Ryan Calo
Law and Technology in Theory and Practice
Melissa Feeney Wasserman
Deadlines vs. Continuous Incentives: Evidence from the Patent Office
Business of IP: Jeff Hegedus, Skydance Television
Our first speaker for this year’s Business of IP series is Jeff Hegedus, Executive Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for Skydance Television (https://skydance.com). He will speak about the day-to-day work of an entertainment lawyer and how he began and developed his career over the years. A lawyer with over 20 years experience in entertainment and intellectual-property law, Jeff previously worked at Sony Pictures Television, Paramount Television, Hulu, ABC Studios, and O’Melveny & Myers. Jeff earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Irvine and his law degree from the University of Southern California.
Andrew Gilden
2020 IP in the Trees
23rd Annual Business Law Fall Forum “The Procedure of IP”
This forum will explore the various ways in which the laws of Civil Procedure and Intellectual Property intersect. Among other things, speakers will cover preclusion in the context of administrative proceedings, the territorial scope of IP claims and remedies generally, equitable estoppel within copyright cases, jury instructions in copyright cases, and the standards for infringement and burdens of proof in copyright cases.
Lisa Ramsey
March 2018
Joint JD/MBA Info Session with Portland State University
Joint JD/MBA Info Session with Portland State University
Irina Manta
Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property
Sharon K. Sandeen
Professor Sandeen joins us for our 7th Annual “IP in the Trees” series with a lecture entitled “Toward a Federal Jurisprudence of Trade Secret Law” on Friday, March 17th at 12:10 pm.
2016 Business Law Fall Forum
Please join us for Lewis & Clark Law School’s 21st Annual Business Law Fall Forum: Innovating CSR: From the Local to the Global.
Patrick R. Goold
Patrick Goold joins us from Harvard Law School. He will present a draft of his paper “Unbundling the ‘Tort’ of Copyright Infringement”.
Joseph S. Miller
Professor Joe Miller joins us from the University of Georgia. He will present a draft of the paper entitled “Legal Process & Penalty Defaults: Thoughts on the New Patent Jurisprudence”.
EASL & IPSO Present: Professor Loren’s 2015-16 ‘The Business of IP’ Lunchtime Series
Come hear about the practice of intellectual-property and entertainment law in a variety of contexts. From a movie company to a non-profit focused on facilitating licensing of content, from a solo practitioner to Fortune 100 company – an IP lawyer’s practice can be many things.
Christopher Newman
Professor Newman joins us from George Mason University School of Law. He will workshop his paper, ‘Letting Nature Run Its Course: How (And Why) To Resuscitate Fair Use’s Moribund Second Factor.’
USPTO Representative Meeting With Students
James Silberman of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Office of Enrollment and Discipline, will be at the law school on March 2, 2014. He is coming to the law school as part of the SBLC’s participation in the USPTO Law School Student Clinic Certification Program. Please join him to learn about positions with the USPTO and to ask questions about practicing patent and trademark law. Please meet in the Upper Student Lounge.
Sarah Wasserman Rajec
Professor Sarah Wasserman Rajec joins us from William & Mary Law School. She will present her recent paper ‘The Intellectual Property Hostage in Trade Retaliation’ to students, faculty, and local IP practitioners.
BLSA Networking Event at Perkins Coie
Borrowing concepts from speed dating, the BLSA Networking Event will facilitate short, focused conversations between current law students and local attorneys in a relaxed setting. Topics that will be addressed include networking, business development, and finding your voice as a lawyer.
2015 Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor: ‘Hitting Refresh: Intellectual Property Rights and the Internet.’
We are pleased to announce The Honorable Denise Cote from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York as the 2015 Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor. Her lecture ‘Hitting Refresh: Intellectual Property Rights and the Internet’ is open to the public.
Robert Brauneis
Professor Robert Brauneis joins us from The George Washington University Law School. He will present a draft of a paper entitled “The Copyright Office Catalog: What Fifteen Million Registration Records Can Tell Us About Creative Production in the United States, 1978-2012.
