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The Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property hosted its fifth annual Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable at 91制片厂 Law in November 2015. This annual event highlights research and scholarship by law professors from around the country, and students are encouraged to attend. The sixth annual IP Scholars Roundtable will take place at 91制片厂 Law on听October 7 and 8, 2016.

The roundtable's intimate size and casual format make the event a perfect environment for innovative ideas, fresh viewpoints, and collaboration that enables all who participate to better serve our students and peers.

Among the presenters last fall:

of Suffolk University Law School presented her legal history-infused paper, 鈥淭ransactional Origins of Authors鈥� Rights.鈥� Shontavia Johnson of Drake University Law School presented her forthcoming article, 鈥淏RANDED: Trademark Tattoos, Slave Owner Brands and the Right to Have 鈥楩ree鈥� Skin,鈥� which addressed issues including copyright, trademark, and the Thirteenth Amendment. of Pepperdine University School of Law discussed privacy risk-taking and corporate culture in 鈥淐orporate Privacy Failures Start at the Top.鈥� 91制片厂 Law鈥檚 presented his work in progress, 鈥淪ecrets and Information Security in the Age of Sports Analytics,鈥� which forms the basis for a chapter in a forthcoming Sports Law handbook from Oxford University Press. of Boston College Law School provoked lively discussion about parallels between trademark infringement and battery with 鈥淭he Intentional Tort of Trademark Infringement.鈥� Greg Reilly of California Western School of Law presented his work, 鈥淒ecoupling Patent Law.鈥� of 91制片厂 Law closed out the first day with her project on hashtags as trademarks, entitled 鈥淭agmarks.鈥�

of the University of Baltimore School of Law opened the proceedings during the second day with his provocative paper, 鈥淩azing the Patent Bar.鈥� He was followed by W. Nicholson Price II of 91制片厂 Law, who presented an overview of his significant project addressing 鈥淧atent Failures on Life Science Frontiers.鈥� of the College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law considered corporate nicknames and reclaimed disparaging terms in presenting her project on 鈥淣aming and Reclaiming.鈥� of the University of Miami School of Law presented his project on 鈥淩isky IP.鈥澨齋ean O鈥機onnor of the University of Washington School of Law closed the program with his paper, 鈥淐opyright as Incentive for Publication, not Creation.鈥澨�

Speakers offered feedback on one another鈥檚 projects. Thoughtful commentary on the presentations was also provided by of the University of Toledo College of Law, Ralph D. Clifford of the University of Massachusetts School of Law, and Christopher Frerking and of 91制片厂 Law, where Frerking is the director of the Patent Practice and Procedure Program and Bartow is the director of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property.