SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, summer home of IPIL’s annual National Conference IPIL/HOUSTON

HOUSTON, TEXAS, home base of the Institute for & Information Law 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dean’s Message ...... 1

RaspBerry...... 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 ...... 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 Cover DEAN’S MESSAGE

HOUSTON, THE NATION’S FOURTH LARGEST CITY, STANDS TODAY AS A LEADING INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CREATIVITY in computer technology, biomedical technology, petrochemical technology, and space technology. At the legal epicenter of Houston’s contributions to the technologies of tomorrow is the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law (“IPIL”) at the University of Houston Law Center. IPIL is recognized throughout the world for the strength of its faculty, scholarship, curriculum, and students. Its contributions to the study of law have earned both respect and an enduring reputation for excellence. Leading·Legal·Learning—in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and information law. That’s what we do at the UH Law Center. Come join us.

—Raymond T. Nimmer DEAN AND LEONARD H. CHILDS PROFESSOR OF LAW

1 A LEARNING CENTER AT AN RASPBERRY INTERNATIONAL CROSSROADS

SPECIFICATIONS 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 PROCESSING SPEED: speed of light, squared the largest and most diverse metropolitan areas in the United States. MEMORY: total recall Houston is among the top five markets in the United States HARD DRIVE STORAGE: all the world’s libraries for intellectual property and information , E-MAIL CAPACITY: one gigadrupelet with thousands of these specialists working BATTERY LIFE: life expectancy of user in corporations, law firms, and universities. WEIGHT: n/a (does not register on scale) Indeed, the Houston Intellectual Property Law CONSTRUCTION: crushable Kevlar case (available in 256 Association is among the most influential IP colors, plus plaid) bar organizations in the country, boasting SPECIAL FEATURES: issues personal checks, reminds users many past and present leaders of national to retrieve laundry, Eye-Link to DVD movies, Ear-Link to IP advocacy groups along with its active MSNBC, Nose-Link to The Food Network amicus and continuing legal education The legal issues involving intellectual property and activity. information law are easily illustrated. Consider the fictional In addition to world-class law firms case of the RaspBeRRy, the newest smart phone developed by Happy-Berry Corp. (“H-B”). Lighter than the cocktail serving clients from Houston to napkin that framed its preliminary design, RaspBeRRies are Hong Kong and from Silicon Valley small enough to fit in your hip pocket yet powerful enough to Singapore, Houston hosts numerous to free you from desktop bondage. After investing thousands multinational corporations and of person-hours to produce the RaspBeRRy, H-B is pleased as agencies that generate intellectual punch with the fruit of its labors. But what if an unscrupulous property: ExxonMobil, Shell, NASA, micro-mimicker seizes the secrets behind the market leader in many computer companies, and smart phones? Thanks to the H-B’s skilled team of IPIL specialists, the outcome is guaranteed to be of another vintage. the distinguished institutions of the Texas Medical Center are just a few. For fun facts concerning RaspBeRRy’s fabulous features (and the UH’s strong presence in the region produces significant plenteous protections provided by intellectual property and research opportunities for faculty and students alike. information law), see pages 16-20. For more information on Houston, visit www.houstontx.gov. 2 DEGREE OFFERINGS

APPROXIMATELY 30 COURSES RELATING TO IPIL ARE OFFERED REGULARLY at LL.M. candidates must complete 24 semester hours of approved courses (including the UH Law Center. All of these courses answer the degree requirements for the a minimum of 15 hours of IP and IL study), with a qualifying cumulative grade- Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree and most apply to the Master of Laws (LL.M.) point average. An optional thesis may be completed with advisor approval. Class degree in intellectual property and information law. 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 J.D. PROGRAM summer. Both full-time The UH Law Center offers both full-time and part-time programs leading to the and part-time degree J.D. degree. J.D. candidates must complete 90 semester hours and can customize candidates are allowed a their curricula with intellectual property and information law courses that reflect maximum of three years their individual interests. Students interested in applying to the J.D. Program for in-classroom work and should contact the Office of Admissions for an application at 713.743.2280 or completion of the thesis. [email protected]. Applications also can be accessed at www.law. Thesis supervision occurs uh.edu/admissions/apply-now.html. during the fall and spring LL.M. PROGRAM semesters only. For details

about the LL.M. program, Prof. GreG r. Vetter The LL.M. Program provides an academic environment for practicing lawyers who contact the LL.M. Coordinator at 713.743.2890 or [email protected], or visit www. wish to expand their knowledge of intellectual property and information law. Only law.uh.edu/llm. 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 VISITING STUDENTS the J.D. degree or equivalent from a law school accredited by the American Bar Second- and third-year law students in good standing at an ABA-accredited law Association and must possess promising research or practice credentials. Lawyers school are eligible to spend a semester at the UH Law Center and to enroll in its who hold law degrees from foreign countries must meet academic and English IPIL curriculum as well as other upper-division courses. Participants are accorded language standards for admission. “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 [email protected].

