Posts Tagged: "Lisa Dunner"

Intellectual Property Policy: Four Observations, Five Questions, and a Warning

In November, the UIC John Marshall Law School held their 64th Annual Intellectual Property Conference. The program consisted of five plenary sessions and nine breakout sessions featuring candid discussions and networking sessions with judges, senior government officials, and leaders of supranational IP offices, multinational corporations, law firms, academia, and nonprofit organizations. This article features a group of speakers and attendees as they share what they felt was a key message they took from the conference this year.

Renee C. Quinn

December 3, 2020

The Future is in Our Hands; No Room in the U.S. for Second Best

A reliable and predictable patent law is more necessary than ever, for technology is a much larger part of our industrial product than ever. The recent Supreme Court attention to patent cases reflects their importance to the nation. The balances are not simple, the fresh balances among creativity, business risk, competition, trade, the creation of new knowledge, the production of industrial capital, and fairness, justice. There is no room in the United States for second best. You and we, lawyers and judges, share this responsibility.

Renee C. Quinn

December 6, 2018