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special program, while local superstar practitioner and egghead
intellectual Paul M. Janicke was hired as staff director—later
moving to tenure-track and tenured status, a named
professorship, and of course faculty co-directorship.15

The University of Houston Law Center had an Intellectual
Property program.

Like the Health Law & Policy Institute,16 many of the IP
program’s subsequent achievements are of little importance to its
subsequent relationship with Houston Law Review.17 Other
initiatives of the program, however, would in short order prove
central to HLR’s dramatic advances during Decade 4.

Among the highlights, all to be described in detail in the
Contents section below, were the following developments:

The Fall Lectures. Begun initially by Professor Janicke as
“The Katz-Kiley Lectures” (and known more recently as
“The Katz Family Foundation Fund Lectures”), this
event marked the first collaboration between the newly
formed IP program and Houston Law Review. While
designed as a “live lecture” in Houston, beginning with
Board 32’s tenure the series occasionally produces
published product by agreement between HLR and the
program.18
Miscellaneous Symposium Issues. The new IP program
also began co-marketing with Professor Nimmer’s
Computer Law Institute and, during the middle years of
Decade 4, while the Review remained committed to its
highly successful symposium series with Health Law,
Computer Law nevertheless contributed two symposia to
HLR’s pages.19
The Annual National Conference Symposium Issue.20
Shortly following the merger of the IP program and the
Computer Law Institute (see below) and the
discontinuance of the HLR/HLPI series of symposia on
health law, the IP program’s successor (whose history
follows this listing of Decade 4 developments), at
Professor Joyce’s instigation entered into an agreement
with Houston Law Review to stage, and HLR to publish
the articles resulting from, a continuing series of
National Conferences to be held annually in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. The actual symposia publications of Decade
4, including articles by such notable scholars as Judge
Richard Posner, are described hereafter in this essay.
The story of the founding of the conference will be