[Ip-health] Event Tonight - Rochelle Dreyfuss (NYU LAW)

[Sean Flynn]

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This lecture will be webcast live at
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm. The event is open to the
public with onsite registration (no fee). A reception will begin at 5pm,
lecture at 6pm.

-Sean



American University Washington College of Law
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

Presents

The Fifth Annual
Finnegan Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property


Featuring


Rochelle C. Dreyfuss
Pauline Newman Professor of Law
New York University School of Law

What the Federal Circuit Can Learn from the Supreme Court--and Vice
Versa

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Reception: 5:00 PM
Lecture: 6:00 PM

Washington College of Law
Room 603
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC



Registration:

Onsite registration will be available.



Parking is available in the WCL Garage.

If you require special accommodations, please alert us when you respond.



Rochelle C. Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at New York
University School of Law and the Director of the Engelberg Center on
Innovation Law and Policy. After earning a JD from Columbia University
School of Law, she was a law clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Chief Justice
Warren Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Professor Dreyfuss was a
consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee. She sits on the
National Academy of Science's Committee on Science, Technology and Law,
Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Service's Advisory
Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society, and BNA's Advisory Board to
USPQ.



What the Federal Circuit Can Learn from the Supreme Court--and Vice
Versa



For over a quarter century, the Federal Circuit has been in the business
of using its special expertise to revise key aspects of both procedural
and substantive patent law.  In the court's early years, the Supreme
Court largely refrained from reviewing its jurisprudence.   However, in
the last decade, the two tribunals have engaged in a vibrant dialogue.
In this presentation, Professor Dreyfuss will examine their interaction,
asking questions about the role that specialists should be permitted to
play in tailoring law to the needs of technologically complex and
emerging industries, and the extent to which generalists can helpfully
intervene to keep this law in the mainstream and attuned to other social
values and related developments, such as open innovation.