3 PAUL M. JANICKE CRAIG JOYCE HIPLA Professor Andrews Kurth PRINCIPAL FACULTY of Law Professor of Law B.E.E., Manhattan College; B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., J.D., New York University; Oxford University; J.D., Stanford LL.M., George Washington University SAPNA KUMAR University Professor Joyce is the lead author Assistant Professor A recognized expert on patent of the widely used casebook, of Law litigation, Professor Janicke copyRight Law (8th ed. 2010). B.S. (Mathematics), B.A. clerked at the U.S. Court of Customs His articles on copyright history (Philosophy), University of Texas- & Patent Appeals in Washington, and doctrine have appeared in Austin; J.D., University of Chicago D.C., from 1969 to 1971 before numerous journals, including the Professor Kumar joined the joining the intellectual property firm of Arnold, White & Durkee, where Emory, Harvard, Houston, Michigan, UCLA, and Vanderbilt law reviews, University of Houston Law Center he later served as managing partner. Professor Janicke joined the UH and are cited regularly by the federal appellate courts. He edited the Law Center faculty in 1992. MaJesty of the Law (2003) for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. faculty after clerking for the Honorable Kenneth F. Ripple of Professor Joyce practiced law at Fennemore, Craig, von Ammon & Udall the U.S. Court of Appeals for Subjects: in Phoenix before entering academia in 1981, and has taught at the UH Patent Law, Patent Litigation, Licensing & Technology Transfer, Law Center since 1986. Besides his duties as a director of the Institute the Seventh Circuit. Prior to her Intellectual Property Survey, Intellectual Property Advanced Topics for Intellectual Property & Information Law since 1991, he served as clerkship, she practiced in Chicago at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and then Seminar, Military Law, Evidence Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Special Programs from 1996 at Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP, and to 1999. then served as a Lecturing Fellow at the Duke University School of Recent Scholarship includes: Law and at Duke’s Center for Genome Ethics Law & Policy. She ModeRn patent Litigation (2d ed. 2006); Implementing the Adequate Subjects: has taught and written on open-source software licensing and how Remedy at Law: Relief Against Ongoing Patent Infringement When an Copyright, American Legal History, Torts patent protection affects innovation in the emerging field of synthetic Injunction Is Denied, 51 idea: the JouRnaL of inteLLectuaL pRopeRty Law ___ biology. Professor Kumar’s current research interests in intellectual (forthcoming fall 2010); Venue Transfers from the Eastern District of Recent Scholarship includes: property include an examination of the intersection of patent law, Texas: Case by Case or an Endemic Problem?, LandsLide 16 (March-April copyRight Law: the statute of anne edition (2010) (with Leaffer, Jaszi & administrative law, and public policy. 2010); Patent Venue and Convenience Transfer: New World or Small Ochoa); a unified theoRy of copyRight, by L. Ray Patterson & Stanley H. Shift?, 11 n.c. J.L. & tech. on. 1 (2009); Die Reform des U.S. Patentrechts Birch, Jr. (Craig Joyce ed. 2009), originally published in 46 hous. L. ReV. Subjects: im Jahr 2007, 56 geweRBLicheR Rechtsschutz und uRheBeRRecht inteRnationaL 215 (2009); the MaJesty of the Law: RefLections of a supReMe couRt Justice Patent Law, Administrative Law, Property teiL 791 (2007); Patent Jury Verdicts: Myths and Realities, inteLLectuaL (2003, hardcover ed. 2003 & paperback ed. 2004) (written by Justice pRopeRty today (July 2007) 18; Who Wins Patent Infringement Cases?, 34 Sandra Day O’Connor and edited by Professor Joyce); Intellectual Property Recent Scholarship includes: aipLa Q.J. 1 (2006); Four Key Points in the Current Patent Reform Effort in the United States, in oxfoRd inteRnationaL encycLopedia of LegaL histoRy The Bilski Decision: What Does It Mean for the Future of Business in the United States, 5 icfai J. inteLL. pRop. Rts. 14 (Hyderabad, India, (Katz ed., 2009); multiple entries in yaLe BiogRaphicaL dictionaRy of aMeRican Method and Software Patents?, coMputeR L. ReV. int. (forthcoming 2010); 2006); Two Unsettled Areas of the Federal Circuit’s Patent Jurisdiction, Law (Newman ed., 2009); Copyright in Context, 44 hous. L. ReV. 815 2009 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Panel Discussion: An 11 Va. J.L. & tech. 1 (2006); On the Causes of Unpredictability of Federal (2007); Lazy B and the Nation’s Court: Pragmatism in Service of Principle, Uncomfortable Fit?: Intellectual Property Policy and the Administrative Circuit Decisions in Patent Cases, 3 nw. J. tech. & inteLL. pRop. 93 (2005); 119 haRV. L. ReV. 1257 (2006); A Good Judge, 30 J. s. ct. hist. 100 (2006); State (with Murray, Mazzone, Travis & Abdel-khalik), 14 MaRQ. inteLL. pRop. “Maybe We Shouldn’t Arbitrate”: Some Aspects of the Risk/Benefit A Curious Chapter in the History of Judicature, 43 hous. L. ReV. 325 L. ReV. 441 (2010); The Other Patent Agency: Congressional Regulation Calculus of Agreeing to Binding Arbitration of Patent Disputes, 39 hous. (2005); “The Story of Wheaton v. Peters,” in inteLLectuaL pRopeRty stoRies of the ITC, 61 fLa. L. ReV. 529 (2009); Proprietary Science, Open Science, L. ReV. 693 (2002); To Be or Not To Be: The Long Gestation of the United (Ginsburg & Cooper eds., 2005); multiple entries in oxfoRd coMpanion to and the Role of Patent Disclosure: The Case of Zinc Finger Proteins, States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 69 antitRust L.J. 645 the supReMe couRt of the united states (2d ed. 2004); “Owning the Law,” in natuRe BiotechnoLogy 27, 140-144 (2009) (with Rai, Chandrasekharan (2002). 100 aMeRicans Making constitutionaL histoRy (2004); The Torch Is Passed: & Valley); GPL Version 3’s DRM and Patent Clauses Under German and Historical Preface to in-chaMBeRs opinions of the Justices of the supReMe U.S. Law, coMputeR L. ReV. int. (April 15, 2008) (with Koglin); Synthetic For more information, visit Professor Janicke’s Web page couRt of the united states (2004); Copyright and Its Master in Historical Biology: The Intellectual Property Puzzle, 85 u. texas L. ReV. 1745 at www.law.uh.edu/faculty. Perspective, 51 J. copR. soc’y vii (2004); Copyright in 1791, 52 eMoRy L.J. (2007) (with Rai); Enforcing The GPL, 2006 u. iLL. J.L. tech. & poL’y 1. 909 (2003) (with Patterson). For more information, visit Professor Kumar’s Web page For more information, visit Professor Joyce’s Web page at www.law.uh.edu/faculty. at www.law.uh.edu/faculty. 4 PRINCIPAL FACULTY

