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FACING THE FUTURE IN ALL OF THE VAST DOMAIN OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE THAT IS THE LAW, there is no more exciting field of study than intellectual property and information law, particularly now-and particularly at the University of Houston. As the powerful currents of the Information Age continue to ripple around us, the challenges facing these bodies of law, their practitioners and those who seek representation to protect the products of their creativity have never been more invigorating. Houston is a leading international center for such creativity: in computer technology, biomedical technology, petrochemical technology, space technology. You name it, Houston has it-including many of the finest intellectual property and information law practitioners in the world. At the legal epicenter of Houston's contributions to the technologies of tomorrow stands the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law at the the University of Houston Law Center. The Institute provides critical resources for teaching and learning, research and scholarship, and improvement of the law in two of its fastest changing areas. The Institute is recognized throughout the world for the strength of its faculty, curriculum and students, and its contribution to the study of law have earned both respect and an enduring reputation for quality. The Law Center is fortunate indeed to have such visionary scholars as Paul M. Janicke, Craig Joyce and Raymond T. Nimmer to lead our Institute as Houston and the global information economy face the future. Learning. Leading. In patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and information law. That's what we do at the University of Houston. Come join us. ---- N AN CY B. R A PO PO RT Dean and Prof essor of Law • A CATALYST FOR INITIATIVES THE INSTITUTE IS CREATING IMPORTANT NEW FORUMS for scholarship and study in both intellectual property and information law. New programs include: 0 A N ANNUAL 10-DAY INTERSESSION COURSE on a topic at the forefront of information law, taught by a nationally recognized professor or practitioner. 0 COURSES IN NEW T ECHNOLOGY AND CYBERLAW, taught by distinguished academic visitors to the UH Law Center. 0 A N ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON AN INFORMATION LAW TOPIC, with the resulting papers disseminated through the Houston Law Review and the Institute's site on the World Wide Web at www. law. uh .edu/LawCenter/Programs/ipil. 0 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS offered to highly qualified LL.M. students in the Institute, adding an important incentive to attract the best students in the field. I COMMITMENT TO TEACHING EXCELLENCE THE INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY a INFORMATION LAW is built around the talents of its teachers. Three full-time faculty with outstanding credentials and a remarkable body of published work constitute the core of the program. To complement their perspectives, the Institute involves regular faculty in related areas and secures leading experts from legal and corporate environments to serve as adjunct faculty. Synthesizing textbook studies with real-world case studies gives students a solid understanding of fundamental principles-and a first-person appreciation of how to apply them to maximum effect. Dean Nancy Rapopori leads a discussion. DEGREE OFFERINGS APPROXIMATELY 15 COURSES ARE REGULARLY OFFERED through the Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. Most of these courses answer the degree requirements for both Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.O.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) students. The University of Houston Law Center offers both • full-time and part-time programs leading ~to the J.0. degree. J.D. candidates must complete 90 semester hours and can customize their curricula with intellectual property and information law courses that reflect their individual - interests and concerns. Students interested in applying to the J.D. program should contact the Office of Admissions for an application at 713.743.2280 or admissions@www.law.uh.edu. Applications can also be downloaded at www.law.uh.edu. The LL.M. Program provides an academic environment for practicing lawyers who wish to expand their knowledge of intellectual property and information law. Only a limited number of candidates are accepted for full-time or part-time studies, and admissions are highly competitive. Applicants from the United States must hold the J.O. degree or equivalent from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association and must possess ll promising research or practice credentials. Lawyers who hold law degrees from foreign countries, meet the academic and English language standards and are interested in the