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The Charles E. Green Lecture in Law and TechnologyChicago-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. Conference InformationThe Central Issue: Accommodation and Reconciliation of National LawsThis 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 InstitutionalConference participants will approach the dilemma of how to accommodate different notions of appropriate protection from two directions:
Presentations on Discrete IssuesOne 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:
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:
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