IP Surprise: IP in Unconventional Industries

Music, movies, book publishing, computer software, pharmaceuticals. Everyone knows what the “intellectual property industries” are—or do they? Intellectual property today plays a leading role in some unexpected areas. Today’s hoteliers and sommeliers need to know their trademarks and copyrights; game designers and golfers are playing with patents. Meanwhile, haute couture and haute cuisine have built innovation-intensive industries just outside the limits of formal intellectual property protection. Intellectual property is now showing up in some surprising places, and intellectual property issues are increasingly part of the daily work of counsel to a wide variety of industries. The Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School presents IP Surprise!—a lecture series about the new intellectual property industries.

RSVP required to IPsurprise@nyls.edu

Video Games

February 26, 2008 - 5:00 PM
Dr. S Gregory Boyd, Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, will discuss how the entirety of the video game industry is supported by protection of and investment in intellectual property.

Golf

March 10, 2008 - 4:30PM
James H. Schnare II, General Counsel for Nicklaus Companies, LLC, will discuss the relevance of intellectual property to the golf industry, from celebrity lifestyle and marketing to protection of golf courses, and will identify challenges and practical solutions to the application of traditional legal theories to this unique business. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Real Estate Studies at New York Law School.

Fashion - SOLD OUT!

March 25, 2008 - 5:00 PM
Susan Scafidi, Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Fordham Law School and author of the weblog Counterfeit Chic, will discuss the increasing importance of intellectual property in the fashion world, trademark protection for designers, and the debate over copyright protection for fashion designs.

Comics

Closed to the public.  Students only.

Magic

April 10, 2008 - 5:00 PM
Jacob Loshin, Law Clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and author of Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property without Law, will discuss the challenges magicians face in protecting their intellectual property and the creative ways in which the magic community has adapted to those challenges.