InfoSec Seminar Series 
Assistant Professor, Brandeis School of Law , University of Louisville
will present a lecture on
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
1:15 to 2:15 p.m.
Room 201, Miller Info. Tech. Center (MITC)
Abstract: Retailers such as Wal-Mart have made a great push to implement tracking technology that would permit them to track individual cases and pallets of products throughout the supply chain in real time. This technology is radio frequency identification (RFID). Based on a system which uses a 96-bit electronic product code, RFID has the capability to track each individual item produced by mankind for years to come by attaching an RFID tag no larger than a grain of sand to each product. Although currently most such tags only contain limited information and can only be written to once, the technology exists to produce tags that have microprocessors built into them that can store data obtained from sensors built into the tags, which can then wirelessly transmit that data to readers. Because the tags are attached to the products themselves, the question arises as to who owns that information? Although installed by the manufacturer or retailer, it is the consumer that has purchased the product containing the tag, and it is the consumer's use of the product that generates the data. Given this, the question is: Who owns the data? This seminar will explore the current state of the law regarding the ownership and protection for such information.
Dr. Lars S. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville . He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Colby College , his Juris Doctor from New England School of Law, and his Masters of Law in Intellectual Property from Franklin Pierce Law Center . Prior to teaching he practiced corporate and intellectual property law for six years in Massachusetts and New Hampshire . He teaches courses in Property, Business Planning, Secured Transactions, and Trademark Law. His research focuses on intellectual property law, including trademark law and the intersection of commercial law and intellectual property rights.
Contact: Dr. S. Srinivasan, Professor of CIS, (502) 852 – 4790, www.louisville.edu/infosec