’s Global Library Project
• Toward a First Amendment Based Copyright Misuse
• Toward a Unified Theory of Intellectual Property Misuse

2nd Parallel Session

• Is the Patent Office a Rubber Stamp?
• An Empirical Evaluation of Whether Federal Trial Judges With More Experience in Patent Claim Construction Are More Accurate
• Where the Action is: Using Patent Attorney Practice Locations to Identify Regional Centers of Commercially Significant Innovation
• Search for Tomorrow: The Patent Office's Growing Reliance on Technology to Locate Prior Art
• The Role of Human Right Laws and Authorship Norms in Protecting Textual Integrity
• Race, Markets and Patents
• Patents as Genre
• The Effect of Judicial Ideology in Intellectual Property Cases
• A Framework for the Study of Constructed (Semi)Commons (or Pooling Arrangements)
• The Virtues of Moderation: Online Communities as Semicommons
• Facilitated Access and Benefit Sharing under the New FAO Treaty: The Interface of Open-Source and Proprietary Agricultural Innovation
• Normative Cultural Contracts between Media Owners/Creators and Fan Communities

3rd Parallel Session

• Property Altlaws II: The Anti-Delegation Doctrine in Intellectual Property
• Media Portrayals of the United States Patent System
• Copyright and the Commodification of Advantage: The Case of Test Prep and Admissions Counseling
• The Role of Science in Law
• Lost in Space: The Importance of Geospatial Copyright
• Intellectual Property Rights and Global Warming
• Incentivizing Government: The People’s Trade Secrets
• The Social Costs of Property Rights in Broadcast (and Cable) Signals
• Filling the DMCA Void: Exploring a Take-Down Provision for Take-Down Provision for Trade Secrets on the Internet

4th Parallel Session

• Section 104A and Section 104(a): A Case Study in the Complexities of Copyright Duration
• Copyrights Ownership – Reconsidering the CCNV Case
• Technological Protection Measures and Copyright Exceptions in EU27: Towards the Harmonization
• Copyright and Productivity: Escape from the Cost Disease
• Patents and Public Health: Separating Strands of Fact from Fiction
• Semiconductor Chips and Stem Cells: New Wine for New Bottles?
• Intellectual Property: Enabling or Limiting? A Case in Point: Autism an Epidemic
• The Impact of Human Gene Patents on Innovation and Access: A Survey of Human Gene Patent Litigation
• The Use of Trademarks in Video Games: Focusing on the First Amendment
• Trademark Dilution, Trade Mark Use and Trademark Law Theory- Is There A Logical Connection?
• Trademark Law and the Power of Historical Myth

5th Parallel Session

• The Curious Divergence of Patent and Copyright Law
• Is Information Patentable?
• Claiming Intellectual Property
• Everything is Patentable
• The iPod Tax: Why Japanese Law Professors Rejected the Digital Copyright System of American Law Professors’ Dreams
• What History Can Teach Us About the Inadequate-Remedy-at-Law Requirement and Copyright Injunctions
• Compulsory Licenses as Eminent Domain
• Calibrating Copyright Statutory Damages to Promote Speech
• The Componentization of Information
• On Virtual Property and Copyright
• Property, Persona, and Publicity

6th Parallel Session

• Equivalency and Patent Law’s Possession Paradox
• A Nonvolitional Conduct Exemption to Strict Liability for Patent Infringement, or the Problem of Insufficient Thought Control
• Fixing Festo: How the Foreseeability Test for the Doctrine of Equivalents Punishes Innovation (and What to Do about It)
• The Federal Circuit and the Doctrine of Equivalents
• Teaching International Intellectual Property Law
• Core Competencies: The Question of Heterogeneity in the Patent Law of the European Union
• Patents on a Shoestring: Making Patent Systems Work for Developing Countries
• Bad Faith and Trade Mark Registrations in Singapore
• User-Generated Content: Has the Time Come for Users' Rights?
• Innocent Internet Infringement: Copytraps on the Information Superhighway
• Toward a Culture of Cybersecurity Research

Final Plenary Session

• Trademark Use and the Problem of Source in Trademark Law
• Intellectual Property at the Intersection of Race and Gender: Or Lady Sings the Blues
• Fair Use and Copyright Overenforcement

For more information, please visit the IP Scholars Conference Website.