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Important Dates & Conference Schedule

Important Dates

May 1, 2012
Deadline for Submission of Requests to Present and Requests to Attend

July 9, 2012
Deadline for Stanford Park Hotel Registration

August 1, 2012
Deadline for Submission of Paper Drafts and/or Presentation Slides

Conference Schedule

August 8, 2012
6:30pm - 9:00pm Informal Opening Reception, Stanford Park Hotel

Day One - August 9, 2012
8:00am - 8:45am Registration & Breakfast, Cooley Courtyard, Stanford Law School
8:45am - 9:00am Welcome
9:00am - 10:30am Opening Plenary Session
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm First Breakout Session
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 4:00pm Second Breakout Session
4:00pm - 4:30pm Break
4:30pm - 6:15pm Third Breakout Session
6:15pm Reception and Dinner, Cooley Courtyard, Stanford Law School

Day Two - August 10, 2012
8::30am - 9:00am Breakfast, Cooley Courtyard, Stanford Law School
9:00am - 10:30am Fourth Breakout Session
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Fifth Breakout Session
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 4:00 pm Sixth Breakout Session
4:00pm - 4:30pm Break
4:30pm - 6:15pm Closing Plenary Session
6:15pm Closing Reception, Cooley Courtyard Stanford Law School

August 9, 2012
Plenary 1
Breakout Sessions 1 | 2 | 3

August 10, 2012
Breakout Sessions 4 | 5 | 6
Plenary 2

Presenters

Day One - August 9, 2012

Plenary 1 - Room 290

From de novo Review to Informal Deference: An Empirical Examination of Patent Claim Construction
Jonas Anderson & Peter Menell

Measuring the Incentive Effects of Innovation Thresholds in Intellectual Property
Christopher Sprigman

Make Me Walk, Make Me Talk, Do Whatever You Please: Barbie and Exceptions
Rebecca Tushnet

Branding Privacy
Paul Ohm

Breakout Session 1 - Day One

Room 95

IP and Ethical, Cultural Implications

Room 180

Copyright, Authorship and Attribution

Room 190

IP and Protectionism

Room 280B

IP at the Intersection of Creative and Useful

Room 290

Patent Doctrines

 

Traditional Knowledge Rights and Wrongs

Sean Pager

 

 

Creation Norms and Authorship: The Porgy and Bess Controversy

Olufunmilayo Arewa

 

How Law Made Silicon Valley

Anupam Chander

 

Bleistein; or, Intellectual Property Law and the
Problem of Aesthetic Progress

Barton Beebe

 

Better Patenting

Bernard Chao

 

Achieving Content Accessibility in Communications and Copyright Law

Blake Ellis Reid

 

 

Valuing Attribution and Publication in Intellectual Property: An Experiment

Christopher Buccafusco

 

The Competitive Advantage of Weak Patents

William Hubbard

 

Conceptual Separability and the Copyright/Patent Boundary

Viva R. Moffat

 

Explaining Exhaustion: Commercial Law’s Constraints on Contract

John Duffy & Richard Hynes

 

Reconceptualizing the Idea of Responsibility in Copyright Law

Haochen Sun

 

Dialogues of Authenticity

Laura Heymann

 

Copyright’s Mercantilist Turn

Glynn Lunney

 

Reverse-Engineering Textual Meaning

Zahr K. Said

 

The (Relatively) Easy Case for Patents on Inventions

Oskar Liivak

 

Learning By Doing

Madhavi Sunder

 

 

The Public Psychology of Intellectual Property Rights

Gregory Mandel

 

Outsourcing Trade Secret Misappropriation

Elizabeth Rowe

 

In Defense of Design Patents

Sarah Burstein

 

Clarifying the Analogous Arts Test

Brenda Simon

 

Breakout Session 2 - Day One

 

Room 95

Trademarks & Branding

Room 180

Copyright and the First Amendment

Room 190

Patent Reform and Trade Secrets

Room 280B

Patent Damages and Valuation

Room 290

IP, Infringement Litigation and Efficiency

 

