The St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center is pleased to host the New York City Intellectual Property Law and Philosophy Workshop (IP/LaP) at our Manhattan Campus on Friday, April 17, 2026. Founded by IPLC Faculty Director Jeremy Sheff, IP/LaP is a day-long forum for scholars working on theoretical approaches to IP law, law and technology, and the regulation of creativity, expression, and knowledge, to come together to discuss their projects at early- to middle-stages of development in a roundtable environment. This year’s papers include:
Katrina Geddes, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law: The Inconsentability of Deepfakes
Jonathan Iwry, Wharton Accountable AI Lab: Artificial Intellectual Property: Developing a Test for AI-Assisted Authorship and Inventorship
Peter Yu, Texas A&M University School of Law: Do Asians Think About Intellectual Property Law and Policy Differently?
Brian Frye, Tulane University Law School: Uncreativity (Amicus Brief Superficially in Support of Thaler’s Petition for Certiorari [Which I Guess I’m Not Going to File Now])
Benjamin Sobel, University of Wisconsin School of Law:“The Word is Not the Thing”: Copyright’s Reference Problem
Jeremy Sheff, St. John’s University School of Law: The Concept-Object Distinction in Intellectual Property
Sayoko J. Blodgett-Ford, Drake University School of Law: In the Beginning there was no Blue: U.S. Federal Trademark Registrations and Color
Dustin Marlan, UNC School of Law: Dilution, Diluted: Trademark as Solution
Questions about IP/LaP may be directed to Professor Jeremy Sheff at sheffj@stjohns.edu.