8th Annual IP Mosaic Conference 2022

MOSAIC IP LAW AND POLICY ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE

Through these conferences, IP scholars can work together with political activists, practicing attorneys, community organizers, and policy makers to produce activist scholarship, to collaborate on various IP Empowerment policy initiatives and projects, and to otherwise help to shape and effectuate a progressive and contemporary IP socio-legal agenda.

October 28-29, 2022

Online Conference

Eighth Annual IP Mosaic Conference

Co-hosted by Marquette University Law School

Theme: Access for All? The Role of IP in Equity, Power, and Democracy in Challenging Times

Friday, October 28

Program: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm CDT/ 7:30 am – 3:00 pm PDT/ 3:30 pm – 11:00 pm BST/ 4:30 pm – 12:00 am GMT

Virtual Happy Hour: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CDT/ 3:00 – 4:00 pm PDT/ 12:00 am – 1 am BST/ 1:00 am – 2:00 am GMT 

Saturday, October 29

Program: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm CDT/ 7:30 am – 3:00 pm PDT/ 3:30 pm – 11:00 pm BST/ 4:30 pm – 12:00 am GMT

Registration

IP Mosaic Conference Schedule

9:30-9:45 am CDT

Welcome & Remarks
Dean Joseph Kearney, Dean and Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School
Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ)

9:45-11:00 am CDT

Plenary Session: International IP and Social Justice
Moderator: Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, IIPSJ
Panelists:
Madhavi Sunder – IP for Next Pandemic
Metka Potočnik – Multitude of Voices in International IP: World Intellectual Property Organization and Accredited Observers

11:00 – 11:05 am CDT Break

11:05-12:20 pm CDT

Panel 1: Toward Reparative IP Policy
Moderator: Kali Murray, Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School
Presenters:
Cathay Smith — Cancelling Dr. Seuss
Timothy McFarlin – A Copyright Restored: Mark Twain, Mary Ann Cord, and How to Right a Longstanding Wrong
Trevor Reed – Restorative Justice for Indigenous Culture

12:20 – 12:50 pm CDT Lunch Break

12:50-2:35 pm CDT

Panel 2: 2022 Ben Liu Scholars
Moderator: Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Presenters:
Adithya Variath – TWAIL and Protecting Traditional Knowledge: Perspectives on Decoloniality and Social Justice in IP Law
Jordana Goodman and Khamal Patterson – Access to Justice for Black Inventors
–Break —
Tiffany Nichols – Patenting Automated Race and Ethnicity Classifications: Discerning Epistemic Understandings of Race and Ethnicity Through Patent Literature
Arunima Shastri and Batra – Patentability of Inventions Done In Metaverse and the Regulatory Measures That Need To Be Undertaken

2:35 – 2:45pm CDT Break

2:45-4:00 pm CDT

Plenary Session 2: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith Amici
Moderator: Tuneen Chisolm, Associate Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
Panelists:
Sandra Aistars, Clinical Professor of Law, and Founding Director of the Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at GMU Law
Loletta Darden, Visiting Associate Clinical Professor of Law & Director, Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, George Washington University Law School
Philippa Loengard, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Columbia Law school
Kevin Madigan, Copyright Alliance
Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, IIPSJ
Betsy Rosenblatt, Professor of Law, The University of Tulsa, College of Law
Jeff Sedlik, Photographer, Professor, Art Center College of Design

4:00 – 4:10 pm CDT Break

4:10-5:00 pm CDT

Panel 3: Traditions or Traps? Patent Inventor Access under Review
Moderator: Loletta Darden, Visiting Associate Clinical Professor of Law & Director, Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, George Washington University Law School
Presenters:
Sharon Bar-Ziv, Orit Fischman-Afori, Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton – Where The Gender Gap Meets Academic Patenting: An Empirical Study
Colleen Chien – Redefining Progress To Include Diversity In Innovation And Inventorship

5:00-6:00 pm CDT HAPPY (& SOCIAL) HOUR ONLINE

9:30 – 9:40 am CDT

Opening Remarks
• Kali Murray, Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School
• Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, IIPSJ

9:40-11:55 am CDT

Inaugural Student IP Scholars Roundtable
Moderator: Tuneen Chisolm, Associate Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
Panelists
Zuri Ward – North Carolina Central University School of Law – Umbrella: Combating Systemic Racism by Providing Black Creators Accessible Tools to Safeguard their Intellectual Property
Commenter – tbd
Drew Emerson – Howard University School of Law – Legal Solutions To Combat The Misapplication of DMCA Claims To Video Game Streaming
Commenter – tbd
Taniya Moore – Howard University School of Law – Protecting Nostalgia: Should Copyright Protection Include A Parallel To Trademark Law’s Incontestability Status?
Commenter – tbd

11:55am – 12:00 pm CDT Break

12:00-1:45 pm CDT

Panel 3: Distribution of Power and IP Stakeholders
Moderators: Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, IIPSJ
Presenters:
Metka Potočnik — Collectivity without Solidarity, Inclusion or Democracy: a Feminist Critique of Collective Rights Management of Copyright
Patricia Aufderheide & Brandon Butler — Copyright and Other Obstacles to Text- and Datamining Research: The Need for a Right to Research
–Break–
Niharika Salar & Bernd Justin Jütte — Geographical Indications: Community Rights in a global IP system
Faith Majekolagbe, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta Faculty of Law — Copyright and Equitable Access to Education and Learning for All in Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Times: Towards a Global Fair Use Right?

