COMMITMENT TO TEACHING EXCELLENCE

THE INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & INFORMATION LAW is built around the talents of its teachers. Four full-time faculty with outstanding credentials and a remarkable body of published work constitute the core of the program. To complement their perspectives, the Institute involves regular faculty in related areas and secures leading experts from legal and corporate environments to serve as adjunct faculty. Synthesizing textbook studies with real-world case studies gives students a solid understanding of fundamental principles—and a first-person appreciation of how to apply them to maximum effect.

FULL-TIME IPIL FACULTY

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

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP INCLUDES:
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 Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law; 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 is 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. He served as the CoDirector of the Intellectual Property Program from 1991 to 1996, resuming in 1999, and 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) (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 (in process); United States Intellectual Property Law, in OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (in process).

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 leading authorities on computer law in the world. 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, Commercial Law, Commercial Paper, Creditors’ Rights, Law and Science, Digital Transactions, Network Law

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP INCLUDES: Licensing Information Assets in the New Economy: A ProRights 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); Contracts, Markets and Data Control, in BNA INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REPORTS (2005); Shrinkwrap Licenses are not Preempted by Fair Use Doctrine, 2005 COMP. L. REV. INT’L (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 (2003) (updated annually, 2006, Pratt & Co.) (with Holly K Towle); COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS: SECURED FINANCING, CASES, MATERIALS, PROBLEMS (3rd ed. 2003) (with I. Hillinger & M. Hillinger); THE LAW OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY (4th ed. West 2003); Antitrust Issues Online, in INTERNET LAW REGULATION (West 2002); Licensing in the Contemporary Information Economy, 8 WASH. UNIV. J. LAW & POLICY 99 (2002); Revised Article 9 and Intellectual Property Asset Financing, 53 ME. L. REV. 287 (2001) (reprinted in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REVIEW 2003); INFORMATION LAW (1996, semiannual updates).

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

GREG R. VETTER Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law; Assistant Professor
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. Professor Vetter 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 inWashington, 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: International Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Intellectual Property Survey, Property

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP INCLUDES: 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 article (symposium organizer to determine publication venue); “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); Command Responsibility of Non-Military Superiors in the International Criminal Court, 25 YALE J. INT’L L. 89 (2000); Is a Personality Test a Pre-Job-OfferMedical Examination under the ADA?, 93 NW. U. L. REV. 597 (1999).

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

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Professor Bush interned at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he consulted on issues regarding state deregulation of electric utilities. He also served as an Attorney General’s Honor Program Trial Attorney at the Antitrust Division’s Transportation, Energy, and Agriculture Section, where his primary focus was the investigation of mergers and anticompetitive conduct in wholesale and retail energy markets. Professor Bush currently is working on revising an antitrust casebook, FREE ENTERPRISE AND INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION: ANTITRUST. 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, and Contracts.

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

A former editor of the Columbia Law Review, Professor Linzer joined the Law Center faculty in 1984. Before going into teaching, he practiced law both as a Wall Street lawyer and as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York. Professor Linzer is a member of the American Law Institute. A noted scholar on contract law, he has published two editions of his A Contracts Anthology and was the Editorial Reviser of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts. Besides Contracts, he teaches Constitutional Law and advanced courses in Equal Protection and First Amendment Rights. Working with experienced practitioners, he has pioneered a transactional course in international contracting, in which students negotiate and draft documents in simulated international deals.

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 the field of federal criminal law, particularly the laws dealing with fraud and white collar crime. She recently completed a trilogy of articles that deal with the misappropriation of business information, federal law governing theft of trade secrets, and criminal copyright infringement, and has a forthcoming casebook, THE CRIMINAL LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION. She teaches Property Crime in the Information Age, an advanced criminal law course that focuses on misappropriation, infringement, and theft of intellectual property. Her other courses are White Collar Crime, Criminal Law, Employment Law, and Employment Discrimination.

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 Higher Education Law, Business Law & Immigration, and Professional Responsibility.

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

Professor 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.

Professor Tomlinson had a distinguished career as Professor of Journalism at Texas A&M University, where his courses included media law and ethics, and new media techniques, before joining the UH Law faculty. At the Law Center, he directs the Transactional Law Clinic and teaches Entertainment Law.

ADJUNCT FACULTY

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

Rebecca 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.  As a judicial clerk, she participated in the judicial decision making process by reviewing case filings and motions, drafting initial opinions and orders, and preparing memoranda on various legal issues.  While attending Yale Law School, Ms. Bolin was president of the Yale Law & Technology Society and received a grant from Microsoft for her work with the Yale Information Society Project.

RUSSELL CHORUSH, Heim Payne + Chorush LLP, University of Texas at Austin (B.S. Chemistry)

Cornell University (Masters and Ph.D., Chemistry), University Houston Law Center (J.D.)

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.  The cases in which Dr. Chorush has played a significant role have generated over $300 million in recoveries for his clients.  Dr. Chorush is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States District Courts for the Southern and District Eastern District of Texas, and the Texas State Courts.

RICARDO COLMENTER, Halliburton Energy Services J.D., UCAB Caracas Venezuela; LLM Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Houston; LLM Intellectual Property and Human Rights, Lund University, RaoulWallemberg Institute

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. Took 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). He participates as speaker in seminars and congress organized by ASIPI, WIPO, COVAPI, AVEPI. Author of Intellectual Property law articles published by TEC Monterrey and the Institute of International Law and State Mexico. Mr Colmenter was award by the Andres Bello Catholic University Law Faculty for outstanding academic achievement. He teaches International Enforcement of Intellectual Property.

FRANK DEVLIN, Providence College, Fordham University School of Law

Francis J. Devlin practices in the areas of antitrust, franchise, advertising and promotions, government investigations, environmental law, corporate law, legislation, alternative fuels, and general commercial law. He teaches Franchise and Distribution at the Law Center.  Formerly senior counsel with Exxon Mobil Corporation, Frank represented them in numerous investigations concerning fuels pricing and quality at the federal, state, and local levels.  He was the principal antitrust counsel for the domestic fuels marketing business and was responsible for more than a dozen pre-merger notifications filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).  He is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  He is a member of the Forum on Franchising, the Section on Business Law, and the Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution.

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. At the UH Law Center, he teaches Licensing and Technology Transfer.

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. At UHLC, she teaches Patent Prosecution.

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

A fifteen year patent attorney, Mr. Chichester services his own clients and consults for other law firms on technologyrelated matters. At the UH Law Center, he teaches Digital Transactions.

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, and experience in licensing and patent and trademark prosecution. She teaches Intellectual Property Survey.

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 a adjunct professor at UHLC for two decades, teaching Trademarks and Unfair Competition, as well as a separate course in Trade Secrets.

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. He teaches Special Topics in Patent Law at the UH Law Center.

SHARON N. LORENZO, M.A., Columbia University; M.B.A, University of St. Thomas; M.Phil, City University of New York; B.A., Mount Holyoke; J.D. University of Houston

Sharon Lorenzo specializes in art law.  Her longstanding involvement in the arts community includes over twenty-five years as a trustee after helping found the Houston chapter of Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts.

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. He teaches Patent Remedies and Defenses.

JEREMY WELCH, Mayer Brown LLP 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. He teaches Patent Law.

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 Professional Responsibility for the Law Center’s summer session.