The Emily C. and John E. Hansen IP Institute at Fordham Law School annual conference kicked off with government leaders’ perspectives on IP.

In some of her first public comments, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal noted, “we’ve laid a lot of groundwork in the last few years, but we need to connect the dots now.” She spoke of the importance of collaborating across agencies and borders and shared her vision and goals for the agency. I sensed a deep willingness to listen, engage, and lead in tackling common challenges.

I saw this willingness as well in Director Videl’s response to an audience question about The New York Times op-ed on patents (https://nyti.ms/3L5Q8Ac), where she said, “I thought some of the ideas in the editorial had merit, and I will say just overall whether you’re in the New York Times, whether you’ve just got a great idea, and you want to express it more privately, I want to hear all the good ideas, and I thought a lot of those were really good. So I think it’s just part of a long continuing dialogue.”

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Delighted to join Professor Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid and the participants of “Competition Law in the Digital Era” in Israel virtually from Chicago.

Data access and interoperability are hot button competition issues around the world. Politics, industrial policy, and history powerfully inform the approaches taken by European Union, China, and the US. I spoke about balanced rules for access to big data in the context of healthcare data and three lessons that Israel and the US can learn from pharmaceutical antitrust.

We had a lively and wide-ranging Q&A session, and I enjoyed listening as the topics provoked discussion among the participants, including on the state of healthcare data portability in Israel. One participant asked me if I was optimistic about cross-border data portability. I replied that geopolitical trust is key, and the current climate will pressure governments to look inwards. However, even within each national system of laws, there are lessons to learn, even between seemingly different areas, such as access to healthcare data and biologics samples. Countries that succeed can offer models for like-minded partners to study and form a nucleus for dialogue and cooperation.

Pleased to announce the details of our annual IP ethics seminar, now in its 13th year!

The program covers topics on ethics and professionalism of relevance to IP and tech lawyers.

Attendees will learn about the ethical issues that arise as well as fundamental principles, rules, and insights to help them handle these issues. This year’s topics focus on mental health and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Details here: https://bit.ly/uic_ip_ethics_flyer1

Adam Ernette, J.D., LL.M. University of Illinois Chicago School of Law Gary Friedlander TransUnion Rachel Carnaggio Holland & Hart LLP Rachel Hunnicutt Medical Technology Transfer (MTT), U.S. Army Medical Research & Development Command (USAMRDC) Kenneth Matuszewski, CIPP/US Goldberg Segalla Rita Sanzgiri Eli Lilly and Company Dardoh Skinner Pirkey Barber PLLC Kyle Serilla, CIPP/US Chiacchio IP, LLC Laith M. Abu-Taleb Mori Esther Lim Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Idris McKelvey The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Daniel R. Saeedi, CIPP/US Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Maureen Smith Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Looking forward to moderating a roundtable discussion on “Beyond Geopolitics – Contending with #USA-#China #IntellectualProperty Relations for Fair Game” at Marcus Evans Group’s #IPLaw Summit this week.

Details here: https://lnkd.in/gZ2B8nqk

The Summit will feature insights from Hon. Allyson K. Duncan (Ret.) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Jonathan Turley The George Washington University Law School Vishal Amin Intel Corporation Laura Martin Sweeney USPTO Tiffany Johnson Boston Scientific Nicole A. Spence CIPP/US, CIPP/E IBM Danielle Coleman VMware Braxton K. Davis, JD, CPP (He/Him/His) Meta The National Council on Patent Practicum, Inc. (NCPP) Jason Friday Lenovo John Calkins Pear Therapeutics Ben Frey Intelsat John LoForese Google Melissa Jobe T-Mobile Adraea Brown Harley-Davidson Motor Company Douglas Peterson CalAmp Lucky Vidmar Microsoft Brian Falbo Dell Technologies Jay Kennedy, Ph.D. Amazon William Mansfield, JD, MBA Abro Industries Inc.

#thanks Naomi Haynes Stacey N. Russell

Music Copyright Infringement: Global Perspectives Conference (w/GW Law)! https://bit.ly/3tVBpjV

Session 2

Music Copyright Infringement in Europe

Topics include the ECJ’s Metall auf Metall decision; droit moral; German treatment of copyright cases; judge v. jury trials; use of experts; use of software: comparisons and cognitive weighting; editorial rights for classical music; using songs in political campaigns; music databases.

Moderator: Robert Brauneis Michael J. McKeon Professor of IP Law; Co-Director of the IP Law Program; Co-Director of the Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Studies, George Washington University Law School, Washington DC

Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Consulting Professor, Music and Symbolic Systems, Stanford University, California
Jonathan Huber, Content Manager, GEMA Direktion Kommunikation, Germany
Gauthier Lunardi,  Stagiaire, Cabinet Découvertes et Droit , France
Daniel Mullenseifen, Professor in Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; Research Fellow, Hannover University of Music, Drama, and Media, Germany
Martin Schaefer, Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert, Germany
Leonie Schwannecke, Studentische Hilfskraft, Bucerius Law School, Germany