Due to COVID-19, IPSC 2021 will be held online, hosted by the IP and Information Law Program at Cardozo Law School. The conference will be August 4-5 and 11-12, 2021. Please visit the conference page for more information:
https://cardozo.yu.edu/2021-virtual-ip-scholars-conference-august-4-5-11-12
SCHEDULE
Panel 1 – Patents: Innovation and Examination
Wednesday, July 15
10:00 – 1:00 pacific daylight time
- 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