LL.M. Program should contact the LL.M. Coordinator at llm@www.law.uh.edu . LL.M. candidates must complete 24 semester hours of approved courses with a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.5, plus a 50-page thesis of publishable quality. Students can complete their degrees within a year, with maximum limits of three years for in-classroom work and a subsequent year for the thesis. Second- and third-year law students in good standing at an ABAaccredited law school are eligible to spend a semester at the UH Law Center and to enroll in its intellectual property and information law curriculum as well as other upper division courses. Participants are accorded "visiting" status and receive their law degrees from their host schools. Students interested in visiting at the UH Law Center should contact the Office of Admissions at 713.743.2280 or admissions@www. law. uh .edu. "' .-., The Law Library Plaza at dusk • A LEARNING CENTER AT AN INTERNATIONAL CROSSROADS AS PART OF THE UH LAW CENTER, accredited by both the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools, the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law is located in one of the largest and most diverse metropolitan areas in the United States. Houston is among the top five markets in the United States for intellectual property and information lawyers, with over 500 IP and IL specialists working in corporations, law firms and universities. Houston is home to multinational corporations and agencies that generate intellectual property: Compaq Computer Corp., Shell, Enron, NASA, and the institutions of the Texas Medical Center are just a few. UH's strong presence in the region produces significant research opportunities for faculty and staff. For more information on Houston, visit www.ci.houston.tx.us . The University of H ouston campus with ~' the dramatic downtown H ouston skyline in the background . ~- ., FULL-TIME IPIL FACULTY PAUL M. JANICKE Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law; Associate Professor of Law B.E.E., Manhattan College; J.D., New York University; LL.M., George Washington University A recognized expert on patent litigation, Professor Janicke clerked at the U.S., Court of Customs & Patent Appeals in Washington, D.C., from 1969-1971 before joining the intellectual property firm of Arnold, White & Durkee, where he later served as managing partner. Professor Janicke joined the UH Law Center faculty in 1992. His casebook, MODERN PATENT LITIGATION, was published by Carolina Academic Press in 1999. S UBJE CTS: Evidence, Intellectual Property Survey, . Intellectual Property Seminar, Patent Law, Patent Litigation .,, "Intellectual property issues always seem to elude the theoretical economists because the impact of patent and copyright laws is hard to measure. One role of the Institute is to help elevate the appreciation of what these elements contribute to modern society. Another role is to focus attention on areas of the law where shortcomings exist, such as the deficiencies in the enforcement machinery that make IP litigation prolonged, uncertain and expensive. How will these issues affect our students when they graduate? I shape every one of my class plans around elements that will infiuence the practice of law in this area." For more information, visit Professor Janicke's web page at www.law. uh. edu/faculty/pjanicke. • "This generation of students-the next generation of practitioners-is awfully smart. IPIL is everywhere in their world, and they see that. IPIL is the law of creativity. In music. In movies. In software. In all the learning materials of the law school classroom. It's also at the core of the U.S.-and the globaleconomy. In that economy, how do individuals and corporations deal with the explosion of new technologies making reproduction and dissemination always better, faster, cheaper? How can they use those technologies to expand their markets? How can they protect their IPIL products? That's what we study in this Institute." CR A I G ) OYC E Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law; UH Law Foundation Professor B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Oxford University; J.D., Stanford University Professor Joyce is the lead author of the widely used casebook, COPYRIGHT LAW, which is adopted for classroom instruction in dozens of law schools across the country (5th ed. 2000, from LEXIS Publishing). His articles on copyright doctrine and history have appeared in numerous journals, including the Michigan and UCLA law reviews, and are cited regularly by the federal appellate courts. Professor Joyce practiced law at Fennemore, Craig, von Ammon & Udall in Phoenix before entering academia in 1981, and has taught at the University of Houston since 1986. He served as the Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Program from 1991-1996 and as