Intellectual Property, Trade and Development:
Accommodating and Reconciling Different
National Levels of Protection

Chicago-Kent College of Law
October 12-13, 2006

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The Charles E. Green Lecture in Law and Technology

Chicago-Kent's conference on Intellectual Property, Trade & Development will serve as the forum for the law school's 2006 Green Lecture in Law and Technology. This year's Green Lecturers are The Honorable Christine LaGarde, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade, France and Geoffrey Yu, Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization.

The Charles E. Green Lecture in Law and Technology addresses the impact of technology on society, on legal relationships, and on methods of studying and practicing law. The lectureship was endowed in 1977 by Mrs. Joseph Galvin, a long-time benefactor of IIT and Chicago-Kent. Charles E. Green (1894-1981) was a 1915 graduate of Chicago-Kent. He was a founder of the law firm of Green and Nystrom, and for many years served as secretary and general counsel for Motorola, Inc.

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The Central Issue: Accommodation and Reconciliation of National Laws

This conference will explore when and how to accommodate and reconcile differences in national intellectual property laws in an era of international lawmaking. Differences in the appropriate forms and levels of protection between developed and developing countries will receive particular attention.

Two Approaches to the Question: Substantive and Institutional

Conference participants will approach the dilemma of how to accommodate different notions of appropriate protection from two directions:

by discussing what might be optimal substantive intellectual property policy
by considering the range of mechanisms and institutions by which different approaches to intellectual property are accommodated

Presentations on Discrete Issues

One group of principal presenters will address specific issues that are central to current international intellectual property debates. By focusing on discrete issues, conference participants will have immediate examples to underpin discussion of the broader questions addressed during the conference. Presenters will open discussion in four distinct areas:

database protection and access to information
geographic indications and trademarks
protection of rights in plant varieties
compulsory licensing of drug patens and access to essential medicines

The second group of principal presenters will consider how different institutional choices affect the central question of how, and to what extent, to reconcile and accommodate national differences in intellectual property protection. These institutional issues include:

the role of regional and bilateral, as opposed to global, trade agreements in developing international norms
the role of non-intellectual property specific institutions in the development of intellectual property policy
the role of private parties, NGOs and industry groups in developing transborder intellectual property norms
public-private cooperation in the enforcement of intellectual property rights

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