On March 16, the Intellectual Property Colloquium welcomed Professor Michael J. Burstein, an Assistant Professor at Cardozo School of Law, to discuss one of his works-in-progress. Professor Burstein's paper is entitled "Patent Markets: A Framework for Evaluation."
The Intellectual Property Colloquium is a seminar course in which visiting speakers come to St. John's to present their in-progress research and discuss it with St. John's students and faculty. Learn more about studying IP at St. John's.
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On March 2, 2015, the IP Colloquium hosted guest speaker Dr. Liza Vertinsky of Emory Law School.
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Irina Manta, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at Hofstra Law School, gave the first presentation at this year's Intellectual Property Colloquium, a seminar course that brings St. John's students together with visiting speakers to discuss cutting-edge research in IP Law.
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At the recent Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Professor and IPLC Director Jeremy Sheff was elected to the board of the AALS IP Section.
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On November 7, the Intellectual Property Law Center (IPLC) held its inaugural conference, joining students, faculty, and leading experts in a discussion about the legal implications of intelligent machines.
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The Intellectual Property Law Center (IPLC) proudly welcomes its first class of Intellectual Property Honors Scholars. They are Olivia Cheung ’17, Amanda Hoffman ’17, and Alyssa D’Antonio ’17.
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This Tuesday, Professor Eva Subotnik will be chairing and co-teaching the annual Law Clerks Copyright Seminar, sponsored by the Copyright & Literary Property Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
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Recently, alumni Shephard Lane '66, William F. Cavanaugh, Jr. '77SVC, '80L, Robert J. Gunther '81C, '84L, and Daniel A. DeVito '87 pledged more than $1.1 million to help fund IPLC's research and programming activities, and to provide scholarships to St. John's Law students with backgrounds in STEM disciplines. Learn more about how you can support IPLC.
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Meng Xu ‘16 came to St. John’s knowing that she wanted to merge her interests in science and the law to pursue a career as an Intellectual Property (IP) attorney.
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Professor Jeremy Sheff’s current research project, “Who Should Pay for Progress?”, has been selected as the lead presentation of the opening plenary session of the 14th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at UC Berkeley.
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Professors Subotnik and Besek examine the constitutional underpinnings of proposed legislation to bring pre-1972 sound recordings under federal copyright protection, in particular, whether such an amendment would violate due process or constitute a taking pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
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The article is published on Vox.com.
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In Trade Secret Fair Use, Professor Varadarajan argues that trade secret law needs to protect socially beneficial unauthorized uses of trade secret information.
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In Intent in Fair Use, Professor Subotnik examines whether a claim of fair use of a copyrighted work should be assessed solely from an “objectively reasonable” vantage point or should, additionally, allow for evidence from the subjective perspective of the user.
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Each year, NYIPLA selects one law school from a pool of applicants to receive this $10,000 scholarship.
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"The Jan Jancin Award is the highest honor that the leading national bar associations bestow on an intellectual property law student each year,” said Professor Jeremy Sheff, who nominated Sarah for the award.
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This marks the third year in a row a St. John’s Law professor will present a paper at the prestigious Junior Faculty Forum, and the second invitation to IPLC faculty.
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