FULL-TIME IPIL FACULTY

PAUL M. JANICKE HIPLA Professor of Law

B.E.E., Manhattan College; J.D., New York University; LL.M., George Washington University

A recognized expert on patent litigation, Professor Janicke 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. His casebook, MODERN PATENT LITIGATION, was published by Carolina Academic Press in 1999.

SUBJECTS: Patent Law, Patent Litigation, Licensing & Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property Survey, Intellectual Property Seminar, Military Law, Evidence

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP INCLUDES: Die Reform des U.S. Patentrechts im Jahr 2007, 56 Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrect International Teil 791(2007); MODERN PATENT LITIGATION (Carolina Academic Press 2006); Who Wins Patent Infringement Cases?, 34 AIPLA Q.J. 1 (2006); Four Key Points in the Current Patent Reform Effort in the United States, 5 ICFAI J. INTELL. PROP. RIGHTS 14 (2006) (Hyderabad, India); Two Unsettled Areas of the Federal Circuit’s Patent Jurisdiction, 11 VA. J. L. & TECH. 1 (2006); On the Causes of Unpredictability of Federal Circuit Decisions in Patent Cases, 3 NW. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 93 (2005); “Maybe We Shouldn’t Arbitrate”: Some Aspects of the Risk/Benefit Calculus of Agreeing to Binding Arbitration of Patent Disputes, 39 HOUS. L. REV. 693 (2002); To Be or Not To Be: The Long Gestation of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 69 J. ANTITRUST L. 645 (2002).

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

CRAIG JOYCE Andrews Kurth Law Center Professor of Law

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Oxford University; J.D., Stanford University

Professor Joyce is the lead author of the widely used casebook, COPYRIGHT LAW, which has been adopted for classroom instruction in dozens of law schools across the country (7th ed. 2006). His articles on copyright doctrine and history have appeared in numerous journals, including the Michigan and UCLA law reviews, and are cited regularly by the federal appellate courts. He edited THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Professor Joyce practiced law at Fennemore, Craig, von Ammon & Udall in Phoenix before entering academia in 1981, and has taught at the UH Law Center since 1986. Besides his duties as a director of the Institute since 1991, he served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Special Programs from 1996 to 1999.

SUBJECTS: Copyright, Torts, American Legal History

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP INCLUDES: COPYRIGHT LAW (7th ed. 2006, Supp. 2008, 8th ed. forthcoming) (with Leaffer, Jaszi & Ochoa); Lazy B and the Nation’s Court: Pragmatism in Service of Principle, 119 HARV. L. REV. 1257 (2006); A Good Judge, 30 J. S. CT. HIST. 100 (2006); A Curious Chapter in the History of Judicature, 43 HOUS. L. REV. 325 (2005); “The Story of Wheaton v. Peters,” in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STORIES (Jane C. Ginsburg & Rochelle Dreyfuss Cooper ed., 2005); multiple entries in OXFORD COMPANION TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (2d ed. 2004); Owning the Law, in 100 AMERICANS MAKING CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY (2004); historical preface to INCHAMBERS OPINIONS OF THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (2004); Copyright in 1791: An Essay Concerning the Founders’ View of the Copyright Power Granted to Congress in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution, 52 EMORY L.J. 909 (2003) (with L. Ray Patterson); THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW: REFLECTIONS OF A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE (Random House 2003, hardcover ed. 2003 & paperback ed. 2004) (written by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and edited by Professor Joyce). Also, multiple entries in YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW (forthcoming); United States Intellectual Property Law, in OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (forthcoming); A UNIFIED THEORY OF COPYRIGHT (written by L. Ray Patterson & Hon. Stanley F. Birch, Jr., and edited by Professor Joyce, forthcoming in HOUS. L. REV.).

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

RAYMOND T. NIMMER Dean and Leonard H. Childs Professor of Law

B.A., J.D., Valparaiso University

Dean Nimmer is one of the world’s leading authorities on computer law. He has served as the official reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and as the principal architect of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. His treatise, THE LAW OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, was named the best new law book of 1985 by the Association of American Publishers. Continually revised and updated, the book is the leading text in the field. Dean Nimmer joined the University of Houston law faculty in 1975 and was acting dean of the UH Law Center from 1993 to 1995.

