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<i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">**Hi SIGCIS – On June 12, check out Gerardo Con Diaz discussing ideas from his new book on the history of software patents, at the museum in DC or via webcast!! Eric Hintz<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Software as Intellectual Property, June 12, at the Smithsonian’s NMAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Software is everywhere – in our desktop applications, mobile phones, coffee makers, automobiles, and pacemakers – yet how to categorize it and protect the work of its authors, inventors,
and coders has long been controversial. Is software patentable, copyrightable, or should some other domain of rights and property apply? As language that controls machines, generates virtual worlds, and creates and solves equations, software crosses traditional
boundaries. Since the emergence of computer software in the 1940s, inventors, legal scholars, attorneys, and jurists have wrangled with a number of issues. Should a coded set of instructions (by itself) be eligible for intellectual property protection, or
must the software be embedded physically in some device? To protect software, should developers apply for a patent or a copyright? Who should be responsible for detecting software piracy and infringement, and at what scale? How do we prevent overlapping or
competing claims from stifling further innovation in one of our most dynamic industries?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Panelists will discuss the history and development of software IP protections while considering the concerns of inventors, corporations, and consumers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">SPEAKERS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Gerardo Con Diaz</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">, Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies, University
of California, Davis, and author of <span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228397/software-rights">Software Rights: How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America</a></i></span><i>
</i> (Yale University Press, 2019)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Susann Keohane,
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Master Inventor, Global Leader for Healthy Aging & Longevity, IBM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Robert W. Bahr,
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, USPTO</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Moderator</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">:</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
<b>Arthur Daemmrich</b>, Director, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Closing Remarks:
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Kevin Madigan</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">, Deputy Director, Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, Antonin
Scalia Law School, George Mason University <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.7pt">This event is free and open to the public!
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">DETAILS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Wed June 12, 2019<b>,
</b>1:00-2:30pm EDT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Wallace H. Coulter Performance Plaza, 1<sup>st</sup> Floor West<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Constitution Avenue at 13<sup>th</sup> Street NW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Washington, DC USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Directions:
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/visit/getting-here">http://americanhistory.si.edu/visit/getting-here</a></span>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.7pt">LIVE WEBCAST:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flivestream.com%2Fuspto%2FSoftwareIP-Lemelson&data=02%7C01%7CHintzE%40si.edu%7Cf1597534943d4dc7bc0808d6e5db3b83%7C989b5e2a14e44efe93b78cdd5fc5d11c%7C1%7C0%7C636949127114294956&sdata=2vZTFqXGAlZYsl4yz203eUqgzJaZQ6oCSh7SGWiY0Uw%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color:blue">https://livestream.com/uspto/SoftwareIP-Lemelson</span></a></span></span><b><i><span style="letter-spacing:.7pt">
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">More Details:
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://invention.si.edu/about/events/software-intellectual-property">https://invention.si.edu/about/events/software-intellectual-property</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://cpip.gmu.edu/software-as-intellectual-property/">https://cpip.gmu.edu/software-as-intellectual-property/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#262626">This event is co-presented by The Smithsonian’s
<a href="https://invention.si.edu/">Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation</a>, the
<a href="https://www.uspto.gov/">United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)</a>, and the
<a href="https://cpip.gmu.edu/">Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP)</a> at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
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