A Chinese intellectual property judge, a noted author and a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit are featured writers in the first edition of The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law.

The Review, launched last week, is one of only a handful of scholarly legal publications that are published only in on-line format. The Fall 2001 issue of the Review will be available in both HTML and PDF formats, and can be accessed as a free publication at http://ripl.stu.jmls.edu.

"Putting the publication on-line gets the work immediately before judges, attorneys, and intellectual property law professors," said Ted Field, managing editor of the Review, "and an on-line publication allows the material to be timely, avoiding lags that one faces with print materials.

"It also reduces circulation time. Each attorney will be able to call up the Review at his or her desk, without having to wait until the printed journal snakes its way from desk to desk in the office," Field said.

Karl Maersch, editor-in-chief, and fellow students organized the Review as an extension of the nationally recognized intellectual property law program at The John Marshall Law School.

"We think that this publication will provide an opportunity for students interested in intellectual property law to highlight their scholarly work, as well as provide a forum for professors, judges and practitioners from around the world to publish articles that address timely issues in intellectual property law."

The new publication was administratively approved in April, and students immediately began work on the project by inviting Judge Guangliang Zhang of the Intellectual Property Division of the Intermediate People's Court in Beijing, China, to write an article comparing remedies for patent infringement in the U.S. and China. Judge Zhang was a visiting scholar at John Marshall during 2000-2001 while he earned his LL.M. in intellectual property law. Judge Paul R. Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, an adjunct professor at John Marshall, agreed to write the foreword.

Other authors for the inaugural issue of the Review are patent attorney Robert L. Harmon, author of the well-known treatise Patents and the Federal Circuit. Harmon's piece critically evaluates the manner in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit construes patent claims. James Hopenfeld of the firm Fish & Neave in Palo Alto, California, addresses issues before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Festo case. Hopenfeld examines stare decisis and the power and authority of the Federal Circuit and appellate courts in general. Janice Mueller, professor of IP law at The John Marshall Law School, proposes modifying the evidentiary ground rules for jury trials of patent validity.

The inaugural issue of the Review also contains student comments written by third-year John Marshall students Adam Kelly, Starr Nelson and Tony Goodman, and second-year student Anna Morrison.

"I'm convinced that an attorney's most important skill is writing. John Marshall's new Review of Intellectual Property Law provides our students with a wonderful context in which to research, write and publish in a practice area that is dynamic, challenging and in consistently high demand in the legal marketplace," said Professor Mueller. "Our students also will benefit from the opportunity to interact with the IP academics and practitioners who contribute lead articles and essays to the Review."

Faculty co-advisors for the Review are Professors Mueller and Doris Long, who are assisted by a faculty advisory committee of Professors Ann Lousin, Karen Halverson and Mark Wojcik; James Sweeney, Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at John Marshall; and Michele Bridges, Associate Director.

The Review of Intellectual Property Law will be the fourth honors program established at John Marshall, joining The John Marshall Law Review, the John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law, and the moot court program.

Kimberly Carlson, the first recipient of the Leo Melamed Fellowship in International Business and Trade Law says the John Marshall International Business and Trade Law program is giving her an opportunity to learn from Chicago's top international attorneys.

The fellowship was established using a generous gift from Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus and senior policy advisor to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Carlson's fellowship includes a partial tuition grant towards the LL.M. degree in international business and trade law, a stipend and a paid research assistantship at John Marshall's Center for International Business and Trade Law. In one year, Carlson is expected to finish the degree program, as well as produce a published article.

"As someone who loves the academic setting, I really enjoy and appreciate the work I'm doing (at John Marshall). I really like seeing how the program works from behind the scenes," she said.

Carlson earned a bachelor's degree in organizational leadership and supervision from Purdue University's School of Technology in 1994, with an emphasis on training and development. After graduation, she worked as outdoor teams course facilitator at a nearby YMCA camp, which led to her working as a customer enthusiasm trainer for General Motors.

After returning to school and earning a J.D. degree from John Marshall in June 1999, Carlson moved to Minnesota, and practiced law with Bowman & Brooke, a product liability national defense firm. Later she worked in client relations for the human resources consulting firm, DRI Consulting, and its subsidiary, feedbackshop.com.

She moved back to Illinois this past spring, and most recently returned to work as a law clerk at her father's firm, Michael A. Snyder & Associates, Ltd., which specializes in admiralty law. She originally started working for her father in high school.

Carlson's father, Michael A. Snyder, a 1968 graduate of The John Marshall Law School and adjunct professor of admiralty law in the school's International Business and Trade degree program, inspired her to apply to the LL.M. program, as did her "deep respect" for Professor Peter J. McGovern, director of the program. Carlson admires McGovern as her coach for the 1998 Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Competition held in Vienna, Austria. Professor McGovern's leadership experience as well as the competition experience provided Carlson with her greatest exposure to international law.

