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Upcoming Events

  • Thursday, April 3, 2008

    Margaret Peterlin – Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office; Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
     
    Join us for a discussion with Ms. Peterlin about the challenges and concerns driving legislative efforts in the area of patent, trademark, and copyright law. Ms. Peterlin will also speak about her experiences at the USPTO and Commerce Department, and her past experiences as a congressional national security adviser.
     
    Refreshments served.
      

  • Wednesday, April 16, 2008

    John Simson – Executive Director, SoundExchange
     
    One needs only to have glimpsed the headlines over the last year to know that digital performance rights are subject to much legal attention. John Simson will discuss his work in the entertainment industry and his organization's legislative efforts. SoundExchange is a performance rights organization that collects and distributes digital performance royalties for recording artists and sound recording copyright owners when their sound recordings are performed on the Internet, digital cable and satellite television, and satellite radio.
     
    Refreshments served.

  

Past Speakers

  • David Hornik, August Capital: Venture Capital
     
  January 15, 2007 Video
  • Debate: Do terminally ill patients have a due process right to experimental drugs? Abigail Alliance v. Eschenbach
     
  November 12, 2007
 
  • Tarleton Gillespie: Copyright, DRM, & the Schools
     
  November 8, 2007  
  • Judge Timothy Dyk, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
     
  October 9, 2007 Video
  • Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith, “Innovation, Interoperability & Intellectual Property”
     
  March 8, 2007  
  • Panel: Keeping Pace with Technological Change in the Healthcare Industry
     
  January 17, 2007 Video
  • 1L Job Panel
     
  November 29, 2006  
  • Ray Kurzweil: Early in the Twenty-First Century, Intelligence will Underlie Everything of Value
     
  November 1, 2006 More Info
  • Intellectual Property Law in China
     
  October 11, 2006 Video and More Info
  • Revenge of the Female Nerds
     
  November 10, 2005 Video
  • Regina Lynn: The Sexual Revolution 2.0: Technology, Your Sex Life, and The Law
     
  April 4, 2005 Video
  • EFF v. RIAA: Grokster, INDUCE, and the Future of Innovation
     
  November 16, 2004 Video
  • Mark Webbink, General Counsel, RedHat (web)
     
  October 18, 2004 Video
  • Gavin Clarkson
     
  April 22, 2004 Video
  • JOLT Spring Symposium: Evolving Media (web)
     
  March 20, 2004 Video
  • Hiibel Moot Court (web)
     
  March 9, 2004  
  • Daryl McBride (web)
     
  February 2, 2004 Video
  • Eben Moglen (web)
     
  February 23, 2004 Video
  • Howard J. Bashman (web)
     
  January 12, 2004 Video
  • 2003 Law and Technology Career Panel (web)
     
  September 29, 2003  
  • Interweaving New Technologies, Society, and Law
    Professor Charles Nesson, Moderator
     
  February 26, 2003
  • Cloning and Bioethics Panel
     
  January 22, 2003 Video
  • Intellectual Property Rights in China
    Professor Daniel Chow
     
  November 22, 2002
  • Paper Discussion: A Patent Policy for Global Diseases: U.S. and International Legal Issues
    Jean Lanjouw
     
  November 7, 2002
  • Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment
    Professor Yochai Benkler
     
  October 22, 2002

 
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