Summary Schedule
While the WIPIP conference hotel is the Four Seasons in downtown Houston, all events are on the University of Houston main campus at the Law Center, unless otherwise noted below.
Specifically, the continental breakfast and both lunches are in the Frankel and Heritage rooms. Breaks are in Room 209.
The shuttle bus schedule is provided here.
Presentation slots are thirty minutes. Concurrent sessions will have three separate presentation rooms.
The summary schedule is immediately below. The detailed schedule is below that, further down this page, here.
Friday
Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. |
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Welcome 12:15 p.m. to 12:25 p.m. |
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12:30 p.m. to |
Concurrent Sessions (three 15 minute breaks) |
Reception* 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. |
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| Dinner* 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. | |
* The reception and dinner are at The Grove restaurant in downtown Houston a few blocks from the Four Seasons hotel.
Saturday
Continental Breakfast 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. |
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8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. |
Concurrent Sessions (one 15 minute break) |
Lunch 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. |
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12:45 p.m. to |
Concurrent Sessions (one 15 minute break, plus a break before the plenary) |
| 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. | Plenary Session |
Detailed Schedule
Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. |
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Welcome 12:15 p.m. to 12:25 p.m. |
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12:30 p.m. - |
Patent Privateers Does Venue Transfer Affect Outcome in Patent Litigation? |
Virtual Property and Copyright: Role Reversal in the First Sale Doctrine |
Distinctly Personal: Trademarks in Individual Names An Impersonation Theory of Trademark Law
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Break 2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. |
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2:15 p.m. - |
Patent Distortions: Do Patents Promote Pharmaceutical Innovation? DNA Patenting Patent Standing |
Accession and Copyright Juror Responses to Music Copyright's Lay Listener Test Privacy and Utility in Data Sets
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A Mask that Eats into the Face: Images and the Right of Publicity Competition, Communication, and Confusion Policy Tailors and the Rookie Regulator |
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Break 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
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| 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Improving the Value of Patent Challenges Why Do Juries Decide If Patents Are Valid? |
Orphan Works and Open Access Blocking Copyrights Revisited |
Fighting Poison with Poison?: The Chinese Experience with Pharmaceutical Patent Linkage The Role of US Courts and the USPTO in International Patent Harmonization |
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Break 5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. |
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| 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. |
The Upside Down Inequitable Conduct Defense Joint Infringement and the Future of Interactive Methods and System Patents |
Consilience in Copyright, or, Substantial Similarity is a Misnomer for the Same Reason Derivative Rights don't Violate the Idea-Expression Dichotomy The Meaning of Science in the Copyright Clause |
Death of the Initial Interest Confusion Doctrine Debunking the Duty to Police in Trademark Law |
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Reception* 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. |
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Dinner* 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. |
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* The reception and dinner are at The Grove restaurant in downtown Houston a few blocks from the Four Seasons hotel.
Saturday
Continental Breakfast 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. |
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8:30 a.m. - |
A Marketplace of (Applied) Ideas? The Problem of Economic Abstraction in Patent Claims How Abortion Politics Gave Us the Distinction Between Patentably Non-Human and Patently Human Function, Artifice, and Intuition in Patentable Subject Matter |
ProCD: Tidying Up After the Stranger on the Street Against the Prospect Theory of Patents: How the Costs of Communicating Technical Information Interact with the Prospect Feature of Patent Law to Decrease Commercialization of Innovation Copyright Publication and Works of Visual Art |
Research Universities as Innovators Universities as Managers of Innovation A Numerus Clausus Principle for Intellectual Property |
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Break 10:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. |
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10:15 a.m. - |
Replication, Integration, Dedication APA, AIA, and the PTO: The Changing Guard of Patent Law The Accidental Agency?
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Region Codes and Territorial Mess Acupressure: The Role of Market Forces in China's Emerging Copyright Enforcement Environment |
Is there Traditional Contours for Patentable Subject Matter?: The Intersection of Golan v. Holder and Mayo v. Prometheus Self-help, Systems Design, and Electronic Privacy Tweakers, Encroachers, and Imitators: A Taxonomy of "Improvement" Doctrines in Property and IP |
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Lunch 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. |
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| 12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. |
The Presumption of Patent Validity: An Experimental Study An Empirical Study of the Judge-Dependency of Reversal Rates in the Federal Circuit Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO’s Granting Patterns |
Writing Rights: Performance, Creativity, and Copyright's Visual Bias The Konomark Project The Mythology of Common Law Copyright |
The Statutory Basis for the Doctrine of Equivalents Is a “Lease” a “Sale” in Patent Law? The Federal Circuit as a Federal Court |
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Break 2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
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| 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Not so Obvious After All: Patent's Nonobviousness Requirement, KSR, and the Fear of Hindsight Bias Patent Misjoinder Patent Law as Public Law |
Genetic Information: Delineating the Technology and Privacy Intersection Variation in Grounds of Rejection by Patent Office Art Units |
Solving Rader’s Paradox: Patent Law’s Quest For A Theory of Reference Did Learned Hand Get It Wrong?: The Questionable Patent Forfeiture Rules of Metallizing Engineering |
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Break 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. |
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| 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. |
The Audience in Intellectual Property Infringement "If Music Didn't Pay:" Justice Holmes and the Commercialization of Intellectual Property |
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