1:45 – 1:55 pm CDT Break

1:55-3:10 pm CDT

Plenary Session: Wikimedia and Access to Knowledge
Moderator: Shreyanka Mirchandani Changaroth, Wikimedia Race and Knowledge Equity Fellow
Panelists:
Margaret Chon, Donald and Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice, Seattle University School of Law
Faith Majekolagbe, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta Faculty of Law and Fellow, Harvard University Berkman Klein Center
Colleen Chien, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
Brett Frischmann, Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law
J. Jan Osei-Tutu, Associate Dean for Diversity, Culture & Inclusion and Professor of Law, Florida International University Law School
Betsy Rosenblatt, Professor of Law, The University of Tulsa College of Law

3:10-4:55 pm CDT

Panel 5: IP Boundary Dynamics
Moderator: Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Presenters:
Lukas Goncalves — Preserving the Right of Access to Copyrighted works based on Data Regulation
Sharon Sandeen — The Employee’s Right to Learn
–Break –
Dustin Marlin – The Nightmare of Dream Advertising
Ram Mohan and Aditya Gupta — Mutation of the Trademark Doctrine: A case study in Barbie

4:55 pm CDT

Closing Remarks
Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, IIPSJ

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About the IP Mosaic Conference

Each IP Mosaic Conference is typically organized around a specific IP social justice legal issue, policy, or socio-economic challenge. Representative conference themes include equitable access to health, medicines, knowledge, and information; socially beneficial application of information technology and related advances to IP development and dissemination; legal protection for traditional and indigenous knowledge and expression; and promoting IP awareness, education, and entrepreneurial and socio-political empowerment in marginalized communities. The conference format is principally comprised of paper or project presentation sessions and plenary panel discussions. In addition, keynote presentations and “incubator project” and work in progress sessions are also mainstays of the conference.

The Pragmatic Intersection of Scholarly Analysis and Law and Policy Development

IP protection is intended to play an important role in engendering human development and actualization toward the greater societal good. The traditional tools and experience of scholarly analysis, reflection, and discourse, however, are not always readily adaptive toward targeted social action, or what is sometimes referred to as “public intellectualism”. Through the IP Mosaic Conference, IP scholars engage with social activists, practicing attorneys, and policy makers to produce “activist scholarship”, to collaborate on various “IP Empowerment” policy initiatives and projects, and to otherwise help to shape and effectuate a progressive and contemporary IP socio-legal agenda.

Conference Planning Committee

Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law                                                    Janewa Osei-Tutu, Florida International University

Tuneen Chisolm, Howard University School of Law                                                                                   Metka Potocnik, University of Wolverhampton, Law School

Nicole Morris, Emory Law                                                                                                                           Srividhya Ragavan, Texas A&M School of Law

Lateef Mtima, Howard University School of Law                                                                                        Betsy Rosenblatt, The University of Tulsa, College of Law

Kali Murray, Marquette University Law School                                                                                           Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law

Since 2014, IIPSJ has sponsored the IP Mosaic Conference. Through the IP Mosaic, IIPSJ collaborates with a law school host to provide a venue in which to explore the social ordering function of IP protection in the total political economy, particularly the law’s social justice obligations in promoting human rights and actualization, cultural and technological progress, and self-determination and nation-building.

The IP Mosaic Conference was established to bring together scholars, law and policy makers, and social activists of diverse and multicultural backgrounds and perspectives to explore progressive, social justice-oriented ideas in intellectual property law, policy, and social activism. Beginning in the late twentieth century, digital information technology and other innovations sparked a paradigm shift in scholarly assessment of the social ordering function of IP protection, exposing the need to critically examine the law’s social justice obligations in promoting human rights, self-determination, cultural progress, and nation-building and evolution. IP law and policy makers traditionally value scholarly analyses in their development and interpretation of IP protection. Progressive, social justice-oriented IP scholarship, especially when infused with the experience and insights of policy makers and social activists, can provide the doctrinal basis for shaping a more socially responsible IP legal regime.

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6th Annual IP Mosaic Conference 2020

MOSAIC IP LAW AND POLICY ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE

Through these conferences, IP scholars can work together with political activists, practicing attorneys, community organizers, and policy makers to produce activist scholarship, to collaborate on various IP Empowerment policy initiatives and projects, and to otherwise help to shape and effectuate a progressive and contemporary IP socio-legal agenda.

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October 30-31, 2020 

12 – 4:30 pm CST

Online Conference

Sixth Annual IP Mosaic Conference: The Arc is Hot!  Using IP to Further Social Justice

Hosted by Marquette University Law School

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Since 2014, IIPSJ has sponsored the IP Mosaic Conference, a peripatetic scholarly forum in which legal scholars and policy and social activists present and develop progressive theses in the field of IP Social Justice. Through the Mosaic Conference, IIPSJ collaborates with a law school host to provide a venue in which to explore the social ordering function of IP protection in the total political economy, particularly the law’s social justice obligations in promoting human rights and actualization, cultural and technological progress, and self-determination and nation-building.

About the Mosaic Roundtable

Roundtable topics include equitable access to health, medicines, knowledge, and information; socially beneficial application of information technology and related advances to IP development and dissemination; legal protection for traditional and indigenous knowledge and expression; and promoting IP awareness, education, and entrepreneurial and socio-political empowerment in marginalized communities.

The Roundtable Conference is also amenable to expansion into a two day format, to accommodate plenary panels, keynote presentations, and “incubator project” and work in progress sessions.