RAYMOND T. NIMMER GREG R. VETTER Dean and Leonard H. Childs Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law B.A., J.D., Valparaiso University B.S.E.E., University of Missouri-Rolla; M.S., University of Missouri-Kansas City; M.B.A., Rockhurst University; J.D., Northwestern University Raymond Nimmer is Dean and Leonard Childs Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. He is the author of over twenty Professor Vetter is a leading expert on intellectual property systems books and numerous articles. His most recently published books are ModeRn as applied to software, with particular emphasis on free and open source Licensing Law (2008, West Publishing), the Law of eLectRonic coMMeRciaL software. Prior to teaching, he gained extensive hands-on business tRansactions (2003, Pratt & Sons), and the Law of coMputeR technoLogy experience in software design project management, product management, (4th ed. 2009, West). Dean Nimmer is a frequent speaker at programs and product marketing. He practiced at Kilpatrick Stockton’s Raleigh, worldwide, in the areas of intellectual property, licensing, business, and North Carolina, office in the firm’s technology law group, and obtained technology law. He was the Co-Reporter of the Drafting Committee on registration to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Revision of U.C.C. Article 2 and the Reporter of the Uniform Computer Office as a patent attorney. He then clerked for the Honorable Arthur J. Information Transactions Act (UCITA). He has been a consultant to the National Science Foundation and the Gajarsa on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, office of the Legal Advisor of the U.S. State Department. He is listed in the inteRnationaL who’s who of inteRnet D.C., before joining the UH Law Center faculty in 2002. Professor Vetter’s and e-coMMeRce LawyeRs, as well as who’s who in Law, and as one of the Best Lawyers in America in several research interests include intellectual property, patents, the role of categories. He recently received recognition and an award for excellence from an international finance monthly intellectual property in commercial law, and information technology law. publication. In addition to his expertise in technology and licensing issues, he is an expert in areas of business and bankruptcy law. He is admitted to practice in Illinois and Texas, as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court Subjects: and various federal courts of appeals. Internet Law, International Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Intellectual Property Survey, Licensing, Property

