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Spring 2012
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CASRIP graduates |
Please join us this summer as we celebrate the Center for
on Intellectual Property’s (CASRIP) 20th Anniversary and the Graduate Program
in Intellectual Property Law and Policy’s (IP LL.M.) 10th Anniversary! The
celebration activities will coincide with the annual
High Technology Protection Summit on July 27 and 28.
We will have a special Anniversary lunch on Friday, a reception hosted by Seed IP
on Friday evening, and a scholarship symposium on Saturday. You can also pick up
a limited edition hard copy of the Judge Rader Festschrift, a special symposium
edition of the Washington Journal of
Law, Technology & Arts honoring Judge Rader’s contributions to intellectual
property law and practice, our special anniversary brochure, and an anniversary
water bottle. All of us in the Law, Technology & Arts Group look forward to celebrating
these significant milestones!
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The University of Washington School of Law's intellectual property law program is now ranked as the 15th best in the U.S. according to the 2013 edition of Best Graduate Schools by U.S. News Media Group (U.S. News & World Report). U.S. News also ranked UW Law as the 20th best law school in the U.S. and 7th best among public law schools. According to Professor Bob Gomulkiewicz, Faculty Director of the Law, Technology & Arts Group: "The U.S. News ranking recognizes UW Law's leadership in IP legal education with one of the world's most respected IP LL.M. programs and the CASRIP Summer Institute and High Tech Summit. We are excited to be training the next generation of leaders in intellectual property law."
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LTA Welcomes Executive Director Scott David
Scott David, formerly a K&L Gates partner whose primary practice is in technology
transactions and data protection, has joined UW Law as the Executive Director of
the Law, Technology & Arts Group, effective June 1. Adding Scott to our team
allows LTA to undertake new initiatives, form new partnerships, and build on the
many current successful LTA programs to advance UW Law as a national and global
leader at the intersection of law, technology and arts.
Scott’s involvement in the law, technology, and arts arena is impressive and
we are excited to welcome him to lead LTA to the next level. He has been active
in the World Economic Forum (Davos), Identity Commons, ABA Cyberspace Committee,
and Dorkbot (technology/arts organization) among other activities. He has also served
as an external board member of the Law, Technology and Arts Journal since 2008.
His leadership at K&L Gates included chairing the Professional Development Committee,
the Retention and Recruitment Task Force, and the Compensation Committee.
Scott received his J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown in 1985 and an LL.M. in
Taxation from New York University in 1990. Scott’s practice has focused on
intellectual property and technology counseling and transactions, and he has become
a leading expert in these areas nationally and internationally. Scott was a partner
at K&L Gates (formerly Preston, Gates & Ellis) since 1992. Prior to joining
K&L Gates, he was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York.
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LTA Faculty Receive Named Professorships
LTA Faculty Director
Bob Gomulkiewicz has been named a Washington Law Foundation
Professor, one of two new professorships created by the Washington Law School Foundation.
Anita Ramasastry, formerly the D. Wayne and Anne Gittinger Professor, has also been
named a Washington Law Foundation Professor.
Toshiko Takenaka continues to serves
as the Hunter Simpson/Washington Research Foundation Professor and Jane Winn as
a Charles Stone Professor.
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Winn Leads IP Workshops in China and India
In 2011, the Asian Law Center received a grant from Microsoft to support collaboration
between UW Law School faculty members interested in intellectual property issues
and our counterparts in India and China. This new program builds on the 50 year
history in the Asian Law Center of collaboration between UW Law School and law schools
throughout Asia. During the first year, three visiting scholars from Asia each spent
one month in Seattle: Professor Zhang Guangliang from Renmin University Law School
in Beijing, Professor Wang Qian from East China University of Politics and Law in
Shanghai and Professor Shamnad Basheer from West Bengal National University of Juridical
Sciences in Kolkata.
In November 2011, Professor Jane Winn and Professor Zhang Guangliang hosted the
first of a series of workshops focused on teaching IPR in Asia at Renmin University.
During the workshop, the relationship between learning theory and curriculum design
were discussed as well as the scope of issues covered in IPR courses in China. Authors
of innovative teaching materials currently in use in China demonstrated their use
to colleagues.