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Program Agenda

Friday, October 30, 2020

12 – 12:15 pm CST Welcome Remarks
• Kali Murray (Host)
Professor of Law, Marquette University School of Law
• Joseph Kearney (Host)
Dean, Marquette University School of Law
• Lateef Mtima (MOSAIC Core)
Professor of Law, Howard Law School
Founder and Director, IIPSJ
• Recognition of Benjamin Liu Memorial Scholars (denoted by **)
Jasmine Abdel-KhalikUniversity of Missouri-Kansas School of Law


12:15 – 12:50 pm  Plenary Session 1

Encountering Race in IP
A Social Construction of Race Encounter – Phillip Lee, Professor, University of the District Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
A Critical Race Encounter – Kali Murray
A Social Justice Encounter – Lateef Mtima

12:50 – 1:00 pm BREAK


1:00 – 2:20 pm Works-in-Progress Session #1
Moderator: Janewa Osei-Tutu, Associate Professor, Florida International University College of Law
Presenters:
Posthumous Endorsements & BLM – Andrew Gilden, Associate Professor, Willamette University College of Law
Genetic Resources & TK in TransBoundary Situations – Margo Bagley, Professor, Emory University School of Law and Frederic Perron-Welch, Ph.D Candidate
Should Copyright Apply on Tribal Lands? – Trevor Reed, Associate Professor, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law

–5 min BREAK–
Law, Race, and Alchemy – Bita Amani, Associate Professor, Queen’s University
Copyright’s Memory-Based Rights – David Simon, Visiting Associate Professor & Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Fellow, George Washington University Law School


2:20 – 2:30 pm BREAK


2:30 – 3:55 pm Roundtable Session – Full Papers
Moderator: Keith Robinson, Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University and Willajeanne McLean, Professor, University of Connecticut Law School
Presenters:
The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Patent System – Muhammad Zaheer Abbas, Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Queensland University of Technology
Exposing Gender Bias in IP: The Music Industry – Dr. Metka Potocnik, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Wolverhampton Law School

–5 min BREAK–
True and False Inventors: Race, Gender, and Appropriation by Patent – Kara Swanson, Professor, Northeastern University
Patent & Innovation Inequalities – Colleen Chien, Professor, Santa Clara Law School


4:00 – 4:30 pm HAPPY HOUR


Saturday, October 31, 2020

12:00 – 1:00 pm Incubator Session
Moderator: Tuneen Chisolm, Associate Professor, Campbell University School of Law
Presenters:
Empirical Study of Gender & Race in TM Prosecution – Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton, Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Deborah Gerhardt, Professor, University of North Carolina, and Mike Schuster, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia Terry College of Business
Using IP to Further Social Justice (TM Prosecution) – Ed Timberlake, Attorney, Timberlake Law
Black Lives Matters and BLM as TMs – Irene Calboli, Professor, Texas A&M University School of Law
Legendary Houses: Voguing, Trademarks and Transformation – Betsy Rosenblatt, Professor, University of Tulsa College of Law


1:00 – 1:10 pm BREAK


1:10 – 3:30 pm Works-in-Progress Session #2

Moderator: Christine Haight Farley, Professor, American University School of Law
Presenters:
Weaponizing Copyright – Cathay Smith, Associate Professor, Alexander Blewett III School of Law, The University of Montana
Reimagining Moral Rights Thru a Feminist Lens – Carys Craig, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School York University and Anupriya Dhonchak, Student
IP as Security for Finance – Eleanor (Ellie) Wilson, Trainee Solicitor, Virtuoso Legal**

–5 min BREAK —
Digital Exhaustion: Furthering SJ in Streaming-Dominated CR Ecosystem – Peter Mezei, Associate Professor, University of Szeged**
Liberation Registration: Antebellum African American Copyright – Brian Frye, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky College of Law


3:40 – 3:50 pm BREAK


3:55 – 4:20 pm Plenary Session

Moderator: Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The Color of Creatorship Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans Interview with with Anjali Vats, Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School and Deidré A Keller, Dean, Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law


4:20 – 4:30 pm Closing Remarks

Lateef Mtima


7th Annual IP Mosaic Conference 2021

MOSAIC IP LAW AND POLICY ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE

Through these conferences, IP scholars can work together with political activists, practicing attorneys, community organizers, and policy makers to produce activist scholarship, to collaborate on various IP Empowerment policy initiatives and projects, and to otherwise help to shape and effectuate a progressive and contemporary IP socio-legal agenda.

October 21-23, 2021 

Online Conference

Seventh Annual IP Mosaic Conference: IP as Protest, Change, and Empowerment

Hosted by Mitchell Hamline Law School in St. Paul, MN

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

At the IP Mosaic Conference, a diverse collective of academics, policy leaders and activists will convene to consider and critique intra and extrajudicial means of disrupting and dissecting traditional notions of IP protection. The theme of this year’s conference is IP As Protest, Change, and Empowerment. We will discuss papers and projects that specifically address the intersection of intellectual property and social justice, particularly as it relates to race, gender, and other social classes, constructs, and conditions, as well as papers that address pedagogy on race and IP. Join us online October 21-23 for these discussions and more.

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Program Schedule

Thursday, October 21, 2021

4:30 – 6:00 pm CDT

Social Cocktail Hour

Featuring Chris Montana, Founder of Du Nord Social Spirits

Friday, October 22, 2021

11:00 – 5:40 pm Central Daylight Time (CDT)

5:40 pm – 6:40 pm CDT Virtual Happy Hour

11 – 11:25 am CDT 

Welcome & Remarks
Sharon Sandeen, Professor of Law and Director of IP Institute, Mitchell Hamline University School of Law
Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ)

11:25 – 12:45 pm  CDT

Plenary Session: International IP and Social Justice

Moderators:

Christine Farley, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law &  Faculty Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

Metka Potočnik, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Wolverhampton, Law School and Director of The F-List for Music CIC

Panelists:

Sara Callegari, Gender and Diversity Specialist, Human Resources Management Department, World Intellectual Property Organization

Leticia Caminero, Consultant, Research and Special Projects, Traditional Knowledge Division, World Intellectual Property Organization

Srividhya Ragavan, Professor of Law and Director of India Programs, Texas A&M University School of Law 

12:45 – 1:00 pm CDT

Break

1:00 – 2:15 pm CDT

Paper presentations: Patents and Public Health
Moderator: Sharon Sandeen, Professor of Law and Director of IP Institute, Mitchell Hamline University School of Law

Presenters:

Covid-19, Patent Law, and Inequality in Access to Health Technologies: The Proposed Pandemic Treaty

