Important Dates & Schedule 

• Diversity In Innovation and Patents
  Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University
• True and False Inventors: Race, Gender, and Appropriation by Patent
  Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law
• Pharmaceutical Patents and Adversarial Examination
  Dmitry Karshtedt, George Washington University Law School
• Matching and Digging: Evidentiary Analysis at the Patent Office
  Janet Freilich, Fordham Law School
• Patenting Fast and Slow: Examiner Rejections and Applicant Traversals to Non-Prior Art Rejections
  Sean Tu, West Virginia University
• Colluding Against a Patent
  Mike Schuster and Greg Day, University of Georgia

Moderator: Robert Merges

Panel 2 – Copyright Law I
Friday, July 17
10:00 – 12:30 pacific daylight time

• Copyright’s Administrative Law
  Dave Fagundes, University of Houston Law Center and
  Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Texas A&M University
• Copyright’s Techno-Pessimist Creep
  Xiyin Tang, UCLA School of Law
• Utility-Expanding Fair Use
  Jacob Victor, Albany Law School
• Fair Use, Fair Dealing and Education in the Time of COVID-19: Recent Cases
  Lisa Macklem, University of Western Ontario
• The Copyright Wasteland
  Shani Shisha, Harvard Law School

Moderator: Jessica Litman

Panel 3 – Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property I
Wednesday, July 22
10:00 – 1:00 pacific daylight time

• Out of Sight: Patents that Have Never Been Cited
  Michal Shur-Ofry, Hebrew University Law Faculty
  Neil Gandal and Michael Crystal, Tel Aviv University School of Economics and
  Royee Shilony, Hebrew University Law Faculty
• An Empirical Study of Gender and Race in Trademark Prosecution
  Deborah R. Gerhardt, UNC School of Law,
  Miriam Bitton, Bar-Ilan, University School of Law, and
  Mike Schuster, University of Georgia
• The Secret World of Design Patent Litigation
  David Schwartz, Northwestern Law School and Xaviere Giroud, Kirkland & Ellis
• Does Conjoint Analysis Work in Patent Valuations?
  Bernard Chao and Sydney Donovan, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
• Intellectual Property Ownership of Collectively Developed Innovation
  Aman Gebru, Duquesne University School of Law
• Patent Office Reform and Drug Pricing
  Melissa Wasserman, University of Texas School of Law and
  Michael Frakes, Duke University School of Law

Moderator: Mark Lemley

Panel 4 – Health and Biosciences I
Friday, July 24
10:00 – 12:30 pacific daylight time

• Medical AI Innovation Beyond the Lamppost
  Rachel Sachs, Washington University in St. Louis and
  Nicholson Price and Rebecca Eisenberg, University of Michigan Law School
• Off-Label Innovation
  David Simon, George Washington University Law School
• Writing Their Own Intellectual Property Laws: Pharma versus the Public Interest
  Liza Vertinsky, Emory Law School
• Civil Society Organizations, Patent Opposition Safeguard and Global Public Health: A Case Study of Kymriah
  Muhammad Zaheer Abbas, International Islamic University, Islamabad
• Patents, Pharma, and the Pandemic
  Sapna Kumar, University of Houston Law Center

Moderator: Dan Burk

Panel 5 – Intellectual Property Histories
Wednesday, July 29
10:00 – 12:30 pacific daylight time

• Examining Copyright
  Zvi Rosen, Southern Illinois University School of Law
• The Cross and the Crown: Faith Branding in Christian Science
  Andrew Ventimiglia, Illinois State University
• Learning from 19th Century Litigation
  Michael Risch, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and
  Mike Viney, Colorado State University
• Oliver Evans and the Framing of American Patent Law
  Chris Beauchamp, Brooklyn Law School
• American Patent Law: A Business and Economic History 1790-Present
  Rob Merges, Berkeley Law School

Moderator: Christopher Buccafusco

Panel 6 – Copyright and Society *** Concurrent Panel ***
Friday, July 31
10:00 – 12:30 pacific daylight time

• Copyright Complicates Cuisine
  Ann Bartow, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law
• Towards a Cultural Heritage Theory of Copyright Law?
  Felicia Caponigri, Notre Dame Law School
• Intellectual Property Law as Artistic Medium
  Shane Burke, Cardiff University
• F*cking with Copyright: testing the discourse through action
  Elizabeth Townsend Gard, Tulane Law School
• An Entrepreneurship Theory of Copyright
  Eric Priest, University of Oregon School of Law

Moderator: Chris Sprigman

Panel 7 – Trademark Law I *** Concurrent Panel ***
Friday, July 31
10:00 – 12:30 pacific daylight time

• Trademark Depletion in a Global, Multilingual Economy: Evidence from the European Union
  Jeanne Fromer and Barton Beebe, NYU School of Law
• Endorsing After Death
  Andrew Gilden, Willamette University College of Law
• Trademarking “Covid,” “Covid-19” and “Coronavirus”: An Empirical Review and Considerations of a Larger Pandemic
  Irene Calboli, Texas A&M University School of Law
• Headaches and Handbags: A Fragility Theory of Trademark Functionality
  Matthew Sipe, University of Baltimore School of Law
• Overlapping and Sequential IP Rights
  Lolita Darden, Suffolk University Law School

Moderator: Mark McKenna

Panel 8 – Trade Secrets *** Concurrent Panel ***
Wednesday, August 5
10:00 – 12:30 pacific daylight time

• The New Trade Secrecy
  Sonia Katyal and Tait Graves, Wilson Sonsini
• Trade Secrets and Personal Secrets
  Lital Helman, Ono Academic College, Israel
• The Trade Secrecy Standard for Prior Art
  Camilla Hrdy, Akron Law and Sharon Sandeen, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
• Business Secrecy Expansion and FOIA
  Deepa Varadarajan, Georgia State University
• Information Asymmetry and the Inefficiency of Informal IP Strategies Within Employment Relationships
  Runhua Wang, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Moderator: Ann Bartow

