Works in Progress Intellectual Property 2006

Works in Progress Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Colloquium 2006

Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium 2006

Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium 2006

[This event is over. Thanks to everyone who participated! Abstracts of the presentations will remain on this site. Where available, links to liveblogged versions of the talks will be added.]

Conference Program (printable version)

All conference events will take place at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 3900 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; (412) 624-1400

Friday, October 6, 2006
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Registration [box lunches will be available]
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Introduction, Dean's Welcome, and Administrative Announcements [Room 113]
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Panel 1 / Room 113 Jane Winn University of Washington Legitimate Authority in the FOSS Community [abstract] Bruce Boyden Washington & Lee University Copyright's Middle Ground: The Role of the Player in Creating Video Game Audiovisual Displays [abstract] [blogged talk] Jay Kesan University of Illinois Intellectual Property Rights Legislation and Incentives and R&D Investment in Agricultural Biotechnology: United States and Argentina	Panel 2 / Room 111 Eddan Katz Yale Information Society Project Copyright Contraband: The Criminalization of Technology in Cyberspace [abstract] Irene Calboli Marquette University A Critical Analysis of the Doctrine of Naked Licenses in Trademark Law [abstract] Mark McKenna St. Louis University Trademarks and Contextual Meaning [abstract] [blogged talk]
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Panel 1 / Room 113 Christopher Holman University of Missouri Kansas City Do Exclusionary Settlements of Hatch-Waxman Patent Suits Violate Antitrust Law? [abstract] Mark Lemley Stanford University The (Unnoticed) Death of the Doctrine of Equivalents [abstract] [blogged talk] Michael Meurer Boston University If You Can't Tell the Boundaries, It Ain't Property [abstract] [blogged talk]	Panel 2 / Room 111 Dan Cahoy The Pennsylvania State University Confronting Myths and Myopia on the Road from Doha [abstract] [blogged talk] Srividhya Ragavan University of Oklahoma Of the Unequals of the Uruguay Round
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Break
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.	Panel 1 / Room 113 Brett Frischmann Loyola University Chicago and Michael Madison University of Pittsburgh IP, Pooling Arrangements, and Constructed Environments [abstract] Gaia Bernstein Seton Hall University In the Shadow of Innovation [abstract] Michael Carroll Villanova University Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century [abstract]	Panel 2 / Room 111 Peter Yu Michigan State University Reconceptualizing Intellectual Property Rights in the Human Rights Framework [paper] [blogged talk] David Welkowitz Whittier Law School Privatizing of Human Rights? The Application of the European Convention on Human Rights to Intellectual Property [abstract] [blogged talk] Andrew Torrance University of Kansas An Extinction Bar To Patentability [abstract]
6:30 p.m. onward	Drinks and Dinner in the Law School's Alcoa Room
Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Coffee, juice, fruit, and bagels
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Panel 1 / Room 113 Scott Boone Appalachian School of Law On Virtual Property and Copyright [abstract] [blogged talk] Peter Winn Office of the U.S. Attorney, W.D. Washington, and University of Washington Unauthorized Access, Computer Trespass and Privacy [abstract] [blogged talk] David Levine Stanford Center for Internet and Society Secrecy and Unaccountability: Trade Secrets in the Public Infrastructure [abstract]	Panel 2 / Room 111 Kelly Casey University of Maryland Courts as Machines? Legal Uncertainty in Patent Law [abstract] Dennis Crouch Boston University The Patent Lottery: Exploiting Behavioral Economics for the Common Good [abstract] Frank Pasquale Seton Hall University Egalitarian Principles for Copyright [abstract] [blogged talk]
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Panel 1 / Room 113 Jacqueline Lipton Case Western Reserve University Gripe Sites and Parodies in Cyberspace: Framing a Domain Name Policy to Facilitate Free Speech [abstract] [blogged talk] Rebecca Tushnet Georgetown University My Fair Ladies: Sex, Gender, and Transformative Use in Copyright [abstract] (forthcoming, American Univ. J. Gender, Social Policy & the Law(2007) [blogged talk] Eric Goldman Santa Clara University Online Word of Mouth and Its Implications for Trademark Law [abstract] [blogged talk]	Panel 2 / Room 111 Elizabeth Townsend Gard Seattle University Unpublished Works in the Public Domain: The Opening of a New Frontier Christine Galbraith University of Maine A Panoptic Approach to Information Policy: Utilizing a More Balanced Theory of Property in Order to Ensure the Existence of a Prodigious Public Domain [abstract] Michael Landau Georgia State University Intellectual Property and the Demise of Exclusive Rights [abstract]
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.	Break [box lunches will be available]
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Panel 1 / Room 113 Susan Richey Pierce Law Wages for the Sin of Omission in the Trademark Office: Should Applicants Be Under a Duty to Disclose? [abstract] Sean Pager Seattle University Creeping Genericide: The Dilemma of Geographical/Process Certification Marks [abstract] [blogged talk] Jasmine Abdel-khalik University of Missouri Kansas City Timing is Everything: Of Trademark Applications, Self-Disparagement, and Post-Registration Limitations to Scandalous and Disparaging Trademarks [abstract] [blogged talk]	Panel 2 / Room 111 Laura Heymann College of William & Mary The Trademark/Copyright Divide [abstract] [blogged talk] Eileen Kane Pennsylvania State University Patentable Subject Matter: Border Conflicts Revisited [abstract] Gerard Magliocca Indiana University -- Indianapolis Blackberries and Barnyards: Patent Trolls and the Dilemma of Hybrid Information [abstract]
Conference Ends