Kentucky

Symposium Panelists Feb 21, 2008 - The Chase College of Law?s Northern Kentucky Law Review presented a symposium on Intellectual Property, ?Divining the Roberts Court?s Approach to Intellectual Property: Are Such Rights on Firm Ground, or are the Sands Shifting?? Approximately 100 practitioners, inventors, professors, and students attended the symposium on Saturday, February 16, 2008 at the Marriott RiverCenter in Covington, Kentucky. Five distinguished panelists discussed the significance of recent intellectual property issues addressed by the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court. The discussion included the impact of the Court?s recent decisions on pharmaceutical and biotech industries, how the Court has grappled with the norms of competition in intellectual property cases, and predictions for the future.

Members of the panel included Janice M. Mueller, Professor of Law at University of Pittsburg School of Law; Dennis Karjala, Professor of Law at Sandra Day O?Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Shubha Ghosh, Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law; Peter Curtin, a partner at Venable, LLP in Washington, D.C.; and Katherine E. White, Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School.