The Information Society Project Lunch Speaker Series welcomes:
Yvonne Cripps
Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law
who will be presenting
"Gene Patents: Where Property, Intellectual Property and Information Meet"
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
12:10p - 1:30p
Yale Law School
Room 120
Lunch and presentation to be followed by Q&A
Abstract:
This talk will address questions concerning the effect of latest developments in genomics and gene patents, with particular reference to the meaning and scope of patents on human genes and what constitutes infringement. Public and private law will also meet here with some discussion of constitutional issues.
Biography:
Professor Cripps, an internationally acclaimed scholar and teacher,
became the first holder of the Harry T. Ice Chair of Law at Indiana
University in 2000. She specialises in intellectual property law and
biotechnology. Her book Controlling Technology: Genetic Engineering and
the Law, published in 1980, was the first comprehensive treatment of
the legal implications of biotechnology. She is also the author of
other books, including The Legal Implications of Disclosure in the
Public Interest, now in its second edition, and more than 40 articles
on intellectual property, privacy law, and biotechnology.
In addition to her years in the faculty of law at Cambridge
University, she has regularly taught as a visiting professor at the
Cornell Law School and also at the University of Texas at Austin as
well as in Paris. Professor Cripps is a barrister in both England and
New Zealand, and has served as an advisor on intellectual property law
and biotechnology to the House of Lords, on biotechnology issues to the
New Zealand Government, on constitutional matters to the Sri Lankan
Ministry of Justice, and as a consultant on intellectual property to
various law firms and corporations. Her research on bioethics and
cloning was cited in the most recent issue of the Harvard Law Review
and in "Why can't you buy a kidney to save your life?" Boston Globe, July 1, 2007
Her courses include: intellectual property (especially patents) and biotechnology, and comparative public law.
Michael Zimmer, PhD
Microsoft Resident Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
e: michael.zimmer@yale.edu
w: http://michaelzimmer.org