SAPNA KUMARCRAIG JOYCEPAUL M. JANICKE

2 0 1 6IPIL / HOUSTON

JACQUELINE D. LIPTON RAYMOND T. NIMMER GREG R. VETTER

UPCOMING EVENTS:

31st ANNUAL FALL IP INSTITUTESEPTEMBER 24 – 26, 2015GALVESTON, TEXAS

22d ANNUAL FALL LECTURENOVEMBER 12, 2015RUTH OKEDIJI (MINNESOTA) HOUSTON, TEXAS

13th ANNUAL SPRING LECTUREMARCH 24, 2016MARK LEMLEY (STANFORD)HOUSTON, TEXAS

2016 NATIONAL CONFERENCEJUNE 4, 2016SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO

2015 IPIL NATIONAL CONFERENCE (SANTA FE, NM) PRESENTERS AND FELLOWSL-R: LEAH CHAN GRINVALD (SUFFOLK), AMY LANDERS (DREXEL), LATEEF MTIMA (HOWARD), ERIC PRIEST (OREGON),

DANIEL GERVAIS (VANDERBILT), PATRICIA JUDD (WASHBURN), MARGARET CHON (SEATTLE), IRENE CALBOLI (TEXAS A&M)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dean’s Message .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1

RaspBerry Specifications ................................................................................................................................................................. 2

A Learning Center at an International Crossroads .................................................................. 2

Degree Offerings ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 3

Principal Faculty ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Affiliated Faculty .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

Adjunct Faculty .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 7

IPIL Courses Typically Offered ......................................................................................................................................... 8

IPIL: A Year in the Life ............................................................................................................................................................... 10

National Conference (Santa Fe) ................................................................................................................................ 12

Fall Lecture ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

Spring Lecture .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 15

RaspBerry Trade Secrets ............................................................................................................................................................ 16

Sponsored Web Resources ................................................................................................................................................ 16

RaspBerry Copyright .......................................................................................................................................................................... 17

RaspBerry Trademark .................................................................................................................................................................... 18

Special Events .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 18

Student Interests .................................................................................................................................................................................... 19

RaspBerry Patent ................................................................................................................................................................................... 19

RaspBerry Information Law ............................................................................................................................................ 20

UH Law Center’s Legal Information Resources ....................................................................... 20

IPIL Missions ................................................................................................................................... Inside Back Cover

Contact Information ......................................................................................................... Inside Back Cover

Sponsors/Supporters ............................................................................................................................... Back CoverCover photos by Scott Christopher Photography for IPIL

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DEAN’S MESSAGEThe power of a legal education is seen in the skills and knowledge acquired to facilitate the creative process, whether involving words written on a page or software programs controlling a global communications network. Explosive developments in technology and commerce are continuously transforming the laws of Intellectual Property and Information Law.

The time is right to learn from the best, and the place to do that is here at the University of Houston Law Center. Our Intellectual Property & Information Law Institute is consistently ranked in the nation’s Top 10, according to U.S. News & World Report, and is known throughout the world for the strength of its faculty, scholarship, curriculum, and graduates. Students at the Law Center learn against the backdrop of Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city, and benefit from the wealth of intellectual capital in the area as the region thrives as an epicenter of business – domestically and in the global marketplace.

Whether your interest lies in traditional areas of Intellectual Property Law – Patent, Copyright, Trademark, Trade Secret – or the rapidly evolving field of Information Law – Internet, software, electronic commerce, databases – IPIL/HOUSTON has what it takes to help you realize your goal of a successful career in this growing field.

Please spend a few minutes reading about all we have to offer, and then come join us.

Leonard M. BaynesDEAN, PROFESSOR OF LAW,

AND MEMBER,

IPIL AFFILIATED FACULTY

AS PART OF THE UH LAW CENTER, accredited by the American Bar Association,

the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law is located in one

of the largest and most diverse metropolitan areas in the United

States. Houston is among the top five markets in the

United States for IP & IL, with thousands of these

specialists working in corporations, law firms,

and universities. Indeed, the Houston Intellectual

Property Law Association is among the most

influential IP bar organizations in the country,

boasting many leaders of national IP groups

(including the American Intellectual Property

Law Association’s current president), along

with its active amicus and continuing legal

education activities.

In addition to world-class law firms serving

clients from Houston to Hong Kong and

from Silicon Valley to Singapore, Houston

hosts numerous multinational corporations

and organizations that generate intellectual

property: ExxonMobil, Shell, NASA, many

information technology companies, and

the distinguished institutions of the Texas

Medical Center are just a few. UH’s strong

presence in the region produces significant research

opportunities for faculty and students alike.

For more information on Houston, visit www.houstontx.gov.

A LEARNING CENTER AT AN INTERNATIONAL CROSSROADS

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RASPBERRYSPECIFICATIONS

PROCESSING SPEED: speed of light, squared

MEMORY: total recall

HARD DRIVE STORAGE: all the world’s libraries

E-MAIL CAPACITY: one gigadrupelet

BATTERY LIFE: life expectancy of user

WEIGHT: n/a (does not register on scale)

CONSTRUCTION: crushable Kevlar case (available in 256 colors, plus plaid)

SPECIAL FEATURES: issues personal checks, reminds users to retrieve laundry, Eye-Link to DVD movies, Ear-Link to MSNBC, Nose-Link to The Food Network

The legal issues involving intellectual property and information law are easily illustrated. Consider the fictional case of the RaspBerry, the newest smart phone developed by Happy-Berry Corp. (“H-B”). Lighter than the cocktail napkin that framed its preliminary design, RaspBerries are small enough to fit in your hip pocket yet powerful enough to free you from desktop bondage. After investing thousands of person-hours to produce the RaspBerry, H-B is pleased as punch with the fruit of its labors. But what if an unscrupulous micro-mimicker seizes the secrets behind the market leader in smart phones? Thanks to the H-B’s skilled team of IPIL specialists, the outcome is guaranteed to be of another vintage.

For fun facts concerning RaspBerry’s fabulous features (and the plenteous protections provided by intellectual property and information law), see pages 16-20.

APPROXIMATELY THREE DOZEN COURSES RELATING TO IPIL ARE OFFERED

REGULARLY at the UH Law Center. All of these courses answer the degree

requirements for the Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree, and most apply to the

Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in intellectual property and information law.

J.D. PROGRAMThe UH Law Center offers both full-time and part-time programs leading to

the J.D. degree. J.D. candidates must complete 90 semester hours and can

customize their curricula with intellectual property and information law courses

that reflect their individual interests. Students interested in applying to the

J.D. Program should contact the Office of Admissions for an application at

713.743.2280 or lawadmissions@uh.edu. Applications also can be accessed at

www.law.uh.edu/admissions/apply-now.html.

LL.M. PROGRAMThe LL.M. Program provides an academic environment for practicing lawyers who

wish to expand their knowledge of intellectual property and information law. Only

a limited number of candidates are accepted for full-time or part-time studies,

and admissions are highly competitive. Applicants from the United States must

hold a J.D. degree or equivalent from a law school accredited by the American

Bar Association. Lawyers who hold law degrees from foreign countries must meet

academic and English-language standards for admission.

LL.M. candidates must complete 24 semester hours of approved courses

(including a minimum of 15 hours of IP and IL study), with a qualifying cumulative

grade-point average. An optional thesis is available. Class scheduling and

availability vary from year to year. Most IPIL courses are offered in the fall and

spring semesters. Generally, IPIL courses are not available in the summer. Both

full-time and part-time degree candidates are allowed a maximum of three

years for in-classroom work and completion of the thesis. Thesis supervision

occurs during the fall and spring semesters only. For details about the LL.M.

