This conference is a follow-on to our successful Fall 2011 conference, Defense 2.0: New Strategies for Patent Risks. This time, we’ll focus on software patents and how to address the problems they create. Developments involving software patents regularly make headline news, and this conference will provide the venue for the Silicon Valley community to discuss what to do about them.
Solutions to the Software Patent Problem
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November 16, 2012
Time TBD
Locatelli Center
Santa Clara University
Normally, an academic-oriented conference would debate the merits of software patents. This conference is different. Rather than having another debate, this conference will use a premise–that software patents are a problem–as a springboard for discussing ways to address those problems. In rapid succession, patent experts at the conference will present innovative proposals (ranging from abolishing software patents to company/industry self-help), debate their relative merits, and discuss how they might be implemented. To extend the discussion, many of the speakers and other interested experts will publish short essays in Wired.com describing their proposed solution and advocating for its adoption. We hope conference attendees and Wired.com readers will embrace the best proposals and catalyze real action towards solving the software patent problem.
Organizers:
Santa Clara Law Professors Colleen Chien (colleenchien@gmail.com) and Eric Goldman (egoldman@gmail.com)
The Speakers:
Confirmed speakers and moderators include (as usual, subject to change without notice):
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John Allison, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin |
Christina Mulligan, Yale Law School |
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Keith Bergelt, Open Innovation Network |
Kristen Osenga, University of Richmond School of Law |
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James Bessen, Boston University School of Law |
Arti Rai, Duke Law School |
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Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University School of Law |
Hon. Edith Ramirez, Federal Trade Commission |
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Andrew Chin, University of North Carolina |
Dan Ravicher, Public Patent Foundation |
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John Duffy, University of Virginia School of Law |
Michael Risch, Villanova Law School |
| Hon. Paul Grewal, Northern District of California |
Julie Samuels, Electronic Frontier Foundation |
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Andrew Hirschfield, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Pam Samuelson, UC Berkeley School of Law |
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Amy Landers, McGeorge College of Law |
Wendy Seltzer, Yale Law School |
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Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School |
Ted Sichelman, University of San Diego School of Law |
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Brian Love, Santa Clara University School of Law |
Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation |
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Peter Menell, UC Berkeley School of Law |
Jennifer Urban, UC Berkeley School of Law |
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Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group |
Samson Vermont, University of Miami School of Law |
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Michael Meurer, Boston University School of Law |
Kent Walker, Google |
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Don’t wait to register! Registration feels will increase $50.00 effective Friday, November 2, 2012