Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law jointly sponsor and host the Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium. The Colloquium promotes discussion of a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law. Each year, during the Spring academic semester, Chicago-Kent and Loyola invite six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars to Chicago to present and discuss their current research projects before intellectual property faculty from Chicago-area law schools, prominent intellectual property practitioners, and selected students from Chicago-Kent and Loyola ("Chicago IP Colloquium Fellows").
These presentations usually take place on every second Tuesday during the Spring semester from 4:10 p.m. to 5:50 p.m., with the location alternating between Chicago-Kent and Loyola.
If you are a student at Chicago-Kent or Loyola who is interested in participating in the Colloquium, please click here. Student Fellows meet with Colloquium Faculty from Chicago-Kent and Loyola one week before each presentation to discuss the draft paper that the invited scholar will present. To read more about the Colloquium Faculty from Chicago-Kent and Loyola, please click here.
SPEAKERS FOR THE SPRING 2012 IP COLLOQUIUM
We are pleased to announce the six scholars who will discuss their works in progress in Spring 2012:
January 24, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Jason Rantanen, The University of Iowa College of Law
Paper: Peripheral Disclosure
February 7, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 25 E. Pearson, Room 1401
Professor Jamie Lund, St. Mary's University School of Law
Paper: An Empirical Examination of the Lay Listener Test in Music Composition Copyright Infringement
February 21 , Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Jonathan Masur, The University of Chicago Law School
Paper: Improving the Value of Patent Challenges
**Professor Masur's paper will not be posted. Please contact Patricia O'Neal to request a copy.
March 20, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 25 E. Pearson, Room 1401
Professor Jacqueline Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Paper: Trademarks vs Free Speech: ICANN and the New gTLD Process
April 3, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Diane Zimmerman, New York University School of Law
Paper: Should Harm Be a Necessary Predicate for Copyright Infringement? Musings on Personal Use, Copyright Liability, and Modern Copying Technologies
April 17, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 25 E. Pearson, Room 1401
Professor Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt Law School
Paper: Patentability Criteria in China and India and the Race to Dominate Global Innovation
A copy of the paper to be presented will be posted on this website
approximately two weeks before each presentation.
Papers presented and discussed at past Colloquia are available here.
Contact Information
Questions or comments regarding the Colloquium should be directed to Professor David Schwartz, Chicago-Kent College of Law (dschwartz@kentlaw.edu) or Professor Cynthia Ho, Loyola University Chicago School of Law (intellectual-property@luc.edu).
If you would like to be reminded of the presentation a few days in advance and/or informed of the posting of each paper, please email dschwartz@kentlaw.edu or cho@luc.edu.