Program, contact the LL.M. Coordinator at 713.743.2890 or llm@uh.edu, or visit

www.law.uh.edu/llm.

VISITING STUDENTSSecond- and third-year law

students in good standing at an

ABA-accredited law school are

eligible to spend a semester at

the UH Law Center and to enroll

in its IPIL curriculum as well as

other upper-division courses.

Participants are accorded “visiting”

status and receive their law degrees

from their home schools. Students

interested in visiting at the UH Law

Center should contact the Office

of Admissions at 713.743.2280 or

lawadmissions@uh.edu.

TRANSFER APPLICANTSStudents also have the option of applying for transfer to the Law Center. Transfer

admissions are highly competitive. First consideration is given to applicants who

have performed extremely well in their first year of law school. Applications with

less than 22 graded hours will not be considered. Applicants must have completed

all or most of the Law Center’s first-year required courses, which include Civil

Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Torts, and Legal

Skills and Strategy. Successful applicants may transfer a maximum of 30 semester

hours of credit, with hours rather than grades to be noted on their final UH Law

Center transcripts. Transfer credit will not be awarded for any course in which the

student has earned lower than a “C.”

DEGREE OFFERINGS

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IPIL Prof. Greg R. Vetter

PAUL M. JANICKEHIPLA Professor of LawB.E.E., Manhattan College; J.D., New York University; LL.M., George Washington University

Professor Janicke is a recognized expert in patent litigation. He clerked at the U.S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals in Washington, D.C., from 1969 to 1971 before joining the intellectual property firm of Arnold, White & Durkee, where he later served as managing partner. Professor Janicke joined the UH Law Center faculty in 1992.

Subjects:Patent Law, Patent Remedies and Defenses, Licensing & Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property Survey, Intellectual Property Advanced Topics Seminar, Military Law, and Evidence

Recent Scholarship includes:Lake Michigan Water Diversion: A Brief Legal History (2014), at www.watercases.org; The Patent Infringement Cases on Wastewater Treatment in the Great Lakes Region (2014), at www.watercases.org; An Interim Proposal for Fixing Ex Parte Patent Reexamination’s Messy Side, 4 HLRe 43 (2013); The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation: Now a Strengthened Traffic Cop for Patent Venue, 32 Rev. Litig. 497 (2013); Overview of the New Patent Law of the United States, 21 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 63 (2013); The Patent Malpractice Thicket, or Why Justice Holmes Was Right, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 437 (2012); Modern Patent Litigation (3rd ed. 2012); A Need for Clearer Language About Patent Law, 11 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 457 (2012); A Commentary on the New United States Patent Law, 60 Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht Internationaler Teil 887 (2011); Implementing the Adequate Remedy at Law: Relief Against Ongoing Patent Infringement When an Injunction is Denied, 51 Idea: The Journal of Intellectual Property Law 163 (2011); Venue Transfers from the Eastern District of Texas: Case by Case or an Endemic Problem?, Landslide 16 (March-April 2010); Patent Venue and Convenience Transfer: New World or Small Shift?, 11 N.C. J.L. & Tech. On. 1 (2009); Die Reform des U.S. Patentrechts im Jahr 2007, 56 Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht Internationaler Teil 791 (2007); Patent Jury Verdicts: Myths and Realities, Intellectual Property Today ( July 2007) 18; Who Wins Patent Infringement Cases?, 34 Aipla Q.J. 1 (2006); Four Key Points in the Current Patent Reform Effort in the United States, 5 Icfai J. Intell. Prop. Rts. 14 (Hyderabad, India, 2006).

For more information, visit Professor Janicke’s Web page at www.law.uh.edu/faculty.

SAPNA KUMARAssistant Professor of LawB.S. (Mathematics), B.A. (Philosophy), The University of Texas at Austin; J.D., University of Chicago

Professor Kumar is a rising patent law scholar currently working at the intersection of public law and patents. She is also the 2012-2013 recipient of the Law Center’s Faculty of the Year Award and the University’s Teaching Excellence Award. From 2003 to 2006, she practiced intellectual property litigation in Chicago at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and at Pattishall McAuliffe. She then spent two years at Duke University Law School, where she was a faculty fellow and part of the Center for Genome Ethics Law & Policy. While at Duke, Professor Kumar taught a seminar in open-source software licensing. After completing her fellowship, Professor Kumar clerked for the Honorable Judge Kenneth F. Ripple on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Subjects:Patent Law, Administrative Law, and Property

Recent Scholarship includes:Regulating Digital Trade, 67 Fla. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2015); Gene Patents and Patient Rights, 35 Whittier L. Rev. 363 (2014) (solicited essay); Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Genetic Information, 65 Ala. L. Rev. 625 (2014); The Accidental Agency?, 64 Fla. L. Rev. 229 (2013); Expert Court, Expert Agency, 44 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1547 (2011); The Bilski Decision: What Does It Mean for the Future of Business Method and Software Patents?, Computer L. Rev. Int’l (April 2010); 2009 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Panel Discussion: An Uncomfortable Fit?: Intellectual Property Policy and the Administrative State (with Murray, Mazzone, Travis & Abdelkhalik), 14 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 441 (2010); The Other Patent Agency: Congressional Regulation of the ITC, 61 Fla. L. Rev. 529 (2009); Proprietary Science, Open Science, and the Role of Patent Disclosure: The Case of Zinc Finger Proteins, 27 Nature Biotechnology 140 (2009) (with Rai, Chandrasekharan & Valley); GPL Version 3’s DRM and Patent Clauses Under German and U.S. Law, Computer L. Rev. Int’l (April 15, 2008) (with Koglin); Synthetic Biology: The Intellectual Property Puzzle, 85 U. Texas L. Rev. 1745 (2007) (with Rai); Enforcing The GPL, 2006 U. Ill. J.L. Tech. & Pol’y 1.

For more information, visit Professor Kumar’s Web page at www.law.uh.edu/faculty.

CRAIG JOYCEAndrews Kurth Professor of LawB.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Oxford University; J.D., Stanford University

Professor Joyce is the lead author of the widely used casebook, Copyright Law (10th ed. forthcoming 2016). His articles on copyright history and doctrine have appeared in numerous journals, including the Emory, Harvard, Houston, Michigan, UCLA, and Vanderbilt law reviews, and are cited regularly by the federal appellate courts. He edited The Majesty of the Law (2003) for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Besides his duties at the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law since 1991, he has served as both Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies & Special Programs. He taught at the Institute on Chinese Law & Business in Beijing in Summer 2011 and 2012.

Subjects:Copyright, Advanced Copyright Seminar, American Legal History, and Torts

Recent Scholarship includes:Copyright Law (10th ed. forthcoming 2016) (lead author); Law Review: The First Fifty Years of Hous. L. Rev. (2014); Copyright Law (9th Ed. 2013, with Leaffer, Jaszi, Ochoa & Carroll); Enduringly Great, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 1541 (2013); The Great Leap Forward, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 1255 (2013); Centered, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 1027 (2013); Carry on Boldly, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 689 (2012); Driven, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 257 (2012); The Statute of Anne: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 779 and 1013 (2011); Intellectual Property in the United States, in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (S. Katz ed., 2009); multiple entries in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (R. Newman ed., 2009); A Unified Theory of Copyright, by L. Ray Patterson & Stanley H. Birch, Jr. (Craig Joyce ed. 2009), originally published in 46 Hous. L. Rev. 215 (2009); Copyright in Context, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 815 (2007); Lazy B and the Nation’s Court: Pragmatism in Service of Principle, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 1257 (2006); A Good Judge, 30 J. S. Ct. Hist. 100 (2006); A Curious Chapter in the History of Judicature, 43 Hous. L. Rev. 325 (2005); “The Story of Wheaton v. Peters,” in Intellectual Property Stories (Ginsburg & Cooper eds., 2005); The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice (2003, hardcover ed. 2003 & paperback ed. 2004) (written by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and edited by Professor Joyce).

