The America Invents Act comes into force on March 16th, and patent lawyers are working overtime to file before “first to invent” becomes “first to file”. What are the unintended consequences of the Act and its implementation?
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Mark Christiansen, a member of CAIL’s board of trustees and chair of its programs committee, has joined Oklahoma’s largest law firm, McAfee & Taft in Oklahoma City.
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The Center for American and International Law (CAIL) will hold a special luncheon in honor of Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham to celebrate his 50 years of service to the legal community on Monday, March 25, 2013 at the Belo Mansion in Dallas.
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Almost 200 law students and young attorneys registered for the IEL's first Hartrick Symposium Career Paths for Young Attorneys in the Energy Sector, co-presented with the University of Tulsa College of Law in Tulsa on March 1 and 2.
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The first Hartrick Symposium began on Friday, March 1, 2013, with a reception in Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum hosted by the University of Tulsa College of Law and the IEL's Young Energy Professionals Committee.
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The IEL’s 64th Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference took place in Houston’s JW Marriott Hotel on February 21 and 22, 2013. With over 440 registered delegates, this year’s conference trumped all modern records.
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With around 440 registrations by the day before the conference, numbers attending will reach modern records for the 64th Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference.
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The full program for the IEL’s first Texas Mineral Title Course is now available.
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49 entries were received by the judging committee, and after three rounds of judging, the IEL is pleased to announce that the winner of the competition, and the IEL’s first Hartrick Scholar, will be Zeb Zankel, a 2014 JD candidate.
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The Institute for Energy Law’s 4th Law of Shale Plays Conference will be held on June 6 and 7, in Fort Worth’s historic Hilton Hotel.
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