IPIL National Conference

Patent Law (2025)

• Andrew Michaels, Introduction, 63 Hous. L. Rev. 293 (2025)
• Jonas Anderson, Necessary Parties in Patent Cases: Patent Venue and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19, 63 Hous. L. Rev. 297 (2025)
• Janet Freilich, Do Academic Researchers Care about Patent Infringement? A PCR Case Study, 63 Hous. L. Rev. 337 (2025)
• Camilla Hrdy, Testing the Gernsback Hypothesis: Science Fiction’s Influence on Patents and Innovation, 63 Hous. L. Rev. 359 (2025)
• Michael Risch, The Double Patenting Puzzle, 63 Hous. L. Rev. 407 (2025)
• Andrew Torrance, Is China’s Patent Boom a Bust?, 63 Hous. L. Rev. 453 (2025)

2025 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2025 Event Photos     

Marks and Fame (2024)

• Greg R. Vetter, Introduction, 62 Hous. L. Rev. 243 (2024)
• Mark Bartholomew, Navigating Trademark Law’s Empirical Turn, 62 Hous. L. Rev. 247 (2024)
• Jake Linford, An Information Theory of Intentional  Trademark Infringement, 62 Hous. L. Rev. 275 (2024)
• Alexandra Roberts, Of Marks and Minors, 62 Hous. L. Rev. 307 (2024)
• Jeremy Sheff, An Empirical Evaluation of the Trademark Modernization Act, 62 Hous. L. Rev. 339 (2024)
• Elizabeth Townsend Gard & Sidne K. Gard, Fame: A Conversation About  Copyright, Borrowing and Soup, 62 Hous. L. Rev. 367 (2024)

Copyright Law (2023)

• Dave Fagundes, Introduction, 61 Hous. L. Rev. 231 (2023)
• Christopher Buccafusco & Rebecca Tushnet, Of Bass Notes and Base Rates: Avoiding Mistaken Inferences About Copying, 61 Hous. L. Rev. 235 (2023)
• Betsy Rosenblatt, Considering the Role of Fairness in Copyright Fair Use, 61 Hous. L. Rev. 261 (2023)
• Matthew Sag, Copyright Safety for Generative AI, 61 Hous. L. Rev. 295 (2023)
• Zahr K. Said, Grounding the Scènes à Faire Doctrine, 61 Hous. L. Rev. 349 (2023)
• Felix T. Wu, The Structure of Secondary Copyright Liability, 61 Hous. L. Rev. 385 (2023)

Patent Law (2022)

• Sapna Kumar, Introduction, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 259 (2022)
• Stephanie Plamondon Bair and Laura Pedraza-Fariña, The Sociology and Psychology of Innovation: A Synthesis and Research Agenda for Intellectual Property Scholars, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 261 (2022)
• Jason Rantanen, Charles Neff, Eweosa Owenaza & Allison Williamson, Who Appeals (and Wins) Patent Infringement Cases?, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 289 (2022)
• W. Keith Robinson, Enabling Artificial Intelligence, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 331 (2022)
• Kara W. Swanson, Beyond the Progress of the Useful Arts: The Inventor as Useful Citizen, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 363 (2022)
• S. Sean Tu, FDA Reexamination: Increased Communication between the FDA and USPTO to Improve Patent Quality, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 403 (2022)

What's Real? – IP from a Property Theory Perspective (2019)

• Dave Fagundes, Introduction, 57 Hous. L. Rev. 261 (2019)
• Michael A. Carrier, Why Property Law Does Not Support the Antitrust Abandonment of Standards, 57 Hous. L. Rev. 265 (2019)
• Tun-Jen Chiang, Questioning Patent Alienability, 57 Hous. L. Rev. 287 (2019)
• Brett Frischmann & Mark P. McKenna, Comparative Analysis of Innovation Failures and Institutions in Context, 57 Hous. L. Rev. 313 (2019)
• Irina D. Manta, Keeping IP Real, 57 Hous. L. Rev. 349 (2019)
• Carol M. Rose, Cold Corpses, Hot News, and Dead IP: The Reasons for and Consequences of a Legal Status of No-Property, 57 Hous. L. Rev. 377 (2019)

Trademark Law (2018)

• Sapna Kumar, Introduction, 56 Hous. L. Rev. 267 (2018)
• Stacey Dogan, Bounded Rationality, Paternalism, and Trademark Law, 56 Hous. L. Rev. 269 (2018)
• Glynn S. Lunney, Jr., Two-Tiered Trademarks, 56 Hous. L. Rev. 295 (2018)
• William McGeveran, Selfmarks, 56 Hous. L. Rev. 333 (2018)
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Erik D. Hille, The Puzzle in Financing with Trademark Collateral, 56 Hous. L. Rev. 365 (2018)
• Lisa P. Ramsey, Free Speech Challenges to Trademark Law After Matal v. Tam, 56 Hous. L. Rev. 401 (2018)