For more information, visit Professor Joyce’s Web page at www.lawuh.edu/faculty.

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PRINCIPAL FACULTY

GREG R. VETTERLaw Foundation Professor of LawB.S.E.E., Missouri University of Science and Technology; M.S., University of Missouri-Kansas City; M.B.A., Rockhurst University; J.D., Northwestern University

Professor Vetter is a leading expert on intellectual property as applied to software and the business of software,

with particular emphasis on free and open source software. Prior to law school, he gained extensive business expertise in software design, management, and marketing through nine years of work experience in the software industry. After several years in law practice, he clerked for the Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., before joining the Law Center in 2002.

Besides his duties at the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law since 2002, he has been an invited visitor teaching intellectual property law at three other law schools in that time frame: University of Texas at Austin School of Law (2006-07); University of Washington School of Law (Fall 2010); Texas A&M University School of Law (Spring 2015).

Subjects:Digital Transactions, Intellectual Property Survey, Intellectual Property Advanced Topics Seminar, Internet Law, International Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Strategy & Management, Licensing, Patent Law, Property, and Trademark Law

Recent Scholarship includes: Intellectual Property Law (forthcoming 2015) (patent law chapters author); Deleveraging the Software License in Health Information Technology (work in progress); Are Prior User Rights Good for Software?, 73 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 251 (2015); A Public Domain Approach to Free and Open Source Software?, 75 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore 8 (2014); Patent Law’s Unpredictability Doctrine & the Software Arts, 76 Mo. L. Rev. 763 (2011); Patenting Cryptographic Technology, 84 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 757 (2010); Commercial Free and Open Source Software: Knowledge Production, Hybrid Appropriability, and Patents, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2087 (2009); Slouching Toward Open Innovation: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Electronic Health Information, 30 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 179 (2009); Claiming Copyleft in Open Source Software: What If the Free Software Foundation’s General Public License (GPL) Had Been Patented?, 2008 Mich. St. L. Rev. 279; Open Source Licensing & Scattering Opportunism in Software Standards, 48 B.C. L. Rev. 225 (2007); Exit & Voice in Free & Open Source Software Licensing: Moderating the Rein over Software Users, 85 Or. L. Rev. 183 (2006); “Infectious” Open Source Software: Spreading Incentives or Promoting Resistance?, 36 Rutgers L.J. 53 (2005); The Collaborative Integrity of Open Source Software, 2004 Utah L. Rev. 563 (2004).

For more information, visit Professor Vetter’s Web page at www.law.uh.edu/faculty.

JACQUELINE D. LIPTONBaker Botts Professor of Law (on leave 2015-16, returning 2016-17)B.A. (Melb.), B.A. (Hons.) (La Trobe), LL.B. (Hons) (Melb.), LL.M. (Monash), LL.M. (Cantab.), Ph.D. (Griffith), Ph.D. (Cantab.)

Professor Lipton is a recognized expert in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property law, and comparative/international commercial law. She

has served on the faculties of major research universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Prior to that, she worked for two major Australian commercial law firms, and also as in-house counsel at a major Australian bank. She is the co-author of one of the leading cyberlaw casebooks in the U.S. market as well as several sole-authored monographs on digital technology and the law.

Subjects:Internet Law, Trademark Law, International Intellectual Property Law, and Data Privacy

Recent Scholarship includes:The Criminal Law of Intellectual Property (2 ed. forthcoming 2015, with G. Moohr & I. Manta); The Right to be Forgotten: A Comparative Study (forthcoming 2015 in Ky. L. J., with P. Sánchez Abril); Rethinking Cyberlaw (2015); Derivative Works 2.0: Reconsidering Transformative Use in the Age of Crowdsourced Creation, 109 Nw. U. L. Rev. 383 (2015, with J. Tehranian); Copyright and the Commercialization of Fanfiction, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 425 (2014); A Taxonomy of Digital Borrowing: Copyright, Derivative Works and Plagiarism in Self-Publishing, 24 Fordham Intell. Prop., Media & Ent. L. J. 951 (2014); Copyright, Plagiarism, and Emerging Norms in Digital Publishing, 16 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 585 (2014); Digital Video Streaming in the United States Supreme Court: American Broadcasting Commission v. Aereo, 88 Australian L.J. 302 (2014); Speech for Sale: Commerce and Free Speech in ICANN’s new gTLD Process, 87 Australian L.J. 24 (2013); Cyber-Bullying and the First Amendment, 14 Fla. Coastal L. Rev. 99 (2012); Imperatives of Private Arbitration in International Intellectual Property Disputes, 24 Singapore Acad. L.J. 978 (2012, with M. Wong); Online Gripesite and ICANN’s new gTLD Process, 25 Intell. Prop. J. 195 (2012, with M. Wong); The Law of the Intermediated Information Exchange, 64 Fla. L. Rev. 1337 (2012); Trademarks and Free Speech in ICANN’s new gTLD Process, 38 Monash L. Rev. 188 (2012, with M. Wong); Combating Cyber-Victimization, 26 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1103 (2011); Bad Faith in Cyberspace: Grounding Domain Name Theory in Trademark, Property, and Restitution, 23 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 447 (2010) (selected as one of best IP articles of 2010 and reprinted in Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 2011); Copyright’s Twilight Zone: Digital Copyright Lessons from the Vampire Blogosphere, 70 Md. L. Rev. 1 (2010); Mapping Online Privacy, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 477 (2010) (solicited for symposium edition); “We, the Paparazzi”: Developing a Privacy Paradigm for Digital Video, 95 Iowa L. Rev. 919 (2010); Cyberspace Law, Cases and Materials (3d ed. 2010, with R. Ku); Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech (2010).

For more information, visit Professor Lipton’s Web page at www.law.uh.edu/faculty.

RAYMOND T. NIMMERDean Emeritus and Leonard H. Childs Professor of LawB.A., J.D., Valparaiso University

Professor Nimmer is the author of over 20 books and numerous articles. Most recently, he has updated five major treatises: The Law of Computer Technology; Drafting Effective

Contracts; The Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions; Information Law; and Modern Licensing Law. He is a frequent speaker at programs worldwide in the areas of intellectual property, licensing, business, and technology law. He was the Co-Reporter of the Drafting Committee on Revision of U.C.C. Article 2 and the Reporter of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). He has been a consultant to the National Science Foundation and the office of the Legal Advisor of the U.S. State Department. He is listed in the International Who’s Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers, as well as Who’s Who in Law, and as one of the Best Lawyers in America in numerous categories.

