8:30

Breakfast

9:00

Welcoming Remarks

• Dean Terence Blackburn, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law

9:05

Session I

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

“Feminist Interpretations of Intellectual Property”

• Robert A. Heverly, Lecturer in Law, The Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia (U.K.)

“Intangible Property: Oxymoron or Reality?”

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

“Rights in Things” 

 

Published as: Law as Design: Objects, Concepts, and Digital Things, 56 Case W. Res. 381 (2005)

10:00

Coffee Break

10:15

Presentation I

• Prof. Michael A. Carrier, Rutgers Law School—Camden

“Cabining Intellectual Property Through a Property Paradigm” 

 

Published as: Cabining Intellectual Property Through a Property Paradigm, 54 Duke L.J. 1 (2004)

11:00

Presentation II

• Alexandra George, Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London

“Intellectual ‘Property’?”

11:45

Coffee Break

12:00

Session II

• Prof. Mistrale Goudreau, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section)

“Moral Rights and Freedom of Speech: Connecting the Dots”

• Prof. Margaret Ann Wilkinson, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

“The Public Interest in Moral Rights Protection”

• Prof. Susan Scafidi, SMU Dedman School of Law

“Constructive Iconoclasm”

1:00

Lunch

2:30

Session III

• Prof. Matt Jackson, Department of Communications, Penn State University

“Rethinking Copyright: The Role of Intermediaries in Communication and the Law”

• Prof. Hillel Sommer, Radzyner Law School, The Interdisciplinary Center (Israel)

“Rethinking the Legal Protection of Television Formats”

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

“Technology Matters: Media Neutrality and New Technologies” 

 

Published as: Technology Matters: The Courts, Media Neutrality, And New Technologies, 12 J. Intell. Prop. L. 427 (2005)

3:30

Coffee Break

3:45

Session IV

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

“Dastar v Twentieth Century Fox: Has the Supreme Court Granted a License to Pass-Off and Plagiarize Creative Content?”

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

“How IP Laws Can Discourage Innovation and Business Development”

• Prof. M. Scott Boone, Appalachian School of Law

“Rights in Virtual Objects: Contract or Property”

4:45

Coffee Break

5:00

Presentation III

• Prof. Jacqueline D. Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

“Personal Property Security Law and Intellectual Property as Loan Collateral”

5:45

Presentation IV

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

“Spam—Oy, It’s Such a Nuisance!” 

 

Published as: Spam—Oy, What A Nuisance!, 19 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 625 (2004)

7:00

Dean's Reception and Dinner

8:30

Breakfast

9:00

Presentation V

• Prof. Peter K. Yu, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law

“Intellectual Property and the Sixth Estate”

9:45

Presentation VI

• Prof. Adam Candeub, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law (beginning Fall 2004)

“Trinko, Antitrust, and Network Interconnection” 

 

Published as: Trinko and Re-Grounding the Refusal to Deal Doctrine, 66 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 821 (2005)

10:30

Coffee Break

10:45

Session V

• Prof. Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, University of Florida Levin College of Law

“By Any Other Name: Identity, Anonymity, and the First Amendment” 

 

Published as: Authorship, Audiences, And Anonymous Speech, 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1537 (2007) (with Thomas F. Cotter)

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

“Identity and Autonomy: Towards A Rational Theory of Identity Protection” 

 

Published as: The Right of Publicity and Autonomous Self-Definition, 67 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 225 (2005)

11:15

Presentation VII

• Prof. Laura A. Heymann, The George Washington University Law School

“The Birth of the Authornym: Authorship, Pseudonymity, and Trademark” 

 

Published as: The Birth of the Authornym: Authorship, Pseudonymity, and Trademark Law, 80 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1377 (2005)

12:00

Lunch

1:15

Presentation VIII

• Prof. Shubha Ghosh, University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY

“A Social Insurance Perspective on Privacy and Security”

2:00

Presentation IX

• Prof. Jay P. Kesan, University of Illinois College of Law

“Why Bad Patents Survive in the Market and How Should We Change?—The Private and Social Costs of Patents”

 

Published as: Why "Bad" Patents Survive in the Market and How Should We Change?—The Private and Social Costs of Patents, 55 Emory L.J. 61 (2006) (with Andres A. Gallo)

2:45

Coffee Break

3:00

Session VI

• Prof. Christopher A. Cotropia, Tulane Law School

“Claim Interpretation and the Patent Disclosure”

 

Published as: Patent Claim Interpretation Methodologies And Their Claim Scope Paradigms, 47 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 49 (2005)

• Prof. Richard S. Gruner, Whittier Law School

“Corporate Patents: Optimizing Organizational Responses to Innovation Opportunities and Invention Discoveries”

 

Published as: Corporate Patents: Optimizing Organizational Responses to Innovation Opportunities and Invention Discoveries, 10 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 1 (2006)

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

“Mining the Patent Database”

4:00

Roundtable Adjourned

7:00

Dinner Reception

Restaurant Villegas
1735 W Grand River Ave., Okemos, MI