IPIL/ FACULTY IPIL / HOUSTON 2021 EVENTS:

36th ANNUAL FALL IP INSTITUTE OCTOBER 1 – 3, 2020 GALVESTON, TEXAS DAVE FAGUNDES PAUL JANICKE CRAIG JOYCE

27th ANNUAL FALL LECTURE JORGE CONTRERAS NOVEMBER 4, 2020 HOUSTON, TEXAS

2021 NATIONAL CONFERENCE JUNE 5, 2021 SANTA FE, NEW

SAPNA KUMAR ANDREW MICHAELS GREG R. VETTER TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dean’s Message ...... 3

A Learning Center at an International Crossroads ...... 4 IPIL MISSIONS

Degree Offerings...... 5 PROVIDE legal education of the highest quality in the fields of intellectual Principal Faculty ...... 6 property and information law to help prepare law students and lawyers Affiliated Faculty...... 8 for the challenges of practicing law in a nationally and internationally Adjunct Faculty ...... 9 integrated economy

IPIL Courses Typically Offered...... 10 ADVANCE the development of intellectual property and information law by IPIL: A Year in the Life ...... 12 promoting and disseminating research by UH Law Center faculty and National Conference (Santa Fe) ...... 14 by sponsoring excellence in IP and IL scholarship by others

Fall Lecture ...... 16 Texas and the Nation by providing an internationally recognized center Annual Fall IP Institute ...... 17 SERVE for the exchange of ideas on intellectual property and information law Spring Lecture ...... 18

Special Events ...... 18 CONTRIBUTE to international cooperation among scholars and practitioners

Guest Speakers...... 19 in these fields from all nations

Student Interests ...... 20

Sponsored Web Resources ...... 22

UH Law Center’s Legal Information Resources ...... 23

Sponsors/Supporters/Benefactors ...... 24 2 DEAN’S MESSAGE

The 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. Baynes DEAN, PROFESSOR OF LAW, AND MEMBER, IPIL AFFILIATED FACULTY

3 A LEARNING CENTER AT AN INTERNATIONAL CROSSROADS

AS PART OF THE UH LAW CENTER, accredited by the American Bar Association, the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL) is located in one of the largest and most diverse metropolitan areas in the . Houston is among the top five markets in the United States for intellectual property and information law, 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 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.

42 DEGREE OFFERINGS

APPROXIMATELY THREE DOZEN IPIL-RELATED COURSES ARE OFFERED REGULARLY VISITING STUDENTS at the UH Law Center. All of these courses meet the degree requirements for the Second- and third-year law students in good standing at an ABA-accredited law Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree, and most apply to the Master of Laws (LL.M.) school are eligible to spend one or two semesters at the UH Law Center and to degree in intellectual property and information law. enroll in its IPIL curriculum as well as other upper-division courses. Participants J.D. PROGRAM are accorded “visiting” status and receive their law degrees from their The UH Law Center offers both full-time and part-time programs leading to the J.D. home schools. Students interested degree. J.D. candidates must complete 90 credit hours and may select intellectual in visiting the UH Law Center should property and information law courses that reflect their individual interests. contact the Office of Admissions at Students interested in applying to the J.D. Program should contact the Office of 713.743.2280 or lawadmissions@ Admissions for an application at 713.743.2280 or [email protected]. uh.edu. LL.M. PROGRAM The LL.M. Program provides an academic environment for practicing lawyers who TRANSFER APPLICANTS wish to expand their knowledge of intellectual property and information law. Students also have the option Only a limited number of candidates are accepted for full-time or part-time studies, of applying for transfer to the and admission is highly competitive. Applicants from the United States must hold a Law Center. Transfer admissions J.D. degree from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. are highly competitive. First IPIL Prof. Paul Janicke Lawyers who hold law degrees from foreign countries must meet academic and consideration is given to applicants English-language standards for admission. who have performed extremely well in their first year of law school. Applicants must have completed all or most LL.M. candidates must complete 24 credit hours of approved courses (including of the Law Center’s first-year required courses. Successful applicants must have a minimum of 15 credit hours of IPIL courses), with a qualifying cumulative grade a minimum number of semester hours to apply and may transfer a maximum point average. An optional thesis is available. Class scheduling and availability vary number of semester hours of credit, with hours rather than grades to be noted from year to year. Most IPIL courses are offered in the fall and spring semesters. on their final UH Law Center transcripts. Other intake conditions apply. Students Generally, IPIL courses are not available in the summer. For Law Center J.D. interested in transferring to the UH Law Center, and learning the detailed intake students, a joint J.D./LL.M. program is available. Thesis supervision occurs during conditions such as the minimum and maximum intake transfer hours, should the fall and spring semesters only. For details about the LL.M. Program, visit contact the Office of Admissions at 713.743.2280 or [email protected]. www.law.uh.edu/llm.