Business Law Fall Forum- Workplace Secrets, Loyalty, and Poaching: Protecting Employer Interests and Employee Liberty
Save the date for the 20th Annual Business Law Fall Forum- Workplace Secrets, Loyalty, and Poaching: Protecting Employer Interests and Employee Liberty
20th Annual Business Law Spring Luncheon
Each year our Business Law Luncheon not only celebrates the accomplishments of our students and business law program, but allows us to thank the many members of the community who lend their talents to our curricular and extracurricular activities.
Legal Stumbling Blocks for Small Businesses
Small business owners and entrepreneurs are invited to learn about entity selection, intellectual property, tax issues and other legal challenges facing small business owners from interns with the Small Business Legal Clinic.
Glynn Lunney
Professor Glynn Lunney will workshop his paper Trademark’s De-Evolution: From Consumer Welfare to Corporate Welfare. He joins us from Tulane University School of Law, where he specializes in patent, copyright and trademark law, unfair competition and contracts.
IPSO Wine Social
Join IPSO for wine tasting, appetizers, and the opportunity to meet local intellectual property attorneys.
Aaron Perzanowski
Professor Aaron Perzanowski will workshop his paper The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy. He joins us from Case Western Reserve School of Law, where he specializes in intellectual property and telecommunications law.
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Visit
Bill Griffin of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) will be available to meet with students in an informal setting, to discuss practice and job opportunities with the USPTO.
Alternative Careers with Lawyers
Using your law degree for the changing legal and business worlds.
“Genealogies of Chinese Export Art and the Origins of the Copy”
Lecture by Winnie Wong, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric. University of California, Berkeley
Kristelia A. Garcia
Building on her recent work on penalty default licensing, Professor Kristelia A. Garcia will be work-shopping a paper that examines antitrust and copyright law as they relate to collective rights organizations
Jorge L. Contreras
Professor Jorge L. Contreras joins us from the University of Utah, S.J. Quinny College of Law
Peter Lee
Peter Lee is Professor of Law at UC Davis Law School, where his legal research explores the patent system’s impact on scientific and technological progress. Professor Lee’s work has also addressed the broader question of how intellectual property affects the creation and dissemination of ideas.
Lionel Bently
Lionel Bently joins us from the University of Cambridge, where he is the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law. He has authored several important publications on IP Law and brings with him a worldly expertise on the subject.
2014 Distinguished IP Visitor: Judge Patti B. Saris
A lecture given by Judge Saris
United States District Court, District of Massachusetts
United States District Court, District of Massachusetts
Margaret Chon
Professor Margaret Chon will be showcasing her most recent article, “Slow Logo: Brand Citizenship in Global Value Networks.” Professor Chon is a dedicated scholar and teacher of intellectual property and critical theory at Seattle University School of Law. She is currently the Donald & Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice, and formerly Associate Dean for Research.
Ryan G. Vacca
Professor Vacca will be showcasing his most recent article on the work-made-for-hire doctrine in copyright law, which was selected as the winner of the University of Houston’s IPIL Sponsored Scholarship Grant for the Legal Academy. Ryan G. Vacca is Associate Professor of Law at The University of Akron School of Law. Professor Vacca’s research and teaching interests include copyrights, intellectual property, and products liability.
Molly Van Houweling
Molly Shaffer Van Houweling is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also serves as one of the Faculty Directors of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Professor Van Houweling’s teaching and research interests include intellectual property, law and technology, and property doctrine and theory.
Edward Lee
Edward Lee is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Lee’s research focuses on the ways in which the Internet, technological development, and globalization challenge existing legal paradigms.
Kevin Emerson Collins
Kevin E. Collins is a Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, MO. He is a well known patent scholar who frequently uses an interdisciplinary lens to shed new light on patent law.
Zahr Said
“Copyright in Characters: A Literary Perspective”
Stacey L. Dogan
“Useful Articles in Trademark Law”
Dan L. Burk
“Ancillary IP Markets and the Firm”
Ted Sichelman
“Purging Patent Law of ‘Private Law’ Remedies”
Register of Copyrights Luncheon
Join Marybeth Peters for a look back at the challenges copyright law has confronted, from photocopying to cable and satellite television, and the challenges it continues to confront, from worldwide communications networks to mass digitization projects undertaken by Google. Ms. Peters will also discuss the critical need for copyright law to address the orphan works problem and update the exceptions to the rights of copyright owners. 1.0 general Oregon and Washington MCLE credit pending.