Muhammad Zaheer Abbas, PhD, Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Business and Law | Queensland University of Technology

Waiving Windfalls: The Socio-Legal and Contextual justification of a “TRIPS Waiver” during the COVID-19 pandemic

Akshat Agrawal, Law Researcher at the Delhi High Court, India

Patents on Psychedelics: The Next Legal Battlefront of Drug Development

Mason Marks, Assistant Professor, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law; Senior Fellow and Project Lead of the Project on Psychedelics Regulation (POPLAR), Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

2:15 – 2:45 pm CDT

The Unleashing American Innovators Act

Scott Wilson, Senior Intellectual Property Advisor Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on IP

2:45 – 3:00 pm CDT

Break

3:00 – 4:15 pm CDT

Plenary Session: Increasing Diversity in Innovation through Paradigm-Shifts, Pledges, and Pilots

Panelists:

Jeremiah Chan – Director and Associate General Counsel, Facebook

Colleen Chien – Santa Clara University School of Law and High Tech Law Institute

Suzanne Harrison – Percipience, USIPA, and The Gathering

Lateef Mtima – Howard University School of Law, IIPSJ

John Mulgrew – Chief Patent Counsel and Global Head of IP, Lenovo 

4:15 – 4:25 pm CDT

Break

4:25 – 5:40pm CDT

Paper presentations: Race & IP

Moderator: Kara Swanson, Associate Dean for Research, School of Law, Professor of Law/Affiliate Professor of History, Northeastern University

Presenters:

The Last Breakfast with Aunt Jemima and its Impact on Trademark Theory

Deborah R. Gerhardt, Reef C. Ivey II Excellence Fund Term Professor of Law, UNC School of Law

Solomon Linda, Traditional Knowledge Pirate? Mbube, ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ and Entry/Exit rules for Traditional Knowledge

Dalindyebo Shabalala, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Dayton School of Law

5:40 – 6:40 pm CDT

HAPPY (& SOCIAL) HOUR ONLINE

Saturday, October 23, 2021

12:00 – 5:00 pm Central Daylight Time (CDT)

12:00 – 12:10 pm CDT

Opening Remarks

Sharon Sandeen, Professor of Law and Director of IP Institute, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, IIPSJ

12:10 – 1:25 pm CDT

Plenary Session: IP/IT Law and Policy for Social Progress

Moderator: Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, IIPSJ

Panelists:

Copyright as Social Justice for Music Workers

Benjamin Bierman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music and Chair, Department of Art & Music John Jay College of Criminal Justice

How Psychedelic Patents Harm Public Health

Mason Marks, Assistant Professor, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law; Senior Fellow and Project Lead of the Project on Psychedelics Regulation (POPLAR), Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

Empowering Creatives to Protect Their Interests

Kim Tignor, Executive Director, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice

1:25 – 1:35 pm CDT

Break

1:35 – 3:05 pm CDT

Paper presentations: IP, Access, and Inclusion

Moderator: Betsy Rosenblatt, Professor of Law, The University of Tulsa College of Law

Presenters:

More Than Availability: Thoughtfully Changing Legal Scholarship Accessibility, Equity, and Inclusion Considerations

Raizel Liebler, Faculty Scholarship Librarian & Instructor of Law, The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Law

A Queer Analysis of Intellectual Property

Dr. Eden Sarid, Assistant Professor, University of Essex, School of Law

Leaving the Pink Ghetto: Amplifying Feminist Voices in Intellectual Property Policy

Metka Potočnik, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Wolverhampton, Law School and Director of The F-List for Music CIC

Role of Intellectual Property in Fortifying the Agricultural Sector: Issues & Prospects

Dr. Vandana Singh, Assistant Professor, University School of  Law and Legal Studies (USLLS), GGS Indraprastha University

Serials Crisis, Right to Research and Copyright Law: From Photocopying to Shadow Libraries

Aditya Gupta, Researcher, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat INDIA

MP Ram Mohan, Associate Professor, Strategy Area, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, INDIA

3:05 – 3:15 pm CDT

Break

3:15 – 4:30 pm CDT

Paper presentations: Patents and Equity
Moderator: Betsy Rosenblatt, Professor of Law, The University of Tulsa College of Law

Presenters:

Centralizing Pharmaceutical Innovation

Sapna Kumar, John Mixon Chair, Co-Director, UHLC Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law

Gender and Racial Disparities in Pharmaceutical Patent Prosecution and Litigation

Sean Tu, Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law

Sy-STEM-ic Racism: An Exploration of Race and Gender Representation on University Patents

Jordi Goodman, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor, BU/MIT Technology Law Clinic, Boston University School of Law

4:30 pm CDT

Closing Remarks

Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law & Founder and Director, IIPSJ

Sharon Sandeen, Professor of Law and Director of IP Institute, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

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Since 2014, IIPSJ has sponsored the IP Mosaic Conference. Through the IP Mosaic, IIPSJ collaborates with a law school host to provide a venue in which to explore the social ordering function of IP protection in the total political economy, particularly the law’s social justice obligations in promoting human rights and actualization, cultural and technological progress, and self-determination and nation-building.

The IP Mosaic Conference was established to bring together scholars, law and policy makers, and social activists of diverse and multicultural backgrounds and perspectives to explore progressive, social justice-oriented ideas in intellectual property law, policy, and social activism. Beginning in the late twentieth century, digital information technology and other innovations sparked a paradigm shift in scholarly assessment of the social ordering function of IP protection, exposing the need to critically examine the law’s social justice obligations in promoting human rights, self-determination, cultural progress, and nation-building and evolution. IP law and policy makers traditionally value scholarly analyses in their development and interpretation of IP protection. Progressive, social justice-oriented IP scholarship, especially when infused with the experience and insights of policy makers and social activists, can provide the doctrinal basis for shaping a more socially responsible IP legal regime.

