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39th Annual Fall Institute on Intellectual Property Law
October 5 – 7, 2023
Moody Gardens Hotel (Galveston, Texas)

The 2023 Fall IP Institute will be held on Thursday, October 5th, starting mid-day, through Saturday, October 7th, ending mid-day, 2023, at the Moody Gardens hotel.  The event is organized and held by both the UH Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL) and the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association (HIPLA).  This is a major continuing legal education ("CLE") event attracting several hundred intellectual property professionals from across Texas and the nation.

Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions for the 2023 Fall IP Institute, which is updated as needed.

Many thanks to our Sponsors

The current Fall IP Institute conference brochure can be found here.

The registration page on the HIPLA site is here.

Check back here for more information and updates...

2023 Fall IP Institute speakers and topics

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Andrei Iancu
Irell & Manella LLP
Andrei Iancu
(former Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

DIVERSITY SPEAKER

Kathleen Dohmlo
Kathleen Dohmlo
Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Historically Non-diverse Fields SABIC

JUDICIAL PANEL

The Hon. Charles Eskridge
U.S. District Court
Southern District of Texas 

The Hon. Derek T. Gilliland
U.S. District Court
Western District of Texas

The Hon. K. Nicole Mitchell
U.S. District Court
Eastern District of Texas

The Hon. Robert Pitman
U.S. District Court
Western District of Texas

Moderated by Natalie Gonzales
Baker Botts L.L.P.

Todd Bynum (ConocoPhillips), Lisa Hasenberg (ExxonMobil), Matt Prater (SABIC),  and James Smith (Ecolab) TOPIC: Effective Patent Prosecution Management

Kyle Friesen (Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.) TOPIC: PTAB Update

Rachel Greene (Greene IP, LLC) and Jennifer Kuhn (Tricentis) TOPIC: Legal Issues in Web 3.0

James Hallenbeck (Black Hills IP) TOPIC: Automated Patent Prosecution Tools

Alamdar Hamdani (U.S. Attorney’s Office – Southern District of Texas) TOPIC: Trade Secret Theft

Ira Hatton and Rene Treviño (both of Greenberg Traurig, LLP) TOPIC: Update Regarding the Ethics of Employing AI for Patentable Innovation

Danielle (DJ) Healey (Spencer Fane LLP) TOPIC: Non-Compete Clause

Professor Timothy Hsieh (Oklahoma City University School of Law)
TOPIC: Section 1404

Christian Hurt (The Davis Law Firm, P.C.) TOPIC: Pre-Suit Investigation

Aaron Levin and Matt Todd (both of Polsinelli PC) TOPIC: General Survey of U.S. Data Privacy Requirements that IP Lawyers Should Know

William Logan (Winston & Strawn LLP) TOPIC: Section 112 Developments 

Shayne O’Reilly (META) TOPIC: IP Issues in the Metaverse

Pete Peterson (Law Offices of Gale R. Peterson PLLC) TOPIC: Federal Circuit Patent Law – A Year in Review 

Scott Pivnick (Alston & Bird LLP) TOPIC: The Intersection of IP and AI

Helene Raybaud (Schlumberger) TOPIC: Implications of Unified Patents and the Unified Patent Court 

Professor Mark Schultz (The University of Akron School of Law) TOPIC: Copyright Update

Hope Shimabuku (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) TOPIC: USPTO Patent Prosecution Initiatives

Tamsen Valoir (Boulware & Valoir PLLC) TOPIC: Client Engagement and Disengagement Letters

Chante Westmoreland (Sheppard Mullin) TOPIC: Trademark Law Update

2023 FALL IP INSTITUTE
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

     ̶   It will be an in-person event.

     ̶        The link for the event in the Whova app will be included in a subsequent Whova instructional email. Whova is available for both mobile and desktop/laptop computers.

     ̶        For assistance, please email IPIL@UH.EDU

     ̶        For assistance, please email IPIL@UH.EDU

     ̶        For assistance, please email IPIL@UH.EDU

     ̶        The Friday Keynote Luncheon is open to all registered attendees. When you register for the Fall IP Institute, select either “Will Attend” or “Not Able to Attend” so that the conference administrators can plan for your attendance at the luncheon. The fee for the luncheon is included in your conference registration.

     ̶   This course has been approved by the State Bar of Texas for 14 hours total participatory hours, including 3.75 hours of ethics.

     ̶        We do not submit for CLE beyond the State Bar of Texas. However, if you need a certificate of attendance for another state please email IPIL@UH.EDU for assistance.

     ̶        We expect most of the materials to be made available a week prior to the start of the event. Any material not available one week out will be posted as soon as possible.

     ̶        No, the speaker sessions will not be recorded. However, if a written paper is provided by the speaker it is accessible in the Whova app.

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Last updated on September 28, 2023

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