Subjects: Recent Scholarship includes: Computer Law, Information Law, Digital Transactions, Network Law, Commercial Law, Commercial Paper, Patent Law’s Unpredictability Doctrine & the Software Alis (work in progress); Patenting Cryptographic Technology, Creditors’ Rights, Law and Science, Bankruptcy, Contracts forthcoming in chicago-kent L. ReV. (forthcoming); Patent Law chapters for inteLLectuaL pRopeRty Law (intellectual property survey course casebook forthcoming from LexisNexis); Embedding Thickets in Information Security?: Recent Scholarship includes: Cryptography Patenting and Strategic Implications for Information Technology, solicited chapter in haRBoRing data: nfoRMation ecuRity aw and the oRpoRation the Law of coMputeR technoLogy (4th ed. 2009, updated 2010); infoRMation Law (1996, updated 2010); ModeRn Licensing i s , L c (Andrea M. Matwyshyn ed., forthcoming from Stanford University Law (2010 ed., with Jeff C. Dodd); the Law of eLectRonic coMMeRciaL tRansactions (2003, updated annually, 2010) (with Press); Commercial Free and Open Source Software: Knowledge Production, Hybrid Appropriability, and Patents, oRdhaM eV Holly K. Towle); Licensing of inteLLectuaL pRopeRty and otheR infoRMation assets (2005); dRafting effectiVe contRacts (2004, 77 f L. R . 2087 (2009); Slouching Toward Open Innovation: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for ash oL y updated 2010, with Robert Feldman); coMMeRciaL tRansactions: secuRed financing, cases, MateRiaLs, pRoBLeMs (3d ed. 2003) Electronic Health Information, 30 w . u. J.L. & p ’ 179 (2009); Claiming Copyleft in Open Source Software: (with I. Hillinger & M. Hillinger); Privacy and Personal Data Security: The Next Litigation Frontier (Washington Legal What If the Free Software Foundation’s General Public License (GPL) Had Been Patented?, 2008 Mich. st. L. ReV. Foundation, 2009); Technical Standards Setting Organizations: A Case for Deference to Markets (2008); Licensing 279; Exit and Voice in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), solicited chapter in open souRce softwaRe: eMeRging ssues Information Assets in the New Economy: A Pro-Rights Perspective, indian J.L. & tech. (Bangalore, India 2008); i (G. Usha ed., 2008); Open Source Licensing & Scattering Opportunism in Software Standards, 48 B.c. L. eV Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, in 10 unifoRM coMMeRciaL code seRies (William D. Hawkland ed. R . 225 (2007); Perspectives on Patent Licensing Language Appearing in Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) 1932, Supp. 2010); An Essay on Article Two’s Irrelevance to Licensing Agreements, 40 Loy. L.a. L. ReV. 235 (2007); Licensing, 45th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law, Institute for Law and Technology at the Center The Legal Landscape of Electronic Commerce: Redefining Contract Law in an Information Era, 23 J. cont. L. 10 for American and International Law (2007); Exit & Voice in Free & Open Source Software Licensing: Moderating (2007); Modernizing Secured Financing Law for International Information Financing: A Conceptual Framework, the Rein over Software Users, 85 oR. L. ReV. 183 (2006); Open Source Software and Information Wealth, solicited nteLLectuaL RopeRty and nfoRMation eaLth ssues and Ractices in a igitaL ge 6 hous. Bus. & tax L.J. 1 (2006) (with Lorin Brennan); Google Print Library Project – Unfair Use of Copyright, 2006 chapter in 4-volume treatise i p i w : i p d a (Peter Yu utgeRs coMp. L. ReV. int’L 1; Contracts, Markets and Data Control, in Bna inteRnationaL inteLLectuaL pRopeRty RepoRts (2005); ed., 2006); “Infectious” Open Source Software: Spreading Incentives or Promoting Resistance?, 36 R L.J. 53 tah eV First Amendment Speech and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: A Proper Marriage, in copyRight and fRee (2004); The Collaborative Integrity of Open Source Software, 2004 u L. R . 563 (2004). speech: coMpaRatiVe and inteRnationaL anaLyses (Jonathan Griffiths & Uma Suthersanen eds., 2004), reprinted ini cfai J. inteLL. pRop. Rts. (2005). For more information, visit Professor Vetter’s Web page at www.law.uh.edu/faculty.

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

DARREN BUSH, Professor of Law, BARBARA EVANS, associate Professor of Law, co-Director, HeaLtH Law & PoLicy B.A., California State University, San Bernardino; Ph.D., J.D., University of Utah institute, anD Director, center on BiotecHnoLoGy & Law, B.S.E.E., The University of Texas at Austin (with Honors); M.S., Ph.D., Stanford Professor Bush previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust University; J.D., Yale Law School; LL.M., University of Houston Law Center 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, Dr. Evans’s research interests include genomic and translational medicine, tissue Regulated Industries, Law & Economics, and Administrative Law. banking, healthy data privacy, and biotechnology regulation. A member of the ABA Special Committee on Bioethics, at the UH Law Center she teaches Genetics and the Law.

SETH CHANDLER, Professor of Law, PETER LINZER, Professor of Law, A.B., Princeton University; J.D., Harvard University A.B., Cornell University; J.D., Columbia University

Professor Chandler is a leader in the emerging scholarly discipline of law and Professor Linzer has served as Reviser, coRBin on contRacts (inteRpRetation) and computation, where his scholarship uses computational modeling to better understand Editorial Reviser of the RestateMent (second) of contRacts. In addition to advanced such areas of interest as insurance law, health law, economic analysis of law, and contract drafting (including domestic and international IP-related documents), he contracts. At UH, he teaches Computational Law, including various methods applied teaches Constitutional Law, with research interests in free speech rights and Internet to the effect and operation of IP law. neutrality.

ANTHONY R. CHASE, associate Professor of Law, MICHAEL A. OLIVAS, wiLLiam B. Bates DistinGuisHeD cHair in Law anD Director, B.A., M.B.A., J.D., Harvard University institute of HiGHer eDucation Law & GoVernance, B.A., Pontifical College Josephinum; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University; J.D., Professor Chase serves as Deputy Chairman on the Regional Board of the Federal Georgetown University Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch, and on the Executive Committee of the United Way and the Board of Directors of the Greater Houston Partnership. He teaches Professor Olivas, 2011 AALS President, is the nation’s leading expert on higher Communications Law, Entrepreneurship, and Contracts. 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. He will be AALS President in 2011.