About the IP Mosaic Conference

Each IP Mosaic Conference is typically organized around a specific IP social justice legal issue, policy, or socio-economic challenge. Representative conference themes include equitable access to health, medicines, knowledge, and information; socially beneficial application of information technology and related advances to IP development and dissemination; legal protection for traditional and indigenous knowledge and expression; and promoting IP awareness, education, and entrepreneurial and socio-political empowerment in marginalized communities. The conference format is principally comprised of paper or project presentation sessions and plenary panel discussions. In addition, keynote presentations and “incubator project” and work in progress sessions are also mainstays of the conference.

The Pragmatic Intersection of Scholarly Analysis and Law and Policy Development

IP protection is intended to play an important role in engendering human development and actualization toward the greater societal good. The traditional tools and experience of scholarly analysis, reflection, and discourse, however, are not always readily adaptive toward targeted social action, or what is sometimes referred to as “public intellectualism”. Through the IP Mosaic Conference, IP scholars engage with social activists, practicing attorneys, and policy makers to produce “activist scholarship”, to collaborate on various “IP Empowerment” policy initiatives and projects, and to otherwise help to shape and effectuate a progressive and contemporary IP socio-legal agenda.

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20th IP Social Justice CLE

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Tech Law Summit & Annual CLE 2023

5th Annual HBCU Tech Law Summit

20th Annual IP and Social Justice CLE Seminar

About the Summit

The HBCU Tech Law Summit aims to educate minority legal professionals on the issues and opportunities in the tech industry in an effort to help infuse the legal workforce with a diverse pipeline to ensure fair, transparent and accountable development of AI as a service and other new technologies that empower everyone.

Register for the Summit

About the CLE

The IP and Social Justice CLE program provides annual updates in IP law, a panel of sitting federal judges, and discussions of IP, diversity, and social justice concerns. Each year we are privileged to work with some of the nation’s leading IP judges, attorneys, and scholars in our CLE program. For this year’s program, we intend to apply for CLE credit that can be used in the following jurisdictions: CA, VA, OH,  and NY.  Additional states may be added.

Register for the CLE

Attendance is free for all. Fees below are for those also seeking CLE credit.

$250 – General Public
$100 – HBCU Alumni
$ 50 – Government Attorneys
Free – Non-profit, academics, & need-based requests

Thank you to all our sponsors, speakers, and attendees for their support of the 2023 conference! Check out the following post-event wrap up blogs:

Program Agenda

All times are listed in Eastern Time (ET).

9:00 am – 9:05 am

Introduction and Welcome

Charlie Bingham, Founder of Tech Law Summit and Senior Legal Counsel – Splunk; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2008

9:05 am – 10:05 am

The Impact of Innovative Technologies on Society and the Practice of Law (Chat GPT, NFTs, AI, Metaverse, etc.)

Moderator: Rizwan A. Qureshi, Hiring Partner – Reed Smith; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2007

Charnay Augustin, Senior Counsel, Marketplace – Uber; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2011

Julien Bowers, Senior Counsel – Perkins Coie, Georgetown University Law Center, Class of 2010

Alex Butterworth, Senior Counsel, Delivery – Uber; Western Australia College of Law, Class of 2010

Stanton Burke, Associate Attorney – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2017

10:05 am – 11:05 am

The Impact of Data Privacy & Security on Society and the Practice of Law

Moderator: Natalie Roisman, Executive Director – Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy; University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Adonne Washington, Policy Counsel – Future of Privacy Forum; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2020

Loyaan A. Egal, Chief of Enforcement – Federal Communications Commission; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2002

Anup Suresh, Principal, Registered Patent Attorney, & Data Security Officer – Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.; Loyola Law School, Class of 2007

11:05 am – 11:15 am

Break

11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Keynote Fireside Chat with Kemba Eneas Walden

Moderator: Charlie Bingham, Founder of HBCU IP & Tech Law Summit and Senior Legal Counsel of Partners & Strategic Alliances – Splunk; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2008
Kemba Eneas Walden, Principal Deputy National Cyber Director – Office of the National Cyber Director; Georgetown University Law Center, Class of 2002

12:15 pm – 12:45 pm

Lunchtime Awards Ceremony

12:45 pm – 1:00 pm

Break

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

The Impact of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain on Society and the Practice of Law

Moderator: Edward Fultz, Mid-Level Associate – Reed Smith, Howard University School of Law, Class of 2020

Tiffany J. Smith, Partner – WilmerHale; The George Washington University Law School, Class of 2008

Valerie Dahiya, Partner – Perkins Coie, Seattle University School of Law, Class of 2005

Alexis Liistro, Patent Attorney – Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.; New England Law, Class of 2009

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

The Impact of IP & Diversity in the Legal Profession on Society and the Practice of Law

Moderator: Aneesh Mehta, Head of Product Legal – Microsoft India; Rutgers Law School

Ricardo Bonilla, Principal – Fish & Richardson; Texas Tech University School of Law, Class of 2012

Dr. Anita Lam, Sr. Corporate Counsel – Microsoft; The George Washington University Law School

Sean Suber, Partner – Winston & Strawn LLP; University of Virginia School of Law, Class of 2014

Nyajuok Deng, Attorney – Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2018

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Paying it Forward: A Day in the Life of a Tech Lawyer

Moderator: Natasha Walwyn Robinson Splunk; Suffolk University Law School, Class of 2008

Charlie Bingham, Founder of Tech Law Summit and Senior Legal Counsel – Splunk; Howard University School of Law 2008

Michele G. Cober, Director – External Affairs – Verizon; Howard University School of Law 2008

Daphne Forbes, Assistant General Counsel – Microsoft; American University Washington School of Law

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Networking Reception

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8:45 am – 9:00 am

Introduction and Welcome

Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law

Tashia Bunch, Program Director – IIPSJ; TTAB Interlocutory Attorney – USPTO; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2006