 2018 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2018 Event Photos

Patent Law and Progress (2017)

• Sapna Kumar, Introduction, 55 Hous. L. Rev. 265 (2017)
• Andrew Chin, Surgically Precise but Kinematically Abstract Patents, 55 Hous. L. Rev. 267 (2017)
• Peter Lee, Toward a Distributive Agenda for U.S. Patent Law, 55 Hous. L. Rev. 321 (2017)
• Sean B. Seymore, Uninformative Patents, 55 Hous. L. Rev. 377 (2017)
• Liza Vertinsky, Boundary-Spanning Collaboration and the Limits of Joint Inventorship Doctrine, 55 Hous. L. Rev. 401 (2017)

 2017 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2017 Event Photos 

Authorship in America (and Beyond) (2016)

• Hon. Jon O. Newman & Craig Joyce, Introduction, 54 Hous. L. Rev. 249 (2016)
• Pamela Samuelson, Functional Compilations, 54 Hous. L. Rev. 321 (2016)
• Molly Van Houweling, Authors Versus Owners, 54 Hous. L. Rev. 371 (2016)
• Shyamkrishna Balganesh, The Folklore and Symbolism of Authorship in American Copyright Law, 54 Hous. L. Rev. 403 (2016)
• William W. Fisher III, Recalibrating Originality, 54 Hous. L. Rev. 437 (2016)
• Xinqiang (David) Sun, Authorship in China (and Beyond): Authorship and Related Issues Under the Chinese Copyright Law of 1990, 54 Hous. L. Rev. 469 (2016)

 2016 Photo Listing of Presenters, Fellows, and Moderators • 2016 Event Photos 

Intellectual Property & Information Law in a Global Context (2015)

• Greg R. Vetter, Introduction, 53 Hous. L. Rev. 333 (2015)
• Daniel J. Gervais, Irreconcilable Differences? The Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement and the Common Law, 53 Hous. L. Rev. 339 (2015)
• Irene Calboli, Time to Say Local Cheese and Smile at Geographical Indications of Origin? International Trade and Local Development in the United States, 53 Hous. L. Rev. 373 (2015)
• Margaret Chon, Tracermarks: A Proposed Information Intervention, 53 Hous. L. Rev. 421 (2015)
• Lateef Mtima, Copyright and Social Justice in the Digital Information Society: “Three Steps” Toward Intellectual Property Social Justice, 53 Hous. L. Rev. 459 (2015)
• Amy L. Landers, Patentable Subject Matter as a Policy Driver, 53 Hous. L. Rev. 505 (2015)

 2015 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2015 Event Photos 

ReCalibrating Copyright: Continuity, Contemporary Culture, and Change (2014)

• Craig Joyce, Introduction, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 417 (2014) 
• Jacqueline D. Lipton, Copyright and the Commercialization of Fanfiction, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 425 (2014)
• Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, A Musical Work Is a Set of Instructions, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 467 (2014)
• Lydia Pallas Loren, The Dual Narratives in the Landscape of Music Copyright, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 537 (2014)
• Thomas B. Nachbar, Rules and Standards in Copyright, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 583 (2014)
• Wendy J. Gordon, The Core of Copyright: Authors, Not Publishers, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 613 (2014)
• Jessica Silbey et al., Afterword, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 679 (2014)

2014 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2014 Event Photos 

Intellectual Property and Information Law in The Administrative State (2013)

• Sapna Kumar, Introduction, 51 Hous. L. Rev. 381 (2013)
• Adam Candeub, Transparency in the Administrative State, 51 Hous. L. Rev. 385 (2013)
• John F. Duffy, The Inequities of Inequitable Conduct: A Case Study of Judicial Control of Administrative Process, 51 Hous. L. Rev. 417 (2013)
• John M. Golden, Proliferating Patents and Patent Law’s “Cost Disease”, 51 Hous. L. Rev. 455 (2013)
• Arti K. Rai, Improving (Software) Patent Quality Through the Administrative Process, 51 Hous. L. Rev. 503 (2013)
• Christopher S. Yoo, Is There a Role for Common Carriage in an Internet-Based World?, 51 Hous. L. Rev. 545 (2013)

2013 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2013 Event Photos 

Pondering Patents: First Principles and Fresh Possibilities (2012)

