Each year, AULR proudly hosts a Federal Circuit Symposium composed of various panels to discuss developing legal issues exclusive to the Federal Circuit. This year, the Symposium will be held on November 7, 2025 | 8:30 - 4:30 pm ET | In-Person | Grossman Hall. 

Registration is required: Register Here

Agenda
 

Keynote Speakers

The Honorable Sharon Prost '79, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Moderated by: Rachel Weiner Cohen '08, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

The Honorable Doris Johnson Hines, United States International Trade Commission
Moderated by: Anthony Del Monaco, Senior IP Litigation Counsel, Lenovo

Veterans Law Panel:  Access to Justice & the VJRA: Barriers Veterans Face in Bringing Civil Rights Claims in Article III Courts
Moderator: Professor Andrew Popper
Professor Rebecca Feldmann, Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Michelle Fraling, Associate, Brown, Goldstein & Levy
Professor Dana Montalto, Associate Director of the Veterans Legal Clinic, Harvard Law School

Patent Law Panel:  AI’s Impact on Patent Law, Innovation, and the Future of Technology
Moderator: Professor Charles Duan
Mark Davies, Partner, White & Case
Jerry Ma, VP Policy and Global Affairs, Perplexity
Joshua Landau, Senior Counsel, Innovation Policy at CCIA
Professor Marvin Slepian,  Regents' Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona Law
Professor Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, William & Mary Law School

Government Contracts Panel: The Federal Circuit’s Oak Grove Technologies Decision One Year Later: Lessons Learned and Implications for Bid Protests
Moderator: Professor Steven Shapiro
Ryan Bradel, Partner, Ward & Berry
Caitlin Crujido '17, Associate, Morrison Foerster
Craig Holman, Partner, Arnold & Porter

Trademark Law Panel:  Once Upon a Trademark: the Federal Circuit’s Decision on Consumer Standing and the Ownership of Fairy Tale Characters in Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings Inc.
Moderator: Professor Christine Haight Farley
Professor Rebecca Curtin, Academic Co-Director of Suffolk Law IP Center, Suffolk University Law School
Maggie Horstman '22 Associate, Nixon Peabody
Chelsea Kaminski, '21 Associate, Erik M. Pelton & Associates
Professor Dustin Marlan, Director of the IP Clinic,  UNC School of Law