Subjects:Information Law, Internet Law, Digital Transactions, and Commercial Law

Recent Scholarship includes:The Law of Computer Technology (4th ed. 2009, updated 2015); Drafting Effective Contracts (2004, updated 2015, with R. Feldman); The Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions (2003, updated 2015, with H. Towle); Information Law (1996, updated 2015); Modern Licensing Law (2014 ed., with J. Dodd); The Misuse of Fair Use: Google Books and Other Transformative Purpose Cases, Intellectual Property Law Institute 2014; Issues in Modern Licensing of Factual Information and Databases, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Licensing ( J. De Werra ed., 2013); Interaction of Contract and Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Law Institute (David Bender & Robert P. Taylor ed., 2012); Data Privacy, Protection and Security Law (2012, with H. Towle); Content Creators, Social Media and Online Protection, Intellectual Property Law Institute 2011; Information Wars and the Challenges of Content Protection in Digital Contexts, 13 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 824 (2011); Copyright First Sale and the Over-Riding Role of Contract, 51 Santa Clara L. Rev. 101 (2011); Licensing of Information Assets: Cases and Materials (2d ed. 2010); Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, in 10 Uniform Commercial Code Series (W. Hawkland ed. 1932, Supp. 2010); Licensing Information Assets in the New Economy: A Pro-Rights Perspective, Indian J. L. & Tech. (Bangalore, India 2008); An Essay on Article Two’s Irrelevance to Licensing Agreements, 40 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 235 (2007); The Legal Landscape of Electronic Commerce: Redefining Contract Law in an Information Era, 23 J. Cont. L. 10 (2007); Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing, Cases, Materials, Problems (3d ed. 2003, with I. Hillinger & M. Hillinger).

For more information, visit Professor Nimmer’s Web page at www.law.uh.edu/faculty. 5

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PETER LINZER, Professor of Law, A.B., Cornell University; J.D., Columbia University

Professor Linzer has served as Reviser, Corbin on Contracts (Interpretation), and Editorial Reviser of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts. In addition to advanced contract drafting (including domestic and international IP-related documents), he teaches Constitutional Law and First Amendment, with research interests in free speech rights and Internet neutrality.

GERALDINE SZOTT MOOHR, Alumnae Professor of Law (Emerita), A.B., Cornell University; J.D., Columbia University

Professor Moohr is one of the nation’s leading scholars in federal criminal law, particularly fraud and white collar crime, and is the author of the path-breaking casebook, The Criminal Law of Intellectual Property and Information.

AFFILIATED FACULTYLEONARD M. BAYNES, Dean and Professor of Law, B.S., New York University; M.B.A., J.D., Columbia University

Dean Baynes joined the Law Center in 2015, bringing a national reputation as a communications law scholar, with specializations in business, media, and diversity issues. He has written more than 25 law review articles. His co-authored casebook, Telecommunications Law: Convergence and Competition, will appear shortly.

RICHARD F. DOLE, Bobby Wayne Young Professor of Consumer Law, A.B., Bates College; LL.B., LL.M., Cornell University; S.J.D., University of Michigan

Professor Dole assisted in drafting both the Uniform Trade Secrets Act and the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act. His recent scholarship concerns remedies under the UTSA. Professor Dole’s teaching interests include Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Creditors’ Rights, and Unfair Competition.

BARBARA EVANS, Professor of Law and George Butler Research Professor and Director, Center on Biotechnology & Law, B.S.E.E.,University of Texas at Austin (with Honors); M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University; J.D., Yale Law University; LL.M., University of Houston

Dr. Evans’s research interests include genomic and translational medicine, tissue banking, healthy data privacy, and biotechnology regulation. A member of the ABA Special Committee on Bioethics, at UH she teaches Biotechnology and the Law.

DARREN BUSH, Law Foundation Professor of Law, B.A., California State University, San Bernardino; Ph.D., J.D., University of Utah

Professor Bush previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, with attention to state deregulation of electric utilities as well as mergers and anticompetitive conduct in wholesale and retail energy markets. He teaches Antitrust, Regulated Industries, Law & Economics, and Administrative Law.

ANTHONY R. CHASE, Associate Professor of Law, B.A., M.B.A., J.D., Harvard University

Professor Chase, a former telecom industry executive, has served as Deputy Chairman of the Regional Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch. He teaches Communications Law, Entrepreneurship, and Contracts at the Law Center, and also teaches in the UH Bauer College of Business’s top-ranked Entrepreneurship Program.

SETH CHANDLER, Law Foundation Professor of Law, A.B., Princeton University; J.D., Harvard University

Professor Chandler is a leader in the emerging scholarly discipline of law and computation, where his scholarship uses computational modeling to better understand such areas of interest as insurance law, health law, economic analysis of law, and contracts. At UH, he teaches Computational Law, which includes various methods applied to the effect and operation of IP law.

JESSICA ROBERTS, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Health Law & Policy Institute,B.A., University of Southern California; J.D., Yale University

Professor Robert’s research operates at the intersection of health law and antidiscrimination law. Her current projects explore the theoretical implications of health-care reform, the formation of genetic identity, and the antidiscrimination protection of health-related information. Professor Roberts teaches Introduction to Health Law, Disabilities and the Law, and Genetics and the Law.

MICHAEL A. OLIVAS, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law and Director, Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance, B.A., Pontifical College Josephinum; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University; J.D., Georgetown University

Professor Olivas, 2011 President of the AALS, is the nation’s leading expert on higher education law. A prolific scholar, his writings are cited in the popular press and debated in academic institutions across the United States. He teaches Education Law and Legislation.

SPENCER SIMONS, Associate Professor of Law, and Director, O’Quinn Law Library, B.A., J.D., M.B.A. (Finance), Master of Librarianship, University of Washington

Professor Simons’s professional background includes over a decade in banking and financial management, along with bankruptcy work as an attorney. His academic career led him to the directorship of the Law Center’s O’Quinn Law Library in 2004. He currently teaches Accounting and Finance for Lawyers, as well as Advanced Legal Research.6

LAWRENCE F. PINSKY, Professor, Physics Department, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Houston, B.S., Carnegie Mellon University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester; J.D., LL.M., University of Houston

Dr. Pinsky’s specialties include experimental particle physics, heavy ion physics, nucleon structure functions, space radiation simulation, medium energy physics, and charged particle detector development. He is involved in projects at CERN, BNL, NASA, and Fermilab. He teaches Internet Law and Intellectual Property Survey.

LEONARD M. BAYNES, Dean and Professor of Law B.S., New York University; M.B.A., Columbia University; J.D., Columbia University

ADJUNCT FACULTY

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NATALIE ALFARO, Baker Botts L.L.P. B.S., University of Texas; J.D., University of Houston Law Center

YOCEL ALONSO, B.A., University of Houston, University of Salamanca, Spain; J.D., University of Houston

RAY ASHBURG, Electrolux North America. B.S., University of North Carolina at Charlotte; J.D., Wake Forest University; LL.M., University of Houston

JUSTEN BARKS, Craft Chu PLLC. B.B.A., Belmont University; J.D., University of Houston

JAMES BEEBE, GE Oil & Gas. B.S. (Chemical Engineering), Mississippi State University; M.C.E., J.D., University of Houston

DAVID BENDER, Sc.B. (Applied Mathematics), Brown University; LL.B., University of Pennsylvania; LL.M. (Patent Law), S.J.D. (Computer Law), George Washington University

NICOLE CÁSAREZ, University of St. Thomas. B.S., University of Texas at Austin; J.D., University of Texas at Austin; M.A., University of Houston

RONALD L. CHICHESTER, Ronald Chichester, P.C. B.S., M.S., University of Michigan; J.D., University of Houston

RUSSELL CHORUSH, Heim Payne + Chorush LLP. B.S., University of Texas at Austin; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University; J.D., University of Houston

RICARDO COLMENTER, Entra Consulting. J.D., UCAB Caracas Venezuela; LL.M. (Intellectual Property & Information Law), University of Houston; LL.M. (Intellectual Property and Human Rights), Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University

ALI DHANANI, Baker Botts L.L.P. B.S. (Computer Science), J.D., University of Houston

JEFF C. DODD, Andrews Kurth LLP. B.A., J.D., University of Houston

KATHY FRANCO, Blank Rome LLP. B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D., University of Houston

