2021 IPSC Schedule
IPSC Schedule
August 4
12:00-12:15 EDT:
Opening Remarks
12:30-2:30 EDT:
Panel 1 — Health Policy:
Cynthia Ho, The COVID TRIPS Waiver and Beyond: A Re-evaluation of International & Domestic IP
Orit Fischman-Afori, Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton, Emily Michiko Morris, A Global Pandemic Remedy to Vaccine Nationalism
Bhumika Sharma, Harish Thakur, Mohammed Muqatdir, Traditional Knowledge vis-à-vis Social Justice during Pandemic
Rachel E. Sachs, The Accidental Innovation Policymakers
David A. Simon, Evidence-Based Regulation of Off-Label Information
Panel 2 — Copyright Enforcement:
Faye Fangfei Wang, Resolving Copyright-related Cases Over the Internet with the Assistance of Artificial Intelligence in Europe
Elizabeth Townsend Gard, Creativity in the Shadow of the Case Act
Dmitry Karshtedt and Sean Pager, Volition and Intent in the Law of Direct Copyright Infringement
Panel 3 — Trademark Protection:
Irene Calboli, “Black Lives Matters” and “BLM” as Trademarks? An Empirical Review of Pending Applications and Considerations from an IP and Social Justice Perspective
Michael Birnhack, The Emergence of a Brand: A Case of Jaffa Oranges from Mandate Palestine
Alexandra J. Roberts, A Poetics of Trademarks
Mark A. Lemley and Mark P. McKenna, Trademark Spaces
Jennifer E. Rothman, Navigating the Identity Thicket: Trademark's Lost Theory of Personality, The Right of Publicity, and Preemption
August 4
3:00-5:00 EDT:
Panel 4 — Patenting Empirical Studies:
S. Sean Tu and Mark A. Lemley, What Litigators Can Teach the Patent Office About Pharmaceutical Patents
Runhua Wang, Do Patent Subsidy Policies Signal to Drive Patenting Propensity?
Jordi Goodman, Sy-STEM-ic Racism: An Exploration of Gender and Race Representation on University-Sponsored Patents
Samantha Zyontz, How Does Innovation Find a Way?: CRISPR Patenting During the Uncertainty of Interference Proceedings
Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman, Are NPEs More Likely to Assert Invalid Patents than Practicing Entities?
Panel 5 — Copyright, Distribution, and Access:
Jacob Victor, Copyright’s Law of Dissemination
Bita Amani and Mark Swartz, Cultivating Copyright Custodians for the Digital Age: Law, Libraries, and the Public Interest in Lending
Kylie Pappalardo, Copyright licensing and distribution in Australia’s screen industries
D.R. Jones, Under the Umbrella: Assessing Recent Court Decisions that Promote Public Access to the Law
Liam Sunner, How the European Union’s obligation to include and incorporate human rights as part of its external relations and trade of intellectual property, implies the inclusion of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities within this obligation
Panel 6 — Innovation and IP:
BJ Ard, Competing With and Without Intellectual Property in the Video Game Industry
Aman Gebru, Owning Innovations from Hackathons
Betsy Rosenblatt, IP Law in the Shadow of Norms
Lital Helman, Innovation and the Valley of Death
5:00-6:00 EDT:
Caricatures and (BYO) Cocktail Reception
Join us for an hour of fun greeting colleagues and watching our caricature artists draw your portraits (which will be yours to keep). Bring your favorite cocktail!
August 5
12:30-2:30 EDT:
Panel 7 — Patent Practice:
Janet Freilich, Technology and the Depth vs Breadth Tradeoff in Patent Practice
Liza Vertinsky, Artificial Intelligence, Patents and Competition
Karen E. Sandrik, Stop Ignoring Patents
Greg Reilly, Patent Scams
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette and Jonathan S. Masur, Active Learning in Patent Law: Teaching from a Problem-Focused Casebook
Panel 8 — Copyright and Data:
Sean Flynn, Andres Izquierdo, Mike Palmedo, Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright Law
Amanda Levendowski, Resisting Face Surveillance
Isaac Rutenberg, The role of Intellectual Property in the evolution of Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies in Africa
Arunima Shastri, Analysing Deepfake’s distress on Intellectual Property Rights
Panel 9 — Crosscutting IP:
Derek E. Bambauer, Everything You Want: The Paradox of Tailored IP Regimes
Mala Chatterjee, Understanding Intellectual Property: Expression, Function, and Individuation
Dilip Sharma, Arbitrability of Intellectual Property Disputes
Mauritz Kop, Quantum Technology: Waiving or Pledging IP?
August 5
3:00-5:00 EDT:
Panel 10 — Patent Scope & Validity:
Stephanie Plamondon Bair, Smart Patent Claiming
Amy L. Landers, Design Patents: Representation as Subject Matter Scope
Lucas Osborn, Pluralizing the PHOSITA in Patent Law
Panel 11 — Copyright Protection:
Rebecca Curtin, The Art (History) of Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.
Nina Srejovic, Copyright Protection for Works in the Language of Life
Tesh W. Dagne, Vying for the New Harvest: Access to and Control over Agricultural Data and the Role of Copyright
Zvi S. Rosen, Administering Copyright
Panel 12 — Identity, Data, and Privacy:
Dustin Marlan, The Dystopian Right of Publicity
Bita Amani, Authoring Identity: Copyright, Privacy, and Commodity Dissonance in the Digital Age
Victoria Schwartz, Joint Privacy
Uri Y. Hacohen, User-Generated Data Network Effects
August 11
12:30-2:30 EDT:
Panel 13 — Patents and the Courts:
Christa Laser, Getting to Many Minds in Patent Law: Should We End the Federal Circuit’s Exclusive Jurisdiction?
