Design Patents in the Modern World
Stanford Law School

Conference Details
April 5, 2013 8:30am – 5:00pm
Room 290
The conference is co-sponsored by the Stanford Program in Law, Science, & Technology, Samsung Electronics, Nike, and Google.

Stanford Law School will host a major conference on design patents April 5-6, 2013. Long neglected in practice and academic scholarship,design patents have exploded in importance as a result both of recent changes in the law and high-profile cases like Apple v. Samsung. Drawing on the experience of lawyers, in-house counsel and academics, our conference will explore both practical and policy ramifications of these developments. Along with the public conference on April 5, we will host a one-day academic symposium with papers on design patents from the leading scholars in the world on these issues.

Agenda: Design Patents in the Modern World Conference (updated 03.01.2013)
Design Patents Conference Academic Day

Confirmed speakers:

Sarah Burstein, University of Oklahoma
Christopher Carani, McAndrews Held
Dennis Crouch, University of Missouri
Alan Morgan Datri, WIPO
Brian Hanlon, US PTO
Laura Heymann, William & Mary Law School
Michael Jacobs, Morrison & Foerster
James Juo, Fulwider Patton
Robert Katz, Banner & Witcoff
Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
Jaime Lemons, Nike
Katie Maksym, Nike
Michael Meehan, Google Inc.
Mark McKenna, Notre Dame Law School
Tom Moga, Shook Hardy & Bacon
John Pratt, Kilpatrick Townsend
Michael Risch, Villanova Law School
Matt Schruers, CCIA
Perry Saidman, Saidman Design Law

32nd Annual Congress of the
International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
Is Intellectual Property a Lex Specialis?
Date: 23-26 June 2013

Intellectual property laws are often viewed (both by experts in the field and by others) as exceptional. Is this true? To what extent do intellectual property laws displace or conflict with generally applicable legal rules, whether of private law, public law or procedural law? To what extent could (and should) these aspects of intellectual property law simply be handled by general principles of law? Increasingly, disputes about intellectual property are adjudicated by specialist courts and judges; is this appropriate, and how does it alter the development and interpretation of intellectual property law? This Congress will explore this theme of special or exceptional treatment by examining the interaction of intellectual property law and other bodies of law. Panels will encompass questions of private law (property, tort and contract law), public law (administrative and constitutional law), procedural law (such as conflicts of law and the use of specialist courts), and international law (including international trade law).

The University of Oxford will host the 2013 Congress in the beautiful and historic setting of Pembroke College, one of Oxford’s 38 colleges. Pembroke College was founded in 1624. Alumni of the college include Samuel Johnson, as well as JRR Tolkien’s and Senator J. William Fulbright. Recent Masters include the neurologist and record-breaking runner, Sir Roger Bannister, and Professor of Law, Robert Stevens. A block of rooms will be reserved at Pembroke for delegates. Details of how to make your accommodation reservation will be posted soon. We recommend booking as early as possible as rooms will be made available on a first-come first served basis.

www.law.ox.ac.uk/conferences/atrip/index.php

“Competition and Innovation in the Broadband Age”
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Columbus, Ohio
Thursday, March 21, 2013
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Saxbe Auditorium

moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/groups/is/symposia/competition-innovation-in-the-broadband-age/

The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property Eighth Annual Symposium

Thursday, March 7-Friday, March 8, 2013, Northwestern University School of Law, 75 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago IL, 60611

The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, in conjunction with the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property Eighth Annual Symposium, a two-day conference for academics, practitioners, and students to discuss current IP and technology law topics. The conference will be held on Northwestern’s Chicago campus on Thursday, March 7-Friday, March 8, 2013.

PANEL TOPICS:
- Net Neutrality: Government Overreach or the Key to Innovation?
- The Past, Present, and Future of Social Media
- FRAND: What constitutes reasonable patent licensing terms?

The symposium will feature an opening Keynote Address on the evening of Thursday, March 7th by Hank Barry, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP, Palo Alta, California.