5 PRINCIPAL FACULTY

For more information, visit the Principal Faculty web page at www.law.uh.edu/faculty

DAVE FAGUNDES Baker Botts Professor of Law; Assistant Dean for Faculty Development A.B., Harvard College; J.D., Harvard University Professor Fagundes’ scholarship focuses on tangible and intangible property. He joined the Law Center faculty in 2016, and was appointed research dean that same year. Prior to that, he worked as a professor of law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, CA; a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago; an associate at Jenner & Block LLP; and a clerk to Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He graduated with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served as an articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. Prof. Fagundes was named the UHLC Order of the Barons Professor of the Year for 2019-2020. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2020. Subjects: Property, Copyright, Wills, Trusts, & Estates, and The Subprime Mortgage Crisis Selected Publications include: Cities and Guns, Cornell L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021) (with Darrell Miller); Abandoning Copyright, Wm. & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020) (with Aaron Perzanowski); Law and Neighborhood Names, 72 Vand. L. Rev. 757 (2019) (with Nestor Davidson); Housing, Healthism, and the HUD Smoke-Free Policy, 113 Nw. U. L. Rev. 917 (2019) (with Jessica L. Roberts); Clown Eggs, 94 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1313 (2019) (with Aaron Perzanowski); Why Less Property Is More, 103 Iowa L. Rev. 1361 (2018); The Social Norms of Waiting in Line, 43 L. & Soc. Inquiry 1851 (2017); Buying Happiness, 58 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1179 (2017); The Moral Psychology of Copyright Infringement, 100 Minn. L. Rev. 2433 (2016) (with Christopher Buccafusco); Efficient Copyright Infringement, 98 Iowa L. Rev. 1791 (2013); Talk Derby to Me: Emergent Property Norms Governing Roller Derby Pseudonyms, 90 Tex. L. Rev. 1093 (2012); Costly Intellectual Property, 64 Vand. L. Rev. 677 (2012) (with Jonathan Masur); Property Rhetoric and the Public Domain, 94 Minn. L. Rev. 652 (2010); Crystals in the Public Domain, 50 B.C. L. Rev. 139 (2009). PAUL JANICKE Professor of Law B.E.E., Manhattan College; J.D. (LL.B.), University; LL.M., George Washington University Professor Janicke is a recognized expert in intellectual property litigation and licensing. 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 Selected Publications include: The Federal Circuit and the Seventh Amendment: Some Disentanglement Needed for Standards of Review, 28 Fed. Cir. B.J. 105 (2019); Modern Patent Litigation (4th ed. 2017); Patent Venue: Half Christmas Pie and Half Crow, 2017 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 13; The Imminent Outpouring from the Eastern District of Texas, 2017 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 1; 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); 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).

CRAIG JOYCE Hunton Andrews Kurth Professor of Law B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Oxford University; J.D., Stanford University Professor Joyce is the founding author of the widely used casebook, Copyright Law (11th ed. 2020). 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. Joyce edited The Majesty of the Law (2003) for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. 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 Selected Publications include: Copyright Law (11th ed., 2020) (with Tyler Ochoa & Michael Carroll); Reach Out and Touch Someone, 54 Hous. L. Rev. 257 (2016) (on Feist); Law Review: The First Fifty Years of Hous. L. Rev. (2014); The Statute of Anne: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 779 & 1013 (2010); A Unified Theory of Copyright, by Patterson & Birch (Joyce ed., 2009); Intellectual Property in the United States, in Oxf. Encycl. Legal Hist. (Katz ed., 2009); three entries in Yale Biogr. Dict. Amer. Law (Newman ed., 2009); Lazy B and the Nation’s Court, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 1257 (2006); A Good Judge, 30 J. S. Ct. Hist. 100 (2006) (retirement tributes to O’Connor, J.); The Story of Wheaton v. Peters, in IP Stories (Ginsburg & Cooper eds., 2005); six entries in Oxf. Compan. to S. Ct. of U.S. (Hall 2d ed., 2005); Copyright in 1791, 52 Emory L.J. 909 (2003); The Majesty of the Law, by Sandra Day O’Connor (Joyce ed., 2003); Monopolizing the Law, 36 UCLA L. Rev. 719 (1989); The Rise of the Supreme Court Reporter, 83 Mich. L. Rev. 1291 (1985) (many items co-authored).

6 SAPNA KUMAR Law Foundation Professor of Law B.S. (Mathematics), B.A. (Philosophy), The University of Texas at Austin; J.D., University of Chicago Professor Kumar is a patent law scholar who is interested in the international implications of U.S. patent policy. She is the 2018–2019 recipient of the Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant, under which she spent a semester researching at the University of Strasbourg’s Center for International Intellectual Property and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Prior to joining the UHLC faculty, she practiced IP litigation and was a faculty fellow at Duke University Law School. Professor Kumar clerked for the Honorable Judge Kenneth F. Ripple on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Subjects: Administrative Law, Federal Courts, International Intellectual Property, Patent Law, and Property Selected Publications include: Judging Patents, 62 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020); Innovation Nationalism, 51 Conn. L. Rev. 205 (2019); Patent Court Specialization, 104 Iowa L. Rev. 2511 (2019); Amicus Brief of the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association in Support of Neither Party, WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp., 16-1011 (with Ifti Ahmed) (2018); Patent Damages Without Borders, 25 Tex. Intell. Prop. J. 73 (2017) (invited); Standing Against Bad Patents, 32 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 27 (2017); Regulating Digital Trade, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 1909 (2015); 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 Other Patent Agency, 61 Fla. L. Rev. 529 (2009); Synthetic Biology: The Intellectual Property Puzzle (with Arti Rai), 85 Tex. L. Rev. 1745 (2007).

