Faculty Activities & Publications | February 2013

Faculty

Professor Doris Estelle Long

• She was a guest lecturer on March 12, 2013 at a class at Masaryck University in Brno for Professor Radim Charvat (LLM ’03/LLM ’04) on “Current Issues In Intellectual Property Protection on the Internet.” She also conducted a workshop with Charvat at Masaryck University on “Key Differences Between U.S. and EU Copyright Protection.”  This workshop was conducted under a grant Charvat received from the European Union.
• On March 15, 2013, Long taught a class on U.S. and EU Intellectual Property Law Comparisons at Metropolitan University in Prague as part of the PhD program in Intellectual Property. She spent a great deal of time exploring the impact that the new U.S. patent reform  (called the America Invents Act or AIA) will have on patent practice in the United States and compared those changes to present patent  practice under European laws.
• She met with the President (head) of the Czech Patent Office on March 15, 2013, and discussed the potential problems that the new Unitary Patent for the European Union faces.
• Her article “Resolving Trademark Duality in the Twenty-First Century:  Making Trademarks Internet Ready,” will be published in the April issue of ACTA MUP: Legal Protection of Intellectual Property by Metropolitan University in English. This article is an update and revision of Long’s earlier article “Rebooting Trademarks for the 21st Century.”
• An expanded version of Long’s article “Deviant Globalization: The Next Step in the Multilateral Protection of Intellectual Property” will be published as Chapter 4 in CICL 2012: Governing Innovation and Expression: New Regimes, Strategies and Techniques (University of Turku Press 2013)(ed. Katja Lindroos).

Professor Ann Lousin

• She was interviewed by Medill News Service on the United States Justice Department’s suit against Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Ratings Services on Feb. 4, 2013, alleging the firm ignored its own standards to rate mortgage bonds that imploded in the financial crisis and cost investors billions. Lousin commented on a lawsuit Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan brought against charges against S&P in 2012 in a civil fraud case.

Professor Mark Wojcik

• He was part of a discussion with the Chicago Bar Association International and Foreign Law Committee, “Death of Inheritance in an International Community.” Other speakers included Lynne R. Ostfeld, a Chicago-based attorney with an affiliated office in Paris France; Sandra Chiarlone, a lawyer in both Italy and the United States; and Edmund Gronkiewicz, of counsel at Reda Ciprian Magnone LLC, Chicago.

Adjunct Faculty

Keith G. Chval

• He was invited by the UCLA School of Law Moot Court Honors Board to judge the UCLA Cyber Crimes Moot Court Competition on March 15 and 16, 2013.