WIPIP 2014

 2014 Works-In-Progress Intellectual Property

February 7 – 8, 2014

Santa Clara Law

Highlights from WIPIP 2014
Call for Papers
Information on Traveling to Santa Clara Law
Schedule

Presenters & Discussants

B.J. Ard, Yale Law School Information Society Project (fellow)
Copyright License Enforcement Through the Contract Lens

Clark Asay, Penn State Law
Patent Law Tailoring

Shyam Balganesh, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Discussant

David Balto, Law Offices of David Balto
The Patent Privateering Iceberg

Mark Bartholomew, SUNY Buffalo Law School
Intellectual Property’s Lessons for Information Privacy

Miriam Bitton, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University
Commercializing Public Sector Information

Jeremy Bock, The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
Rethinking Patent Liquidity

Annemarie Bridy, University of Idaho College of Law
The Nuclear Option for Content Control: Online Payment Intermediaries as Proxy Censors

Christopher Buccafusco, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Studying Uncertainty in Intellectual Property Valuation

Michael Burstein, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Governing Innovation Prizes

Sarah Burstein, University of Oklahoma College of Law
Design Patent Use

Irene Calboli, National University of Singapore
Overlapping Rights: When Works Become Brands (and What is Wrong With It)

Anupam Chander, UC Davis School of Law
Discussant

Bernard Chao, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
The Potential and Pitfalls of Calculating Patent Damages Using Conjoint Analysis

T.J. Chiang, George Mason University
Patents and the First Amendment

Bryan Choi, New York Law School
Discussant

Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law
Discussant

Julie Cromer Young, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Rethinking Copyright Pleadings

Ben Depoorter, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Hypothetical Damages: Against Remedial Defaults in Copyright Law

Sam Ernst, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University
Patent Exhaustion and the Exhausted Defendant: Why Parties Should Not Be Able to Contract Around Exhaustion in Settling Patent Litigation

Tonya Evans, Widener University School of Law – PA
Is There Any “Safer Harbor” from Statutory Damages in the Digital Age?

David Fagundes, Southwestern Law School
The Moral Foundations of Copyright Law

Christine Haight Farley, American University Washington College of Law
Sleeping Treaty: The Pan-American Trademark Convention

Robin Feldman, University of California Hastings College of the Law
Patent Demands & Startup Companies: The View from the Venture Capital Community

David D. Friedman, Santa Clara University School of Law
Feud as Law Enforcement, Ancient and Modern Or Why is There a Patent Troll Problem and How Can it be Solved?

Jeanne Fromer, New York University School of Law
An Information Theory of Copyright Law

Giancarlo Frosio, Stanford Law School (fellow)
Discussant

Fabian  Gaessler, International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (PhD Student)
Discussant

Kristelia Garcia, The George Washington University School of Law (VAP)
Artists’ Copyright: An Empirical Analysis of Ex Ante & Ex Post Justifications for Copyright

Alexandra George, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia
How Long is Uncle Sam’s Arm? Extraterritorial Enforcement of Domestic Intellectual Property Laws

Deborah Gerhardt, UNC School of Law
An Empirical Study of False Advertising Claims Under the Lanham Act

Andrew Gilden, Stanford Law School (fellow)
Raw Materials in Intellectual Property

Alexander Goebel, Harvard Law School (visiting researcher)
A Comparative Approach to the Law and Economics of Secondary Markets for Digital Goods

John Golden, University of Texas School of Law
The Fracking Revolution: A Case Study in Policy Levers to Promote Innovation

Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University School of Law
Discussant

Patrick Goold , UC Berkeley School of Law (fellow)
Is Liability for Copyright Infringement Strict?

Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology
Comparing Patent Litigation across Europe: A First Look

Brad Greenberg, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Columbia Law School (fellow)
Uncertain Rules and Unfair Standards: Copyright Subject Matter under the Strain of Disruptive Innovation

Tim Greene, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School (fellow)
Discussant

Michael Grynberg, DePaul University College of Law
Thick Marks Thin Marks

Eldar Haber, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University (Ph.D. candidate)
Copyrighted Crimes: The Copyrightability of Illegal Works

D.R. Jones, The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
Law Firm Copying and Transformative Fair Use: An Examination of Different Purpose

Jay Kesan, University of Illinois College of Law
Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) Under the Microscope: An Empirical Investigation of Patent Holders As Litigants

Kamil Kiljanski, European Commission
Discussant

Jessica Kiser, Gonzaga University School of Law
Trademark Law as Corporate Law

Sapna Kumar, University of Houston Law Center
Public Law, Standing and the Federal Circuit

Megan La Belle, Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
The Local Rules of Patent Procedure

Matthew Lane, Law Offices of David Balto
The Patent Privateering Iceberg

Stephen LaPorte, Wikimedia Foundation
Hacking Trademark Law: Reconciling Trademark Requirements With Collaborative Communities

Uyen Le, UC Davis School of Law
Discussant

Edward Lee, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
The Freedom of the Internet

Peter Lee, UC Davis School of Law
Social Innovation

Jeffrey Lefstin, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Inventive Application: A History

Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
Who Wins Patent Cases?