In March 2012, Professor Jane Winn, Professor Shamnad Basheer and Professor Srikrishna
Deva Rao from the National Law University-Delhi hosted the second workshop in the
series and the first in India. During the workshop, trends in IP legal education
in India were discussed. Presentations on innovative approaches to teaching IP in
the US were followed by breakout session discussions on how innovations in IP teaching
in India could be disseminated more broadly.
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Intellectual Property Inn of Court Hosted at UW Faculty Club
Since its inception, the University of Washington and LTA have hosted the Seattle
Intellectual Property American Inn of Court at the University Club on the UW campus.
The IP Inn is a unique organization designed to foster professionalism, mentoring,
and education of intellectual property litigators. Based upon an English model of
mentoring, the membership of the Inn form groups called “pupilages”
that combine a range of experience from Students to “Barristers” and
“Masters.” The Inn meets one night a month at the Faculty Club for dinner
where one group is responsible for that night’s educational program. Past
programs have included interactive discussions with patent judges, mock Supreme
Court arguments, and game show contests. The Seattle chapter of the IP Inn is more
than 100 members strong and meets the third Thursday of the month. LTA Associate
Director Signe Naeve was a founding member of the Seattle IP Inn and LTA Faculty
Director Bob Gomulkiewicz was an inaugural member.
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UW Students Argue Patent Infringement in Rome, Italy
Rome may be famous for its history and culture, but intellectual property took center
stage this past spring break when the University of Roma Tre hosted the sixth annual
Transnational IP Program, uniting students from six schools and 15 countries. The
students attend a series of comparative law lectures, but the highlight is always
the mock trial at the culmination of the program. This year, the students presented
contributory patent infringement arguments to Judge Muscolo of the IP Court in Rome,
Italy, Judge Sharon Prost from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
and Justice Klaus Grabinski of the Federal Supreme Court of Germany.
The Program is run by Professor Toshiko Takenaka and the Center for Advanced Study
and Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP) as a part of the Law, Technology
& Arts (LTA) Group in collaboration with its European partner schools and adjunct
faculty. Many UW students who have attended the past programs developed strong bonds
with their mock trial team members expanding their global IP network.
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UW Students Advance at Giles Rich Moot Court Competition 
UW Law students Liz Hagan and Bryan Russell reached the quarter-finals of
the regional Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition held in Palo
Alto, CA. The Giles Rich competition is organized by the American Intellectual Property
Law Association and is the most prestigious appellate advocacy competition with
an intellectual property focus. Finalists for the local competition were Marlena
Grundy-Dietzway and Janice Goh and semi-finalists were Ryan Baker and Tim Billick.
Samuel Webb and Yury Colton from Stoel Rives taught the IP Appellate Advocacy class
that prepared the students for the local competition, hosted the local competition,
and coached the regional competition team. The class and competition have been a
great experience for the students, and in particular, they would like to thank Sam
and Yury for their efforts.
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LTA Associate Director Signe Naeve chaired the third annual Trademark Scholarship
Symposium at the 134th annual meeting of the International Trademark Association
(INTA) in Washington, D.C. The Symposium presents a workshop environment for authors
of trademark scholarship works-in-progress to receive valuable feedback from both
academics and practitioners. Naeve presented her own work at the first Trademark
Scholarship Symposium and then became a member of the Professor Committee and began
running the Scholarship Symposium.
Professor Toshiko Takenaka also attended INTA this year where she and Naeve hosted
a joint reception with LTA friends and colleagues from the George Washington University
Law School. The reception provided a wonderful opportunity to stay connected with
supporters and alums either visiting or permanently located in the D.C. area.
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USPTO Director David Kappos presented the keynote address at the Western Washington
Intellectual Property Institute, Co-Chaired by outgoing Washington State Bar Association
IP Section leader Signe Naeve. The IP Institute is a popular CLE where Washington
IP lawyers learn recent developments in the annual year-in-review presentations
and can explore other hot topics such as fashion design, technology transfer, and
litigation forum shopping. This year Naeve presented the Copyright Year in Review
at the IP Institute.
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Robert Gomulkiewicz
Enforcing Open
Source Software Licenses: The MDY Trio's Inconvenient Complications,
14 Yale J. L. & Tech. 106 (2011)
Intellectual Property,
Innovation, and the Future: Toward a Better Model for Educating Leaders in Intellectual
Property Law, 64 SMU L.
