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1991
I P I L / H o u s to n
CELEBRATES 20 YEARS!
20th
Anniversary
The Hon. Paul R. Michel (Ret.) joins the University of Houston Law Center’s Institute
for Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL/Houston) as Distinguished Jurist in
Residence.
Judge Michel will lecture at the Law Center in IPIL courses alongside IPIL faculty. His activities with
IPIL also will include speaking to student groups as well as outreach to the local, regional, and national
intellectual property bars.
In his 22 years on the bench, Judge Michel judged thousands of appeals and authored over 800 opinions, approximately
one-third of them in patent cases. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he served in the executive and legislative
branches for 22 years. Following graduation from Williams College in 1963 and the University of Virginia Law School
in 1966, Judge Michel served as Assistant District Attorney and then Deputy District Attorney for Investigations under
Arlen Specter in Philadelphia; in 1974-1975, he was Assistant Special Watergate Prosecutor; from 1975 to 1976 he
served as an Assistant Counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; from 1976-1978, he was Deputy Chief
of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, where he directed the “Koreagate” investigation; in 1978, he was
appointed Associate Deputy Attorney General; in 1980, he became Acting Deputy Attorney General; and from 1981 until
1988, he served on Senator Arlen Specter’s staff, including as Counsel and Chief of Staff.
Coming in Fall of 2012!
Prof. Jacqueline D. Lipton joins the University of Houston Law Center as Baker Botts Professor
of Law and Co-Director of the Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
(IPIL/Houston).
Professor Lipton will teach a number of IPIL courses, including Trademark Law and Internet Law. Her
writing and teaching are focused in the areas of commercial law, cyberlaw, and intellectual property law, with
a comparative/international emphasis.
Professor Lipton has authored numerous law review articles in all of the foregoing areas, including recent publications
in Northwestern University Law Review, Iowa Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Boston College Law Review,
Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and many other prominent journals. She
also is the author or co-author of leading casebooks and monographs in her specialty fields: Internet Domain Names,
Trademarks, and Free Speech (2010); Cyberspace Law (3d ed. 2010); and Security Over Intangible Property (2000).
Professor Lipton previously held positions in prominent law schools in the United States, the United Kingdom, and
Australia. Her numerous degrees and academic credentials include: B.A. 1989, LL.B. (Honors) 1991 (University of
Melbourne), B.A.(Honors) 1990 (LaTrobe University), LL.M. 1995 (Monash University), LL.M. 1998 (Cambridge),
Ph.D. 2000 (Griffith University), Ph.D. 2012 (Cambridge University).
In 2011, IPIL (the Institute for Intellectual Property
& Information Law at the University of
Houston Law Center) celebrated its
20th Anniversary. IPIL is the
third-oldest IP program in
the nation (behind only GW in
1891 and John Marshall in 1951).*
Inside, we present a brief history of IPIL’s
first 20 years.
* Robert Gomulkiewicz, Intellectual Property, Innovation, and the
Future: Toward a Better Model for Educating Leaders in Intellectual
Property Law, 64 SMU L. Rev. 1161, 1163 (2011).
20th
Anniversary
LL.M.
Master of Laws
LL.M. DEGREE ADDED
IP PROGRAM CO-DIRECTORS
Craig Joyce and Paul Janicke
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1992
8th Annual
Intellectual Property Law Program
San Luis Hotel, Galveston, Texas
September 24-26, 1992
“PRESENT AT THE CREATION”
UH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROGRAM
Initial Announcement
IPSO LOGO
Founding of the
Intellectual Property Student Organization
CO-MARKETING WITH
UH INFORMATION
LAW INSTITUTE
(Founded 1985)
Raymond T. Nimmer
Director
FIRST GALVESTON INSTITUTE
Partnering with
Houston Intellectual Property Law Association
Should The U.S. Court of International Trade
Be Given Patent Jurisdiction Concurrent
With That of the District Courts?
PATSTATS IS BORN
A Resource for
Patent Litigation Statistics
by John B. Pegram
FIRST KATZ FOUNDATION LECTURE
Beginning of IPIL Partnership
with Houston Law Review
1996
1997
1998
1999
200
SINDEE BIELAMOWICZ
joins the team
as
Program Manager
IPSO ON TOUR
Visiting European IP & IL Agencies
Say Hello to “IPIL”!
JOINING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
AND INFORMATION LAW PROGRAMS
00
A SCHOLARLY LANDMARK
2000 Frankel Lecture
David Nimmer (UCLA)
WELCOME, PROFESSOR!
Greg R. Vetter
Joins the UH Law Center as Faculty
and IPIL Co-Director
COWGIRL FAREWELL
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
2005 IPIL Banquet
2001
2002
WESTWARD HO
First IPIL National Conference
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003
2004
A BIG INSTITUTE
FOR A BIG CITY
IPIL Co-Directors
2005
2006
INAUGURAL BAKER BOTTS LECTURE
The Right to Claim Authorship
in U.S. Copyright and Trademarks Law
Jane C. Ginsburg (Columbia)
CELEBRATING THE STATUTE OF ANNE’S
300th ANNIVERSARY
IPIL’s 2010 National Conference
2007
2008
2009
University of Houston Law Center
Institute for Intellectual Property
& Information Law
ANNOUNCING A NEW
IPIL INITIATIVE!
Sponsored Scholarship Grants
for the Legal Academy;
Sponsored Scholarship Grants
for Federal Appellate Clerks
November 2007
CREATION OF “SSG” PROGRAM
Annual Funding
in Support of Scholarship
for Members of the Academy
and Federal Appellate Court Clerks
STRENGTHENING THE BRAND
Sapna Kumar Joins the Team
2010
0073040148
University of Houston
Law Center
Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
100 Law Center
Houston, Texas 77204-6060
www.law.uh.edu/ipil
Sponsors/Supporters
Meg Boulware • Ed Fein • Sarah Harris • Ronald and Madelyn Katz • Steve Koch • Paul Krieger • Raul Montes • Bill Slusser • Peter Strand • Bill Walker