"Because of (McGovern), I knew International Business and Trade Law would be a well-run program, and it is," she added.

After graduation in June 2002, Carlson hopes to put her legal skills to use as an import/export compliance officer for a corporation. "I truly admire (Melamed) because he graduated law school and was very successful as a non-attorney," Carlson added.

Melamed, a 1955 graduate of John Marshall, made the generous gift to the law school to enable young lawyers to succeed in international business. Melamed credits much of his success to his legal education at John Marshall.

"This guy died at 2:30 this afternoon," the TV doctor tells the detective.

Don't believe a word of it, says Dr. Nancy Jones of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office who wishes the science of crime was that easy and that true.

"Crime shows are ludicrous on how they say time of death," Jones, a medical pathologist, states emphatically. "We give a range of time _ that's basically a guesstimate because so many factors play in to a person's death."

Jones, an assistant medical examiner who has been with the office for 15 years, says although television's crime dramas are fiction, she wishes the writers would learn a little something about the topic. She certainly is willing to share her insights, just as she did with students in the Criminal Justice Clinic the afternoon of Oct. 30.

Jones had performed six autopsies in the morning. Three of those were full body examinations, or autopsies, and three were externals to establish death by an outward examination of the body and a review of medical records. Jones said 75 percent of all deaths in Cook County are classified natural deaths and don't require the attention of someone in the medical examiner's office, but the other 25 percent are often those we read about in newspapers and see in story lines on TV.

X-rays and slides offered students of Professor Eileen Halpin an inside view of death from a scientist's perspective. While many of the photos were enough to make some students a bit squeamish, Jones matter-of-factly laid out the details of her work. Her lecture included insights into how she begins an autopsy ("You do a Y incision from the shoulders down to the pelvis, and you cut open the chest cavity…") to the finer points of rope and cord strangulations, drug ingestion, electrocutions, alcoholism, accidental deaths and a host of other factors that will help police determine if the death was from natural causes, accidental, a suicide or undetermined origin.

"A homicide doesn't always follow the legal stance," she explained. "There is justifiable homicide, such as a police shooting, for example."

Much of Jones' work ends up as part of a crime file. She will be the one to determine cause of death, and sometimes she can also give police valuable information that can determine how the crime was committed and even by whom.

One slide Jones shows is of a shoe imprint on a person's stomach. After the victim was murdered, the murderer walked in the blood and then kicked the body leaving a valuable shoe imprint.

Another slide shows a burglar trying to escape through an opening in a Door. The burglar found himself stuck half way because the opening was too small. Jones determined he suffocated to death because his lungs were constricted.

Jones used an X-ray of the head and neck of a victim to show how the head was snapped clean from the spinal cord in a rear-end car accident. "This death was instantaneous," she explains.

Halpin said students are amazed by how much information one can glean from a post-mortem examination. "Her presentation demonstrated how methodical and thorough the medical examiners' investigations are. This kind of knowledge will help them as criminal attorneys when they develop and present a client's case," she said.

"I love to have guests like Dr. Jones come to class because presentations like hers provide the Criminal Justice Clinic interns with valuable and practical knowledge that they will be able to utilize throughout their careers as criminal attorneys," the professor explained. Jones is one of a series of guest speakers for the Criminal Justice Clinic class. This semester guests included Cook County State's Attorney Dick Devine and Jeffery Kendall, chief deputy of the felony division for the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office.

Guests for the remainder of the semester include Chicago Police Violent Crimes Division Detective William Foley, Kara Stefenson of the Illinois State Police Forensic Science Center, and John Marshall alumnus Gary Pack, State's Attorney for McHenry County.

Monday, November 12^th

The Christian Legal Society will meet at 10:45 a.m. in room 1105. All are welcome.

A Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity informational meeting will take place in the Student Lounge at 4:00. Food will be served.

Tuesday, November 13^th

The Honorable Juliet Nowicki will be the honored guest at the Women's Law Caucus meeting. Judge Nowicki will talk about her experience as a judge and how students should prepare now if they are interested in a judgeship. Noon room 503.

Wednesday, November 14^th

The Latter Day Saint Student Association will meet at 3:00 in room 428.

Thursday, November 15^th

The Vocal Ensemble will meet on 3 East at Noon. If you are interested in joining all are welcome.

Saturday, November 17^th

Phi Delta Phi Initiation at Loyola.

Professor Linda Crane

Activities

On October 18, 2001, she was elected to serve as the chair of the AALS Audit and Investment Committee for the 2001-2002 fiscal year. This action was taken during the annual meeting of the Committee held at Association headquarters in Washington D.C. She has served as a member of the Committee — which reviews audited accounting and financial reports; and monitors and establishes investment policy for the Association — since January of 2000.

