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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:23:00 -0400 From: "Fred Benenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Free Culture @ NYU's list serv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [free-culture] James Boyle @ Cardozo Free Culture @ NYU, Free culture friend, public domain scholar and Duke Law professor Jamie Boyle will giving a talk at Cardozo Law School tomorrow and he wanted me to invite you: http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/news_events/events.asp *Synthetic Biology The Perfect Storm for Patent Law? Monday, March 12, 2007, 6:00 p.m. *Cardozo's Intellectual Property Law Program welcomes James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke University, as this year's annual distinguished lecturer. The talk will be held in the Moot Court Room followed by a reception in the lobby. RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The two defining technologies of the last 30 years are biotechnology and the networked computer. In both areas, there has been criticism of the way that intellectual property policy, specifically patent law, has adapted. Critics have charged that the recent business method and software patent decisions have eroded patent law's traditional insistence on leaving algorithms and ideas in the public domain. In the world of biotechnology, expansive gene patents and low standards of obviousness have also been the subject of extensive critique. In this talk, Professor Boyle will discuss the relevance of those criticisms to an emerging field, synthetic biology, which has elements of both software and genetic engineering. Will this be the place in which the critics are proven wrong, or the perfect storm for patent law, combining the worst of its tendencies in both software and biotechnology? --- And don't forget: Free Culture @ NYU and Information Law Institute Student Association Present: A Round Table Discussion with Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry v. The People 6:45pm March 22nd 2007 Room 324 in Furman Hall Sullivan b/w Wash. Square South and W. 3d Street Have a good spring break! Fred Benenson President, Free Culture @ NYU -- The content of this email message is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License, Some Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