the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Special Programs from 1996-1999. S UBJE CTS: Copyright, Torts, American Legal History "' For more information, visit Professor Joyce's web page at v www. law. uh. edu/facuity/cjoyce . • ~ R AYMOND T. NI MMER Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law; Leonard H. Childs Professor of Law B.A., J.D., Valparaiso University Professor Nimmer is one of the leading authorities on computer law in the world. Since 1993, he has served as the official reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws as the principal architect of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, adopted by NCUSL in 1999. His treatise, THE LAW OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, was named the best new law book of 1985 by the A ssociation of American Publishers. Now in its third edition, the book is the leading text in the field . Professor Nimmer was a resident attorney at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago from 1968-197 5 and joined the University of Houston law faculty in 1975. He has been a visiting associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Illinois, and a visiting professor at the University of Texas. Professor Nimmer was acting dean of the UH Law Center from 1993 to 1995. SUBJECTS: Computer Law, Information Law, Commercial Law, Commercial Paper, Creditors' Rights, Law and Science "The structure of our Institute gives us the critical mass and resources needed to enhance the cross--fertilization of ideas in this arena. Intellectual property and information law represent the most economically and socially significant areas of the law today. How will we conduct business in an environment where sellers and buyers increasingly communicate only through keystrokes? This is an extremely interesting and exciting time in legal history- not only to be a researcher and teacher, but also to be a student about to enter . " practice. For more information, visit Professor Nimmer's web page at www.law.uh .edu/faculty/mimmer. • ACADEMIC VISITORS 2000 o 2001 MARSHALL LEAFFER INTERSESSION COURSE (January 2-12, 2001 ): International Copyright Law in the New Global Information Order. Second Circuit since 1971. He was appointed Chief Judge on January I, 1989 and served in that capacity until July 1, 1992, when he was designated for senior status. For many years, Judge Oakes has served both the Vermont and American Bar Associations as an advisor on the selection of judges and on procedural reforms. He has taught as an adjunct professor in ethics and professional responsibility at Duke University School of Law and Iowa University College of Law. Distinguished Scholar in Intellectual Property Law and University Fellow, Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington. Professor Leaffer is an internationally known intellectual property law scholar and has published numerous articles and books, including C OPYRIGHT LAW 5TH ED. (LEXIS Publishing, 2000) (with Joyce, Patry, & Jaszi); UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT 3D ED. (LEXIS Publishing, 1999); and INTERNATIONAL TREATIES ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 2D ED. (BNA Books, 1997). DAVID NIMMER KEYNOTE SPEAKER, FIFTH ANNUAL FRANKEL LECTURE (November 16, 2000): Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Authorship and Originality (to be published in a mini-symposium in the Houston Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 5, Winter 2000). J M ARIA DAPHNE PAPADOPOULOU EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FELLOW (2000-2001 Academic Year) Ms. Papado poulou earned her law degree and her masters of law degree in commercial and economic law, summa cum laude, from the Law School of Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki, Greece. After practicing law in Greece for three years, she came to the University of Houston Law Center where she earned her LL.M. in the UH Law Center's nationally recognized Internatio nal Scholars Program. Ms. Papadopolou will conduct research and write about European Intellectual Property as part of her responsibilities at the Institute. Of Counsel, lreU & Manella LLP, Los Angeles. David Nimmer is the author of the leading U.S. treatise on copyright law. Since 1985, Mr. Nimmer has had sole responsibility for NIMMER ON COPYRIGHT, first published in 1963 by his late father, Prof. Melville B. Nimmer o f UCLA. In addition to contributing to other treatises in related areas, Mr. Nimmer has written numerous articles on do mestic and international copyright issues, including Puzzles of the Digital MiUennium Copyright Act, 46 J. COPYRIGHT Soc'y USA 40 1 (1999), and A Riff on Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 148 U. PA. L. REV. 673 (2000). .