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Robert W. Kastenmeier
This lecture is supported by the fund established to honor Robert W. Kastenmeier, an outstanding graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, who served with great distinction in the United States Congress from 1958-1990. During his tenure, Congressman Kastenmeier made special contributions to the improvement of the judiciary and to the field of intellectual property law. He drafted the rules for the House Committee on the Judiciary that were used for the impeachment against Richard M. Nixon and drafted the articles of impeachment against Judge Harry Claiborne. In 1985, Kastenmeier received the Warren E. Burger Award, presented by the institute for Court Management, and the Service Award of the National Center for State Courts. In 1988, he was honored by the American Judicature Society with its Justice Award for his contributions to improving the administration of justice.
The Kastenmeier Fund was created to recognize these contributions by
fostering important legal scholarship in the fields of intellectual
property, corrections, administration of justice, and civil liberties.
It is a fitting tribute to the leadership of Robert W. Kastenmeier in
these areas.
Planning Committee: Peter Carstensen, Robert Kastenmeier, Michael Remington
2012 Kastenmeier Lecture
Subject: “Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming”
Mark A. Lemley
William H. Neukom Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 12, 2012
Godfrey & Kahn Hall, Room 2260
University of Wisconsin Law School
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2012 Speaker Biography
Mark Lemley
Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; the director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology; and the director of Stanford’s LLM Program in Law, Science and Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer and Internet law, patent law, and antitrust. He is the author of seven books (most in multiple editions) and 128 articles on these and related subjects, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust. His works have been cited 135 times by courts, including seven United States Supreme Court opinions, and over 9,000 times in books and law review articles. He has published 9 of the 100 most-cited law review articles of the last twenty years, more than any other scholar. His articles have appeared in 18 of the top 20 law reviews and in multiple peer-reviewed and specialty journals. They have been reprinted throughout the world and translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, and Danish. He has taught intellectual property law to federal and state judges at numerous Federal Judicial Center and ABA programs; has testified seven times before Congress and numerous times before the California legislature, the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Modernization Commission on patent, trade secret, antitrust and constitutional law matters; and has filed numerous amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and the federal circuit courts of appeals.
Mark is a founding partner of Durie Tangri LLP. He litigates and counsels clients in all areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and Internet law. He has argued six federal appellate cases and numerous district court cases, and represented clients including Comcast, Genentech, Google, Grokster, Hummer Winblad, Impax, Intel, NetFlix, Palm, TiVo, and the University of Colorado Foundation in over 80 cases in two decades as a lawyer.
Mark is the founder and a board member of Lex Machina Inc., a startup company providing data and analytics around IP disputes to law firms, companies, courts, and policy-makers.
After graduating from law school, Mark clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then practiced law in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he taught at the University of Texas School of Law and Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.
Previous Kastenmeier Events
| 2011 | Lecture: Bridging the Divide between Congress and the Courts The Honorable Barbara Crabb |
| 2010 | Lecture: Afghanistan: What Are We Fighting For? Mr. Bob Herbert |
| 2009 | Lecture: Re-Imagining Criminal Justice: Implications for Practice, Research and Teaching Professor Walter Dickey Professor Cecelia Klingele Professor Michael Scott |
| 2008 | Lecture: Economic Injustice The Honorable David Obey
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| 2007 | Lecture: The National Security Constitution in a Time of Terror
Dean Harold Hongju Koh
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| 2006 | Lecture: The Law in Action: What the Bayh-Dole Act Means to the University of Wisconsin and the State of Wisconsin and an Effective National Science Policy [Audio/Video] Dr. Carl Gulbrandsen
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| 2005 | Lecture: The Iraq War: Lessons from the Past The Honorable George McGovern
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2004 | Lectures: Civil Rights Act of 1964: Hopes and Promises
Professor Frank Tuerkheimer
Bob Kastenmeier and 1960s Civil Rights Legislation: Leadership Through Commitment and Foresight Professor Roger Wilkins
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2003 | Lecture: The Forgotten Balance of Robert Kastenmeier Professor Lawrence Lessig
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2002 | Lecture: Civil Liberties in a Time of Terror Mr. Anthony Lewis
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| 2001 | Colloquium: Sentencing Criminals: After a Quarter Century of Reform, Where Are We? |
| 2000 | Colloquium: From the Bill of Rights to the Internet: Protecting Privacy Rights and Interests in the New Millennium |
| 1999 | Colloquium: From Watergate to the Present: Impeachment, Presidential Accountability, and the Separation of Powers |
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1997 | Lecture: The Transformation of American Copyright Law Professor Paul Goldstein
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1996 | Lecture: Political Extremism: Is It New, Is It Worse, Is It Curable? The Honorable Abner J. Mikva
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1995 | Symposium: Is Effective Crime Policy Possible? |
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1994 | Symposium: Computer Software Protection: Reinventing Intellectual Property |
| 1992 | Lecture: Seen in a Glass Darkly: The Future of the Federal Courts Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
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Kastenmeier Lecture 2007
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Kastenmeier Lecture 2006
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