Fordham's 12th Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property Law and Policy

Fordham's 12th Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property Law and Policy analyzed developments in copyright, patent, trademark, design and antitrust/competition law with regard to the European Union, European Patent Office, Asia, Japanese Patent Office, United States, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), World Trade Organization (WTO), and Digital and Information Technology. Topics included the FTC report on competition and patent law, recent case law in the European Court of Justice, the Community Patent, copyright, morality and natural law, the role of bilateral or multilateral free trade agreements, dilution law in the U.S. and EU, the role open source software environments, making patents affordable to SMEs including the role of alternative patent courts, the future of product configuration or shape trademarks in the U.S. and EU, what impact remains in Supreme Court's Sony (Betamax) decision, comparative view of patent infringement judicial models, and initiatives in the EPO, JPO and PTO to harmonize substantive patent law, as well as many more.