~ ~10 L .;1 · ~4 • } AMES L. OAKES C OMMENTATOR, FIFTH ANNUAL FRANKEL LECTURE (November 16, 2000) (to be published in a mini-symposium in the Houston Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 5, Winter 2000). Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals , Second Circuit. Judge Oakes has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 1 } ERRE B. SWANN LECTURER, SEVENTH ANNUAL KATZ-KILEY LECTURE (November 1, 2000): Trademark Dilution for the Year 2000. Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta. Mr. Swann is a nationally recognized expert in trademark litigatio n and is the senior litigator in the Intellectual Property Group at Kilpatrick Stockton. He has authored numero us law review articles in the trademark field, including Genericism Rationalized, 89 TRADEMARK REPORTER 639 (1999), which emphasizes the need for rethinking genericism in a modern context and rationalizing it with forces that now facilitate competition. He served as a director of the Internatio nal Trademark Associatio n and as the Domestic Articles Editor and Editor-in-Chief of THE TRADEMARK REPORTER. 'l ADJUNCT IPl L FACU LTV 1 ) MARTHA WOODMANSEE Douglas Baldwin, Douglas Baldwin, P.C. B.Chem., University of Florida; J .D., Stetson University COMMENTATOR, FIFTH ANNUAL FRANKEL LECTURE (November 16, 2000) Mr. Baldwin served as Assistant General Counsel for Patents and Licensing at Shell O il Co. At the UH Law Center, he teaches PATENT LAW, and has been an adjunct professor for seven years. (to be published in a mini-symposium in the Houswn Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 5, Wimer 2000). Jeff C. Dodd, Mayor, Day, Caldwell & Keeton, L.L.P. Professor, Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Woodmansee is a faculty member in Case Western Reserve U ni versity's English Department and currently serves as Executive Director fo r the Society for Critical Exchange. A noted scholar of aesthetics, economics and the law, her books include THE AUTHOR, ART, AND THE MARKET (Columbia University Press, 1994); THE CONSTRLJCTION OF AUTHORSHIP: TEXTUAL APPROPRIATION IN LAW AND LITERATURE (Duke University Press, 1994) (with Peter Jasz i); and T HE NEW ECONOMIC CRITICISM: STUDIES AT THE INTERSECTION OF LITERATURE AND ECONOMICS (Routledge, 1999). Dr. Woodmansee is the recipient of a prestigious G uggenheim Fellowship fo r 2000. ALFRED CHUEH~CHIN YEN FACULTY ENRICHMENT SPEAKER (February 12, 2001 ): Cyberspace Feudalism J l Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Boswn College. Dean Yen writes regularly in the area of copyright law and also has a scholarly interest in law and technology. He served as counsel of record/lead author for an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of 12 copyright scholars in Campbell v. Acuff- Rose Music Publishing Co. His most recent article, Internet Service Provider Liability for Subscriber Copyright Infringement, Enterprise Liability, and the First Amendment, is forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal. B.A., University of Houston; J .D., University of Houston Law Center Mr. Dodd's practice centers around transactional information law, which involves developing e-commerce strategies, structuring hardware and software acquisition licensing, negotiating distribution agreements, and registering and enfo rcing intellectual property rights. At the UH Law Center, he teaches LICENSING AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. Paul Krieger, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. B.S., University of Pittsburgh; LLB., University of Maryland; LL.M., George Washington University Mr. Krieger is a well-known practitioner and author in the fields of trademark law, unfair competition law and trade secret law. He teaches TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION, as well as a separate course in TRADE SECRETS, and has been an adjunct professor for 13 years. Jonathan Osha, Rosenthal & Osha L.L.P. B.S., Cornell University; J.D., George Mason University School of Law Mr. Osha's practice focuses on all aspects of patent prosecution, with emphasis on electrica l and mechanical technologies. At the University of Houston Law Center, he teaches PATENT PROSECUTION. Tom Paul, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. A.B., Carroll College; M.S., Indiana University; Ph.D., Indiana University; J.D., University of Houston Dr. Paul practices patent and copyright prosecution, licensing and technology transfer, with an emphasis on biotechnology. He teaches the LL.M. SPECIAL TOPICS COURSE and has been an adjunct professor for four years. Don Tomlinson , Texas A&M University B.S., Arkansas State University; J .D., University of Arkansas Mr. Tomlinson is Professor of Journalism at Texas A&M University, where his courses include media law and ethics, as well as new media technologies. At the UH Law Center, he teaches ENTERTAINMENT LAW. He has been an adj unct professor for five years. • IPIL COURSES & deals with drafting agreements of various types (including IPIL-related agreements), ranging from sales through licenses and other forms of contract. 