May 15, 2016: Deadline for Submission of Requests to Present and Requests to Attend
August 8, 2016: Deadline for Submission of Paper Drafts and/or Presentation Slides
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (UPDATED AUGUST 9TH)
AUGUST 10, 2016
7:00pm – 8:30pm Informal Opening Reception
The Stanford Room, Stanford Park Hotel
DAY ONE – AUGUST 11, 2016
7:45am – Shuttle departs from Stanford Park Hotel to Stanford Law Scholl
*The shuttle will make two trips: one at 7:45am and one at 8:15am
8:15am – 8:45am Registration & Continental Breakfast
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
8:45am – 8:55am Welcome
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
8:55am – 10:25am Opening Plenary Session
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
10:25am – 10:50am Break
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
10:50am – 12:45pm Breakout Session I
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
12:45pm – 1:45pm Lunch
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
1:45pm – 3:40pm Breakout Session II
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
3:40pm – 4:10pm Break
Crocker Garden, Stanford Law School
4:10pm – 5:05pm Breakout Session III
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
6:00pm Reception and Dinner
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
8:00pm Shuttle departs from Stanford Law School to Stanford Park Hotel
DAY TWO – AUGUST 12, 2016
7:45am – Shuttle departs from Stanford Park Hotel to Stanford Law Scholl
*The shuttle will make two trips: one at 7:45am and one at 8:15am
8:15am – 8:45am Registration and Breakfast
Crocker Garden, Stanford Law School
8:45am – 10:40am Breakout Session IV
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
10:40am – 11:05am Break
Crocker Garden, Stanford Law School
11:05am – 1:00pm Breakout Session V
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
1:00pm – 2:00pm Lunch
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
2:00pm – 3:30 pm Closing Plenary Session
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
3:30pm Closing Remarks
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
3:45pm Shuttle departs from Stanford Law School to Stanford Park Hotel
August 11, 2016
Plenary I
Breakout Sessions III
August 12, 2016
Plenary II
Breakout Sessions IV | V
DAY ONE – AUGUST 11, 2016
Opening Plenary Session
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
Scarcity of Attention in a World without IP
Jake Linford
What’s In vs. What’s Out: How IP’s Boundary Rules Shape Innovation
Mark McKenna & Christopher Sprigman
Patent Clutter
Janet Freilich
What We Buy When We “Buy Now”
Aaron Perzanowski & Chris Hoofnagle
Breakout Session I – Day One
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
| Room 180 | Room 280A | Room 185 | Room 280B | Room 190 | Room 290 |
| Big Data, Contracts, & Futurelaw | Copyright: Music & Remixes | International IP Institutions | IP for Characters & Symbols | Patent Damages | Patent Disclosure & Signaling |
| I Think, Therefore I Invent: Creative Computers and the Future of Patent Law – Ryan Abbott | Assessing France’s Graduated Response Scheme Against Piracy & State Interventionism in the Marketplace for Copyrighted Content – Nicholas Jondet | Against IP – Dave Fagundes | Is Copyright an Author’s Right? An Authorship Perspective on Copyright Law – Mira Sundara Rajan | Remaining Differences in Patent Damages Calculation in Japan and the US – Christoph Rademacher | Possession and Patent Prior Art – Tim Holbrook |
| Blockchains: Next Wave of Decentralization or the Rise of the Metered Internet – Aaron Wright | Copyrightability of Digital Remixes and the Right of Remixers – Yahong Li | Domestic Innovation and International Collaboration for Addressing Climate Change – Joy Xiang | Works of Fiction: The Misconception of Literary Characters as Copyright Works – Jani McCutcheon | (Un)Reasonable Royalties – Michael Risch | Behavioral Claim Construction – Jeremy Bock |
