The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) will be holding its 2012 MidYear Meeting on June 8-12, 2012 Berkeley, CA. The MidYear Meeting will consist of two workshops, the latter entitled: "Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Bio Law Adapt?" The latter workshop will take place from June 10-12. According to the meeting brochure, the workshop is directed to law teachers interested in intellectual property, internet, and bio law, and will offer presentations on the following topics:
• Keynote: User Innovation as a Challenge to Intellectual Property Paradigms
• Open Innovation Panel
• Commercializing Open Innovations
• Open Biology
• Updating the Regulatory Infrastructure: Domestic Regulatory
• Teaching Biotech
• Gene Patenting Debate -- featuring Patent Docs author Dr. Kevin Noonan of McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert & Berghoff LLP and Daniel Ravicher of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
• Biotech Patents: A Perspective from a Biotech Executive Who Has Been a Venture Capitalist
• Big Data / Evolutionary / Genomics
A schedule for the latter workshop can be found here and a brochure for the workshop, including a program and list of speakers, can be found here.
The registration fee for the workshop is $545 (faculty of member and fee-paid schools) or $645 (faculty of non fee-paid law schools) (discounts are available for those registering by May 3). Those interested in registering for the workshop can do so here.
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