Penn State Dickinson Law | July 2022

Grateful to Dean Danielle Conway & the Dickinson Law family for their warm welcome. Our conversations underscore many opportunities to build new bridges and strengthen existing ones with partners both at home and abroad. I look forward to the trails we will blaze together. https://dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/new-resident-faculty-appointment-announced

March 18 | Music Copyright Infringement: Global Perspectives

Please join us for our Music Copyright Conference on Friday, March 18, 2022! In partnership with The George Washington University Law School, this conference builds on work done by its Music Copyright Infringement Resource and brings together academics, practitioners, musicologists, and theorists. This cross-pollination of ideas relating to national copyright regimes and musical expertise promises to spark new insights into adjudicating music infringement disputes, as well as those involving other genres of expression, in the U.S. and overseas. You can find the agenda, list of speakers, and registration link here: https://bit.ly/3rnKvWJ. Looking forward to welcoming everyone! The conference is free to attend but please register to receive a Remo link to the event. If you need assistance with registration, don’t hesitate to contact my colleague Adam Ernette (aernette@uic.edu). University of Illinois Chicago School of Law Robert Brauneis Charles Cronin Claremont Graduate University Subhash Bhutoria L&L Partners Zhen Troy Chen, PhD FHEA London College of Communication, University of the Arts London Chien-Chih (Jesse) Lu National Chengchi University Patrick Savage Keio University Dong (Lily) Xue GEN Law Firm Eleanor Selfridge-Field Stanford University Jonathan Huber GEMA Gauthier Lunardi Cabinet Découvertes et Droit Daniel Muellensiefen Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media Martin Schaefer BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT Leonie Schwannecke Bucerius Law School Peter Anderson Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Hon. Denny Chin U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Robert Clarida Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP @Joe Fishman Vanderbilt University Law School Rob Kasunic U.S. Copyright Office

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. https://lnkd.in/dkYDC87i

65th Annual IP Conference | Dunner Award & Plenary Sessions

Each year, our series of conferences, seminars, talks, and courses culminate in our flagship annual #intellectualproperty law conference. Throughout its 65 years, the conference has chronicled key intellectual property, privacy, and technology law developments in the #unitedstates, and more recently, from around the world. Many who made the news also graced our event as speakers, giving attorneys and students alike a ringside seat to those developments, while also giving our faculty, alumni, and supporters an opportunity to shape the discussion. This year, we are pleased to share with you our plenary sessions. They showcase some of the conference's best moments and powerfully illustrate the quality of candid, spontaneous debate. We hope you will enjoy viewing it as much as we have enjoyed bringing the intellectual property world together all these years. Save the date for our 66th conference - 11.11.22. We hope to see you then!

IPKat Conference Report| Patents, Truth, PCT and more at the UIC School of Law International IP Practice Seminar

Back in October, the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property (“IP”), Information, and Privacy Law organized and virtually hosted its International IP Practice Seminar. The Seminar, co-organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Kuhnen & Wacker, brought together international policymakers and practitioners to discuss the worldwide landscape of the most cutting-edge IP issues from a comparative perspective. Each speaker brought unique national and international perspectives across industries, technologies, and IP subject matter to the discussion.  Adam Ernette (UIC) reports on the seminar.  https://bit.ly/3FpYizT

IPWatchdog | “The Road Ahead: Predicting IP Developments to Watch in 2022”

