Of possible interest. DLB On Mar 19 2007, Sean Flynn wrote:

American University Washington College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Women and the Law Program, and Journal on Gender, Social Policy, and the Law present the Fourth Annual symposium on IP/Gender: The Unmapped Connections.

Friday, March 23, 2007 | Room 503

Please register at www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm Complimentary lunch and light breakfast provided to registrants.

A live and archived webcast will be available at www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm

For more information, see www.pijip.org

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

9:00am Continental breakfast (bagels and muffins) and coffee, Room 503

9:45-10:30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Room 503

Peter Jaszi, American University, Washington College of Law

Margaret Jane Radin, Princeton University

10:30am Panel 1, Room 503

Dan Burk, University of Minnesota Law School "Do Patents Have Gender?"

Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School "Origin Myths: The Mystical Beginnings of Intellectual Property Law"

Christine Haight Farley, American University, Washington College of Law "The Feminine Mystique of the Brand in Trademark Law Today"

12:15pm, Lunch, 6th Floor, International Student Lounge

1:15pm, Coffee and Desserts, Room 503

1:30pm, Panel 2, Room 503

Helen Lom, Director, WIPO Awards and Gender Issues, World Intellectual Property Organization "Empowering Women Through Awareness Raising and Capacity Building about Strategic Uses of Intellectual Property Tools to Gain Economic Advantage: Why? How? WIPO's Practical Experience"

Amita Dhanda, NALSAR University, Hyderabad, India "Creative Recipes: Gendering the IPR Teaching Program at NALSAR University"

Ann Shalleck, American University, Washington College of Law Comments

2:45pm, Panel 3, Room 503

Ann Bartow, University of South Carolina Law School "Gender as Intellectual Property: The Propertization of Women"

Elizabeth Judge, University of Ottawa, Canada "Eyeing IP: Gender, Senses, and the Visualization of Intellectual Property"

Ruchira Goswami, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta, India "Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Gendered Perspective"

Dianne Zimmerman, New York University School of Law Comments

4:15pm Closing Remarks Victoria Phillips, American University Washington College of Law

Registration Online: www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm E-mail: pijip@wcl.american.edu Telephone: 202-274-4445

-- Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 ********************************** voice: 612-626-8726 fax: 612-625-2011