GAVIN CLARKSON, associate Professor of Law, GERALDINE SZOTT MOOHR, aLumnae Professor of Law, B.A., M.B.A., Rice University; J.D., Ph.D., Harvard University B.S., University of Illinois; M.S., Bucknell University; J.D., American University Dr. Clarkson’s professional and academic background includes several decades Professor Moohr is one of the nation’s leading scholars in federal criminal law, in computing and information technology management, with a focus on business particularly fraud and white collar crime, and is the author of the path-breaking opportunities related to IP rights valuation and pooling. At UH, he teaches Intellectual casebook, the cRiMinaL Law of inteLLectuaL pRopeRty and infoRMation. She teaches Property Property Strategy and Management and Cultural Property. Crime in the Information Age.

LAWRENCE F. PINSKY, PHysics DePartment cHair, coLLeGe of naturaL sciences, 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 actively involved in projects at CERN, BNL, NASA, 6 and Fermilab. At UH, he teaches Internet Law and Intellectual Property Survey. ADJUNCT FACULTY

YOCEL ALONSO, B.A., University of Houston, University of JEFF C. DODD, anDrews KurtH LLP. B.A., University of Houston; J.D., chemical and petrochemical technologies. Salamanca, Spain; J.D., University of Houston University of Houston Law Center D.C. TOEDT, B.A. (Mathematics); J.D., The University of Texas Mr. Alonso is a former chair of the Entertainment and Sports Mr. Dodd’s practice centers on transactional information law, which Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. He represents clients in the involves developing e-commerce strategies, structuring hardware and Mr. Toedt’s practice draws on his experience as former general counsel entertainment business, including recording artists, record companies, software acquisition licensing, negotiating distribution agreements, and of a publicly-traded software company, and before that, as a partner in publishers, radio and television personalities, and promotion companies. registering and enforcing intellectual property rights. a large IP boutique . He is the principal author of a one-volume treatise on the Law and Business of coMputeR softwaRe. DAVID BENDER, Sc.B. (Applied Mathematics), Brown University; VALERIE K. FRIEDRICH, BaKer & mcKenzie LLP. B.S., The University LL.B., University of Pennsylvania; LL.M. (Patent Law), S.J.D. (Computer of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of California, ; J.D., HOLLY K. TOWLE, K&L Gates. A.B., Whitman College; J.D., Law), George Washington University University of Houston Law Center University of Washington School of Law Mr. Bender, who specializes in privacy and data protection, information Dr. Friedrich practices in all areas of intellectual property law, with a Ms. Towle’s practice focuses on privacy and data security, commercial technology law, and intellectual property law, served as chair of White & focus on client counseling, including formal opinions on issues of patent law as impacted by use of electronic media and Case LLP’s global privacy practice prior to his retirement. infringement and validity, multinational patent portfolio management information assets, payment systems, intellectual property such as and technology licensing. software, and information and database issues. REBECCA BOLIN, B.A., Rice University; J.D., Yale Law School JEREMY WELCH, scHLumBerGer tecHnoLoGy corP. B.A., Rice mercer uniVersity scHooL of Law. B.A., University of Ms. Bolin was president of the Law & Technology Society at Yale DAVID HRICIK, University; J.D., University of Houston Law Center Arizona; J.D., Northwestern University Law School and received a grant from Microsoft for her work with the Information Mr. Welch has represented clients in a variety of technologies, including Society Project. Her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation. Professor Hricik, a nationally known expert on intellectual property in recordable optical discs, inkjet printing, pharmaceuticals, numerous relation to professional responsibility, occasionally teaches a Professional aspects of oil and gas industry. RONALD L. CHICHESTER, ronaLD cHicHester, P. c. B.S., M.S., Responsibility course in the Law Center’s summer session. University of Michigan; J.D., University of Houston Law Center Mr. Chichester, a 20-year patent attorney, services his own clients and SHARON A. ISRAEL, mayer Brown LLP. S.B. (Electrical Engineering), consults for other law firms on technology-related matters. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D., M.B.A., Emory University COMPETITION COACHES Ms. Israel specializes in intellectual property law, with an emphasis RUSSELL CHORUSH, Heim Payne + cHorusH LLP. B.S., The University of on litigation, opinion work and client counseling, and experience in CARLYN BURTON, osHa · LianG LLP. B.S., Emory University; Texas at Austin; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University; J.D., University of Houston licensing and patent and trademark prosecution. M.S., Emory University; J.D., University of Houston Law Center Law Center Dr. Chorush specializes in patent infringement and antitrust cases in PAUL KRIEGER, morGan, Lewis & BocKius LLP. B.S., University of K. RACHELLE GOLDMAN, fuLBriGHt & JaworsKi L.L.P. B.S., Texas the high technology arena, representing various clients in litigation in ; LL.B., University of Maryland; LL.M., George Washington A&M University; M.S., Purdue University; M.S., Texas A&M University; fields ranging from electronics to pharmaceuticals. University J.D., University of Houston Law Center Mr. Krieger is a leading practitioner and author in the fields of RICARDO COLMENTER, weatHerforD internationaL, inc. J.D., PAUL KRIEGER, morGan, Lewis & BocKius LLP. B.S., University of trademark law, unfair competition law, and trade secret law. He has UCAB Caracas Venezuela; LL.M. (Intellectual Property & Information Pittsburgh; LL.B., University of Maryland School of Law; LL.M., served as an adjunct professor at UHLC for more than two decades. Law), University of Houston Law Center; LL.M. (Intellectual Property and George Washington University Law School Human Rights), Raoul Wallemberg Institute, Lund University TERRIL G. LEWIS, wonG, caBeLLo, LutscH, rutHerforD & BruccuLeri, LINDSEY POWDRELL, B.A., University of Houston; J.D., Regent Mr. Colmenter represented Venezuela in the Andean Community L.L.P. B.S.E.E., University of Notre Dame; M.E.E., Rice University; J.D., University School of Law Meetings and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. His practice centers University of Houston Law Center; LL.M., George Washington University on transactional law. DAVID TIEDE, texas consumer comPLaint center, uniVersity of Houston Mr. Lewis’s practice is devoted primarily to patent litigation, patent Law center. B.A., The University of Texas; J.D., The University of Texas prosecution, and intellectual property counseling. FRANK DEVLIN, B.A., Providence College; J.D., Fordham University School of Law School of Law LLP. B.Ch.E., University of Arkansas; J.D., JOHN NORRIS, PAUL VAN SLYKE, LocKe LorD BisseLL & LiDDeLL LLP. B.S., The Mr. Devlin, formerly senior counsel with Exxon Mobil Corporation, George Washington University practices in the areas of antitrust, franchise, advertising and University of Texas at Austin; J.D., Southern Methodist University promotions, government investigations, environmental law,corporate Mr. Norris practices in the area of patent, trademark, trade secret, School of Law law, legislation, alternative fuels, and general commercial law. and unfair competition matters, concentrating on patent litigation involving a wide range of technologies, especially those related to 7 IPIL COURSES TYPICALLY OFFERED

