Southern Methodist University (SMU) Deadman School of Law Tsai Center for Law, Science & Innovation
In Texas for the annual IP roundtable at Texas A&M. En route, I stopped by Southern Methodist University (SMU) Deadman School of Law to meet with Professor David Taylor, who co-directs SMU’s IP program through the Tsai Center for Law, Science & Innovation.
The Tsai Center had recently received a $2 million dollar gift that expands endowment and current operational funding of their IP program. David and his co-director Keith Robinson have done an exemplary job at raising the profile of their program.
David recently provided expert testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on patent eligibility. When I visited, the Tsai Center was between two events, a public lecture by Hon. Scott R. Boalick, Chief Judge for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board this week, and hosting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s oral arguments next week.
We discussed our respective IP programs, and how we could learn from each other. I invited him to visit UIC John Marshall next year.
On that visit, I was happy to catch up with Ned Snow, Ray Taylor Fair Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina. He was also headed to the same IP roundtable and was there to visit David. They were classmates at Harvard Law School and worked at Baker Botts together.
