36th US Bar – EPO Liaison Meeting

Joined European Patent Office (EPO) officials and U.S. patent attorneys for the 36th US Bar EPO Liasion Council Meeting. Both sides discussed a wide range of topics, including Covid-19's impact and measures at the EPO, the Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court, plant and animal patentability at the EPO, as well as artificial intelligence (AI) at the EPO and USPTO. I was honored to address the Council on AI and spoke about areas of convergence, divergence, and the importance of plurilateral and multilateral efforts to harmonize safe harbors, redlines, and regulatory sandboxes. Covid-19 has bolstered both the need for countries to work together as well as the means to do so early and often. Let's make the most of it. EPO's press release here: https://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2020/20201120.html

Thank you, sponsors and institutional partners!

UIC John Marshall Law School's 64th Annual IP Law Conference is a one-day, virtual event providing an exceptional opportunity to meet online with newsmakers and influencers, to learn and discuss the most exciting and important developments in the field, and to be empowered to help create better laws and policies that promote innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Featuring 14 sessions with more than 80 world-class faculty, this year’s conference embraces advances in video-conferencing technology to provide virtual networking receptions throughout the day. Given the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects across the globe, we gave this consideration particular attention and selected a virtual platform that provides presenters and attendees the same seamless transition between panel discussions and networking for which the conference has become known. We are pleased to welcome the keynote speaker for the 64th Annual IP Conference, Hon. Paul Michel (ret.), former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Chair of our Center’s advisory board. The title of his keynote is "The Arc of American Patent Law" Bloomberg, IPKat, and IPWatchdog will be onsite this year to report on the Conference. Hope to see you there! https://ipconference.jmls.uic.edu/2020/

Perhaps the longest conference in a single day – 14 sessions, over 80 world-class speakers!

UIC John Marshall Law School's 64th Annual IP Law Conference is a one-day, virtual event providing an exceptional opportunity to meet online with newsmakers and influencers, to learn and discuss the most exciting and important developments in the field, and to be empowered to help create better laws and policies that promote innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Featuring 14 sessions with more than 80 world-class faculty, this year’s conference embraces advances in video-conferencing technology to provide virtual networking receptions throughout the day. Given the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects across the globe, we gave this consideration particular attention and selected a virtual platform that provides presenters and attendees the same seamless transition between panel discussions and networking for which the conference has become known. We are pleased to welcome the keynote speaker for the 64th Annual IP Conference, Hon. Paul Michel (ret.), former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Chair of our Center’s advisory board. The title of his keynote is "The Arc of American Patent Law" Bloomberg, IPKat, and IPWatchdog will be onsite this year to report on the Conference. Hope to see you there! https://ipconference.jmls.uic.edu/2020/

64th Annual IP Law Conference – Keynote Announced

UIC John Marshall Law School's 64th Annual IP Law Conference is a one-day, virtual event providing an exceptional opportunity to meet online with newsmakers and influencers, to learn and discuss the most exciting and important developments in the field, and to be empowered to help create better laws and policies that promote innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Featuring 14 sessions with more than 80 world-class faculty, this year’s conference embraces advances in video-conferencing technology to provide virtual networking receptions throughout the day. Given the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects across the globe, we gave this consideration particular attention and selected a virtual platform that provides presenters and attendees the same seamless transition between panel discussions and networking for which the conference has become known. We are pleased to welcome the keynote speaker for the 64th Annual IP Conference, Hon. Paul Michel (ret.), former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Chair of our Center’s advisory board. The title of his keynote is "The Arc of American Patent Law" Bloomberg, IPKat, and IPWatchdog will be onsite this year to report on the Conference. Hope to see you there! https://ipconference.jmls.uic.edu/2020/

64th Annual IP Law Conference Faculty

Looking forward to welcoming our distinguished faculty next week! https://ipconference.jmls.uic.edu/2020/

The Torah’s View on Creativity and an Author’s Moral Rights

Looking forward to welcoming Professor Kwall for her virtual lecture on "The Torah's View on Creativity and an Author's Moral Rights." Join us next Thursday at noon (CT)!

Media coverage at 64th Annual IP Conference!

Pleased to welcome Bloomberg, IPWatchdog, and IPKat to our 64th Annual IP Conference which takes place in just two weeks. Check out their websites for news and updates! Here's our conference press release: https://bit.ly/31Qg5PA! #uicip2020

64th Annual IP Conference Details!

Registration is now open for UIC John Marshall Law School’s 64th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, which will be held virtually on Friday, November 13. Featuring 14 sessions with more than 80 expert presenters, this year’s conference is embracing advances in video-conferencing technology to provide virtual networking receptions throughout the day. The conference’s virtual platform was selected specifically to provide presenters and attendees the same seamless transition between panel discussions and networking for which the conference has become known.

Newman Inn & Rich Inn on AI & IP

Delighted to join the Pauline Newman Inn of Court and the Giles Rich Inn of Court for their joint event on AI and IP. Terry Rea (Crowell & Morning) ably moderated a lively session featuring remarks by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, Dan Spulber (Northwestern Management), Yeen Tham (IBM), Cam Gatta (Microsoft), and me. I spoke about global trends in AI, the most important factors to obtaining IP protection globally, and the specifics of obtaining and enforcing IP. IP practitioners need to be away of how training data raise privacy and antitrust concerns. National IP offices have an important role to play in leading harmonization efforts. AI adoption will move at the speed of trust: geopolitical trust, trust between national governments and the governed, and between shareholders and their companies. IP issues in text and data mining, authorship and ownership, inventorship, disclosure liability for all forms of infringement, and algocracy will be issues to watch in the coming years. Paraphrasing Churchill, I concluded by noting that "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. It is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Thanks to Debbie Yellin (Crowell & Morning), Alex Sofocleous (USPTO), Christine Behncke (USPTO), and IU Law (Bloomington) student Richa Patel for a great session.

64th Annual IP Conference

Just over three weeks to go! https://mailchi.mp/uic.edu/64thipconference-2683484