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The annual Chicago IP Colloquium continues this Tuesday, April 5, 2011.  The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law  to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars.  The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time.  The next session will be Tuesday, March 9 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm at Chicago-Kent Room 305 and will feature Professor Leah Chan Grinvald, Saint Louis University School of Law, discussing: Social Shaming: Fighting Back Trademark Bullies.

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The annual Chicago IP Colloquium continues this Tuesday, March 22, 2011  The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law  to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars.  The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time.  The next session will be Tuesday, February 9 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm at Loyola and will feature Professor Molly Van Houweling, UC Berkeley School of Law, discussing her paper:  First Sale and Friction.

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The annual Chicago IP Colloquium continues this Tuesday, February 22, 2011.  The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law  to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars.  The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time.  The next session will be this Tuesday, February 22 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm at Chicago-Kent Room 305 and will feature Professor Shyamkrishna Balganesh, University of Pennsylvania Law School discussing the paper:  "Hot News": The Enduring Myth of Property in News

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The 2010 Chicago IP Colloquium concludes next Tuesday, April 27, 2010.  The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law  to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars.  The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time.  The last session will be Tuesday, April 27 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm at Loyola, 1 E. Pearson, Maguire Hall, Room 260, Professor Wendy J. Gordon, Boston University School of Law, will present her paper: A Tale of Two Torts: Negligence and Copyright Infringement.

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The annual Chicago IP Colloquium continues next Tuesday, April 12, 2010.  The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law  to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars.  The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time.  The next session will be Tuesday, April 12 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305, Professor Gregory N. Mandel, Temple University, will present his paper: Competing Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law.

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The annual Chicago IP Colloquium continues this Tuesday, March 9, 2010.  The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law  to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars.  The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time.  The next session will be Tuesday, March 9 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm at Chicago-Kent Room 305 and will feature Professor Oren Bracha, The University of Texas School of Law, discussing Motion Pictures: The Development of Modern American Copyright and the Film Industry.

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The annual Chicago IP Colloquium continues this Tuesday, February 9, 2010.  The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law  to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars.  The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time.  The next session will be Tuesday, February 9 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm at Loyola and will feature Professor Jeanne C. Fromer, Fordham University School of Law, discussing her paper District Courts as Patent Laboratories.

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The annual Chicago IP Colloquium returns this Tuesday, January 26, 2010.  The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law  to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars.  The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time.  The first session of 2010 will be Tuesday, January 26 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm in Room 305 at Chicago-Kent and will feature Professor Peter C. DiCola, Northwestern University School of Law,  discussing his paper: Sequential Musical Creation and Sample Licensing.

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The final edition of the 2009 Chicago IP Colloquium will be hosted tomorrow, April 21, by Loyola in Room 1103 of the law school.  Professor Frank Pasquale, of Seton Hall will present his paper, Search, Copyright, and Speech.

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The next edition of the Chicago IP Colloquium will be hosted by Chicago-Kent tomorrow, April 7, in Room 305.  The presenter will be Professor Lisa Ramsey, of the University of San Diego School of Law.  Professor Ramsey will discuss her paper, Free Speech and International Obligations to Protect Trademarks.

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The latest installment of the Chicago IP Colloquium is this afternoon, March 24.  Loyola is hosting
Professor David Adelman from the University of Arizona Law School discussing his paper, Beyond Patents: Mitigating the Impact of the Health Care Crisis on Drug Development.

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Here are several Chicago-area intellectual property CLEs that look like worthwhile programs:

• The next installment on the Chicago IP Colloquium is February 24, at Chicago-Kent, Room 305.  Professor Anupam Chander, UC Davis School of Law, will discuss his paper:  Youthful Indiscretion & Digital Memory.

• On February 27, John Marshall is hosting its 53rd annual Intellectual Property Law Conference.  The day-long program has two tracks:  1) patents; and 2) trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.  The program is full of interesting presenters, including Internet Cases' Evan Brown -- click here for a preview of his presentation regarding open source disputes.

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The next installment of the Spring 2009 Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium is this Tuesday, February 10, at 4:00 pm in Room 1103 at Loyola University Chicago Law School.*  This installment of the Colloquium will be especially interesting to the Blog's readers, as the paper to be presented is directly focused on patent litigation.  Professor Colleen Chien of Santa Clara University Law School will present her paper:  Narratives and Evidence in the Litigation of High-Tech Patents.  The event will be held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 25 East Pearson Street, on Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 4:00 p.m. in Room 1103.  Chien's paper uses data from the Stanford IP Litigation Clearinghouse.

*  The Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent and Loyola University Chicago.

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The Chicago IP Colloquium has another strong line up for its 2009 edition.  The Colloquium jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent and Loyola Chicago began yesterday at Kent with Professor Joseph Miller of Lewis & Clark Law School presenting his paper Hoisting Originality. Papers from past Colloquia are available here.