PROGRAM:

Thursday, March 7th

6:00pm – 7:00pm Symposium Opening Address and Keynote Speaker (Wieboldt Hall #540)
Hank Barry, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP, Palo Alto, California

7:00pm – 9:00pm Dinner and Networking (Wieboldt Hall #540)

Friday, March 8th

8:15am – 8:45am Registration Check In and Continental Breakfast (Lowden Hall)

8:45am – 10:15am Net Neutrality: Government Overreach or the Key to Innovation? (Lincoln Hall)
Lee Selwyn, Economics & Technology
Hal Singer, Navigant Economics
Robert Frieden, Penn State Law School
Jeffrey Armstrong, McDonnel Boehen Hulbert & Berghoff

10:30am – 12:00pm The Past, Present, and Future of Social Media (Lincoln Hall)
Jonathan DeMay, Condon & Forsyth
Andrea Matwyshyn, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
John Hines, Clark Hill/Northwestern Law
Bradley Shear, Shear Law Office
Christopher Butts, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff

12:00pm – 12:45pm Lunch and Networking (Law School Atrium)

12:45pm – 2:30pm FRAND: What constitutes reasonable patent licensing terms? (Lincoln Hall)
Latonia Gordon, Director, Standards Policy, Microsoft
Alden Abbott, Director, Global Patent Law & Competition Strategy, Blackberry
Mark Snyder, Corporate Litigation, Qualcomm
Jorge L. Contreras, American University College of Law, Contreras Legal Strategy LLC
Chris Carani, McAndrews, Held & Malloy
Jason Sheasby, Irell & Manella

2:30pm – 4:00pm Cocktails and Networking (Thorne Lobby)

FURTHER INFORMATION: For additional information, including a full agenda and registration please visit: scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njtip_symposium

SPONSORS: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, Northwestern Intellectual Property Law Society and the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL: The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property (NJTIP) is among the top ranked intellectual property and technology journals in the country. The Journal addresses subjects relating to intellectual property and the intersection of law and technology and publishes articles on a variety of topics including: copyright, trademark, patents, the Internet, media, telecommunications, health care, antitrust, e-discovery, and trial and litigation technology.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference 2013
SLS Cyberlaw Section
Tuesday, 3 September – Friday, 6 September 2013
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
The Cyberlaw Section at the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) is issuing a call for original
research papers to be presented at the 2013 SLS Annual Conference. The conference will be
held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The conference will run from 3rd to 6th
September 2013 and the Cyber Section is in Group B, being held on 5th and 6th September.
There will be an annual dinner on the 4th September 2013.
The goal of this subject section is to provide a forum where legal scholars and
practitioners can gather together to update each other on current developments in cyberlaw
and discuss high-quality research relevant to legal issues in the information society. Papers
in every discipline of law are welcome, including those reflecting the main conference
theme, “Britain and Ireland in Europe, Europe in Britain and Ireland.”
Topics include but not limited to:
Data Privacy Protection
Internet Statistics and Regulation
Cloud Computing, Service-oriented Computing and Beaming
Online Dispute Resolution
Internet Jurisdiction and Applicable law
Digital Intellectual Property Rights
Papers and abstracts for the conference should be submitted to the following email address:
faye.wang@brunel.ac.uk, for the attention of Dr Faye Fangfei Wang (SLS Cyberlaw
Section Convenor), Senior Lecturer, Brunel Law School, Brunel University, London.

sections.legalscholars.ac.uk/section_homepage.cfm?id=30

32nd Annual Congress of the
International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
Is Intellectual Property a Lex Specialis?
Date: 23-26 June 2013

Intellectual property laws are often viewed (both by experts in the field and by others) as exceptional. Is this true? To what extent do intellectual property laws displace or conflict with generally applicable legal rules, whether of private law, public law or procedural law? To what extent could (and should) these aspects of intellectual property law simply be handled by general principles of law? Increasingly, disputes about intellectual property are adjudicated by specialist courts and judges; is this appropriate, and how does it alter the development and interpretation of intellectual property law? This Congress will explore this theme of special or exceptional treatment by examining the interaction of intellectual property law and other bodies of law. Panels will encompass questions of private law (property, tort and contract law), public law (administrative and constitutional law), procedural law (such as conflicts of law and the use of specialist courts), and international law (including international trade law).

