65th Annual IP Conference | Concurrent Sessions – Track 1
1E: Trademarks
Topics include the SHOP SAFE Act; the protection of well-known marks post Bayer v. Belmora; Kaisha v. Lotte and trade dress functionality; new trends in bad-faith trademarks in China; Iancu v. Brunetti; and trademark trolling.
William K. Ford University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Graeme Dinwoodie Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology Marshall Leaffer Indiana University Maurer School of Law Yongjian Lei WANHUIDA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Yvette Liebesman Saint Louis University School of Law
Amy Ziegler Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.
Topics include the SHOP SAFE Act; the protection of well-known marks post Bayer v. Belmora; Kaisha v. Lotte and trade dress functionality; new trends in bad-faith trademarks in China; Iancu v. Brunetti; and trademark trolling.
William K. Ford University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Graeme Dinwoodie Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology Marshall Leaffer Indiana University Maurer School of Law Yongjian Lei WANHUIDA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Yvette Liebesman Saint Louis University School of Law
Amy Ziegler Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.
1A: Copyright: The New Normal
Topics include NFTs (art and esports); exterritorial damages in copyright law; Instagram memes: fair use or no use?; substantial similarity post-Skidmore: no “Stairway to Heaven?; and sidestepping sync rights and music covers on TikTok.
Sean O’Connor George Mason University – Antonin Scalia Law School Tom Cotter University of Minnesota Law School James Gatto Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Jonathan Jennings Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP Bill McGrath Davis McGrath LLC Kevin Parks Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
1B: Technology & Privacy
Topics include ransomware, the pandemic, the president, and zero-trust networks; IP, blockchain, and smart contracts; regulating Bitcoin and blockchain derivatives; cyber insurance; data-breach legislation; changes in data residency and its impact on global companies; and the FTC shift to data privacy and cyber-security enforcement.
Marta Belcher Protocol Labs Electronic Frontier Foundation Charisse Castagnoli InstaPay Stuart Loh Twingate Ryan N. Phelan Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP Houman Shadab New York Law School Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid Ono Academic College
1D: Global IP Issues
Topics include IP and popular culture: U.S. fair use and Singapore’s legislative amendments; EU copyright harmonization and the role of the EU’s Court of Justice; toward a global FRAND solution; the WTO waiver and COVID-19; and the impact of recent Innovation and IP policies in China.
Mark Cohen Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) University of California, Berkeley – School of Law Dr. Ashish Bharadwaj Jindal School of Banking & Finance David Tan NUS Faculty of Law Eleonora Rosati Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University Bird & Bird Runhua Wang University of Science and Technology Beijing