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18th Annual Recent Developments In Ip Law And Policy Conference, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Intellectual Property Law

Welcome to the 18th Annual Conference on Recent Developments in Intellectual Property Law and Policy, presented by the Center for Intellectual Property and Privacy Law (CIPPL) of Golden Gate University School of Law. This annual tradition, begun in late September 2001, was one of the first events developed as part of the foundation of our new IP Law Program. Over the years we have hosted presentations by leading thinkers in the area of IP Law, including Professor & former Senior Advisor to the Obama Administration Justin Hughes, New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, Professor Dan Burk, Professor Susan Scafidi of the …

The Ip Law Book Review, V9 #1, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

PATENT POLITICS: LIFE FORMS, MARKETS, AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE, by Shobita Parthasarathy. Reviewed by Wissam Aoun, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.

EXHAUSTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS by Shubha Ghosh and Irene Calboli. Reviewed by Samuel F. Ernst, Golden Gate University School of Law.

THE RIGHT OF PUBLICITY: PRIVACY REIMAGINED FOR A PUBLIC WORLD, by Jennifer E. Rothman. Reviewed by Eric E. Johnson, University of Oklahoma College of Law.

February 1, 2019 - Conference Program, Golden Gate University School Of Law, Mccarthy Institute

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Conference Program.

February 1, 2019 - Panel 3: Branding In The Fashion Industry, Golden Gate University School Of Law, Mccarthy Institute

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• Julie Zerbo, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Fashion Law (moderator)
• Megan Bannigan, Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton
• Laura Chapman, Partner, SheppardMullin
• Pamela Weinstock, Volunteers of Legal Service
• Pier Luigi Roncaglia, Managing Partner, Spheriens Avvocati

February 1, 2019 - Panel 4: Online Platforms: Trademark Rights And Relevance, Golden Gate University School Of Law, Mccarthy Institute

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• Marc Greenberg, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law (moderator)
• Marc Cooperman, Attorney, Banner Witcoff
• Xinghao Wang, Director, Global IP Enforcement, Alibaba Group
• Eric Gelwicks, Director, Business & Legal Affairs, Live Nation
• Dan Chen, Senior Partner, G.M., Unitalen IP Consulting LLC
• Patchen Haggerty, Partner, Perkins Coie
• Michael Kelly, Senior Corporate Counsel, IP, Amazon
• David Franklyn, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law

February 1, 2019 - Panel 2: Trademark Registration In The Uspto And Euipo – A Comparative, Practical Analysis, Golden Gate University School Of Law, Mccarthy Institute

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• Iza Junkar, Senior Associate, Hogan Lovells (moderator)
• Meryl Hershkowitz, Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Operations, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Barton Beebe, John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law, NYU School of Law
• Jeanne Fromer, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
• Gordon Humphreys, Chairperson of the 5th Board, EUIPO Boards of Appeal
• Joao Negrao, Director, International Cooperation and Legal Affairs, EUIPO
• Joseph Ferretti, Vice President and Chief Counsel, Global Trademarks, PepsiCo

February 1, 2019 - Panel 1: When Virtual Meets Real: From Video Games To Fictional Brands, Golden Gate University School Of Law, Mccarthy Institute

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• Janice Bereskin, Partner, Bereskin & Parr (moderator)
• J. Thomas McCarthy, Of Counsel, Morrison Foerster
• Mark McKenna, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
• Rick McMurtry, Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Turner (TBS)
• Makalika Naholowaa, Head of Trademarks, Microsoft

A Patent Reformist Supreme Court And Its Unearthed Precedent, Samuel F. Ernst

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This paper examines the twenty-eight Supreme Court opinions overruling the Federal Circuit since 2000 and quantifies their rationales to discover that, while these reasons are often invoked, the Supreme Court’s most common rationale is that the Federal Circuit has disregarded or cabined its older precedent from before the 1982 creation of the Federal Circuit, from before the 1952 Patent Act, and even from before the 20th Century. The Court has relied on this rationale in twenty-one of the twenty-eight cases. The paper then seeks to probe beneath the surface level patterns to discover the deeper roots of the discord between …