7th Annual IP/Gender: Gender & Invention

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IP/Gender:  Mapping the Connections
7th Annual Symposium, April 16, 2010
American University Washington College of Law

Special Theme:  Gender and Invention

Sponsored by American University Washington College of Law’s

• Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
• Women and the Law Program
• Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

In collaboration with Dan Burk, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, U.C. Irvine

Introduction & Context

Over the past seven years, the IP/Gender symposium has provided a forum to examine and discuss research on gendered dimensions of intellectual property law.  Because issues of gender in intellectual property have been under-appreciated and remain under-theorized, much of this work has been exploratory and pioneering.  Topics discussed in past years have ranged from the impact of intellectual property law and policy on gender-related  imbalances in wealth, cultural access, political power, and social control; creative production and gender; the effects of stereotyping and of actual and rhetorical feminization and masculinization of participant roles upon intellectual property stakeholders; the gendered development of IP doctrines and doctrinal categories; related issues in the teaching and practicing of intellectual property; feminist jurisprudential insights about intellectual property law; and female fan cultures and intellectual property. The Spring 2010 symposium on Gender and Invention will  be highly interdisciplinary, including historians, social scientists, legal academics, cultural scholars, and practicing lawyers.