Rev. 1161 (2011)
2011 Cumulative Supplement, Intellectual
Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law & Practice (with
Nguyen & Conway)
Signe Naeve
Chair, Third Annual INTA Trademark Scholarship Symposium, 134th Annual
Meeting, May 2012 (Washington, D.C.)
Chair, Washington State Bar Association Intellectual Property Section’s
17th Annual Western Washington Intellectual Property Law Institute, March
2012 (Seattle, WA)
Copyright Year in Review, Washington State Bar Association
Intellectual Property Section’s 17th Annual Western Washington
Intellectual Property Law Institute, March 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Copyright Law for College Journalists, Associated Collegiate
Press National College Journalism Convention, March 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Sean O’Connor
The Aftermath of Stanford v. Roche: Which Law of Assignments Governs?
24 Intell. Prop. J. 29 (2011)
The Impact of Stanford v. Roche on Technology Licensing under Bayh-Dole,
47 Procurement Law 5
(Winter 2012) (with James G. McEwen, Susan Warshaw Ebner, and John E. McCarthy,
Jr.)
Practical Implications of Stanford v. Roche for Ownership
of University Inventions, Biotech Briefing
(2011) (ABA Section of Science & Technology Law, Biotechnology Law Committee)
Revisiting Legal Personhood: Corporate Speech, Authorship, and Inventorship,
Seattle University School of Law, Adolf A. Berle, Jr., Center on Law, Corporations
& Society, Third Annual Symposium, January 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Teaching Biotech, Association of American Law Schools, Mid-Year
Meeting, Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Biolaw
Adapt?, June 2012 (Berkeley, CA)
Speech, Authorship, and Inventorship: A New Approach to Corporate Personhood,
Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting and 2012 International Conference on
Law and Society, June 2012 (Honolulu, HI)
Discussant, Law and Entrepreneurship: Legal Infrastructure and Advising Entrepreneurs,
Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting and 2012 International Conference on
Law and Society, June 2012 (Honolulu, HI)
Hub Firms, Network Orchestration, and Growth in Technology Industries,
Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Economic Growth: Costs, Causes,
and Effects, May 2012 (Squaw Valley, CA)
Speech, Authorship, and Inventorship: A New Approach to Corporate Personhood,
Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Innovation, Economic Growth and
Human Behavior, May 2012 (Squaw Valley, CA)
Speech, Authorship, and Inventorship: A New Approach to Corporate Personhood,
University of Oregon School of Law, Faculty Colloquium, May 2012 (Eugene, OR)
Revisiting Legal Personhood: Corporate Speech, Authorship, and Inventorship,
Seattle University School of Law, Adolf A. Berle, Jr., Center on Law, Corporations
& Society, Third Annual Symposium, January 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Anita Ramasastry
Transnational Corporations and the Incongruity of Their Rights and Responsibilities
under International Law, University of Washington, College of Arts
and Sciences, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Cosmopolitan Rights and Responsibilities,
May 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Human Trafficking 101: Efforts to Unify State Law, University
of Washington School of Law and Seattle University School of Law, Human Trafficking,
Forced Labor and Corporate Responsibility, May 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Corporate Accountability for Overseas Activities: Lessons from Civil Litigation
in the United States, National University of Ireland Galway School
of Law and Irish Centre for Human Rights, Ireland and the United Nations Framework
for Business and Human Rights, March 2012 (Galway, Ireland)
The Future of Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations in the United
States: Kiobel, the Ruggie Framework and other Emerging Trends, Lewis
& Clark Law School, Global Law Lecture, March 2012 (Portland, OR)
Electronic Transactions and Electronic Commerce, U.S. Department
of Commerce and National College of Judicial Studies (Egypt), March 2012 (Cairo,
Egypt)
Putting the Business and Human Rights Agenda in Context: Lessons from the
Anti-Corruption Sphere, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, the South African
Institute of International Affairs, the University of Johannesburg, and the University
of Hong Kong Law Faculty, The “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework:
