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 2010 IP COLLOQUIUM
We are pleased to announce the six scholars who will discuss their works in progress in Spring 2010:
January 26, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Peter C. DiCola, Northwestern University School of Law
Paper:
Sequential Musical Creation and Sample Licensing
February 9, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1 E. Pearson, Maguire Hall, Room 260
Professor Jeanne C. Fromer, Fordham University School of Law
Paper: District Courts as Patent Laboratories
March 9, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Oren Bracha, The University of Texas School of Law
Paper:
Motion Pictures: The History of Copyright and the Film Industry
March 30, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1 E. Pearson, Maguire Hall, Room 260
Professor Amy Kapczynski, UC Berkeley School of Law
Paper: The Cost of Price (Or, A Defense of Free Information)
April 13, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Room 305
Professor Gregory N. Mandel, Temple University, Beasley School of Law
Paper: Left-Brain versus Right-Brain: Competing Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
April 27, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1 E. Pearson, Maguire Hall, Room 260
Professor Wendy J. Gordon, Boston University School of Law
Paper:
Copyright's Derivative Works Doctrine and an Upside-Down Proviso
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 to Professor Cynthia Ho, Loyola Law School (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.
