News & Events
Fall Lecture Series
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
"Patent First, Ask Questions Later: Morality & Ethics in Patent Law"
Margo A. Bagley, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Law
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
"Promising Futures: Emerging Trends in Electronic Contracting Law &
Practice"
Jane Kaufman Winn, Professor, University of Washington School of Law (Seattle)
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
"Copyright, MP3 Downloads & Record Industry Sales"
Stan Liebowitz, Ph. D., Professor of Economics, School of Management, University
of Texas at Dallas
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
"Current Issues in the Interface of Intellectual Property & Antitrust"
Suzanne Majewski, Ph.D., Staff Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department
of Justice
2002 Law, Technology & the Arts Symposium
Friday, November 1, 2002
"Copyright in the Digital Age: Reflections on Tasini and Beyond"
Speakers:
James Gleick, Author, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist
Maureen O'Rourke, Professor, Boston University School of Law
Lydia Loren, Associate Professor, Lewis & Clark School of Law
Commentators:
Mark E. Avsec, Esq. Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, OH
Emily M. Bass, Esq., Law Office of Emily M. Bass, New York, NY
David O. Carson, General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress,
Washington, DC
Naomi J. Gray, Esq., Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY
Elissa D. Hecker, Associate Counsel, The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. New York,
NY
Joel L. Hecker, Esq., Russo & Burke, New York, NY
David Lange, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Michael Madison, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School
of Law
Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
"Intellectual Property: American Normalcy, European Peculiarity, or is
it Vice Versa?"
David Vaver
Reuters Professor of Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law
University of Oxford
Spring Lecture Series
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Jay Thomas, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Alfred Yen, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law, Boston
College Law School
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Roberta Kwall, Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law, DePaul
College of Law
Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology
(CIPLIT®)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
in Session
Thursday, April 10, 2003
Moot Courtroom (A59) 10:00-11:30 a.m.
A unique opportunity to observe a federal appellate court in session. The
Federal Circuit will hear two cases of approximately 30 minutes each. The
Federal Circuit has nationwide jurisdiction to hear appeals in specialized
cases, such as those involving patent laws, and cases decided by the Court
of International Trade and the Court of Federal Claims.
Copyright Town Meeting
Saturday, April 12, 2003
Cleveland Museum of Art, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
"Copyright for Artists and their Public: Artists' Rights and Art's Rights"
Discussion includes copyright basics for art and artists and the changes brought
by the Internet and focuses on issues artists and their audiences confront
in creating, distributing and/or reusing the arts online. Free/Registration
Required:
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.register.html
Cosponsors: Cleveland Museum of Art, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural
Heritage (NINCH), Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Assn., and Americans
for the Arts.
Fall Lecture Series
Monday, September 15, 2003
Clarisa Long, Associate Professor of Law,
University of Virginia School of Law
Monday, September 29, 2003
Thomas Cotter, Professor of Law & Intellectual Property Law Program Director,
University of Florida School of Law
Monday, October 27, 2003
Gwen Hinze, Staff Attorney, Intellectual Property & Fair Use, Electronic
Frontier Foundation
Monday, November 3, 2003
Michael Carrier, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of
Law - Camden
2003 Law, Technology
& the Arts Symposium
Friday, November 14, 2003
"The Past, Present & Future of the Federal Circuit"
Speakers:
Kathleen M. O'Malley, U.S.District Court Judge, Northern District of Ohio
& Distinguished Visiting Jurist, CWRU School of Law
Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Dan Burk, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law, University of
Minnesota
Judge Paul Michel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, NYU
Edward V. Filardi, Esq., Partner, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher &
Flom, NYC
Commentators:
Patti Saris, U.S. District Judge, District of Massachusetts
Ronald H. Whyte, U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California
John Thomas, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
R. Polk Wagner, Associate Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
John Duffy, Professor of Law, George Washington University
Andrew Morriss, Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law & Regulation,
CWRU
Ken Adamo, Esq., Partner, Jones Day, Cleveland
Gerald Sobel, Esq., Partner, Kayh Scholer, NYC
