IPIL/HOUSTON
The Twenty-First Annual Fall Lecture
Sponsored By
The Katz Family Foundation Fund
Clarifying Patent Scope
Dennis D. Crouch
Associate Professor of Law
University of Missouri School of Law
Founder and Editor
Patently-O Blog (http://patentlyo.com)
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Four Seasons Hotel
1300 Lamar Street
Houston, Texas
Reception 5:30 p.m.
Lecture 6:15 p.m.
One Hour of CLE Credit
Kindly RSVP to ipil@uh.edu
For more information, call 713.743.2180
The Fall Lecture
Sponsored by the Katz Family Foundation Fund
Celebrating 21 Years of Serving
Houston’s Intellectual Property
& Information Law Bar
Past Presenters
| 2013 | ELIZABETH A. ROWE, Research Foundation Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gaineville | |
| 2012 | HON. JIMMIE V. REYNA, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C. | |
| 2011 | ROBERT BRAUNEIS, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Intellectual Property Law Program, George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. | |
| 2010 | JANE WINN, Charles I. Stone Professor and Director, Shidler Center for Law Commerce & Technology, University of Washington School of Law | |
| 2009 | GREGORY N. MANDEL, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law | |
| 2008 | MARGO A. BAGLEY, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law | |
| 2007 | CLARISA LONG, Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Columbia Law School | |
| 2006 | JOHN F. DUFFY, George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, D.C. | |
| 2005 | DAN L. BURK, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis | |
| 2004 | DAVID J. FRANKLYN, University of San Francisco School of Law | |
| 2003 | WILLIAM F. LEE, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston | |
| 2002 | HON. PAUL MICHEL, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C. | |
| 2001 | YSOLDE GENDREAU, Université de Montreal, Quebec | |
| 2000 | JERRE B. SWANN, Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta | |
| 1999 | JOSEPH STRAUS, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich | |
| 1998 | JOHN R. THOMAS, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. | |
| 1997 | HON. NANCY LINCK, Solicitor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, D.C. | |
| 1996 | CHIEF CIRCUIT JUDGE GLENN ARCHER, CIRCUIT JUDGE PAULINE NEWMAN, AND SENIOR CIRCUIT JUDGE EDWARD SMITH, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C. | |
| 1995 | DONALD S. CHISUM, Author, CHISUM ON PATENTS | |
| 1994 | JOHN PEGRAM, Fish & Richardson, P.C., New York, NY |
IPIL/HOUSTON
Dennis Crouch is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. Prior to joining the MU Law Faculty, he was a patent attorney at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP in Chicago and taught at Boston University Law School. He has worked on cases involving various technologies including computer memory and hardware, circuit design, software, networking, mobile and internet telephony, automotive technologies, lens design, bearings, HVAC systems, and business methods. He also is the editor of the popular patent law weblog Patently-O.
Professor Crouch received his BSE in Mechanical Engineering cum laude from Princeton University, where he also earned a certificate in engineering management systems. He then earned his JD cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School. While at the University of Chicago, he was a Microsoft, Merck, & Pfizer Scholar and a member of the Olin program in law and economics.
Crouch’s recent scholarship includes: Operating Efficiently Post-Bilski by Ordering Patent Doctrine Decision-Making, 25 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1673 (2010) (with Robert Merges); Is Novelty Obsolete? Chronicling the Irrelevance of the Invention Date in U.S. Patent Law, 16 Mich. Telecomm. Tech. L. Rev. 53 (2010); An Empirical Study of the Role of the Written Description Requirement in Patent Prosecution, 104 Nw. U.L. Rev. Colloquy 382 (2010); Nil: the Value of Patent Rights in a Health Crisis, 39 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1125 (2010).
2013 FALL LECTURE, L-R: Paul Janicke , Jacqueline Lipton, Elizabeth Rowe (Lecturer), and Greg R. Vetter
The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university and an EEO/AA institution.