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Luckily, by that time, HLR had established a framework of
successful collaboration with the Law Center’s specialty
programs. All it needed was a new partner. The logical candidate
was IPIL, already a regular contributor to HLR volumes but now
about to become much more.

Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law. “IPIL
is to HLR in 2001–2013 as HLPI was to HLR in 1988–2000”—or
so the SAT analogy might go. The relationship that would
culminate ultimately in IPIL’s annual National Conference in
Santa Fe and HLR’s resulting annual IPIL Symposium issue had
begun years prior with 1994’s inaugural Katz-Kiley Lecture,81
featuring nationally recognized patent and trademark
practitioner John Pegram asking: Should the U.S. Court of
International Trade Be Given Patent Jurisdiction Concurrent
with That of the District Courts?82 Modest, but a start.

Volume 32’s symposium on Legal Issues in the Information
Revolution, led by Professor Raymond T. Nimmer of IPIL, was
coordinated in HLR with a full slate of student comments
concentrated solely on intellectual property and information law
matters (a practice that continues to this day, to the extent that
eager Review students in any given year are predisposed to opine
on matters of IP or related law). In the following years, 1997’s
Katz-Kiley Lecture would feature three attorneys from the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office, Ray Nimmer would keynote a
symposium on Licensing in the Digital Age, and nearly an entire
issue of professional scholarship would be dedicated to
commenting on David Nimmer’s Copyright in the Dead Sea
Scrolls, with contributions from L. Ray Patterson of Georgia,
Richard A. Lanham of UCLA (another professor of English), Niva
Elkin-Koren of the Haifa School of Law, and Israeli practitioner
Neil Wilkof.83

Upon the departure of the annual HLPI Symposium from
HLR’s regularly scheduled rotation (to use a baseball analogy),84
the IPIL institute, eager and able to build on HLR’s prior
successes with IP scholarship, stepped up to the plate—and did
so in major league fashion. 2001’s inaugural IPIL symposium, E-
Commerce and Privacy, featured Joel R. Reidenberg of Fordham,
Anita L. Allen of Penn, Walter W. Miller, Jr. and Maureen A.
O’Rourke of Boston University, Chris Reed from Queen Mary
University of London, and Trotter Hardy of William & Mary.85
The final two symposium issues of Decade 4 included
contributions from law professors from Georgetown, North
Carolina, Boston College, Washington, Iowa, UCLA, and the
University of Kent Law School in England, along with U.S. Court