Professor John D. Ingram

Publications

His article, "Date Rape: It's Time for `No' to Really Mean `No'", 21 Am. J. Crim. L. 3 (1993), was cited recently in 86 Geo. L.J. 677.

Professor Robert Nye

Activities

He was recently interviewed by Entrepreneur magazine on the benefits and detriments of franchisee exclusive territories, and on e-commerce impacts within business franchise systems, as viewed respectively by franchisers and franchisees. The interview was published on October 22, 2001, transcribed verbatim by writer Devlin Smith in her Viewpoint piece for the Franchise Zone section of the magazine's website. It is available online at http://www.entrepreneur.com/articles/franzone/0,4621,293953,00.html.

Professor Ronald C. Smith

Activities

He was a judge for the Championship Round of the Northeast Regional Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition, in which a trial team from Catholic University School of Law (Washington, D.C.) edged the team from Quinnipiac University School of Law. The competition is co-sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association and Quinnipiac.

 Smith, who is the current Chair of the 8,000-member ABA Criminal Justice Section, was one of three "celebrity judges" for the final round. The other two judges were U. S. District Court Judge Janel Bond Arterton (D.Conn.) and Judge William I. Garfinkel (D.Conn.).

 This competition is modeled after The John Marshall Law School-ABA Criminal Justice Section's An online version of The John Marshall Law School calendar of events can be viewed at: www.jmls.edu/calendar1/calendar1.htm

National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition which Professor Smith created in 1989. He has been the director of this competition since its inception, and has been widely recognized for his role in promoting law school trial advocacy competition. In 1998 the John Marshall Law School-ABA Trial Competition received the ABA's award for being the best ABA Section program that year.

 The winner of the Northeast Regional Competition is invited to the Twelfth Annual JMLS-ABA National Trial Competition, April 4-6, 2002, in Chicago. Twenty law schools from throughout the nation come to John Marshall to participate in what is widely regarded as the best trial advocacy competition in the country.

Professor David E. Sorkin

Activities

He has been appointed to the National Arbitration Forum's Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators.

A study released in October 2001 lists the 25 most frequently cited decisions published by domain name dispute resolution panels under the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy. The World Intellectual Property Organization administered all but one of the 25, and all but one found bad faith on the part of domain name registrants. The lone exception on both counts was Shirmax Retail Ltd. v. CES Marketing Group, a case administered by eResolution, which ranked 11th on the list. David Sorkin was the sole panelist in Shirmax; he ruled against a trademark owner that was challenging the registration of the domain name "thyme.com" under the ICANN policy.

November 12

Advanced Patent Cooperation Treaty Seminar, Room 1200, 8:00 a.m.

Faculty Meeting, Room 409, 12:00 p.m.

"Accessing Innovation to Feed the Hungry: IP Strategies for the Future Harvest System", Room 1200B, 5:00 p.m.

November 13

Advanced Patent Cooperation Treaty Seminar, Room 1200, 8:00 a.m.

Career Services - "Finding First-Year Summer Employment", Room 403, 12:45 p.m.

Faculty Works-in-Progress, Room 217, 3:00 p.m.

ISBA Seminar - "Doing Business with the Americas", Room 1200B, 4:00 p.m.

Reception honoring Judge Timothy Evans, Room 3East, 5:30 p.m.

November 14

Alumni Association Board Meeting, Room 1200A

Decalogue Society Lunch and Learn -"Jewish Law", Room 1200B, 12:30 p.m.

Board of Trustees Meeting, Room 1200B, 4:00 p.m.

Central IL/Springfield Area Alumni Chapter Reception, Arturo's, 5:00 p.m.

November 15

Career Services/ Health Law Society - "Health Law Panel", Room 1200A, 12:15 p.m.

Seattle Alumni Chapter Reception, Four Seasons Hotel, 5:30 p.m.

November 16

ABA Labor and Employment Section Meeting, Room 1200A, 11:45 a.m.

November 17

ATLA Program, Room 1200, 10:00 a.m.

November 19

Christian Legal Society, Room 3East, 10:30 a.m.

November 20

Career Services - "Resume and Cover Letter Writing Workshop for 1Ls", Room 1200a, 10:30 a.m.

Strategic Plan-Staff Meeting, Room 1200A, 12:00 p.m.

Career Services - "Get a Piece of the Pie! Learn How to Negotiate your Benefits", Room 1200B, 12:45 p.m.

November 21

Faculty Works-in-Progress, Room 217, 3:00 p.m.

November 22

Thanksgiving Day