January 16, 2026

2026 Tri-State Region IP Workshop

NYU School of Law
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012

The Sixteenth Annual Tri-State Region IP Workshop will take place on Friday, January 16, 2026. The one-day conference will bring together intellectual property scholars from the tri-state region to present their works in progress for discussion in a workshop environment.

AGENDA

Secrecy

Christopher Morten, NYU School of Law
Easy Secrecy in the Eastern District
Commentator: Maggie Wittlin, Fordham University School of Law

Camilla Hrdy, Rutgers Law School
Trade Secret Law’s On-Sale Bar
Commentator: Courtney Cox, Fordham University School of Law

Student Presentation

Junhao Chen, NYU School of Law
China’s Emerging Jurisdictional Maximalism

Patent Law, Innovation, and Institutions

Daniel Hemel, NYU School of Law
Patent as Promise
Commentator: Michael Burstein, Cardozo School of Law

Doni Bloomfield, Fordham University School of Law
How Grantmakers Govern
Commentator: Daniel Hemel, NYU School of Law

Intellectual Property from Authenticity to AI

Michael Goodyear, New York Law School
Rethinking Authenticity
Commentator: Chris Sprigman, NYU School of Law

Jacob Noti-Victor, Cardozo School of Law
Substantial Similarity in the Age of Generative AI
Commentator: James Grimmelmann, Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech

Patents and AI

Lital Helman, Ono Academic College, and Gideon Parchomovsky, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Artificial Inventorship
Commentator: Jeremy Sheff, St. John’s University School of Law

Amy Semet, University at Buffalo Law School
An Empirical Study of Artificial Intelligence Patent Litigation
Commentator: Jonathan Ashtor, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Cardozo School of Law

For questions, please feel free to contact the Tri-State Workshop co-chairs, Barton Beebe (barton.beebe@nyu.edu) or Jeanne Fromer (jeanne.fromer@nyu.edu). This conference is sponsored by the Engelberg Center.