News and Events
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Patent Clinic Celebrates Five Years
SBLC’s patent clinic continues to provide vital legal services to Oregon’s small businesses and trains the next generation of lawyers.
Law Student Receives National Intellectual Property Writing Award
Stuart Leijon ’21 wins national intellectual property writing award for his paper on data privacy.
CBLI Hosts Successful Data Mapping Event
The Center for Business Law and Innovation hosts Maitreya Jani at a February data mapping event.
Small Business Legal Clinic Expands Its Patent Program with Education and Patent Filings
The Small Business Legal Clinic (SBLC) has been working to educate entrepreneurs on patents to protect their unique products as well as filing patent applications for clients.
Professor Lydia Loren Publishes Fifth Edition of Copyright Casebook
Professor Lydia Loren has just released the fifth edition of her casebook- Copyright in a Global Information Economy. This edition provides both comprehensive topic coverage and integrated treatment of doctrinal, theoretical, international, and policy questions.
Jie Lian ‘20 Receives National Intellectual Property Award
The American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation (AIPLEF) Jan Jancin Selection Committee named Jie Lian ’20 to receive the prestigious Jan Jancin Award for his passion for learning, leadership in intellectual property (IP) related activities, professionalism, and commitment to IP law.
CJ Fuenzalida Awarded National Fellowship in Intellectual Property Law
CJ Fuenzalida, a second-year law student at Lewis & Clark Law School, is one of 30 law students selected for the national fellowship from the Hispanic Bar National Association’s Intellectual Property Law Institute (IPLI). Co-sponsored by Microsoft, the highly competitive fellowship funds students’ participation in IPLI’s IP Law immersion program.
Business Law Program to Host Annual IP Fall Forum September 28
Co-sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Oregon State Bar, the Business Law Fall Forum, “The Procedure of IP,” will take place from 8:30am to 6pm on Friday, September 28 at the Lewis & Clark Law School campus.
Profile of a Patent Law Attorney: Alum Aruna Ghatak-Roy ’12
Ghatak-Roy works at the firm Conley Rose, P.C. in Austin, TX.
It’s “Fair Use Week”! Read copyright law professor Lydia Loren’s guest blog
Professor Lydia Loren guest blogs for Authors Alliance during “Fair Use Week”
Lewis & Clark gets “A” grades for IP and environmental law programs
In the Winter 2016 preLaw magazine, Lewis & Clark was given “A” ratings for its program offerings in intellectual property and environmental law.
Listen: “Week in Health Law” podcast featuring professor Anna Laakmann
Professor Anna Laakmann, who teaches intellectual property and health law, participates in The Week in Health Law Podcast discussing the interplay between FDA regulation and IP law, and physician liability for clinical innovation. The Week in Health Law Podcast is a commuting-length discussion about some of the more thorny issues in Health Law & Policy.
Gómez-Arostegui receives award for article on legal history
At the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History in Washington DC, Tomás Gómez-Arostegui received the 2015 Sutherland Prize for his article, Copyright at Common Law in 1774, 47 Conn. L. Rev. (2014).
NYT publishes Anna Laakmann’s opinion on data sharing of genomic information
NYT publishes Anna Laakmann’s opinion on data sharing of genomic informationNinth Circuit cites Professor Loren in copyright decision
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important copyright ruling recently holding that before a copyright owner sends a “takedown” notice of something posted on the internet, the copyright owner must consider the fair use rights of an individual who posted it. In the opinion, the court cited an article written by Intellectual Property Law Professor Lydia Loren. - EVENTS
Past Events
Ryan Calo
Law and Technology in Theory and Practice
Melissa Feeney Wasserman
Deadlines vs. Continuous Incentives: Evidence from the Patent Office
Business of IP: Jeff Hegedus, Skydance Television
Our first speaker for this year’s Business of IP series is Jeff Hegedus, Executive Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for Skydance Television (https://skydance.com). He will speak about the day-to-day work of an entertainment lawyer and how he began and developed his career over the years. A lawyer with over 20 years experience in entertainment and intellectual-property law, Jeff previously worked at Sony Pictures Television, Paramount Television, Hulu, ABC Studios, and O’Melveny & Myers. Jeff earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Irvine and his law degree from the University of Southern California.
