Each year, a nationally recognized expert in intellectual property law presents a lecture on a cutting-edge intellectual property law issue.
2023 Innovator Ecosystem Diversity as a Global Competitiveness Imperative |
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2022 Questions of Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Digital Age |
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2019 The Rise of Property and Decline of Equity in Trademark Law |
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2018 Opting for Regulation When Patentability Is In Doubt |
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2017 A Cloud for Global Good: The Future of Technology—Issues for Wisconsin and the World |
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2016 Innovation, Disruption, and Intellectual Property: A View from Silicon Valley |
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2015 Semicommons in Fluid Resources |
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2014 The Intensifying National Interest in Patent Litigation |
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2013 Patents, Markets, and Medicine in a Just Society
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2012 The Author's Place in the Future of Copyright |
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2011 Mark Lemley William H. Neukom Professor of Law Stanford Law School Can the Patent Office be Fixed |
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2010 John F. Duffy Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law The George Washington University Law School Recovery and the Patent System
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2009 Professor Jessica Litman John F. Nickoll Professor of Law and Professor of Information University of Michigan Real Copyright Reform |
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2008 Professor Jerome Reichman Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law Duke University School of Law The Uncertain Status of Clinical Trial Data in International Intellectual Property Law: From Private to Public Good? |
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2007 Craig A. Nard Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law Co-Director of the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts Case Western Reserve University, Law School Patent Law's Peerless Appellate Architecture |
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2006 Dr. Michael Geist Professor of Law University of Ottawa Law School All Rights Reserved? Cultural Monopoly and the Troubles with Copyright |
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2005 Do We Have Too Many Intellectual Property Rights? |
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2004 The Trademark Jurisprudence of the Rehnquist Court |
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2003 Tailoring Patent Policy to Specific Industries |
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2002 Quo Vadis? |
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2001 The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: the Promise and Perils of a Court of Limited Jurisdiction |
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2000 Copyright Law in the Digital Age: Malum In Se and Malum Prohibitum |
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1999 The Supreme Court and Patent Law: Does Shallow Reasoning Lead to Thin Law? |
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1998 The New World of International Trademark Law |