Alumni News

Stephen M. Pinkos

The PCT Companies recently announced that Hon. Stephen M. Pinkos, graduate of DePaul University College of Law (Class of 1995), former Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, joined the PCT family of companies to launch PCT Government Relations, LLC. Mr. Pinkos, 37, has joined the PCT Companies as Senior Advisor.

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Posted March 6, 2008

Thomas J. Filarski

DePaul Law School alumnus (Class of 1986), Thomas J. Filarski, has been named to the Board of Directors for 2008 of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the United States. Mr. Filarski, chair of the Chemical Group, litigates and counsels in generic pharmaceutical, medical device and chemical and other patent matters in federal court and the International Trade Commission.He has been named to the "Illinois Super Lawyer" in Intellectual Property Litigation for three consecutive years and a "Leading Intellectual Property Lawyer" by the Leading Lawyers Network.

He is a charter member of the newly-formed Richard Linn American Inn of Court chapter in Chicago which includes DePaul law professor Roberta Kwall as a founding member. He is the author of the chapter "Patent Defenses" in BNA Books' 2005 Patent Litigation Series Handbook, now in its second edition. Congratulations to Mr. Filarski on his most recent achievement.

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Gregory J. Vogler

Greg J. Vogler receives 2007 Outstanding Service To DePaul Award

This award recognizes DePaul College of Law alumni who have demonstrated outstanding service to DePaul University - be it through volunteerism, philanthropy or any other means. Recipients have rendered significant time, talent and effort to support the mission of DePaul University and the College of Law. They exemplify living the DePaul mission in both their personal and professional life.

Gregory Vogler earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Purdue University and earned his JD, with honors, from DePaul in 1984. He is one of the co-founders of the law firm McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd and is a successful patent litigator who has been named a "Leading Lawyer" by the Leading Lawyers Network. Mr. Vogler has been the lead trial attorney in successful jury trials, representing patent holders or accused infringers and he has been lead counsel on multiple Markman hearings, successful summary judgment motions on patent invalidity and noninfringement, preliminary injunctions and appellate practice. He has argued several times before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and took the lead role in the briefing of a 1989 patent case, Eli Lilly v. Medtronic, before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Vogler has served on the Intellectual Property Advisory Board for the College of Law since 2001 and has been a member of the President's Constituency Base since 2006. In November, he served as the moderator for CIPLIT's "A Conversation With the Judiciary." Mr. Vogler is also very active in Downers Grove where served as an elected commissioner (1991-1995), chaired successful library and high school referenda and served as a board member for the local YMCA.

Travis Sills & Aviva Grumet-Morris

The Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation recently announced the winners of its 2005-2006 Student Writing Competition. Travis Sills, who earned his L.L.M in Intellectual Property from DePaul University College of Law in 2006, was the first place winner for his paper entitled, "Judicial Conversion of Culture: Attaching Embodiments of Ancient Culture to Judgments in Civil Proceedings." Sills' paper will be published in the 2007 Yearbook of Cultural Property Law edited by Sherry Hutt and David Tarler and published by Left Coast Press.

Aviva Grumet-Morris won second place with her article, "Israel's Grave Situation." Aviva earned her J.D. in 2006 from DePaul University College of Law. Her paper will be published on the website of the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, www.culturalheritagelaw.org.

For more information about the 2005-2006 winners, please read the announcement on The Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation website.

The Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation is an organization of lawyers who have joined together to promote the preservation and protection of cultural heritage resources in the United States and internationally through education and advocacy. Cultural heritage law is one of the fastest growing legal fields and has gained new recognition as society comes to appreciate the important symbolic, historical and emotional role that cultural heritage plays in all our lives. Cultural heritage law encompasses several disparate areas, including protection of archaeological sites, preservation of historic structures and the built environment, preservation of and respect for both tangible and intangible indigenous cultures, the international market in art works and antiquities, and recovery of stolen art works.

More information about the Lawyers' Committee is available at www.culturalheritagelaw.org.

CIPLIT

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Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting American Museums in the 21st Century
On October 16, 2008, the DePaul University College of Law Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology (CIPLIT®) and Center for Art, Museum and Cultural Heritage Law will hold a major conference where leading experts will examine the basic rules of nonprofit museum governance and how those rules apply to the growing challenge of collecting cultural property in light of new laws, court decisions and professional ethical guidelines; evolving museum practices and standards in collecting antiquities; sovereign immunity and immunity of art works; and the need for further standards for donor/collector museum relationships.

For more information and/or to register, please visit the Symposium website by clicking here.

11TH ANNUAL NIRO SCAVONE HALLER & NIRO DISTINGUISHED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LECTURE & LUNCHEON
From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print

Featured Speakers:
David Nimmer
Of Counsel, Irell & Manella LLP; Professor from Practice, UCLA School of Law
Neil Netanel
Professor, UCLA School of Law

Location: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
610 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
October 27, 2008
12:15 - 2:00 p.m.

Registration: www.law.depaul.edu/niro08

The fee for the luncheon and lecture is $20.
Luncheon is free for DePaul Students, Faculty & Staff but registration is required.
The Niro Lecture has been approved for 1.5 hours of CLE credit.

Visiting Artist: ZACH HELM, Screenwriter and DePaul Theatre School Alumnus.
Presented by CIPLIT and the Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law.
April 23, 2008

Helm was the College of Law's third annual Visiting Artist, known for his writing of Stranger Than Fiction and directing of Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. He was the featured speaker on a panel discussing the recent screenwriters' strike with Professors Alan Salzenstein and Margit Livingston.
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Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in the Developing World
DePaul University College of Law co-sponsored a roundtable discussion with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on September 20, 2007. This event focused on the issue of access to essential medicines in the developing world, in particular, the global pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories’ refusal to launch a new version of the HIV/AIDS drug Kaletra in Thailand.

Click here for more information and to view the Podcasts from the event.

Click here to read the article published in the December edition of The Advocate, written by DePaul Law student, Rose Rivera.
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