2008 International Arbitration Summer Session Seminar. Sponsored by the Washington College of Law in cooperation with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.
A group of leading practitioners and academics will discuss 1) disputes under the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Rules and 2) current issues regarding the arbitration and mediation of international IP disputes.
Sponsored by American University Washington College of Law's Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Propery, and Women and the Law Program.
On October 25, PIJIP hosted the Third Annual Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property. This year, Professor J. Thomas McCarthy, author of McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition, delivered a lecture on the various ways that people who do not own a specific trademark can still make proper and legal use of it. His lecture discussed categories of use including non-confusing uses, fair uses and uses which do not dilute a famous mark.
