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Saturday, April 13
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8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
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Breakfast, Room AB
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9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Scholars Concurrent Session - Patent Scope & Validity (Room C)
- Jay Thomas, Georgetown University Law Center, The Scope of the Prior Art
- Tim Holbrook, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Relative and Absolute Invalidity
- Norman Siebrasse, University of New Brunswick, Doctrinal Mechanisms for Controlling Overbreadth
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9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
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Scholars Concurrent Session - International & Overseas Patenting & Litigation (Room D)
- Andrew Torrance, University of Kansas Law School, Offshore Patenting: The Who, What, and Why of Cayman Island Registration
- Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, To Opt Out or Not – Strategic Decisions at the Unified Patent Court
- Michael Doane, University of Akron School of Law, The U.S. International Trade Commission’s Role in the Startup Economy
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10:45 a.m. – 11 a.m.
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Break, Room AB
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11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Scholars Concurrent Session -- Empirical Studies of the Federal Circuit (Room C)
- Jeremy Bock, Tulane University Law School, Are Designations Subjective? An Empirical Look
- Paul Gugliuzza, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Expertise, Ideology, and Dissent (with Rantanen)
- Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa College of Law, Improving Access to Data From Empirical Legal Studies
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11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Scholars Concurrent Session -- Patenting, Gender & Ethnicity (Room D)
- Colleen Chien, UC Berkeley School of Law, Unpacking the Innovator-Inventor Gap: Evidence from Engineers
- Tabrez Ebrahim, Lewis & Clark Law School, Examining Potential Ethnicity & Gender Bias in Patenting at the USPTO
- Tim Hsieh, Oklahoma City University School of Law, Diversity Considerations in The Five Elements of Patent Law Practice
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12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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Lunch, Room AB
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1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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Scholars Concurrent Session -- Empirical Studies: Patent Examination & Challenges (Room C)
- David Schwartz, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Patents Used in Patent Office Rejections as Indicators of Value
- Richard Gruner, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Dilution and Pollution of Applicant Prior Art: Evidence from Examiner and Applicant Patent Citations
- Shawn Miller, USD School of Law, Balancing the Scales? The Impact of Discretionary Denials on Patent Assertion and Defense
- Gabriel Faria Bernardes, Stanford Law School
- VinHuy Tran Lee, Stanford Law School
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Scholars Concurrent Session -- Pharmaceutical Patents (Room D)
- David Olson, Boston College Law School, Are Patents to Blame for Excessive Drug Pricing? A Review of the Evidence to Date
- Emily Michiko Morris, The University of Akron School of Law, Weak Patents
- Jacob Sherkow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law, Infringement by Label
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3 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
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Break
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3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
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Scholars Concurrent Session -- The Functions of Patents (Room C)
- Ted Sichelman, USD School of Law, Patents as Hedges
- Derek Bambauer, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Consumers and Patent Signals
- Gavin Milczarek-Desai, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Consumers and Patent Signals
- Neel Sukhatme, Georgetown University Law Center, Perception Pending: What Do Patents Signal to Consumers?
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3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
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Scholars Concurrent Session -- Patent Law Grab Bag (Room D)
- Oskar Liivak, Cornell Law School, The Incoherence of Funkrabarty
- Daniel M Traficonte, Syracuse University College of Law, Government Research
- Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Credible Commitment and New Major Questions: The Patent Office as a Case Study
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