Annual Nies Lecture
Each year, a nationally recognized expert in intellectual property law presents a lecture on a cutting-edge intellectual property law issue.
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
Can the Patent Office be Fixed |
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2010
Recovery and the Patent System |
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2009
Real Copyright Reform |
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2008
The Uncertain Status of Clinical Trial Data in International Intellectual Property Law: From Private to Public Good? |
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2007
Patent Law's Peerless Appellate Architecture |
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2006
All Rights Reserved? Cultural Monopoly and the Troubles with Copyright |
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2005
Hon. Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit |
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2004
Professor Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar, Associate Dean and Program Director of Intellectual Property, Chicago-Kent College of Law |
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2003
Professor Dan L. Burk, Oppenheimer, Wolff and Donnelly Professorship in Law, University of Minnesota Law School |
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2002
Hon. Arthur J. Gajarsa, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
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2001
Hon. Randall R. Rader, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
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2000
Professor Sheldon W. Halpern, C. William O'Neill Professor of Law, and Judicial Administration; the Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University |
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1999
Professor Donald S. Chisum, Phil and Bobbie Sanfilippo Professor of Law, Santa Clara University of Law, California |
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1998
Professor Marshall A. Leaffer, Distinguished Scholar in Intellectual Property Law, and University Fellow, Indiana University School of Law |