Debunking the “Duty to Police” in Trademark Law
 
Deborah Gerhardt, Eric Goldman, & Leah Chan Grinvald

 

Catch 22 in the Rye:
Copyright Essentialism and the Performativity of Remedies

Andrew Gilden

 

Protecting America’s True Innovators
W. Keith Robinson

 

Fixing FRAND: Rationalizing “Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory” Licensing of Standards-Essential Patents

Jorge Contreras

 

Law and Economics of Litigation: New Insights from Patents

Axel Haus &
Steffen Juranek

 

Trademark Law, Branding and the Oppressive Leveraging of the Female Gender

Ann Bartow

 

Are Search Results Speech?

James Grimmelmann

 

Be Careful What You Wish For: Trade Secrets and the America Invents Act

Sharon Sandeen

 

Creating a National Database for Patent Valuation

Matthew Dowd
& Brian Love

 

Patent Litigation in the UK: An Overview

Christian Helmers

 

Sex Exceptionalism in Intellectual Property

Jennifer Rothman

 

Cracks in the Edifice: a Copyright Critique
of the Institutional First Amendment

Jake Linford

 

UTSA Preemption and the Public Domain: How and Why Courts Have Overlooked Patent Preemption of State Law Claims Alleging Employee Wrongdoing

Charles Tait Graves
& Elizabeth Tippett

 

Collective Patent Pricing

Michael Mattioli

 

Patent Litigation Dynamics: Key Value Drivers And Efficiency Implications

Michael Mazzeo,
Jonathan Hillel,
& Samantha Zyontz

 

Trademark Apologetic Justice: China’s Three Laws on Trademark Reputation

Xuan-Thao Nguyen

 

Copyright, First Amendment, and the Ontology of Speech

Felix Wu

 

APA, AIA, and the PTO:  The Changing Guard of Patent Law
Melissa Wasserman

 

Basing Patent Remedies on Harm to the World Rather Than on Harm to the Patentee
Samson Vermont

 

Raising the Stakes in Patent Cases

Anup Malani
& Jonathan Masur

 

Intent, Confusion, and Trademark Infringement

Alfred Yen

 

Copyright as an Engine of Censorship
Peter Yu

 

Patent Reforms at Both Sides of the Atlantic: A Critical Analysis from a “Good Governance” Perspective

Esther van Zimmeren

 

Killing Two Birds with One Party: Using Neutral Third Parties
to Represent the Public Interest and to Dampen Overzealous
Advocacy in District Court Patent Litigation

Jeremy Bock

 

Using Fee Shifting to Promote Fair Use and Fair Licensing

Peter Menell &
Ben Depoorter

 

Breakout Session 3 - Day One

 

Room 95

Trademark Theory

Room 180

Toward a Worldwide IP System

Room 190

Copyright and Music

Room 280B

Patentable Subject Matter

Room 290

IP History

 

Speech, Citizenry, and the Market: A Corporate Public Figure Doctrine

Deven Desai

 

Measuring and Modeling Trans-Border Patent Rewards

Richard Gruner

 

Copyright and the Dilemma of
Defining Musical Works in the Era of Fixed Sound

Robert Brauneis

 

This Is Not a Law of Nature: Prometheus Laboratories and the Patentability of Representation
Kevin Emerson Collins

 

Patent Examination in the Venetian Republic (1414-1788)

Ted Sichelman
& Sean O’Connor

 

Hedonic Trademarks

Irina Manta

 

The Impact of Joining the Regional European Patent Convention System

Bronwyn Hall
& Christian Helmers

 

Copyright Complements

Jerry Liu

 

How Abortion Politics and Technophobia Created the Distinction Between Patently Human and Patentably Non-Human

Yaniv Heled

 

America’s First Patents
Michael Risch

 

An Impersonation Theory of Trademark Law

Lisa Ramsey

 

 

Deviant Globalization:  The Next Step in the Multilateral Protection of Intellectual Property

