Stanford Law Review will be holding its 2011 Symposium, entitled "The Future of Patents: Bilski and Beyond," on January 28-29, 2011. The Symposium, which is co-sponsored by the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, will explore the effect of the Bilski case and other recent court decisions on research and innovation in areas ranging from business methods and software development to genetic engineering and diagnostic patents. Separate panel discussions will cover the following topics:
Panel on Patent Law and Policy
• Life after Bilski
• Forty Years of Wondering in the Wilderness and No Closer to the Promised Land: Bilski's Superficial Textualism and the Missed Opportunity to Ground Patent Law Interpretation and Return Patent Law to its Technology Mooring
Panel on Products of Nature and Diagnostic Patents
• From Bilski Back to Benson: Preemption, Inventing Around, and The Case of Genetic Diagnostics
• Whose Body Is It Anyway? Human Cells and the Strange Effects of Property & Intellectual Property Law
Panel on Software and Business Methods:
• Why Business Method Patents?
The Hon. James Ware of the Northern District of California will provide a keynote speech on January 28.
Additional information about the Symposium, including a schedule and list of speakers can be found here. Registration for the event is complimentary, but required. Those interested in registering for the Symposium can do so here.
Man, it almost sounds like these people have their heads screwed on straight.
Perhaps there is some hope for you lawlyers after all.
Posted by: 6 | January 17, 2011 at 12:34 PM