MIPLC Lecture Series

Initiated in 2005, MIPLC Lecture Series invites renowned scholars and practitioners from all over the world to give presentation on current issues of intellectual property law.

The lectures are organized with the kind support of and hosted at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law. They are aimed at the interested IP community and are open to the public.

Please email us if you would like to be added to our distribution list or if you would like to propose a topic for a lecture. We look forward to hearing from you.

The following lectures were held in the context of our Lecture Series:


Year	Topic	Speaker
2012	The Misappropriation of Trade Secrets in Germany and U.S. Discovery Aid Download the Slides for this presentation	Dr. Friedrich Klinkert, Klinkert Zindel Partner
2012	Experimental Tests of Creativity and Innovation in Intellectual Property	Christopher Buccafusco, IIT Chicago-Kent
2012	The FRAND Defense in European Litigation Involving Standard-Essential Patents Download the Slides for this presentation	Dr. Christof Karl, Bardehle Pagenberg
2011	Contextualizing Patent Linkages in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector: Lessons from the Bayer Corporation Case	V.K. Unni, Indian Institute for Management
2011	The "Death of the Author" Debate in Anglo-Saxon Scholarship and Its Unwelcome Side Effects	Dr. Andreas Rahmatian, University of Glasgow
2011	Substantive Patent Law Harmonization in the Current Global Context: Issues in Comparative Law and Policy	Sylvie Strobel, European Patent Office
2011	A Trade Agreement Creating Barriers to International Trade? ACTA Border Enforcement and Generic Drugs in Transit	Dr. Henning Grosse Ruse - Khan, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law
2010	Patent Rights, Patient Rights: The WHO's Role in the Intersection of Public Health and Innovation	Susanne Weber-Mosdorf, World Health Organization
2010	Copyright and Access to Knowledge in South America: The Debates Regarding Copyright Law in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile	Lic. Beatriz Busaniche, National University of Buenos Aires
2010	Harnessing Intellectual Property for Business Dominance: The Indian Experience	V.K. Unni, Indian Institute for Management
2010	Life or Death for US Business Methods Patents?	Ronald E. Myrick, Finnegan
2010	Pioneering Peer-to-Peer and Other Disruptive Dual-Use Technologies	Michael A. Carrier, Rutgers University School of Law - Camden
2010	Trademark Strategies in China	Dr. Maria Cristina Caldarola, LL.M., Robert Bosch GmbH
2009	Recent Developments in US Patent Litigation Law	Terrence McMahon, McDermott Will Emery
2009	The Development of Germany as a Patent Litigation Venue in the Last Decade: Advantage Patentee?	Johannes Heselberger, Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler
2009	The Patenting of Antibodies and Their Medical Uses in the EPO	Dr. Hans-Rainer Jaenichen, Vossius & Partner
2009	Is Information?	Robert A. Heverly, Michigan State University College of Law
2009	Innovation Policy and Friends of the Court: Patent Right Advocacy before the U.S. Supreme Court	James G. Conley and David Orozco
2008	U.S. Patent Reform Legislation	John M. Whealan, The George Washington University Law School
2008	The Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court	The Honourable Randall R. Rader, U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit
2008	Inventing Invention: The Patentability Standard as a Case Study in Legal Innovation	John F. Duffy, The George Washington University Law School
2008	IP Organisation and IP Strategy in a Globally Active Group of Companies	Dr. Bertram Huber, Robert Bosch GmbH
2007	The Limits of Trademark Law: Proscriptive Principles and Permissive Principles	Graeme Dinwoodie, LL.M., J.S.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law
2007	Copyright and Facts: Two Centuries of Changing Treatment Under U.S. Law	Robert Brauneis, The George Washington University Law School
2007	Removing Property from Intellectual Property and (Intended?) Pernicious Impacts on Innovation and Competition	F. Scott Kieff, Washington University (St. Louis)
2007	Valuation and Management of IP-Based Companies – Findings From a Research Project	Dr. Eva Nathusius, Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Technische Universität München, et al.
2007	The Quiet Revolution in American Copyright Law	Paul Goldstein, Stanford University
2007	Indian Patent Law and Patent Policy Facing New Challenges	Martin J. Adelman, The George Washington University Law School
2006	Patent Legislation Reform in the United States: A View from the Trenches	John R. Thomas, Georgetown University
2006	The Law Growth Nexus – The Implications of a Rule of Law Approach to Economic Development – China as a Test Case	Kenneth W. Dam, University of Chicago Law School
2006	The Internationalization of the American Law Curriculum: Intellectual Property Law and Criminal Law	Frederick M. Lawrence, The George Washington University Law School
2006	When Copyright Users Cannot Find Copyright Owners: Proposed U.S. Legislation on Orphan Works	Paul Goldstein, Stanford University
2006	Developments in the Legal Protection for Sound Recordings under U.S. Law	F. Jay Dougherty, Loyola Law School
2005	Copyright Duration and Multinational Disharmony	Kenneth D. Crews, M.L.S., Ph.D., Indiana University School of Law
2005	Trademark Law and Social Norms	Graeme Dinwoodie, LL.M., J.S.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law
2005	Coordination, Property & Intellectual Property: An Unconventional Approach to Anticompetitive Effects & Downstream Access	F. Scott Kieff, Washington University in St. Louis
2005	Secondary Liability in Copyright	Paul Goldstein, Stanford University
2005	Criminal Law of Intellectual Property in the United States	Orin S. Kerr, The George Washington University Law School
2005	“Kirin-Amgen v. TKT” – an American Perspective to the U.K. House of Lords Decision	The Honourable Randall R. Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit