Professor Camilla Hrdy attended the National Conference, an annual symposium hosted by the University of Houston Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law. IPIL’s National Conference was held this year on June 7, 2025 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This year’s topic was patent law.
Hrdy and the other invited presenters, Jonas Anderson (Utah), Janet Freilich (BU), Michael Risch (Villanova), and Andrew Torrence (Kansas), wrote articles on the topic of patent law, which they presented to conference attendees for feedback over the course of the day. The final papers will be published in the Houston Law Review. Commentators included several other IP professors: Dennis Crouch (Missouri), Aman Gebru (Houston), Andrew Michaels (Houston), Nicole Morris (Emory), and Greg Vetter (Houston). Commentators also included Laura Dolbow, Rachelle Goldman, Irene Kosturakis, Mikenzie Miksch, and Britany Morris, as well as the conference’s generous benefactors, Houston Law alumni Anne Marie Culotta (J.D. ’09, LL.M. ’15) and Margaret (“Meg”) Boulware (J.D. ’76).
Professor Hrdy’s article, co-authored with Daniel Harris Brean (Duquesne, Phillips), is called “Testing the Gernsback Hypothesis: Science Fiction’s Influence on Patents and Innovation.” The draft paper will be posted shortly on SSRN and will eventually be published in Houston Law Review.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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