I. Recent Faculty Publications
Valena Beety
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (6th ed. 2023 Cum. Supp.) (with Paul C. Giannelli, Edward J. Imwinkelried, Jane Campbell Moriarty & Jennifer Oliva)
Mark D. Janis
Secondary Liability in U.S. Trademark Law: The Ambivalent Legacy of Warner v. Lilly, in BENTLY & BONE, HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRADEMARK LAW (Elgar 2023-24)
How the Supreme Court Ghosted the PHOSITA: Amgen and Legal Constructs in Patent Law, 109 IOWA L. REV. ONLINE (2023-24) (with Holbrook)
Design Patent Obviousness: The Road Ahead?, 109 IOWA L. REV. ONLINE (2023-24)
A Closer Look at the “Eye” Test: The British Origins of American Design Patent Infringement Law, 13 IP THEORY (2023-24)
Marshall Leaffer
UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT LAW (8th Ed. forthcoming 2024)
Michael Mattioli
ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE as a COMMONS (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS) (forthcoming 2024) (co-editor with Angie Raymond, Jessica Steinberg, and Scott Shackelford)
THE METAVERSE: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS) (forthcoming 2024) (with Scott Shackelford, Jeff Prince, and João Marinotti)
Conjuring the Flag: The Problem of Implied Government Endorsements, 83 MD. L. REV. (2024), reviewed in Alexandra Roberts, Name-Dropping Government Agencies in Advertising, JOTWELL (September 20, 2023), https://ip.jotwell.com/name-dropping-government-agencies-in-advertising/.
Jennifer D. Oliva
The “New” Drug War, 110 VA. L. REV. (forthcoming 2024) (with Taleed El-Sabawi)
Expecting Medication Surveillance, 93 FORDHAM L. REV. (forthcoming 2024)
Reforming Clinical Trial Pregnancy Exclusions, 15 ConLawNOW (forthcoming 2024)
Policing Pregnancy “Crimes,” 98 NYU L. REV. ONLINE (2023) (with Valena Elizabeth Beety)
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (6th ed. 2023 Cum. Supp.) (with Paul C. Giannelli, Edward J. Imwinkelried, Jane Campbell Moriarty & Valena E. Beety)
Challenging Disability Discrimination in Clinical Algorithms, 53 HASTINGS CTR. REP. (2023) (with Elizabeth Pendo)
Chung-Lun Shen
CIPR Affiliated Faculty and Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor, College of Law, National Chenchi University (Taiwan)
New Evaluation of Patent Infringement in the Cross-Border Divided Transactions-In terms of Patent Economic Value, 25 TUL. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 105 (2023).
Destruction, Proportionality, and Sustainability: A Law-and-Economics Analysis, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-11 (2023), TEXAS INTELL. PROP. L. J. (forthcoming) (with Thomas F. Cotter)
II. Recent Faculty Presentations
- Professor Valena Beety moderated the opening panel of the 2023 Just Data: Advancing the Innocence Movement, titled Innocence Worldwide: Uncovering and Exploring Wrongful Convictions on November 9, 2023.
- Adjunct Prof. Greg Castanias took part in the Members Consultative Group and Adviser’s Meeting for the in-progress Restatement of Copyright Law at the American Law Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 28, 2023.
- Professor Mark Janis participated in the Patent Scholars Roundtable (January 2023, Vanderbilt Law), organized and participated in the Trademark Scholars Roundtable (February 2023, UCLA Law), presented on design patent issues to the US Patent and Trademark Office in March 2023 as part of the Office's External Speaker Series, presented on patent law at Purdue University's Davidson School of Chemical Engineering (September 2023), and presented on trademark law at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (November 2023).
- Professor Michael Mattioli presented at the M3 IP Scholars Workshop for the University of Miami School of Law in May 2023.
- Professor Jennifer D. Oliva presented her research at several conferences recently, including:
- American Public Health Association (APHA) 2023 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, November 12, 2023
- Center for Constitutional Law’s 2023 Constitutional Law Conference: Gender, Health & the Constitution, The University of Akron School of Law, Akron, OH, October 13, 2023
- 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (Eurocrim2023), Palazzo dei Congressi and Palazzo degli Affari, Florence, Italy, Sept. 6, 2023
III. Events
Professor Michael Mattioli hosted the following speakers as part of the IP Colloquium Speaker Series.