The leaders of the Colloquium are Professor Graeme Dinwoodie, Director, Program in Intellectual Property Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law and Professor Cynthia Ho, Loyola law School.  Mark your calendars for the remaining sessions of the 2009 Colloquium:

February 10, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Room 1103
Professor Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University Law School
Paper: Patent Detente - Solutions to the Patent Arms Race

February 24, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Anupam Chander, UC Davis School of Law
Paper: Youthful Indiscretion & Digital Memory

March 24, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Room 1103
Professor David Adelman, The University of Arizona
Paper: Visualizing Patent Domains: Emerging Empirical Methods & Their Implications for Patent Policy

April 7, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Lisa Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law
Paper: Free Speech and International Obligations to Protect Trademarks

April 21, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Room 1103
Professor Frank Pasquale, Seton Hall University School of Law
Paper: Search, Copyright, and Speech

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I have several smaller IP-related items today, none of which warranted a single post:

• The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday that the Patent Reform Act (S. 1145) will likely not reach the Senate floor -- click here for the story.  It was widely reported throughout the first quarter that the bill was expected to be brought to the full Senate by March or April of this year.  The WSJ reported that the Act's move out of the Judiciary Committee stalled because of a stalemate over the Act's controversial damages provision.
  
• Virtually Blind hosts a Blawg Review #156 focused on, no surprise, all thinks virtual and Second Life.
  
• The John Marshall Law School is hosting a free presentation by Southern Methodist University Law School Professor Shubha Ghosh tited IP as CP:  Competition Policy Norms in Intellectual Property Law.  Click here for registration information.
  
• The final edition of the 2008 Chicago IP Colloquium is this afternoon from 4:10 - 5:50 pm.  The presentation will be by Professor Mark McKenna of the Saint Louis University School of Law about his paper Testing Modern Trademark Law's Theory of Harm.  It looks like it will be another excellent IP discussion.
  
• The Lewis & Clark Law School has a new podcast up with Chicago-Kent College of Law's Associate Dean and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law Graeme B. Dinwoodie. Professor Dinwoodie speaks about developing trademark defenses.

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I have missed the first few presenters in the Chicago-Kent & Loyola University Chicago IP Colloquium, but the next presentation is set for tomorrow, Tuesday, April 8, in Room 305 at Kent at 4:10 pm.  Professor R. Polk Wagner of the University of Pennsylvania Law School will discuss his article Did Phillips Change Anything?  The article poses a question that should interest all patent litigators and I am sure there will be a lively discussion.

The Chicago Tribune ran three law-related, non-IP stories that are worth a read over the weekend:

• A profile of Jenner & Block's new managing partner Susan Levy -- click here for the story;
  
• A long story on the disparity in starting legal salaries and the consistency in law school tuition rates -- click here for the story; and
  
• An excerpt by Chicago attorney R. Eugene Pincham, who died Thursday, from Your Witness: Lessons on Cross-Examination and Life from Great Chicago Trial Lawyers, which goes on sale Monday at www.yourwitnessbook.com -- click here for the story.  The essay details how Pincham prepared for trial and is a must read for all trial attorneys.  Pincham's excerpt got my attention.  I will be getting a copy of the book and will post a review when I am done with it.  Here is how the Tribune described Pincham:

a pioneering African-American lawyer and champion of unpopular causes. His colorful oratory, which drew on personal history, made him a legend in Chicago courthouses.

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Tomorrow afternoon the last installment of the Chicago IP Colloquium will feature Professor Pamela Samuelson of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
discussing her paper:  What Section 102(b) Excludes from Copyright Protection and Why.  The event will start at 4:10 PM in Loyola's Rubloff Reception Room.

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Tomorrow afternoon the latest installment of the Chicago IP Colloquium will feature Professor James Thuo Gathii of the Albany Law School discussing his paper:  What History Teaches Us About International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Least Developed Countries.  The event will start at 4:10 PM in Room 305 at Kent.

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This afternoon is the second installment of the 2007 Chicago IP Colloquium.  Professor Margaret Chon of the Seattle University School of Law will be discussing her paper Intellectual Property "from Below": Copyright and Capability for Education,  starting at 4:00 4:00 in the Rubloff Reception Room at Loyola (25 E. Pearson).  It should be a great presentation.

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Don't forget that tomorrow is the first day of the 2007 Chicago IP Colloquium.  Professor Glynn Lunney of Tulane University Law School will be discussing Copyright as a Coordinating Mechanism starting at 4:10 in Room 305 of the Kent Law School.  It should be a great presentation.

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Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law  (where I previously served as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing) are jointly sponsoring and hosting the Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium.  The Colloquium brings six nationally renowned IP scholars to Chicago to discuss their current IP research. The presentations look very interesting.  They start January 30th and run through April on Tuesday afternoons (schedule after the jump).  Each lasts just under two hours and they rotate between Kent and Loyola.  

Attendance is by invitation only.  If you would like an invitation, contact Patricia O'Neal at Kent -- poneal@kentlaw.edu.  I will be attending as many as I can and blogging about them afterward.  If you see me, please say "hello."

Here is the schedule:

January 30, 2007, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Glynn Lunney, Tulane University Law School
Paper: Copyright as a Coordinating Mechanism

February 13, 2007, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Room TBD
Professor Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law
Paper: Constitutionalizing the WTO: Intellectual Property's Balance in the Context of Global Social Welfare

February 27, 2007, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Laura Heymann, William & Mary School of Law
Paper: The Public Domain in Trademark Law

March 27, 2007, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Room TBD
Professor Robin Feldman, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Paper: The Role of Science in Law

April 10, 2007, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor James Thuo Gathii, Albany Law School
Paper: What History Teaches Us About International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Least Developed Countries

April 24, 2007, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Room TBD
Professor Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Paper: What Section 102(b) Excludes from Copyright Protection and Why

A copy of the paper to be presented will be posted on this website approximately two weeks before each presentation.

Papers presented and discussed at past Colloquia are available here.

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