Annemarie Bridy
Lecture: “The Author in the Machine: Copyright in the Age of Digital Production”
Annemarie Bridy teaches Contracts, Copyrights, Introduction to Intellectual Property, and Cyberspace Law. In 2009, she received the College of Law’s William F. and Joan L. Boyd Award for Teaching Excellence and the University of Idaho’s Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence.
Annemarie Bridy teaches Contracts, Copyrights, Introduction to Intellectual Property, and Cyberspace Law. In 2009, she received the College of Law’s William F. and Joan L. Boyd Award for Teaching Excellence and the University of Idaho’s Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence.
Rebecca Tushnet
Lecture: “Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law”
Rebecca Tushnet is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. After clerking for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and Associate Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court, she practiced intellectual property law at Debevoise & Plimpton before joining the NYU faculty, then moving to Georgetown.
Rebecca Tushnet is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. After clerking for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and Associate Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court, she practiced intellectual property law at Debevoise & Plimpton before joining the NYU faculty, then moving to Georgetown.
The Honorable Judge Timothy B. Dyk
Our Annual Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor program is now in its twelfth year. This year our visitor will be Judge Timothy B. Dyk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Harry Surden
Lecture: “Interpretation as Constraint Satisfaction: A Theoretical Framework for Patent Claim Construction”
Harry Surden joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty in 2008. His scholarship centers upon intellectual property law with a substantive focus on patents and copyright, information privacy law, and the application of computer technology within the legal system.
Harry Surden joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty in 2008. His scholarship centers upon intellectual property law with a substantive focus on patents and copyright, information privacy law, and the application of computer technology within the legal system.
Christopher Sprigman
Lecture: “Creativity Effects”
Chris Sprigman teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, competition policy and comparative constitutional law. His scholarship focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies.
Chris Sprigman teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, competition policy and comparative constitutional law. His scholarship focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies.
“Making Sense of Fair Use,” a lecture by Neil Netanel
Neil Netanel teaches and writes in the areas of copyright, free speech, international intellectual property, and telecommunications law and policy.
Professor Neil W. Netanel
Neil Netanel is the Law School’s eleventh Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor. On February 16, he will offer a public lecture titled, “Making Sense of Fair Use.”
Hon. Pierre Leval
We are pleased to host Judge Pierre Leval as our 2009 Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor, a program now celebrating its tenth year. Judge Leval is a United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the time of his appointment in 1993, he was a United States District Court Judge in the Southern District of New York.
Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Lewis & Clark Law School is pleased to welcome Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Professor of Law, Associate Dean, and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Hon. Raymond C. Clevenger
Lewis & Clark Law School is very pleased to host the Honorable Raymond C. Clevenger III as its eighth annual Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor. Judge Clevenger will visit the Law School from February 19 through February 23 to interact with students, faculty, and members of the bench and bar.
Maureen O’Rourke
Dean Maureen O’Rourke lectures on “The Challenges of Drafting a Uniform Law for Software Contracting”
Hon. Alex Kozinski
Lewis & Clark Law School is honored to host the Honorable Alex Kozinski as the sixth annual Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor. Judge Kozinski will visit the Law School from February 28 through March 2, 2005, to interact with students, faculty and members of the bench and bar in a variety of settings.
Wendy J. Gordon
Wendy J. Gordon Professor, Boston University School of Law Lectures on Copyright and Commodification
Hon. Ronald M. Whyte
The Honorable Ronald M. Whyte, U.S. District Court Judge Northern District of California
Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, will present, “Reforming the Copyright Policy Process.” The lecture is part of the Intellectual Property Distinguished Visitor Series.
Hon. Paul R. Michel
The Honorable Paul R. Michel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Rebecca Eisenberg
Rebecca Eisenberg, Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law, University of Michigan