The University of Oxford will host the 2013 Congress in the beautiful and historic setting of Pembroke College, one of Oxford’s 38 colleges. Pembroke College was founded in 1624. Alumni of the college include Samuel Johnson, as well as JRR Tolkien’s and Senator J. William Fulbright. Recent Masters include the neurologist and record-breaking runner, Sir Roger Bannister, and Professor of Law, Robert Stevens. A block of rooms will be reserved at Pembroke for delegates. Details of how to make your accommodation reservation will be posted soon. We recommend booking as early as possible as rooms will be made available on a first-come first served basis.

www.law.ox.ac.uk/conferences/atrip/index.php

The Changing Patent Landscape
March 11, 2013
Georgetown Law School
Washington, DC

Please join us on March 11, 2013 for an informative discussion with a distinguished collection of leading thinkers from academia, industry and the judiciary on the latest developments in intellectual property law.

Panelists will include Seth Waxman, WilmerHale partner and former US Solicitor General; Suzanne Michel, senior patent counsel at Google; and John R. Thomas, professor of law at Georgetown Law Center. We will also be joined by the Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa for our keynote luncheon.

The half-day program will examine the intersection of intellectual property and takings law with the passage of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act, explore the effects of design patents on the “Smartphone Wars of 2012,” and take a closer look at notable US Supreme Court cases focused on patentable subject matter and exhaustion.

Agenda
For a complete, timed agenda, please visit our website.

Registration
Registration for this event is complimentary, but is required. Please complete our online registration form.

www.law.georgetown.edu/continuing-legal-education/programs/academic-conferences/patent-landscape.cfm?id=314

Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics
Monday-Tuesday, May 20-21, 2013
Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa
Chandler, Ariz.

The GRINN technologies (genetics, robotics, information technology, nanotechnology, neuroscience) present unique governance issues and challenges, due to their rapid pace of development (faster than traditional regulatory systems can keep up with), profound impacts that go beyond health, safety and environment risks, and ethical and social concerns affecting a broad range of stakeholders and interests around the globe. This conference will feature top experts in a fascinating and crucial exploration of the overlapping regulatory, governance, legal, policy, social and ethical issues of such technologies.

conferences.asucollegeoflaw.com/emergingtechnologies/

17th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium: Reform(aliz)ing Copyright for the Internet Age?
April 18-19, 2013
Claremont Hotel
Berkeley, CA
Visit www.law.berkeley.edu/formalities.htm for more information.

Hosted by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Institute for Information Law (IViR) and the Copyright Society.

Copyright formalities, such as registration of claims and placing notices on copies, may seem outdated, pedestrian, and… well… boring. They are anything but. Formalities, which in the past three decades have largely disappeared from American copyright law, may be about to stage a comeback. Why? Because copyright formalities may be one of the most important strategies for reconciling copyright law and the challenges of the digital age. This conference will consider, among other things, the useful role that formalities can play in addressing today’s copyright challenges, what kinds of formalities might best serve the interests of authors and of the public, economic considerations posed by formalities, the need for appropriate technological infrastructures to support new formalities regimes, and some constraints that the Berne Convention may pose for the design and implementation of new formalities regimes.

Visit www.law.berkeley.edu/formalities.htm for more information.
Register at www.law.berkeley.edu/14916.htm
A total of 11.5 hours of MCLE credit will be available for attendees.

6th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Data Access & Retention

February 28, 2013
Bancroft Hotel

Berkeley, CA

Visit www.law.berkeley.edu/14636.htm for more information.

Hosted by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT)

Presented by Professor Joel Reidenberg with responses by Kurt Wimmer and Professor Anu Bradford. Moderated by Professor Paul Schwartz.

Government data surveillance law in Europe and the United States has reached a turning point for the future of information privacy online. The democracies on both sides of the Atlantic are trying to balance the legitimate needs of the law enforcement and intelligence communities to access online transactional data with the basic rights of citizens to be free from state intrusions on their privacy. However, the US and EU regimes offer an impossible dilemma for the existence of effective information privacy protection. American law generally focuses on access restraints for government to obtain privately held information and ignores the collection and storage of data. By contrast, Europe emphasizes rules related to the collection and retention of data and focuses less on due process obstacles for government access. In each system, proportionality and the privatization of state surveillance activity become keys to the transparency of citizen’s data. But the reliance on proportionality is untenable and the imposition on private actors to resolve the balance between state and individual interests creates a fundamental undermining of online privacy.

Schedule
Registration 3:00 – 3:30 pm
Presentation 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Reception 5:30 – 6:30 pm

2.0 hours of CLE credit will be available to attendees.

Visit www.law.berkeley.edu/14636.htm for more information.

Registration is free and open to the public, but required: www.law.berkeley.edu/14846.htm