Fall 2024 has been an exceptionally busy semester at the Center for Intellectual Property Research. I hope you'll enjoy reading about a few of the semester's highlights in this newsletter.
Mark D. Janis
Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law
Director, Center for Intellectual Property Research
P.S. I hope that you'll attend our second annual Maurer Virtual IP Networking Mixer on Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 at 6pm Eastern, by Zoom. Registration Link
International IP Seminar Colloquium Series
In Fall 2024, Professor Marshall Leaffer hosted several international intellectual property law scholars as part of the IP Colloquium Speaker Series.
Irene Calboli - Texas A&M University School of Law
Niva Elkin-Koren - Tel Aviv University
Tim R. Holbrook - University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Gordon Humphreys - President ad interim, Boards of Appeal, European Union Intellectual Property Office
Scott F. Kieff - George Washington University Law School
Susan Scafidi - Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School
Peter Yu - Texas A&M University School of Law
Path to IP Careers Panel
CIPR and the IP Association once again welcomed the incoming 1L class by organizing a panel of practitioners to share their career path experiences in intellectual property law.
Panelists included:
IP Practitioners-in-Residence Series
Scott Kumis '03, Supervising Attorney Advisor, USPTO
On Tuesday October 22nd, the Center welcomed Scott Kumis, Supervising Attorney Advisor from USPTO and Maurer alumnus, to speak with students. Scott's talk covered his career experiences and included in-depth look at what it is like to be a trademark attorney for the USPTO.
Law & Technology at the Crossroads: A Centennial Summit
In November 2024, the Center collaborated with the Indiana Law Journal to host the symposium Law & Technology at the Crossroads: A Centennial Summit. Symposium papers will be published in 2025 in the centennial volume of the Indiana Law Journal, along with contributions from several Maurer faculty who study the intersection of law and technology.
Jorge L. Contreras - University of Utah
Ashley Deeks (keynote speaker) - University of Virginia Law School
Niva Elkin-Koren - Tel Aviv University
Amy C. Gaudion - Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law School
Johanna Gunawan - Maastricht University
Peter Henderson - Princeton University (writing with Mark A. Lemley)
Mark D. Janis - Maurer School of Law
Jennifer D. Oliva - Maurer School of Law
Scott Shackelford - IU Kelley School of Business & IU Ostrom Workshop (writing with Janine Hiller, Christos Makridis, Iain Nash, Kathryn Kisska-Schulze, Hannibal Travis)
Michal Shur-Ofry - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joe Tomain - Maurer School of Law
Profs. Janis and Hedges, in collaboration with Purdue University Professor Karen Marais (Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Associate Head for Undergraduate Education), taught an innovative seminar on Space Law in Fall 2024 to a combined group of IU Maurer students and upper-level Purdue engineering students. Prof. Janis delivered content on legal aspects of space activities while Prof. Marais and her students led discussions on the technical aspects of spaceflight. Maurer and Purdue students worked as teams to analyze challenging discussion problems on issues such as the legal obligations for astronaut rescue, proposals to establish safety zones in conjunction with future lunar surface operations, and many others. Maurer students also produced research papers on space law topics.
Guest lectures during the semester included:
Support for this ambitious and novel collaboration, the first of its kind between Maurer and Purdue Engineering, was provided by Maurer's Leon Wallace Teaching Innovation Grant.
Another great example of how CIPR is partnering with Purdue on opportunities to collaborate is the relationship Professors Janis and Hedges are building with Professor Beth Hess (Associate Professor of Engineering Practice) and her Mechanical Engineering ME463: Senior Design class.