• Greg R. Vetter, Introduction, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 319 (2012)
• Colleen V. Chien, Reforming Software Patents, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 325 (2012)
• Kevin Emerson Collins, Prometheus Laboratories, Mental Steps, and Printed Matter, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 391 (2012)
• Paul M. Janicke, The Patent Malpractice Thicket, or Why Justice Holmes Was Right, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 437 (2012)
• Mark R. Patterson, Leveraging Information About Patents: Settlements, Portfolios, and Holdups, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 483 (2012)
• Lee Petherbridge & David L. Schwartz, The End of an Epithet? An exploration of the use of Legal Scholarship in Intellectual Property Decisions, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 523 (2012)
• Katherine J. Strandburg, Much Ado About Preemption, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 563 (2012)

2012 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2012 Event Photos 

Trademark: Today and Tomorrow (2011)

• Craig Joyce, Introduction, 48 Hous. L. Rev. 701 (2011)
• Ann Bartow, Counterfeits, Copying and Class, 48 Hous. L. Rev. 707 (2011)
• Barton Beebe, Is the Trademark Office a Rubber Stamp?, 48 Hous. L. Rev. 751 (2011)
• Greg Lastowka, Trademark's Daemons, 48 Hous. L. Rev. 779 (2011)
• Mark P. McKenna, (Dys)functionality, 48 Hous. L. Rev. 823 (2011)
• Rebecca Tushnet, Looking at the Lanham Act: Images in Trademark and Advertising Law, 48 Hous. L. Rev. 861 (2011)

2011 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2011 Event Photos 

The ©©© Conference: Celebrating Copyright's tri-Centennial (2010)

• Craig Joyce, Prologue, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 779 (2010)
• Ronan Deazley, The Statute of Anne and the Great Abridgement Swindle, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 793 (2010)
• Catherine Seville, The Statute of Anne: Rhetoric and Reception in the Nineteenth Century, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 819 (2010)
• Oren Bracha, The Statute of Anne: An American Mythology, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 877 (2010)
• David Nimmer, Queen Anne in the Emperor’s Shadow, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 919 (2010)
• Diane Leenheer Zimmerman, The Statute of Anne and Its Progeny: Variations Without a Theme, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 965 (2010)
• Peter Jaszi, Craig Joyce, Marshall Leaffer & Tyler Ochoa, Epilogue, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 1013 (2010)

2010 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2010 Event Photos 

Intellectual Property in International Perspective (2009)

• Greg R. Vetter, Introduction, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 975 (2009)
• Peter K. Yu, The Objectives and Principles of the TRIPS Agreement, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 979 (2009)
• Cynthia M. Ho, Unveiling Competing Patent Perspectives, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1047 (2009)
• Jerome H. Reichman, Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century: Will the Developing Countries Lead or Follow?, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1115 (2009)
• Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Designing a Global Intellectual Property System Responsive to Change: The WTO, WIPO, and Beyond, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1187 (2009)
• Charles R. McManis, The Proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA): Two Tales of a Treaty, 46 Hous. L. Rev. 1235 (2009)

2009 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2009 Event Photos 

Patent Law in Perspective (2008)

• Greg R. Vetter, Introduction, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1031 (2008)
• Arti K. Rai, Building A Better Innovation System: Combining Facially Neutral Patent Standards With Therapeutics Regulation, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1037 (2008)
• Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Noncompliance, Nonenforcement, Nonproblem? Rethinking The Anticommons In Biomedical Research, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1059 (2008)
• Janice M. Mueller & Donald S. Chisum, Enabling Patent Law's Inherent Anticipation Doctrine, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1101 (2008)
• Paul J. Heald, Optimal Remedies for Patent Infringement: A Transactional Model, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1165 (2008)
• Michael J. Meurer, Inventors, Entrepreneurs, And Intellectual Property Law, 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1201 (2008)

2008 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows • 2008 Event Photos 

Copyright in Context (2007)

• Craig Joyce, Introduction, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 815 (2007)
• Neil Weinstock Netanel, Maharam of Padua v. Giustiniani: The Sixteenth-Century Origins Of The Jewish Law Of Copyright, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 821 (2007)
• Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Originality in Context, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 871 (2007)
• Thomas F. Cotter, Misuse, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 901 (2007)
• Keith Aoki, Balancing Act: Reflections on Justice O'Connor's Intellectual Property Jurisprudence, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 965 (2007)
• Peter S. Menell, Knowledge Accessibility and Preservation Policy for the Digital Age, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1013 (2007)

2007 Photo Listing of Presenters and Fellows

NO CONFERENCE (AALS IP WORKSHOP, VANCOUVER, CA 2006)

Transactions, Information and Emerging Law (2005)

