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 30, 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 30 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm at Loyola, 1 E. Pearson, Maguire Hall, Room 260, featuring Professor Amy Kapczynski, UC Berkeley School of Law and her paper: Free as in Speech or Free as in Beer? How Cost Matters in IP 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, 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 next session will be Tuesday, February 9 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm 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 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 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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