In the spring 2024 semester, students from Professor Janis' Advanced Patent Law class teamed up with students from Professor Hess' ME463 Senior Design class as part of a unique pilot program. Meeting with their Purdue counterparts over Zoom, “IU Maurer students introduced Purdue ME students to patent law and Purdue ME students introduced IU Maurer students to the engineering design process, with both learning how the two are intertwined,” noted Professor Hedges, who designed the protocols for the IU/Purdue student interactions. Professors Hedges and Don Knebel, along with Allison Strong '22 (IP Attorney, Nixon Peabody) and Matthew Spegele '22 (Associate, Faegre Drinker), mentored the IU Maurer student teams.
Full story:
Purdue Engineers and IU Maurer Law students team up on innovations
This successful collaboration continues in the 2024-2025 academic year under the auspices of the IP Clinic, led by Professor Hedges
Publications
Fire of Genius Podcasts
IP Law Clinic and Patent Connect Program
We are excited to announce our Intellectual Property Association Executive Board Members:
This year's IPA has headcount of over 60 members!
IP Association organized a variety of activities during the fall 2024 semester including the following:
ChIPs at Maurer
The student group at Maurer for Chiefs in Intellectual Property (ChIPs) was excited to have the opportunity to participate in some events with the Indy ChIPs chapter early in the fall.
ChIPs Maurer has many exciting things plans for spring 2025!
1L Students Visit Indy IP Firms
In November, 12 Maurer students, most of whom are 1Ls with interest in pursuing careers in intellectual property law, visited downtown Indy firms Barnes & Thornburg LLP and Faegre Drinker. Joined by CSO Senior Director Kate Caldwell and new CSO Employer Relations Director Randi Edmonds, students were given tours and participated in panel activities which allowed ample time for interaction with IP attorneys, several of whom are Maurer alumni. Special thanks to both Barnes & Thornburg and Faegre Drinker for hosting our students!
IP Moot Court Updates
Maurer students are preparing for the following Moot Court competitions:
Please join us is in wishing them all the best of luck with their competitions which take place throughout the spring semester!
Student Spotlights
3L Karlie Hinton's IP world travels began with a 1L summer abroad in Thailand with Tilleke & Gibbons through the Stewart Fellows program. She was excited to apply again for a semester abroad in the Fall 2024, this time at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. At Trinity, she has focused on EU Intellectual Property Law, taking elective courses in National Security and Privacy law. She has used the time to travel around Ireland and parts of Europe. We can't wait to see you back in January, Karlie!
3L Jeffrey Greenbaum presented his paper "When Should Training an AI Model Prevail as Fair Use Under Andy Warhol?" at the Eighth Annual Texas A&M Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable on November 9th. Jeff's paper is forthcoming in the University of Oklahoma Law Review.
2L Kaitlyn Ross is using her spare time to inspire Girl Scouts to be inventors and maybe even law students. For several years, Kaitlyn, herself once a participant in the Girl Scout program, has volunteered her time as youth leader for local Bloomington Scout Troop #01900. Last summer, Kaitlyn learned about the Girl Scouts' Intellectual Property Patch, which was developed as a joint partnership between the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital (GSCNC) and the USPTO and in collaboration with the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Education Foundation She reached out to the organization, began to set up the curriculum and on October 24th, her troop of 9-10 year olds completed activities and steps necessary to earn their IP Patch. Great job Kaitlyn for sharing IP with the next generation! Congratulations Troop #01900 for your newest patch!
Joe Garloch recently published his paper "Liablity for The Lobbyist: How Corporate Oversight Can Quell Dissident Lobbying Efforts In the Realm of Climate Change" in Volume 26, Number 1 of Transactions: the Tennessee Journal for Business Law.
Qixuan (Vanessa) Wang's article "Protecting Inventions in Outer Space: Understanding the Loopholes and Guarding Against Them" was published in IndustryWeek. Vanessa's interest in the intersection of space innovation and intellectual property began during her time as a student at Maurer.
Presentation:
25th Anniversary CSU Criminal Justice Forum (keynote speaker) Cleveland State University College of Law (October 2024)
Adjunct Professor Greg Castanias and Anneli Kawaoka ‘24 (both acting in their capacities as lawyers for Jones Day) filed a brief amicus curiae for Medtronic plc and Advanced Medical Technology Association in the pending Federal Circuit en banc case EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC.