ANDREW MICHAELS Assistant Professor of Law B.S., Washington University in St. Louis; J.D., New York University Professor Michaels’ academic focus is in the areas of patent law and jurisprudence. He also frequently publishes more practice-oriented pieces in trade journals such as Law360, IPWatchdog, and Patently-O. Prior to joining the UH Law Center faculty, he clerked for the Honorable Pauline Newman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, practiced as a patent litigator, and taught as the Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Fellow at George Washington University Law School. Subjects: Patent Law, Intellectual Property Survey, and Statutory Interpretation & Regulation Selected Publications include: Retroactivity and Appointments, 52 Loy. U. Chi. L. J. (forthcoming 2021); Artificial Intelligence, Legal Change, and Separation of Powers, 88 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1083 (2020); Implicit Overruling and Foreign Lost Profits, 25 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 101 (2019); The Patent Lawyer’s Guide to Fascism: On Individual Autonomy and Private Law, 49 N.M. L. Rev. 169 (2019); Abstract Innovation, Virtual Ideas, and Artificial Legal Thought, 14 J. Bus. & Tech. L. 101 (2018); Abstract Innovation, Virtual Ideas, and Artificial Legal Thought, 14 J. Bus. & Tech. L. 101 (2018); Patent Transfer and the Bundle of Rights, 83 Brooklyn L. Rev. 933 (2018); The Holding-Dictum Spectrum, 73 Arkansas L. Rev. 661 (2017); Pot Calls Kettle Dictum: Expanded Secret Prior Art in Obviousness, 26 Fed. Cir. Bar J. 93 (2016); Tones That Echo From a Past Era of Rigid Jurisprudence: Pre-Challenge Royalties and the Federal Circuit’s Shell Test, 31 Santa Clara High Tech. L. J. 543 (2015).

GREG R. VETTER HIPLA Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs B.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 Selected Publications include: Modern Music Dissemination and Licensing Innovation, 99 B.U. L. Rev. 2551 (2019); Opportunistic Free and Open Source Software Development Pathways, 30 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 167 (2017); Are Prior User Rights Good for Software?, 73 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 251 (2015); Patent Law chapters for Intellectual Property Law (LexisNexis 2015) (intellectual property survey course casebook, with John Cross, Doris Long & Peter Yu); Patent Law’s Unpredictability Doctrine and 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).

7 AFFILIATED FACULTY

LEONARD M. BAYNES ANTHONY R. CHASE MICHAEL A. OLIVAS Dean and Professor of Law Associate Professor of Law William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law B.S., New York University; M.B.A., J.D., Columbia A.B., M.B.A., J.D., Harvard University (Emeritus); Director, Institute of Higher Education University Professor Chase, a former telecom industry Law & Governance (1982-2019); and Past Interim President, University of Houston–Downtown Dean Baynes joined the Law Center in executive, has served as Deputy Chairman of the Regional Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of , B.A., Pontifical College Josephinum; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State 2015, bringing a national reputation as a University; J.D., Georgetown University communications law scholar, with specializations Houston Branch. He teaches Communications Law, in business, media, and diversity issues. Entrepreneurship, and Contracts. Professor Olivas is one of the nation’s top public intellectuals in law and policy matters related to higher education and immigration while also teaching, publishing and broadcasting in EMILY BERMAN RICHARD F. DOLE entertainment law. He provides a regular radio show on the Albuquerque, Associate Professor of Law Bobby Wayne Young Professor of Consumer Law NM, NPR station KANW, “The Law of Rock and Roll,” in which he reviews legal B.A., Duke University; J.D., LL.M., New York B.A., Bates College; LL.B., LL.M., Cornell University; developments in music and entertainment law. University S.J.D., University of Michigan Professor Berman’s scholarship examines Professor Dole assisted in drafting both the the unique separation-of-powers challenges Uniform Trade Secrets Act and the Uniform LAWRENCE F. PINSKY that arise in the constitutional, statutory, and Deceptive Trade Practices Act. His recent Moores Professor, Physics Department, College of regulatory regimes governing national-security scholarship concerns remedies under the UTSA. Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of policy. She clerked for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. of the Second Professor Dole’s teaching interests include Bankruptcy, Commercial Houston Circuit Court of Appeals. She teaches National Security Law, Foreign Law, Creditors’ Rights, and Unfair Competition. B.S., Carnegie Mellon University; M.A., Ph.D., Affairs Law, and Constitutional Law. University of Rochester; J.D., LL.M., University of Houston Dr. Pinsky’s specialties include experimental DARREN BUSH PETER LINZER particle physics, heavy ion physics, nucleon structure functions, space Leonard B. Rosenberg College Professor of Law Professor of Law radiation simulation, medium energy physics, and charged particle detector B.A., California State University, San Bernardino; A.B., Cornell University; J.D., development. He is involved in projects at CERN, BNL, NASA, and Fermilab. He teaches Internet Law and Intellectual Property Survey. Ph.D., J.D., University of Utah Professor Linzer has served as Reviser, Corbin on Professor Bush previously served in the U.S. Contracts (Interpretation), and Editorial Reviser Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, with of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts. In attention to state deregulation of electric utilities addition to advanced contract drafting (including JESSICA ROBERTS as well as mergers and anticompetitive conduct in domestic and international IP-related documents), Leonard H. Childs Professor of Law, Professor of wholesale and retail energy markets. He teaches Antitrust, Regulated he teaches Constitutional Law and First Amendment, with research Medicine, and Director and Director of the Health Industries, Law & Economics, and Administrative Law. interests in free speech rights and Internet neutrality. Law & Policy Institute B.A., University of Southern California; J.D., SETH CHANDLER GERALDINE SZOTT MOOHR Professor Roberts studies the intersection of health Law Foundation Professor of Law Alumnae Professor of Law (Emerita) and anti-discrimination law, including the theoretical A.B., Princeton University; J.D., Harvard University B.S., University of Illinois; M.S., Bucknell implications of health-care reform, the formation of genetic identity, University; J.D., American University and the antidiscrimination protection of health-related information. She Professor Chandler is a leader in the emerging teaches Introduction to Health Law, Disabilities and the Law, and Genetics scholarly discipline of law and computation, where Professor Moohr is one of the nation’s leading and the Law. his scholarship uses computational modeling scholars in federal criminal law, particularly fraud to better understand such areas of interest as and white collar crime, and is the author of the insurance law, health law, economic analysis of path-breaking casebook, The Criminal Law of law, and contracts. At UH, he teaches Computational Law, which includes Intellectual Property and Information. various methods applied to the effect and operation of IP law.

