On Friday, May 13, Professor Jeremy Sheff spoke at the Fordham Center for Law and
Information Policy’s Tenth Annual Law & Information Society Symposium. Professor Sheff served as a panelist on the topic of “Intellectual Property and Public Values,” reflecting on the past decade’s developments in intellectual property law and policy and predicting future developments in the field.
May 16, 2016
Sheff Presents at Fordham’s Law & Information Society Symposium
April 11, 2016
Sheff Invited to Research Japanese Trademark System
Jeremy Sheff
Professor Jeremy Sheff has been named an “Invited Researcher” by the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo, Japan. Under an agreement with the Japan Patent Office, each year IIP invites a small number of foreign researchers to come to Tokyo to study Japan’s industrial property system. (Past researchers can be found here.) Professor Sheff will spend several weeks in Tokyo this summer doing empirical research into Japan’s trademark registration system.
March 4, 2016
Sheff Presents at WIPIP Colloquium
Jeremy Sheff
On February 20, Professor Jeremy Sheff presented an excerpt of his forthcoming book project, “Valuing Progress,” at the 2016 Works in Progress in Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Colloquium at the University of Washington School of Law. The presentation, entitled “Progress for Future Persons,” considered the problem of setting innovation and creativity policy in a way that takes into account the interests of people who have not yet come into existence—and whose very existence may in fact be influenced by the policies we adopt today. Professor Sheff blogged about this presentation, and slides of the presentation are also available.
January 30, 2015
Sheff Elected to AALS IP Law Section
Jeremy Sheff
At the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in January, Professor Jeremy Sheff was elected to the board of AALS’s Intellectual Property Law Section. AALS is a nonprofit association of 178 law schools, and also serves as the learned society for the more than 9,000 law faculty at its member schools. Professor Sheff is the Director of the new St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center.
December 18, 2014
Sheff Comments at Intellectual Property and Competition Workshop
On Wednesday, December 10, Professor Jeremy Sheff served as an invited commentator at
Jeremy Sheff
a workshop on Intellectual Property and Competition convened by the World Intellectual Property Organization at WIPO’s New York Office. The workshop focused on a recent empirical study of patenting by small- to medium-sized entities (SMEs) in the smartphone industry, and was co-sponsored by Fordham Law School’s Center on Law and Information Policy, which performed the study.
October 6, 2014
Subotnik Speaking at Symposium on Authors and Performers
Eva Subotnik
This Friday, October 10th, Professor Eva Subotnik will join Professor Molly van Houweling of UC Berkeley Law School and Professor Daniel Gervais of Vanderbilt Law School for a panel discussion at Columbia Law School’s symposium addressing the concerns of professional authors, artists and performers and suggesting changes to law and practice that would benefit authors and encourage creativity. Professor Subotnik will present a talk entitled “Actors and Artists as Authors,” forthcoming in the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, which will explore the degree to which different kinds of creative professionals can and do benefit from the status of “author” under the Copyright Act.
September 15, 2014
Professor Eva Subotnik Chairing Federal Law Clerk Copyright Seminar
Eva Subotnik
This Tuesday, Professor Eva Subotnik will be chairing and co-teaching the annual Law Clerks Copyright Seminar, sponsored by the Copyright & Literary Property Committee of the New York City Bar Association. This program, which will be co-taught by top IP practitioners in the NYC area, provides the incoming federal law clerks of the Second and Third U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals with an overview of copyright law as well as an introduction to new legal developments in this area. The program will be held on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, from 5pm to 7:45pm, at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, Room 850, in Manhattan. Information about the program can be found at: www.nycbar.org/clerks
July 27, 2014
Sheff Speaks at Intellectual Property Scholars Conference
Jeremy Sheff
Professor Jeremy Sheff’s current research project, “Who Should Pay for Progress?”, has been selected as the lead presentation of the opening plenary session of the 14th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at UC Berkeley. IPSC is the largest annual gathering of the intellectual property law academy, with over 150 scholars from all over the world presenting this year. Professor Sheff’s project investigates how societies do and should satisfy the moral claims of individuals who create new knowledge.
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