| The Undercover Detective Looks at Data Breach Contract Clauses – Jill Bronfman | The New Problem with Music – Peter DiCola | Will WIPO Visually Impaired Treaty Help to End “Book Famine” for Visually Impaired People? – Rami Olwan | Zombie Cinderella and the Undead Public Domain – Rebecca Curtin | Innovation Factors for Reasonable RoyaltiesTed Sichelman | The Predictive Power of Patents – Sabrina Safrin |
| Algorithmic Contracts – Lauren Henry Scholz | Who Killed the Radio Star? How Music Blanket Licenses Distort the Production of Creative Content – Ariel Katz & Eden Sarid | Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution Through Arbitration and Mediation – Vandana Singhh | Trademarks, Core Values and Cultural Leadership – Deborah Gerhardt | The Information Forcing Dilemma in Patent Damages – T.J. Chiang | Patent Silences – Dan Burk |
| The Racist Algorithm? – Anupam Chander | How Law Defines Music – Joseph Fishman | Regime Shifting of IP Law-Making and Enforcement to Intl Investment Law – Cynthia Ho & James Gathii | Intellectual Property in Internet Folklore – Cathay Smith | Rational Willfulness: Toward a New Standard for Enhanced Damages in Patent Law – Dmitry Karshtedt | Who Reads Patents? – Lisa Larrimore Ouellette |
Breakout Session II – Day One
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
| Room 190 | Room 185 | Room 280B | Room 290 | Room 180 | Room 280A |
| Copyright Doctrine | Geography of Innovation | IP & Cognitive Psychology | PTO & Patent Data | Trademarks, Advertising & Consumers | Trade Secrets |
| Copyright State of Mind – Edward Lee | PR issues Related to U.S. Raising Protection to Firms in India – M. Afzal Wani | Patent Pacifism – Clark Asay | Procrastination in the Workplace: Evidence from U.S. Patent Examiners –Michael Frakes& Melissa Wasserman | Relying on Reputation – Jim Gibson | Top Secret(s) – Derek Bambauer &Simone Sepe |
| Reforming Infringement – Abraham Bell &Gideon Parchomovsky | Governmentality and Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property Foundation Law in Korea and Japan – Hee Kyoung Spiritas Cho | Uncertainty Aversion and Intellectual Property – Betsy Rosenblatt | Measuring the Mayo Effect – Bernard Chao | Going Native: Can Consumers Recognize Native Advertising? Do They Care? – David Hyman &David Franklyn | Trade Secret Precautions, Possession and Notice – Deepa Varadarajan |
| Authorship and Audience Appeal – Tim McFarlin | The Golden West: Influential Innovation Made in San Francisco as Seen in Patent Records – Richard Gruner | Risky IP – Andres Sawicki | CBA at the PTO – Jonathan Masur | Naming and (Re)Claiming – Laura Heymann | Unpacking Trade Secret Damages – Elizabeth Rowe |
| Free as the Heir?: Contextualizing the Role of Copyright Successors – Eva Subotnik | A Spatial Critique of Intellectual Property Law and Policy – Peter K. Yu | Improving the Patent Application Process for Clearer Claim Scope – Stephanie Plamondon Bair | The Surprising Resilience of the Patent System – Mark Lemley | Why Does Trademark Law Protect the Strong More Than the Weak? – Barton Beebe & Scott Hemphill | Toward a Federal Jurisprudence of Trade Secret Law – Sharon Sandeen &Christopher Seaman |
| Leveraging Death: IP Estates and Shared Mourning – Andrew Gilden | Patent Tigers: The New Geography of Global Innovation – Jonathan Barnett | What Causes Polarization on IP Policy? – Maggie Wittlin, Lisa Ouellette &Gregory Mandel | Do Trolls Acquire and Assert Valuable Patents? – Andrew Torrance &Jevin West | Branded – Irina Manta | The Defend Trade Secrets Act Isn’t An “Intellectual Property” Law – Eric Goldman |
Breakout III – Day One
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
| Room 185 | Room 190 | Room 280A | Room 290 | Room 180 | Room 280B |