Esther H. Lim, Patent Chair of IIPSJ Annual Conference; Partner & Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

9:00 am – 10:30 am

IP Law Year in Review

Thomas L. Irving, Partner – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Douglas A. Rettew, Partner – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Ian C. Ballon, Shareholder – Greenberg Traurig, LLP

10:30 am – 10:40 am

Break

10:40 am – 11:50 am

Donald R. Dunner Judicial Panel [non-CLE]

Moderator: L. Scott Burwell, Partner – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Honorable Leonard P. Stark, Judge – United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Honorable Scott R. Boalick, Chief Administrative Patent Judge – Patent Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Honorable Bryan F. Moore, Administrative Law Judge – United States International Trade Commission 

Honorable Susan G. Braden, Former Chief Judge (ret.) – United States Court of Federal Claims

11:50 am – 12:50 pm

Social Justice Luncheon
12:20 – 1:05 pm Highlights from the Innovator Diversity Pilots Conference

Margo A. Bagley, Associate Dean for Research and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law – Emory University School of Law

Colleen Chien, Professor of Law – Santa Clara University School of Law

Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law

1:05 – 1:50 pm Unleashing American Innovation Act

Moderator: Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law

Scott Wilson, Director, Government Affairs – Spotify

Bradley Watts, Vice President for Patents and Innovation Policy – U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center

1:50 pm – 2:00 pm

Break

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Dual Track Sessions
Session A: Leading with IP and Adding Value to Corporations

Moderator: Daryl Lim, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law – Penn State Dickinson Law

Andrew Cooper, Associate General Counsel – Meta

Claire W. Desmond, Senior Counsel, IP & Advertising – Under Armour

Izu Emeagwali, Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel – J.P. Morgan; Howard University School of Law Class of 2010

Yen Florczak, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel – 3M Company (invited)

Ankur Shah, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property – Freddie Mac

Session B: How Fair Is Fair Use? A Discussion About Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith

Moderator: Sachi Schuricht, Managing Associate – Orrick

Sandra Aistars, Clinical Professor of Law, and Founding Director of the Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at George Mason University Law School

Mel Bostwick, Partner – Orrick

Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Dual Track Sessions
Session A: In House Counsel Discussion on Trade Secret Law

Michael Forzano, Chief IP Counsel Pall – Pall Corporation

Ulysses Williams III, Intellectual Property Counsel – Pall Corporation; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2016

Anthony P. Curtis, Registered Patent Attorney – Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner

Session B: Updates on College Athletes NIL & Celebrities Right of Publicity

Jonathan Goins, Principal – Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2002

Ron Katz, Author, Sport, Ethics and Leadership (Routledge, 2017)

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Break

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm

Ethics Session

Aisha Cassis, Deputy Executive Attorney – D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2005

William Thomashower, Counsel – Pryor Cashman LLP

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19th Annual IP and Social Justice CLE Program

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Program Agenda

All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

We are using Zoom to host the program. Please use the links below to access the program. Passcodes are next to each link.

Link to access Thursday program Passcode: 505229

Link to access Thursday virtual career panel Passcode: 495311

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Link to access Friday program Dual Track Session B Passcode: 939159

9:00 am – 9:05 am

Introduction and Welcome

Charlie Bingham, Founder of Tech Law Summit and Senior Legal Counsel – Splunk; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2008

9:05 am – 10:05 am

The Impact of Racial Bias in AI, Facial Recognition, and Other Technologies

Moderator: Edward Fultz, Associate – Reed Smith; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2020

Chanel Cornett, Policy Counsel, Trust and Safety – Zoom; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2019 

Collin Smith, Principal Corporate Counsel, Windows + Devices – Microsoft

Adonne Washington, Digital Justice Associate Counsel – Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2020

10:05 am – 11:05 am

CCPA and other Data Privacy Regulations

Moderator: Charity Ogbeide, Privacy & Data Protection Principal – IBM; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2018

Charnay Augustin, Senior Counsel, Marketplace –  Uber; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2011

Stanton Burke, Associate BakerHostetler; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2015

Ali A. Jessani, Senior Associate – WilmerHale

Rizwan A. Qureshi, Hiring Partner – Reed Smith; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2007

11:05 am – 11:15 am

Break

11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Innovative Legal Areas of Law

Jesse Fenty, IP Attorney and CEO Fenty IP Law and Endless IP

Mo Ivory, Professor and Director of the Entertainment, Sports & Media Law Initiative – Georgia State University College of Law

Lorraine McGowen, Partner Orrick

12:15 pm – 12:45 pm

Lunchtime Awards Ceremony

12:45 pm – 1:00 pm

Break

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Covid-19 and other Hot Topics

Moderator: Katina Wallace, Director Compliance Programs Microsoft

Oladoyin Olanrewaju, Associate –Orrick

Tiffany J. Smith, Partner – WilmerHale

Kemba Walden, Assistant General Counsel Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

The Rise of eSports and the Metaverse

Moderator: Dr. Anita Lam, Senior Corporate Counsel – Microsoft

Mason Ashe, Founder & CEO – Ashe Sports & Entertainment Consulting, Inc.