VALERIE K. FRIEDRICH, JL Salazar Law Firm, PLLC. B.S., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., University of Houston

MARK HOOSE, Phillips 66. B.S., University of Illinois; J.D., George Washington University Law School; LL.M., Georgetown Law

SHARON A. ISRAEL, Mayer Brown LLP. S.B. (Electrical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D., M.B.A., Emory University

TERRIL G. LEWIS, Lewis & Reese, PLLC. B.S.E.E., University of Notre Dame; M.E.E., Rice University; J.D., University of Houston; LL.M., George Washington University

D.C. TOEDT, University of Houston Law Center Lecturer. B.A., J.D., University of Texas at Austin

HOLLY K. TOWLE, K&L Gates. A.B., Whitman College; J.D., University of Washington

PAUL VAN SLYKE, Hoover Slovacek LLP. B.S. (Electrical Engineering), University of Texas; J.D. Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law

JEREMY WELCH, Schlumberger Technology Corp. B.A., Rice University; J.D., University of Houston

COMPETITION COACHESJASON BEESINGER, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. B.A., Texas A&M University; J.D., University of Houston

ALLAN BULLWINKEL, Heim, Payne & Chorush LLP. B.S. (Computer Engineering) Mississippi State University; J.D., University of Houston Law Center

CARLYN BURTON, Osha Liang LLP. B.S., M.S., Emory University; J.D., University of Houston

AFSHEEN DAVIS, Rackspace. B.S., Texas A&M University; J.D., University of Houston

JOSH DAVIS, The Josh Davis Law Firm. B.S., Trinity University; J.D., University of Houston

CHRISTOPHER McKEON, Arnold, Knobloch & Saunders, L.L.P. B.S., M.S., Texas A&M University; J.D., University of Houston

WILL SPROTT, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, B.S. (Biomedical Engineering), Tulane University; J.D., University of Houston

ALEXIS STEINBERG, Gonzales Saggio & Harlan, L.L.C. B.S., United States Naval Academy; J.D., University of Texas at Austin

IPIL COURSES TYPICALLY OFFEREDADVANCED TOPICS IN COPYRIGHT LAW SEMINAR provides students the opportunity for in-depth exploration of topics of interest to them, including technological, international, and historical

problems in the field of copyright law. 3 credits.

ADVANCED TOPICS IN SOFTWARE PROTECTION provides students with a holistic view of software protection, focusing on legal issues concerning the protection and transaction of computer software, particularly with respect to trade secrecy, patent law, digital copyright, and licensing. 2 credits.

ADVERTISING AND MARKETING LAW covers both the law and commercial perspectives concerning the advertising and marketing industry. This survey includes treatment of issues from consumer protection, privacy, trademark, business torts, constitutional law, copyright, privacy, and other areas of law important to advertising and marketing. 2 credits.

ANTITRUST LAW explores the law and economics of antitrust policy and the methods for enforcing antitrust policy. Emphasis is placed on the issues of monopolization, mergers, price fixing, and state and local government actions impacting the competitive process. 3 credits.

ART LAW considers various national and international disputes involving the title and possession of works of art and cultural heritage. 2 credits.

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW examines ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding new medical technologies related to genetic information, including consideration of regulatory frameworks to ensure appropriate incentives for research and commercialization of biotechnologies. 3 credits.

COMMUNICATION LAW examines regulation and policy concerned with various forms of mass media in the US, including radio and television as well as telecommunications regulations, law, and policy. 3 credits.

COMPUTATIONAL LAW enables students to develop interactive models of legal issues or systems. Likely topics include decision theory, game theory, finance, statistics, network analysis, and computational linguistics. 3 credits.

COMPUTER CRIME emphasizes the federal criminal laws, particularly the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but will touch upon relevant state anti-spyware laws as well. Other topics include crimes related to corporate espionage, hacking, and misappropriation/infringement of intellectual property rights that involve a computer or a network. 2 credits.

CONSUMER LAW examines consumer law issues in both traditional and electronic/internet marketplaces, including an emphasis on the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. 3 credits.

CONTRACT DRAFTING helps students prepare for drafting, reviewing, analyzing, explaining, and negotiating contracts. Typical contracts considered may include agreements involving employment, leases, distribution, services, licenses, stock-options, change-of-control, arbitration, and/or settlements. 3 credits.

COPYRIGHT LAW deals with the protection of the works of human intellect (literature, music, art, computer programs, etc.) under U.S. Code Title 17. 3 credits.

CULTURAL PROPERTY covers topics in the protection of intangibles as they relate to knowledge generated by indigenous people around the world, and also considers issues concerning knowledge derived from isolated populations. 2 credits.

DIGITAL TRANSACTIONS covers issues in software and online licensing, including the nature of remedies, warranties, and other obligations that arise from such transactions. 3 credits.

eDISCOVERY examines the increased impact of technology in the legal field, including significant changes in the way litigation, and specifically discovery, is handled. 3 credits.

ENTERTAINMENT LAW blends concepts and skills derived from intellectual property, contracts, and torts, with emphasis on recent Internet-based developments in the relevant entertainment industries. 2 credits.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP examines entrepreneurship and specifically considers the challenges and strategies typically encountered in becoming a successful entrepreneur, with particular emphasis on technology and the law relating to it. 3 credits.

FRANCHISE & DISTRIBUTION covers franchise regulation, disclosure, and registration, types of franchises, antitrust, unfair competition, trademarks, pricing, advertising, premises liability, and contract law. 3 credits.

GENETICS AND THE LAW examines ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding new genetic technologies. 3 credits.

INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW SEMINAR allows students to focus on such topics as privacy and the media, privacy and law enforcement, surveillance law and national security, health and genetic privacy, associational privacy and anonymity, and privacy of commercial data. 2 credits.

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IPIL COURSES TYPICALLY OFFEREDINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ADVANCED TOPICS SEMINAR is a treatment of specialized subjects in intellectual property law. 3 credits.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SURVEY covers domestic intellectual property laws—patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret—through statutes and cases, with attention to the needs both of non-specialty students desiring a one-time overview of the basics of IPIL law and of soon-to-be IPIL specialists seeking more detailed study. 2 credits.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT examines the legal and managerial issues facing an intellectual property or information-based organization from its start-up phase through either an initial public offering (IPO) or an acquisition by another firm. 3 credits.

INTERNATIONAL ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY analyzes the enforcement of trademarks, patents, and copyrights beyond national boundaries. Special emphasis is placed on differences and similarities between the diverse national intellectual property enforcement systems. 2 credits.

INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY examines both international IP law itself and comparative aspects of IP law among major trading countries and regions of the world. 3 credits.

INTERNET LAW is a survey of legal issues arising from the rapid growth of Internet and other online communications. Coverage includes intellectual property, First Amendment, criminal, and privacy issues. 3 credits.

INTERSESSION COURSES, taught during the winter break, consider a variety of currently topical subjects such as data security, database protection, and privacy, as well as issues posed by pending and recently decided major cases. 1-2 credits.

LICENSING AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER examines techniques for licensing rights in technology and the ways of employing and transferring such rights. 3 credits.

LL.M. THESIS COURSE affords IPIL Master of Laws candidates the opportunity to produce thesis quality scholarship, under the supervision of IPIL faculty, in an area of intellectual property law or information law. 3 credits.

PATENT LAW examines the substantive law of patents as a means for protecting inventive ideas. The course focuses on conditions necessary to obtain a patent, infringement, and enforcing patent rights through patent litigation. 3 credits.

PATENT PROSECUTION considers substantive law and procedures governing the patent application process and emphasizes practical application of the rules to real-life situations. 2 credits.