- Camilla A. Hrdy – “Beyond Trade Secrecy: Confidentiality Agreements That Act Like Noncompetes”
- Greg Reilly – “Noisy Patented Signals”
- Sarah Rajec – “Pleasure Patents”
- Peter Lee – “Enhancing the Broader Social Impacts of Innovation”
- Laura Pedraza-Fariña – “Polycentric Healthcare Innovation”
Path-to-IP Careers Panel
CIPR and the IP Association welcomed the incoming 1L class by organizing a hybrid panel of practitioners to share their career path experiences in intellectual property law.
Panelists included:
- Mike Young - General Counsel, Roche Diagnostic (Retired)
- Jim Daly - Lead Counsel, Corteva Agriscience
- Debora Pollack-Milgate - Partner, Barnes & Thornburg
- Abe Shanehsaz '14 - Associate Attorney, Faegre Drinker
- Keltie Haley '20 - Associate Attorney, Meitus Gelbert Rose
- Rachael Taylor '20 - Associate Attorney, Frost Brown
IP Practitioner-in-Residence Series
This fall, the Center hosted the following IP Practitioner-in-Residence talks:
- John A. Cleveland Jr, PhD, Esq - General Patent Counsel, Assembly Biosciences joined us to speak about Pharmceutical Patent Practice. CIPR partnered with IU Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry for this talk.
- Clark W. Lackert - Deputy General Counsel, World Trade Center Association joined us to speak about Intellectual Property in Space. Co-sponsored by Maurer's Space Law Society.
- Jeanne M. Gills - Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP shared her expertise, information advice and practical examples from her career working as an IP attorney and in firm management. Co-sponsored by Maurer's chapter of ChIPs.
IP Law Clinic & Patent Connect Program
- Students participating in our IP Law Clinic travelled to Evansville, IN to make a presentation to a group of local entrepreneurs and professors from the University of Southern Indiana and Ivy Tech Community College. The presenation included discussions about intellectual property and the pro bono services available through the IP Law Clinic and PatentConnect programs.
- Our pro bono IP Law Clinic continues to be one of the busiest in the country. In November 2023 alone, three clinic clients received U.S. patents!
IP Theory & Fire of Genius Podcast
- Recently published article by Chitra A. Ram, Associate at Mayer Brown from Volume 13 Issue 1.
- Published Volume 12 Issue 3, featuring notes from 2023 graduates Megan Wheeler, Scott Nolan, and Luke Steffe.
- Fire of Genius podcast recently interviewed Professor Greg Reilly, Kent-Chicago and has released five new episodes.
Name Image Likeness (NIL) at Maurer
Fall 2023's edition of preLaw magazine named Maurer School of Law one of the "20 Most Innovative Law Schools" for the Center's NIL Initiative. The article featured coverage of the program, quotes from Professor Janis, along with photos with IU student athletes and Maurer law students.
Center Director, Mark Janis and IP Law Clinic Director, Norm Hedges visited Memorial Hall and met with IU Athletics to discuss how the IP Clinic's NIL Initiative, which pairs law students under Hedges' supervision with IU student athletes, can better support athletes with navigating their individual NIL deals and the current NIL landscape.
Today's NIL Landscape - A Panel Discussion
Maurer's Sports and Entertainment Society student organization collaborated with CIPR to organize the "Today's NIL Landscape" panel discussion.
Panelists included:
- Jayma Meyer - Visiting Clinical Professor from the Paul H. O’Neill school of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Jeremy Grey - Senior Associate Athletic Director for Strategic Communications
- Tyler Harris - Executive Director of Hoosiers for Good, a charitable NIL nonprofit
Meitus hosts Digital Music Law Panel
Adjunct Professor Robert Meitus '00 moderated and participated in a panel discussion comprised entirely of Maurer alum working in the Music Law industry titled "Practicing Music Law in the Digital Era".
Panelists included:
- Jordan Gutglass ’14 – Senior Counsel, Eisner, Inc.
- Leigh Isaac ’15 – Associate General Counsel, Secretly Group
- Justin Sagnella ’17 – Attorney, Mark Music Law
- Keltie Haley ’20 – Associate Attorney, Meitus Gelbert Rose LLP