ADVANCED CONTRACT DRAFTING deals with drafting various agreements (including IPIL-related agreements), ranging from sales through licenses and other forms of contract. 3 credits. ADVANCED 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. ANTITRUST LAW teaches 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 displacing 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. 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. 2 credits. CONTRACT DRAFTING helps students prepare for drafting, reviewing, analyzing, explaining, and negotiating contracts. Depending in part on student input, typical contracts considered may include, e.g., 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 genetically 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. 2 credits.

eDISCOVERY examines the increased impact of technology in the workplace, 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 (e.g., MP3 and Napster) 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, , pricing, advertising, premises liability, and contract law. 3 credits.

GENETICS AND THE LAW examines ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding new genetic technologies. 2 credits.

INTELLECTUAL 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 would-be IPIL specialists seeking to platform further, more detailed study. 2 credits.

8 IPIL COURSES TYPICALLY OFFERED

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT examines the legal and managerial issues facing an intellectual property or information-based organization from its startup phase through either an initial public offering (IPO) or an acquisition by another firm. 2-3 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 database protection and privacy, as well as issues posed by pending and recently decided major cases. 1-2 credits.

LICENSING AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER examines means for establishing legal rights in technology and the ways of employing and transferring such rights. 3 credits. LLM THESIS COURSE affords Master of Laws candidates the opportunity to produce thesis 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 patenting as a means for protecting industrial ideas. The course focuses on conditions for a patent, loss of a right to a patent, patent specification, infringement, and patent litigation. 3 credits.

PATENT PROSECUTION studies 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. 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 of between district courts and the Federal Circuit in patent litigation. 2 credits. PROPERTY CRIME IN THE INFORMATION AGE focuses on how criminal law deals with takings of property such as business information, trade secrets, and copyrighted material. The material reviews criminal theft and introduces criminal misappropriation and infringement. 3 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 heath 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. SPORTS LAW covers 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. 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 examines 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.

9 SPONSORED SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS IPIL: A YEAR IN THE LIFE (“SSGS”) FROM IPIL

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conference Presenters HON. PIERRE N. LEvAL United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Fair Use in Historical Perspective: Since Campbell

OREN BRACHA CATHERINE SEvILLE The University of Texas School of Law Cambridge University Faculty of Law The Statute of Anne: An American Mythology The Statute of Anne: Rhetoric and Reception in the Nineteenth Century

RONAN DEAzLEY DIANE zIMMERMAN University of Glasgow School of Law New York University School of Law The Statute of Anne and the Great Abridgement Swindle The Statute of Anne and Her Progeny: Variations without a Theme

DAvID NIMMER Moderated with Prologue by CRAIG JOYCE University of California, Los Angeles School of Law Co-Director, Institute for Queen Anne in the Emperor’s Shadow: Intellectual Property & Information Law The Hatam Sofer and Copyright Jurisprudence University of Houston Law Center

