On June 11, PIJIP Director Michael Carroll will give a talk on "Public access to Department of Defense-Funded Research" at the Special Libraries Association 2013 Annual Conference and Info-Expo.

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Professor Jorge Contreras will moderate a panel on standards and patents at Northwestern Law School's Sixth Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The conference focuses on "high-quality research relevant to intellectual property (IP) protection, innovation, and entrepreneurship."

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On June 26, Michael Carroll will give a lecture on "Open Access and Open Educational Resources: The Internet's Growing Role in Scientific Communication and Education" at the American Society for Engineer Education annual conference.

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The process of introducing new generic top level domains is already underway. Generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, are the suffixes at the end of web addresses, such as .com, .org and .net. We could have as many as 1,400 new gTLDs sometime this year. While the gTLDs may be "just code" ... this development could radically change the architecture of the internet.

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In PIJIP’s ongoing Supreme Court series, counsel for parties and amici will discuss intellectual property cases on the afternoon of oral argument, addressing the reaction of the Court at oral argument. The Supreme Court will address whether human genes are patentable.

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On Friday, April 12, Professor Vicki Phillips wqs featured on WESU's "Indigenous Politics" radio. The program focused on the legal battle to ban the racist "redskins" trademark. New legislation recently introduced to the US House aims to ban the trademarking of the term and other racist language against Native Americans. To listen to the segment, please visit: http://wesu.streamrewind.com/bookmarks/listen/62941/indigenous-politics

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Jane Anderson will present "Anxieties of Authorship and Ownership: Intellectual Property, Indigenous Collections, and Decolonial Futures" as part of The Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture Series. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts. The project will be presented on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm in the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress ("LOC"). More information can be found on the LOC Website at: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/events/botkin-lectures.html

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Advance registration for Summer 2013 will begin at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, April 2nd and will NOT be by lottery. Students may begin registration at that time and register through the end of the add/drop on June 3rd. Advance registration for Fall 2013 will begin at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, April 9th and will be by priority and lottery. Instructions and the lottery will be posted on the WCL Registrar website at http://www.wcl.american.edu/registrar by April 1st.

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Congressman Faleomavaega and colleagues introduced today H.R. 1278, the Non-Disparagement of Native American Persons or Peoples in Trademark Registration Act of 2013. This bill seeks to clarify certain protections provided by the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act), which prohibits registration of trademarks that use disparaging terms like “redskin.” PIJIP Professors signed a letter in support of the legislation.

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On Monday, April 1 at 5:00PM, representatives from Finnegan will discuss class choices, fall recruiting, and career planning with WCL students. Finnegan is one of the largest IP-specialty firms in the world. The advising will be followed by a moderated question and answer session and a networking reception. The event will be in Room 602. RSVP by March 29, 12pm at http://tinyurl.com/Finneganadvising

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