8 ADJUNCT FACULTY

YOCEL ALONSO, Alonso PLLC. B.A., University of Houston, University of Salamanca, LEE HUNT, Brackett & Ellis, P.C. B.S., Texas State University; M.P.A., (Bush School of Spain; J.D., University of Houston Law Center Government and Public Service) Texas A&M University; J.D., University of Houston

JUSTEN BARKS, Beard & Barks PLLC. B.B.A., Belmont University; J.D., University of SHARON A. ISRAEL, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. S.B. (Electrical Engineering), Houston Law Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D., M.B.A., Emory University

JAMES BEEBE, Baker Hughes. B.S. (Chemical Engineering), Mississippi State University; AARON LEVINE, Polsinelli PC. B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Cornell University; J.D., M.C.E., J.D., University of Houston Law Center New York University

LOUIS BRUCCULERI, Intrado. B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Tulane University; J.D., The STEVE MAULE, Baker Botts L.L.P. B.S. (Electrical & Computer Engineering), M.S. University of Texas at Austin (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Baylor University; M.B.A., J.D., University of Houston

RUSSELL CHORUSH, Heim, Payne & Chorush LLP. B.S., The University of Texas at TOM MAVRAKAKIS, ServiceNow. B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Polytechnic University; Austin; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University; J.D., University of Houston Law Center J.D., St. John’s University

RICARDO COLMENTER, Entra Consulting. J.D., UCAB Caracas ; KIM MULLER. B.S., Virginia Tech; J.D., UIC John Marshall Law School; LL.M., George LL.M. (Intellectual Property & Information Law), University of Houston Law Center; Washington University LL.M. (Intellectual Property and Human Rights), Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University ANNA E. RAIMER, Jones Day. B.A., Tulane University; J.D., The University of Texas at Austin

CARLO COTRONE, Techtronic Industries North America, Inc. B.S. (Electrical RUDY RAMIREZ, United States Attorney’s Office-Southern District of Texas. Engineering), J.D., Marquette University B.A. (Psychology and Political Science), Rice University; J.D., South Texas College of Law Houston

ALI DHANANI, Baker Botts L.L.P. B.S. (Computer Science), J.D., University of Houston MATT TODD, Polsinelli PC. B.B.A., The University of Texas at Austin; M.B.A., University Law Center of Oxford; J.D., St. Mary’s University

NATALIE ALFARO GONZALES, Baker Botts L.L.P. B.S., The University of Texas; J.D., D.C. TOEDT III, Law Office of D.C. Toedt III. B.A., J.D., The University of Texas at Austin University of Houston Law Center MARCELLA WATKINS, Adolph Locklar. B.S. (Chemical Engineering), Rice University; COMPETITION COACHES J.D., The University of Texas at Austin

JASON BEESINGER, Joyce & McFarland LLP. B.A., Texas A&M University; J.D., University JOSH DAVIS, The Josh Davis . B.S., Trinity University; J.D., University of of Houston Law Center Houston Law Center

ALLAN BULLWINKEL, Heim, Payne & Chorush, LLP. B.S. (Computer Engineering), WILL SPROTT, Shell Oil Company. B.S. (Biomedical Engineering), Tulane University; Mississippi State University; J.D., University of Houston Law Center J.D., University of Houston Law Center

9 IPIL COURSES TYPICALLY OFFERED

ADVANCED TOPICS IN COPYRIGHT LAW SEMINAR provides students the opportunity COPYRIGHT LAW deals with the regulation of creative works of authorship (literature, for in-depth exploration of topics of interest to them, including technological, music, art, computer programs, etc.) under U.S. Code Title 17. international, and historical problems in the field of copyright law. CRIME IN THE INFORMATION AGE examines the intersection of two fields, criminal law and the ADVANCED TOPICS IN SOFTWARE PROTECTION provides students with a holistic view law of information and intellectual property. of software protection, focusing on legal issues concerning the protection and transaction of computer software, particularly with respect to trade secrecy, patent DATA PROTECTION IN CORPORATE PRACTICE explores the basic principles of data law, digital copyright, and licensing. protection and privacy law as applied to the conduct of corporations.