SUBJECTS: Computer Law, Information Law, Digital Transactions, Network Law , Commercial Law, Commercial Paper, Creditors’ Rights, Law and Science, Bankruptcy, Contracts

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP INCLUDES: Licensing Information Assets in the New Economy: A Pro-Rights Perspective, INDIAN J.L. & TECH. (forthcoming); UNIFORM COMPUTER INFORMATION TRANSACTIONS ACT, IN 10 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE SERIES (William D. Hawkland ed., 1932, Supp. 2007); MODERN LICENSING LAW (2005 ed., 2006 ed., & 2007 ed., with Jeff Dodd); An Essay on Article Two’s Irrelevance to Licensing Agreements, 40 LOY. L.A. L. REV. 235 (2007); The Legal Landscape of Electronic Commerce: Redefining Contract law in an Information Era, 23 JOURNAL OF CONTRACT LAW 10 (2007); Modernizing Secured Financing Law for International Information Financing: A Conceptual Framework, 6 HOUS. BUS. TAX L.J. 1 (2006) (with Lorin Brennan); Google Print Library Project – Unfair Use of Copyright, 2006 COMP. L. REV. INT’L 1 (2006); LICENSING OF INFORMATION ASSETS: CASES AND MATERIALS (2005, 2d ed. 2007); Contracts, Markets and Data Control, in BNA INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REPORTS (2005); First Amendment Speech and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: A Property Marriage, in COPYRIGHT AND FREE SPEECH: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL ANALYSES (Jonathan Griffiths & Uma Suthersanen eds., 2004), reprinted in ICFAI J. INTELL. PROP. RTS. (2005); A Modern Template for Discussion: Emerging Trends in Commercial Law, Surviving Tomorrow’s Challenges, 2 DEPAUL BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL LAW J. 623 (2004); UCITA and the Continuing Evolution of Digital Licensing Law, COMPUTER & INTERNET LAW., Mar. 2004 at 10, reprinted in LICENSING J., Jun. 2004 at 6; THE LAW OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS (Pratt & Co. 2003, updated annually, 2008) (with Holly K. Towle); COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS: SECURED FINANCING, CASES, MATERIALS, PROBLEMS (3d ed. 2003) (with I. Hillinger & M. Hillinger); THE LAW OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY (4th ed. West 2003, updated annually, 2008); Antitrust Issues Online, in INTERNET LAW REGULATION (West 2002); Licensing in the Contemporary Information Economy, 8 WASH. U. J.L. & POL’Y 99 (2002); Revised Article 9 and Intellectual Property Asset Financing, 53 ME. L. REV. 287 (2001) (reprinted in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REVIEW 2003); INFORMATION LAW (Thomson-West 1996, updated annually, 2008).

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

GREG R. VETTER Associate Professor of Law

B.S.E.E., University of Missouri-Rolla; M.S., University of Missouri-Kansas City; M.B.A., Rockhurst University; J.D., Northwestern University

Professor Vetter came to the UH Law Center with experience in software design project management, product management, and product marketing, including a variety of intellectual property and contractual responsibilities. He practiced at Kilpatrick Stockton’s Raleigh, North Carolina, office in the firm’s technology law group, and obtained registration to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a patent attorney. He then clerked for the Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., before joining the UH Law Center faculty in 2002. Professor Vetter’s research interests include intellectual property, patents, the role of intellectual property in commercial law, and information technology law.

