Background

I am an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center.

I clerked for the Honorable Judge Kenneth Ripple on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2008 to 2009.  Before that, I was a faculty fellow at Duke University Law School and part of the Center for Genome Ethics Law & Policy.  From 2003 to 2006, I was in private practice, focusing on patent litigation and software licensing.

My research areas include patent law, administrative law, and software licensing.

Publications

1. •Expert Court, Expert Agency, UC Davis L. Rev. (2011) (forthcoming) (download article)
   

2. •The Bilski Decision: What Does It Mean for the Future of Business Method and Software Patents?, Computer Law Review Int. (August 15, 2010)
   

3. •An Uncomfortable Fit?: Intellectual Property Policy and the Administrative State, 14 Marq. Intell. Prop. L Rev. 441 (2010) (panel discussion, with Kali Murray, Jason Mazzone, Hannibal Travis, and Jasmine Abdel-khalik)
   

4. •The Other Patent Agency: Congressional Regulation of the ITC, 61 Fla. L. Rev. 529 (2009)  (download article)
   

5. •Proprietary Science, Open Science, and the Role of Patent Disclosure: The Case of Zinc Finger Proteins (with Arti Rai, Shubha Chandrasekharan, and Cory Valley), Nature Biotechnology 27, 140-144 (2009) (abstract)
   

6. •GPL Version 3's DRM and Patent Clauses Under German and U.S. Law  (with Dr. Olaf Koglin), Computer Law Review Int. (April 15, 2008)
   

7. •Synthetic Biology: The Intellectual Property Puzzle, 85 U. Texas Law Review 1745 (2007) (with Arti Rai). (download article) 
   

8. •Enforcing the GPL, 2006 U. of Ill. J. of Law, Tech. & Policy 1(download article) 
   

9. •Website Libel and the Single Publication Rule (Comment), 70 U. Chi. L. Rev. 639 (2003) (download article)
   

Courses

1. •Patent Law
   

2. •Administrative Law
   

3. •Property Law
   

4. •Open Source: Software and Beyond
   

Selected Presentations

1. •Invited panelist for Patent Law in the 21st Century: Overhaul, Tweak, or Status Quo? at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools 64th Annual Meeting (forthcoming July 2011)
   

2. •Presented Expert Court, Expert Agency to ongoing Intellectual Property Colloquium series by University of Washington Law School (2010)
   

3. •Invited panelist for An Uncomfortable Fit? Intellectual Property Policy and the Administrative State at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools 62nd Annual Meeting (2009)
   

4. •Invited panelist for the International Trade Commission session of the 2009 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal Symposium
   

5. •The Other Patent Agency: Congressional Regulation of the ITC, University of Houston Law Center IPIL Colloquium (2008)
   

6. •Irreconcilable Differences: The Role of the ITC in Patent Decisions, Michigan State University College of Law Intellectual Property and Communications Law Workshop (2008)
   

7. •Patent Litigation in the ITC, Duke University Law School Early Stages Faculty Workshop (2007)
   

8. •The Patent Landscape of Synthetic Biology, Duke University Synthetic Biology Workshop (2007)
   

Interests

I am a Soprano II in the Houston Symphony Orchestra’s Grand Chorus and continue to take voice lessons. I also love to travel in the Pacific, especially in the Micronesia subregion.