8:30

Breakfast

9:00

Welcoming Remarks

• Prof. Peter K. Yu, Michigan State University College of Law & Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University

9:15

Opening Storyteller:

• Prof. Kevin W. Saunders, Michigan State University College of Law

"What if every 'if only' statement were true?"

9:30

Free Speech, Privacy and Virtual Reality

Moderator:

• Prof. Adam Candeub, Michigan State University College of Law

Storytellers:

• Prof. Ann Bartow, University of South Carolina School of Law

"What if pornography was not eligible for copyright protection?"

• Prof. Amy Gajda, College of Communications & College of Law, University of Illinois

"What if Samuel D. Warren's daughter had eloped?"

• Prof. Greg Lastowka, Rutgers School of Law—Camden

"What if reality were pervasively augmented?"

• Prof. Cheryl B. Preston, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University

"Free Speech and Internet Pornography: What if Congress and the Supreme Court had been tech Savvy in 1995?"

11:00

Break

11:15

Patent Law

Moderator:

• Prof. Adam Mossoff, Michigan State University College of Law

Storytellers:

• Prof. Timothy R. Holbrook, Chicago-Kent College of Law

"What if patents and patent applications weren't published until they expired?"

• Prof. Michael J. Meurer, Boston University School of Law

"What if economists ran the patent office"

• Prof. Joseph Scott Miller, Lewis and Clark Law School

"What if Joe Meigs had written the nonobviousness statute?"

• Prof. Katherine J. Strandburg, DePaul University College of Law

"What if we relied on user innovation to produce business methods and did away with business method patents?"

• Prof. Greg Vetter, University of Houston Law Center

"What if the GPL had been patented?"

• Prof. Elizabeth I. Winston, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America

"What if you couldn't patent seeds?"

1:15

Luncheon

Keynote Storyteller:

• Prof. Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School

"Ignoring Patents"

2:45

Copyright Law I

Moderator:

• David Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School

Storytellers:

• Dean Jon Garon, Hamline University School of Law

"What if DRM fails?"

• Robert A. Heverly, Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia

"What if information was alive?"

• Prof. Michael Landau, Georgia State University College of Law

"What  if the anti-bootlegging statutes really are upheld under the Commerce Clause?"

4:30

Coffee Break

4:45

Copyright Law II

Moderator:

• Prof. Derek E. Bambauer, Wayne State University Law School

Storytellers:

• Prof. Michael J. Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

"What if the ancient Romans had invented the printing press? Justinian copyright in the 21st century"

• Prof. Tyler Ochoa, Santa Clara University School of Law

"What if Goldstein v. California had been decided differently?"

• Prof. Mark Schultz, Southern Illinois University School of Law

"What if Bach v. Longman held that music was not protected by copyright? Patronage, privilege, and making music without property rights"

• Prof. Mary Wong, Franklin Pierce Law Center

"What if the WIPO Development Agenda is adopted?"

6:15

Friday Sessions Adjourned

7:00

Dinner Reception

Restaurant Villegas

1735 Grand River Avenue, Okemos, MI

8:30

Breakfast

9:00

General IP Law

Moderator:

• Prof. Ned Snow, University of Arkansas School of Law

Storytellers:

• Prof. Peter Bowal, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

"What if the stud does not function?"

• Prof. James Gibson, T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond

"What if we used IP rights to impede evil industries?"

• Prof. Debora Halbert, Department of History and Political Science, Otterbein College

"What if WIPO did not exist?"

• Prof. Liam S. O'Melinn, Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University

"What if James Madison were to assess the intellectual property revolution?"

10:30

Break

10:45

Copyright Law III

Moderator:

• Prof. Matthew Sag, DePaul University College of Law

Storytellers:

• Prof. Susan Corbett, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)

"What if object code had been excluded from protection as a literary work in copyright law?"

• Prof. Julie D. Cromer, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

"What if man never walked on the moon?"

• Prof. Abraham Drassinower, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

"What if copyright were really about authors?"

• Prof. Deborah Tussey, Oklahoma City University School of Law

"What if employees owned the copyrights in their works?"

12:30

Luncheon

2:00

Trademark Law I

Moderator:

• Prof. Laura A. Heymann, William & Mary School of Law

Storytellers:

• Prof. Barton Beebe, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

"What if the Supreme Court Had Affirmed in Dastar?"

• Prof. Irene Calboli, Marquette University Law School

"What if trademarks were, after all, protected as property?"

• Prof. Mark P. McKenna, St. Louis University School of Law

"What if trademark law focused on consumer search costs?"

• Prof. Lars S. Smith, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville

"What if eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. had been a trademark case?"

• Prof. Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center

"What if comparative advertising were infringing?"

3:45

Break

4:00

Trademark Law II

Moderator:

• Prof. Deven Desai, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Storytellers:

• Prof. John T. Cross, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville

"What if The Trademark Cases had been decided the other way?"

• Prof. Doris E. Long, Michigan State University College of Law

"What if trademarks weren't the ugly stepsisters of intellectual property?"

• Prof. Lisa P. Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law

"What if there were no First Amendment distinction between commercial and noncommercial speech: would trademark law be constitutional?"

5:45

Closing Remarks

• Prof. Peter K. Yu, Michigan State University College of Law & Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University

6:00

Conference Adjourned

6:30

Dinner Reception

Dusty's Cellar

1839 W Grand River, Okemos, MI