Gordon Bellamy, Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts – University of Southern California; former Lead Designer – EA Sports

Derrick L. Maultsby, Associate – Frost Brown Todd LLC

Delane Parnell, Founder & CEO – PlayVS

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Paying it Forward: A Day in the Life of a Tech Lawyer

Moderator: Charlie Bingham, Founder of Tech Law Summit and Senior Legal Counsel – Splunk

Nick Austin, Principal Corporate Counsel – Microsoft

Labriah Lee Holt, Manager, Southeast State Government Affairs – Microsoft; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2008

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Virtual Career Panel

Moderator: Aminah Ortiz-Simon, 2L – Howard University School of Law

Phil Hampton, Senior Partner – Polsinelli; Adjunct Professor – Howard University School of Law

Jennifer M. Hayes, Principal – Jordan IP Law; Howard University School of Law, Class of 1994

W. LaNelle Owens, Assistant General Counsel, Head of Intellectual Property – Thrasio, LLC; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2004

Lita Rosario-Richardson, President & CEO – WYZ Girl Entertainment Consulting, LLC; Howard University School of Law, Class of 1986

8:45 am – 9:00 am

Introduction and Welcome

Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law

Tashia Bunch, Administrative Director – IIPSJ and TTAB Interlocutory Attorney – USPTO; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2006

9:00 am – 10:30 am

IP Year in Review

Thomas L. Irving, Partner – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Douglas A. Rettew, Partner – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Ian C. Ballon, Shareholder – Greenberg Traurig, LLP

10:30 am – 10:45 am

Break

10:45 am – 11:45 am

New Issues in IP Licensing and Litigation: A View From In-House Counsel

Moderator: Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law

Nadia Baksh, Associate Counsel – Visa; Howard University School of Law Class of 2017

Devon Grant, Senior Patent Counsel – Visa; Howard University School of Law

Izu Emeagwali, Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel – J.P. Morgan; Howard University School of Law Class of 2010

Idris N. McKelvey, Vice President – Patent Group – The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.; Howard University School of Law Class of 2005

Ulysses Williams III, Intellectual Property Counsel – Pall Corporation; Howard University School of Law Class of 2016

11:45 am – 12:00 pm

Break

12:00 pm – 1:20 pm

Welcome Remarks

Esther H. Lim, Patent Chair of IIPSJ Annual Conference; Partner & Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Donald R. Dunner Judicial Panel [non-CLE]

Moderator: L. Scott Burwell, Partner – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Hon. Raymond T. Chen, Judge – United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Judge – United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Hon. Scott R. Boalick, Chief Administrative Patent Judge – Patent Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Hon. David P. Shaw, Administrative Law Judge – United States International Trade Commission

Hon. Susan G. Braden, Former Chief Judge (ret.) – United States Court of Federal Claims

1:20 pm – 2:20 pm

Cannabis and the Law: A Look at Trademark Law and Social Justice Implications

Laury Lucien, Managing Member – Major Bloom

William “Bill” Thomashower, Counsel – Pryor Cashman 

2:20 pm – 2:30 pm

Break

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Dual Track Sessions

Session A: Hot Topics in Post-Corona In-House Practice

Moderator: Idris N. McKelvey, Vice President, Patent Group – The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2005

Izu Emeagwali, Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel – J.P. Morgan; Howard University School of Law Class of 2010

Ghani Hamadi, Sr. Counsel, Patent Law – FedEx Corp.

Ankur Shah, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property – Freddie Mac

Jyoti Uppuluri, Head of Patent Portfolio Strategy, Reality Labs – Meta

Session B: CASE Act Implementation Panel

Maya Burchette, Attorney Advisor Copyright Claims Board | U.S. Copyright Office

Terrica Carrington, VP of Legal Policy & Copyright Counsel – Copyright Alliance

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Dual Track Sessions

Session A: The Unified Patent Court: Strengthening the Global Patent System

Devon Grant, Senior Patent Counsel – Visa; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2002

Diego Black, Partner – Withers & Rogers, LLP

Brianna L. Kadjo, Counsel – Perkins Coie

Session B: Updates on College Athletes NIL & Celebrities Right of Publicity

Jonathan Goins, Principal – Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2002

Ron Katz, Author, Sports Ethics and Leadership (Routledge, 2017)

4:30 pm – 4:35 pm

Break

4:35 pm – 5:35 pm

Ethics Session

Aisha Cassis, Deputy Executive Attorney – D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2005

5:35 pm – 5:40 pm

Closing Remarks

Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law


Thank You to Our Sponsors, Partner Schools, and Institutional Partners!


Tech Law Summit & Annual CLE 2022

4th Annual HBCU Tech Law Summit

19th Annual IP and Social Justice CLE Seminar

The 2023 Tech Law Summit and CLE Program will be held Thursday, March 2 and Friday, March 3. Program details will be available soon.

About the Summit

The HBCU Tech Law Summit aims to educate minority legal professionals on the issues and opportunities in the tech industry in an effort to help infuse the legal workforce with a diverse pipeline to ensure fair, transparent and accountable development of AI as a service and other new technologies that empower everyone.

About the CLE

The IP and Social Justice CLE program provides annual updates in IP law, a panel of sitting federal judges, and discussions of IP, diversity, and social justice concerns. Each year we are privileged to work with some of the nation’s leading IP judges, attorneys, and scholars in our CLE program. For this year’s program, we intend to apply for CLE credit that can be used in the following jurisdictions: CA, VA, OH,  and NY.  Additional states may be added.

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Program Agenda

All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

9:00 am – 9:05 am

Introduction and Welcome

Charlie Bingham, Founder of Tech Law Summit and Senior Legal Counsel – Splunk; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2008

9:05 am – 10:05 am

The Impact of Racial Bias in AI, Facial Recognition, and Other Technologies

Moderator: Edward Fultz, Associate – Reed Smith; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2020

Chanel Cornett, Policy Counsel, Trust and Safety – Zoom; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2019 

Collin Smith, Principal Corporate Counsel, Windows + Devices – Microsoft

Adonne Washington, Digital Justice Associate Counsel – Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2020

10:05 am – 11:05 am

CCPA and other Data Privacy Regulations

Moderator: Charity Ogbeide, Privacy & Data Protection Principal – IBM; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2018

Charnay Augustin, Senior Counsel, Marketplace –  Uber; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2011

Stanton Burke, Associate BakerHostetler; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2015

Ali A. Jessani, Senior Associate – WilmerHale

Dominique Shelton Leipzig, Partner – Perkins Coie LLP

Rizwan A. Qureshi, Hiring Partner – Reed Smith; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2007

