April 18 - TribLocal-Evanston
Adjunct professor Howard Rockman quoted
Recipes are not covered under patent or copyright laws, said Howard Rockman, an attorney and adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School’s Center for Intellectual Property Law in Chicago.
But ownership could be established under trade secret law, Rockman said, which encompasses anything of value to one person that would be valuable to another if they possessed it.
“It has value to you because they don’t know it,” he said. “I can’t duplicate Coca-Cola because I don’t have the syrup recipe.”
Read more: Evanston Bakery Lawsuit Dropped, but Shines Light on Grey Area of Recipe Ownership
The importance of professional responsibility in intellectual property law is the focus of “Ethics in the Practice of Intellectual Property Law” on April 27, 2012, at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
April 12 - The Boston Globe
The importance of professional responsibility in intellectual property law is the focus of “Ethics in the Practice of Intellectual Property Law” on April 27, 2012, at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Intellectual property practitioners will address these often-encountered dilemmas.
Read more: The John Marshall Law School Presents 'Ethics in the Practice of Intellectual Property Law'
The John Marshall Law School in Chicago’s excellent educational opportunities and outstanding programs in legal writing and intellectual property law earn top law school rankings for the second year in a row in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools issue.
The Center for Intellectual Property Law at The John Marshall Law School welcomed more than 200 attorneys from around the country for the 56th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, “Hot Topics and Current Developments in Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secrets Laws” on Feb. 24, 2012.
Feb. 10 - Patent Docs
The John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law will be holding its 56th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference on February 24, 2012 in Chicago, IL.
Read more: John Marshall Law School 56th Annual IP Law Conference
The Center for Intellectual Property Law at The John Marshall Law School is hosting its 56th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference: Hot Topics and Current Developments in Patent, Trademark, Copyright, and Trade Secrets Law on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. The conference is sponsored by Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg LLC.
Feb. 8 - Intellectual Property Today
The Center for Intellectual Property Law at The John Marshall Law School is hosting its 56th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference: Hot Topics and Current Developments in Patent, Trademark, Copyright, and Trade Secrets Law on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. The conference is sponsored by Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg LLC.
Read more: The John Marshall Law School 56th Annual IP Conference Focusing on Hot Topics, Recent Developments
Nov. 18 - Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
William McGrath, acting director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law, writes about:
The case of Be2 LLC v. Ivanov. 642, F.3d 555 (7th Cir. 2011). Be2 is the latest pronouncement by the 7th Circuit on the difficult issue of how the Internet affects personal jurisdiction in intellectual property cases. The case turns on whether a court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant who resides in a distant venue simply because the defendant’s website contains material that infringes the plaintiff’s copyright, trademark or domain
name.
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More than a dozen international IP LLM students at The John Marshall Law School spent a day at the Deerfield, Ill., headquarters of Baxter, an international pharmaceuticals company, listening to presentations by the company’s intellectual property attorneys.