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feLLows SHYAMkRISHNA BALGANESH DAvID FAGUNDES SARA STADLER University of Pennsylvania Law School Southwestern Law School Emory University School of Law

senior feLLows PETER JASzI MARSHALL LEAFFER TYLER OCHOA Washington College of Law, American University Maurer School of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington Santa Clara University School of Law 12 iPiL nationaL conferences

e-CommerCe and privaCy tHe 300tH anniVersary Copyright in Context 38 hous. L. ReV. 717 (2001) 44 hous. L. ReV. 815 (2007)

Anita A. Allen of tHe statute of anne Trotter Hardy Keith Aoki Walter W. Miller & Maureen A. O’Rourke Thomas F. Cotter Raymond T. Nimmer 2010 Craig Joyce Chris Reed Roberta Rosenthal Kwall Joel R. Reidenberg Peter S. Menell Holly K. Towle (see PreceDinG PaneL) Neil Netanel

the Future oF patent law trademark in transition patent law in perspeCtive 39 hous. L. ReV. 567 (2002) 41 hous. L. ReV. 707 (2004) 45 hous. L. ReV. 1031 (2008)

Paul M. Janicke Graeme B. Dinwoodie Rebecca Eisenberg Mark D. Janis & Jay P. Kesan Stacey L. Dogan & Mark A. Lemley Paul J. Heald Craig Allen Nard A. Michael Froomkin Michael Meurer Toshiko Takenaka William M. Landes Janice M. Mueller & Donald S. Chisum John R. Thomas J. Thomas McCarthy Arti K. Rai Greg R. Vetter Greg R. Vetter

Considering Copyright transaCtions, inFormation intelleCtual property in 40 hous. L. ReV. 609 (2003) and emerging law international perspeCtive 42 hous. L. ReV. 941 (2005) 46 hous. L. ReV. 975 (2009) Craig Joyce Hon. Jon O. Newman Frank H. Easterbrook Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Rochelle Dreyfuss William Patry Clayton P. Gillette Cynthia Ho Hon. Richard A. Posner Robert W. Gomulkiewicz Charles R. McManis Alan Story Raymond T. Nimmer Jerome H. Reichman Eugene Volokh Robert Oakley Greg R. Vetter Alfred C. Yen R. Polk Wagner Peter K. Yu

For citations to specific articles, please see www.houstonlawreview.org. 13 ANNUAL FALL LECTURE

The Fall Lectures are made possible by a generous gift from the Ronald A. Katz Foundation

2009 leCture L-r: craiG Joyce, GreG r. Vetter, GreGory manDeL (Lecturer), ray nimmer

PRIOR LECTURERS 2008 MaRgo a. BagLey, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville 2007 cLaRisa Long, Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Columbia University School of Law, New York 2006 John f. duffy, George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, D.C. 2005 dan L. BuRk, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis 2004 daVid J. fRankLyn, University of San Francisco School of Law 2003 wiLLiaM f. Lee, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, 2002 hon. pauL MicheL, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C. 2001 ysoLde gendReau, Université de Montreal, Quebec 2000 JeRRe B. swann, Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, 1999 Joseph stRaus, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich 1998 John R. thoMas, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. 1997 hon. nancy Linck, Solicitor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, D.C. 1996 hon. gLenn aRcheR, and edwaRd sMith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C.

1995 donaLd s. chisuM, Author, chisuM on patents 1994 John pegRaM, Fish & Richardson, P.C., New York 14 ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE

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

2010 leCture L-r: ray nimmer, micHeLLe Gray (Houston Law reView), PauL JanicKe, DouGLas LicHtman (Lecturer), GorDon wHite (commentator), craiG Joyce, mitcH LuKin (BaKer Botts L.L.P.)

PRIOR LECTURERS 2009 wiLLiaM o. hennessey Professor of Law, Franklin Pierce Law Center

2008 RoBeRt p. MeRges Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California 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

15 TRADE SECRETS SPONSORED WEB RESOURCES 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, PATSTATS.ORG known only to the corporation’s cream of the crop, safe from prying predators? Online Patent Litigation Statistics 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, PATSTATS.ORG tracks case outcomes for 40 commonly Hamsters can enjoy their treadmill arising issues in modern U.S. patent litigation. Offered workouts inside their RaspBeRRRRiesies as a free public service for courts, scholars, and without worrying about practitioners of patent law, this resource provides interlopers trying to research information on decisions rendered each crack their case. 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.

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PROF. PAUL M. JANICKE Creator and Faculty Coordinator of PatStats 16 SPONSORED WEB RESOURCES COPYRIGHT Open almost any magazine aimed at high achievers, and a miniature audio device immediately serenades you with signature songs such as “RaspBeRRy LICENSING-CONTRACTS.ORG Fields Forever” and “I Found My Thrill On RaspBeRRy Hill.” Always one to Licensing Law Materials play by the rules, H-B checked chapter and verse before launching its wildly This site focuses on the contract law of licensing. Licensing information is not, in law or in successful advertising program – and properly paid pretty pennies to compensate fact, equivalent to selling goods or real estate. The hope is that this site will contribute to the copyright captains behind the original tunes. Other smart phone makers the growing recognition that a goods-centric view mischaracterizes today’s world. 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. Licensing is an area of contract law that has unique terms and themes. Contracts that license the use of or access to information, technology, data, and other intangible assets are central to the information economy. The law pertaining to them is the subject of this site.

