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Professor M. Kenney presented “Silicon Valley Today – Model or Curiosity” at the Agora Open Forum, Jyväskylä University, Finland on August 23, 2011.

Professors M. Kenney and A. Hargadon present "Following Venture Capital  into Clean Technology: Is Current U.S. Government Policy Wise?" at the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy in Helsinki, Finland on August 19, 2011

Yale Law School on Nov 11 for the CSIS 

On Nov. 11, 2011 Professor Sunder delivered a talk on Technologies of Enlightenment: Upending Authority, from Common Sense to Google at the Yale Law School.

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Professor Peter Lee recently delivered the 14th Annual Niro, Haller & Niro Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture at DePaul University College of Law.  Professor Lee's lecture, entitled "Patent Law and the Two Cultures," examined the challenges faced by generalist judges in adjudicating technologically complex patent cases.  Past Niro Lecturers include Professor Mark Lemley of Stanford Law School, Judge Richard Posner of the U.S.

Professor Peter Lee presented his paper "Transcending the Tacit Dimension: Markets, Relationships, and Organizations in Technology Transfer" at a faculty workshop at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law on October 10.  Professor Lee's talk was hosted by the law school's Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition.

Professor Peter Lee visited the University of Chile as part of a new partnership between UC Davis School of Law and the University of Chile School of Law.  Professor Lee, an internationally recognized expert in patent law and intellectual property, also spoke to political and industry leaders during his visit.

Biagioli said that there was perhaps some validity to the comparison drawn by Perry. "Theology at the time was the powerful discipline, and Galileo went up against it and was condemned," he said.

Professor Anupam Chander spoke at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference on "Challenges to the Free Flow of Electronic Commercial Information: The Costs to American Business & Potential Solutions," held in Washington, D.C. on June 16.  Professor Chander participated in a panel discussion of "Best Practices and Potential Policy Solutions."  Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke delivered the keynote address.

Professor Peter Lee recently commented on the U.S. Supreme Court case Stanford v.

Professor Peter Lee recently participated in a four-day series of workshops in Nairobi, Kenya, focused on intellectual property law.  The workshops were co-sponsored by the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA), the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the Kenya Industrial Property Institute.  Professor Lee gave a series of talks on IP-related agreements and university-industry technology transfer to entrepreneurs, acad

Professor Madhavi Sunder presented her paper ""Trade Secret and Human Freedom" at the conference on "Intellectual Property and the Common Law" held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on May 6-7.

Madhavi Sunder is a Professor of Law at King Hall and member of CSIS whose special interests included intellectual property, law and culture studies, women's rights, intellectual property in cyberspace, and international intellectual property.

Mario Biagioli spoke in the Chancellor's Distinguished Visitors Series at the University of Missouri on "Establishing the New", May 6, 2011.

On May 4th, 2011, Mario Biagioli spoke on Medical Ghostwriting at the conference "The Ethics of Ghost Authorship in Biomedical Research," at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.

Professor Anupam Chander presented his paper, "Googling Freedom" at UC Berkeley School of Law on April 4 in an event was co-convened by the California Law Review, Berkeley Business Law Journal, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and co-sponsored by the Center on Middle Eastern Studies.

Professor Anupam Chander spoke on "Social Media & Social Uprising: From Friends to Revolutionaries, How New Media is Accelerating Change" at the California Museum in Sacramento on April 19.  The talk was sponsored by the California Museum and Sacramento Social Media Club.

"Social Media & Social Uprising: From Friends to Revolutionaries, How New Media is Accelerating Change"