The Fordham IPLJ's 20th Anniversary Symposium on
Functionality: At the Crossroads of IP
Date(s): 11.20.09 | Fri
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
Location: McNally Ampitheater, Fordham University School of Law
SPACE IS STILL AVAILABLE. PLEASE REGISTER AT DOOR.
Program Agenda
8:30-9 Registration/Breakfast
9-9:15 Introductory Remarks
Speaker: Dean William Treanor
9:15-11 "The Patent Landscape with Bilski on the Map"
Speakers: James Dabney, Clarisa Long and Brian Murphy
Moderator: Jeanne Fromer
11-11:15 Break
11:15-1 "The Global Contours of IP Protection for Trade Dress, Industrial Design, Applied Art and Product Configuration"
Speakers: Orit Fischman Afori, Wendy Gordon, Mark Janis, Jonathan Moskin
Moderator: Susan Scafidi
1-2 Lunch
2-3:45 "Trade Secrets and other Avenues for Protection of Advanced Technology"
Speakers: George Graff, Roger Milgrim, Sharon Sandeen
Moderator: Hugh Hansen
3:45 Closing Remarks
Speaker: Sonia Katyal
Speakers to include:
Dr. Orit Fischman Afori, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), College of Management Academic Studies Law School, Israel
In his blog Patry on Copyright, William Patry has called Dr. Orit Fischman Afori “a prolific and probing writer and thinker.” Her research covers intellectual property law in general and copyright law in particular. Her publications in the area of intellectual property law focus on copyright, industrial designs and cultural rights as human rights. Dr. Orit Fischman Afori teaches various courses, including Corporate Law, Copyright Law, and Introduction to Intellectual Property. She also directs various seminars in the intellectual property filed, including a clinical seminar on Intellectual Property and Law and Technology.
James W. Dabney, Partner in Litigation, Intellectual Property & Technology at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
James W. Dabney is consistently recognized as a leading individual by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, in both the Intellectual Property: Patent and Intellectual Property: Trademark and Copyright categories. Mr. Dabney is currently a partner in Fried Frank's New York office. Prior to joining Fried Frank, Mr. Dabney was a partner in the New York office of Pennie & Edmonds LLP between 1989 and 2003. Mr. Dabney has acted as lead trial and appellate counsel in numerous cases involving patents, trademarks and other intellectual property rights.
Jeanne Fromer, Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law
Professor Jeanne Fromer teaches in the areas of intellectual property and contracts. She specializes in intellectual property and information law, with particular emphasis on unified theories of patent and copyright law. Before coming to Fordham University School of Law, Professor Fromer served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also worked at Hale and Dorr LLP (now WilmerHale) as an intellectual property attorney.
Wendy Gordon, Philip S. Beck Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law
Professor Wendy Gordon’s scholarship has been cited in three opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court and she recently completed her second term as Chair of the AALS Section on Intellectual Property. Professor Gordon’s interests include copyright, trademark, unfair competition, legal theory, and law and economics. She currently teaches a course on functionality, which she believes is the place where trademark, unfair competition and copyright meet patent law and the public domain.
George L. Graff, Attorney, Arbitrator and Mediator concentrating in Intellectual Property and Licensing
George L. Graff is a former partner at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky, & Walker LLP, with extensive experience in dispute resolution, licensing and acquisition of intellectual property rights and technology. He has acted as lead counsel on behalf of major clients in numerous bench trials, jury trials, ITC investigations, arbitrations, appeals and dispute resolution negotiations involving patents, copyrights, trade secrets, software and technology licensing, trademarks and related antitrust and commercial issues. He has also advised and represented clients in the negotiation of intellectual property and technology licenses and acquisitions. Mr. Graff has been selected to represent the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) in several amicus briefs, including the current appeal in In re Bilski now pending in the United States Supreme Court. He was the advisor to the American Bar Association to the drafting committee of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) and serves on the mediation panels of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the International Trade Commission, the Institute for Conflict Resolution and Prevention (CPR) and the American Arbitration Association. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia Law School and former law clerk to Chief Judge Stanley H. Fuld of the New York Court of Appeals.