PATENT REMEDIES AND DEFENSES studies issues commonly arising in modern patent litigation. The course examines necessary parties, remedies, and affirmative defenses. 2 credits.

PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION covers the basic principles of privacy and data protection law, including federal privacy statutes relating to surveillance, record-keeping, and health information, as well as state privacy statutes, the privacy-related activities of the Federal Trade Commission, and the privacy law in the European Union. 2 credits.

PROCEDURE OF PATENT LITIGATION provides hands-on experience with issues that patent litigators face in day-to-day trial preparation, examining a hypothetical patent case from inception, through the Markman hearing, to trial, with additional attention to the relationship between district courts and the Federal Circuit in patent litigation. 2 credits.

PROPERTY CRIME IN THE INFORMATION AGE melds two fields, criminal law and the law of information and intellectual property, with special focus on how the law protects information products from unauthorized use facilitated by the Internet and digitization. 3 credits.

SPORTS LAW treats topics such as representation of the professional athlete in contract negotiations and endorsements, related intellectual property matters, the player-club contractual relationship, anti-trust and collective bargaining issues in amateur and professional sports, and sports tort liability. 2 credits.

TAXATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY covers IP aspects of the Internal Revenue Code, including provisions that govern the development of intellectual property as well as international and state tax ramifications. 2 credits.

TRADE SECRETS surveys the practical aspects of trade secrets as they relate to protection by contract and operation of law, relationships of the parties, public law constraints, adversarial considerations, and licensing. 2 credits.

TRADEMARK AND UNFAIR COMPETITION considers the evolution and practice of trademark and related unfair competition law, with emphasis on litigation strategy. 3 credits.

VIRTUAL WORLDS examines models for virtual world law and government, with special emphasis on online contracts, intellectual property rights, gambling and gaming laws, jurisdictional laws, privacy and publicity rights, and issues of computer security. 2 credits.

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FLORENCIA MAROTTA-WURGLER

(NYU)10

IPIL: A YEAR IN THE LIFE

SSG FOR FEDERAL CLERKSHon. Harry T. Edwards, U.S. Court of Appeals

for the D.C. Circuit (2015), Hon. Robert E. Bacharach,

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2016)

SSG FOR THE LEGAL ACADEMYYVETTE LIEBESMAN

Saint Louis University School of Law

DAVID ABRAMS(PENNSYLVANIA)

JORGE CONTRERAS(UTAH)

JORGE CONTRERAS(UTAH)

STACEY LANTAGNE(MISSISSIPPI)

YVETTE JOY LIEBESMAN JOSEPH ROTH

2014-2015IPIL COLLOQUIA

SPONSOREDSCHOLARSHIP

GRANTS(“SSGs”)

FROM IPIL

DENNIS CROUCH, FALL LECTURER,with ED FEIN (NASA), PAUL JANICKE, AND RONALD KATZ

2015 WORLD IP DAYL-R: Armando Lichtenberger Jr. (La Mafia), Michael Olivas (IHELG),

Yocel Alonso (UHLC Adjunct Professor), Ezequiel “El Cheque” Gonzalez (Program Director, Liberman Broadcasting, Inc.), and Justen Barks (UHLC Adjunct Professor/Craft Chu PLLC)

2015 NATIONAL CONFERENCE Inn and Spa at Loretto Santa Fe, New Mexico 11

IPIL: A YEAR IN THE LIFE

TED FIELD(SOUTH TEXAS)

LISA DOLAK(SYRACUSE)

L-R: SARAH BURSTEIN (OKLAHOMA),

MARK McKENNA (NOTRE DAME)

L-R: DAVID LEVINE (ELON),

LEE ANN LOCKRIDGE (LOUISIANA STATE)

PAUL JANICKE AND HON. BARBARA LYNN, KEYNOTE SPEAKER (U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas)

2014 FALL IP INSTITUTE

JEANNE FROMER, SPRING LECTURER,with Craig Joyce and Lecture Gift

(Original Print of Justice Story’s Inaugural Dane Lecture)

IPIL/HOUSTON Professors Craig Joyce, Jacqueline Lipton, and Greg R. Vetter with Sarah Burstein and Mark McKenna

SARAH HARRIS, GENERAL COUNSEL, U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE,

with Paul Janicke and Craig Joyce

Eric Priest University of Oregon School of Law

Patricia Judd Washburn University School of Law

Special Funding AcknowledgmentData Foundry Colocation • Giganews Usenet • Golden Frog Internet Technology

Irene CalboliTexas A&M University School of Law

Time to Say Local Cheese and Smile at Geographical Indications of Origin?: International Trade and Local

Development in the United States53 Hous. L. Rev. _____ (2015)

Amy Landers Drexel University School of Law

Patentable Subject Matter as a Policy Drive 53 Hous. L. Rev. _____ (2015)

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National Conference Intellectual Property & Information Law in a Global Context

Conference Presenters

FellowsLeah Chan Grinvald

Suffolk University Law School

Margaret ChonSeattle University School of Law

Tracermarks: A Proposed Information Intervention53 Hous. L. Rev. _____ (2015)

Lateef Mtima Howard University School of Law

Copyright and Social Justice in the Digital Information Society: “Three Steps” Toward Intellectual Property

Social Justice 53 Hous. L. Rev. _____ (2015)

Daniel Gervais Vanderbilt University Law School

Irreconcilable Differences? The Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement and the Common Law

53 Hous. L. Rev. _____ (2015)

MODERATED WITH INTRODUCTION BY Greg R. Vetter

University of Houston Law Center53 Hous. L. Rev. _____ (2015)

Eric Priest University of Oregon School of Law

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Conference Presenters

For citations to specific articles, please contact Houston Law Review at www.houstonlawreview.org. No conference held in 2006.

E-Commerce and Privacy38 Hous. L. Rev. 717 (2001)

Transactions, Information and Emerging Law

42 Hous. L. Rev. 941 (2005)

Pondering Patents: First Principles and Fresh Possibilities50 Hous. L. Rev. 287 (2012)

Anita L. Allen • Trotter Hardy

Walter W. Miller, Jr. & Maureen A. O’Rourke

Raymond T. Nimmer • Chris Reed

Joel R. Reidenberg • Holly K. Towle

The Future of Patent Law39 Hous. L. Rev. 567 (2002)

Copyright in Context44 Hous. L. Rev. 815 (2007)

Intellectual Property and Information Law in the

Administrative State51 Hous. L. Rev. 337 (2013)

Paul M. Janicke

Mark D. Janis & Jay P. Kesan

Craig Allen Nard • Toshiko Takenaka

John R. Thomas

Trademark in Transition41 Hous. L. Rev. 707 (2004)

Trademark: Today and Tomorrow

48 Hous. L. Rev. 701 (2011)

Intellectual Property in International Perspective

46 Hous. L. Rev. 975 (2009)

Graeme B. Dinwoodie

Stacey L. Dogan & Mark A. Lemley

A. Michael Froomkin • William M. Landes

J. Thomas McCarthy • Greg R. Vetter

Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook

Clayton P. Gillette

Robert W. Gomulkiewicz

Raymond T. Nimmer

Robert L. Oakley • R. Polk Wagner

Considering Copyright40 Hous. L. Rev. 609 (2003)

Celebrating Copyright’s tri-Centennial

47 Hous. L. Rev. 779 (2010)

Patent Law in Perspective45 Hous. L. Rev. 1031 (2008)

ReCalibrating Copyright: Continuity, Contemporary

Culture, and Change52 Hous. L. Rev. 417 (2014)