Doris Estelle Long

 

Getting it Wrong: Juror Assessments of Similarity in a Music Copyright Experiment

Jamie Lund

 

Patentable Subject Matter and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Eileen Herlihy

 

Time for a Truce: Lessons from the Lightbulb Litigation
for the Smartphone Patent War

Lea Shaver

 

How to Do Things with Word Marks: A Speech-Act Theory of Distinctiveness

Alexandra Roberts

 

 

Evaluating Flexibility in International Patent Law

Sarah Wasserman Rajec

 

Substantial Similarity and Psychological Similarity: Perfect Strangers

David Morrison

 

Exclusivity Without Patents: The New Frontier of FDA Regulation for Genetic Materials

Gregory Dolin

 

The Missing Context of the IP Clause: Madison, Jefferson, and the Influence of the French Philosophes Encyclopédie Project

Sean O’Connor

 

Breakout Session 4 - Day Two

 

Room 95

Alternatives to IP

Room 180

IP and Cross-Border Infringement

Room 190

Copyright Doctrine

Room 280B

IP’s Impact on Firms, Universities

Room 290

Patent Claim Construction

 

Commercializing Public Sector Information

Miriam Bitton

 

 

Building the Global Green Patent Highway: A Proposal for International Harmonization of Green Technology Fast Track Programs

Eric Lane

 

Eldred, Golan and the Soul of Copyright

Howard Abrams

 

Teams, Creativity, and the Firm

Anthony Casey
& Andres Sawicki

 

Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming

Mark Lemley

 

Governing Innovation Prizes

Michael Burstein
& Fiona Murray

 

 

Intellectual Property Without Borders

Cynthia Ho

 

Imagining the Contours of Copyright Protection for Synthetic Biology

Christopher Holman

 

Community based IP

Mary-Anne Williams

 

Cardozo on Patent Claim Construction and Interpretation

David Levine

 

The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network as a Nested Cultural Commons

Brett Frischmann & Katherine Strandburg

 

Trade’s Horizon and the Evolution of
“Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights”

Patricia Judd

 

Divisibility, Ownership, and the Exclusive CopyrightLicense

Christopher Newman

 

Sources of University Research Funding and Their Impact On Commercialization Outcomes

Jay Kesan & Hsiao-shan Yang

 

Patent Claim Construction in the United States
as a Form of Legal Interpretation

Christian Mammen

 

Governmental Innovation Mechanism Choices (with reference to Climate Change)

Joshua Sarnoff

 

Imperatives of Private Arbitration in International Intellectual Property Disputes

Mary Wong & Jacqueline Lipton

 

Acupressure: The Role of Market Forces in China's Emerging Copyright Enforcement Environment

Eric Priest

 

Patents and the University

Peter Lee

 

Rhetorical Devices in Claim Construction

Kristen Osenga

 

Breakout Session 5 - Day Two

 

Room 95

Industries Without IP

Room 180

Copyright Theory

Room 190

Real Property and Intellectual Property

Room 280B

Patents, the Federal Circuit and SCOTUS

Room 290

Patents, Disclosure and Notice

 

Copying Norms in the Tattoo Industry

Aaron Perzanowski

 

The Uneasy Case Against Copyright Trolls

Shyamkrishna Balganesh

 

Play First versus Pay First: Exploring Cumulative Innovation in Patent & Copyright Law

Stefan Bechtold,
Christopher Buccafusco,
& Christopher Sprigman

 

The Federal Circuit as a Federal Court

Paul R. Gugliuzza

 

The Information Value of Patent Claims

Tun-Jen Chiang

 

What Drives IP without IP? A Study of the Online Adult Entertainment Industry

Kate Darling

 

Creativity Constrained: Comics and the Law

Marc Greenberg

 

A Taxonomy of "Improvement Doctrines" in Property and IP

Deepa Varadarajan

 

The Federal Circuit: Standing in the Breach

David O. Taylor

 

The Patent Applicant’s Duty of Disclosure: A Comparative Analysis

Lisa Dolak

 