ADVERTISING AND MARKETING LAW covers both the law and commercial perspectives DIGITAL TRANSACTIONS covers issues in software and online licensing, including the concerning the advertising and marketing industry. This survey includes treatment of nature of remedies, warranties, and other obligations that arise from such transactions. issues from consumer protection, privacy, trademark, business torts, constitutional eDISCOVERY examines the increased impact of technology in the legal field, including law, copyright, privacy, and other areas of law important to advertising and marketing. significant changes in the way litigation, and specifically discovery, is handled. ANTITRUST LAW explores the law and economics of antitrust policy and the methods ENTERTAINMENT LAW blends concepts and skills derived from intellectual property, for enforcing antitrust policy. Emphasis is placed on the issues of monopolization, contracts, and torts, with emphasis on recent Internet-based developments in the mergers, price fixing, and state and local government actions impacting the relevant entertainment industries. competitive process. ENTREPRENEURSHIP explores entrepreneurship and specifically considers the challenges BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW examines ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding and strategies typically encountered in becoming a successful entrepreneur, with new medical technologies related to genetic information, including consideration particular emphasis on technology and the law relating to it. of regulatory frameworks to ensure appropriate incentives for research and commercialization of biotechnologies. GENETICS AND THE LAW examines ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding new genetic technologies. COMMUNICATION LAW examines regulation and policy concerned with various forms of mass media in the U.S., including radio and television, as well as telecommunications INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW SEMINAR allows students to focus on such topics as privacy regulations, law, and policy. and the media, privacy and law enforcement, surveillance law and national security, health and genetic privacy, associational privacy and anonymity, and privacy of COMPUTATIONAL LAW enables students to develop interactive models of legal issues commercial data. or systems. Likely topics include decision theory, game theory, finance, statistics, network analysis, and computational linguistics. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ADVANCED TOPICS SEMINAR is a treatment of specialized CONSUMER LAW examines consumer law issues in both traditional and electronic/internet subjects in intellectual property law. marketplaces, including an emphasis on the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SURVEY covers domestic intellectual property laws — CONTRACT DRAFTING helps students prepare for drafting, reviewing, analyzing, explaining, patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret — through statutes and cases, with and negotiating contracts. Typical contracts considered may include agreements attention to the needs both of non-specialty students desiring a one-time overview of involving employment, leases, distribution, services, licenses, stock-options, change- the basics of IPIL law, and of soon-to-be IPIL specialists seeking more detailed study. of-control, arbitration, and/or settlements.

10 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT examines the legal and PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION covers the basic principles of privacy and data protection managerial issues facing an intellectual property or information-based organization law, including federal privacy statutes relating to surveillance, record-keeping, and from its start-up phase through either an initial public offering (IPO) or an acquisition health information, as well as state privacy statutes, the privacy-related activities of by another firm. the Federal Trade Commission, and the privacy law in the European Union.

INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY examines both international IP law itself and PROCEDURE OF PATENT LITIGATION provides hands-on experience with issues that comparative aspects of IP law among major trading countries and regions of the patent litigators face in day-to-day trial preparation, examining a hypothetical patent world. 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. INTERNET LAW is a survey of legal issues arising from the rapid growth of Internet and other online communications. Coverage includes intellectual property, First SPORTS LAW treats topics such as representation of athletes in contract negotiations and Amendment, criminal, and privacy issues. endorsements, related IP matters, the player-club contractual relationship, anti-trust and collective bargaining issues, and sports tort liability. 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 TRADE SECRETS surveys the practical aspects of trade secrets as they relate to protection issues posed by pending and recently decided major cases. by contract and operation of law, relationships of the parties, public law constraints, adversarial considerations, and licensing. LICENSING AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER examines techniques for licensing rights in technology and the ways of employing and transferring such rights. TRADEMARK AND UNFAIR COMPETITION considers the evolution and practice of trademark and related unfair competition law, with emphasis on litigation strategy. 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 TRADEMARK PROSECUTION provides hands-on training and instruction on the procedure intellectual property law or information law. of trademark prosecution, from pre-application searching through the filing of renewal documents ten years after registration. Discussion will focus on statutory PATENT LAW examines the substantive law of patents as a means for protecting inventive law, case precedent, and the USPTO’s Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure. ideas. The course focuses on conditions necessary to obtain a patent, infringement, and enforcing patent rights through patent litigation.

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

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

11 IPIL: A YEAR IN THE LIFE

2019 FALL IP INSTITUTE SPONSORED SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS (“SSGs”)

JASMINE ABDEL-KHALIK SCOTT WOODARD SSG for the Legal Academy SSG for Federal Judicial Clerks Grant Recipient Grant Recipient University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Clerk for Honorable Jeffrey U. Beaverstock School of Law U.S. District Court Southern District of Alabama (L-R) Hon. Keith F. Giblin (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas) Hon. Jimmie V. Reyna (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) Hon. Lee Yeakel (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas) These Sponsored Scholarship Grants Programs are administered Hon. Ifti Ahmed (USPTO, Patent Trial and Appeal Board), and Greg R. Vetter (IPIL/HOUSTON) for The Honorable Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property American Inn of Court by the University of Houston Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law. See: http://www.law.uh.edu/ipil/sponsoredgrants.asp 2019 FALL LECTURE 2019 FRANKEL LECTURE

(L-R) Dave Fagundes (IPIL/HOUSTON), Todd Rakoff (Harvard Law School), Sarah Burstein (University of Oklahoma College of Law), 2019 Fall Lecturer Dean Leonard M. Baynes (University of Houston Law Center), Orly Lobel (University of San Diego School of Law), Lisa Ouellette (Stanford Law School), and Greg R. Vetter (IPIL/HOUSTON) 12 IPIL: A YEAR IN THE LIFE

HAPPY TO HAVE FRIENDS DROP IN!

