Thursday, September 26, 2013

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law 565 West Adams Street Chicago, IL 60661

The Supreme Court IP Review (SCIPR) is a conference designed to provide intellectual property practitioners, jurists, legal academics and law students with a review of IP cases from the U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 Term, a preview of cases on the docket for the 2013 Term, and a discussion of cert. petitions to watch.

The Honorable Diane Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit will deliver the keynote address at SCIPR 2013.

The conference will cover the six IP cases decided during the 2012 Term:

Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (patentability of human DNA sequences) Bowman v. Monsanto Company (patent exhaustion in second generation of genetically modified seeds) Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (international copyright exhaustion)

Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc. (impact of covenant-not-to-sue on declaratory judgment jurisdiction in trademark cases) Gunn v. Minton (Federal Circuit jurisdiction over patent malpractice claims) FTC v. Actavis, Inc. (reverse payments to settle patent litigation)

Online registration and more conference details will be available on this site starting in mid-July.