Artificial intelligence, in the form of machine learning systems, is becoming widely deployed across many industries to facilitate the production of new technical or expressive works. Commentators and policy makers have responded to these developments with a flood of literature analyzing the ways in which AI systems might challenge our existing regimes of intellectual property. But such discussions have thus far focused on entirely the wrong questions, misunderstanding the nature of the changes that AI brings to creative development. In this lecture, Professor Burk will reframe the discussion of intellectual property and artificial intelligence, showing the impact machine learning will have on creativity and innovation, the implications these changes for intellectual property doctrine and policy, and the questions we must begin to answer to foster human engagement in an age of automated creativity.

Prof. Dan L. Burk - Speaker

Dan L. Burk is Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine, where he was a founding member of the law faculty. An internationally prominent authority on issues related to high technology, he lectures, teaches, and writes in the areas of patent, copyright, electronic commerce, and biotechnology law. He is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on the social impact of artificial intelligence, on the regulation of biotechnology, and on the intellectual property implications of digital computing. He is consistently ranked among the most highly cited intellectual property scholars in the American legal academy.

Professor Burk holds a B.S. in Microbiology (1985) from Brigham Young University, an M.S. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (1987) from Northwestern University, a J.D. (1990) from Arizona State University, and a J.S.M. (1994) from Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Irvine he taught at the University of Minnesota, and has also taught at numerous leading institutions around the world, including Cornell University, Sciences Po (Paris), Bocconi University (Milan) and the University of Haifa. He has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Leverhulme Trust professorship to the London School of Economics and a Senior Fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. He was a 2011 Fulbright Scholar in Munich at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law, and a 2017 Fulbright Cybersecurity Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute in the United Kingdom.

Prof. Dr. Milton Lucídio Leão Barcellos - Introduction Welcome and Opening Remarks

Milton Lucídio is a senior partner of Leão IP, with professional emphasis on the field of Intellectual Property, Competition and Innovation. Besides to be an IP Lawyer and Patent Attorney, he is also a researcher, jurist, forensic expert and invited professor in several Universities and Institutions in the mentioned fields. Graduated in Law (PUCRS - 1997), Post-Graduated in International Law (UFRGS – 2002), Master Degree in Law (PUCRS – 2006) and PhD in Law (PUCRS – 2010). Author of two books in the field of Intellectual Property published in Portuguese language (Industrial Property and Federal Constitution – 2007 and The International Patent System – 2004), and co-organizer of two books (Actual Perspectives of the Intellectual Property Law – 2009 and Research Integrity and Intellectual Property at the University – 2016) published in Portuguese language. Author of several papers and book chapters in the IP field. Invited lecturer in several Universities and Institutions. Former President of the IP Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association (2000-2005 | State of Rio Grande do Sul) and Former President of the Patent and Trademark Attorneys Brazilian Association (2006-2007 | South Section). Married with Camila and father of Isis and Antônio.

LEÃO IP - WEBINAR INTERNATIONAL SERIES

Professor Burk will address the third lecture of this Webinar Series from remarkable IP Professors from three main countries in the World IP Rights context. The first lecture was addressed by Prof. Dr. Xiang YU (Director of the Sino-European Institute for Intellectual Property of HUST (2018-), as well as the Chinese-German Institute for Intellectual Property) and the second lecture was addressed by Professor Dr. Jens Schovsbo, LL.D. and PhD, professor in IPR at the University of Copenhagen, Center for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR) (www.ciir.dk/English).

Representing Asia, Europe and North America approaching the Intellectual Property Rights with the view of the actual perspective and future goals during the months of September, October and November, the three distinguished speakers will contribute with their views and perspectives about hot topics in the Intellectual Property field.