Mark D. Janis, Professor of Law and Ira C. Batman Faculty Fellow at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University
Mark D. Janis teaches and writes in the fields of patents, trademarks/unfair competition, and intellectual property/antitrust. He has published numerous law review articles and is co-author of a two-volume treatise, IP and Antitrust (with Hovenkamp and Lemley). He has authored two casebooks, Trademarks & Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (with Dinwoodie) and the forthcoming Trade Dress and Design Law (with Dinwoodie), as well as several other books on trademark law. In 2006, he was named the H. Blair & Joan V. White Intellectual Property Law Chair at the University of Iowa College of Law. He joined the faculty at the IU Maurer School of Law in 2009. He is a registered patent attorney and a member of the Indiana bar. Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Janis practiced patent law with Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1989-1995.
Clarisa Long, Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Columbia Law School
Prior to joining the Columbia faculty in 2005, Clarisa Long served as law clerk to Judge Alvin A. Schall, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and worked as an associate at the law firm Wiley, Rein & Fielding (now Wiley Rein LLP). She was also a member of the University of Virginia School of Law faculty from 1999-2005 and a lecturer at Harvard University. Prof. Long's research interests include theoretical and empirical study of all areas of intellectual property law. Representative publications include "Patent Signals," Chicago Law Review (2002); "Information Costs in Patent and Copyright," Virginia Law Review (2004); and "Dilution," Columbia Law Review (2006).
Roger M. Milgrim
Roger Milgrim is the author of the pre-eminent treatises Milgrim on Trade Secrets (1967, periodically supplemented) and Milgrim on Licensing (1990, periodically supplemented). Mr. Milgrim has 45 years of experience in the fields of trade secrets and related intellectual property law, technology license agreements, technology joint ventures, arbitration and international arbitration. For many years, Mr. Milgrim was senior partner and chair of the Intellectual Property Group at the law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of law. He has chaired several committees of the American and New York Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits. Mr. Milgrim frequently lectures on trade secrets and licensing, including to the law departments of AT&T, Eastman Kodak, Elf Atochem, Exxon, PPG, Procter & Gamble, and United Technologies.
Sharon K. Sandeen, Visiting Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law
Sharon K. Sandeen joined the law faculty at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2002 after practicing intellectual property law in Sacramento, California for over fifteen years. Prof. Sandeen teaches and writes in the area of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on the law of trade secrecy. She has authored numerous scholarly articles and published a book entitled Intellectual Property Deskbook for Business Lawyers (2007). She is also co-author of the forthcoming casebook Cases and Materials on Trade Secret Law (West). Professor Sandeen received her LL.M. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), her J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and her B.A. from U.C. Berkeley.
Susan Scafidi, Visiting Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School
Professor Susan Scafidi is visiting Brooklyn Law School for the fall 2009 semester. She has been a visiting professor at Fordham Law School for the last several years, and is the first U.S. law professor to offer a course in fashion law. The author of Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law, her areas of expertise include property, intellectual property, cultural property, international law, trusts & estates, and legal history. She has testified in Congress regarding the proposed extension of legal protection to fashion designs through the Design Piracy Prohibition Act, and she keeps a blog on law, fashion and intellectual property, Counterfeit Chic. Prior to teaching at Fordham, she was most recently a tenured member of both the law and history faculties at Southern Methodist University and taught at a number of other law schools, including Yale and Georgetown.
William Treanor, Dean and Paul Fuller Chair of Law at Fordham University School of Law
Dean Treanor joined the Fordham faculty in 1991 and has taught a range of subjects, including Property, Intellectual Property, Criminal Law, and Legal History. Before joining the Fordham faculty, Dean Treanor served as a speechwriter to the United States Secretary of Education, clerk to Judge James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, special assistant to the Chair of the New York State Commission on Government Integrity, special assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, and as Associate Independent Counsel in the Office of the Iran-Contra Independent Counsel. From 1998 until 2001, while on leave from Fordham, he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, in the United States Department of Justice.
This event is free and open to the public. Lunch is available for $10
CLE Credits: 6 non-transitional and transitional, professional practice ($100 CLE, $85 CLE for Fordham Law alumni and public interest attorneys)
Questions? Please e-mail Luciana Hall at cle@law.fordham.edu
SPACE IS STILL AVAILABLE. PLEASE REGISTER AT DOOR.
CLE Credits: 6 non-transitional and transitional, professional practice
