1991

2016

IP IL/HOUSTON a t t h e University of Houston Law Center

C E L E B R AT E S 2 5 Y E A R S ! Anniversary25 th

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Professor Robert’s research studies the intersection of health and antidiscrimination law, which includes the theoretical implications of health-care reform, the formation of genetic identity, and the antidiscrimination protection of health-related information. Professor Roberts teaches Introduction to Health Law, Disabilities and the Law, and Genetics and the Law.

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

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

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

Professor Olivas teaches courses in Higher Education Law and Entertainment Law as well as Immigration Law. He also has a regular radio show on the Albuquerque, NM, NPR station KANW, “The Law of Rock and Roll,” in which he reviews legal developments in music and entertainment law.

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Anniversary25 th

In 2016, IPIL (the Institute for Intellectual Property

& Information Law at the UNIVERSITY OF

HOUSTON LAW CENTER) celebrated its

25th Anniversary. IPIL is the

third-oldest IP program in

the nation (behind only GW in

1891 and John Marshall in 1951).*

Inside, we present a brief history of IPIL’s

first 25 years.

* Robert Gomulkiewicz, Intellectual Property, Innovation, and the Future: Toward a Better Model for Educating Leaders in Intellectual Property Law, 64 SMU L. Rev. 1161, 1163 (2011)

“PRESENT AT THE CREATION”UH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROGRAM

INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

ORIGINAL IPSO LOGO Founding of the

Intellectual Property Student Organization

IP PROGRAM CO-DIRECTORSCraig Joyce and Paul Janicke

1997199619951994199319921991

CO-MARKETING WITHUH INFORMATION

LAW INSTITUTE(Founded 1985)

Raymond T. NimmerDirector

FIRST GALVESTON FALL INSTITUTEPartnering with

Houston Intellectual Property Law Association

LL.M. DEGREE ADDED Master of Laws

LL.M.

IPSO ON TOURVisiting European IP & IL

Agencies

WESTWARD HOFirst IPIL National Conference

Santa Fe, New Mexico

WELCOME, PROFESSOR!Greg R. Vetter

Joins the UH Law Center as Faculty and IPIL Co-Director

FIRST KATZ FOUNDATION LECTUREBeginning of IPIL Partnership

with Houston Law Review

2003200220012000199919981997

SINDEE BIELAMOWICZ joins the team

SAY HELLO TO “IPIL”!JOINING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYAND INFORMATION LAW PROGRAMS

COWGIRL FAREWELLSupreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

2005 IPIL Banquet

STRENGTHENING THE BRAND Sapna Kumar Joins the Team

CREATION OF “SSG” PROGRAMAnnual Funding

in Support of Scholarshipfor Members of the Academy

and Federal Appellate Court Clerks

INAUGURAL SPRING LECTUREThe Right to Claim Authorship

in U.S. Copyright and Trademarks LawJane C. Ginsburg (Columbia)

2012201120102009200820072006200520042003

CELEBRATING THE STATUTE OF ANNE’S300th ANNIVERSARY

IPIL’s 2010 National Conference

WIPIP 2012 IN HOUSTON

Fifteenth AnniversaryIPIL National Conference

Santa Fe, New Mexico

ADDING INFORMATION LAW STRENGTH

Jacqueline Lipton Joins IPIL/HOUSTON

20162015201420132012

Mission AccoMplished!

February 10-11, 2012Houston, Texas

IPIL/HOUSTON

ANOTHER LEADING SCHOLAR

David Fagundes Joins the Faculty

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLPAndrews Kurth LLPArnold, Knobloch & Saunders, L.L.P.Baker Botts L.L.P.Baker Hughes IncorporatedBlank Rome LLPBMC SoftwareBoulware & ValoirBracewell LLPData Foundry ColocationDentons US LLPDLA PiperExxon Mobil CorporationGiganews UsenetGolden Frog Internet TechnologyGreenberg Traurig, LLPHogan Lovells

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

Katz Family Foundation FundLexicon PharmaceuticalsLocke Lord EdwardsMayer Brown LLPMcKool SmithNielsen IP Law LLCNorton Rose FulbrightOsha Liang LLPPolsinelli PCPorter Hedges LLPShell Oil CompanyShook, Hardy & Bacon LLPSusman Godfrey LLPSutton McAughan Deaver PLLCThompson & Knight LLPUnivation TechnologiesVinson & Elkins LLP

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

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

Peter Strand • David Vondle • Bill Walker • Russell Wong

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