The Penn Intellectual Property Group (University of Pennsylvania Law School) presents Collision Course: Design Patents and the Convergence of Existing IP Regimes, its annual symposium, on March 19, 2015 at the Fitts Auditorium.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
12:00 PM Registration opens
1:00 – 1:10 PM Opening Remarks
1:10 – 1:40 PM Keynote address by US ITC Commissioner F. Scott Kieff
1:40 – 2:40 Design patents: a discussion on the past and future of design patent doctrine
2:40 – 3:00 PM Break
3:00 – 4:15 PM Protecting design in the fashion and wearables industry
4:15 – 5:00 PM Oxford Debate on the hypothetical appeal of MRC Innovations v. Hunter Mfg.
5:00 – 5:10 PM Closing Remarks
5:00 – 7:00 PM Reception at the White Dog Café (3420 Sansom Street)*
* Must show proof of attendance to symposium and be age 21 or older.
For more information, please see the symposium website.
