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

Session I

• Prof. Gaia Bernstein, Seton Hall University School of Law

"When New Technologies Are Still New: Windows of Opportunity for Privacy Protection"

 

Published as: When New Technologies Are Still New: Windows of Opportunity for Privacy Protection, 51 Vill. L. Rev. 921 (2006)

• Neta-li Gottlieb, John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School

"A Step Toward Subject Matter Recognition: The Case of Television Formats"

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

"Software and Shovels: How the Intellectual Property Revolution is Undermining Traditional Concepts of Property"

 

Published as: Software and Shovels: How the Intellectual Property Revolution Is Undermining Traditional Concepts of Property, 76 U. Cin. L. Rev. 143 (2007)

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

Session II

• Prof. Ariel Katz, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

"Pharmaceutical Lemons: The Effect of Patents and Regulation in the Drug Industry"

• Prof. Norman V. Siebrasse. University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law

"The Experimental Use Defence to Patent Infringement: A Comparative Assessment" (with Keith Culver)

 

Published as: The Experimental Use Defence to Patent Infringement: A Comparative Assessment, 56 U. Toronto L.J. 333 (2006) (with Keith Culver)

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

"On Pharmaceuticals, Patents, and Protectionism"

 

Published as: The International Enclosure Movement, 82 Ind. L.J. 827 (2007)

1:15

Lunch

2:15

Session III

• Prof. Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, UMKC School of Law

"A Means to an End: Misapplication of Section 112, Paragraph 6"

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

"Examining the Federal Circuit Through an Administrative Lens"

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

"The Narratives of Patent and Trademark Law"

 

Published as: "What's the Frequency, Kenneth? Channeling Doctrines in Trademark Law," in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age (Peter K. Yu ed., 2007)

• Prof. Sean A. Pager, Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington

"A Dilution Approach to Geographical Indications"

4:00

Coffee Break

4:30

Session IV

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

"Reconciling Authors’ Rights with the First Amendment"

 

Published as: Reconciling the "Moral Rights" of Authors with the First Amendment Right of Free Speech, 1 Akron Intell. Prop. J. 185 (2007)

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

"Privilege and Contempt: The Uneasy Relationship Between Law and Journalism"

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

"Copyright Reform and Speech: A Second Order Problem"

7:00

Dinner Reception

Restaurant Villegas

1735 Grand River Avenue, Okemos, MI

8:30

Breakfast

9:15

Session V

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

"Empirical Examination of Federal Communications Commission Voting Patterns"

• Prof. William T. Gallagher, Golden Gate University School of Law

"Strategic Intellectual Property Litigation: An Empirical Study of the Plaintiff’s Bar in Trademark and Copyright Disputes"

• Geoff McLay, Reader, Law Faculty, Victoria University (New Zealand)

"IP and the Really Small Country"

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

Session VI

• Prof. Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

"Copyright, Borrowing and Unfair Use"

 

Published as: Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, The Freedom to Copy: Copyright, Creation, and Context, 41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 477 (2007)

• Prof. Ira Nathenson, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

"Digital Garbage and Buried Treasure: The Dilemma of Digital Preservation"

• Prof. Wendy Seltzer, Brooklyn Law School

"When Safe Harbors Become Prior Restraints"

1:15

Lunch

2:15

Section VII

• Prof. Bruce E. Boyden, Washington & Lee University School of Law

"The Game in the Machine: Video Game Copyrights and the Role of the Player"

• Prof. Donald P. Harris, Temple University Beasley School of Law

'Carrying a Good Joke Too Far: TRIPS and Treaties of Adhesion"

 

Published as: Carrying a Good Joke Too Far: TRIPS and Treaties of Adhesion, 27 U. Pa. J. Int'l Econ. L. 681 (2006)

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

"Copyright, the Commerce Clause, and the Creative Process: Revisiting the Copyright Clause from Yet Another Perspective"

• Martine Courant Rife, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

"Technical Writing Jumping the Wall: How Technical Documentation/Writing Can Affect the Court’s Evaluation of Intent to Infringe in P2P Contexts"

4:00

Roundtable Adjourned

5:30

Dinner Reception

Dusty's Cellar

1839 W Grand River, Okemos, MI