SUBJECTS: Internet Law, International Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Intellectual Property Survey, Licensing, Property

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP INCLUDES: Commercial Free and Open Source Software:  Knowledge Production, Hybrid Appropriability, and Patents, 77 FORDHAM L. REV 2087 (2009); Slouching toward Open Innovation: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Electronic Health Information, forthcoming in WASH. U. J.L. & POLY’Y; Claiming Copyleft in Open Source Software:  What if the Free Software Foundation’s General Public License (GPL) Had Been Patented?, forthcoming in MICH. ST. L. REV.; Open Source Licensing and Scattering Opportunism in Software Implemented Standards, OWNING STANDARDS SYMPOSIUM, 48 B.C. L. REV. 111 (2007); Exit and Voice in Free and Open Source Software Licensing: Moderating the Rein over Software Users, 85 OR. L. REV. 183 (2006); Open Source Software and Information Wealth (solicited book chapter in a four volume treatise by Praeger/Greenwood entitled INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN A DIGITAL AGE (Peter K. Yu ed., 2006); Embedding Thickets in Information Security?: Cryptography Patenting and Strategic Implications for Information Technology, solicited chapter in HARBORING DATA: INFORMATION SECURITY, LAW AND THE CORPORATION (Andrea M. Matwyshyn ed., forthcoming from Stanford University Press); “Infectious” Open Source Software: Spreading Incentives or Promoting Resistance?, 36 RUTGERS L.J. 53 (2005); The Collaborative Integrity of Open Source Software, 2004 UTAH L. REV. 563 (2004); Free and Open Source Software, 17th Annual Intellectual Property Law Course, State Bar of Texas (2004); Trademark in Transition, 41 HOUS. L. REV. 707 (2004) (introductory commentary and prologue as moderator of June 2004 IPIL/Houston Santa Fe Conference); Perspectives on Patent Licensing Language Appearing in Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) Licensing, 45th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law, INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND TECHNOLOGY AT THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (2007).

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

AFFILIATED FACULTY

DARREN BUSH, Associate Professor of Law, UH Law Center

B.A. (Economics), 1991, California State University, San Bernardino; Ph.D. (Economics), 1995, University of Utah; J.D., 1998, University of Utah.

Professor Bush worked as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where his matters included issues regarding state deregulation of electric utilities and the investigation of mergers and anticompetitive conduct in wholesale and retail energy markets. He teaches Antitrust, Regulated Industries, Law & Economics, and Administrative Law.

ANTHONY R. CHASE, Associate Professor of Law, UH Law Center

B.A., M.B.A., J.D., Harvard University

Professor Chase joined the UH Law Center faculty in 1990. He serves as Deputy Chairman on the Regional Board of the Federal 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 Communications Law, Regulation of Broadcasting, Entrepreneurship, and Contracts.

GAVIN CLARKSON, Associate Professor of Law, UH Law Center

B.A., M.B.A., Rice University; J.D., Ph.D., Harvard University

Dr. Clarkson joins the Law Center faculty from the School of Information at the University of Michigan, where he held simultaneous appointments at the Law School and in the Native American Studies program.  At Harvard, he was the KPMG Fellow at the Business School, the John M. Olin Research Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business, and the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching.  He teaches Law and Management of Intellectual Property Organizations and Traditional Knowledge.

BARBARA EVANS, Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, Health Law & Policy Institute, and Director, Center on Biotechnology & Law, UH Law Center

B.S.E.E., University of Texas at Austin (with Honors); M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University; J.D., Yale Law School; LL.M., University of Houston Law Center

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

PETER LINZER, Professor of Law, UH Law Center

A.B., Cornell University; J.D., Columbia University

Professor Linzer, a noted scholar on contract law, was the Editorial Reviser of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts.  In addition to advanced contract drafting (including domestic and international IPIL-related documents), he teaches Constitutional Law, with research interests in free speech rights and Internet neutrality.

GERALDINE SZOTT MOOHR, Alumnae Professor of Law, UH Law Center

B.S., University of Illinois; M.S., Bucknell University; J.D., The American University

Professor Moohr is one of the nation’s leading scholars in federal criminal law, particularly fraud and white collar crime. She recently completed a trilogy of articles concerning the misappropriation of business information, federal law governing theft of trade secrets, and criminal copyright infringement, and published a path-breaking new casebook, THE CRIMINAL LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION. She teaches Property Crime in the Information Age.

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

Professor Olivas is the nation’s leading expert on higher education law, and served two terms as general counsel of the American Association of University Professors. 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.