Publications:
Relative and Absolute Patentability, 59 Wake Forest L. Rev. 641 (2024) (with Holbrook)
Design Patent Infringement as Unfair Competition, 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. ---(forthcoming 2025)
Design Patent Law’s Three Little Words, 100 Ind. L.J. --- (forthcoming 2025)
Presentations:
Patent Scholars Roundtable (discussant) Vanderbilt Law (January 2024)
Panel Discussion on LKQ (moderator), AIPLA Webinar (February 2024)
Design Patent Infringement as Unfair Competition, Chicago-Kent IP Colloquium (February 2024, virtual)
IP for Engineers, Purdue Univ. (February 2024)
Trademark Scholars Roundtable (organizer), UNLV Law (February 2024)
Rocky Mountain IP Workshop (discussant), University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law (October 2024)
Design Law Symposium, Washington, D.C. (October 2024)
Publication:
Understanding Copyright Law, 8th ed. (Carolina Academic Press 2024)
Op-Ed: Michael Mattioli, The Expensive Push to Create Humanlike AI Is Wasted Effort, Chi. Trib. (May 30, 2024), https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/30/opinion-artificial-intelligence-ai-human-mimicry/.
Opinion Letter: Michael Mattioli, Chatbot Therapy, N.Y. Times (May 27, 2024), https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/opinion/supreme-court-south-carolina-gerrymander.html?searchResultPosition=1#link-29738263.
Presentation:
2024 Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (presenter), UC Berkeley School of Law (August 2024)
Publications:
Regulating Health Care Coverage Algorithms, 100 Ind. L.J. (forthcoming 2025)
Decriminalizing Cannabis, 134 Yale L.J. F. (forthcoming 2024/2025)
Disability Discrimination by Clinical Algorithm, 103 N.C. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024/2025) (with Elizabeth Pendo)
The Same Old “New” Drug War, Harvard Inquest (forthcoming 2024) (invited)
The “New” Drug War, 110 Va. L. Rev. 1103 (2024) (with Taleed El-Sabawi)
Expecting Medication Surveillance, 93 Fordham L. Rev. 509 (2024)
Challenging Disability Discrimination in the Clinical Use of PDMP Algorithms, 54 Hastings Ctr. Rep. 3 (2024) (with Elizabeth Pendo)
Reforming Clinical Trial Pregnancy Exclusions, 15 ConLawNOW 87 (2024) (invited)
Pozen on Prosocial Drug Use, Balkinization (May 5, 2024) (invited for publication in the Balkinization Symposium: David Pozen, The Constitution on the War on Drugs)
Presentations:
Mizzou Health Law Colloquium (presenter), University of Missouri School of Law (October 2024, virtual)
Health Law & Policy Seminar (presenter) University of California College of Law (October 2024, virtual)
The Salk Institute & American Law Institute (presenter) The Salk Institute (September 2024)
International Academy of Law and Mental Health (ILMH) XXXVIIIth Congress (presenter) in Barcelona, Spain (July 2024)
47th Annual Health Law Professors Conference (presenter) Temple University Beasley School of Law (June 2024)
Evidence Summer Workshop (discussant) Vanderbilt University School of Law (May 2024)
University of Washington School of Law Shefelman Faculty Colloquia Series (presenter) University of Washington School of Law (May 2024)
Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence 2024 (presenter) Emory University School of Law (April 2024)
2024 Annual St. Louis University School of Law Health Law Symposium (presenter) St Louis University School of Law (February 2024)
Fordham Law Review 2024 Symposium – Drug Law for the 21 Century: Learning from 50 Years of DEA Led Public Health Policy (presenter) Fordham Law School (February 2024)
2024 AALS Annual Conference (January 2024):