3 C redits. ADVANCED CONTRACTING: DRAFTING PLANNING ISSUES provides students the opportunity for in-depth exploration of topics of interest to them, including technological, international and historical problems in t he field of copyright law. 3 C red its. ADVANCED TOPIC S IN COPYRIGHT LAW SEMINAR examines the nature of "technology," the means for establishing legal rights in technology, and the ways of employing and transferring such rights for the proprietor of the rights. 3 Credits. BUSINESS LAW OF LICENSING deals with the protection of the works of the human intellect (literature, music, art, computer programs, etc.) under the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended. The course includes subject matter, ownership, duration, formalities, exclusive rights, infringement actions and defenses, remedies, federal preemption of state law, and international aspects of copyright. 3 Credits. COPYRIGHT LAW blends concepts and skills derived from intellectual property, contracts and torts, with emphasis on recent Internet-based developments (e.g., MP3 and Napster) in the relevant entertainment industries. 2 Cred its. ENTERTAINMENT LAW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SEMINAR consists of selected current topics for study, research, and writing in U.S. intel- lectual property law. 3 Credits. covers domestic intellectual property laws-patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret-through statutes and cases. The course is designed to afford the student who intends to practice in other areas an acquaintance with key IP issues and principles, and to provide the IPIL specialist an introduction to the overall subject. 2 C redits. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SURVEY • INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE NEW GLOBAL INFORMATION ORDER examines the major issues con- fronting the international copyright regime in the new global information order, including the digital revolution and the current realities of world trade policy. 2 Credits. NETWORK LAW is a survey of legal issues arising from the rapid growth of Internet and other on-line communications. Coverage includes intellectual property, First Amendment, criminal, and privacy issues. A working knowledge of cyberspace is helpful but not required. 3 Credits. PATENT LAW examines the substantive law of patenting as a means for protecting industrial ideas; conditions for a patent; loss of a right to a patent; patent specification; infringement; patent litigation; and licensing of patents. 3 Credits. PATENT PROSECUTION studies substantive law and procedures governing the patent application process, and emphasizes practical application of the rules to real-life situations. Students undertake writing projects related prosecution of a hypothetical patent application in lieu of a final exam. 2 Credits. to the preparation and PATENT REMEDIES AND DEFENSES addresses issues commonly arising in modern patent litigation. The course covers nec- essary parties, remedies, and affirmative defenses. 2 Credits. TRADEMARK AND UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW examines the evolution and practice of trademark and related unfair com- petition law, with emphasis on litigation strategy. 3 Credits. TRADE SECRETS surveys the practical aspects of trade secrets as they relate to protection by contract and operation of law; relationships of the parties; public law constraints; adversarial considerations; and licensing. 2 Credits. • CAREER SERVICES THE CAREER SERVICES OFFICE has a two-fold mission: to help UH Law Center students prepare for careers in law, and to assist students and alumni in their job search efforts. The Career Services Office's First-Year Initiative exposes first-year students :i:j / to a comprehensive career education series that surveys dozens of career opportunities: <> ORIENTATION TO C AREER SERVICES is a presentation on resources, resume preparation and summer job opportunities following the first year of law school. 0 MOCK INTERVIEW PROGRAM allows first-year students to learn crucial interviewing skills and get hands-on experience with friendly, helpful career professionals. 0 EXCURSIONS TO THE LEGAL COMMUNITY allows first-year students to visit and evaluate specific legal environments, including law firms, corporate legal departments, government agencies and courtroom settings. 0 NETWORKING W ORKSHOP AND EVENTS allows students to learn networking skills and to interact in a casual environment with members of the legal community. 0 "A DAY IN THE LIFE" CAREER CONFERENCE is designed to help students learn about a day in the life of a practicing attorney. 