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 research and teaching 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, and Fermilab. At the UH Law Center, he teaches Patent Law and Intellectual Property Survey.

ADJUNCT FACULTY

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

REBECCA BOLIN, B.A., Rice University; J.D. Yale Law School

Ms. Bolin specializes in intellectual property litigation.  Before joining Howrey, Ms. Bolin clerked for Judge Lee H. Rosenthal in the Southern District of Texas for the 2006-2007 term.  At Yale, Ms. Bolin was president of the Law & Technology Society and received a grant from Microsoft for her work with the Information Society Project.

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

A 15-year patent attorney, Mr. Chichester services his own clients and consults for other law firms on technology related matters.

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

Dr. Chorush specializes in patent infringement and antitrust cases in the high technology arena.  Since graduating valedictorian of his law school class and receiving the top score on the Texas bar examination, he has represented various clients in litigation in fields ranging from electronics to pharmaceuticals.

RICARDO COLMENTER, Weatherford International, Inc, J.D., UCAB Caracas Venezuela; LL.M. (Intellectual Property & Information Law), University of Houston Law Center; LL.M. (Intellectual Property and Human Rights), Raoul Wallemberg Institute, Lund University

Mr. Colmenter’s practice centers on transactional law, which involves structuring hardware and software acquisition, licensing and negotiating international services and technology consulting agreements and oilfield services contracts. He represented Venezuela in the Andean Community Meetings and the Free Trade Area of the Americas,  and took the lead role in negotiating legal requirements regarding establishment and enforcement of industrial property for members of the Andean Community (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia).

FRANK DEVLIN, B.A., Providence College; J.D., Fordham University School of Law

Mr. Devlin, formerly senior counsel with Exxon Mobil Corporation, practices in the areas of antitrust, franchise, advertising and promotions, government investigations, environmental law, corporate law, legislation, alternative fuels, and general commercial law.

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

Mr. Dodd’s practice centers on transactional information law, which involves developing e-commerce strategies, structuring hardware and software acquisition licensing, negotiating distribution agreements, and registering and enforcing intellectual property rights.

VALERIE K. FRIEDRICH, Baker & McKenzie LLP B.S., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., University of Houston Law Center

Dr. Friedrich practices in all areas of intellectual property law, with a focus on client counseling, including formal opinions on issues of patent infringement and validity, multinational patent portfolio management and technology licensing.

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

Ms. Israel specializes in intellectual property law, with an emphasis in litigation, opinion work, and client counseling.  She has extensive experience in licensing and in patent and trademark prosecution.

PAUL KRIEGER, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP B.S., University of Pittsburgh; LL.B., University of Maryland; LL.M., George Washington University

Mr. Krieger is a leading practitioner and author in the fields of trademark law, unfair competition law, and trade secret law. He has served as an adjunct professor at UHLC for two decades.

TERRIL G. LEWIS, Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P. B.S.E.E., University of Notre Dame; M.E.E., Rice University; J.D., University of Houston; LL.M., George Washington University

Mr. Lewis’s practice is devoted primarily to patent litigation, patent prosecution, and intellectual property counseling.

JOHN NORRIS, Howrey LLP B.Ch.E., University of Arkansas; J.D. George Washington University

Mr. Norris’s practice is in the area of patent, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition matters, concentrating on patent litigation involving a wide range of technologies, especially those related to chemical and petrochemical technologies. His practice includes counseling clients on intellectual property enforcement matters, defensive and litigation strategy, licensing, and settlement negotiations.

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

Mr. Welch has represented clients in a variety of technologies, including recordable optical discs, inkjet printing, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas (gas-to-liquids, downhole tools, drilling equipment, drilling mud filtration, formation mapping), fuel cells, hot melt and pressure sensitive adhesives, medical devices, microporous polymer films, conventional polymer films, lithium ion batteries, database management software, and synthetic lubricants.

OCCASIONAL FACULTY

DAVID HRICIK, Associate Professor, Mercer University School of Law

A nationally known expert on intellectual property in relation to professional responsibility, Professor Hricik occasionally teaches a Professional Responsibility course in the Law Center’s summer session.