Value Pluralism and Intellectual Property Law Conference

Date: June 10 and 11, 2014 (Tuesday and Wednesday)

Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Building, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

This conference was jointly organized by our Centre and the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Utilitarianism is today the dominant approach to thinking about intellectual property law. Despite this reality, in numerous domains intellectual property regimes successfully incorporate a variety of different values in both their structure and in their functioning. This conference will for the first time bring together scholars of intellectual property to examine the means, mechanisms, devices, and more fundamentally, the very desirability of intellectual property attempting to incorporate these plural values into its working.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Panel 1: A Roundtable Discussion on Utilitarianism and Consequentialism in Intellectual Property Thinking

Moderators:

Shyamkrishna Balganesh, University of Pennsylvania

David S. Abrams, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 2: Cultural Production, Progress, and Intellectual Property

Moderator: Marcelo Thompson, the University of Hong Kong

Speakers:

Anne Barron, London School of Economics

Kelvin Kwok, University of Hong Kong

Peter Lee, UC Davis School of Law

Commentator: David Llewelyn, King’s College London

Panel 3: Rights-Based Thinking in Intellectual Property

Moderator: Anne Cheung, University of Hong Kong

Speakers:

Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania

Haochen Sun, University of Hong Kong

Commentator: Kung-Chung Liu, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Panel 4: Human Development, the Capabilities Approach, and Intellectual  Property

Moderator: Simon Young, University of Hong Kong

Speakers:

Brett Frischmann, Cardozo Law School

David Lametti, McGill University

Madhavi Sunder, UC Davis School of Law

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Panel 5:  Eastern Values in Intellectual Property

Moderator: Hualing Fu, University of Hong Kong

Speakers:

Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania

Alice Lee, University of Hong Kong

Peter Yu, Drake University Law School

Panel 6: Incommensurability of Values in Intellectual Property

Moderator: Yahong Li, University of Hong Kong

Speakers:

Shyamkrishna Balganesh, University of Pennsylvania

Matt Corriel, University of Pennsylvania

Gideon Parchomovsky, University of Pennsylvania

Commentator: Scott Veitch, University of Hong Kong