0 ALUMNI COUNSEL presents opportunities for a meeting with a practicing attorney for gathering information on career development. Students who are studying intellectual property and information law have special needs, and the Career Services Office offers special programs designed to address them: 0 THE CAREER SERVICES ON-LINE )OB LISTING provides up-to-date data on clerkship and career opportunities, which can be sorted by practice discipline, including intellectual property and information law. 0 THE ANNUAL ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEW PROGRAM provides interview options for students seeking summer clerkships and permanent positions to commence upon graduation. The program attracts nearly 150 prospective employers to the UH Law Center. Many of the firms seek students for intellectual property and information law positions. 0 NETWORKING WORKSHOP AND EVENTS, "A DAY IN THE LIFE" CAREER CONFERENCE and ALUMNI COUNSEL Programs feature intellectual property and information law practitioners from the Houston bar. The provision of career services to students and alumni creates a lifelong partnership between the UH Law Center and the professionals we serve. For more information, visit the Career Services Office website at www.law.uh.edu/LawCenter/Career . • THE JOHN M. O'QUINN LAW LIBRARY THE JOHN M. O'QUINN LAW LIBRARY gives students and faculty of the UH Law Center one of the region's leading legal research facilities and the largest law collection in the Houston metropolitan area. The library houses the central research collections, a faculty library and the Frankel Rare Books \ Collection. As a U.S. Government Deposi: / tory, the library receives all federal ~ / .''~. ..... ·~ -::---.!;.. ~ / L ... ~ ~v ' , ). \ government publications in selected .;. · \~- -~ .........~~ subject areas. Special strengths of ,, ,~11611/ the library include collections in '-:·· ~~· ~~t!!!IJ••·~ - -•'l•\W.1'6'6'6/T'S ~\.L,'-1'1/T.lfT###I/ II - ---'''lll admiralty law, foreign and interna- ~ tional law, health law, higher education law and contemporary . -... .• ~II ~- ~ :; - ~ 111.~~ .....-·! f.:i: ~· ~--"1 ~:_!,.~ -.::"\ • -- - ~ .6& ·~ · ·=-- Mexican legal materials. Twin three-story teaching units with classrooms, courtrooms, study carrels, food service and student activity areas flank the library. A fourth building houses administrative offices and an auditorium. The UH Law Center's Legal Information Technology (LIT) department is dedicated to providing the best technical support for the faculty, staff and students of the UH Law Center. Students have access to networked personal computers, a printing center and 400 networked jacks for use with laptops. LIT provides planning, implementation and coordination necessary to utilize information technology. Students have individual e-mail accounts and Internet access. On-line legal research resources are available throughout the UH Law Center complex. SPONSORED PROGRAMS AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES THE INSTITUTE IS A RESOURCE CENTER for the legal and professional communities on intellectual property and information law issues. Each year, the Institute sponsors or cosponsors conferences, symposia, lectures, and study abroad opportunities to fulfill its mission. THE K AT Z-KILEY L ECTURE brings internationally recognized scholars to the UH Law Center to lecture Ronald A. Katz Thomas D . Kiley on compelling intellectual property law issues of the day. Named after two leading exponents of intellectual property reform, Ronald A. Katz and Thomas D. Kiley, the lecture features an address by the Katz-Kiley Fellow, as well as commentaries by judges, practitioners, academics and business persons. SPONSORED SYMPOSIA provide the opportunity for the Institute to work with academic institutions and intellectual property and information law practitioners to focus on problems and explore solutions for critical legal issues associated with creative expression and new technologies. 2000 <> 2001 SYMPOSIA 14TH ANNUAL COMPUTER & INFORMATION LAW CONFERENCE September 13-16, 2000 THE HOUSTON LAW REVIEW'S FIFTH A NNUAL FRANKEL LECTURE NOVEMBER 16, 2000 This conference presents national experts to assess the newest trends in the most rapidly developing area in legal jurisprudence-computer and information law. Featuring David Nimmer, author of the leading U.S. treatise on copyright; of counsel, lrell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles Representative subjects: Landscape of E-Commerce; Privacy Protection in the U.S.; Privacy Protection: A European Perspective; Internet Branding; Global Distributions-The Effect of Export Controls; Litigation in E-Commerce; Antitrust & the Information Age; Internet Consumer Issues; Federal & International Regulation of E-Commerce; Taxation of E-Commerce; The UCITA Revolution-New Themes of Contract Law in E-Commerce. 