GW Law Intellectual Property Law Program

Join Women In Security and Privacy (WISP) and GW Center for Law and Technology for an engaging networking event featuring a distinguished panel of industry experts. The panel will provide valuable insights on various career paths, effective interview techniques, resume best practices, and strategies for professional development. Registration required!

For our final Speaker Series of the semester, we’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Bhamati Viswanathan—Assistant Professor at New England Law and a leader in the intersection of copyright, gender, and AI in intellectual property. Join us as she dives into the impact of copyright law on female-driven creative work and explores paths to a more equitable system.

Dr. Viswanathan’s insights stem from her work as an Edison Fellow at George Mason University and her research on adapting copyright law for the digital and AI age. This is a must-attend event for anyone interested in IP, copyright reform, or the rights of women creators in our evolving digital world.

📢 Topic: Women’s Work, Women’s (Copy)rights
📅 Date: Monday, November 4, 2024
⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Student Conference Center (Lunch provided!)

GW Law is excited to launch its new 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 (𝗚𝗪𝗖𝗟𝗧), which encompasses two vital areas of academic focus: Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Privacy and Technology (PT) Law.

As technology advances, so does the law. GW Law has long been a pioneer in IP law, consistently ranking among the nation’s foremost law school programs. With the new Center–one of only a handful in the country–GW Law is building upon its extensive IP program to add a PT program that provides students with a rich selection of courses taught by outstanding faculty.

Given the new Center, all of our social media platforms will transition from, “GW Law Intellectual Property Law Program” to “GW Law Center for Law and Technology.”

GWCLT hopes to foster a robust community, providing students with an outstanding education in IP and PT Law as well as ample career support and leadership opportunities.

To receive GWCLT emails about upcoming events in IP and PT law, you can subscribe here: https://www.law.gwu.edu/center-law-and-technology-newsletter-mailing-list.

🌟 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀! 🌟

We are thrilled to welcome 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗹, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech’s Digital Life Initiative and an affiliate scholar at NYU School of Law's Information Law Institute. Join us as he dives into the intriguing world of deepfakes, unpacking the legal challenges they present and how these cutting-edge technologies are reshaping our legal landscape.

📢 Topic: 𝗔 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗙𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀
📅 Date: Monday, September 9
⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Tasher Great Room, The George Washington University Law School
🔗 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gw-center-for-law-and-technology-speaker-series-benjamin-sobel-tickets-1000106153427?aff=oddtdtcreator
Lunch will be provided! 🍽️

The GW Law Career Center held its annual IP Networking Reception in February, which hosted a record-breaking 45 employers and 200 students. It must be rare – if not unprecedented – for 45 employers to gather at one law school to recruit its IP students. Thank you to all who attended!

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
• Alston & Bird
• Arnold & Porter
• Baker Botts
• Banner Witcoff
• Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC
• Cooley LLP
• Covington & Burling LLP
• Crowell & Moring
• Dentons
• Desmarais LLP
• Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
• Fish & Richardson P.C.
• Foley & Lardner LLP
• Goodwin
• Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP
• Honigman LLP
• Irell & Manella LLP
• K&L Gates
• Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
• King & Spalding
• Kirkland & Ellis
• Knobbe Martens
• Latham & Watkins
• Maier & Maier, PLLC
• Mayer Brown
• McDermott Will & Emery
• McKool Smith
• Morrison Foerster
• Paul Hastings
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
• Perkins Coie LLP
• Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
• Ropes & Gray LLP
• Rothwell Figg
• Sidley Austin LLP
• Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
• U.S. Copyright Office
• USPTO
• Venable LLP
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
• WilmerHale
• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• Winston & Strawn LLP
• Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

GW faculty members were pleased to meet with representatives from the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) on December 7, 2023 to discuss GW programs that may be helpful for KIPO examiners.

The International Intellectual Property Training Institute (IIPTI), an affiliated body to KIPO, supports KIPO examiners who join international training courses conducted by other IP offices or overseas IP training institutes in order to catch up with the latest trends in technology.

Pictured, from left to right, are GW Law IP Dean John Whealan, Sungjae Cho (KIPO Deputy Director), Hyunsun Yoon (KIPO Assistant Director), Yejin Yun (KIPO Assistant Director), Hyunseok Lim (KIPO Attaché for the U.S.), Shehernaz Joshi (GW Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs), Andrew Vogt (GW Program Coordinator for Graduate and International Programs), and Claudia Delgado Ballester (GW Program Associate for Intellectual Property Law).

Please join the GW Center for Law and Technology as Professor Daniel Solove and Hideyuki Matsumi from Vrije University in Brussels will give a talk about their article, The Prediction Society: AI and the Problems of Forecasting the Future.

The event will take place on Wednesday, February 21 from 4:30pm – 6pm in the GW Law Faculty Conference Center.

An excerpt of their abstract is below:

“[T]he rise of algorithmic predictions raises an overarching concern: Algorithmic predictions not only forecast the future but also have the power to create and control it. The increasing pervasiveness of decisions based on algorithmic predictions is leading to a prediction society where individuals’ ability to author their own future is diminished while the organizations developing and using predictive systems are gaining greater power to shape the future.
Privacy and data protection law do not adequately address algorithmic prediction…. We argue that the use of algorithmic predictions is a distinct issue warranting different treatment from other types of inference. We examine the issues laws must consider when addressing the problems of algorithmic predictions.”

Join us for an engaging talk and great free food!

The IP Speaker Series is now The Center for Law and Tech Speaker Series!

Join us at the first session of the Spring Semester on Monday January 22nd at noon in the Student Conference Center with Salomé Viljoen, Assistant Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School.

Lunch will be served!

GW Law is excited to launch its new Center for Law and Technology, which encompasses two vital areas of academic focus: Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Privacy and Technology (PT) Law.

GW Law has long been a pioneer in IP law, with one of the very first programs, and it continues to have a rich curriculum in every corner of that area. With the new Center, GW Law is building upon its extensive IP program to add a PT program. Only a handful of law schools have similar centers, and most law schools lack faculty who focus on privacy and technology issues and do not even have a course in privacy law. By contrast, the Center has several privacy and technology faculty and offers a rich selection of courses.

The Center for Law and Technology hopes to foster a robust community, providing students with an outstanding education in the areas of Intellectual Property, Privacy and Technology Law, as well as ample career support and leadership opportunities.

Learn more:

GW Law Launches its New Center for Law and Technology | GW Law | The George Washington University GW Law proudly unveils its Center for Law and Technology, focusing on Intellectual Property and Privacy and Technology Law.

In one week, please join us for the 2023 Christopher A. Meyer Memorial Lecture on November 2, 2023, at 6 PM! Featured speaker Justin Hughes will be speaking on "Intellectual Property and the Creatures of Generative AI."

Justin Hughes is the Honorable William Matthew Byrne Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where he teaches international trade and intellectual property courses. He is also a Visiting Professor at Oxford University and the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki for 2024. From 2009 until 2013, Professor Hughes served in the Obama Administration as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property (USPTO). In that capacity, he was the US chief negotiator for two multilateral IP treaties, the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (2012) and the Marrakesh Treaty for the Blind (2013).

Please register below and we will see you soon!
https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/the_christopher_a_meyer_memorial_copyright_lecture