J. Jonas Anderson, Paul Gugliuzza, Jason Rantanen, An Empirical Study of Petitions for Writs of Mandamus at the Federal Circuit
Jeremy Bock, Forcing Review
J. Jonas Anderson, Court Competition on Steroids: The Patent Pilot Program’s Judge-Sized Loophole
Amy Semet, How Do Administrative Patent Judges Make Decisions?
Panel 14 — Copyright Authorship & Ownership:
Timothy J. McFarlin, A Copyright Ignored? Mark Twain, Mary Ann Cord, and the Meaning of Authorship
Shani Shisha, Copyright Pragmatism
Sarah Polcz, Coauthorship for Minor Contributors: Empirical Evidence of Efficiency
Eva E. Subotnik, Graven Instructions: Deconstructing the Posthumous Control of Visual Art
Guy Rub, The Challenges of Posthumous Moral Rights
Panel 15 — Digital Platforms:
Niva Elkin-Koren, Giovanni De Gregorio, Maayan Perel, Social Media as Contractual Networks: A Bottom up Check on Content Moderation
Eric Goldman, Validating Transparency Reports
Sari Mazzurco, Platform Regulation Through The Consumer Prism
Caroline Wanjiru Muchiri, Staying outside the Box: E-commerce Platforms, their Innovations and the Intellectual Property Framework in Kenya
Cathy Gellis, War Games Reboot: How Hollywood's Influence Undermines Cybersecurity
August 11
3:00-5:00 EDT:
Panel 16 — Licensing:
Brian J. Love, Yassine Lefouili, Christian Helmers, Do Standard-Essential Patent Owners Behave Opportunistically? Evidence from U.S. District Court Dockets
Bernard Chao and Tod Duncan, Why Patent Monopsonies Increase Consumer Welfare
Joy Y. Xiang, IP Licensing, Antitrust Law, and Access to Essential Technologies
Panel 17 — Copyright Substantial Similarity:
Clark D. Asay, An Empirical Study of Copyright Law’s Substantial Similarity Test
Bruce E. Boyden, The Enduring Appeal of “Total Concept and Feel”
Edward Lee and Andrew Moshirnia, Musicians v. Judges: Testing the Knowledge Effect in Music Cases
Panel 18 — Trademark Liability:
Barton Beebe, Roy Germano, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Joel H. Steckel, The Role of Consumer Uncertainty in Trademark Law: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation
Jake Linford, Justin Sevier, Allyson Willis, Sex, Drugs, and Trademark Tarnishmyths
Luminita Olteanu, The ‘trade-mark-law-as-innovation-catalyst’ trap: why it would be wise to conceptualise innovation outside the realms of branding and dilution protection
Robert W. Woods and Derek E. Bambauer, Is the Bloom Off the “Tea Rose”? Reevaluating the Tea Rose Doctrine for the 21st Century
Rebecca Tushnet, House Brands: The History of an Idea
August 12
12:30-2:30 EDT:
Panel 19 — Patentability:
Laura G. Pedraza-Fariña and Ryan Whalen, The Ghost in the Patent System: Why Courts Struggle to Define Patent Law’s “Ordinary Artisan” and How A Network Approach Can Fix It
Sepehr Shahshahani, The (Mis)Measure of Follow-On Innovation
Richard Gruner, Lost in Patent Wonderland with Alice: Finding the Way Out
Dean Alderucci and Lidiya Mishchenko, AI Techniques to Analyze Written Description and Enablement Rejections
Tabrez Y. Ebrahim, Datafication at the Patent Office
Panel 20 — Copyright Theory:
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, The Institutionalist Turn in Supreme Court Copyright Jurisprudence
Stephen Yelderman, The Supreme Court’s Fragile Copyright Law
Xiyin Tang, Privatizing Copyright
Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Transforming Fair Use
Lisa Macklem, A Tale of Two Cases: A Fairer Approach for Creativity and Innovation
Panel 21 — AI and Algorithms:
Sarit K. Mizrahi, But the Thingamabob That Does the Job is Dialogue: On Originality in Human-Machine Collaborations
Andres Sawicki, An AI’s Responses to Prompts about AI Authorship, Inventorship, and Ownership of IP
Dan L. Burk, Cheap Creativity and What It Will Do
Tiffany Li, Algorithmic Shadow Harms
Elizabeth A. Rowe, Procuring Transparency
August 12
3:00-5:00 EDT:
Panel 22 — Patent Litigation Empirical Studies:
Shawn P. Miller, Incorporation and Inventor Patent Litigation
Paul R. Gugliuzza and Rachel Rebouché, Gender Inequality in Patent Litigation
David L. Schwartz, Ted Sichelman, Richard Miller, USPTO Patent Number and Case Code File Dataset Documentation
Panel 23 — Creativity and Culture:
Peter Lee, Autonomy, Copyright, and the Structure of Creative Production
Amy Adler and Jeanne Fromer, Memes on Memes
Madhavi Sunder, Intellectual Property Is Theft!
Trevor Reed, Restorative Licensing
JohnJohn Uket, Transforming policymakers into innovators in the Civil Service of developing countries
Panel 24 — Remedies:
Thomas F. Cotter, Nominal Damages—and Nominal Damages Workarounds—in Intellectual Property Law
Matthew Sag and Pamela Samuelson, Hysteresis: An Empirical Study of Copyright Injunctions After eBay v. MercExchange
Jorge L. Contreras, An American Compulsory License: Coming to Terms with Ongoing Patent Infringement Following Denial of an Injunction in the post-eBay Era
John Jarosz and Jorge Contreras, Preliminary Injunctive Relief in Patent Cases: Repairing Irreparable Harm