UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER
INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & INFORMATION LAW
PRESENTS THE SIXTH ANNUAL

BAKER BOTTS LECTURE
THIRTY YEARS (AND MORE)
OF IP IN CHINA:
A PERSONAL REFLECTION

WILLIAM O. HENNESSEY
Professor of Law
Franklin Pierce Law Center

Commentator: Margaret (Meg) Boulware, Baker & McKenzie LLP

FEBRUARY 24, 2009
The Coronado Club
919 Milam Street, Houston, Texas

Reception 5:30 p.m. - Lecture 6:15 p.m.
One Hour of MCLE Credit

For more information, call 713.743.2180

William O. Hennessey, Professor, Franklin Pierce Law Center. Professor Hennessey directs the Pierce Law – Tsinghua School of Law Intellectual Property Summer Institute in Beijing, China. He has traveled to, lectured in and concerning, and written about China for 30 years. This year’s Baker Botts Lecture represents a summation and a refl ection on those three decades of monumental change in IP law in the Middle Kingdom — ancient civilization, host of the 2008 Olympic Games, and potential IP powerhouse of the 21st Century.

Professor Hennessey holds an AB in Biology from Brown University, a JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center, and a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. Prior to coming to Pierce Law and serving as Chair, Intellectual Property Graduate Programs, Professor Hennessey worked as an interpreter with delegations of Chinese scientists and policymakers for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at the National Academy of Sciences and at hearings before several Congressional subcommittees. He also taught Chinese fi ction and poetry at the University of Illinois and Oberlin College from 1979 until 1983. He continues to work as a translation advisor to the Legislative Drafting Offi ce of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China.

Hennessey is a member of the Advisory Board of the WIPO Worldwide Academy. He has been a regular consultant on international intellectual property issues for WIPO, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offi ce and the Department of State, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and a number of foreign governments. He is the co-author of INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND POLICY (2d ed. 2008) and INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PATENT LAW (2002). At Pierce Law, he teaches Trademark Law, World Trade and World Intellectual Property Law and Institutions, and Public International Law.

The Baker Botts Lectures
A Service and Tribute to
Houston’s Distinguished
Intellectual Property Bar

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER
INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & INFORMATION LAW
100 LAW CENTER - HOUSTON, TEXAS 77204-6060
www.law.uh.edu/ipil