John Blevins Saurabh Vishnubhakat Leslie Griffin University of Nevada, Las Vegas Loyola University New Orleans Texas A&M University School of Law College of Law with Sapna Kumar (IPIL/HOUSTON) William S. Boyd School of Law

M3 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SCHOLARS WORKSHOP

(Front Row: L-R) Zahr Said (Washington), Sarah Burstein (Oklahoma), Amelia Smith Rinehart (Utah), Sapna Kumar (IPIL/Houston), Rebecca Curtin (Suffolk) (Back Row: L-R) Janewa Osei Tutu (Florida International), Andres Sawicki (Miami), Greg Vetter (IPIL/Houston), Dave Fagundes (IPIL/Houston), Guy Rub (Ohio State), Jake Linford (Florida State) 13 NATIONAL CONFERENCE What’s Real? - IP from a Property Theory Perspective June 1, 2019 Santa Fe, New Mexico Conference Presenters

Michael A. Carrier Irina D. Manta Rutgers Law School, Camden Hofstra University Why Property Law Does Not Support the Maurice A. Deane School of Law Keith Aoki • Thomas F. Cotter Antitrust Abandonment of Standards Keeping IP Real Craig Joyce • Roberta Rosenthal Kwall 57 Hous. L. Rev. 265 (2019) 57 Hous. L. Rev. 349 (2019) Peter S. Menell • Neil Weinstock Netanel

Tun-Jen Chiang Carol M. Rose George Mason University The University of Arizona Antonin Scalia Law School James E. Rogers College of Law; Yale Law School Questioning Patent Alienability Cold Corpses, Hot News, and Dead IP: 57 Hous. L. Rev. 287 (2019) The Reasons for and Consequences of a Legal Status of No-Property 57 Hous. L. Rev. 377 (2019) Brett Frischmann Villanova University Dave Fagundes Charles Widger School of Law University of Houston Law Center Comparative Analysis of Innovation Failures Moderator with Introduction and Institutions in Context 57 Hous. L. Rev. 261 (2019) 57 Hous. L. Rev. 313 (2019)

Fellows Andrew Chin Sapna Kumar • Peter Lee Robert Heverly Eva E. Subotnik Joshua D. Sarnoff • Sean B. Seymore Albany Law School St. John’s University Liza Vertinsky School of Law

Alina Ng Deepa Varadarajan Mississippi College Georgia State University School of Law College of Law 1412 No conference held in 2006 and 2020. NATIONAL CONFERENCE PRIOR IPIL NATIONAL CONFERENCES 2001 - 2018

E-Commerce and Privacy The Future of Patent Law Considering Copyright Trademark in Transition Transactions, Information 38 Hous. L. Rev. 717 (2001) 39 Hous. L. Rev. 567 (2002) 40 Hous. L. Rev. 609 (2003) 41 Hous. L. Rev. 707 (2004) and Emerging Law 42 Hous. L. Rev. 941 (2005)

Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook Anita L. Allen • Trotter Hardy Paul M. Janicke Laura N. Gasaway • Craig Joyce Graeme B. Dinwoodie Clayton P. Gillette Walter W. Miller, Jr. & Maureen A. O’Rourke Mark D. Janis & Jay P. Kesan Hon. Jon O. Newman • William Patry Stacey L. Dogan & Mark A. Lemley Robert W. Gomulkiewicz Raymond T. Nimmer • Chris Reed Kimberly A. Moore • Craig Allen Nard Hon. Richard A. Posner • Alan Story A. Michael Froomkin • William M. Landes Raymond T. Nimmer • Robert L. Oakley Joel R. Reidenberg • Holly K. Towle Toshiko Takenaka • John R. Thomas Eugene Volokh • Alfred C. Yen J. Thomas McCarthy • Greg R. Vetter Peter P. Swire • R. Polk Wagner

Copyright in Context Patent Law in Perspective Intellectual Property in Celebrating Copyright’s Trademark: Today and 44 Hous. L. Rev. 815 (2007) 45 Hous. L. Rev. 1031 (2008) International Perspective tri-Centennial Tomorrow 46 Hous. L. Rev. 975 (2009) 47 Hous. L. Rev. 779 (2010) 48 Hous. L. Rev. 701 (2011)

