The John Marshall Law School Review of Intellectual Property Law (RIPL) will be holding its 5th Annual RIPL Symposium from 9 am to 5 pm on November 8, 2013 at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL. The symposium, which will focus on "The Intersection of IP and Public Health," will examine the role that IP should play in affordable health care. In particular, the Symposium will offer presentations on the following topics:
• A Scientific
Approach to IP: Innovation, Access, and a Forgotten Corner of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
• Regulatory
Competitive Shelters in the Regulation of Biomedical Technologies
• Patenting
Identities: The Other Side of Myriad
• Drugged Out: How
Cognitive Bias Hurts Drug Innovation
• Social Justice
Meets Property Law: Realigning Patent Law's Asymmetric Contour in Novartis v. Union of India & Others
• Pinwheel of
Fortune
• Adopting
Pharmacogenomics and Parenting Repurposed Molecules under the Orphan Drug Act:
A Cost Dilemma
• Patenting Drugs
in Canada: Differences and Dividing Lines North and South of the Border
• Analyzing Trade
Agreements' Effects on Access to Medicine in Jordan
• Implementing and
Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights In West Africa
In addition, Patent Docs author Kevin Noonan will be presenting on reverse payment agreements. A reception will follow the Symposium. An agenda for the Symposium can be found here.
Those interested in registering for the symposium online can do so here; the registration fee is $50 (general registration); there is no charge for current John Marshall students and faculty.
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