• Raymond T. Nimmer, Introduction, 42 Hous. L. Rev. 941 (2005)
• Frank H. Easterbrook, Contract and Copyright, 42 Hous. L. Rev. 953 (2005)
• Clayton P. Gillette, Pre-Approved Contracts for Internet Commerce, 42 Hous. L. Rev. 975 (2005)
• Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, General Public License 3.0: Hacking the Free Software Movement’s Constitution, 42 Hous. L. Rev. 1015 (2005)
• Robert Oakley, Fairness in Electronic Contracting: Minimum Standards for Non-Negotiated Contracts, 42 Hous. L. Rev. 1041 (2005)
• R. Polk Wagner, Reconsidering the DMCA, 42 Hous. L. Rev. 1107 (2005)
• Peter P. Swire, A Theory of Disclosure for Security and Competitive Reasons: Open Source, Proprietary Software, and Government Systems), 42 Hous. L. Rev. 1333 (2006)

2005 Photo Listing of Presenters

Trademark in Transition (2004)

• Greg R. Vetter, Introduction, 41 Hous. L. Rev. 707 (2004)
• J. Thomas McCarthy, Proving a Trademark Has Been Diluted: Theories or Facts?, 41 Hous. L. Rev. 713 (2004)
• William M. Landes, An Empirical Analysis of Intellectual Property Litigation: Some Preliminary Results, 41 Hous. L. Rev. 749 (2004)
• Stacey L. Dogan & Mark A. Lemley, Trademarks and Consumer Search Costs on the Internet, 41 Hous. L. Rev. 777 (2004)
• A. Michael Froomkin, When We Say US™, We Mean It!, 41 Hous. L. Rev. 839 (2004)
• Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Trademarks and Territory: Detaching Trademark Law from the Nation-State, 41 Hous. L. Rev. 885 (2004)

2004 Photo Listing of Presenters • 2004 Event Photos 

Considering Copyright (2003)

• Craig Joyce, Prologue, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 609 (2003)
• Jon O. Newman, Introduction, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 613 (2003)
• Richard A. Posner, Misappropriation: A Dirge, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 621 (2003)
• Laura N. Gasaway, America’s Cultural Record: A Thing of the Past?, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 643 (2003)
• Alfred C. Yen, Eldred, The First Amendment, and Aggressive Copyright Claims, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 673 (2003)
• Eugene Volokh, Freedom of Speech and Intellectual Property: Some Thoughts after Eldred, 44 Liquormart, and Bartnicki, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 697 (2003)
• William Patry, The United States and International Copyright Law: From Berne to Eldred, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 749 (2003)
• Alan Story, Burn Berne: Why the Leading International Copyright Convention Must Be Repealed, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 763 (2003)

2003 Photo Listing of Presenters

The Future of Patent Law (2002)

• Paul M. Janicke, Prologue, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 567 (2002)
• John R. Thomas, Liberty and Property in the Patent Law, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 569 (2002)
• Toshiko Takenaka, Rethinking the United States First-to-Invent Principle from a Comparative Law Perspective: A Proposal to Restructure § 102 Novelty and Priority Provisions, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 621 (2002)
• Craig Allen Nard, Toward a Cautious Approach to Obeisance: The Role of Scholarship in Federal Circuit Patent Law Jurisprudence, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 667 (2002)
• Paul M. Janicke, “Maybe We Shouldn’t Arbitrate”: Some Aspects of the Risk/Benefit Calculus of Agreeing to Binding Arbitration of Patent Disputes, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 693 (2002)
• Mark D. Janis & Jay P. Kesan, U.S. Plant Variety Protection: Sound and Fury . . . ?, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 727 (2002)
• Kimberly A. Moore, Juries, Patent Cases, & a Lack of Transparency, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 779 (2002)

2002 Photo Listing of Presenters

E-Commerce and Privacy (2001)

• Joel R. Reidenberg, E-Commerce and Trans-Atlantic Privacy, 38 Hous. L. Rev. 717 (2001)
• Anita L. Allen, Minor Distractions: Children, Privacy and E-Commerce, 38 Hous. L. Rev. 751 (2001)
• Walter W. Miller, Jr. & Maureen A. O'Rourke, Bankruptcy Law v. Privacy Rights: Which Holds the Trump Card?, 38 Hous. L. Rev. 777 (2001)
• Trotter Hardy, The Copyrightability of New Works of Authorship: "XML Schemas" as an Example, 38 Hous. L. Rev. 855 (2001)
• Holly K. Towle, E-Signatures-Basics of the U.S. Structure, 38 Hous. L. Rev. 921 (2001)
• Chris Reed, Managing Regulatory Jurisdiction: Cross-Border Online Financial Services and the European Union Single Market for Information Society Services, 38 Hous. L. Rev. 1003 (2001)

2001 Photo Listing of Presenters