Past Events

April

04/15/05 - 6th Annual CIPLIT® Symposium
Intellectual Property Licensing by the Dominant Firm: Issues and Problems
This year's CIPLIT symposium will address antitrust risks to dominant firms posed by intellectual property licensing decision. This issue has proved both critical and troublesome not only to dominant firms but to competition law regulators around the world, resulting in a variety of different and conflicting decisions from regulators and courts.
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04/15/05 - 9th Annual Niro Scavone Haller & Niro Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture & Luncheon
Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook, United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
Contracts and Copyright
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March

03/14/05 - CIPLIT® IP Day

February

02/14/05 - Judicial Clerkship Opportunities Forum (Including CAFC)
Presented by Patty Gerstenblith, Professor of Law and Director, Program in Cultural Heritage Law, DePaul University and Katherine J. Strandburg, Assistant Professor of Law, DePaul University

02/07/05 - Inaugural Hosier Distinguished Visiting IP Scholar
Rebecca Tsosie, Lincoln Professor of Native American Law and Ethics, Arizona State University School of Law.
"Who Owns Native Culture? Native 'Art,' Native 'Artifacts,' and Native Rights."

November

11/16/04 - The History and Mandate of WIPO as a UN Entity
Presented by Todd Larson, Senior Counselor, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

11/09/04 - CIPLIT® Advisory Board Meeting

October

10/25/04 - Edward Manzo Advanced Patent Seminar Lecture
Michael Meurer, Professor, Boston University School of Law

10/14/04 - 8th Annual Niro Scavone Haller & Niro Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture & Luncheon
Pamela Samuelson, Professor of Law and Information Management; Chancellor's Professor; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
Is Privacy Possible in Pervasive Computing Environments?

10/14/04-10/15/04 - 5th Annual CIPLIT® Symposium
Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age

This year's Symposium is sponsored by the law firm McGuire Woods LLP and co-hosted by CIPLIT® and the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI) of DePaul University.
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10/11/04 - Edward Manzo Advanced Patent Seminar Lecture
Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law & Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law.

10/06/04 - Scandaglia & Ryan Legal Writing Award Presentation/Reception
The reception will honor the students participating in the First-Year Intellectual Property Legal Writing Program and recognize the 2003-2004 recipient of the Scandaglia & Ryan IP Legal Writing Award.

September

09/28/04 - Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Midwest Chapter
Dude, Who Stole My Image? Highjacking an Actor's Rights Through Digitization featuring Roberta R. Kwall, Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director, CIPLIT, DePaul University College of Law and Matthew Kimbrough, Actor.

09/21/04 - Trademark Seminar
Untangling the Web-Trademark and Domain Name Issues, presented by the US and International Trademark Committees of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago and CIPLIT®.

09/20/04 - Edward Manzo Advanced Patent Seminar Lecture
Andrew Chin, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina School of Law

09/07/04 - Sri-Lanka IP Bar and Judiciary Visit with CIPLIT®

August

08/30/04 - Edward Manzo Advanced Patent Seminar Lecture
Timothy Holbrook, Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent Law School

08/02/04-08/03/04 - Fourth Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference
Berkeley, Cardozo and DePaul law schools sponsor an annual roundtable conference bringing together IP/IT scholars to present and discuss their works-in-progress. This year's conference is hosted by the DePaul University College of Law Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT®). Stanford Law School will be joining the group of annual sponsors beginning in 2005.

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News

Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting American Museums in the 21st Century
On October 16, 2008, the DePaul University College of Law Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology (CIPLIT®) and Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law will hold a major conference where leading experts will examine the basic rules of nonprofit museum governance and how those rules apply to the growing challenge of collecting cultural property in light of new laws, court decisions and professional ethical guidelines; evolving museum practices and standards in collecting antiquities; sovereign immunity and immunity of art works; and the need for further standards for donor/collector museum relationships.

For more information and/or to register, please visit the Symposium website by clicking here.


11TH ANNUAL NIRO SCAVONE HALLER & NIRO DISTINGUISHED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LECTURE & LUNCHEON
From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print

Featured Speakers:
David Nimmer
Of Counsel, Irell & Manella LLP; Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law
Neil Netanel
Professor, UCLA School of Law

Location: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
610 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
October 27, 2008
12:15 - 2:00 p.m.

Registration: www.law.depaul.edu/niro08

The fee for the luncheon and lecture is $20.
Luncheon is free for DePaul Students, Faculty & Staff but registration is required.
The Niro Lecture has been approved for 1.5 hours of CLE credit.


Visiting Artist: ZACH HELM, Screenwriter and DePaul Theatre School Alumnus.
Presented by CIPLIT and the Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law.
April 23, 2008

Helm was the College of Law's third annual Visiting Artist, known for his writing of Stranger Than Fiction and directing of Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. He was the featured speaker on a panel discussing the recent screenwriters' strike with Professors Alan Salzenstein and Margit Livingston.
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Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in the Developing World
DePaul University College of Law co-sponsored a roundtable discussion with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on September 20, 2007. This event focused on the issue of access to essential medicines in the developing world, in particular, the global pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories’ refusal to launch a new version of the HIV/AIDS drug Kaletra in Thailand.

Click here for more information and to view the Podcasts from the event.

Click here to read the article published in the December edition of The Advocate, written by DePaul Law student, Rose Rivera.