Panel 9 – Patent Law I *** Concurrent Panel ***
Wednesday, August 5
10:00 – 1:00 pacific daylight time

• Patents As Contracts: The Challenging Case of COVID-19
  Ofer Tur-Sinai, Ono Academic College, Israel
• Contractual Bundles for Innovation
  Taorui Guan, University of Virginia Law School
• Can Public Universities Patent Their Research?: The tension between open records laws and patentability
  Jason Rantanen and Madison Murhammer Colon, University of Iowa College of Law
• Fed Circuit Blog
  David Taylor, SMU Dedman School of Law
• Design Patent Law’s Identity Crisis
  Peter S. Menell and Ella Corren, Berkeley School of Law
• Balancing Static and Dynamic Considerations to Calibrate Patent Policy in a Pandemic
  Jorge Contreras, University of Utah

Moderator: Rebecca Eisenberg

Panel 10 – Health and Biosciences II
Friday, August 7
10:00 – 12:30 pacific daylight time

• Devil in the Tiers
  Robin Feldman, UC Hastings Law, Center for Innovation
• The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act at 10 – A Stocktaking
  Yaniv Heled, Georgia State University College of Law
• Drugs, Patents, and Well-Being
  Jonathan Masur, University of Chicago Law School and
  Christopher Buccafusco, Cardozo Law School
• Privacy in Pandemic: Law, Technology, and Public Health in the COVID-19 Crisis
  Tiffany C. Li, Yale Law School and Boston University School of Law
• Accountability, Secrecy, and Innovation in AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Software
  Arti Rai, Isha Sharma, and Christina Silcos, Duke Law School

Moderator: Joshua Sarnoff

Panel 11 – Copyright Law II *** Concurrent Panel ***
Wednesday, August 12
10:00 – 1:00 pacific daylight time

• Transplanting Fair Use Across the Globe: A Case Study Testing the Credibility of U.S. Opposition
  Neil Netanel, UCLA School of Law (Netanel) and
  Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa Faculty of Law
• Two Conceptions of Fair Use
  Abraham Bell, University of San Diego Law School and
  Gideon Parchomovsky, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
• Does Copyright Apply on Tribal Lands?
  Trevor Reed, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
• Rethinking Use Restrictions on Copyrighted Goods
  Guy Rub, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
• Compensating minor co-authors: evidence from the music industry of a preference for equality
  Sarah Polcz, Stanford Law School
• Copyright v. The Internet
  Anupam Chander, Georgetown University Law Center

Moderator: Jennifer Rothman

Panel 12 – Patent Law II *** Concurrent Panel ***
Wednesday, August 12
10:00 – 1:00 pacific daylight time

• Patent Performativity
  Dan L. Burk, University of California, Irvine
• Why Harmonize? The Counter-Case of Second-Tier Patent Rights
  Daniel R. Cahoy, Penn State, Smeal College of Business and
  Lynda J. Oswald, Michigan Ross School of Business
• Access to the Patent System
  W. Keith Robinson, SMU Dedman School of Law
• Patenting Pleasure
  Sarah R.W. Rajec, William & Mary Law School and
  Andrew Gilden, Willamette University College of Law
• Reconstructing Patent Eligibility
  Talha Syed, Berkeley Law School
• The Death of the Genus Claim
  Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
  Sean Seymore, Vanderbilt Law School and
  Dmitry Karshtedt, George Washington University Law School

Moderator: Peter Menell

Panel 13 – Patent Law III
Friday, August 14
10:00 – 1:00 pacific daylight time

• Patent Law’s Deference Paradox
  Paul R. Gugliuzza, Temple University School of Law
• Precluding Patent Defenses
  Dennis Crouch, University of Missouri School of Law
• Innovation in Adversity
  Stephanie Bair and Clark Asay, BYU Law School
• Patents, the Constitution, and Racialized Innovation
  Brenda Reddix-Smalls, North Carolina Central University School of Law
• Compartmentalizing Patent Litigation
  Jeremy Bock, Tulane Law School
• Extraterritorial Damages in Patent Law
  Thomas Cotter, University of Minnesota Law School

Moderator: Pam Samuelson

Panel 14 – Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property II
Wednesday, August 19
10:00 – 12:30 pacific daylight time

• A Survey of Cases of the Pay-for-Delay Agreement in the Post-Actavis Era
  Thomas Y. Lu; Department of Business Administration, National Sun Yat-Sen University
• Does Alice Target Patent Trolls?
  Samantha Zyontz and Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
• Informative Patents?
  James Hicks, UC Berkeley
• How Do Patent Law Adjudicators Make Decisions?
  Amy Semet; SUNY University of Buffalo School of Law
• Design Patents Across Institutions
  Sarah Burstein, University of Oklahoma College of Law and
  Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Texas A&M University School of Law

Moderator: Jeanne Fromer

Panel 15 – Trademark Law II
Friday, August 21
10:00 – 12:30 pacific daylight time

• Trademark Fame and Corpus Linguistics
  Jake Linford, FSU College of Law and Kyra Nelson, Independent
• Fandom is Nonexcludable
  Betsy Rosenblatt, University of Tulsa School of Law
• Certification (and) Marks – Understanding Usage and Practices Among Standards Organizations
  Brad Biddle, Arizona State University
  Jorge Contreras, University of Utah, and Vigdis Bronder, Biddle Law
• Trademarks as Surveillance Transparency
  Amanda Levendowski, Georgetown Law
• Portmanteaumarks
  Brian L. Frye, University of Kentucky College of Law

Moderator: Rebecca Tushnet