Conference Schedule

The conference will commence at noon on Friday, and will conclude with dinner on Saturday evening, October 8. Dinner on Friday and lunch and dinner on Saturday will be provided, as well as coffee breaks.

Details follow:

Friday, October 7, 2005

1:00-1:15 p.m. Welcome

1:15-2:45 p.m.

Session 1A

Josh Sarnoff – Disclosure of Origins of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge

Julie Cromer (Thomas Jefferson) – Ten Year Retrospective on European Database Directive

Sean Pager (IU-Bloomington) – TRIPS: A Link Too Far

Session 1B

Lisa Ramsey (San Diego) – Intellectual Property Rights in Advertising

Ira Nathenson (Pittsburgh) – The Wayback Machine

Wendy Seltzer (Brooklyn) – Warming from Online Chill

3:00-4:45

Session 2A

David Adelman (Arizona) with Kathryn L. DeAngelis – Mapping the Scientific Commons: Biotechnology Patenting from 1990 to 2004

Chris Holman (UMKC) – UC v. Eli Lilly After Eight Years: An Empirical Study of the Impact of the Lilly Doctrine on the Patenting for Biotechnology and Chemical Inventions

Chuck McManis (Wash U) – The Impact of the Bayh-Dole Act on Genetic Research and Development: Evaluating the Arguments and Empirical Evidence to Date

Session 2B

Mike Carroll (Villanova) – Intellectual Property Law for the 21st Century

Mark Schultz (Southern Illinois) – Intellectual Property and Liberty: Necessary Antagonists?

Mary LaFrance (UNLV) – Working & Playing Well: Gender and Status in Creative Collaborations

Saturday, October 8, 2005

9:00-10:30

Session 3A

Matt Sag (Northwestern) – Copyright Scope and Fair Use

Glynn Lunney (Tulane) – Private Copying and Fair Use: Legal Rules and Moral Norms

Fred von Lohmann (EFF) – Fair Use as Innovation Policy

Brett Frischmann – The Demsetzian Trend in Copyright Law

Session 3B

Eric Claeys (SLU) and Adam Mossoff (Michigan State) – Patents, Prices and Property, Drug Patents and the Takings Clause

Beth Winston (Whittier) – To Sell the Goose or License the Eggs? Contracting Around Congressional Protection of Intellectual Property

Mike Meurer (Boston University) with Maureen O’Rourke – Contract Externalities and Intellectual Property Licenses

10:45-12:30

Session 4A

Mark Lemley (Stanford) – What the Right of Publicity Can Learn from Trademark Law

Mark McKenna (SLU) – The Normative Foundations of Trademark Law

Irene Calboli (Marquette) – The Case for Trademark Merchandising?

Sandra Rierson (Thomas Jefferson) and Deven Desai – The Trademark Holder’s Catch-22: Searching for Rationality in Genericide and Dilution Rules

Session 4B

Chris Cotropia (Tulane) – Nonobviousness, the Federal Circuit, and the "Suggestion Test": An Empirical Analysis of Recent Case Law

Cynthia Ho (Loyola Chicago) – Addressing Immoral Patents

Nadine Farid (Harvard) – A Human Rights Approach to Intellectual Property

12:30-1:45 lunch

1:45-3:15

Session 5A

Neil Richards (Wash U) – The Information Privacy Law Project and the Limits of Metaphor

Greg Vetter (Houston) – Exit and Voice in Free and Open Software Licensing: Moderating the Rein over Software Users

Session 5B

Kristen Osenga (Chicago Kent) – Data Checkpoints: Patent Law and Information Flow

Mike Madison (Pittsburgh) – The Cognitive Posture of Patent Law

Adam Mossoff (Michigan State) – History of Patents

3:30-5:00

Session 6

Tony Reese (Texas) – The New Unpublished Public Domain

Peter Yu (Michigan State) – Grokster and Induceter

Niels Schaumann (William Mitchell) – On Fixation