The Colloquium on Technology, Innovation and Intellectual Property Policy, directed by Professor Graeme Austin continues throughout the fall semester at the Rogers College of Law.

An exciting recent teaching and learning innovation at the James E. Rogers College of Law has been the Technology, Innovation and Intellectual Property Colloquium.  This Colloquium, which in previous years has been team taught with David Adelman,, exposes students to some of the latest scholarship in the intellectual property law and technology fields.  Professors from around the United States are invited to visit and present new works-in-progress.  Previous Colloquium sessions focused on topics as diverse as: digital archiving, network analysis of patent citations, the obviousness standard in patent law, trademark policies, and public-private partnerships in the delivery of pharmaceuticals in third-world nations.  In the weeks leading up to the presentations, Professor Austin works with colloquium students on the primary and secondary material relevant to the presentations, and this equips the students to engage fully with the cutting edge work presented by the visiting scholars.  As Professor Austin notes, “New scholarship in the intellectual property field doesn’t emerge from a vacuum.  This field of the law has a deep intellectual tradition, and the Colloquium provides an exciting opportunity to expose students to some of the ways that new ideas about the future shape of this area of the law emerge.  The Colloquium is a wonderful vehicle for encouraging students to engage in sophisticated thinking about IP and technology issues that affect all our lives.”