Chicago-Kent Law Review
Vol. 100 Issue 1: AI Disrupting Law
Artificial intelligence is reshaping copyright, authorship, and trade secret law in both promising and disruptive ways. This issue explores key debates: whether AI training qualifies as fair use, whether AI-generated works deserve copyright protection, and how trade secret law may adapt.
Unsealing “Schedule A”
Friday, September 26, 2025 • 10:00 am – 3:45 pm (CST)
Over the last decade, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has quietly become one of the most important IP courts in the country—maybe the world—due to the rise of a new form of mass-defendant IP litigation. In a “Schedule A” case, a plaintiff accuses online sellers of infringing one or more IP rights then seeks a TRO shutting down the alleged infringers’ stores and freezing their assets—all before the defendants even know they’ve been sued. This litigation model operated largely under the radar until recently, when judges and academics started voicing concerns.
This symposium will be the first to focus on the Schedule A phenomenon, bringing together prominent scholars to discuss this litigation model and the issues that it raises.