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

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.

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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