Professor Janicke was in private practice with Arnold White & Durkee in Houston from 1971 until his appointment to the UH law faculty in 1992. His practice was primarily in patent litigation. Upon joining the law faculty, he became a co-director of the UH intellectual property program and was one of the principal shepherds of the program’s growth to one of the most highly recognized IP programs in the country.
Recent Publications:
"Venue Transfers From the Eastern District of Texas -- Case-By-Case Or An Endemic Problem? Landslide [A.B.A. Intellectual Property Section magazine] (forthcoming 2009)
"Patent Venue and Convenience Transfer: New World Or Small Shift? North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology (forthcoming 2009)
• Die Reform des U.S. Patentrechts im Jahr 2007, 56 Gewerblicher
Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht International Teil 791 (2007)
• Patent Jury Verdicts: Myths and Realities, Intellectual Property
Today (July 2007) 18
• Four Key Points in the Current Patent Reform Effort in the United
States, 5 Icfai J. Intell. Prop. Rights 14 (November 2006) (Hyderabad,
India)
• Two Unsettled Areas of the Federal Circuit’s Patent Jurisdiction,
11 Va. J. L. & Tech. 1 (2006)
• Who Wins Patent Infringement Cases? 34 Am. Intell. Prop. L.
Assoc. Q.J. 1 (2006)
(with LiLan Ren) [for the database referenced in this article, click here]
• On the Causes of Unpredictability of Federal Circuit Decisions
in Patent Cases, 3 Northwestern J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 93 (2005);
reprinted in 4 ICFAI J. Intell. Prop. Rights, August 2006
(New Delhi, India)