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Intellectual Property Institute
University of Richmond School of Law
28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 287-6398
E-mail: ipi@richmond.edu
IP Institute Recent News
Fall 2011
- The IP Institute's Fifth Annual Evil Twin Debate took place on November 18, 2011. Watch the debate on our YouTube channel.
- The excellent work of Professor Carroll's IP and Transactional Law Clinic was featured in a story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
- Professor Osenga has been selected by the University of Houston's Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law as a conference fellow for its June 2012 conference, Pondering Patents: First Principles and Fresh Possibilities.
- Professor Cotropia published two articles: What is the “Invention”?, 53 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. (2012), and The Strength of the International Trade Commission as a Patent Venue, 19 Tex. Intell. Prop. L. J. (2011).
- In September 2011, the Department of State sent Professor Gibson to Bogota, Colombia to discuss copyright law with representatives from government, industry, and public interest groups, as part of the implementation of a free-trade agreement.
- Professor Gibson presented Consumers, Contracts, and Complexity at the New England Intellectual Property Colloquium in Boston on October 28, 2011.
Summer 2011
- Professor Gibson presented Regulating Privacy Through Contract at the SEALS Conference on July 29, 2011.
- In May 2011, the IP Institute awarded its IP Certificate to ten graduating students—seven of whom earned the Certificate with distinction (a new record for a graduating class). In addition, several students received IP awards at graduation. Josh Nachman and Brian Burks won the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence for their "superior academic performance in the field of intellectual property," and Megan Doughty won the Greater Richmond Intellectual Property Association Award for her "enduring contribution to the study of intellectual property law."
Spring 2011
- On April 26, 2011, Professor Gibson spoke about the security of wi-fi networks on WRVA Richmond.
- On March 25, 2011, Professor Carroll spoke on "ADR Essentials for Business Attorneys" at the 41st Annual Advanced Business Law Seminar in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- Also on March 25, 2011, the IP Institute hosted Professor Robert Brauneis from George Washington University School of Law. Professor Brauneis spoke on Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song, based on a study of the convoluted legal history of "Happy Birthday." See the video here.
- On March 24, 2011, Richmond Law’s Student IP Law Association hosted Geo Labels & Vino Tables: A Wine Tasting Evening. The event featured a talk by the IP Institute’s own Professor Osenga on geographic trademarks and gave attendees a chance to sample some fine wines under the tutelage of Mathew Lake of Wine & Beer Westpark.
- On March 11, 2011, Professor Osenga spoke on Squaring Access to Medicine with Protection of Creativity and Innovation at a conference on The Global Impact and Implementation of Human Rights Norms at McGeorge School of Law.
- The IP Institute fielded two moot court teams in the spring 2011 semester. Megan Doughty and John Morrissett traveled to Houston to compete in the American IP Law Association’s annual Giles Sutherland Rich patent moot court competition on March 11-13, 2011, and Erin Barclay and J.T. Blau, went to New York to compete in the International Trademark Association’s annual Saul Lefkowitz moot court competition on February 12, 2011.
- On February 18, 2011, Professor Cotropia presented Patent Remedies at the International Trade Commission: An Empirical Look at Kyocera at the inaugural Samsung-Stanford Conference on Patent Remedies at Stanford Law School.
- In February 2011, Professor Gibson presented A Vertical View of Cyber-Contracts at the Texas IP Law Journal’s Twelfth Annual Intellectual Property Symposium and presented Consumer Information Costs in High-Tech Transactions at the Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Conference at Boston University School of Law.
- In February 2011, Professor Osenga presented Complexity and Patent Claims at the Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium, spoke at a conference at NYU School of Law on Plain Meaning in Context: Can Law Survive its Own Language?, and presented Navigating the PTO’s Three-Track System before the Greater Richmond IP Law Association.
- On January 20, 2011, Professor Cotropia presented Non-Obviousness Post-KSR at the Advanced Patent Law Institute at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Fall 2010
- On December 22, 2010, Professor Gibson was interviewed on NBC12 about the Federal Trade Commission's proposed "Do Not Track" list for online advertisers. Read the article and watch the video here.
- On December 6, 2011, Professor Cotropia presented Patent Privileges and Trademark Fraud at IPO's PTO Day at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and at IBM's IP Department.