| Cross-Border Infringement & Exhaustion | Cyberlaw & Intermediary Liability | IP, the Constitution & the Courts | IP & Privacy | Patent Pools & Standards | Universities,Grants & IP |
| The Rise of Constitutional Balancing in European Copyright Law – Cyrill Rigamonti | Applicable Law in Copyright Violation in Cyberspace: Need for Clarity – Gurujit Singh | Lexmark and the Holding Dicta Distinction – Andrew Michaels | Exploring Privacy as Commons – Katherine Strandburg & Brett Frischmann | Smartphones Industry and SEPs in India – Sunita Tripathy | Student Patent Rights – Jessica Hudak & Lisa Ouellette |
| The Principles Void Regarding the Exhaustion Theory within the Andean Community – Carlos Uribe & Juan Contreras | Testing the Limits of the Section 230 IP Exemption – Cathy Gellis | A Problem of Subject Matter: Patent Demand Letters and the Federal Circuit’s Jurisdiction – Charles Duan & Kerry Sheehan | Creativity and Notice On the Ground – Ari Waldman | Decoding Evolving Nexus Between Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs) and Competition Law in India – Vinay Kumar Singh &Arundhati Nayudu | Disclosing Data Enabled Research: Intellectual Property Policy for Publishers, Technology Transfer Offices, and Librarians – Victoria Stodden |
| The Ghosts of Patent Exhaustion Past – Amelia Smith Rinehart | DMCA+ Enforcement in the New gTLDs – Annemarie Bridy | Established Rights, the Takings Clause, and Patent Law – Jason Rantanen | Private, Public, Public Domain : How the Judicial Decisions Shaping the Perceptions of Facebook Users in Taiwan – Yachi Chiang | The Nondiscrimination element within FRAND royalty terms – Jeffery Atik | A Market Test for Bayh-Dole Patents – Ian Ayres & Lisa Ouellette |
| Patent Damages Without Borders – Sapna Kumar | The World Intermediary Liability Map: Charting the Online Intermediary Liability Conundrum – Giancarlo Frosio | A Free Speech Right to Trademark Protection? – Lisa Ramsey | Confidentiality Creep and Dual Use Secrecy: The Professions in an Age of Information Capture – David Levine | Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Patent Pools – Michael Mattioli &Robert Merges | Cancer’s IP – Jake Sherkow |
DAY TWO – AUGUST 12, 2016
Breakout Session IV – Day Two
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
| Room 280A | Room 190 | Room 290 | Room 280B | Room 180 |
| Commons | Empirical Copyright | Innovation & Non-Patent Incentives | IP Theory | Patents & Post-Grant Review |
| Licensing Open Government Data – Jyh-An Lee | Copyright Misuse: A Taxonomy – Ann Bartow | Innovation Policy Pluralism – Daniel Hemel & Lisa Ouellette | The Hidden Cost of Free Patents – Liza Vertinsky | Quick Decisions in Patent Cases – Paul Gugliuzza |
| The Romance of the Commons – Sean Pager | Empirical Studies Of Copyright Litigation, A Review – Matthew Sag | The Unpatentable Microbiome –Rachel Sachs | More Property-Like than Property: The Prevalence of Property Rules in IP Remedial Schemes – B.J. Ard | The Non-Doctrine of Redundancy –Saurabh Vishnubhakat |
| 3d Bioprinting Patent Boundaries – Tabrez Ebrahim | An Empirical Study of Copyright Statutory Damages – Ben Depoorter | Recalibrating Incentives for Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry – Yaniv Heled, Liza Vertinsky & Cass Brewer | Indiscrete Property – Michael Burstein | Pay for Go-Away: Reverse Payment Settlements and Holdup Under PTAB – Erik Hovenkamp &Jorge Lemus |
| Governing Medical Commons – Mike Madison, Brett Frischmann &Katherine Strandburg | No Honor Among Thieves? Software Piracy Rates and Charismatic Appeal – Andrew Moshirnia | Can CED Resolve the Catch-22 for Molecular Diagnostics? –Rebecca Eisenberg | Why Authors Create? A Law and Economic Perspective – Jiarui Liu | Post-Grant Review and Hatch-Waxman: Competition Among Tribunals, Competition Among Drug Manufacturers – Jennifer E. Sturiale |