Rebecca S. Eisenberg • Paul J. Heald Keith Aoki • Thomas F. Cotter Rochelle C. Dreyfuss Oren Bracha • Ronan Deazley Michael J. Meurer Ann Bartow • Barton Beebe Craig Joyce • Roberta Rosenthal Kwall Cynthia M. Ho • Charles R. McManis Craig Joyce • Hon. Pierre N. Leval Janice M. Mueller & Donald S. Chisum Craig Joyce • Greg Lastowka Peter S. Menell • Neil Weinstock Netanel Jerome H. Reichman • Greg R. Vetter David Nimmer • Catherine Seville Arti K. Rai • Greg R. Vetter Mark P. McKenna • Rebecca Tushnet Peter K. Yu Dianne Leenheer Zimmerman

Pondering Patents: Intellectual Property and ReCalibrating Copyright: Intellectual Property Authorship in America First Principles and Fresh Information Law in the Continuity, Contemporary & Information Law (and Beyond) Possibilities Administrative State Culture, and Change in a Global Context 54 Hous. L. Rev. 249 (2016) 50 Hous. L. Rev. 319 (2012) 51 Hous. L. Rev. 381 (2013) 52 Hous. L. Rev. 417 (2014) 53 Hous. L. Rev. 333 (2015) Shyamkrishna Balganesh William W. Fisher III • Craig Joyce Colleen V. Chien • Kevin Emerson Collins Olufunmilayo B. Arewa Irene Calboli Hon. Jon O. Newman • Pamela Samuelson Paul M. Janicke • Mark R. Patterson Adam Candeub • John F. Duffy Wendy J. Gordon • Craig Joyce Margaret Chon • Daniel J. Gervais Xinqiang (David) Sun Lee Petherbridge • Katherine J. Strandburg John M. Golden • Sapna Kumar Jacqueline D. Lipton • Lydia Pallas Loren Amy L. Landers • Lateef Mtima Molly Van Houweling Greg R. Vetter Arti K. Rai • Christopher S. Yoo Thomas B. Nachbar Greg R. Vetter

Patent Law and Progress Trademark Law 55 Hous. L. Rev. 265 (2017) 56 Hous. L. Rev. 267 (2018) For citations to specific articles, please

Andrew Chin Stacey Dogan • Sapna Kumar contact Houston Law Review at Sapna Kumar • Peter Lee Glynn S. Lunney, Jr. Joshua D. Sarnoff • Sean B. Seymore William McGeveran • Xuan-Thao Nguyen houstonlawreview.org Liza Vertinsky Lisa P. Ramsey

No conference held in 2006 and 2020. 15 ANNUAL FALL LECTURE

The Fall Lecture Series: Made Possible by Generous Support from the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association

(L-R) Greg R. Vetter, Sarah Burstein (Lecturer), and Sapna Kumar

Sarah Burstein (Lecturer)

2019 FALL LECTURE, Sarah Burstein (Lecturer), University of Oklahoma College of Law Prior Lecturers

2018 Timothy R. Holbrook, Emory University School of Law 2005 Dan L. Burk, University of Minnesota Law School 2017 John R. Thomas, Georgetown University Law Center 2004 David J. Franklyn, University of San Francisco School of Law 2016 Daniel C.K. Chow, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law 2003 William F. Lee, Hale & Dorr LLP 2015 Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School 2002 Hon. Paul Michel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 2014 Dennis D. Crouch, University of Missouri School of Law 2001 Ysolde Gendreau, Université de Montréal 2013 Elizabeth A. Rowe, University of Florida Levin College of Law 2000 Jerre B. Swann, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP 2012 Hon. Jimmie V. Reyna, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 1999 Joseph Straus, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition 2011 Robert Brauneis, George Washington University Law School 1998 John R. Thomas, George Washington University Law School 2010 Jane K. Winn, University of Washington School of Law 1997 Hon. Nancy Linck, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 2009 Gregory N. Mandel, Temple University Beasley School of Law 1996 Hon. Glenn Archer, Hon. Pauline Newman, and Hon. Edward Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 2008 Margo A. Bagley, University of Virginia School of Law 1995 Donald S. Chisum, Author, Chisum on Patents 2007 Clarisa Long, Columbia University School of Law 1994 John Pegram, Davis, Hoxie, Faithfull & Hapgood LLP 2006 John F. Duffy, George Washington University Law School For more information on prior conferences, please visit: 16 www.law.uh.edu/ipil/HIPLAipilFallInstitute.asp ANNUAL FALL IP INSTITUTE

35th Annual Fall IP Institute Galveston, Texas In association with the Houston Fall IP Institute Begins ... Intellectual Property Law Association (HIPLA), each Fall IPIL holds a major continuing legal education (CLE) event attracting several hundred intellectual property professionals from across Texas and the nation.

Hon. Jimmie V. Reyna Keynote Speaker Attendees enjoy the wine tasting

(L-R) Hon. Keith F. Giblin (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas), Hon. Jimmie V. Reyna (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit), Hon. Lee Yeakel (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas), Hon. Ifti Ahmed (USPTO, Patent Trial and Appeal Board) Attendees taking a break

For more information on prior conferences, please visit: www.law.uh.edu/ipil/HIPLAipilFallInstitute.asp 17 SPRING LECTURE SERIES SPECIAL EVENTS

