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.
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The current Fall IP Institute conference brochure can be found here.
The registration page on the HIPLA site is here.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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
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
̶ 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.
