Please join us as Rebecca Tushnet, the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Law School, delivers the 2023 David L. Lange Lecture in Intellectual Property. After clerking for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit and Associate Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court, Professor Tushnet practiced intellectual property law at Debevoise & Plimpton before beginning teaching. Her publications include "Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law" (Harvard L. Rev. 2012); "Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science" (Texas L. Rev.

Jeffrey Rachlinski (Cornell Law School), Emily Murphy (UC Hastings Law School), panelists. Moderated by Arti Rai (Duke Law).

Since 1995 the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted an annual national security law conference in Durham, N.C. The conference promotes education and discussion of the complex and diverse issues involved in national security, such as the legal and policy implications of counterterrorism operations at home and abroad, the international law of armed conflict, the impact of security issues on international business endeavors, and the ethical issues of the practice of national security law.

There is great interest across government, industry, and academia in improving the U.S. innovation system, particularly in light of competitive threats from countries like China. American universities have long been a foundation of U.S. leadership in science, technology, and innovation. As with other U.S. innovation institutions, however, universities face complex challenges. This conference aims to outline a new framework for America’s universities in the context of the country’s long-term competitive future.

The Evolving Role of Universities in the American Innovation System

The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law's seminar series, "Conversations on Innovation: New Thinking and New Approaches," seeks to shed light on innovation policy issues that are on the horizon. In both Congress and the Biden Administration, key policymakers are arguing that recent merger and acquisition trends call for renewed vigor in antitrust enforcement. For some, the technology and biopharmaceutical sectors are particularly promising antitrust targets. In this Conversation with Duke's Arti Rai, Professors Fiona Scott Morton (Yale), and Carl Shapiro (U.C.

This is the first event in the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law's Spring 2021 seminar series, "Conversations on Innovation: New Thinking and New Approaches." The seminars seek to shed light on innovation policy issues that are on the horizon. We will host a broad range of speakers with deep experience working within the innovation ecosystem in the U.S.A. and abroad.

The Supreme Court will hear argument in United States v. Arthrex, Inc. on March 1, 2021. The issue before the Court is the application of the Appointments Clause to judges of the Patent Trial and Appeals Board, a tribunal established by Congress in 2012 within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The decision below by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that administrative patent judges were principal officers under the Constitution.

Arti Rai (Duke Law), moderator ; Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia (Pennsylvania State Law School), Christopher Walker (Ohio State Moritz College of Law), Jonathan Masur (University of Chicago Law School), Matthew Lawrence (Emory University School of Law), and Jonathan Choi (University of Minnesota Law School), panelists.

Symposium title: The Future of Chevron Deference

Administrative Law Symposium (2021)

Session 2: Designing Rules & Adjudicators for the New Landscape

Conference title: Charting the New Landscape of Administrative Adjudication

Presenters: Michael Sant’ambrogio (Michigan State University, College of Law), Adam Zimmerman (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles), Michael D. Frakes (Duke Law School), Melissa Wasserman (Texas Law), and Arti Rai (Duke Law School)

Kent Barnett (University of Georgia, School of Law), moderator.

Moderator: Arti Rai, Duke Law School, The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law
 
Liat Belinson, AI Patents
Scott Beliveau, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Alex Measure, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
Ian Wetherbee, Google

Moderators: Nita Farahany, Duke Law School, Duke Initiative for Science & Society
Arti Rai, Duke Law School, The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law
 
Sameer Antani, NIH/U.S. National Library of Medicine
John Daley, IBM Watson Health
Julie Anderson Daughtry, IBM Watson Health
Nicholson Price, Michigan Law

Is Administrative Review of Granted Patents Constitutional?

Is Administrative Review of Granted Patents Constitutional?

Government data and research point to a long decline in US corporate investment in upstream research. At the same time, the ratio of federal government R&D spending to GDP is at its lowest level since the early 1950s. How pervasive are these trends across countries, fields, technologies, industries, and firms of different sizes? Are corporate trends explained by global competition, financial market pressures, or other factors? Are there reasons policymakers should be concerned?

The Duke Law Journal hosted their 46th Annual Administrative Law Symposium on February 12, 2016. Experts from a range of disciplines discussed "Intellectual Property Exceptionalism in Administrative Law." The symposium assessed the impact and desirability of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's growing authority over intellectual property. Sponsored by Duke Law Journal.

Session 1: PTO & Chevron Deference

Conference titled: Intellectual Property Exceptionalism in Administrative Law

Jay P. Kesan (University of Illinois Law School), Arti Rai (Duke Law School), and Saurabh Vishnubhakat (Texas A&M) discuss: "Strategic Decisions by Parties in PTAB Proceedings".

The Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy hosted a roundtable in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2015. Experts from academia, government, and the private sector discussed and critiqued the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) process, instituted in 2012 as an alternative to costly district court litigation over patent validity.

Duke Law Professor Arti Rai introduces the speakers at the Center for Innovation Policy's roundtable on proposed changes to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's review process.

The Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy hosted a roundtable in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2015. Experts from academia, government, and the private sector discussed and critiqued the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) process, instituted in 2012 as an alternative to costly district court litigation over patent validity.

The Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy (CIP) sponsored a conference on October 17, 2014 to discuss the future of internet regulation. This panel, moderated by CIP Co-Director Arti Rai, addresses the following questions: What are likely to be the most significant realistic changes in network architecture, capacity, and connectivity by 2020? In what ways might these developments be affected, perhaps even precluded, by regulatory policy? In what ways might these developments in turn affect regulatory policy?

Duke Law's Center for Innovation Policy held an inaugural conference to address "New Approaches & Incentives in Drug Development" on Nov. 22, 2013.

The conference's second panel addressed "Working within the Current Regime: Rescue, Repurposing, and Precompetitive Collaborations." Speakers included:

Duke Law's Center for Innovation Policy held an inaugural conference to address "New Approaches & Incentives in Drug Development" on Nov. 22, 2013.

The first panel discussed "The Current Incentive Landscape." Speakers included Arti Rai, Duke Law School, Stuart Benjamin, Duke Law School, Michael Carrier, Rutgers Law School, Bhaven Sampat, Columbia School of Public Health, and Bret Dickey, executive vice president at Compass Lexecon.

Elizabeth Fuller of Bird and Bird will travel from Europe to speak with our own Arti Rai about recent developments in patent law in the United States and Europe. The speakers will focus on the proposal for a centralized European patent system, the unified patent courts, the America Invents Act, and the impacts of these changes on the global patent landscape.

A Duke Law School faculty panel discusses intellectual property in the 21st Century. In celebration of the 2008 dedication of the renovated Law School building.

Recorded on November 03, 2008.

Panel titled: Intellectual Property in the 21st Century.

Appearing: Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, moderator ; James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law; David L. Lange, Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law; and Jerome H. Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, panelists.

Professor Suzanne Scotchmer of the Berkeley faculty will present the annual Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property.

Recorded on April 03, 2008.

Series: Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property 7th.

Appearing: Suzanne Scotchmer (University of California, Berkeley), speaker.

Experts focus on recent attempts at patent reform and provide a glimpse into the future of patent law.

Sponsored by the Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society.

Recorded on February 29, 2008.

Appearing: Bruce Wieder, Jeff Kushan, Andrew Spence and Cindy Rothschild, panelists. Arti Rai (Duke Law), moderator.