Fall Lecture (The Ronald A. Katz Foundation Lecture)

Patently Non-Obvious: The Impact of Hindsight Bias on Patent Decisions

Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 RECEPTION 5:30 P.M. LECTURE 6:00 P.M. The HOUSTON Club 811 Rusk Houston, Texas 77002 KINDLY RSVP to 713.743.2180 or ipil@uh.edu

Gregory N. Mandel, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law. Click here for his faculty listing.

PRIOR LECTURES

2008 MARGO A. BAGLEY, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law

2007 CLARISA LONG, Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Columbia Law School

2006 JOHN F. DUFFY, George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, D.C.

2005 DAN L. BURK, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis

2004 DAVID J. FRANKLYN, University of San Francisco School of Law

2003 WILLIAM F. LEE, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston

2002 HON. PAUL MICHEL, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C.

2001 YSOLDE GENDREAU, Université de Montreal, Quebec

2000 JERRE B. SWANN, Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta

1999 JOSEPH STRAUS, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich

1998 JOHN R. THOMAS, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.

1997 HON. NANCY LINCK, Solicitor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, D.C.

1996 CHIEF CIRCUIT JUDGE GLENN ARCHER, CIRCUIT JUDGE PAULINE NEWMAN, AND SENIOR CIRCUIT JUDGE EDWARD SMITH, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C.

1995 DONALD S. CHISUM, Author, CHISUM ON PATENTS

1994 JOHN PEGRAM, Fish & Richardson, P.C., New York, NY