Charting a Future or Taking the Wrong Turn for Business and Human Rights?, January
2012 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Licensing & Contracts in Post-Gaddafi Libya, Libya Transparency
Roundtable, December 2011 (Tripoli, Libya)
Moderator, Is Corruption Hampering Asia’s Development? If So, What Can
Be Done to Stop It?, Asia Society, Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit: Worlds Apart
Together: Shared Values for an Asia-Pacific Community, November 2011 (New Delhi,
India)
Zahr Said
Incorporating Literary Methods and Texts in Teaching Tort Law3
Calif. L. Rev. Circuit 170 (2012)
Incorporating Literary Methods and Texts in Teaching Tort Law, Panel on
Pedagogical Approaches to the Humanities in Law Schools, AALS, January
2012 (Washington, D.C. )
Copyright in Characters: A Literary Perspective, Whittier
College of Law, March 2012 (Costa Mesa, CA )
Copyright in Characters: A Literary Perspective, IP
in the Trees Series, Lewis & Clark Law School, April 2012 (Portland, OR)
Rob Merges’s Justifying Intellectual Property, Notre
Dame Law School, Symposium, April 2012 (Notre Dame, IN)
Toshiko Takenaka
Patent Practice in Japan and Europe: Liber Amiconrum for Guntram Rahn, Bernd
Hansen & Dick Schuessler-Langeheine, 34
Eur. Intell. Prop. Rev. 135 (2012)
Exercise of Patent Rights Under Japanese Anti-Monopoly Prevention Law: A Comparative
Law Perspective, Caggiano et al ed, Competition Law and Intellectual
Property: A European Perspective, 285 (2012)
Has the United States Adopted a First-To-File System Through America Invents
Act: A Comparative Law Analysis of Patent Priority Under First-Inventor-To-File,
2012 GRUR Int’l (No. 4) 304 (2012)
Harmony with the rest of the world? The America Invents Act, J. Intell. Prop. L. & Prac. 4 (2012)
A Special Rule for Compound Protection for DNA-sequences – Impact of the ECJ
“Monsanto” decision on Patent Practice, 93
J. Patent Off. and Copyright Soc’y 189 (2011) (with Krauss)
Merging Civil and Common Law Traditions in the Patent Validity Challenge System:
Japanese Experiences, Goetting & Schuester ed, Nourriture de l’esprit,
Festschrift for Prof. Dieter Stauder, 271 (2011)
Has the United States Adopted a First-To-File System?: A Comparative Law Study of
First-Inventor-To-File System, L. &
Tech. No. 64, 29 (2011)
Recent IP Developments in the United States, Takabayashi, Mimura &
Takenaka ed, 2011 I.P. Annual Report 128 (2011)
Roundtable Discussions on Current Issues in Intellectual Property, 2011 I.P. Annual
Report 1 (2011)
American Invents Act and Its Impact on Global Patent Harmonization,
Japan Patent Office, March 2012 (Tokyo, Japan)
Panelist, Balancing Competing Policies which Relate to Medical Patents,
Patent and Public Policy Conference, Meiji University, March 2012 (Tokyo, Japan)
Moderator, Patent Infringement Remedies at District Courts and ITC, Waseda
RCLIP, March 2012 (Tokyo, Japan)
Employee Invention Systems: Comparative Law Analysis, Santa Clara
University Law School, High Tech Institute, January 2011 (Santa Clara, CA)
Jane Winn
2011 Cumulative Supplement, The Law of
Electronic Commerce (4th ed. 2002) (with Wright)
Globalization, Legal Pluralism, and Islamic Law: Self-Regulation in Islamic Finance
and Halal Products, Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting and 2012
International Conference on Law and Society, June 2012 (Honolulu, HI)
Governance challenges to the development of global Information technology standards
for cross-border mobile money services, Mobile Money in Developing Countries:
Financial Inclusion and Financial Integrity, University of Washington School of
Law, April 2012 (Seattle, WA)
Innovations in US Law School Teaching Methods and Materials, at
Innovations in IPR Teaching Methods and Materials Workshop, Tsinghua University
School of Law, April 2012 (Beijing, China)
Recent Developments in Electronic Payments Law, NACHA Payments 2012, April
2012 (Baltimore MD)
Innovations in US Law School Teaching Methods and Materials, at
Innovations in IPR Teaching Methods and Materials Workshop, National Law University,
Dwarka 14, March 2012 (New Delhi, India)
Trust Framework Models, RSA Computer Security Annual Conference,
March 2012 (San Francisco, CA)
Buying Fairness, Michigan Intellectual Property Workshop, University
of Michigan School of Law, February 2012 (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Teaching Contract Drafting with Contracts Filed in SEC EDGAR Database, CALI Annual
Meeting, June 22, 2012 (San Diego, CA)
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