16TH ANNUAL FALL INSTITUTE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW October 5-7, 2000 This institute secures leading fig ures-including Nicholas P. God ici, Commissioner of Patents; Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights; Anne H. C hasser, Commissioner of Trademarks; Debra Valentine, FTC General Counsel; and Christine Hearst Schwarzman, Founder/Chair/CEO, ipnetwork.com-to review the latest developments in intellectual property and information law. Representative subjects: Global Acquisition & Enforcement of IP Rights; Antitrust Issues Affecting IP; Methods of Doing Business-The Internet & Beyond; Role of IP Counsel in Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions; Managing an IP Portfolio-A Legal Perspective; Advising C lients on IP Valuation; Damages & E-Commerce; Trade Dress-Wal-Mart v. Samara Bros.; The Departing Employee & "Inevitable Disclosure"; Ethical Considerations in Multidisciplinary Practice; IP & Legal Ethics-A Judicial Perspective. • COPYHIGI IT AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: AL'TllORSHIP AND OHIGINALITY When is history not just history? The newest intellectual property issue to draw the attention of the international legal community concerns one of the oldest documents known to man-a Dead Sea Scroll written circa 150 B.C.E. Discovered by a shepherd in 1947, the Scrolls were quickly hoarded away by a small team of scholars intent on reconstructing, deciphering and interpreting these ancient documents, all without access or interference by outsiders. But who really owned the right to study and publish the Scrolls? In copyright terms, did they belong to their "author," or were they now part of the public domain and the property of all ? By the late 1980s, excluded scholars had begun to breach the wall of secrecy surround ing the Scrolls. The result: publication in 199 1 of the first unauthorized portions of the Scrolls-and a lawsuit. At issue in the litigation, and recently the subject of a landmark decision by the Israeli Supreme Court, were the rival copyright claims of the Israeli scholar who reconstructed the tattered document and the American biblical authority who first disclosed it to the world-and who maintains that any copyright in the document died with its author two thousand years ago. In his lecture, David Nimmer, author of the leading U.S. treatise on copyright law, will analyze the concept of authorship in law and literature, explain the constitutional purpose of copyright law ("to Promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"), and discuss the "moral rights" of the claimants. Mr. Nimmer will argue that vital policies of the law are subverted when one scholar is permitted to monopolize access to historical informatio n and documents. The commentators may-or may not-agree . STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES are available to Institute students. In 1998, J.0. students and students pursuing their LL.M. in intellectual property and information law traveled to Europe to exchange ideas with counterparts from the Max Planck Institute in Munich and to tour the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization in Geneva. The North American Consortium for Legal Education, a consortium of nine law schools in Canada, the United States and Mexico, offers student exchanges with member institutions. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STUDENT ORGANIZATION (IPSO) is an association of J.O. students organized to help promote an awareness of intellectual property issues at the UH Law Center, to provide networking opportu, U H Law Center intellectual property and information law nities to intellectual property practitioners in the students visit European IP & IL agencies. community, and to assist to the Institute in carrying out its various programs. CYBERLAWSOCIETY@UHLC focuses on "Mastering the Law of the Digital Frontier." It assists students and the Institute with emphasis on information law matters such as on,line licensing, Internet branding, and other trademark and e,commerce issues. • TUITION AND FEES CONTACT INFORMATION: The U H Law Center is a state-assisted institution, with tuition and fees set by the Texas Legislature and the UH System Board of Regents and subject to change without notice. The following sample budgets address the current costs of entering students attending the U H Law Center during the 2000-200 1 school year. J>.iqlTUTE Fl)!\ l '\TELLEt :Tl :\I. P l\l WEl\TY & f \:Fl)R\l.·\Tll )'\ L\\\ ' Lhl\TR:-;1n l )I· FULL -T I ME H, )L '~Tl):\ L\\\ ( }'\111z Texas Resident 31 semester hours Hm1stun, Texas 77204-6 NI 7 I 3.74 3.2 I 00 uww. /au• .11h .l'dz t/LmtCcnrcr/Pn 1grcm1.-;/i/>il i/>il@innr. lml' .11h. cd11 Tuition a Fees Books Room a Board (off campus) Personal Expenses J.D. 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