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14th Annual Recent Developments In Ip Law And Policy Conference, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

14th Annual Recent Developments in IP Law and Policy Conference
Golden Gate University School of Law
Program Schedule
October 30, 2015
Room 2202

The Ip Law Book Review, V.5 #2, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

PUTTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN ITS PLACE – RIGHTS DISCOURSES, CREATIVE LABOR AND THE EVERYDAY, by Laura Murray, S. Tina Piper and Kirsty Robertson. Reviewed by Luke McDonagh, Cardiff University Law School.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, AND THEIR KNOWLEDGE by Peter Drahos. Reviewed by Ruth L. Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School.

THE STATE OF COPYRIGHT: THE COMPLEX CULTURAL CREATION IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD, by Debora J. Halbert. Reviewed by Sara Bannerman, Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University.

13th Annual Recent Developments In Ip Law And Policy Conference, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

Program Handbook for GGU Intellectual Property Law Center's 13th Annual Recent Developments in IP Law and Policy Conference, held February 20, 2015, at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA.

Trolls Or Toll-Takers: Do Intellectual Property Non-Practicing Entities Add Value To Society?, Samuel F. Ernst

Publications

The 2015 Chapman Law Review Symposium will seek to advance the discussion of non-practicing entities in three ways: (1) by expanding on the scholarly debate surrounding patent trolls summarized above; (2) by expanding on the perspectives informing this debate beyond academia by inviting the views of practitioners from both sides of the patent troll divide; and (3) by expanding on the scope of this topic by considering the nature and possibility of copyright and trademark trolls.

Protecting The Boundaries: Unclaimed Consideration In The Patentee's Social Contract, Samuel F. Ernst

Publications

This Article argues that the primary value society receives in the patentee social contract is not new inventions, but "unclaimed consideration." Unclaimed consideration takes many forms: additional innovations to improve on the patented invention, additional innovations created through efforts to design around the patented invention, innovations created by losers in the patent race, innovations informed by the unclaimed technical information in patents, commercialization of the patented invention or these other innovations, and the signals that patents give to investors regarding the value of a company or research lab. While there are many schools of patent scholarship engaged in spirited debate …