[Reposted from IIT Chicago-Kent IP News]
The Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property (CESIP) at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law is proud to report the recent success of its roundtable conference on empirical IP scholarship, featuring discussions of more than a dozen early stage research projects currently being developed by the participants.
The roundtable was co-hosted with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. CESIP co-directors Christopher Buccafusco and David Schwartz organized the event with the USPTO’s acting chief economist, Alan Marco, and the USPTO’s expert advisor, Saurabh Vishnubhakat. The roundtable took place at Chicago-Kent on October 11-12, 2013.
The projects represented an interdisciplinary range of empirical methods, including econometric data analyses, experiments, surveys and qualitative studies. The research questions involved a wide variety of legal issues in patent, copyright and trademark law.
The roundtable participants included:
- David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania
- Kenworthey Bilz, University of Illinois
- Christopher Buccafusco, IIT Chicago-Kent
- Christopher Cotropia, Richmond University
- Peter DiCola, Northwestern University
- Michael Frakes, Cornell University
- William Gallagher, Golden Gate University
- Deborah Gerhardt, University North Carolina
- Stu Graham, Georgia Tech
- Richard Gruner, John Marshall Law School
- Christi Guerrini, IIT Chicago-Kent
- Jay Kesan, University of Illinois
- Edward Lee, IIT Chicago-Kent
- Ben Liu, John Marshall Law School
- Alan Marco, USPTO
- Michael Palmedo, American University
- Menesh Patel, Sidley Austin
- Lee Petherbridge, Loyola University–Los Angeles
- Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa
- Matt Sag, Loyola University Chicago
- Christopher Seaman, Washington & Lee University
- Andrew Torrance, University of Kansas
- David Schwartz, IIT Chicago-Kent
- Melissa Wasserman, University of Illinois
CESIP and the USPTO plan to continue hosting these events in the future. Please check out the CESIP website at www.kentlaw.iit.edu/cesip for more information.
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