A Service and Tribute to Houston’s Distinguished Intellectual Property and SPECIAL EVENTS provide the opportunity for IPIL, other academic institutions, Information Law Bar intellectual property and information law practitioners, and the judiciary to focus on current issues and to explore solutions for critical legal problems associated with LECTURERS creative expression and new technologies. 2018 Paul Ohm, Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center IPIL HOSTS LICENSING EXECUTIVE SOCIETY (LES) EVENT: IP & LICENSING BASICS - HOUSTON, TEXAS 2017 Christopher Jon Sprigman, Professor of Law New York University School of Law The course is taught by both legal and business experts to build practical understandings of core IP and licensing concepts. 2016 Mark Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law Stanford Law School 2015 Jeanne Fromer, Professor of Law New York University School of Law 2014 Julie E. Cohen, Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center 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 (L-R) Louise Levien (Ret.) (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.), Jonathon Hance (Bracewell LLP), 2011 Paul Goldstein, Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law Kevin Tamm (Bracewell LLP), D.C. Toedt III (University of Houston Law Center Instructor), Stanford Law School and Shayne Phillips (Halliburton)

2010 Douglas Lichtman, Professor of Law 3 University of California, Los Angeles School of Law IPIL HOSTED THE M INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SCHOLARS WORKSHOP M3 — mid-career scholars, middle of the academic year, & mid-point drafts 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 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 2020 participants: Sarah Burstein, organizer (Oklahoma), Rebecca Curtin (Suffolk), Washington University in St. Louis School of Law Dave Fagundes, host (IPIL/Houston), Sapna Kumar, host (IPIL/Houston), Jake Linford, organizer (Florida State), Amelia Smith Rinehart (Utah), 2004 Jane C. Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law Guy Rub (Ohio State), Zahr Said (Washington), Andres Sawicki, organizer (Miami), Columbia University School of Law Janewa Osei Tutu (Florida International), and Greg Vetter, host (IPIL/Houston) 18 GUEST SPEAKERS

Jorge Contreras, Professor of Law Mercedes Meyer, Attorney - Partner University of Utah College of Law Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Adventures in Legal Research -- Unearthin Tales in Practicing Law for Rebel Women the History of (start no italics) AMP v. Myriad Genetics

Tejas Narechania, Robert and Nanci Corson Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Professor of Law Assistant Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Texas A&M University School of Law Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Patent Learning University of California Berkeley School of Law Defective Patent Deference

19 STUDENT INTERESTS

IPSO is the organization ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITIONS for students of intellectual property and IP students of the Law Center participate in many competitions, both locally information law at the and nationwide: University of Houston Law Center. It promotes • AIPLA Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition awareness of intellectual • INTA Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition property and information law issues at the UH Law • AIPLEF Jan Jancin Award Center, provides networking opportunities among students and intellectual property and information • ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law law practitioners in the community, and collaborates with IPIL in carrying out its various programs. • AIPLA Robert C. Watson Competition See www.law.uh.edu/organizations/ipso. • Federal Circuit Bar Association George Hutchinson Writing Competition

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.

20 HOUSTON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATION

HIPLA 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.

THE HONORABLE NANCY F. ATLAS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AMERICAN INN OF COURT

The Atlas IP Inn includes in its mission participation by law students studying intellectual property law. Law students who become members of the Atlas IP Inn have the chance to participate in several dinners each year, and work with practicing IP attorneys as part of a pupillage group that presents to the dinner audience a topic concerning intellectual property or information law. See http://inns.innsofcourt.org/for-members/inns/the-honorable-nancy-f-atlas-intellectual-property-american-inn-of-court.aspx.

21 SPONSORED WEB RESOURCES

PATSTATS.ORG

Online Patent Litigation Statistics PATSTATS.ORG tracked 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 2000 to 2013. Decisions include the reported cases from 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, Prof. Paul Janicke Damages Calculations, and Special Factors. To view these materials, visit www.patstats.org.

PROGRAM ON LAW AND COMPUTATION

Applying 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 Prof. Seth J. Chandler economic analysis of law. To learn more, visit www.law.uh.edu/polac/homepage.asp.

22 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 IPIL CASEBOOKS 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.

Applying Advanced Computational Techniques to the Study and Understanding of Law

2321 University of Houston Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law 4604 Calhoun Road Houston, Texas 77204-6060 www.law.uh.edu/ipil

0073054880 SPONSORS/SUPPORTERS THE INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & INFORMATION LAW at the University of Houston Law Center gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following sponsors and supporters:

Alonso PLLC Exxon Mobil Corporation Arnold & Saunders, LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP Baker Botts L.L.P. Heim, Payne & Chorush, LLP Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC McKool Smith Blank Rome LLP Nielsen IP Law LLC BMC Software, Inc. Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP Boulware & Valoir Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP Bracewell LLP Polsinelli PC Conley Rose, P.C. Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Culotta Law Firm, PLLC Vinson & Elkins LLP DLA Piper LLP (US) Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Richard Aldrich • Yocel Alonso • Meg Boulware • Jennifer Carnahan Anne Culotta • Ed Fein • Sarah Harris • Craig Joyce • Steve Koch Irene Kosturakis • Aaron Levine • Anthony Matheny • Scott Partridge Anna Raimer • Peter and Sheila Strand Charitable Fund • Matt Todd Greg R. Vetter • Andrew Weaver • Russell Wong

PROGRAM/EVENT BENEFACTORS Houston Intellectual Property Law Association (Fall Lecture / Fall IP Institute) The Honorable Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property American Inn of Court (Sponsored Scholarship Grants program)

The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university and an EEO/AA institution.