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17 TRADEMARK SPECIAL EVENTS

Can using a RaspBeRRy actually regenerate your gray matter? H-B’s ubiquitous television ads lead viewers to that conclusion by depicting a human brain SPECIAL EVENTS provide the opportunity for the Institute, other academic institutions, intellectual property and information law practitioners, and the judiciary to focus on current morphing into the distinctive lobed logo found on every RaspBeRRy product. Is issues and to explore solutions for critical legal problems associated with creative expression the fruitful image of H-B’s labors ripe for the picking? Trademark protections are and new technologies. an integral part of intellectual property law, and statutes and case law are tart enough to red-flag all rascally RaspBeRRy robbers. 26TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL INSTITUTE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW, GALVESTON, TEXAS This institute secures national experts to review the latest developments and trends in intellectual property and information law.

MOOT COURT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP In 2011, the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law, in partnership with the Law Center’s Blakely Advocacy Institute, will host the Moot Court National Championship, featuring an intellectual property problem, and a related symposium led by Eric Goldman of Santa Clara.

18 STUDENT INTERESTS PATENT Nothing jams faster than an inbox crammed with spam. A filter built into every INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STUDENT ORGANIZATION (IPSO) is an association of Law Center RaspBeRRy ferrets out unwelcome or massive missives according to the “seed students organized to help promote awareness of intellectual property issues at the UH Law size” selected by the user. Is the super sieve suitable for pithy patent protection? Center, to provide networking opportunities to intellectual property practitioners in the Patents can shelter inventions that open the door to a competitive advantage community, and to assist the Institute in carrying out its various programs. for a period of up to 20 years – enough time for RaspBeRRy users to can an entire pantry of spam. STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES are available to Institute 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 COMPETITIONS • Giles S. Rich Moot Court Competition • Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition • ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law • AIPLA Quarterly Journal Publication Staff Competition • AIPLA Robert C. Watson Competition • ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Copyright Competition • Federal Circuit Bar Association George Hutchinson Writing Competition • Licensing Executive Society Foundation Graduate Student Business Plan Competition • State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Section Annual Writing Competition

19 UH LAW CENTER’S INFORMATION LEGAL INFORMATION RESOURCES

LAW LAW SCHOOLS ARE BUILT AROUND THEIR LIBRARIES. The O’Quinn Law Library gives UH Law Center students and faculty Cookies managed by RaspBeRRies grant their users special status on one of the region’s leading legal research facilities. AmazonRainForest, Yooreeka! and other popular web sites, and H-B maintains a database that documents the on-line preferences of its customers. Who The library houses the largest law collection in the metropolitan owns the database? The U.S. area. As a U.S. Government Depository, the library receives and Supreme Court has held that data makes available all federal government publications in selected generally cannot be copyrighted, subject areas. Special collections for IPIL, higher education law, but new information law and health law, along with the Frankel Rare Books Library, round doctrines are emerging to help out the UH Law Center’s hard-copy collections. protect a company’s database investments. The final box The law library also has emerged as a model for receiving, score on these extra-inning processing, and delivering materials available only in digital form. The integrated library system legal wrangles should add provides links to print resources and online data. A wireless network provides easy access to the big bark to RaspBeRRy’s UH Law Center’s network and online subscriptions. bytes – and provoke a loud chorus of Bronx cheers Information technology has become a fast-growing part of both the practice of law and the from H-B’s razzing UH Law Center. The Legal Information Technology department (LIT) supports wireless access to UH rivals. Law Center networks and to the Internet in classrooms, study areas, the Commons, the library, and other locations.

Email, discussion groups, word processing, Internet browsers, and other applications all are supported by the UH Law Center’s LIT staff. Our students consistently rank among the heaviest users of online information of all U.S. law schools. A help desk staffed by LIT personnel attends to all computer-related needs.

20 IPIL MISSIONS CONTACT INFORMATION

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

Air Liquide USA LLC Mayer Brown LLP Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Microsoft Corp. & Feld LLP Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Andrews Kurth LLP Motion Picture Association AOL of America Arnold & Knobloch, L.L.P. Baker Botts L.L.P. Nielsen IP Law Baker Hughes Incorporated Osha • Liang Baker & McKenzie LLP Shell Oil Company Bracewell & Giuliani LLP Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Conley Rose, P.C. Slusser Wilson & Partridge LLP Exxon Mobil Corporation Smith International, Inc. Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Susman Godfrey LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP Heim, Payne & Chorush, L.L.P. Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc. Howrey LLP Univation Technologies Jackson Walker L.L.P. Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Ronald A. Katz Foundation Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P. Meg Boulware • Ed Fein • Sarah Harris • Steve Koch • Paul Krieger Raul Montes • Peter Strand • Bill Walker