5th Annual Junior Scholars in IP Workshop
May 30-31, 2012
Events take place in Room 343 (Castle Boardroom) of College of Law unless indicated otherwise
| 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Welcome Reception, Bistro 43, East Lansing Marriott Hotel |
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| 8:30 a.m. | MSU van pick-up from Marriott Hotel, transport to Law College |
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| 8:45 – 9:20 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:20 – 9:30 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks |
| Session One | |
| 9:30 – 10:20 a.m. | Christi Guerrini, The Decline of the Patent Registration Exam (Heald, Miller) |
| 10:20 – 11:10 a.m. | Melissa Wasserman & Michael Frakes, Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking? An Empirical Assessment of the PTO's Granting Patterns (Miller, Collins) |
| 11:10 – 11:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session Two | |
| 11:30 – 12:20 p.m. | Megan La Belle, Patent Law as Public Law (McManis, Heald) |
| 12:20 – 1:10 p.m. | Elizabeth Townsend Gard, Traditional Contours in Intellectual Property Before and After Golan and Prometheus (Collins, Bohannan) |
| 1:10 – 2:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session Three | |
| 2:30 – 3:20 p.m. | Andrew Gilden, Catch 22 in the Rye: Copyright Essentialism and the Performativity of Remedies (Bohannan, Carroll) |
| 3:20 – 4:10 p.m. | Deborah Gerhardt, Saving Archived Works from a Copyright No Man's Land (Tushnet, Frischmann) |
| 4:10 – 4:30 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session Four | |
| 4:30 – 5:20 p.m. | Jake Linford, Trademark Owner as Adverse Possessor (Goldman, Rothman) |
| 5:20 – 6:15 p.m. | Reception |
| 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. | Dinner, Galaxy Room, MSU Kellogg Center van transport from Law College and returning to Marriott Hotel |
| 8:30 a.m. | MSU van pick-up from Marriott Hotel, transport to Law College |
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| 8:45 – 9:10 a.m. | Breakfast |
| Session Five | |
| 9:10 – 10:00 a.m. | Christopher Newman, A License is Not a "Contract Not To Sue": Disentangling Property and Contract in the Law of Copyright (Carroll, Goldman) |
| 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. | Christina Mulligan, A Numerus Clausus Principle for Intellectual Property (Rothman, Tushnet) |
| 10:50 – 11:10 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session Six | |
| 11:10 – 12:00 p.m. | Jorge Contreras, Wait For It...Commons, Copyright and Private (Re)Ordering of Scientific Publishing (Frischmann, McManis) |
| 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Concluding Luncheon |
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