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Call For Papers, Eleventh Annual Works-In-Progress IP Colloquium

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From Eric Goldman, Santa Clara School of Law:

The High Tech Law Institute invites you submit a paper proposal for theEleventh Annual Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium (WIPIP), tobe held February 7-8, 2014, at Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara,California.  The colloquium provides intellectual property scholars with aforum to present their academic works-in-progress and receive early feedbackfrom their colleagues.  This is the first time WIPIP has come to the WestCoast, and we’re thrilled to be hosting it.  In addition to paperpresentations, we have a great lineup of social programs, including a SiliconValley site tour, an IP trivia night, karaoke night and IP-themed prizes. We hope to see you in Santa Clara!

Paper Submissions

You can request a speaking slot by emailing your contact information andaffiliation, a title and short abstract (500 words or less, and preferably as aPDF attachment) to Prof. Eric Goldman, egoldman@gmail.com.  Please put “WIPIP” in the emailsubject line.  We also welcome non-presenting attendees on aspace-available basis; just email your request and contact information to Prof.Goldman.  The priority deadline for submissions and participation requestsis November 1, 2013, but we will accept submissions/requests through January 9,2014, noon California time, on a space-available basis.  Forsubmissions/requests before November 1, we anticipate sending notifications ofacceptance by November 15.

Presenters are not required to submit paper drafts; but if you email a draftpaper to Prof. Goldman by noon California time, January 9, 2014, we mayallocate a longer speaking slot to you.  Unfortunately, due to thecomplexity of organizing a large conference like this, we cannot extend thisdeadline.  There is no paper publication requirement, but we will post theabstracts publicly, and we will post all submitted paper drafts to apassword-protected site accessible to all attendees.

Draft Conference Schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

Friday morning: Silicon Valley site tour

Friday afternoon: lunch followed by paper presentations (we anticipatestarting paper presentations around 1:00 or 1:30 pm but that may change)

Friday evening: dinner followed by Trivia Night

Saturday all day: paper presentations

Saturday evening: dinner followed by Karaoke Night

Travel Arrangements

There are no costs to attend WIPIP, but conference attendees are responsiblefor their travel costs.  Please see http://law.scu.edu/hightech/2014-wipip-travel/ fortravel details.  The High Tech Law Institute will provide complimentarymeals from Friday lunch through Saturday dinner and complimentary scheduledtransportation from the conference hotel (the Fairmont San Jose) to the Fridaysite visit and to the programs on campus.

Social Programs

Site visit: on Friday morning, we will tour an interesting Silicon Valleydestination.  We will provide more details about the site visit later; fornow, we encourage you to reserve the time when making your travel plans.

Trivia Night: After dinner on Friday, we will have an IP triviacompetition.  The details:

  • Questions will involve all types of IP and cover both the past and present.
  • Only teams can participate.  Teams can have 3-5 members.  One team member MUST be either a VAP/fellow or a professor who started full-time teaching in Fall 2011 or thereafter.  To help with team formation, we have created a Facebook page where you can announce your desire to add a member or join a team.  See https://www.facebook.com/wipip2014.
  • Register your team and the team name by emailing Prof. Goldman no later than January 9, 2014, noon California time.
  • There will be prizes for the winning team as well as the team with the most creative name.

Karaoke Night: After dinner on Saturday, we will have a karaoke competitionfollowed by an open mic.  Details about the karaoke competition: 

  • You can participate as an individual or in a group.  You can use the Facebook page to discuss forming groups.
  • Songs should be no longer than 5 minutes.
  • Participants will be judged on song choice, performance and audience engagement.
  • Register for the competition and identify your song by emailing Prof. Goldman no later than January 9, 2014, noon California time.  We may need to resolve duplicate song choices or songs where the DJ doesn’t have a karaoke version.  If we get more participation requests than we can handle, we will prioritize songs that were subject to an IP dispute.

Prizes!  Prizes for Trivia Night and Karaoke Night winners will beartifacts from IP cases.  In addition, all participants in the trivia andkaraoke competitions will be entered into a drawing for the Grand Prize: asigned and framed limited edition print of the Three Stooges drawing by GarySaderup.

As you can see, we’ll be having a lot of fun in Santa Clara.  If youhave any questions, email Prof. Goldman at egoldman@gmail.com.                      

Visit the colloquium page at http://wipip.org. For more information about the WIPIP series, see http://wipip.info.  Trackthe Twitter conversation at #wipip.

Eric Goldman
Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law
Director, High Tech Law Institute
Email: egoldman@gmail.com
Personal website: http://www.ericgoldman.org
Blogs: http://blog.ericgoldman.org** http://blogs.forbes.com/ericgoldman/ ** http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ericgoldman