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N E W S   &   A N N O U N C E M E N T S What's New?   |   Faculty in the News   |    News Archive   |   News Home Intellectual Property Online: The Challenge of Multi-Territorial Disputes A Symposium co-sponsored by the Center of the Study of International Business Law and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law On October 8, 2004, Brooklyn Law School hosted a symposium on “Intellectual Property Online: The Challenge of Multi-Territorial Disputes.” With the ease of multi-territorial transmission of copyright works, trade symbols, and other intellectual property over digital networks has come the urgent need for a comprehensive conflict of laws/private international law regime specifically devoted to intellectual property. Several initiatives have begun to define a set of principles, but the issues involved are dauntingly complex. That is in part because of the many, historically divergent fields of law involved, and the difficulty of integrating the notions of validity, ownership, and infringement into the traditional conflict of laws notions of jurisdiction, choice of law, and enforcement. The issues are further complicated by differing international approaches. Program speakers included: Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor, NYU School of Law Professor Francois Dessemontet, Lausanne University, Law School Professor Toshiyuki Kono, Kyushu University Faculty of Law Professor of Law Graeme Dinwoodie, Director, Program in Intellectual Property Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology Professor of Law Graeme Austin, University of Arizona Associate Professor of Law Richard Garnett, Director, E-Law Program, University of Melbourne Dr. Annette Kur, Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax law View the day’s schedule and complete list of speakers (PDF) (Adobe Acrobat Reader required. Download free software.) View video from the event: Part I: Resolution Through Conflict of Laws     Dean Joan Wexler     Prof. Maryellen Fullerton     Prof. Rochelle Dreyfuss     Prof. Francois Dessemontet Part I (cont’d)     Prof. Roberta Karmel     Prof. Toshiyuki Kono     Prof. Graeme Dinwoodie Part II: Substantive Harmonization and Other Approaches     Prof. Samuel Marumba     Prof. Graeme Austin     Prof. Richard Garnett, Dr. Annette Kur Read more about the Center for the Study of International Business Law Read more about the Brooklyn Journal of International Law Back to top   |   More News & Events

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