| The North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium: An Emerging Knowledge Commons – Brett Frischmann &Katherine Strandburg | Undetected Conflict-Of-Laws Problems in Cross-Border Online Copyright Infringement Cases –Marketa Trimble | Patent Failures on Life Science Frontiers –Nicholson Price &Timo Minssen | Regulatory Property: The New IP – Robin Feldman | IPR’ed Patents 1.0: Low Quality or High Value?- Shawn Miller, Brian Love &Shawn Ambwani |
Breakout Session V – Day Two
Classroom Building, Stanford Law School
| Room 185 | Room 280A | Room280B | Room 190 | Room 180 | Room 290 |
| Comparative IP | Copyright & Government | Innovation & Global Health | IP Theory II Functionality & Design | Patent Assertion & Litigation | Patent Doctrine (& Copyrightable) Subject Matter |
| Bridging the Gap between IP Rights & Indigenous Innovators & Inventors in Developing Countries – John John Uket | Public Sculpture and Moral Right – Deming Liu | Bio-piracy related to traditional medicine and pharmaceutical sector: A Legal Perspective – Zubair Ahmed Khan | Infringing Algorithms – Felix Wu | Opening Pandora’s Box: Analyzing the Complexity of U.S. Patent Litigation – Jonathan Ashtor | Are Engineered Genetic Sequences Copyrightable?: The U.S. Copyright Office Addresses a Matter of First Impression – Chris Holman, Claes Gustafsson & Andrew Torrance |
| Convergence between Chinese Entertainment Law and Hollywood Practice – Seagull Song | Compelled Viewing: Copyright Exceptions for Public Art –Marta Iljadica | Korea’s 1st Year Experience with Hatch-Waxman –Won Bok Lee | Functional Compilations –Pamela Samuelson | Teaching Patents As Real Options –Andrew Chin | Data-Generated Patents, Eligibility, & Information Flow –Brenda Simon |
| The Best Practice for Patent Judiciary: Comparative Law Perspective – Toshiko Takenaka | Edicts of Government: Copyright in State Legal Materials –D.R. Jones | Art. 53 (a) of the European Patent Convention: an Interaction of Two Traditions – Jurgita Randakeviciute | Screening Functionality in Intellectual Property Law – Christopher Buccafusco &Mark Lemley | Inventive Application, Legal Transplants, Pre-Funk, and Judicial Policymaking –Josh Sarnoff | |
| What Explains Intellectual Property Use in Chile and Does it Make a Difference? – Christian Helmers, Bronwyn Hall & Carsten Fink | European and American models of the Use of Orphan Works – Is There a Need for Solutions at the International Level? – Joanna Banasiuk | Fast-tracking Biopharma Innovation: IP-related Lessons from the Ebola Outbreak Response –Ana Santos Rutschman | Claiming Design –Jeanne Fromer & Mark McKenna | Lessons Learned from Concept to Growth of the License On Transfer (LOT) Network – Eric Schulman | The Impact on Investment in Research and Development of the Supreme Court’s Eligibility Decisions – David Taylor |
| The Customary and Statutory Patent Systems in the Venetian Republic Between the 15th and 18th Centuries –Stefania Fusco | How Social Publishing Can End Book Hunger – Lea Shaver | A Prescription for Excessive Drug Pricing: Leveraging Patent Use for Health – Amy Kapczynski | Copyright as Tortious Interference –Shyam Balganesh | The Effect of Fee Shifting on IP Litigation: Evidence from a Court Reform in the UK – Brian Love, Christian Helmers, Yassine Lefouili & Luke McDonagh | The Fallacy of Mayo’s Double Invention Requirement for Patenting of Scientific Discoveries – Peter Menell &Jeffrey Lefstin |
Closing Plenary Session
Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences
The Nature of Sequential Innovation
Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco & Stefan Bechtold
Copyright and Distributive Justice
Justin Hughes & Robert Merges
IP, Privacy Harms and other Fundamental Values
Jessica Silbey
What’s the Harm of Trademark Infringement?
Rebecca Tushnet
