Design Protection and the Problem of Aesthetic Progress in Intellectual Property Law

PROGRAMME

14.30 Registration and coffee

15.00 Design Protection and the Problem of Aesthetic Progress in Intellectual Property Law
John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law Barton Beebe, New York University School of Law

16.30 A Prepared Comment
European Design Attorney Katri Kiviniemi, Heinonen & CO, Attorneys-at-Law, Ltd.

 
Barton Beebe

Barton Beebe is the John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law at New York University Law School, USA. His scholarship focuses on the doctrinal, empirical, and cultural analysis of intellectual property law.

Professor Beebe has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Anne Urowsky Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and has previously taught at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University.  In 2007, Professor Beebe served as a Special Master, with Professor Daniel J. Capra, in Louis Vuitton Malletier v. Dooney & Bourke, Inc., No. 04 Civ. 2990 (SAS) (S.D.N.Y.).

Registration

Registration Please register for the seminar by completing the online registration form no later than 15 May 2013. You will receive an automatic confirmation of registration to the email address you have given. You can only register one person at a time with the registration form.