What are the key #intellectualproperty trends to watch out for in 2022? Here are my top three: 1) Courts and governments in key jurisdictions will reveal their positions on AI, with most opting to keep the status quo or adapting AI to existing IP doctrines. 2) Legislative and executive branches of government will weigh in on the weaponizing of antisuit injunctions. This may be an important first step to developing a code of conduct, perhaps within the context of plurilateral trade agreements. 3) The emergence of more truly international IP meetings. With virtual and hybrid events becoming the norm, the ease of both attending and speaking at such events allows more voices that have thus far been largely absent to participate and be heard. We have much to learn from each other. The humility, willingness, and now the ability to do so seamlessly can only bode well for the inextricably interconnected IP issues we face. Check out the full post and read what Alden Abbott Mercatus Center at George Mason University George Mason University Nick Aries Bird & Bird Megan Bannigan Debevoise & Plimpton James De Vellis Foley & Lardner LLP Efrat Kasznik Foresight Valuation Group Stephen Kunin Maier & Maier, PLLC Eli Mazour Harrity & Harrity, LLP Scott McKeown Ropes & Gray LLP Gene Quinn IPWatchdog, Inc Robert Reading Clarivate have to say! https://bit.ly/3mTb435

IPWatchdog | “Patent Stakeholders Share Their IP Wishes for the New Year”

When IPWatchdog, Inc invited me to share my wishes for the new year, I selected these: 1) A détente between the US and China, and that what we can do through “big-tent” IP conferences, institutional partnerships between IP stakeholders, and a resilient and proactive network of people-to-people ties can make a difference, 2) A Singapore-style copyright exception for text and data mining to promote the growth of AI industries in the US while protecting the rights of content owners here, and, 3) That multilateral and regional organizations will regain their relevance in helping establish relevant, responsive, and balanced worldwide IP norms. Key issues like access to vaccines and treatments, cross-border forum shopping in standard-essential patent litigation, the protection and enforcement of AI-related technologies, and emerging issues like non-fungible tokens and virtual spaces like Facebook’s metaverse demand coherent and balanced answers on a global scale. You can read my full contribution and others from Alden Abbott Mercatus Center at George Mason University, George Mason University Nick Aries Bird & Bird Megan Bannigan Debevoise & Plimpton Aziz Burgy Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP Julie Burke #IPQualityPro James De Vellis Foley & Lardner LLP Marla Grossman American Continental Group Thomas Isaacson Polsinelli Blair Jacobs McKool Smith Efrat Kasznik Foresight Valuation Group Stephen Kunin Maier & Maier, PLLC Scott McKeown Ropes & Gray LLP John Rogitz ROGITZ & ASSOCIATES University of Illinois Chicago School of Law here: https://bit.ly/3FPH9QO

IPWatchdog | “The IP Developments that Mattered”

I explain the significance of USPTO National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division's new SEP initiative in IPWatchdog's annual roundup of "IP Developments that Mattered." University of Illinois Chicago School of Law https://bit.ly/319Q80b #patents #antitrust #standards

December 17 | Workshop on Anti-suit Injunctions and FRAND Litigation in China (Online)

Jointly organized by the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (CFRED) at CUHK LAW and the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University School of Law, this workshop brings together intellectual property and other legal experts to examine the emergence of anti-suit injunctions in patent litigation in China. Conducted in a roundtable format, the event aims to foster a dialogue among participants from China, the United States and other parts of the world. https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/workshop-on-anti-suit-injunctions-and-frand-litigation-in-china-online/

Licensing Executives Society International | 4th edition of the Paris conference on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and FRAND

Hosted by Allen & Overy France, Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) France, 4th edition of the #Paris conference on #StandardEssentialPatents and #FRAND brings together two international stakeholder panels to debate #IP and #competition issues relating to mobile communications,#IOT, and more. I look forward to moderating the first panel on December 14. Hope to see you there! To learn more about the speakers and the agenda, check out the conference website here: https://bit.ly/3Ed86NH Ruud Peters Mathieu Klos JUVE Verlag für juristische Information GmbH Andrei Iancu Irell & Manella LLP Rudi Bekkers Eindhoven University of Technology Pio Suh IPCOM Clemens Heusch Nokia Marianne Frydenlund Nordic Semiconductor Michael Schlögl Continental Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan Bird & Bird David Por Judge Dr. Klaus Grabinski Judge Richard Meade Judge Nathalie Sabotier Judge Edger Brinkman Prof. Guangliang Zhang