Craig Joyce • Hon. Jon O. Newman

William Patry • Hon. Richard A. Posner

Alan Story • Eugene Volokh

Alfred C. Yen

Keith Aoki • Thomas F. Cotter

Craig Joyce • Roberta Rosenthal Kwall

Peter S. Menell • Neil W. Netanel

Rebecca S. Eisenberg • Paul J. Heald

Michael J. Meurer

Janice M. Mueller & Donald S. Chisum

Arti K. Rai • Greg R. Vetter

Colleen V. Chien • Kevin Emerson Collins

Paul M. Janicke • Mark R. Patterson

Lee Petherbridge • Katherine Jo Strandburg

Greg R. Vetter

Adam Candeub • John F. Duffy

John M. Golden • Sapna Kumar

Arti K. Rai • Christopher S. Yoo

Olufunmilayo B. Arewa

Wendy Jane Gordon • Craig Joyce

Jacqueline D. Lipton • Lydia Pallas Loren

Thomas B. Nachbar

Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Rochelle Dreyfuss

Cynthia M. Ho • Charles R. McManis

Jerome H. Reichman • Greg R. Vetter

Peter K. Yu

Oren Bracha • Ronan Deazley

Craig Joyce • Hon. Pierre N. Leval

David Nimmer • Catherine Seville

Dianne Leenheer Zimmerman

Ann Bartow • Barton Beebe

Craig Joyce • Greg Lastowka

Mark P. McKenna • Rebecca Tushnet

Prior IPIL National Conferences 2001 - 2014

2016

:

COMING SOON!

2013 Elizabeth A. Rowe, University of Florida Levin College of Law

2012 Hon. Jimmie Reyna, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

2011 Robert Brauneis, George Washington University Law School

2010 Jane Winn, University of Washington School of Law

2009 Gregory N. Mandel, Temple University Beasley School of Law

2008 Margo A. Bagley, University of Virginia School of Law

2007 Clarisa Long, Columbia University School of Law

2006 John F. Duffy, George Washington University Law School

2005 Dan L. Burk, University of Minnesota Law School

2004 David J. Franklyn, University of San Francisco School of Law

2003 William F. Lee, Hale & Dorr LLP

2002 Hon. Paul Michel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

2001 Ysolde Gendreau, Université de Montréal

2000 Jerre B. Swann, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

1999 Joseph Straus, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

1998 John R. Thomas, George Washington University Law School

1997 Hon. Nancy Linck, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

1996 Hon. Glenn Archer, Pauline Newman, and Edward Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

1995 Donald S. Chisum, Author, Chisum on Patents

1994 John Pegram, Davis, Hoxie, Faithfull & Hapgood LLP

Prior Lecturers

2014 FALL LECTUREDennis Crouch (Lecturer), University of Missouri School of Law

ANNUAL FALL LECTURE

The Ronald A. Katz Lectures:Made Possible by a Generous Gift from Ronald and Madelyn Katz

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2014 Julie E. Cohen Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center University of San Diego School of Law

2013 David McGowan Lyle L. Jones Professor of Competition and Innovation Law and Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law & Markets University of San Diego School of Law

2012 R. Anthony Reese Chancellor’s Professor of Law University of California, Irvine School of Law

2011 Paul Goldstein Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law Stanford Law School

2010 Douglas Lichtman Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles School of Law

2009 William O. Hennessey Professor of Law University of New Hampshire School of Law

2008 Robert P. Merges Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology UC Berkeley School of Law

2007 Joel R. Reidenberg Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy Fordham University School of Law

2006 Hon. Arthur J. Gajarsa United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

2005 F. Scott Kieff Professor of Law Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

2004 Jane C. Ginsburg Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law Columbia University School of Law

ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE

Prior Lecturers

2015 SPRING LECTUREJeanne Fromer (Lecturer), New York University School of Law

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The Baker Botts Lectures: A Service and Tribute to Houston’s Distinguished Intellectual Property and Information Law Bar

PATSTATS.ORGOnline Patent Litigation Statistics

PATSTATS.ORG tracks case outcomes for 40 commonly arising issues in modern U.S. patent litigation. Offered as a free public service for courts, scholars, and practitioners of patent law, this resource provides research information on decisions rendered each quarter, from January 1, 2000 to the present.

Decisions include the reported cases of the District Courts, the Court of Federal Claims, and the International Trade Commission. Reported and unreported Federal Circuit decisions also are

incorporated.

PATSTATS.ORG issues include Validity Decisions, Enforceability Decisions, Procedural Defenses, Infringement Issues, Damages

Calculations, and Special Factors.

To view these materials, visit www.patstats.org.

WATERCASES.ORGSpirit Over the Waters

WATERCASES.ORG is a website containing Professor Janicke’s two legal archival libraries and a history article related to each. One library concerns the interstate disputes over diversion of Lake Michigan’s water for use in wastewater removal by Illinois. The second library is about the patent infringement cases of the 1920s and 1930s brought by a British patent owner against the cities of Milwaukee and Chicago. The patents covered the basic aspects of the activated sludge method of wastewater treatment, now the dominant method used worldwide. The patent applications were filed in the period 1914-1916. The site will be expanded as new materials become available.

To view these materials, visit www.watercases.org.16

SPONSORED WEB RESOURCES

Prof. Paul M. Janicke

TRADE SECRETS

known only to the corporation’s cream of the crop, safe from prying predators? Trade-secret protections found in intellectual property law ensure the value of a company’s products are secure. Instead of spinning their wheels in fear, Hamsters can enjoy their treadmill workouts inside their RaspBerries without worrying about interlopers trying to crack their case.

RaspBerry prowess is preserved in the world’s smallest silicon chip, code-named “Hamster.” Developed by nanotechnicians at H-B, Hamster runs rings around the processing speeds of competing chips. Are the inner workings of a RaspBerry,

IPINFOBLOG.COMContemporary Intellectual Property,Licensing & Information Law

This site offers a continuing dialogue on contemporary IP, licensing, and information law issues, hosted by Professor Nimmer.

To participate in this blog, please visit www.ipinfoblog.com.

PROGRAM ON LAW AND COMPUTATIONApplying Advanced Computational Techniques to the Study and Understanding of Law

The Program on Law and Computation studies the ways in which advanced computation can

further the understanding of law. Its focus includes empirical methods, statistics, finance, actuarial finance, game theory, decision theory, network theory, computational linguistics, data mining, theories of computation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the economic analysis of law.

To learn more, please visit www.law.uh.edu/polac/homepage.asp.

SPONSORED WEB RESOURCES

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Prof. Raymond T. Nimmer

COPYRIGHTOpen almost any magazine aimed at high achievers, and a miniature audio device immediately serenades you with signature songs such as “RaspBerry Fields Forever” and “I Found My Thrill On RaspBerry Hill.” Always one to play by the rules, H-B checked chapter and verse before launching its wildly successful advertising program – and properly paid pretty pennies to compensate the copyright captains behind the original tunes. Other smart phone makers attempting to copycat H-B’s chords will get juiced by the law of copyright – eventually expending a sheaf of C notes to settle their scores.

31ST ANNUAL INSTITUTEON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

GALVESTON, TEXAS This conference secures national experts to review the latest developments and trends in intellectual

property and information law. IPIL offers this event in cooperation with the Houston Intellectual Property Law

Association (HIPLA).

IPIL HOSTS LICENSING EXECUTIVE SOCIETY (LES) EVENT:

IP & LICENSING BASICSThe course is taught by both legal and

business experts to build practical understandings of core IP and licensing concepts.

IPIL HOSTS ADMINISTRATIVE LAW WORKSHOP

This workshop, for professors in the first ten years of their careers, provides an opportunity for them to present their

work to senior administrative law scholars.