Yafit Lev-Aretz, Kernochan Center for Law, Media & the Arts, Columbia Law School (fellow)
Reconciling Pro-Choice with Pro-Creation: A Subtle Incentive Theory to Copyright Licensing

David Levine, Elon University School of Law
Secrecy in Startups: An Empirical Study

Yvette Joy Liebesman, Saint Louis University School of Law
Kamil Kubik: The Artist and Copyright Observed Through Time and Space

Raizel Liebler, John Marshall Law School
Use of Treatises in Intellectual Property Cases

Jake Linford, Florida State University College of Law
Semantic Shifts in Trademark Law

Jerry Liu, University of New Hampshire School of Law
Copyright Complements and Piracy-Induced Deadweight Loss

Doris Long, John Marshall Law School
Be Careful What You Wish For: When Trademarks Become “Investment” Properties

Lydia Pallas Loren, Lewis & Clark Law School
Copyright Litigation Reform Through the Plausibility Standard for Pleadings

Brian Love, Santa Clara University School of Law
A Survey of University High-Tech Inventors

Glynn Lunney, Tulane University Law School
The Right of Publicity and the First Amendment: A Fundamental Re-Examination

Phil Malone, Stanford Law School
Discussant

Mark McKenna, Notre Dame Law School
An Empirical Study of False Advertising Claims Under the Lanham Act

Emily McReynolds, Tech Policy Lab, University of Washington (fellow)
Discussant

Malwina Mejer, European Commission
Discussant

Joe Miller, University of Georgia Law School
Error Costs & Functionality Exclusions

Shawn Miller, Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology (fellow)
If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them? The Impact of ‘Sitting by Designation’ On Claim Construction Reversal

Emily Michiko Morris, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
The Story of Nanotechnology Patents

Christina Mulligan, University of Georgia School of Law
Why Personal Property Servitudes Are Disfavored: Lessons for Digital Content and Patented Goods

Tal Niv, UC Berkeley Law School (PhD student)
Discussant

Tyler Ochoa, Santa Clara University School of Law
Discussant

Lucas Osborn, Campbell University School of Law
Open-Source Hardware and the Digitization of Things

Janewa OseiTutu, Florida International University College of Law
Corporate Intellectual Property Rights & Human Rights

Menesh Patel, Sidley & Austin
Do Rules of Procedure Matter? An Empirical Examination of Local Patent Rules and Case Settlement

Laura G. Pedraza-Farina, Northwestern Law School
The Federal Circuit and the Limits of Expertise

Aaron Perzanowski, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Reconciling Personal and Intellectual Property in the Post-Copy Era

Irina Raicu, Santa Clara University Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Discussant

Sarah Wasserman Rajec, Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology (fellow)
Salvaging the ITC: How Court of International Trade Review Can Re-Legitimize Section 337 Actions

Srividhya Ragavan, University of Oklahoma College of Law
Developing Countries & the Post-Patent World

Amanda Reid, Florida Coastal School of Law
Copyright Capture: The Power of Music and the First Amendment to Set it Free

Abby Rekas, National University of Ireland, Galway (PhD candidate)
UNCRPD Article 30(3): Implications for Copyright

Chris Ridder, Stanford Law School (non-residential fellow)
Uncertainty In IP Address-Based Identification: Protecting The Innocent Internet Service Subscriber

Betsy Rosenblatt, Whittier Law School
The Adventure of the Shrinking Public Domain

Guy Rub, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
An Information Costs Approach To The First Sale Doctrine

Rachel Sachs, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (clerk)
Differential Pricing and Access to Medicines: Achieving Progress Through Compromise

Zahr Said, University of Washington School of Law
Interpretive Complexity in Copyright and Trademark: Comparing Substantial Similarity and Likelihood of Confusion

Karen Sandrik, Willamette University College of Law
The Unstable Environment of Private Ordering in Patent Law

Julie Samuels, EFF
Discussant

Sharon Sandeen, Hamline University School of Law
Property Fail: How the Rhetoric of Property Rights Undermines Trade Secret Protection

Andres Sawicki, University of Miami School of Law
Risky IP

Victoria Schwartz, Pepperdine University School of Law
Unpacking Trade Secret Analogies

Jacob Sherkow, Stanford Law School (fellow)
Discussant

Ted Sichelman, University of San Diego School of Law
A Proper Interpretation of the Venetian Patent Act of 1474

Toshiko Takenaka, University of Washington School of Law
Discussant

Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center
Stolen Valor and Stolen Luxury: Free Speech and Exclusivity

Greg Vetter, University of Houston Law Center
Decanting the Software License in Health Information Technology

Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Duke Law School (Postdoctoral Associate)
The Patent Bar Gender Data File

Rob Walker, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (fellow)
Unavoidable Aesthetic Judgments in Copyright Law

Yana Welinder, Wikimedia Foundation
Hacking Trademark Law: Reconciling Trademark Requirements With Collaborative Communities

David Welkowitz, Whittier Law School
Fault Lines in Default Judgments

Felix Wu, Cardozo Law School
Discussant

Peter Yu, Drake University Law School
Can the Canadian UGC Exception Be Transplanted Abroad?

Elana Zeide, NYU School of Law Information Law Institute (fellow)
Discussant

For more information, please visit wipip.info

View the WIPIP facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/wipip2014

WIPIP 2014 SCHEDULE