Outer Limits of Patentable Subject Matter

Friday, March 16, 2007 at 10:45 am
Pound 107, Harvard Law School

What are the outer limits of patentable subject matter?  Can methods of doing business be patented?  Can legal strategies?  This panel of distinguished scholars and practitioners will debate whether current legal standards can or should support the extension of patentability into this realm.

Moderator

Arti Rai, Hieken Visiting Professor of Patent Law, Harvard Law School; Professor of Law, Duke Law School

Panelists

  • Dennis Crouch, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
  • Dana Irwin, Assistant Professor of Law, Drexel University College of Law
  • Andrew Schwartz, Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

 

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