IPIL HOSTS 2015 WORLD IP DAY:THE MUSICAL FLAVORS OF HOUSTON

An annual WIPO event typically held in collaboration with the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and the

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

SPECIAL EVENTS

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TRADEMARKCan using a RaspBerry actually regenerate your gray matter? H-B’s ubiquitous television ads lead viewers to that conclusion by depicting a human brain morphing into the distinctive lobed logo found on every RaspBerry product. Is the fruitful image of H-B’s labors ripe for the picking? Trademark protections are an integral part of intellectual property law, and statutes and case law are tart enough to red-flag all rascally RaspBerry robbers.

MOODY GARDENS PYRAMIDSGalveston, Texas

WORKSHOP ATTENDEES with Hon. David Sentelle, D.C. Circuit

(L-R): D.C. TOEDT, UH Law Center Lecturer; LOUISE LEVIEN, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company;

JEFFREY WHITTLE, Hogan Lovells

DR. E. MICHAEL HARRINGTON (KEYNOTE), Music Business Program Faculty Chair at SAE Institute, Nashville, Tennessee

SPECIAL EVENTS provide the opportunity for IPIL, other academic institutions, intellectual property and information law practitioners, and the judiciary to focus on current issues and to explore solutions for critical legal problems associated with creative expression and new technologies.

IPSO is the organization for students of intellectual property and information law at the University of Houston Law Center. It promotes awareness of intellectual property and information law issues at the UH Law Center, provides networking opportunities among students and intellectual property and information law practitioners in the community, and collaborates with IPIL in carrying out its various programs. See www.law.uh.edu/organizations/ipso.

STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES are available to Law Center students. The North American Consortium for Legal Education (NACLE) at UH offers exchanges with member institutions in Canada and Mexico. UHLC J.D. and LL.M. students also have traveled to Europe to exchange ideas with counterparts from the Max Planck Institute in Munich and to tour the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIONSIP students of the Law Center participate in many competitions, both locally and nationwide:

• Giles S. Rich Moot Court Competition

• Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition

• AIPLEF Jan Jancin Award

• ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law

• AIPLA Robert C. Watson Competition

• Federal Circuit Bar Association George Hutchinson Writing Competition

HOUSTON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATIONHIPLA involves law students in a variety of its activities, including sponsorship of events of student interest, complementary attendance at professional monthly lunch presentations on intellectual property law topics, and administering a scholarship program for students of IP law. In addition, HIPLA offers student membership at nominal cost. See www.hipla.org.

NANCY F. ATLAS HOUSTON IP INN OF COURTThe Houston IP Inn of Court includes in its mission participation by law students studying intellectual property law. Law students who become members of the IP Inn have the chance to participate in several dinners each year, and work with practicing IP attorneys as part of a pupillage group which will present to the dinner audience a topic from intellectual property or information law. See www.houstonipinn.org.

STUDENT INTERESTS

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PATENTNothing jams faster than an inbox crammed with spam. A filter built into every RaspBerry ferrets out unwelcome or massive missives according to the “seed size” selected by the user. Is the super sieve suitable for pithy patent protection? Patents can shelter inventions that open the door to a competitive advantage for a period of up to 20 years – enough time for RaspBerry users to can an entire pantry of spam.

UH LAW CENTER’S LEGAL INFORMATION RESOURCES

LAW SCHOOLS ARE BUILT AROUND THEIR LIBRARIES. The O’Quinn Law Library offers one of the region’s leading legal research facilities.

With a combination of print and electronic resources, the library supports the research needs of UH Law Center students and faculty, with exceptional depth in the IP, health law, tax, international law, and energy and environment specialties of the Law Center. The Judge Brown Admiralty Collection, Frankel Rare Books Library, and U.S. Government Depository documents round out the UH Law Center’s print collection.

The law library provides many specialized online databases, supplying information not available in the popular legal research services or in print. The integrated library system provides access to all the library’s print and online resources, as well as the research collections of the UH Libraries. Above all,

our highly trained, service oriented lawyer librarians ensure that students and faculty receive the full value of our exceptional legal research library.

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INFORMATION LAW

Cookies managed by RaspBerries grant their users special status on AmazonRainForest, Yooreeka! and other popular web sites, and H-B maintains a database that documents the on-line preferences of its customers. Who owns the database? The U.S. Supreme Court has held that data generally cannot be copyrighted, but new information law doctrines are emerging to help protect a company’s database investments. The final box score on these extra-inning legal wrangles should add big bark to RaspBerry’s bytes – and provoke a loud chorus of Bronx cheers from H-B’s razzing rivals.

For further information about course offerings and IPIL/Houston programs, please contact the INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & INFORMATION LAW at 713.743.2180 or by email at ipil@uh.edu.

CONTACT INFORMATION

University of Houston Law CenterInstitute for Intellectual Property & Information Law4604 Calhoun RoadHouston, Texas 77204-6060713.743.2180www.law.uh.edu/ipil ipil@uh.edu

University of Houston Law CenterJ.D. AdmissionsOffice of Admissions4604 Calhoun RoadHouston, Texas 77204-6060713.743.2280lawadmissions@uh.edu

University of Houston Law CenterLL.M. AdmissionsGraduate Legal Studies Program4604 Calhoun RoadHouston, Texas 77204-6060713.743.2080llm@uh.edu

ON-LINE APPLICATIONS: www.law.uh.edu

IPIL MISSIONS

PROVIDE legal education of the highest quality in the fields of intellectual property

and information law to help prepare law students and lawyers for the challenges

of practicing law in a nationally and internationally integrated economy

ADVANCE the development of intellectual property and information law by promoting

and disseminating research by UH Law Center faculty and by sponsoring

excellence in IP and IL scholarship by others

SERVE Texas and the Nation by providing an internationally recognized center for the

exchange of ideas on intellectual property and information law

CONTRIBUTE to international cooperation among scholars and practitioners in these

fields from all nations

Adolph LocklarAkin Gump Strauss Hauer

& Feld LLPAndrews Kurth LLPArnold, Knobloch & Saunders, L.L.P.Baker Botts L.L.P.Baker Hughes IncorporatedBlank Rome LLPBMC SoftwareBoulware & ValoirBracewell & Giuliani LLPConley Rose, P.C.Data Foundry ColocationDentons US LLPExxon Mobil CorporationGiganews UsenetGolden Frog Internet TechnologyGreenberg Traurig, LLPHeim, Payne & Chorush, L.L.P.

Katz Family Foundation FundLexicon PharmaceuticalsLocke Lord LLPMayer Brown LLPMcKool SmithNielsen IP Law LLCNorton Rose FulbrightNovak Druce Connolly

Bove + Quigg LLP Osha Liang LLPPorter Hedges LLPShell Oil CompanyShook, Hardy & Bacon LLPSusman Godfrey LLPSutton McAughan Deaver PLLCThompson & Knight LLPTotal Petrochemicals USA, Inc.Univation TechnologiesVinson & Elkins LLP

Sponsors/SupportersTHE INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & INFORMATION LAW at the University of Houston Law Center acknowledges the generosity of the following sponsors and supporters:

Meg Boulware • Ed Fein • Sarah Harris • Craig Joyce • Ronald and Madelyn Katz Steve Koch • Irene Kosturakis • Bill LaFuze • Raul Montes • Scott Partridge

Peter Strand • Bill Walker • Russell Wong

0073054880 University of Houston Law CenterInstitute for Intellectual Property & Information Law4604 Calhoun RoadHouston, Texas 77204-6060www.law.uh.edu/ipil

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