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Organizations Suite where they reside today. HLR was home
again.

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Decade 4 had come to an end. Dramatic advances, and a
devastating act of God. Houston Law Review had not missed a
beat. The story of recovery post-Allison, and of the decade as a
whole, was summed up best by one of the decade’s wholly
remarkable Editors in Chief: “It was a hell of a ride.”101

The Great Leap Forward.

1. A term of astonishment, “leapin’ lizards!” seems to have originated in the 1930s,
when it was popularized by none other than Little Orphan Annie in the comic strip of the
same name. The phrase, through the 1977 Broadway musical Annie, lives on . . . and
on . . . and on: “Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya Tomorrow! You’re always a day away!”

2. See generally Craig Joyce, Driven: The First Decade of Houston Law Review,
supra; Craig Joyce & Matthew Hoffman, Carry On Boldly: The Second Decade of Houston
Law Review, supra.

3. See generally Craig Joyce & Matthew Hoffman, Centered: The Third Decade of
Houston Law Review, supra.

4. Id. at 82–84, 91–93.

5. See id. at 116.

6. See id.

7. According to Nancy Kornegay, Editor in Chief of Board 38, which published the
last HLPI issue, “the transition to the IP & IL issue seemed to go so smoothly, . . . [A]ll I
can say is that, every day as I was studying for the bar exam in the summer of 2001, I was
thanking my lucky stars that I was not dealing with the ravages of Allison at the Law
Review and trying to publish” the first of the IPIL Symposia. Questionnaire Response,
Nancy Kornegay, Brown & Kornegay LLP (Mar. 31, 2012) (on file with Houston Law
Review).

8. Except as noted otherwise, all of the information contained in the following
subsection is drawn either from the personal recollections of this essay’s senior co-author
or from JOHN MIXON, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A LAW SCHOOL App. VII (2012) (“Institutes at
the Law Center, 2012”).

9. See Joyce, Driven, supra, at 13 (“A Curious Fascination”) (referencing early
articles on patent litigation, fair use of copyright, prior restraint in the motion picture
industry, the patentability of inventions, and international IP licensing agreements).

10. Raymond T. Nimmer, Consumer Payment Systems: Leverage Effects Within an
Electronic Funds Transfer Systems, 17 HOUS. L. REV. 487 (1980).

11. Glenn J. MacGrady, Protection of Computer Software—An Update and Practical
Synthesis, 20 HOUS. L. REV. 1033 (1983).

12. Joy Eskew, The Copyright Dilemma Facing Texas Educators as They Implement
Computer Literacy into Their Curriculum, 22 HOUS. L. REV. 1011 (1985); A. Samuel Oddi,
The Functions of “Functionality” in Trademark Law, 22 HOUS. L. REV. 925 (1985).

13. Dan L. Burk, Patenting Transgenic Human Embryos: A Nonuse Cost
Perspective, 30 HOUS. L. REV. 1597 (1993).

14. See Joyce & Hoffman, Centered, supra, at 82.

15. The detailed story of the IP program’s founding was not quite as simple as the
text above the line, bowing to space constraints, makes it seem.

As indicated, the Dean and the professor saw the way forward for founding the
program differently. Yet they reached a tacit quid pro quo agreement that allowed
planning to proceed.