The Space Between:  An Openwork Approach to IP Protection

Amy Landers

 

Copyright, Neuroscience, and Creativity

Erez Reuveni

 

Virtual Property and Copyright: Taking the First Sale Doctrine into the Virtual Realm

Scott Boone

 

From Federal Common Law to Textualism: The Evolving Interpretation of Patent Cases in the Supreme Court

David S. Olson

 

“Overbreadth” As Oversimplification

Emily Michiko Morris

 

Fear and Loathing and Intellectual Property

Betsy Rosenblatt

 

 

Individuality or Multiplicity of “the Work”: Tracing an Evolving (and Perennial) Concern of Copyright Law and Policy
Eva Subotnik

 

Property’s Intellect

Molly Van Houweling

 

The Supreme Court’s Intellectual Property Caseload: A Historical Study

Ryan Vacca

 

Scaling the Patent System

Christina Mulligan
& Timothy Lee

 

Breakout Session 6 - Day Two

 

Room 95

Cyberlaw and IP

Room 180

Trademark, Intersection with Copyright, Social Media

Room 190

Copyright, Orphan Works and Fair Use

Room 280B

Patents, Empirical Studies

Room 290

Patents and NPEs

 

Graduated Response American Style:
‘Six Strikes’ Measured Against Five Norms

Annemarie Bridy

 

Dastar’s Next Stand

Mark McKenna

 

The Orphans, the Market, and the Copyright Dogma

Ariel Katz

 

Patent Prosecutors, Innovation, and Ethics
in Everyday Legal Practice

William Gallagher

 

The Past, Present, and Future of the Software Patent Problem

Colleen Chien

 

Internet Curation in Copyright’s Shadow:
Pinterest, Storify, and a Proposal for “Copyright Exempt” 501(c)(3) Entities

Edward Lee

 

Selling Information

Jeremy N. Sheff

 

Orphan Works as Grist for the Data Mill

Matthew Sag

 

Reconceiving the Patent Rocket Docket:
An Empirical Study of Infringement Litigation 1985–2010

Saurabh Vishnubhakat

 

The Giants Among Us

Tom Ewing
& Robin Feldman

 

Generation C:  Childhood, Code and Creativity

Andrea Matwyshyn

 

Sanctioning Intellectual Property Bullies?

Leah Chan Grinvald

 

How Fair Use Can Help Solve the Orphan Works Problem

Jennifer Urban

 

The Presumption of Validity in Patent Litigation:
An Experimental Study

David Schwartz & Christopher Seaman

 

Markets and Patent Enforcement: A Comparative Investigation of
Non-Practicing Entities in the US and EU

Stefania Fusco

 

The Right to Data Portability: Is This New Privacy Right Contrary to Antitrust Law?

Peter Swire

 

Who Owns the Social Media Account?

Zoe Argento

 

Nominative Fair Use Still Doesn't Make Sense

Greg Lastowka

 

An Empirical Study of Patent Prosecution Success
after the Filing of a Notice of Appeal

Andrew Torrance

 

From PI to IP: Yet Another Unexpected Effect of Tort Reform
Ronen Avraham
& John Golden

 

Intellectual Property Infringement by Artificial Intelligence Applications

Eran Kahana

 

Online Beauty & Online Licenses

Tal Niv

 

 

Fair Use, Transaction Costs, and Computable Contracts

Harry Surden

 

Patent Examination and Litigation Outcomes

Sean Tu

 

Expanding the Customer Suit Exception in Patent Law

James Yoon

Closing Plenary Session - Room 290

The State(s) of Copyright Law
Jeanne Fromer

Why Gardens, Perfumes, Recipes, DNA, and Mathematical Formulas Are Not Copyright Subject Matter
Pamela Samuelson

Setting Patent Fees
Stuart Graham & Galen Hancock

Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking? An Empirical Assessment of the PTO's Granting Patterns
Michael Frakes & Melissa Wasserman

Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law DePaul University College of Law Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology