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Humanities Conference

Friday, May 11, 2012
9:00am to 6:00pm
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Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Copyright and Patenting Workshop
9:00 - 9:30 am COFFEE AND PASTRIES

9:30 - 10:30 am Myles Jackson (Caltech/NYU), "The Patenting of the BRCA1 and 2 Genes: Molecular Biology and IP"

10:30 - 11:00 am MORNING BREAK

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Mario Bagioli (UC Davis), "How to Tell a Machine from a Text: Differentiating Copyright from Patents in Eighteenth-Century Britain"

12:00 - 1:30 pm LUNCH

1:30 - 2:30 pm Chris Hunter (Caltech), "Stone-Age Copyright: Anastatic Printing and the End of Literary Property"

2:30 - 3:30 pm Meredith McGill (Rutgers University), The Untimeliness of the Law: Copyright and Playright in the Nineteenth-Century United States"

3:30 - 4:00 pm AFTERNOON BREAK

4:00 - 5:00 pm Mark Rose (UC Santa Barbara), "The Expert Witness in Infringement Litigation"

5:00 - 6:00 pm Final discussion

For more information, please contact Sabrina Boschetti by phone at Ext. 4228 or by email at [email protected].