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162 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW
Harvard, Yale, Penn, Stanford, NYU, Georgetown, Michigan.
A French diplomat. The critical issues of the day. The Frankel
Lectures, themselves in their second decade, embodied the
Review’s settled stature in its own fifth decade.
Symposia Issues
IPIL. Like the Frankel Lecture Series, IPIL’s annual
National Conference Symposium issues entered HLR’s Decade 5
fresh from their own infancy in Decade 4. The continuing
contributions of the IPIL Symposia to HLR’s Decade 5 must of
necessity be measured against the astronomical heights already
achieved. “Improvement,” given a baseline of Georgetown, Penn,
Posner, and the like (a small sampling of Decade 4’s IPIL C.V.),
may not have been possible, but maintaining that high standard
of scholarly contributions certainly was.
Only a complete list of Decade 5’s contributors to the
Symposia issues could do justice to the quality of the content
consistently provided (and such a list is indeed available in the
endnotes).25 Yet even a small sampling of the articles published
during the past 10 years reveals the broad reach of IPIL’s
ambition as the Law Center’s youngest institute—and its
corresponding impact on HLR.
In various issues throughout Decade 5, J. Thomas McCarthy
(author of McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition)
published Proving a Trademark Has Been Diluted: Theories or
Facts?; Seventh Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook authored
Contract and Copyright; Graeme B. Dinwoodie of Oxford
contributed not one but two articles; and copyright king David
Nimmer of UCLA returned to help commemorate copyright law’s
tri-centennial with Queen Anne in the Emperor’s Shadow.26
In Issue 45:4 alone, Arti K. Rai of Duke published Building a
Better Innovation System: Combining Facially Neutral Patent
Standards with Therapeutics Regulation; Rebecca S. Eisenberg of
Michigan contributed Noncompliance, Nonenforcement,
Nonproblem? Rethinking the Anticommons in Biomedical
Research; Janice M. Mueller of Pittsburgh and Donald S. Chisum
(of Chisum on Patents) co-authored Enabling Patent Law’s
Inherent Anticipation Doctrine; Paul J. Heald of Georgia
produced Optimal Remedies for Patent Infringement: A
Transactional Model; and Michael J. Meurer of Boston
University added Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Intellectual
Property Law.27
Joined by contributions from the likes of Mark A. Lemley
(Stanford), William M. Landes (Chicago), Peter S. Menell