The Niro Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecturer features an influential figure in IP/IT who addresses faculty, students and attorneys on current IP/IT issues. Niro Law has sponsored the Distinguished IP Lecture Series since its inception in 1998.
Past Lecturers
Zorina Khan (2017)
Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College; Research Associate, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Trolls and Other Patent Inventions
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Joseph Fishman (2016)
Associate Professor of Law, Vandervilt Law School
Creating Around Copyright
Honorable Paul R. Michel (2013)
Chief Judge (Ret), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
How to Retain Patent Enforcement While Reforming It? Judges and Counsel Should Manage Infringement Suites, Not Congress
Peter Lee (2011)
Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
Patent Law and the Two Cultures
Arti Rai (2010)
Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke Law School
Innovation Policy in the Administrative State
Mark Lemley (2009)
William H. Neukom Professor of Law and Director of Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, Stanford University Law School
David Nimmer (2008)
Of Counsel, Irell & Manella LLP; Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law
Neil Netanel (2008)
Professor, UCLA School of Law
Peter Drahos (2007)
Director, Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development; Head of
Program, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University
Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook (2005)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
Pamela Samuelson (2004)
Chancellor's Professor, University of California Boalt Hall School of Law; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Hon. Richard A. Posner (2004)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
David Nimmer (2003)
Of Counsel, Irell & Manella, LLP
Jane C. Ginsburg (2002)
Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia University Law School
Q. Todd Dickinson (2001)
Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property; Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office