11:05 am – 11:15 am

Break

11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Innovative Legal areas of Law

Jesse Fenty, IP Attorney and CEO Fenty IP Law and Endless IP

Mo Ivory, Professor and Director of the Entertainment, Sports & Media Law Initiative – Georgia State University College of Law

Lorraine McGowen, Partner Orrick

12:15 pm – 12:45 pm

Lunchtime Awards Ceremony

12:45 pm – 1:00 pm

Break

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Covid-19 and other Hot Topics

Moderator: Katina Wallace, Director Compliance Programs Microsoft

Oladoyin Olanrewaju, Associate Orrick

Tiffany J. Smith, Partner – WilmerHale

Kemba Walden, Assistant General Counsel Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

The Rise of eSports and the Metaverse

Moderator: Dr. Anita Lam, Principal Corporate Counsel – Microsoft

Mason Ashe, Founder & CEO – Ashe Sports & Entertainment Consulting, Inc.

Gordon Bellamy, Professor of the Practice of Cinematic Arts – University of Southern California; former Lead Designer – EA Sports

Derrick L. Maultsby, Associate – Frost Brown Todd LLC

Delane Parnell, Founder & CEO – PlayVS

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Paying it Forward: A Day in the Life of a Tech Lawyer

Moderator: Charlie Bingham, Founder of Tech Law Summit and Senior Legal Counsel – Splunk

Nick Austin, Principal Corporate Counsel – Microsoft

Michele G. Cober, Director – External Affairs  – Verizon

Labriah Lee Holt, Manager, Southeast State Government Affairs – Microsoft; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2008

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Virtual Career Panel

Moderator: Aminah Ortiz-Simon, 2L – Howard University School of Law

Phil Hampton, Senior Partner – Polsinelli; Adjunct Professor – Howard University School of Law

Jennifer M. Hayes, Principal – Jordan IP Law; Howard University School of Law, Class of 1994

W. LaNelle Owens, Assistant General Counsel, Head of Intellectual Property – Thrasio, LLC; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2004

Lita Rosario-Richardson, President & CEO – WYZ Girl Entertainment Consulting, LLC; Howard University School of Law, Class of 1986

8:45 am – 9:00 am

Introduction and Welcome

Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law

Tashia Bunch, Administrative Director – IIPSJ and TTAB Interlocutory Attorney – USPTO; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2006

9:00 am – 10:30 am

IP Law Year in Review

Thomas L. Irving, Partner – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Douglas A. Rettew, Partner – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Ian C. Ballon, Shareholder – Greenberg Traurig, LLP

10:30 am – 10:45 am

Break

10:45 am – 11:45 am

New Issues in IP Licensing and Litigation: A View From In-House Counsel

Moderator: Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law

Nadia Baksh, Associate Counsel – Visa; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2017

Devon Grant, Senior Patent Counsel – Visa; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2002 

Izu Emeagwali, Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel – J.P. Morgan; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2010

Idris N. McKelvey, Vice President – Patent Group – The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2005

Ulysses Williams III, Intellectual Property Counsel – Pall Corporation; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2016

11:45 am – 12:00 pm

Break

12:00 pm – 1:20 pm

Welcome Remarks

Esther H. Lim, Patent Chair of IIPSJ Annual Conference; Partner & Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Donald R. Dunner Judicial Panel [non-CLE]

Moderator: L. Scott Burwell, Partner – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Hon. Raymond T. Chen, Judge – United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Judge – United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Hon. Scott R. Boalick, Chief Administrative Patent Judge – Patent Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Hon. David P. Shaw, Administrative Law Judge – United States International Trade Commission

Hon. Susan G. Braden, Former Chief Judge (ret.) – United States Court of Federal Claims

1:20 pm – 2:20 pm

Cannabis and the Law: A Look at Trademark Law and Social Justice Implications

Laury Lucien, Managing Member – Major Bloom

William “Bill” Thomashower, Counsel – Pryor Cashman 

2:20 pm – 2:30 pm

Break

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Dual Track Sessions

Session A: Hot Topics in Post-Corona In-House Practice

Moderator: Idris N. McKelvey, Vice President, Patent Group – The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2005

Izu Emeagwali, Executive Director and Assistant General Counsel – J.P. Morgan; Howard University School of Law Class of 2010

Ghani Hamadi, Sr. Counsel, Patent Law – FedEx Corp.

Ankur Shah, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property – Freddie Mac

Jyoti Uppuluri, Head of Patent Portfolio Strategy, Reality Labs – Meta

Session B: CASE Act Implementation

Maya Burchette, Attorney Advisor – Copyright Claims Board | U.S. Copyright Office

Terrica Carrington, VP of Legal Policy & Copyright Counsel – Copyright Alliance

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Dual Track Sessions

Session A: The Unified Patent Court: Strengthening the Global Patent System

Devon Grant, Senior Patent Counsel – Visa; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2002

Diego Black, Partner – Withers & Rogers, LLP

Brianna L. Kadjo, Counsel – Perkins Coie

Session B: Updates on College Athletes NIL & Celebrities Right of Publicity

Jonathan Goins, Principal – Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2002

Ron Katz, Author, Sports Ethics and Leadership (Routledge, 2017)

4:30 pm – 4:35 pm

Break

4:35 pm – 5:35 pm

Ethics Session

Aisha Cassis, Deputy Executive Attorney – D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility; Howard University School of Law, Class of 2005

5:35 pm – 5:40 pm

Closing Remarks

Lateef Mtima, Founder – IIPSJ; Professor of Law – Howard University School of Law


Thank You to Our Sponsors, Partner Schools, and Institutional Partners!

Last Year’s Conference Videos Available

Videos from the 18th Annual IIPSJ IP and Social Justice CLE Seminar & 3rd Annual Microsoft Tech Law Summit are available on our YouTube channel.

WATCH HERE


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