The 2024 Fall IP Institute will be held on Thursday, September 19th, starting mid-day, through Saturday, September 21st, ending mid-day, 2024, at The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa. 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 2024 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
The Hon. Ryan T. Holte
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
and Jurist-in-Residence Professor of Law at the University of Akron School of Law
MENTORSHIP PANEL
Len Badeau
TSU Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Kennedi Harmon
TSU Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Bert Jennings
LyondellBasell and
TSU Thurgood Marshall
School of Law
Leslie Streeter
LyondellBasell
Carlyn Burton, Moderator
Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP
JUDICIAL PANEL
The Hon. Peter Bray
U.S. District Court
Southern District of Texas
The Hon. K. Nicole Mitchell
U.S. District Court
Eastern District of Texas
Leisa Talbert Peschel, Moderator
Jackson Walker LLP
The Hon. Nancy F. Atlas (ret.) (Atlas ADR PLLC)
TOPIC: Alternative Dispute Resolution
Ragen Doyle Benavides (The Ion Houston)
TOPIC: Startup Ecology in Houston
Steve Borgman (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP)
TOPIC: Section 101
Meg Boulware (Boulware & Valoir PLLC)
TOPIC: Trade Secret Update – Texas Style
Hector Chavez (Steptoe LLP)
TOPIC: Patent Damages Update
Steve Christian (Chevron), Angela Lipscomb (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center), Dwayne Mason, panel moderator (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), and Phyllis Turner-Brim (Hewlett-Packard Company)
TOPIC: Liability of High-Tech: AI and Other Issues
Michael Chu (U.S. Attorney – Southern District of Texas) and Bruce Swartley (U.S. Homeland Security Investigations)
TOPIC: IP Border Issues with Mexico
Tracy-Gene Durkin (Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC)
TOPIC: Design Patent Update
Igor Gorlach (King & Spalding LLP)
TOPIC: Texas New Data Privacy Laws
Rachel Greene (Greene IP, LLC)
TOPIC: How to Respond to a Challenging Office Action
Lawrence Hanson (The Law Office of Lawrence W. Hanson, P.C.)
TOPIC: Import/Export Issues in Technology
Danielle (DJ) Healey (Spencer Fane LLP)
TOPIC: Venue Considerations for IP and Licenses
Sharon Israel (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)
TOPIC: USPTO and International IP
Trevor Jefferson (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP)
TOPIC: PTAB Update
Leela Madan (Madan Law PLLC)
TOPIC: Trademark Law Update
Professor Loren Mulraine (Belmont University College of Law)
TOPIC: Copyright Update
Jason Sander (LyondellBasell)
TOPIC: Cybersecurity
Michael Silliman (Baker Botts L.L.P.)
TOPIC: Developing IP Issues in Energy Technology and Renewables
Craig Watson (Cranach Patent Attorneys)
TOPIC: First Filing Options and Acceleration in UK/EP
George Webb (Rice University)
TOPIC: The Supreme Court’s Term in Intellectual Property
̶ 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 cost for lunch will be included in the conference registration. An RSVP during the registration is needed for the conference administration to plan for your attendance.
̶ This course has been approved by the State Bar of Texas for 14.25 hours total participatory hours, including 3.25 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.
